Top 10 films of all time

[Dr. Strangelove]

If you had to make a list of your top 10 films of all time, what would they be?
My list, though i will porbably want to change them the second I have written them down! BTW, mine are in no order, because I would have to agonise for hours.

1. Great Escape
2. Singing in the rain
3. Oceans 11 (2001)
4. Casablanca
5. Oceans 11 (1960)
6. Indiana Jones The last Crusade
7. Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
8. Schindler's List
9. Monty Python Life of Brian
10. Reservoir Dogs

[Tess]

I compiled a top 20 list a few months back for another site, I couldn't face reducing it to 10!

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Back to the Future part 1
3. Before Sunrise
4. Breakfast Club
5. Grapes of Wrath
6. Lost in Translation
7. LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring
8. American Werewolf in London
9. Dead Poets Society
10. Groundhog Day
11. Momento
12. True Romance
13. Empire Records
14. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
15. It’s a Wonderful Life
16. City of God
17. Reservoir Dogs
18. Amelie
19. Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrman)
20. Tremors

[Seraphina]

In no particular order..

Amelie
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mary Poppins (childhood love, am still inexplicably attached to it!)
Schindler's List
DOnnie Darko
Breakfast at Tiffanys
One Flew OVer the Cuckoo's Nest
Sideways
The Shawshank Redemption
erm......last one, so many choices...! mmm....The Incredibles. :D

[Grammath]

My selection today is:

Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Pulp Fiction
Donnie Darko
Betty Blue
Fargo
Chinatown
Annie Hall
This is Spinal Tap

[Slowreader]

not much of a film buff me, but still hard to choose ten

Goodfellas
The Godfather (1 and 2)
Pulp Fiction
Diner
Dazed and Confused
Trainspotting
A Canterbury Tale
Trains, Planes and Automobiles
Withnail and I
Passport to Pimlico

[Adrian]

Without order:

The Godfather
Run, Lola, Run
Con Air
Goodfellas
State and Main
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Blame it on Rio
Shame
Snatch
Taxi Driver

Never saw how two films (Godfather I and II, never, ever include III) or three (the LOTR trilogy) could ever count as one film. Can I chose all Carry On films or all James Bond films as one?

[Deinonychus]

Something like...

1 Network
2 Fargo
3 Play It Again, Sam
4 Swingers
5 Marathon Man
6 Leon
7 Amelie
8 Close Encounters
9 Eraserhead
10 Secrets and Lies
10=Jurassic Park 1

[Harriet]

10?????? :( Ok I'll have a go....

Star Wars V - Empire Strikes Back
Singin' in the Rain
Ocean's 11
Pirates of the Caribbean
Bridget Jones' Diary
The Little Mermaid (I don't care if it's childish I LOVE IT!)
Dirty Dancing
Grease
School Of Rock
My Fair Lady

Those'll most likely change in about an hour, but hey...

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

this changes on roughly an hourly basis, but...

1.Angels with Dirty Faces
2.The Indian Runner
3.Night of the Hunter
4.The Man With The Golden Arm
5.Irreversible
6.LotR trilogy
7.Badlands
8.Easy Rider
9.Purple Rain
10.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[Obskua]

Complete 'Carry On' collection
101 Dalmations (original aminated version)
Yellowbeard
Plan 9 From Outer Space
2001
Jours de Fete (Jacques Tati)
Railway Children / Swallows & Amazons (both on one DVD, so there !)
Every Home Should Have One
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines
St. Trinians boxed set

[Silvergirl]

I would have to go for:

Dr Zhivago
E T
Fatal Attraction
Funny Girl
Gone with the Wind
Ryan's Daughter
Saving Private Ryan
Silence of the Lambs
The Graduate
Titanic

[excalibur]

This may not to be everyone’s taste……(but here’s hoping.)

(relative to the order specified)
1. Chinatown
2. Kramer vs. Kramer
3. The Usual Suspects
4. Bridge on the River Kwai
5. Being John Malkovich
6. Deliverance
7. Great Expectations
8. Brazil
9. The Pianist
10. Peeping Tom

(N.B. I was torn between including Peeping Tom and Full Metal Jacket as my no.10 but instead plumped for the former as it is a landmark in post-war voyeuristic cinema. Not that I am habitually prone to practising that sort of thing…..let alone entertain the thought.) :rolleyes:

[Ian]

In no particular order

1. The Butterfly Effect
2. The Lake House
3. Premonition
4. Phenomenon
(can you see a theme here?)
5. Speed
6. The Warriors
7. The Matrix Trilogy
8. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
9. The Blair Witch Project
10. The Truman Show

This is a quick 'knee jerk' list. If you have to think about it how can it be one of your favourites.

[nospacesallowed]

1. War Of The World's (New One)
2. Day After Tomorrow
3. Star Wars Episode 4/5/6
4. Back To The Future 1/3
5. 30 Days Of Night
6. Bladerunner
7. Forrest Gump
8. About A Boy
9. The Terminal
10. Saving Private Ryan

[Momo]

Very tough decision but for the time-being I would have to go with the following:

Dirty Dancing
Dr. Zhivago
East of Eden
Gone With the Wind
How the West Was Won
It’s a Wonderful Life
My Cousin Vinny
Out of Africa
What’s cooking?
When Harry Met Sally

[My Friend Jack]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
That'll Be The Day / Stardust (you can't have one without the other, and they are on the same DVD)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Sound Of Music
P'Tang Yang Kipperbang
The Railway Children (original)
Ghost
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
How To Murder Your Wife
Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii

These are all films that left long-lasting impressions on me the first time I saw them... which probably says more about me than it does about the films!

