# Favorite films of all time!?  (Let's get started!)

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**Created:** [April 22, 2001, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-films-of-all-time-lets-get-started/62860 "2001-04-22T07:01:00Z")\
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Hey, this isn’t to start a huge flame war, just posting all of our opinions. This isn’t a debate of the GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME, just simply, each of our FAVORITE movies of all time…I shall begin…

1. Titanic (This IS my favorite of all time, however, the rest here are in no order)

2. The Green Mile

3. Tombstone (My favorite Western of all time)

4. The Usual Suspects (Last 10 minutes of this film, is my favorite 10 minute span of a film of all time. Also, it also has my favorite last line of a film of all time)

5. The Sixth Sense (My favorite “twist” in a movie of all time)

6. Pay It Forward (The most “emotional” film I’ve ever seen)

7. Fight Club (The “coolest” film I’ve ever seen)

8. What Dreams May Come (My favorite “visual” film of all time)

9. As Good As it Gets

10. Halloween (My favorite Horror film of all time)

11. Saving Private Ryan (My favorite War film)

12. Arlington Road

13. Silence of the Lambs (My favorite Crime film)

14. Traffic (My favorite drug film, I felt it was just wonderfuly presented and very, very, thought provoking)

15. The Patriot

16. Gladiator

17. Braveheart

18. Born on the Forth of July

19. American Pie

20. There’s Something About Mary (This one, and #19 are tied as my favorite comedy of all time)

21. Se7en

22. O Brother Where Art Thou

23. Jerry Maguire

24. What Lies Beneath

25. Stir of Echoes

26. Star Wars

27. E.T.

28. The Lion King

29. Forrest Gump

30. Toy Story

31. Rain Man

32. Back To the Future

33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

34. A Time to Kill

35. Fried Green Tomatoes

36. Pulp Fiction

37. The Negotiator

38. Sling Blade

39. Field of Dreams

40. Star Wars

I’ll stop there, it’s just a begining for this thread. There are plenty of movies I’ve not seen, but, I’m in the process of watching as many as I can. I’m an aspiring screenwriter, so, I’m just “researching” my craft if you will. Anyhow, let’s hear YOUR favorite movies of all time. Top five, top ten, or, like me, lol, top Fourty!

We can also turn this into a discussion of movies if you wish, but, in each post, you must post your favorite movies of all time, UNLESS, you already done so in an earlier post. Lets begin!  
…Downhome…

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1. _The General_ (Keaton, 1927)
2. _Vertigo_ (Hitchcock, 1958)
3. _The Seven Samurai_ (Kurosawa, 1954)
4. _His Girl Friday_ (Hawks, 1940)
5. _Ordet_ (Dreyer, 1955)
6. _2001: A Space Odyssey_ (Kubrick, 1968)
7. _Casablanca_ (Curtiz, 1942)
8. _The Wild Bunch_ (Peckinpah, 1969)
9. _La Dolce Vita_ (Fellini, 1960)
10. _Chloe in the Afternoon_ (Rohmer, 1972)
11. _The Lady Eve_ (Sturges, 1941)
12. _The Crime of Monsieur Lange_ (Renoir, 1936)
13. _The Spirit of the Beehive_ (Erice, 1973)
14. _Salesman_ (Maysles/Maysles, 1969)
15. _Black Narcissus_ (Powell/Pressburger, 1947)
16. _Footlight Parade_ (Bacon, 1933)
17. _Persona_ (Bergman, 1966)
18. _Pinocchio_ (Sharpsteen, 1940)
19. _Man’s Castle_ (Borzage, 1933)
20. _I Was Born, But…_ (Ozu, 1932)
21. _Sunrise_ (Murnau, 1927)
22. _Singin’ in the Rain_ (Donen/Kelly, 1952)
23. _Chinatown_ (Polanski, 1974)
24. _A Night at the Opera_ (Wood, 1935)
25. _Au Hasard Balthazar_ (Bresson, 1966)
26. _Modern Times_ (Chaplin, 1936)
27. _Greed_ (von Stroheim, 1925)
28. _Do the Right Thing_ (Lee, 1989)
29. _The Man from Laramie_ (Mann, 1955)
30. _Underground_ (Kusterica, 1995)
31. _Meet Me in St. Louis_ (Minnelli, 1944)
32. _Ashes and Diamonds_ (Wajda, 1958)
33. _The Earrings of Madame de…_ (Ophuls, 1953)
34. _The Night of the Hunter_ (Laughton, 1955)
35. _Pandora’s Box_ (Pabst, 1928)
36. _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ (Spielberg, 1977)
37. _Some Like It Hot_ (Wilder, 1959)
38. _The Battle of Algiers_ (Pontecorvo, 1965)
39. _The Italian Straw Hat_ (Clair, 1927)
40. _Taxi Driver_ (Scorsese, 1976)

