What are your top 10 Favorite movies of all time?

1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Seven Samurai
4. Aliens
5. Fight Club
6. Goodfellas
7. Die Hard
8. Boogie Nights
9. Annie Hall
10. Hoop Dreams

1. John Carpenter’s The Thing

I love horror movies, but rarely do they work on so many levels as The Thing. It has tension, gore, physiological horror, and a palpating since of isolation and dread. No one, least of all the audience, knows who is who, or how the story will end which is such a rare thing in films.

2. Seven Samurai

I’m ashamed to say, the only Akira Kurosawa film I have seen. I can’t wait to watch his other films.

3. Hot Fuzz

The most perfect film on this list on a technical level. The pacing, editing, directing, acting, all top notch.

4. Castle in the Sky

I love all of Hayao Miyazaki’s films, but this one stays with me the most. It feels magical, and heartfelt, like all of his movies, but I think it has the best action he’s ever done, and the best villain in Mark Hamill’s character Muska.

5. Conan the Barbarian

I think that Conan gets underrated as a film. The cinematography is grandiose; I’d argue one of the best scores ever. Take out the dialog, and this movie works amazingly well as a silent film as well.

6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The funniest movie I’ve ever seen, though it’s been far too long since I’ve seen it. More of a collection of sketches than a film, but an absolutely brilliant film that has left the biggest mark on pop culture of this list.

7. Braveheart

Like most movies it plays fast and loose with history. That doesn’t take away from the fact that it is a powerful, exhilarating, and heart breaking film.

8. Dragon Heart

My ‘guilty pleasure’ movie. I love everything about it, and it made such an impact on me as a kid. A knight is sworn to valor! His heart knows only virtue!

9. No Direction Home

My favorite documentary of my favorite musician. A fascinating folk hero enigma, that defies that and all other classifications.

10. Schindler’s List / The Sea Hawk

A strange set of films to pair, but both are films that I watch once a year. One I watch to remember, one I watch to forget.

Seeing this thread pop up again I was surprised to see that my top 10 is almost entirely unchanged after four years. I think I'd only consider changing one of them.

Oh man, I can't remember ever writing a top ten movies list. I'll just brain fart out some things I like off the top of my head. Subject to change and in no particular order, hell, might not even be ten of them.

• Forrest Gump
• The Big Lebowski
• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• Goodfellas
• The Good the Bad and the Ugly
• Snatch
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Rain Man
• Enemy at the Gates

Oh man, I can't remember ever writing a top ten movies list. I'll just brain fart out some things I like off the top of my head. Subject to change and in no particular order, hell, might not even be ten of them.

• Forrest Gump
• The Big Lebowski
• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• Goodfellas
• The Good the Bad and the Ugly
• Snatch
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Rain Man
• Enemy at the Gates

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Taxi Driver
3. Pulp Fiction
4. STALKER
5. Fargo
6. The Pianist
7. Apocalypse Now
8. Amadeus
9. 12 Angry Men
10. Hunger

This is my list now, but it changes all the time. I'd consider my top five to all be pretty much equal.

In no particular order:

The Dark Knight

Inception

Half-Baked

City of God

Casino

Toy Story 3

First Blood

Die Hard

Dawn of the Dead (remake)

Iron Monkey

Skimming through this thread, I realize I could never narrow it down to 10, so many good movies, I'm really surprised nobody mentioned Aladdin, or any Disney movies at all.

why not i guess, no order

eyes wide shut

paths of glory

barry lyndon

taxi driver

goodfellas

carlitos way

heat

there will be blood

amadeus

I have seen too many good movies to distill it down to 10. I can name 10 movies that I really like, but I'll be ommiting like 50 others that deserve a spot.

Just a random sampling I guess:

• Terminator 2
• Saving Private Ryan
• Shaun of the Dead
• Superbad
• John Carpenter's The Thing
• Drive
• Goodfellas
• Finding Nemo
• Any Jackie Chan movie (like a top 20 in itself)
• Heat
• Rocky

shit that's already too much...too many good movies.

No specific order.