[FirelightSpirit]

I think it's a little easier to pick top ten films than books, so here goes:

Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Dead Poets Society
The Truman Show
The Shawshank Redemption
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Sound of Music
Brokeback Mountain
Little Women (the 1990s version)
Peter Pan (2002)
Somewhere in Time

These are in random order because, as someone else said, that would just take too much time to organise, though Sense and Sensibility and The Truman Show would be near the top of that list. I'm not sure all these films would be in my top ten all the time, but this is what it is today. There are some great moments in some of these films that I love.

[MarkC]

In approximate order, probably my 10 favourite films. Almost certainly not the 10 best films of all time.

Blue (Kieslowski, not Jarman)
Paris, Texas
A short film about love
Jean de Florette / Manon des sources
Star Wars IV & V
Yojimbo
Chinatown
Leon (& Nikita)
Diva
The cement garden

Diva is on the list as the first foreign language film I remember seeing, on "Moviedrome" on BBC2, which was a season of films that were a bit different from the norm - why doesn't the Beeb do stuff like that any more?

Selecting 10 is hard, no room for Brief encounter, anything by Almodovar, the Seventh Seal, Fargo, the Terminator, Casablanca, Amelie, LA Confidential, Annie Hall, Some kind of wonderful, Rashomon, Orlando etc.

[webmagnate]

Forrest Gump
A Few Good Men
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest
Crash
American History X
Cinema Paradiso
Pulp Fiction
Finding Nemo

[solace91z]

Some interesting choices so far. Here are mine in no particular order:

La Haine
American History X
Clerks
Leon
Fight Club
City of God
Miller's Crossing
Howl's Moving Castle
Donnie Darko
Napoleon Dynamite

[Jeremy DEagle]

The Big Lebowski
LOTR
Star Wars
Leon
Blair Witch Project
Predator
The Terminator
Terminator 2
Cloverfield
Pan's Labyrinth


A touch blockbuster-ish but its all I can think of at the moment...

[Calcifer]

nice topic! Hard to find only ten film, but I'll try!

1. Gone with the Wind by Victor Fleming
2. Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni
3. Everything is Illuminated by Liev Schreiber
4. All About Eve by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
5. The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo
6. Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki
7. Kill Bill Volume 1 & 2 by Quentin Tarantino
8. The Lord of The Rings by Peter Jackson
9. Dolls by Takeshi Kitano
10. StarGate by Roland Emmerich

In my opinion another film which deserves to be mentioned is Nuovomondo (entitled The Golden Door abroad) by Emanuele Crialese

[Squirls]

This is an old thread, but here's my contribution (in no particular order). There's probably lots of films I've forgotten about which might replace these if they come to mind.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Sting
Shawshank Redemption
Dirty Dancing
Babe (the one about the pig that thought it was a sheep dog)
Terminator (all of them except maybe the last one)
About a Boy
Amadeus
Life of Brian
The Commitments

[Opal]

This is hard so I just rattled out the first 10 films (with brief reasons) that I could think of that have stayed with me over the years. Some are on a lot of lists, some probably not, but I think they're all great and that's what the list is about right?

Lord of the Rings (counts as one film, best book adaptation EVER!!)
Hot Fuzz (cos it's awesome, and there's nothing like seeing your home town being exploded on the big screen)
Wimbledon (it makes me smile without fail every time)
Die Another Day (first 007 film I saw)
Finding Nemo (everyone loves this film even if they don't admit to it)
Love Actually (it really is all around y'know! Plus Hugh Grant dances!!)
Serenity (Nathan Fillion... mmm... happy thoughts)
Full Monty (just... should be on all the lists!)
Titanic (first film to make me cry in the cinema, also first film I saw with naughty bits ;))
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crustal Skull (yeah yeah, it had aliens but it was funny!)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (first 15 rated film I was allowed to watch... think I must have been about 10!!!)

Ok, so now I realise I can't count to 10, but it doesn't matter, I only teach maths... :D

[nonsuch]

My memory fails me quite a bit these days, so I had a quick flick through Halliwells to make sure I'd not overlooked too many 'masterpieces.'

1) Bicycle Thieves (de Sica)
2) Le Diable au Corps (Autant-Lara)
3) Partie de Campagne (Renoir)
4) Les Enfants Terribles (Cocteau)
5) Hamlet (Olivier)
6) The Great Adventure (Sucksdorf)
7) Mahler (Russell)
8) Great Expectations (Lean)
9) Some Like It Hot (Wilder)
10) An American in Paris (Minnelli)

[chuntzy]

In no particular order -

Singin' in the Rain
Blue Velvet
Great Expectations
Gone with the Wind
Dr Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Philadelphia Story
Dial M for Murder
Psycho

[MisterHobgoblin]

1 Red Road
2 Lovers Of The Arctic Circle
3 Gorky Park
4 This Is England
5 Apocalypse Now
6 Muriel's Wedding
7 Fiddler On The Roof
8 Amelie
9 Australia
10 Star Wars

Though on another day I could probably have picked a totally different ten. They might include Fargo, The Medusa Touch, The Match Factory Girl, Robinson In Space, Yellow Submarine, The Wizard Of Oz, etc...