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[Spinluck]

1. Rear Window
2. Taxi Driver
3. Vertigo
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Godfather II
6. Psycho
7. Lawrence Of Arabia
8.Spirited Away
9. Lost In Translation
10. American Beauty

Tbh, my top 6 is more solid and easier to assemble than my last 4.

I feel like my last is pretty interchangeable. Tried to have some variety in there.

 

[Spinluck]

Oh boy, I know more or less how to rank other mediums, but films... What metric do you even use? It's so diverse that it's pretty much impossible to rank them.

Try looking at it as an artform (filmmaking)

Not trying to sound condescending or anything but once you know what goes into the craft it might make it easier. Or you can just go with what you enjoy the most- I guess. Not everyone is looking for the same things when watching a movie.

I'm not the best with lists but I gave it a shot! Mine often change, at least the movies on the lower half of the list.

 

[Spinluck]

:/

Films aren't more or less diverse than other mediums.

And I don't think anybody is asking for a definitive ranking, just a rough estimate of either your favorite films, or what you consider to be the best films you've seen, or some combination of the two.

They most definitely are IMO.

They combine just about every art form/medium.

 

[shintoki]

How dare I forget City of God.... One of the greatest films ever. -_-

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

They most definitely are IMO.

They combine just about every art form/medium.

Every art form has a shit-ton of variety within it, in different ways. Films are no more or less difficult to compare to one another than any other art form.

 

[Perfect Blue]

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Casablanca
3. Blade Runner
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Children of Men
6. Sunset Boulevard
7. Escape From New York
8. North By Northwest
9. The Hidden Fortress
10. Chinatown

 

[Matt_09]

1. Vertigo
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Blade Runner
4. The Godfather Part II
5. In The Mood for Love
6. Amadeus
7. Psycho
8. The Empire Strikes Back
9. Casablanca
10. Spinal Tap

 

[haikira]

01 The Thing (1982)

02 Blade Runner (1982)

03 Memories of Murder (2003)

04 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

 

[Zach]

You guys are making me want to watch and re-watch a lot of movies.

 

[Currygan]

Oh boy, I know more or less how to rank other mediums, but films... What metric do you even use? It's so diverse that it's pretty much impossible to rank them.

it's not hard, all movies are made by using the same fundamental elements, just like any other media, although obviously more multifaceted. the only thing that varies is the quality of said elements

in my opinion though, it's not possible to have only one best movie of all time, so in a sense you're correct. there are too many of them

 

[SpaceHorror]

1. The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. The Magnificent Ambersons
3. High and Low
4. Vertigo
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. The Godfather Part II
7. Casablanca
8. The Best Years of Our Lives
9. Taxi Driver
10. The Road Warrior

Honorable mentions:

Alien
Sunset Blvd
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Godfather
The Big Country
A Clockwork Orange

This was so tough I could have easily made the honorable mentions 20 films, but decided to limit it to movies I put on my list then removed (and put back on again). My top 3 is pretty set in stone, though.

 

[StaffyManasse]

I feel like I'm not enough of a film buff to make a "real" best of all time list. It has to be personal one. So I chose films that I love and want to watch over and over again. I am sure there are in many ways a lot of better films out there, but for me, these are the ones I always return to.

1) Sunshine
2) Children of Men
3) Terminator 2: Judgement Day
4) The Last of the Mohicans
5) Alien
6) Aliens
7) Blade Runner
8) Watchmen
9) The Dark Knight
10) Mad Max: Fury Road

 

[Aselith]

1. North by Northwest
2. Ghostbusters 1
3. Terminator 2
4. The Shining
5. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
6. Dark City
7. Heat
8. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
9. The Seventh Seal
10. Children of Men

 

[GuyKazama]

1. Jaws
2. The Lion in Winter
3. Before Sunset
4. Wall Street
5. The Long Goodbye
6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
7. The Shining
8. Pulp Fiction
9. The Big Lebowski
10. Scarface

 

[Divius]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The Godfather
3. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
4. Yojimbo
5. Sunset Blvd
   
6. The Tree of Life
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. The Red Shoes
9. Vertigo
10. Ran

Not the most original list, nor am I 100% happy with it, but apparently you can only cram 10 movies in a top 10. So this will have to do.

 

[The Purple Pill]

1. Blade Runner

2. Alien

3. Princess Mononoke

4. The Shawshank Redemption

5. NGE: The End of Evangelion

6. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

7. Gattaca

8. Ghostbusters

9. Dances with Wolves

10. Hero

 

[Razorback]

I haven't updated my top 10 in years. Let's see if anything from the last decade made it in.

