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[digitalrelic]

Well this is exciting!


1. The Fountain
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. American Beauty
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Goodfellas
6. Se7en
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. The Departed
9. The Prestige
10. Boyhood

Boom.

 

[Markitron]

1 - Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
2 - Aliens
3 - Star Wars A New Hope
4 - Terminator 2
5 - A Nightmare on Elm Street
6 - The Matrix
7 - Die Hard
8 - Dumb and Dumber
9 - The Descent
10 - This Is Spinal Tap

I'm a pretty hardcore Star Wars fan, so I had to resist the urge to put all 6 of em in tbh. I would probably rotate in Pulp Fiction, Fellowship of the Ring and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind depending on the day.

 

[Wreck-It Ralph]

1) The Avengers (2012)
2) Speed Racer (2008)
3) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
4) Die Hard (1988)
5) Jurassic Park (1993)
6) Cloud Atlas (2012)
7) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
8) Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
9) The Matrix (1999)
10) Tron: Legacy (2010)

Runners-up:
*) Wall-E (2008)
*) The Lego Movie (2014)
*) Sin City (2005)
*) Watchmen (2009)
*) Iron Man 3 (2013)

Figuring out my top 9 was actually easier than I thought it would be, but for some reason I had trouble coming up with number 10.

 

[Fjordson]

1. Le Samouraï (Melville, 1972)
2. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
3. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Leone, 1966)
4. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
5. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
6. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
7. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950)
8. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
9. Young Frankenstein (Brooks, 1974)
10. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki, 1997)

Tough to to do only 10. Already edited something in lol.

 

[BaronLundi]

Picking only ten is really really difficult and I love each of the following films just as much but if rules are rules...

1. Mulholland Drive (2001)
2. The Red Shoes (1948)
3. Spirited Away (2001)
4. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
5. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
6. Citizen Kane (1941)
7. The Thin Red Line (1998)
8. Manhattan (1979)
9. City Lights (1931)
10. Talk to Her (Hable con ella) (2002)

Edited twice already because I can't settle.

 

[KidA Seven]

1. Jurassic Park
2. Blade Runner
3. In the Mood For Love
4. Lost In Translation
5. Spirited Away
6. The Assassination of Jesse James
7. Dumb and Dumber
8. Letters From Iwo Jima
9. Still Walking
10. Gladiator

 

[Timeless]

With the year of my most recent viewing and the age of my first viewing listed (so you can determine what role nostalgia plays).

0. Synecdoche, New York (2008) || Notes: 2015, 19
1. Ratatouille (2007) || Notes: 2014, 12: Powerful message which is told in a great way. Beautiful environments and a funny script.
2. Citizen Kane (1941) || Notes: 2015, 17
3. The Godfather (1972) || Notes: 2013, 13
4. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) || Notes: 2013, 13(???)
5. Good Will Hunting (1997) || Notes: 2012, 15(?): A perfect story with perfectly-written characters.
6. Finding Nemo (2003) || Notes: 2013, 8
7. Forrest Gump (1994) || Notes: 2013, 15
8. The Lion King (1994) || Notes: 2014, 3(?)
9. Schindler's List (1993) || Notes: 2014, 18

 

[Not Spaceghost]

1) Manchurian Candidate (1962)
2) Un Chein Andalou
3) The Shining
4) Fargo
5) 2001 Space Odyssey
6) Lawrence of Arabia
7) The Last King of Scotland
8) In the Loop
9) Missing (1982)
10) Alien

Honestly I really like the 2004 version of the Manchurian Candidate as well, I saw that one first which prompted me to go back and watch the original. The 2004 version is fuckin cool because it's like got a lot more spookiness about it, but the ending is almost unbelievably too happy considering how bleak the movie is The whole film has a really oppressing tone, you can almost feel how something is just terribly wrong in its world, you hear and catch glimpses of it at every turn. Movie really needed a darker ending for it to be better than the original adaptation of the book.

