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Just list a bunch of movies that are your favourites

the following are the favourites that I can think of now:

- Leon (has been my absolute favourite film for a number of years now)

The rest in no particular order with no doubt a bunch of omissions:

- Usual Suspects
- LA Confidential
- Garden State
- DOA
- Lawn Dogs
- The Sphere
- The Boondock Saints
- Narc
- Good Will Hunting
- Unbreakable

probably a ton more that I love that I just can't think about now

The best film that I've seen recently has to be four lions. Not putting it on the list for now since I saw it so recently and don't know whether it will stand the test of time, but a great film none the less

How 'bout y'all?
 
Let's see:

Dr. Strangelove
The Miracle Worker
My Neighbor Totoro
Carrie
Howl's Moving Castle
Mommie Dearest (my guilty pleasure)
The Harry Potter series
 
I dont really know. Some good ones I enjoy are:
Synecdoche, New York
Persona
Breathless
Three colors:Red
Annie Hall
A Women Under the Influence

I know I am forgetting a ton, but everyone should watch these movies. Plus I am just getting into a whole bunch of different directors lately, so this list will defiantly change.
 
Just a handful off the top of my head because it's late and I need sleep.

Back to the Future Trilogy - because, I mean, come on.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - favorite 80's comedy ever, and favorite John Hughes film. This movie just has an indescribable charm about it that makes it watchable over and over and over.
Dumb and Dumber - it's a wacky comedy, a road movie, and a buddy movie, and it's so good at all three of these. Easily my favorite comedy, and I've probably watched it more times than any movie. I can probably quote the entire movie start to finish.
One Hour Photo - amazing thriller/suspense film. A lot of people probably never gave it a chance because they had a hard time taking a "scary Robin Williams movie" seriously, but it is honestly one of his best roles in his career. He is so believable as a disturbed, lonely, creepy man that you forget it's Robin Williams. Love this fucking movie
Terminator 2 - epic action flick. Can't be beat.
Speed - perfect nail-biter and popcorn muncher. I never get tired of it.
 
Here's the list of my favourite directors I have on my profile. There's a few I'm missing but whatever.

Allen/Antonioni/Bergman/Kubrick/Hopper/Hitchcock/Kieślowski/Lynch/Judge/Anderson
 
in no particular order:

- Trainspotting
- Fight Club
- Moulin Rouge
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Heat
- The Lion King
- Sin City
 
Top10:

1. The Elephant Man - I've never felt that badly for one character, nor that fulfilled with an ending.
2. City Lights - Chaplin holding a flower while staring at the beauty of her loved lady. Just that scene.
3. Grave Of The Fireflies - How to make a movie about the physical and moral damages of war while not being too complacent.
4. The Shawshank Redemption - A flawless tale of friendship that manages to transport me to another reality.
5. Pulp Fiction - Hilarious, quotable to death and an amazing exercise in style.
6. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - One of those unique gems in which the characters take you wherever they want.
7. Life Of Brian - A true gagfest, probably the funniest movie ever written.
8. Spirited Away - A pleasure for the senses, a magical world you can see and touch, smell and taste.
9. Days Of Wine And Roses - Fascinating melodrama about the effects of alcoholism, the main performances are a damn miracle.
10. Little Miss Sunshine - My very personal choice, something that never has failed to cheer me up deserves to be here.
 
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Earth (Dovzhenko)
Playtime (Tati)
Dead Man (Jarmusch)
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
Out of the Blue (Hopper)
The Mortal Storm (Borzage)
24 City (Jia)
Late Spring (Ozu)
In Praise of Love (Godard)
F for Fake (Welles)
The Long Gray Line (Ford)
Rio Bravo (Hawks)
The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch)
News from Home (Akerman)
Rushmore (Anderson)
 
Off the top of my head...

Ocean's Eleven (remake)
Clue
Punch-Drunk Love
The Emperor's New Groove
Stranger Than Fiction
Groundhog Day
Almost Famous
Up in the Air (every time I re-watch this movie, I end up liking it even more)
Chicago
Inception
WALL-E

Tried to put a lot of different kinds of movies on the list. I do have a tendency to gravitate to the high concept (Stranger Than Fiction, Groundhog Day, Inception) in my movie preferences, though. A memorable soundtrack is also a big plus with me.
 