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1. The Star Wars trilogy (ANH, TESB, ROTJ… fuck TPM)
2. UHF
3. Quills
4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5. The Truman Show
6. Aliens
7. Spaceballs
8. Predator
9. Casino
10. Heat
11. American Beauty
12. Se7en
13. The Matrix
14. Better Off Dead
15. Escape From L.A. (I think I’m the only person who liked this)

That’s all I can think of at the moment. The first three are the only ones set in stone for me.

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I’m not going to go into all my favorites but here are a few that did not make you lists (if they did and I missed them, i’m sorry, it’s late and I’m sitting here watching a whale. Really)

1. Apocolypse Now
2. Dazed and Confused
3. Clockwork Orange
4. All of Kevin Smith’s films (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma)
5. Enemey at the Gates

That’s all for now. I may think of more later.

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Oh boy.

1. Shoujo Kakumei Utena - Adolescense of Utena/Adolescense Mokushiroku
2. Brazil
3. Perfect Blue
4. 2010
5. Evangelion Air/My Pure Heart for You
6. The Truman Show
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8. Life of Brian
9. The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen (sp?)
10. J.C. Superstar. No, really! And yeah, I’m an atheist. (Movie versions of musicals count, I hope.)

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1. All of Kevin Smith’s movies
2. Goodfellas
3. Godfather 1 and 2
4. The Last Seduction
5. Fargo

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1. _Amadeus_
2. _Beetlejuice_
3. _A Clockwork Orange_
4. _The Godfather Trilogy_
5. _Kubrick’s The Shining_
6. _E.T._
7. _the Star Wars Saga_
8. _The Lion King_
9. _Toy Story 1 & 2_
10. _Pee Wee’s Big Adventure_

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**Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-films-of-all-time-lets-get-started/62860/8 "2001-04-22T14:24:51Z")

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In no particular order (just as they came to mind):

1. Gone With The Wind
2. Heidi (Shirley Temple)
3. The Blue Bird (Shirley Temple)
4. The Court Jester
5. The Great Race
6. It’s A Wonderful Life
7. Pleasantville
8. The American President
9. Notting Hill
10. Wayne’s World
11. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
12. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey
13. Beaches
14. Anne of Green Gables
15. Anne of Green Gables - the Sequel
16. Pretty Woman
17. Ghost
18. Spaceballs
19. Blazing Saddles
20. Silent Movie
21. You’ve Got Mail
22. Austin Powers
23. Titanic
24. The Little Mermaid
25. Mary Poppins
26. Robin Hood (Disney Cartoon)
27. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
28. Robin Hood: Men In Tights
29. The Truman Show
30. The Vidiot from UFH (Weird Al Movie)
31. Emma
32. Forrest Gump
33. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
34. The Money Pit
35. Dead Poets Society
36. The Dish
37. A League of Their Own
38. The Wizard of Oz
39. The Wedding Singer
40. Happy Gilmour

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-The Hudsucker Proxy  
-Office Space  
-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade  
-Star Wars Trilogy (and the Phantom Menace, I suppose)  
-Wayne’s World  
-Fight Club  
-The Big Lebowski  
-The Unforgiven  
-Dogma  
-Desparado  
-Gladiator

…uhh, that’s all I can think of for now.

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The Big Sleep (1946)  
Chinatown (1974)  
Citizen Kane (1941)  
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)  
The Godfather (1972)  
Life of Brian (1979)  
Taxi Driver (1976)  
The Third Man (1949)  
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)  
Vertigo (1958)

I’d put _The Third Man_ top.