• Star Wars: Episode IV
• Akira
• Clockwork Orange
• The Iron Giant
• Casino Royale
• Taxi Driver
• The Dark Knight
• Shaun of the Dead
• LOTR: Return of the King
• Ran

I'm going to name the first ten movies I love that pop into my head! If they're the first ones, they must be the best right?

Brick, The Royal Tenenbaums, Wayne's World, Reservoir Dogs, Back to The Future, Inception, The Silence of The Lambs, Nausicaa of The Valley of The Winds, Shutter Island, and O Brother Where Art Thou.

Pretty decent list I guess. I'm sure I'm forgetting some awesome ones.

Edit: Fuck, Die Hard!

My top two for years has been

1. Back To The Future
2. George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead

The rest of my list has no particular order nor do they have a dedicated spot. I always go back and forth on this subject

• Stand By Me
• Alien/Aliens (hard to choose between the two. Alien is one of the best horror movies and Aliens one of the best action movies)
• Drive
• Battle Royale
• Pulp Fiction
• The Wizard of Oz
• Anchorman
• Cool Hand Luke

I think that's a good list. I didn't put too much time thinking about this so I'm sure I'm missing some.

To difficult to make an American list, but Foreign films in no order:

• Amelie
• Pans labrynth
• A Prophet
• Downfall
• El Bulli cooking in progress
• Seven Samurai
• The Last Emperor
• Battle royale
• L'enfant
• Veronica Guerian

I'm not having a particularly good taste in movies but:

Star Wars IV-VI (Yep, I'm sorry. Actually I'm not)The Green Mile
Shoot'em'Up
Idiocracy
The Lion King (come on, I watched it countless times as I kid, I HAVE to mention it)
Die Hard
Alien
Hot Fuzz

errr...I can't think of anything else right now.

Dark knight.

Hot Fuzz.

Naked Gun 33 1/3.

Stranger Than Fiction.

Pulp FIction.

• The Big Lebowski
• Lost in Translation
• Fight Club
• Memento
• Boogie Nights
• Taxi Driver
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Match Point
• Dead Man
• The Fountain

And so many others...

I can't think of 10 movies that I particularly care about, but if I did, The Godfather would be #1.

Here we go

• The Terminator
• Terminator 2
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Die Hard
• Back to the Future
• The Dark Knight
• True Lies
• Pulp Fiction
• Training Day
• Chasing Amy

Hey not bad, you're fairly consistent for 2 posts separated by over 3 years.

Tons of The Dark Knight from lists from 3-4 years ago. I'm not sure i would have agreed with that back then, not because the movie isn't good but because is was too recent. You need to let a movie sink in for a couple of years to really know if you'll still appreciate it as much a couple years down the line. In any case, 5 years later i think The Dark Knight passed that test.

Alright, here goes (Not necessarily in order after the top 3):

• Terminator 2
• Heat
• The Dark Knight
• A New Hope (Or The Empires Strike Back or Return of the Jedi really. I'm limiting it to one per franchise for the top 10)
• The Two Towers (This one is without a doubt my favorite of the 3.)
• The Matrix
• Patlabor 2
• Rocky IV (Best training montage of the series!)
• The Professional
• Mission Impossible

It really was a toss up between Mission Impossible and Cape Fear for the last spot.

I also only recently started watching Miyazaki's work. I loved Princess Mononoke and hated Spirited Away. Next on the list is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. If i like it even better than Princess Mononoke it could crack the top 10.

Dark knight.

Hot Fuzz.

Naked Gun 33 1/3.

Stranger Than Fiction.

Pulp FIction.

1. Jumanji
2. Jumanji
3. Jumanji
4. Jumanji
5. Jumanji
6. Jumanji
7. Jumanji
8. Jumanji
9. Jumanji
10. Jumanji

In no order.

1. Back to the future Part 1

• Ghostbusters 1
• The good, the bad, the ugly
• The Conversation
• Vertigo
• Spartacus
• The Sting
• Lion King
• The Great Escape
• Groundhog day

• Spirited Away
• Brick
• Adventureland
• Ghost World
• Children of Men
• Donnie Darko
• Mallrats
• Dazed and Confused
• A Scanner Darkly
• Mulholland Drive

Something like that.

