What are your top 10-20 movies that you have ever seen?

I will start off this discussion with my top 10 (actually 11 since I am counting the first two Godfather films as one):

My Top Ten Best Movies of All-Time

1. The Godfather and The Godfather II
2. Pulp Fiction
3. 12 Angry Men
4. Goodfellas
5. Citizen Kane
6. The Shawshank Redemption
7. Apocalypse Now
8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
9. The Dark Knight
10. Schindler's List

The Next 10 (in no particular order): The Big Lebowski, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Departed, Fight Club, Vertigo, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Saving Private Ryan, No Country for Old Men, and Taxi Driver

1. The Thing (the 1982 one, the 50's one is very different but alright, and I haven't seen the 00's one)
2. Robocop
3. 23: Nichts Ist So Wie Es Scheint (Incredible hacker movie based on true events about a hacker that goes deep into conspiracy nut stuff and starts working for the KGB to bring down the illuminati, which he believes runs the western governments)
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Nirvana (As long as you watch the original Italian cut. The English dub is absolutely awful)
6. The Battle for Algiers
7. 2001 - A Space Odyssey
8. Hardware
9. Strange Days
10. Blade Runner
11. Threads
12. Das Boot
13. Talvisota
14. La Haine
15. Stalker
16. Le Salaire De La Peur
17. Solaris (1972, though I enjoyed the Clooney one too)
18. Burst City
19. Johnny Mnemonic (Fuck the haters, this is the best Keanu Reeves movie, and while it's got glaring flaws, it's great fucking cyberpunk!)
20. GUNHED (oh man, this one got some huge flaws too - like near incomprehensible editing - but the stuff that works work so incredibly well that it still ranks as one of my all time favorites)

I always find this hard to do, because it's changing quite often. These are also not in order, just some titles that left the biggest impression with me.

• - Interstellar
• - The Dark Knight
• - The Green Mile
• - Saving Private Ryan
• - The Godfather
• - Jurassic Park
• - Minority Report
• - The Matrix
• - LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
• - La Vita e Bella
• - The Shining
• - Pulp Fiction
• - Once Upon a Time in the West
• - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
• - Seven
• - No Country For Old Men
• - Full Metal Jacket

(OK, where are all the spaces coming from. Goddamn this text editor sometimes..) - EDIT : fixed it, thanks @fisk0

@dussck: It's difficult for me because there are so many brilliant movies that have to be left off. I can have a list of about 100 honorable mentions, and I would still be leaving movies out. Expect me to keep changing my list haha

Use the bullet point list function in the style thing above the text box instead of manually creating a list where every time you hit enter you create a new paragraph. It's just to the right of the BIUS stuff and doesn't create spaces between the lines.

I'll just do a top 10 in no specific order as I find the question rather difficult if you want me to rank these things. They're so different.

• Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
• Sir Arne's Treasure (1919)
• The Black Panther Warriors (1994)
• Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
• Seconds (1966)
• The Swimmer (1968)
• Possession (1981)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
• Halloween (1978)
• Juno (2007)

Whenever I make such a list I'm thrown aback by the fact that I really do love silent films but have not seen some of the true classics of the genre. Metropolis still eludes me. The Hands of Orlac I would love to watch. I just never seem to get around to it. I've watched 50 films this month and only one of them was silent (Tragic Error from 1919, a very poor French movie where a dude tries to kill his wife because he thinks she's cheating on him. He fails and the wife is only partially maimed and everyone is happy. Maaan.). Oh well.

top ten in no order would be

• The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
• Blazing Saddles
• Tombstone
• Young Guns
• Waterworld
• Spinal Tap
• Smokey and the Bandit
• Silent Movie
• Curse of the Jade Scorpion
• The 1996 Tranformers Movie

Let's see here...

Uhh, oh. Okay then. Well, give me a moment...

Alright, my top 20:

1. Departures (2008)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
4. Spirited Away
5. Fight Club
6. Yojimbo
7. Fargo
8. Requiem for a Dream
9. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
10. House / Hausu (1977)
11. Four Lions
12. Millennium Actress
13. Flash Gordon
14. Princess Mononoke
15. The Story of Ricky-Oh
16. Pulp Fiction
17. Seven
18. The Thing
19. Gran Torino
20. Lars and the Real Girl

A list appended with "At the moment", because there are 291 other films that could have been on this list instead of these.