 

[Laevateinn]

1) M
2) High and Low
3) The Masque of the Red Death
4) The Professional
5) Let the Right One In
6) Grave of Fireflies
7) Dr. Strangelove
8) The Thing
9) They Live
10) Jurassic Park

 

[swoon]

1) Three Colors: Red (1994)
2) The Night of the Hunter (1955)
3) The Tree of Life (2011)
4) Surviving Desire (1993)
5) Sunrise (1927)
6) Alien (1979)
7) The Rules of the Game (1939)
8) Groundhog Day (1993)
9) Contempt (1963)
10) The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

11) Mauvais sang
12) Videodrome
13) Nashville
14) Syndromes and a Century
15) Halloween
16) Johnny Guitar
17) 2001: A Space Odyssey
18) The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
19) Days of Heaven
20) Band of Outsiders
21) Henry Fool
22) Before Midnight
23) Dead Ringers
24) Close-up
25) Reservoir Dogs
26) Girl Walk // All Day
27) Barton Fink
28) Bunny Lake is Missing
29) Eyes Wide Shut
30) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

is what I came up with in a quick 25 minutes. I'd change a lot if I really tooled with it-- a Scorsese would find its way in, maybe a Miyazaki, might shuffle the Cronenbergs and Carpenters, add in a Sono, cram more Kieslowski in there, something Czech, missing Lang and Chaplin and Shepitko. so much more, and so much more to watch. I can live with this though.

i really need to revisit surviving desire, based on your review and placement here. beautiful list.

 

[trh]

1. King Kong (1933)
2. The Deer Hunter
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Twelve Angry Men
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. Infernal Affairs
8. Citizen Kane
9. Ip Man
10. Moon

So many large gaps in my cinema history, it makes me feel as if I can't make a top 10 list that anyone should take seriously - it's mostly just a mixture of what commonly lauded pieces of cinema history I've seen coupled with a handful of my own personal favorites from more recent years. It could be worse, I guess.

 

[Faithless]

1. Blade Runner - 1982
2. Alien - 1979
3. Die Hard - 1988
4. Annie Hall - 1977
5. Amadeus - 1984
6. Fight Club - 1999
7. Vertigo - 1958
8. Princess Mononoke - 1999
9. Synecdoche, New York - 2008
10 - Titanic - 1997

I am happy with this list.

 

[harSon]

Ok brother. This is my final, and updated list. I hope you guys like it. Eyes Wide Shut is the film I feel for the most, still Blade Runner takes top position. Man, this is fucking tough.

He wasn't kidding...

 

[novenD]

Having to list only ten is so painful.

1. Lawrence of Arabia - 1962
2. Star Wars - 1977
3. Castle in the Sky - 1986
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - 1962
5. Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 1986
6. It's a Wonderful Life - 1946
7. Casino Royale - 2006
8. Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise - 1987
9. Batman Begins - 2005
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968

 

[HiResDes]

I'm going to try and list ten films that I absolutely love that I'm pretty sure you won't find on anyone else's list, not because their all that obscure, but just because they seem to be personal favorites rather than all that critically acclaimed. It might be a wasted vote, but I'm a Green Party/Socialist voter so I'm used to it.

1. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
2. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
3. Revanche (2008)
4. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
5. Happiness (1998)
6. Naked (1993)
7. 3 Women (1977)
8. Days of Being Wild (1990)
9. Swingers (1996)
10. Upstream Color (2013)

 

[MidnightCowboy]

I don't really know what my top 10 favorite movies are, it's too hard for me to whittle it down, but these are 15 that I absolutely love (some very recent additions):

1. Days of Heaven
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. Before Sunrise
4. The Long Goodbye
5. Short Cuts
6. Paris, Texas
7. There Will Be Blood
8. Chinatown
9. Spirited Away
10. Three Colors: Blue
11. Mean Streets
12. Dazed and Confused
13. Blow Up
14. Manhattan
15. Stranger Than Paradise

 

[Moppeh]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Aguirre, The Wrath of God
4. 8 1/2
5. Bicycle Thieves
6. The Third Man
7. Hiroshima, Mon Amour
8. Day For Night
9. Taxi Driver
10. Blade Runner

 

[Edwardo]

1. Rush Hour 2
2. The Dark Knight
3. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
4. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
5. The Departed
6. Scarface
7. The Matrix
8. Remember the Titans
9. Rush Hour
10. Wedding Crashers

 

[Deps]