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In rough order…

1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Braveheart
3. Fight Club
4. Matrix
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Lost Highway
7. Star Wars
8. Buffalo 66
9. Swingers
10. Graduate
11. Time to Kill
12. Austin Powers I
13. Dr. Strangelove
14. Killing Zoe
15. Sixth Sense

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Ok, here goes, in no particular order:  
1)_The Princess Bride_  
2)_Mononoke Hime_  
3)_Dangerous Beauty_  
4)all, (yes, ALL) of _Stars Wars.TPM_ had the BEST light sabre fight of any of 'em and that counts for a lot in my book.  
5)_Monty Python_ of all shapes & sizes  
6)_Gladiator_  
7)_Henry V_  
8) Baz Luhrman’s _Romeo & Juliet_  
9)_Last of the Mohicans_  
10)_Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Blazing Saddles_  
11)_Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, Snatch_  
12)_Elizabeth_  
13)_Dogma_  
14)_The Crow_  
15)_Evil Dead 2_  
16)_Lola rennt_  
17)_Dr. Strangelove_  
18)_The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_  
19)_To have and have not_  
20)This Space left empty pending the relase of _LOTR_

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As they come to mind:

1. Singin’ in the Rain
2. Citizen Kane
3. City Lights
4. Duck Soup
5. Casablanca
6. Rear Window
7. Strangers on a Train (better stop with Hitchcock, or it’ll take up the rest of the list :0 )
8. The Wrong Trousers
9. Pulp Fiction
10. Annie Hall
11. Henry V (Branagh version)
12. Playtime (Jacques Tati – but see it in a theater)
13. The General
14. Miracle on 34th Street
15. A Christmas Story
16. The Princess Bride
17. E.T., the Extra Terrestrial
18. Bringing Up Baby
19. His Girl Friday
20. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
21. Chicken Run
22. Mulan
23. Das Boot
24. Shakespeare in Love
25. 12 Monkeys

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To Kill A Mockingbird

'nuff said.

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Brazil  
Head  
Yellow Submarine  
Entropy  
Life Less Ordinary  
Tommy Boy  
Meeting People Is Easy  
Pi  
Monty Python and the Holy Grail  
Sleeping With Sharks  
Fight Club  
Primal Fear  
12 Monkeys

All I can think of for now though I am a movie fiend.

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no particular order

1. Star Wars
2. Singin in the Rain
3. Hi Opal!
4. Always
5. It’s a Wonderful Life
6. Goodfellas
7. The Shining
8. Robin Hood (with Errol Flynn)
9. Braveheart
10. Pulp Fiction
11. Blazin Saddles
12. Midsummer Night’s Dream (with Kevin Kline)
13. Hamlet (Branagh version)
14. Henry V (again, Branagh version)
15. Much Ado About Nothing (again, well, you know)
16. Yankee Doodle Dandy
17. Little Big Man
18. Alien
19. The Wrong Trousers
20. Tombstone
21. Raiders of the Lost Ark  
22)The Lion in Winter  
23)Sling Blade

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My top 40:

1. Brazil
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Silence of the Lambs
4. Chinatown
5. Le Samourai
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Breaking the Waves
8. Woman in the dunes
9. South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut
10. Fresh (1994)
11. Traffic
12. Three Colors: White
13. Pulp Fiction
14. Requiem for a dream
15. The Empire Strikes Back
16. Rope
17. Eraserhead
18. Memento
19. Dark City
20. Barfly
21. Twelve Monkeys
22. Sid and Nancy
23. House of Games
24. Jean De Florette
25. Life of Brian
26. Prospero’s Books
27. Bad Lieutenant
28. The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
29. Aliens
30. Naked Lunch
31. Three Colors: Red
32. The Man Who Fell to Earth
33. The Outlaw Josey Wales
34. Seventh seal
35. Delicatessen
36. Seven Percent Solution
37. The Quiet Earth
38. Manchurian Candidate
39. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
40. Angel Heart  
Honorable Mention: Walkabout

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Roughly in Order:

\*\*The Seven Samurai

A Man for All Seasons

Spartacus

The Guns of Navarone

2001: A Space Odyssey

Forbidden Planet

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Dr. Zhivago

Lawrence of Arabia

The Star Wars Trilogy

Gone With the Wind

The Sean Connery James Bond films (and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service)

Fantasia and Fantasia 2000

The Terminator

RoboCop

The Indiana Jones Movies

The Matrix

Becket

The Lion in Winter

The Princess Bride

Doctor Strangelove

For Your Eyes Only

Day of the Jackal

Paths of Glory

The Dead Zone

Ray Harryhausen Movies (esp. Seventh Voyage of Sinbad)

King Kong

Metropolis (Georgio Moroder restoration)

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I’m a BIG fan of the epic historical dramas of the 1950s to 1990s, especially those written by Robert Bolt and/or directed by David Lean.(They don’t all make it onto my top list, but \*\* Passage to India, The Mission, the Bounty\*\* are in there) I’m also clearly a big fan of science fictionand Stanley Kubrick.