01- 2001:A Space Odyssey
02- Apocalypse Now
03- Aliens
04- Alien
05- Blade Runner
06- The Shining
07- LotR: Return of the King
08- Terminator 2
09- Tron Legacy
10- Drive

Look at that, two movies from this decade. It's hard putting more recent stuff next to timeless classics. But it makes me wonder if I'm really being honest when I put stuff like T2 up there. I've seen it so many times I'm kind of sick of it. But on the other hand, these movies helped shape who I am.

Anyway, I know there's no points left to give but I'm gonna continue the list for the hell of it.

11 - The Matrix
12 - District 9
13 - Under the Skin
14 - Kill Bill
15 - A.I.
16 - Fight Club
17 - Jurassic Park
18 - Clockwork Orange
19 - Saving Private Ryan
20 - Stalker
21 - Eraserhead
22 - Robocop
23 - Stalker
24 - Barry Lyndon
25 - Once Upon a Time in the West
26 - Mad Max: Fury Road
27 - The Blair Witch Project
28 - Dredd
29 - Gerry
30 - Eyes Wide Shut
31 - Interstellar
32 - Watchmen
33 - Beyond the Black Rainbow
34 - Gravity
35 - The Hitcher
36 - Gattaca
37 - The Thing
38 - Titanic
39 - Touching the Void
40 - Starman
41 - The Elephant Man
42 - Seven
43 - Starship Troopers
44 - Taxi Driver
45 - The Terminator
46 - Cast Away
47 - Schindler's List
48 - Vanishing Point
49 - Paris Texas
50 - Forbidden Planet

 

[Akahige]

Top 10:
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
2. The Fountain (2006)
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
4. Princess Mononoke (1997)
5. In the Mood for Love (2000)
6. Drunken Master II (1994)
7. AKIRA (1988)
8. The Thing (1982)
9. The Third Man (1949)
10. The Shining (1980)

Tough as nails to narrow down to only 10

Top 11-25:
11. Alien (1979)
12. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
13. Apocalypse Now (1979)
14. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
15. Blade Runner: Director's Cut (1992) - I Honest Can't Decide Which Version So I Went With the Version I First Watched
16. Zodiac (2007)
17. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
18. Children of Men (2006)
19. Memories of Murder (2003)
20. Young Frankenstein (1974)
21. Cure (1997)
22. Jaws (1975)
23. The Incredibles (2004)
24. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
25. Kikujiro (1999)

Honorable Mentions (AKA Films That Almost Made Top 11-25):
12 Monkeys (1995)
28 Days Later (2002)
Atonement (2007)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Before Sunset (2004)
Collateral (2004)
Coraline (2009)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Fight Club (1999)
Gattaca (1997)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Hard Boiled (1992)
Heat (1995)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Last Life in the Universe (2003)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
The Master (2012)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Oldboy (2003)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Raging Bull (1980)
Ratatouille (2007)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
The Road Warrior (1981)
RoboCop (1987)
Rope (1948)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Sunshine (2007)
Star Wars (1977)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Total Recall (1990)

 

[Haloid1177]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Pulp Fiction
3. The Dark Knight
4. Zodiac
5. Taxi Driver
6. Star Wars
7. Toy Story
8. Drive
9. Eraserhead
10. Whiplash

 

[Karu]

1. Lost in Translation
2. The Lion King
3. The Dark Knight
4. Juno
5. Goodfellas
6. Titanic
7. Heat
8. Oldboy
9. Die Hard
10.Halloween

This is in no particular order just yet. So some changes wilk follow, if I remember. Though I wouldn't be to hurt, if I do not.

Other possible candidates?
Scream
The Fellowship of the Ring
Star Wars
The Raid: Redemption
Con Air
Martyr
Inception
Saving Private Ryan
12 Angry Men
Inglorious Basterds
Pulp Fiction
Before-Trilogy ( Cant decide right now, all are tremendous)
Alien

 

[silentcapybara]

1. Rushmore (1998, dir. Wes Anderson)

2. Stranger Than Paradise (1984, dir. Jim Jarmusch)
3. The Darjeeling Limited (2007, dir. Wes Anderson)
4. Sunset Boulevard (1950, dir. Billy Wilder)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, dir. David Lean)
6. Rope (1948, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Mean Streets (1973, dir. Martin Scorsese)
8. Magnolia (1999, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. Days of Heaven (1978, dir. Terrence Malick)
10. The Fall (2006, dir. Tarsem Singh)

 

[massoluk]

1. Dark City
2. The Shadow
3. Tom Yum Goong (a.k.a. The Protector)
4. The Matrix
5. Kung Fu Hustle
6. Macross: Do You Remember Love
7. Batman Begins
8. Aladdin
9. Raider of the Lost Ark
10. The Dark Knight

 

[ReplacementPelican]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
5. Blade Runner
6. The Shawshank Redemption
7. Birdman
8. Psycho
9. Persepolis
10. O'Brother, Where Art Thou?

Changes so, so often. I tried to get a good cross-section!