1. The Godfather 2
2. Leon the Professional
3. The Godfather
4. Memories of Murder
5. Rear Window
6. No Country for Old Men
7. A Bittersweet Life
8. The Raid
9. Forest Gump
10. The Man from Nowhere

 

[Mackmannen]

1. Paris, Texas (1984)
2. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. Irréversible (2002)
5. The Social Network (2010)
6. The Matrix (1999)
7. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
8. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
9. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
10. Control (2007)

 

[Gabriel_Logan]

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
2. The Great Waldo Pepper
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Godfather II
5. Batman Mask of the Phantasm
6. No Country for Old Men
7. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
8. Shawshank Redemption
9. The Edge (1997)
10. Beverly Hills Cop

 

[omgkitty]

I'm going to try and list ten films that I absolutely love that I'm pretty sure you won't find on anyone else's list, not because their all that obscure, but just because they seem to be personal favorites rather than all that critically acclaimed. It might be a wasted vote, but I'm a Green Party/Socialist voter so I'm used to it.

1. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
2. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
3. Revanche (2008)
4. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
5. Happiness (1998)
6. Naked (1993)
7. 3 Women (1977)
8. Days of Being Wild (1990)
9. Swingers (1996)
10. Upstream Color (2013)

Revanche is so damn good. I believe I saw it on someone else's list as well.

 

[The Driver]

1.) Drive [2011]
2.) Jurassic Park (still love TLW too tho).
3.) Inception (would have been Interstellar had Nolan stuck the landing).
4.) Terminator 2: Judgement Day
5.) Fight Club
6. ) Kill Bill: Volume 2 (Pulp Fiction was only SLIGHTLY beat out cuz Bill's death scene in Vol.2 is the best thing Tarantino has ever done).
7.) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (ROTK tugs my heartstrings more).
8.) The Dark Knight (I love BB more for Batman).
9.) The Thing [1982]
10.) The Departed

Lots of classics on the lists here that I've been meaning to watch. The Star Wars OT (I know), Indiana Jones OT (I know), Dollars Trilogy, lots of Kurosawa films, Blade Runner (I KNOW), original Alien, etc. Really wish Netflix had a bigger selection.

 

[Squirrel Killer]

1) 12 Angry Men (1957) - Director: Sidney Lumet
2) Star Wars (1977) - Director: George Lucas
3) Certified Copy (2010) - Director: Abbas Kiarostami
4) Schindler's List (1993) - Director: Steven Spielberg
5) Rear Window (1954) - Director: Alfred Hitchcock
6) Children of Men (2006) - Director: Alfonso Cuarón
7) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Director: Stanley Kubrick
8) Gattaca (1997) - Director: Andrew Niccol
9) Ocean's Eleven (2001) - Director: Steven Soderbergh
10) Primer (2004) - Director: Shane Carruth

Ugh... killed me to cut it down. 11-15 are all by directors I would go out of my way to see a new movie of theirs in the theater.

I did have a couple of personal rules, only one movie per director, no more than a few per decade, at least three years old, at least one unquestionably "fun" movie, at least one non-US movie, at least one indie, and nothing too similar (i.e. Certified Copy knocked out any of the Before trilogy.) I also knocked out The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) because I've watched them too recently to give them enough space to properly evaluate.

 

[harSon]

I'm actually pretty impressed with the Top 25 so far. It's exclusively Hollywood, but I was expecting a lot more recent blockbusters to flood the list.

 

[Coin]

1. Don't Look Now (1973)

2. Pickpocket (1959)

3. Paris, Texas (1984)

4. Close-Up (1990)

5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

6. The Docks of New York (1928)

7. L'Atalante (1934)

8. Blood of the Beasts (1949)

9. Accattone (1961)

10. Yearning (1964)

Outside looking in:

The Wind
Sans Soleil
Chungking Express
Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
The Apartment

 

[harSon]

I'm all data entry'd out at the moment. I'm at post #186 so far.

