10 must see films

" @TomA:  
 

Worldwide opinion :

 

• The Shawshank Redemption (drama)
• The Godfather (mob drama)
• Star Wars (sci-fi)
• Lord of the Rings (epic.. stuff)
• The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (western)
• Pulp Fiction (revolutionary indie) 
• The Matrix  
• Fight Club 
• 12 Angry Men 
• Airplane! (best comedy ever) 

 

My 10-must-see: 

•  Clerks 
• Pulp Fiction 
• The Matrix 
• The Wicker Man (original 70s one) 
• Anchorman 
• Elizabethtown 
• The Good, The Bad & The Ugly 
• The Shawshank Redemption 
• Silent Hill 
• Lethal Weapon 2

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Terminator 2
Unforgiven
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of The Lost Ark
Casino Royale
Die Hard
Oldboy
A Bittersweet Life
Memento
Chinatown
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

• Apocalypse Now
• Ghostbusters
• Monty Python: The Life Of Brian
• Back To The Future
• The Life Aquatic
• 28 Days Later
• Pulp Fiction
• Blade Runner 
• The Usual Suspects
• City Of God
• Belleville Rendezvous

The Devils Backbone
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Gran Torino
The Green Mile
The Shawshank Redemption
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Edukators
Fearless
Se7en
Slumdog Millionaire
 
Although there's a lot of repetition here the films named certainly deserve it. I could think of plenty more but it's easier when I have my collection on hand to flip through...
Also, I'm a firm believer that all films should be watched in their native languages with subs but whatever you fancy.

Throwing some of my favorite Asian flicks in the mix
 
Hana-Bi (Japan)
Kids Return (Japan)
A Better Tomorrow 1/2 (Hong Kong)
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (China)
Crying Fist (Korea) 
Brother (Japan)
Survive Style 5+ (Japan)
Oldboy (Korea)
Yojimbo (Japan)
Seven Samurai (Japan)

• One flew over the cuckoo's nest
• Aliens
• Day of the dead
• Naked Gun (no idea which one, I mix 'em up all the time :P)
• Army of Darkness
• Oldboy
• Ghostbusters
• The Thing
• Empire Strikes Back
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  

1. Manos: Hand Of Fate
2. Plan 9 from Outer Space
3. Battlefield Earth
4. Catwoman
5. Batman & Robin
6. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
7. The Matrix Revolutions
8. Garfield
9. Marmaduke
10. Jaws: The Revenge
 

The Man Without a Past
Foxy Brown
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 
The Great Escape
Das Boot (ok technically it is mini serie...)
Abyss
Mad Max 2  
Enter the Dragon
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 
Le Grand Bleu 

• No Country for Old Men
• Back to The Future
• Terminator 
• For All Mankind
• Rear Window
• Psycho
• My Cousin Vinny
• Goodfellas
• Airplane!
• There Will Be Blood

here's mine :) 
 

• There Will Be Blood
• Children Of Men
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Blade Runner
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Colour Of Pomegranates
• Mulholland Drive
• Begotten
• Saving Private Ryan

Clerks 
Trainspotting 
The Big Lebowski 
Fargo 
Up 
Let the Right One In 
Reservoir Dogs 
Wristcutters A Love Story 
Dawn of the Dead (original) 
A Clockwork Orange 

Some of my favorite movies (couldn't narrow it down to 10)

Aliens

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Die Hard

Braveheart

Saving Private Ryan

The Matrix

The Departed

Raiders of The Lost Ark

John Carpenter's The Thing

Das Boot

Back to the future trilogy

Se7en

The Exorcist

Evil Dead 2

The Shawshank Redemption

Airplane 1 & 2

Anchorman: The legend of Ron Burgundy

Dumb & Dumber

The Big Lebowski

Groundhog Day

Shaun Of The Dead

The Princess Bride

Annie Hall

Ghostbusters 1 & 2

The Blues Brothers

Forrest Gump

Fight Club

Memento

Donnie Darko

Stuart: A Life Backwards 

• The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
• Citizen Kane
• 12 Angry Men
• The Big Lebowski
• Fargo
• The Godfather
• Shaun Of The Dead
• Alien
• Seven
• Reservoir Dogs
• The Thing
• The Shawshank Redemption
• A Clockwork Orange
• Four Shades Of Brown (Swedish)
  
• Screwed in Tallinn (Swedish)
• A Fistfull Of Dollars
• For A Few Dollars More
• Braveheart
• Jaws
• Raiders Of The Lost Ark