On re-reading this list, I notice I’ve left off musicals:

\*\* 1776  
West Side Story  
Godspell\*\*

I’ve also left ut thrillers/mysteries:

\*\* The Maltese Falcon  
The Last of Sheila  
Charade  
Mirage  
Body Heat  
Sleuth  
Casablanca\*\*

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Here are my top 40 films (in terms of greatest personal impact):

**The General** (Buster Keaton, 1927)  
**Duck Soup** (Leo McCarey, 1933)  
**The Wizard of Oz** (Victor Fleming, 1939)  
**Casablanca** (Michael Curtiz, 1942)  
**To Have and Have Not** (Howard Hawks, 1944)  
**Treasure of the Sierra Madre** (John Huston, 1948)  
**Winchester '73** (Anthony Mann, 1950)  
**Les Vacances de M. Hulot** (Mr. Hulot’s Holiday) (Jacques Tati, 1953)  
**Bridge on the River Kwai** (David Lean, 1957)  
**Touch of Evil** (Orson Welles, 1958)  
**North by Northwest** (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)  
**The Hustler** (Robert Rossen, 1961)  
**Zulu** (Cy Endfield, 1964)  
**The Good, the Bad and the Ugly** (Sergio Leone, 1966)  
**The Train** (John Frankenhiemer, 1964)  
\*\*2001: A Space Odyssey \*\*(Stanley Kubrick, 1968)  
\*\*Get Carter \*\*(Mike Hodges, 1971)  
**McCabe and Mrs. Miller** (Robert Altman, 1971)  
**The Long Goodbye** (Robert Altman, 1973)  
**Chinatown** (Robert Towne, 1971)  
**Jaws** (Steven Speilberg, 1975)  
**Badlands** (Terence Malick, 1973)  
**The Godfather** and **Godfather II** (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 and 1974)  
**Barry Lyndon** (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)  
**Taxi Driver** (Martin Scorsese, 1976)  
**Mad Max II: The Road Warrior** (George Miller, 1981)  
**The Thing** (John Carpenter, 1982)  
**Blade Runner** (Ridley Scott, 1982)  
**Dom za vesanje** (Time of the Gypsies)(Emir Kusturica, 1989)  
**Miller’s Crossing** (Joel Coen, 1990)  
**The Terminator** (James Cameron, 1984)  
**Stranger Than Paradise** (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)  
**Die xue jie tou** (A Bullet in The Head)(John Woo, 1990)  
**An Angel at my Table** (Jane Campion, 1990)  
**Sonatine** (Takeshi Kitano, 1993)  
**Toy Story** and **Toy Story 2** (John Lasseter, 1995 and 1999)  
**Jackie Brown** (Quentin Tarentino, 1997)  
**The Matrix** (Andy and Larry Warshhawski, 1999)

There are certainly additional films by Hawks, Lean, Kubrick, Altman, Coppola, Scorsese, et al, that I could mention.

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My criteria—I’ve SEEN IT 20 or more TIMES. Some really great stuff is missing for this reason.

THE GODFATHER SAGA–Coppala’s combined/re-edited version of I & II  
THE WILD ONE  
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL  
THE PRODUCERS  
ZULU  
SAN FRANCISCO  
THE WRONG BOX  
MEAN STREETS  
GILDA  
BEN HUR  
WEST SIDE STORY  
ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES  
THE PIRATE  
SHOT IN THE DARK  
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD  
THE DIRTY DOZEN  
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN  
THE GREAT ESCAPE  
BULLITT  
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS  
STAR WARS  
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK  
RED RIVER  
STAGECOACH  
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY  
RIO GRANDE  
THE SEARCHERS  
THE RED HOUSE  
Almost there with BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

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