 

[tekumseh]

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Intolerance (D.W. Griffith)
3. Battleship Potemkin
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc
5. The Lion King
6. O, Brother, Where Art Thou
7. Dr. Strangelove
8. Barry Lyndon
9. Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
10. Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith)
10. Lost in Translation

 

[toneroni]

Awesome thread. Will do some soul searching and try to figure out a list lol

 

[FreshCakes]

1. The Social Network
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Departed
4. Hot Fuzz
5. The Silence of the Lambs
6. Inglourious Basterds
7. No Country For Old Men
8. Mystic River
9. Almost Famous
10. The Assassination of Jesse James

Need to catch up on a lot of movies...

 

[DasPenguin]

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (can't believe almost no one has this on their list)

2. The Godfather

3. Casablanca

4. The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen version, of course)

5. Swingers

6. The Shawshank Redemption

7. Back to the Future

8. Charade (Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn movie)

9. All the President's Men

10. Dumb and Dumber


Honorable mention:

Man on the Moon

Lost in Translation

Goodfellas

50/50

 

[Saya]

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Intolerance (D.W. Griffith)
3. Battleship Potemkin
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc
5. The Lion King
6. O, Brother, Where Art Thou
7. Dr. Strangelove
8. Barry Lyndon
9. Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
10. Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith)
10. Lost in Translation

Haha, I've finally found another Passion of Joan of Arc! Awesome.

 

[brickarts295]

1. Toy Story 3 (2010)
   

   

2. Schindler's List (1993)
   

   

3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
   

   

4. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
   

   

5. City Lights (1931)
   

   

6. Mystic River (2003)
   

   

7. No Country for Old Men (2007)
   

   

8. Memento (2000)
   

   

9. Citizen Kane (1941)
   

   

10. The Sixth Sense (1999)
    

    

 

[Honey Bunny]

1. 浪華悲歌 (1936, 溝&#21475
2. 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 (1991, &#26954
3. Sommaren med Monika (1953, Bergman)
4. Ordet (1955, Dreyer)
5. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Michael Bay)
6. Un Chien Andalou (1929, Luis Buñuel)
7. მარილი სვანეთს (1930, შვილ&#4312
8. Fear and Desire (1953, Kubrick)
9. 鞍馬天狗 恐怖時代 (1928, 山&#21475
10. Showgirls (1995, Verhoeven)

 

[FreshCakes]

5. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Michael Bay)

Not trying to bash your list or anything, but what's your reason why this is on there?

 

[Window]

I was watching almost 100 films a year a few years ago (for about 2 years) but now I barely get to 10 so my list is unlikely to be any different than the ones in the past or just a rearrangement.

1. Taxi Driver (1976)
2. La Dolce Vita (1960)
3. Jules et Jim (1962)
4. Modern Times (1936)

Edited my list from 10 to 4 as I kept changing all other entries except the ones above.

 

[Aarglefarg]

I'm all data entry'd out at the moment. I'm at post #186 so far.

Would shaki's edited post be counted, or?

1. Blade Runner
2. Stalker
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Eyes Wide Shut
5. Citizen Kane
6. Alien
7. Police Story
8. Once Upon a Time in America (extended cut)
9. The Thing
10. Solyaris / Solaris (1972)

 

[TwiztidElf]

When does this end? I'm going to need some time to think about it.

 

[HiResDes]

Revanche is so damn good. I believe I saw it on someone else's list as well.

Dammit!

 

[muttyeah416]

A deeply personal list with films that get me in the feels. I also tend to gravitate towards coming-of-age films, one-man's-self-discovery films, and unconventional narratives/4th wall breaking.

1. Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1986)

2. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)

3. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)

4. Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002)

5. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)

6. Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)

7. Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong, 2003)

8. The Private Eyes 半斤八兩 (Michael Hui, 1976)

9. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)

10. Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (Masami Hata, William Hurtz, 1989)

 

[omgkitty]

1. 浪華悲歌 (1936, 溝&#21475
2. 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 (1991, &#26954
3. Sommaren med Monika (1953, Bergman)
4. Ordet (1955, Dreyer)
5. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Michael Bay)
6. Un Chien Andalou (1929, Luis Buñuel)
7. მარილი სვანეთს (1930, შვილ&#4312
8. Fear and Desire (1953, Kubrick)
9. 鞍馬天狗 恐怖時代 (1928, 山&#21475
10. Showgirls (1995, Verhoeven)

So you use the traditional names for films and their original language and characters so no one knows what half of the films are but then you include Transformers and Showgirls. You also have Kubrick's first and worst film. Can't tell if trolling or not.

