# Five Perfect Movies
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** movies
**Created:** [September 1, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586 "2024-09-01T22:00:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/21 "2024-09-01T22:59:15Z")
Just remember that you are not adding to a particular list-you are just giving your own list of five and some of them might be movies others have chosen…or not.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/22 "2024-09-01T22:59:33Z")
The Great Escape
Blazing Saddles
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/23 "2024-09-01T23:05:35Z")
In that case, _ **Casablanca** _ goes to the top of the list. Number five would probably be a toss-up between the last two.
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### Author:  [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/24 "2024-09-01T23:08:02Z")
I want to say _Five Easy Pieces_, for one.
I have to admit that I thought of that film because of the name of this thread. But I consider it about as perfect as a film can be.
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### Author:  [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/25 "2024-09-01T23:09:03Z")
The Great Escape
Double Indemnity
The Godfather
Pulp Fiction
I want my fifth choice to be a comedy and I can’t narrow it down between Blazing Saddles, The Producers and Life of Brian.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/26 "2024-09-01T23:09:24Z")
Miller’s Crossing
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/27 "2024-09-01T23:09:25Z")
Oh, and if someone says something that absolutely forces you to change your mind, just give us a new Perfect Five Movie list and we will condemn the former list to The Bowels Of Hell ™.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/28 "2024-09-01T23:14:31Z")
Casablanca
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Jaws
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
North By Northwest
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/29 "2024-09-01T23:21:02Z")
Night On Earth - Jim Jarmusch
The Apartment - Billy Wilder
Der Himmel Über Berlin (Wings Of Desire) - Wim Wenders
Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa
2001 - A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
I post this with only having read the OP but not the whole thread.
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/30 "2024-09-01T23:27:43Z")
Bad Santa
Anger Management
Hangover
Give me time to figure out the other two.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/31 "2024-09-01T23:28:40Z")
Miller’s Crossing
The Godfather
The Big Lebowski
A Night at the Opera
Raging Bull
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### Author:  [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/32 "2024-09-01T23:29:10Z")
In no particular order:
Network
Parasite
No Country for Old Men
Grave of the Fireflies
Harakiri
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### Author:  [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/33 "2024-09-01T23:32:37Z")
Star Wars (the original 1977 version)
Airplane!
Robocop
The Wizard of Oz
Commando
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/34 "2024-09-01T23:34:21Z")
Casablanca
American Graffiti
Star Wars (the first one)
The Magnificent Seven (the first one)
Animal House
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/35 "2024-09-01T23:40:03Z")
My fourth entry:
**Monty Python and the Holy Grail**
How could this not be perfect a movie when so many classic lines from it have been repeated for decades! 😃
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### Author:  [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/36 "2024-09-01T23:43:36Z")
“Perfect” being too big a word for me, I would say the following - listed chronologically – are four of the five greatest movies _that I have ever seen_ (though only one of them is a personal favorite):
_M_ (1931)
_King Kong_ (1933)
_Citizen Kane_ (1941)
_Seven Samurai_ (1954)
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/37 "2024-09-01T23:50:44Z")
The Last Picture Show
The Godfather (Part I)
Young Frankenstein
To Kill a Mockingbird
Star Wars (1, or 4, however you count it)
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### Author:  [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/38 "2024-09-01T23:53:19Z")
A Room With a View
Breaker Morant
Almost Famous
Bottle Shock
Wallace & Gromit - Curse of the Were Rabbit
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/39 "2024-09-02T00:03:43Z")
I’m not sure there’s 5 perfect movies I’d agree on, at any one time, because the best movie is the one that suits your mood.
So, I’ll go with a related list - 5 movies I’d want to have with me if I was stuck in Space / 6 month trip with no internet / alone in a strange place for work / etc (and for the record, yes, I do have digital copies of all of them on my laptop and tablet, why do you ask?)
Princess Bride
Army of Darkness
Conan the Barbarian (1982 duh)
Kung Fu Hustle
Spaceballs
Note, this particular list is movies that are perfect for me, in that I can stop and watch any one of them, at any time, in nearly any mood and feel good, rather than on their direct merits. They are the perfect “comfort food” of movies.
YMMV of course.
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### Author:  [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/40 "2024-09-02T00:08:28Z")
_The Seven Samurai_
_The Great Escape_
_The Apartment_
_The Big Lebowski_
_The Little Foxes_
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