• Spirited Away
• Brick
• Adventureland
• Ghost World
• Children of Men
• Donnie Darko
• Mallrats
• Dazed and Confused
• A Scanner Darkly
• Mulholland Drive

Something like that.

Fight Club

Boondocks Saints

V for Vendetta - favorite

Madagascar

The Crow

Wild Things

Robocop and Starship Troopers.

Pretty much my favorite movies of all time. Like two great onions filled with blood bags and squibs. Many layers and so much violence.

I know this thread is old, but looking through this lists made me compelled to try to make a top ten xD. It is just too hard, I love films for so many different quallities, compelling acting roles, kinetic cinematography, general pacing and great story, subtleties like visual metaphors or ironies and less subtle saturated visual themes.. argh it's so hard xD, I dumped just a few of my faviourite films, probably in other lists and I haven't included all just the ones I'm familiar enough with to be sure as worthy of a best list.

Fear and loathing in las vegas

goodfellas

the big lebowski

there will be blood

city of god

shutter island

robocop

Lord of the rings the fellowship of the ring

the shining

brazil

eraserhead

requiem of a dream

scarface

a clockwork orange

the machinist

training day

3 - iron

I have never done this before, so why the heck not?

1. L.A. Confidential
2. The Philadelphia Story
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The Sting
5. Wayne's World
6. The Usual Suspects
7. The Last Days of Disco
8. Goodfellas
9. Clueless
10. JFK

1. Big Trouble in Little China
2. Spaceballs
3. The Fifth Element
4. Bio-Dome
5. Starship Troopers
6. Die Hard
7. The Long Kiss Goodnight
8. Street Fighter
9. Beverly Hills Cop
10. Terminator 2

Honorable mentions:

• Lethal Weapon and Lethal Weapon 2
• Escape From New York
• Black Hawk Down
• Terminator
• RoboCop and RoboCop 2
• Commando
• Meltdown (High Risk)
• Operation Condor
• Mortal Kombat
• Highlander, Highlander 2: The Quickening and Highlander 3
• Dawn of the Dead (2004 remake)
• American Ninja and American Ninja 2
• Magnum Force

Edit: Shit! I forgot about BaseketBall and Dumb&Dumber. Those are on the top 10 list somewhere... Maybe top 12....

• Fright Night (1985 Version)
• Fright Night 2 (1988 Version)
• The Lost Boys
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3
• Bon Voyage Charlie Brown
• BASEKETBall
• Orgazmo
• Weird Science
• Mallrats
• Creepshow 2

Somehow I just can't resist when there are lists to be made...so, in no particular order (although Heat probably is No. 1)

Heat

The Great Escape

The Big Lebowski

The Dirty Dozen

Escape From New York

A Bridge Too Far

Mr. Majestyk

Midnight Run

The Magnificent Seven

Once Upon a Time in the West

Well, there's definitely more, but these are mostly movies I rewatch every year.

1. All the President's Men // Alan Pakula 1976
2. The Boys // Rowan Woods 1998
3. Andrei Rublev // Andrei Tarkovsky 1966
4. Barry Lyndon // Stanley Kubrick 1975
5. The Conversation // Francis Coppola 1974
6. Alien // Ridley Scott 1979
7. Jaws // Steven Spielberg 1975
8. Vertigo // Alfred Hitchcock 1958
9. Pat Garret and Billy the Kid // Sam Peckinpah 1973
10. Crimes and Misdemeanors // Woody Allen 1989

1 Fight Club
2 Sin City
3 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
4 First Blood
5 Way of the Gun
6 Heat
7 Die Hard
8 Scarface
9 Training Day
10 Snatch

Never wrote out a list before, so many more that could easily be switched in but I think this would be my top 10.

Mean Girls x10

Alright here goes. Off the head.