 

[EliCash]

1. Sunset Blvd (1950)
2. Detour (1945)
3. Criss Cross (1949)
4, Contempt (1963)
5. Citizen Kane (1941)
6. Vertigo (1958)
7. Out of the Past (1947)
8. Gun Crazy (1950)
9. Days of Heaven (1978)
10. Psycho (1960)

11. The 400 Blows (1959)
12. Paris, Texas (1984)
13. Breathless (1960)
14. The Last Picture Show (1971)
15. The Searchers (1956)
16. Double Indemnity (1944)
17. Play Time (1967)
18. Night of the Hunter (1955)
19. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
20. The Ascent (1977)

21. Nashville (1975)
22. 3 Bad Men (1926)
23. Point Blank (1967)
24. The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
25. Brief Encounter (1945)
26. Back Street (1961)
27. Night Train (1959)
28. The Conformist (1970)
29. Johnny Guitar (1954)
30. Cluny Brown (1946)

full top 50 here: http://boxd.it/ofyQ

Great list, my 11-20 would be pretty similar. Sunset Blvd. is a solid number 1. Guess I need to see Johnny Guitar, Cluny Brown, The Ascent, 3 Bad Men and Night Train.

 

[MRrogermoore]

1. Seven Samurai
2. La Strada
3. The Bycycle Thief
4. The Godfather 1/2
5. The Shawshank Redemption
6. Yojimbo
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Ben Hur
9. Lawrence Of Arabia
10. Ran

 

[EliCash]

Updated my10, I promise this is final. Hope this doesn't confuse you OP. Added 11-30 for kicks:

1. Badlands (1973)
2. Annie Hall (1977)
3. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
4. The 400 Blows (1959)
5. Taxi Driver (1976)
6. The General (1928)
7. Manhattan (1979)
8. The Big Lebowski (1998)
9. Kes (1969)
10. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

11-20
Down by Law (1986)
La Strada (1954)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Wise Blood (1979)
Psycho (1960)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
The Producers (1967)

21-30
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Radio Days (1987)
After Hours (1985)
A Short Film About Killing (1988)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Raging Bull (1980)
Alice in the Cities (1974)
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Les Valseuses (1974)

 

[zorlaczerohero]

1. Evil Dead 2
2. True Romance
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Dollars trilogy)
4. Blade Runner
5. Big Fish
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Shaun of the Dead (Cornetto trilogy)
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. Dredd
10. It's all gone Pete Tong


To be honest all these, with the exception of the top 3, probably change on a weekly basis.

 

[theusedversion]

So you use the traditional names for films and their original language and characters so no one knows what half of the films are but then you include Transformers and Showgirls. You also have Kubrick's first and worst film. Can't tell if trolling or not.

Trying to look cool. I'm sure there are several who have listed movies that they think will make them look cool instead of the movies that they truly love the best but it's impossible to tell. No proof, just a gut feeling.

 

[tekumseh]

Haha, I've finally found another Passion of Joan of Arc! Awesome.

I firmly believe the performance of Renée Jean Falconetti to be the greatest ever captured in a film.

 

[Timeaisis]

So based on what I'm seeing correlating with my tastes I really need to see 12 Angry Men and Lawrence of Arabia.

 

[Fox_Mulder]

In my opinion:

1. The Kid - 1921
2. Seven samurai - 1954
3. The birth of a nation - 1915
4. Metropolis - 1927
5. Mulholland Drive - 2001
6. The passion of Joan of Arc - 1928
7. Nosferatu - 1922
8. Citizen Kane - 1941
9. Psycho - 1960
10. Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio) - 1960

 

[harSon]

Would shaki's edited post be counted, or?

Oh, I'm not ending the voting. I was just done updating the spreadsheet for the night. It's pretty monotonous lmao. As I said, voting will remain open as long as there's a healthy trickle of votes - and once things do begin do begin to wind down - I'll give a week warning before I ultimately close the thread. I want this to be as comprehensive as possible. I'll be able to see if a person has updated or not based on the 'post edited by _" message that pops up at the bottom of edited posts - so those will be reflected within the spreadsheet as well when I get around to it.