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[Loxley]

1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2. 12 Angry Men (1957)
3. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
4. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
5. The Good, The Bag, and the Ugly (1967)
6. Seven Samurai (1954)
7. Schindler's List (1993)
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
9. Star Wars (1977)
10. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

I'm really glad I was shown 12 Angry Men and To Kill a Mockingbird in school, otherwise I don't think I ever would have seen them. I'm putting aside a lot of my own personal favoritism for this list, otherwise Fellowship and Master and Commander would occupy the #1 and #2 spots.

 

[v0yce]

01) Empire Strike Back
02) Rear Window
03) Alien
04) 2001 a Space Oddysey
05) Godfather pt II
06) Blade Runner
07) Ghostbusters
08) Back to the Future
09) Bull Durham
10) Out of Sight

It's impossible to pick 10, much less rank them, but here's an attempt at least.

 

[ActuallyHulk]

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4. Star Wars: A New Hope
5. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
6. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Jurassic Park
9. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
10. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Journey

 

[Cosmic Bus]

A list like this is pretty simple to keep since I stopped actively pursuing movies to watch a few years back.

1. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
2. All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1950)
2. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1962)
4. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997)
5. The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger, 1948)
6. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973)
7. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)
8. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973)
9. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
10. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)

Honorable mention:

The Flower of My Secret (Almodovar, 1995)
Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller, 1998)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)
Scent of Green Papaya (Tran Anh Hung, 1993)
Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963)

 

[manzoman96]

1. Casablanca
2. Rocky
3. Citizen Kane
4. Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
5. 12 Angry Men
6. Princess Mononoke
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. The Lion King
9. It's a Wonderful Life
10. Napoleon Dynamite

Might flip the order a bit, but this is the gist of it.

 

[harSon]

We're up to 324 unique films

 

[Bobby Roberts]

We're up to 324 unique films

Man.

I do NOT envy you having to put this shit together. But I thank you for doin' it.

 

[harSon]

Man.

I do NOT envy you having to put this shit together. But I thank you for doin' it.

It's not so bad. The spreadsheet I set up makes it pretty painless. I'm currently adding everyone's films - the progress thus far can be found within the Google Sheet in the OP.

 

[boingball]

1. Trading Places
2. Beverly Hills Cop
3. Blade Runner
4. Alien
5. Lost in Translation
6. Ghostbusters
7. Back to the Future
8. American Beauty
9. 48hours
10. War of the Roses

Yes, I like 80s movies. Number 1 and 2 usually switch places every month or so. Behind them I have probably 15-20 movies I would consider Top Ten material. Would love to include True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Star Trek II, IV or VI, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Lawrence of Arabia, Raiders of the Lost Ark, A Fish called Wanda or The Big Lebowksi in that list, alas only room for ten entries (and forgot probably some).

 

[Jeffolation]

1. Rear Window
2. Die Hard
3. Fargo
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Once Upon a Time in the West
6. Mulholland Drive
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
9. Platoon
10. The Terminator

 

[Darryl]

1. Chungking Express
2. Cloud Atlas
3. Spirited Away
4. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Fallen Angels

 

[harSon]

I have it updated through the first page: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...oXV8zYwkhxskG9TIHNwxQdzvA/edit#gid=1953579027

 

[RatskyWatsky]

I stopped actively pursuing movies to watch a few years back.

Why would you do this? D:

 

[shintoki]

1. Speed Racer (2008)
2. Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut(2005)
3. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
4. Alien(1979)
5. Goodfellas(1990)
6. Sunshine(2006)
7. Master and Commander Far Side of the World (2005)
8. Die Hard(1987)
9. Ratatoullie(2007)
10. No Country for Old Men(2007)

Honorable mentions would be./.. some other time -_-

 

[lordxar]

1. The Thing (1982)
2. Fight Club
3. Memento
4. Payback
5. Aliens
6. Predator
7. Ghostbusters
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Escape From New York
10. Full Metal Jacket

Honorable mentions:
A Clockwork Orange
O Brother Where Art Though
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
District 9
The Mist
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
The Black Hole (1979)

Saw half of my top 10 as a kid. I love a lot of movies but those 10 have probably had the biggest impact. My number one is worth ten points on down if there's any question.