1. As Good As It Gets

2. High Fidelity

3. American Beauty

4. When Harry Met Sally

5. Annie Hall

6. Animal House

7. Brick

8. Network

9. Almost Famous

10. The Ref

My favorite movies make my brain laugh and my heart yearn. The second half of this list might switch around but I feel like that top 3 is pretty defining of me.

Super High five to all of John Carpenters The Thing fans I'm seeing.

In no particular order besides what came to my mind first.

1. John Carpenters The Thing.
2. Moon.
3. Everything is Illuminated.
4. Sunshine.
5. The Shining.
6. The Raid: Redemption. Tied with, Dredd.
7. Children of Men.
8. The Fifth Element.
9. The Dark Knight
10. Aliens.

It's possible that Repo Man has surpassed the Godfather as my favorite of all time.

As a fan of punk music, it was quite a treat to watch.

Order they appear in my brain as I think on it

• Yojimbo
• Seven Samurai
• Love and Death
• The Producers (Original with Zero Mostel)
• Alien
• Buffalo 66
• Oldboy (Original with Min-sik Choi)
• Seven
• The Big Lebowski
• 2001

that is 10 but I could probably pick another 10 instead if given more thought :D Yojimbo would stay on that list though.

I always find this tough because I can't always lock down the order. Something like this:

1. Dumb and Dumber - I have seen this movie enough times that it shouldn't be funny any more, but every time I still end up laughing my ass off. 2. A Scanner Darkly - A great mix of comedy and drama, paired with some crazy animation and excellent performances by Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Keanu Reeves.
3. Blade Runner - The classic Ridley Scott film that defined Cyberpunk. And that soundtrack.
4. Star Wars V - The best film in the greatest movie franchise to ever exist. Also, something about someone's father sticks out for some reason...
5. The Matrix - I also love Reloaded, but I went into the first film knowing nothing about it, and did not expect what followed. The only knock against it is that everyone needed to have bullet-time in their films after The Matrix came out.
6. Constantine - Peter Stormare as Satan. Scene stealing at its finest.
7.Saving Private Ryan - While some may argue, in my opinion it is the greatest war movie of all time. That scene with the medic...
8. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring - I think the strongest of the 3 films, with excellent performances across the board.
9. End of Watch - An odd film because of the way it was shot and how it tends to jump from action to drama to comedy. At the same time, I'm not sure I've seen a better on screen partnership than that portrayed by Gyllenhaal and Pena. Heartbreaking lines at the end.
10. Cloud Atlas - Some people find it difficult to follow, but I really connected with the story and the characters. The most recent movie to really grab me.

1. The Good The Bad & The Ugly (Leone)
2. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)
3. Rosemary's Baby (Polanski)
4. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
5. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
6. The Shining (Kubrick)
7. Jean De Florette/Manon des Sources (Berri)
8. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols)
9. The Wicker Man (Hardy)
10. Dead Man (Jarmusch)

Probably something I'm missing but yeah I'm ok with this list.

This will most likely be embarrassing.

1. The Crow

2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

3. Ghost World

4. Bladerunner

5. Toy Story

6. Donnie Darko

7. Star Wars (I am including the original trilogy in this, I don't care if it is technically three movies)

8. Lords of the Rings (ditto the above statement)

9. Little Miss Sunshine

10. Fight Club (or Rebecca or Requiem for a Dream or Addams Family Values or A Year Ago in Winter)

1. Young Frankenstein
2. Bladerunner
3. Paths of Glory
4. Apocalypto
5. There Will be Blood
6. The Thing
7. The Shining
8. Alien
9. The Godfather I&II
10. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

10. man bites dog

9. the shining

8. glengary glenross

7. Freddy got fingered

6. Salo or the 120 days of sodom

5. American beauty

4. Hausu

3. Gummo

2. Enter the void

1. Five easy pieces

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Spinal Tap
3. Gladiator
4. The Life Aquatic
5. Snatch
6. Kingdom of Heaven
7. Rocky
8. For a Few Dollars More
9. Jaws
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

• Fight Club
• Goodfellas
• Braveheart
• District 9
• The Matrix