 

[harSon]

Thanks for bumping the thread! I was about to do so myself. I'll be closing the voting a week from today, so all votes must be in by May 27th.

 

[Freewheelin']

01. The Shining
02. The Assassination of Jesse James
03. Alien
04. The Godfather
05. L.A. Confidential
06. The King of Comedy
07. Pan's Labyrinth
08. Duck Soup
09. Once Upon A Time In The West
10. Reservoir Dogs

 

[criesmary]

Lets do this..

1. Y Tu mama Tambien (Unrated/Uncut Version) - Mexico - Alfonso Cuaron - 2001
2. Before Sunset - US - Richard Linklater - 2004
3. The Hunt [Jagten] - Denmark - Thomas Vinterberg - 2012
4. Before Midnight - US - Richard Linklater - 2013
5. Infernal Affairs - HK/China - Andrew Lau and Alan Mak - 2001
6. Let The Right One In - Sweden - Tomas Alfredson - 2008
7. Harakiri - Japan - Masaki Kobayashi - 1962
8. Heat - US - Michael Mann - 1995
9. A Separation - Iran - Asghar Farhadi - 2011
10. High Fidelity - US - Stephen Frears - 2000

 

[EightBitNate]

1. Fargo
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Zodiac
4. Alien
5. Ratatouille
6. Kill Bill
7. American Beauty
8. Whiplash
9. Spirited Away
10. The Iron Giant

 

[Wizerd]

1. The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Gattaca
4. Jaws
5. Pulp Fiction
6. The Shining
7. Rushmore
8. Blade Runner
9. Amelie
10. Lawrence of Arabia

 

[FTF]

I have a (somewhat consistent) top 10 but have never ordered them so what the hell:

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Pulp Fiction
5. The Silence of the Lambs
6. Jaws
7. Lost in Translation
8. Se7en
9. A Clockwork Orange
10. The Dark Knight

 

[Zia]

1. La Jetée (Marker, 1962)
2. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
3. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
4. The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)
5. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
6. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001)
7. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
8. Alphaville (Godard, 1965)
9. Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961)
10. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)

 

[Spieler Eins]

1. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ; Best action adventure, had to cut Indy for it.
2. Fight Club (1999)
3. Seven Samurai (1954) ; I might have had the most fun with Sanjuro from the Kurosawa movies, but I'm not sure whether I'll ever be able to rewatch that one anywhere, anytime soon.
4. Inglourious Basterds (2009) ; toss-up between this and Kill Bill Vol. 2.
5. Léon (1994)
6. There Will be Blood (2007)
7. Batman Begins (2005)
8. Men in Black (1997) ; toss-up between this and Rush Hour 2 for buddy cop comedies which are generally cool and I could laugh about even after dozens of rewatches (and humour usually already loses me the second time).
9. The Thing (1982) ; toss-up between this and Alien. Unfortunately, the sequels and Prometheus kinda harmed the latter a little for me.
10. The Third Man (1949) ; Last decision boiled down to either this or One flew over the Cuckoos Nest.

 

[JTripper]

1. The Godfather
2. Rear Window
3. Toy Story
4. A Hard Day's Night
5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
6. Before Sunrise
7. Breathless
8. Jules and Jim
9. Boyhood
10. Annie Hall

 

[LiQuid!]

1. Demolition Man
2. Blade Runner
3. City of God
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
5. Raiders of the Lost Arc
6. Blood Diner
7. The Last Boy Scout
8. Lost in Translation
9. No Country for Old Men
10. The Godfather

 

[HoJu]

1. Double Indemnity
2. High and Low
3. Hannah and Her Sisters
4. The Red Shoes
5. Rear Window
6. Three Colors: Red
7. The Conversation
8. After Life
9. The Spirit of the Beehive
10. Mad Max Fury Road

Honorable mentions: Blade Runner, Double Life of Veronique, The Apartment, Taxi Driver, The Godfather, Still Walking, 2001, Margaret, Happy Together, Tree of Life, Ikiru.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

10. Mad Max Fury Road

I respect this

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Was wondering if that was going to show up in here

 

[Flavius]

1. Seven Samurai
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. The Godfather
4. Night of the Living Dead
5. Rear Window
6. Rushmore
7. Legends of the Fall
8. Empire Strikes Back
9. Pulp Fiction
10. To Kill a Mockingbird

You're an evil person, OP.

 

[ubique]

Today it's:

1. Heat (1995) - Michael Mann
2. Birth (2004) - Jonathan Glazer
3. Alien (1979) - Ridley Scott
4. Se7en (1995) - David Fincher
5. Mind Game (2004) - Masaaki Yuasa
6. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) - George Miller
7. Lolita (1962) - Stanley Kubrick
8. There Will Be Blood (2007) - Paul Thomas Anderson
9. The Exorcist (1973) - William Friedkin
10. Ghost in the Shell (1995) - Mamoru Oshii

But it changes daily

 

[HoJu]

It's so good. I couldn't not list it.