 

[Jables Swan]

Great idea. I'll have to think about this tonight after work.

 

[mazpratim]

1. Breakfast Club
2. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
3. Back to the Future
4. Star Wars: A New Hope
5. The Lion King
6. The Matrix
7. Mean Girls
8. Finding Nemo
9. Fight Club
10. The Princess Bride

 

[Gobias]

1.) Lost in Translation
2.) Empire Strikes Back
3.) Fargo
4.) Boogie Nights
5.) Pulp Fiction
6.) The Big Lebowski
7.) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8.) This is Spinal Tap
9.) Apocalypse Now
10.) Memories of Murder

Anything past 5 could have been filled with about 50 different movies.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I have it updated through the first page: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...oXV8zYwkhxskG9TIHNwxQdzvA/edit#gid=1953579027

I'm getting the sense ALIEN & Blade Runner are gonna do really well.

 

[Kobe24]

1) Jaws
2) The Dark Knight
3) The Empire Strikes Back
4) LOTR Fellowship of the Ring
5) The Matrix
6) The Lion King
7) Gladiator
8) Jurassic Park
9) E.T.
10) Goodfellas

 

[Caode]

1. Jaws
2. Road To Perdition
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Let The Right One In
6. Zodiac
7. The Bridge On The River Kwai
8. Batman Begins
9. The Thing (1982)
10. The Matrix

 

[ohkay]

1. Fight Club
2. Lost In Translation
3. Spirited Away
4. Blade Runner
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Shaun of the Dead
7. Dr. Strangelove
8. Children of Men
9. Akira
10. Fargo

 

[scotcheggz]

1. HaraKiri (1962)
2. Dr Strangelove (1964)
3. Full Metal jacket (1987)
4. Withnail & I (1987)
5. Raging Bull (1980)
6. Star Wars episode IV: A new hope (1977)
7. Lady Snowblood (1973)
8. The man who wasn't there (2001)
9. Rear Window (1954)
10. The Karate Kid (1984)

I'd probably change my mind a million times so I just went flat out but I'm pretty happy.. fun thread, the final list will be great!

 

[Aarglefarg]

Something similar to something like this:

1. Eyes Wide Shut (1999): Beautiful, secretive, with a flowing series of events connected with the causality of a dream, giving insight into the character's mind.
2. Barry Lyndon (1975)
3. Gravity (2013)
4. Bound (1996): Heist movie with excellent pacing and a lot of fun. The first Wachowski movie.
5. Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
6. Children of Men (2006)
7. Bad Taste (1987): Humorously gory low-budget action movie, again with great pacing putting it on the list. Peter Jackson's first movie.
8. Heavenly Creatures (1994): Based on a true murder story, two schoolgirl friends turn to murder to stop their parents from cutting their contact. Kate Winslet's first movie role as one of the girls, as well as Peter Jackson's first turn at more 'serious' films.
9. Vertigo (1958)
10. Toy Story 3 (2010)

Two Kubrick, Three Cuarón, Two Jackson...

 

[harSon]

1) Jaws
2) The Dark Knight
3) The Empire Strikes Back
3) LOTR Fellowship of the Ring
4) The Matrix
5) The Lion King
6) Gladiator
7) Jurassic Park
8) E.T.
9) Goodfellas
10) Heat

You have 11 films (two #3's).

The spreadsheet is now completely up to date.

 

[Kobe24]

You have 11 films (two #3's).

The spreadsheet is now completely up to date.

Fixed

 

[Cosmic Bus]

Why would you do this? D:

Comes a point where...

 

[JehutyRunner]

Tweaked my top ten a bit, added my last movie to my top ten and added an honourable mention. Here it is.