1. Burn After Reading
2. Requiem for a Dream
3. Cube
4. Alien
5. The Truman Show
6. Shaun of the Dead
7. Moon
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. Contact
10. Donnie Darko

@fredddi43: I'm using Letterboxd.

OK then, let's do this again:

Yojimbo

Sanjuro

Groundhog Day

Die Hard

Die Hard 3

The Thing

Citizen Kane

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Shawshank Redemption

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Commando

Princess Mononoke

Spirited Away

Rear Window

Blade Runner

Contact

Pulp Fiction

Alien

Terminator 2

City of God

Here's a list I made in 2006. I've seen so much since (and my taste has changed in many ways) but I've also lost my ability to make lists in that last 9 years so this will have to do.

20. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)

19. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)

18. The Thin Red Line (Malick)

17. Andre Rublev (Tarkovsky)

16. Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul)

15. Sans Soleil (Marker)

14. Apocalypse Now (Coppola)

13. Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)

12. Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)

11. Ikiru (Kurusawa)

10. The Leopard (Visconti)

09. The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao Hsien)

08. Chimes at Midnight (Welles)

07. Platform (Jia Zhang Ke)

06. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)

05. Satantango (Tarr)

04. Playtime (Tati)

03. La Dolce Vita (Fellini)

02. L'Avventura (Antonioni)

01. The Rules of the Game (Renoir)

1. Jacob's Ladder (1990)

2. King Kong (1933)

3. Shawshank Redemption (1993? Don't remember which year.)

4. Fight Club (1999)

5. The Blair Witch Project (dodges rocks being thrown at) (1999)

6. Psycho (1960)

7. The Godfather (1975? Again, don't remember all the years)

8. City of God (2002?)

9. Godzilla (1954)

10. The Royal Tenenbaums (I'm gonna stop listing years now)

11. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

12. Fargo

13. Batman (Tim Burton)

14. Alien

15. The Babadook

16. Iron Giant

17. Life of Brian

18. Hard Candy

19. Speed

20. We Need to Talk about Kevin

A few honorable mentions: Mother (a Korean film from 2009) and Back to the Future

I'd argue 23 is the only really good hacker movie in terms of being non embarrassing and incredibly accurate (it helps that it is set in the 80ies and hacking is done with C64s and old IBM Machines, but it's also one of the few films that doesn't try so hard to make hacking into a cool, action-y thing...the only other one that comes to mind there would be Wargames, weirdly enough) and one of the sadly very few good german movies.

In terms of my List, i dunno, there're so many...here great ones that immediately come to mind as maybe my favorite ones

• Gattaca (so, so great)
• Apollo 13 (i love "Stuff goes incredibly wrong in Space" Movies, and the celebration of the team effort and especially the contribution of the engineers, tinkerers and mathematicians warms my heart)
• Alien
• Shawshank
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (It's really something that keeps on giving for me)
• Back to the Future Part 1 (2 is also great, i mean the last third is set during the finale of part 1, that is pretty cool)
• Children of Men (Incredible Direction pared with a great story)
• Jurassic Park (i'd argue still the almost perfect summer blockbuster-ish movie)
• Serenity (mostly as a Firefly and overall Sci-Fi Fanboy, but it is a stunningly competent thing)
• The Incredibles
• The Thing (82)
• Requiem for a Dream
• The Fountain (funk the haters, this is incredible in every way)
• Princess Mononoke
• Ghost in the Shell
• Grave of the Fireflies
• [REC]
• 28 Days Later
• Carrie
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

And for some divisive input: I also love Cloverfield (I really like Found Footage Movies even though most of them are garbage, but this one is much much more competent than people make it out to be) and The Beach (I...dunno)

1. Brazil - the movie that made me want to study film

2. Nashville - Robert Altman's best film and the greatest American film ever made

3. Rushmore - although Grand Budapest is probably Wes Anderson's best film, this remains my favorite of his

4. There Will Be Blood - The single greatest performance of the past decade

5. Rashomon - Kurosawa is one of my biggest blank spots, as this is the only one of his films I've seen, but it's a masterpiece nonetheless

In no particular order:

The incredibles

Jurassic park

Fargo

Burn after reading

Boogie Nights

@hamst3r: Departures made me weep like a newborn baby. Such a beautiful movie.