 

[StaffyManasse]

I also had to come back and edit Fury Road into my list. Just had to. Sitting at 10 now. Time will tell if it rises higher when I get to see it again (and again).

 

[AkuMifune]

I also had to come back and edit Fury Road into my list. Just had to. Sitting at 10 now. Time will tell if it rises higher when I get to see it again (and again).

Thinking of doing the same. Hah. Right now I'd put it at #9. Need to see it a few more times to be sure. I don't think it can touch The Road Warrior, maybe it's too fantastical. Not sure. The fact it cracked the top 10 at all is pretty amazing.

5 days to decide. Damn.

 

[TheExhaustedWalrus]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Lost in Translation
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Terminator 2
6. The Social Network
7. Whiplash
8. Being John Malkovich
9. Fargo
10. The Incredibles

 

[Akahige]

1. Double Indemnity
2. High and Low
3. Hannah and Her Sisters
4. The Red Shoes
5. Rear Window
6. Three Colors: Red
7. The Conversation
8. After Life
9. The Spirit of the Beehive
10. Mad Max Fury Road

Honorable mentions: Blade Runner, Double Life of Veronique, The Apartment, Taxi Driver, The Godfather, Still Walking, 2001, Margaret, Happy Together, Tree of Life, Ikiru.

Hirokazu Koreeda's After Life is great, I shouldn't read these lists I would probably change my whole list after forgetting so many.

 

[EulaCapra]

1. Mean Girls (Yesss bitch!)
2. The Sound of Music
3. Finding Nemo
4. Rear Window
5. The Dark Knight
6. Spirited Away
7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
8. West Side Story
9. Little Miss Sunshine
10. Scream

 

[thequestion]

1. Star Wars
2. Goodfellas
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Raiders of the lost ark
5. Aliens
6. Royal Tenenbaums
7. Rushmore
8. Jaws
9. Godfather part 2
10. Heat

11. Mad Max: Fury Road (I wasn't old enough to watch Star Wars when it first his the theatres. Mad Max was my "Star Wars-in-theatre--awe-inspiring-moment".

Ghostbusters, Empire Strikes Back, Rear window, Seven Samurai, The Dark Knight, Hannah and her sisters, and Silence of the Lambs - honourable mentions.

 

[eyeball_kid]

It's hard to separate the objective from the subjective; there are films I love watching over and over, have great personal attachment to, or find certain qualities in them breathtaking, but would not in good conscience put them in the Top 10 of all time. Having said that:

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
2. The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
3. Tampopo (Itami, 1985)
4. Breathless (Godard, 1960)
5. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001)
6. Damage (Louis Malle, 1992)
7. Down By Law (Jarmusch, 1986)
8. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
9. Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson, 2012)
10. This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)

 

[Steamlord]

1. Repulsion (1965)
2. Lost in Translation (2003)
3. Nosferatu (1922)
4. Persona (1966)
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
6. Eraserhead (1977)
7. Marketa Lazarová (1967)
8. Metropolis (1927)
9. City Lights (1931)
10. Heathers (1988)


Holy shit, cutting it down to just ten was agonizing.

 

[theusedversion]

I've seen it come up a few times so if you have trouble making a list, just list your favorite movies to watch regardless of their quality. It's much easier to do. Just think about which movies you have watched the most for some good ideas. For some people, favorite and best overall quality are the same but for a lot of people they are different. I actually think it's way more interesting to see people's favorites to watch. More diverse and not populated with a lot of the same movies that appear in these types of polls. I personally chose to go with my favorites and several others have as well. My list would be different had I chosen to base my selection on quality but it would have been more difficult for me to make choices so I went with the other option. There's nothing wrong with the guy who put Transformers down. It's a fun blockbuster to watch. Also, people's favorites can be affected by outside factors. Maybe there was a time in your life where you were watching movies and those experiences really stayed with you. I can identify with this. There's also nothing wrong with listing only current movies. Some people have a hard time identifying with movies that were made before they were born. I have seen thousands of movies and even owned a video store at one point in my life but I generally don't care for any movies pre-1980 (born 1979). There are tons of exceptions (and I own several from before 1980) but as a general sentiment, they are not my cup of tea. Nothing wrong with that. So don't feel discouraged by some of the people in this thread. Post what you like and don't worry about it.

 

[silentcapybara]

Holy shit, cutting it down to just ten was agonizing.

nice list. lost in translation, eraserhead, and city lights were all tough cuts from my own top ten.

 

[GamerJM]

1. Spirited Away
2. Toy Story
3. Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back
4. the Avengers (2012)
5. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
6. Akira
7. Star Trek (2009)
8. Toy Story 3
9. Crash (2004)
10. Elf

I need to watch more movies, I haven't seen most of the classics.