 

[harSon]

1. Le Cercle Rouge
2. Vertigo
3. Once Upon a Time in the West
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Stray Dog

6. Jackie Brown
7. City of God
8. Goodfellas
9. Strange Days
10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

 

[LaNaranja]

1. Clerks 2 (2006)
2. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
3. Hot Fuzz (2007)
4. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
5. The Warriors (1979)
6. The Big Sleep (1946)
7. Hercules (1997)
8. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
9. Twelve Angry Men (1957)
10. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

The ordering for this kind of thing is hard especially when the stuff comes from different genres. Clerks 2 is absolutely hilarious though and I love it from start to finish. From Dusk Till Dawn brings together Rodriguez and Tarantino and the the result is as great as it sounds. Hot Fuzz is such a great action comedy that starts as a parody then becomes the thing it is parodying. Angels with Dirty Faces is a classic crime movie and I love it dearly. The original cut of The Warriors is nearly flawless, it is a real shame what they did with that directors cut. What's worse is that their is no way to get the theatrical cut on blu ray. The Big Sleep is noir at its finest. Hercules (the Disney movie) was my favorite movie growing up so a lot of it is probably nostalgia but I still feel it is the best movie Disney has made. The Empire Strikes back is objectively the best Star Wars movie and anyone who says otherwise is wrong. Twelve Angry Men is another classic and I am pleasantly surprised how many other people here have put it on their list. Bill & Ted is just a fun lighthearted comedy that I am always down to watch.


Honorable mention in no particular order:

• Strangers on a Train
• The Boondock Saints
• Eurotrip
• Army of Darkness
• Witness for the Prosecution
• Brute Force
• Furious 6
• Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Iron Man 3

 

[Discotheque]

1. Thin Red Line
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Vertigo
4. Chinatown
5. Fellowship of the Ring
6. Once Upon a Time in the West
7. Heat
8. On the Waterfront
9. godfather pt. 1
10. Aliens

honorable mentions: a bunch of depalma, spielberg, scorsese, woody allen etc. movies also i have no foreign stuff on here though i really liked a good number of kurosawa movies and am starting to enjoy the french shit now too.

 

[terrible]

I've got a long list of movies I could probably rotate in or out of my top 10 at any point but this how I see it right now.

1) The Tree of Life (2011)
2) Apocalypse Now (1979)
3) The Thin Red Line (1998)
4) Alien (1979)
5) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
6) Shotgun Stories (2007)
7) Synecdoche, New York (2008)
8) Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
9) Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)
10) The Long Day Closes (1992)

 

[Discotheque]

I've got a long list of movies I could probably rotate in or out of my top 10 at any point but this how I see it right now.

1) The Tree of Life (2011)
2) Apocalypse Now (1979)
3) The Thin Red Line (1998)
4) Alien (1979)
5) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
6) Shotgun Stories (2007)
7) Synecdoche, New York (2008)
8) Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
9) Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)
10) The Long Day Closes (1992)

dope list. i kind of cheated mine and made one different director per entry though. i've never even heard of #10, might check that out

 

[The Lone Courier]

1. Jaws
2. Star Wars :Empire Strikes Back
3. Filth
4. Snatch
5. The Sandlot
6. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. There Will Be Blood
8. Donnie Brasco
9. Reservoir Dogs
10. True Grit (2010)

 

[terrible]

dope list. i kind of cheated mine and made one different director per entry though. i've never even heard of #10, might check that out

I wanted either The Long Day Closes or a Tarkovsky film (Stalker, probably) in there somewhere and I decided on The Long Day Closes. I probably should've done what you did and stuck with one film per director and fit both of those in but I couldn't leave The Thin Red Line out!

 

[Aureon]

1. Predestination
2. The Return of the King
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
5. The Lion King
6. Matrix
7. Fight Club
8. Clerks 2
9. Once upon a time in America
10. The Wind Rises

 

[CassSept]

ATM Top 3 is all sci fi, maybe not surprising, but interesting.