2001 (kubrick)
persona (bergman)
the conversation (coppola)
raging bull (scorsese)
a woman under the influence (cassavetes)
aguirre, the wrath of god (herzog)
the rules of the game (renoir)
citizen kane (welles)
m (lang)
bicycle thieves (de sica)
the passion of joan of arc (dreyer)
days of heaven (malick)
stalker (tarkovsky)
8 1/2 (fellini)
city lights (chaplin)
the third man (reed)
late spring (ozu)
the battle of algiers (pontecorvo)
make way for tomorrow (mccarey)
ugetsu (mizoguchi)
the hustler (rossen)
short cuts (altman)
the grapes of wrath (ford)
the last picture show (bogdanovich)
ran (kurosawa)
barton fink (coens)
manhattan (allen)
blue velvet (lynch)
knife in the water (polanski)
shadow of a doubt (hitchcock)



a rough attempt at a top 30. i tried to make it more interesting by limiting myself to one film per director, otherwise there would be more than one from bergman, ozu, kubrick, tarkovsky, coppola, and welles.
 
The Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
In Bruges
Slumdog Millionaire
The Hangover
Memento
Saw
Saw II
Saw VI
Up
Toy Story
Toy Story III
Saving Private Ryan
District 9
The Green Mile
Finding Nemo
Little Miss Sunshine
Inception
and if it counts, the Foo Fighters: Back and Forth documentary
 
The Godfather: Part One
The Godfather: Part Two
Mysterious Skin
28 Weeks Later
28 Days Later
V for Vendetta
The Sixth Sense
Rear Window
Good Will Hunting
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Donnie Darko
The Simpsons Movie
Gran Torino
A Bronx Tale
A. I. Artificial Intelligence
Brokeback Mountain
Goodfellas
It's a Wonderful Life
JFK
Nixon
The Damned United
The Mudge Boy
Frost/Nixon
Titanic
Midnight Run
Casino
The Poseidon Adventure
500 Days of Summer
 
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Back to the Future Trilogy
Rear Window
The Damned United
Toy Story
The Incredibles

And loads of other shit
 
Meh i'm bored so I'll make a list like Cole's. one film per director. This was much harder than I thought. Many deserved more than 1 movie.

Three Colors: Red(Kieślowski)
Office Space(Judge)
Dumb and Dumber(Farrelly Brothers)
Raising Arizona(Coen Brothers)
The Purple Rose of Cairo(Allen)
Eclipse(Antonioni)
Through a Glass Darkly(Bergman)
North by Northwest(Hitchcock)
Dr.Strangelove(Kubrick)
Out of the Blue(Hopper)
Mulholland Drive(Lynch)
Rushmore(Anderson)
Star Wars episode V(Kershner)
A Woman Under the Influence(Cassavetes)
Synecdoche NY(Kaufman)
The Wind Will Carry Us(Kiarostami)
Paris, Texas(Wenders)
Sunrise(Murnau)
Trust(Hartley)
Dancer in the Dark(von Trier)
8 1/2(Fellini)
Breathless(Godard)
The 400 Blows(Truffaut)
Trafic(Tati)
The Long Goodbye(Altman)
Apocalypse Now(Coppola)
Chinatown(Polanski)
Badlands(Malick)
Kicking and Screaming(Baumbach)
Stalker(Tarkovsky)
 
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Trust (Hartley, 1990)
L'avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
Arsenal (Dovzhenko, 1928)
Cowards Bend the Knee (Maddin, 2003)
Three Colors: Red (Kieslowski, 1994)
Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Dolen, 1952)
High Plains Drifter (Eastwood, 1973)
The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
O Padre e a Moça (Pedro de Andrade, 1966)
Lost In Translation (Coppola, 2003)
Kings of the Road (Wenders, 1976)
The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940)
Bang Bang (Tonacci, 1971)
The Cameraman (Keaton, Sedgwick, 1928)
Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)
The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)
Pierrot le Fou (Godard, 1965)
Persona (Bergman, 1966)
Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage, 1962)
La Ville des Pirates (Ruiz, 1984)
A Erva do Rato (Bressane, 2008)
The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel, 1962)
Gummo (Korine, 1997)
Imitation of Life (Sirk, 1959)
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
The Last Laugh (Murnau, 1924)
The Asphalt Jungle (Huston, 1950)
Red Road (Arnold, 2006)
Seams (Ainouz, 1993)
The Red Shoes (The Archers, 1948)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940)
Alice (Svankmajer, 1988)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971)
Birds, Orphans and Fools (Jakubisko, 1969)


basically just copied from my criticker. did the one per director thing as well, didn't even count just put in as many as i wanted :cool:
 