1. The Godfather: Part II
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. 12 Angry Men (1957)
4. Goodfellas
5. Inglourious Basterds
6. Blind Chance (1987)
7. Apocalypse Now
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
10. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Trimming it down to 10 is hard tbh.

 

[tchocky]

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Taxi Driver
4. La Dolce Vita
5. Some Like It Hot
6. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
7. Mulholland Drive
8. Being John Malkovich
9. Spirited Away
10. Mary Poppins

 

[Wazzy]

It will be interesting to compare list's since I'm sure mine will differ quite a lot from others.

1. The Lion King
2. Fast & Furious 6
3. Grease
4. The Avengers
5. Toy Story
6. Princess Mononoke
7. Mean Girls
8. American Pie 2
9. Bridesmaids
10. Harry Potter Chamber of secrets

There's a few other films that could easily enter my list like:

Anastacia
Bambi
Beauty and the beast
Grave of the fireflies
Anchorman
Fast Five
Love Actually
Serenity
Not Another Teen Movie
Batman Begins
Spiderman 2
Toy story 3
The Mummy

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

Man this is a tough one, but alright.

1. The Avengers (2012)
2. 71 (2014)
3. The wind that shakes the barley (2006)
4. It could happen to you (1994)
5. Toy story 2 (1999)
6. Some like it hot (1959)
7. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
8. Captain America the winter soldier (2014)
9. The Dark Knight (2008)
10. Frozen (2013)

 

[Deleted member 59090]

This one's real tough.

1. Das Boot (1981)
2. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
3. Dogville (2003)
4. Heat (1995)
5. No Country for Old Men (2007)
6. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
7. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
8. Alien (1979)
9. Naked (1993)
10. Stalker (1979)

 

[Thug Waffle]

i'm in. there's still loads more to see. wish i had a wider sample to pick from.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. Stalker (1979)
4. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
5. Fallen Angels (1995)
6. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
7. The Seventh Seal (1957)
8. No Country for Old Men (2007)
9. Citizen Kane (1941)
10. Mulholland Drive (2001)

1. Chungking Express
2. Cloud Atlas
3. Spirited Away
4. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Fallen Angels

nice dude

 

[vicissitudes]

1. The Matrix
2. Groundhog Day
3. Beauty and the Beast
4. Memento
5. The Thing (1982)
6. Batman Begins
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. The Shawshank Redemption
9. A Clockwork Orange
10. Hotel Rwanda

 

[Ladekabel]

1. Hott Fuzz (2007)
2. Back to the Future (1985)
3. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
4. Terminator 2 (1991)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
7. The Big Lebowski (1998)
8. My Neighbour (1988)
9. Space Jam (1996)
10. Spaceballs (1987)

 

[Nickle]

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Citizen Kane
3. Memento
4. Return of the King
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Monty Python's Life of Brian
7. Dumb and Dumber
8. Inception
9. 12 Angry Men
10. Jack and Jill

 

[Soren_lost]

1. Blade Runner
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Princess Mononoke
4. The seventh Seal
5. Rashoman
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
7. Star Wars episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
8. There will be Blood
9. Goodfellas
10. Children of Men

 

[theusedversion]

I chose my favorite films to watch instead of trying to choose based on best overall quality.

1. Good Will Hunting
2. American Beauty
3. Vanilla Sky
4. The Thirteenth Floor
5. Amélie
6. Great Expectations (1998)
7. Return to Paradise
8. The Ghost and the Darkness
9. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
10. Alpha Dog

 

[SargerusBR]

1. The Empire Strikes Back

Everything else doesn't come close.

 

[Saya]

1. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
3. Night and Fog [Nuit et brouillard] (Alain Resnais, 1955)
4. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc [La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc] (Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1928)
6. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
7. In the Mood for Love [Fa yeung nin wa] (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
8. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004)
9. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
10. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)​

 

[Jb]

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Citizen Kane
4. The Seventh Seal
5. Seven Samurai
6. Paths of Glory
7. There Will Be Blood
8. Heat
9. LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring
10. Lost in Translation