… 20 films I love (in no specific order):

1. Paranormal Activity 1 & 2
2. The Thing (1982)
3. Blair Witch Project
4. District 9
5. Psycho (1960)
6. Predator
7. Star Wars hexalogy
8. Alien quadrilogy
9. Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
10. The Exorcist
11. Jurassic Park
12. The Mist
13. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
14. Edward Scissorhands
15. AKIRA
16. Grave of the Fireflies
17. Shaun of the Dead
18. Futurama quardrilogy
19. The Simpsons Movie
20. The Nightmare Before Christmas
 
Eraserhead

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Yellow Submarine

MST3K: The Movie

Videodrome

Help!

Pretty much any Pixar movie
 
I pretty much dumped all my lists when I hit my late twenties, but I'm pretty sure my top three are solid:

1. Ghostbusters

Wild freaky comedy that never gets old.

2. Spider-Man 2

I enjoy my superhero movies, and this one gets my vote for best of them all.

3. Death Note: The Last Name

Another sequel that outdoes the original. Thrilling cat and mouse game.
 
A few of my favorites in no particular order;

Miracle
Goodfellas
A Bronx Tale
The Hangover
Spaceballs
Remember the Titans
Anchorman
Office Space
Major League
Major League II
Slapshot
The Breakfast Club
Top Gun
National Lampoon's Animal House
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
 
Ghostbusters
JAWS
The Thing 1982
Boogie Nights
The Terminator
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
American Psycho
Gojira/Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Basic Instinct
Creature from the Black Lagoon
 
qwertyuio said:
Top10:

1. The Elephant Man - I've never felt that badly for one character, nor that fulfilled with an ending.
2. City Lights - Chaplin holding a flower while staring at the beauty of her loved lady. Just that scene.
3. Grave Of The Fireflies - How to make a movie about the physical and moral damages of war while not being too complacent.
4. The Shawshank Redemption - A flawless tale of friendship that manages to transport me to another reality.
5. Pulp Fiction - Hilarious, quotable to death and an amazing exercise in style.
6. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - One of those unique gems in which the characters take you wherever they want.
7. Life Of Brian - A true gagfest, probably the funniest movie ever written.
8. Spirited Away - A pleasure for the senses, a magical world you can see and touch, smell and taste.
9. Days Of Wine And Roses - Fascinating melodrama about the effects of alcoholism, the main performances are a damn miracle.
10. Little Miss Sunshine - My very personal choice, something that never has failed to cheer me up deserves to be here.
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To make the list a little more complete, here is the top50 I wrote in another board. It's in chronological order, I don't dare to make it in order of preference:

La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Dreyer)
City Lights (Chaplin)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
Paths Of Glory (Kubrick)
Twelve Angry Men (Lumet)
Psycho (Hitchcock)
The Apartment (Wilder)
Viridiana (Buñuel)
Days Of Wine And Roses (Edwards)
The Executioner (Berlanga)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
The Godfather (Coppola)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Forman)
Life Of Brian (Jones)
The Elephant Man (Lynch)
The Plague Dogs (Rosen)
The Name Of The Rose (Annaud)
Grave Of The Fireflies (Takahata)
My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
A Short Film About Love (Kieslowski)
Aladdin (Musker & Clements)
Groundhog Day (Ramis)
Ed Wood (Burton)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)
Babe (Noonan)
The Bridges Of Madison County (Eastwood)
Whisper Of The Heart (Kondo)
Beautiful Girls (Demme)
Trainspotting (Boyle)
Funny Games (Haneke)
Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki)
Perfect Blue (Kon)
American Beauty (Mendes)
Donnie Darko (Kelly)
Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (Jackson)
Millennium Actress (Kon)
Monsters, Inc. (Docter, Unkrich & Silverman)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
City Of God (Meirelles & Lund)
Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (Jackson)
Big Fish (Burton)
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Gondry)
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Tarantino)
Little Miss Sunshine (Dayton & Faris)
Wall-E (Stanton)
Mary And Max (Elliot)
The Secret In Her Eyes (Campanella)
Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
 
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wow. truly surprised by some of these.

Citizen Kane
Sunset Blvd
The Apartment
Some Like it Hot
Ferris Bueller's
Election
Midnight Run
The Third man
Superbad
 
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