# What are your Top Five Stanley Kubrick Movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684 "2015-07-20T12:18:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684/1 "2015-07-20T12:18:51Z")
Refer to [Highest Rated Feature Film Director Titles With Stanley Kubrick](http://www.imdb.com/filmosearch?explore=title_type&role=nm0000040&ref_=filmo_ref_typ&sort=user_rating,desc&mode=detail&page=1&job_type=director&title_type=movie) for more about Kubrick’s work, but I have selected these titles for this thread: 1. The Shining (1980) 2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 3. Paths of Glory (1957) 4. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 5. Full Metal Jacket (1987) 6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 7. Barry Lyndon (1975) 8. The Killing (1956) 9. Spartacus (1960) 10. Lolita (1962) 11. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 12. Killer’s Kiss (1955) 13. Fear and Desire (1953) **Pick your TOP FIVE and post them here.** ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684/2 "2015-07-20T12:33:50Z")
Full Metal Jacket Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Paths of Glory A Clockwork Orange Barry Lyndon ---
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**Spartacus** is one of my all-time favorite movies, but it’s very hard for me to think of it as a “Stanley Kubrick movie”. It bears too little of his directoral style, and too much the imprint of its star/producer Kirk Douglas and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo\*. We’ve discussed this in an earlier thread, which brought up quotes about how those two overruled Kubrick, hard as it is to believe that strong personality being overruled. Nevertheless, accepting it for the nonce as a Kubrick film, I’d have: 1. Spartacus 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey 3. Paths of Glory 4. Dr. Strangelove 5. Barry Lyndon \*This was the “film that broke the blacklist”. Douglas hired Trumbo and insisted on giving him full credit, despite Trumbo being on the List. ---
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Full Metal Jacket (1987) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Barry Lyndon (1975) ---
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_Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_ (1964) _Paths of Glory_ (1957) _A Clockwork Orange_ (1971) \*The Killing \*(1956) \*Full Metal Jacket \*(1987) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684/6 "2015-07-20T13:39:57Z")
2001 The Shining Spartacus Full Metal Jacket Lolita ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684/7 "2015-07-20T15:41:10Z")
Paths of Glory Dr. Strangelove A Clockwork Orange The Killing 2001: A Space Odyssey ---
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1. 2001: A Space Odyssey 2: Dr. Strangelove 3: A Clockwork Orange 4: Paths of Glory 2. The Killing though the rest are right up there also. 6 would be Killer’s Kiss. The only one I haven’t seen is Fear and Desire. ---
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Clockwork Orange Dr. Strangelove Full Metal Jacket Spartacus The Shining. I didn’t WANNA like The Shining; I adored the book, and Stephen King disliked what Kubrick did with his story. I agreed with King on some particulars; Jack Torrance starts the book as a perfectly nice guy with a dark side and some issues, whereas in the movie, Jack Nicholson starts off looking like someone I wouldn’t hire to mow my lawn for fear he’d go after the cat with a kitchen knife… …but Kubrick makes his version work, and it’s a powerful, scary movie. ---
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I haven’t seen Killer’s Kiss nor Fear and Desire, but among those that remain: 1. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 3. Full Metal Jacket (1987) 4. The Shining (1980) 5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 6. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 7. Lolita (1962) 8. Spartacus (1960) 9. Paths of Glory (1957) 10. The Killing (1956) 11. Barry Lyndon (1975) ---
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Jeez, the guy wasn’t exactly prolific, was he? Anthony Burgess and others commented on how “big” he wanted to be about everything and this slowed him down a lot. Several of his projects just died out when money/interest/etc. faded. Cf. Orson Welles. So 5??? _Strangelove_, _2001_, _Orange_, _Lolita_ and and and … _Shining_? I guess. _Spartacus_ just doesn’t have the _feel_ of a Kubrick film. ---
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1,2,4,5 and 7 _Lolita_ sucked balls! ---
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1. The Shining (1980) 2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 3. Paths of Glory (1957) 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 5. Spartacus (1960) My favorite is 2001 Space Odyssey. Runner ups- Paths of Glory and Dr. Strange love. ---
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1. 2001: A Space Odyssey 2. Dr. Strangelove 3. Paths of Glory 4. The Killing 5. Lolita ---
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I haven’t seen 3,7,8,12 or 13. Of those that remain: 2001: A Space Odyssey Dr. Strangelove Full Metal Jacket A Clockwork Orange Spartacus (I also don’t feel like this is a Kubrick film) ---
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2001 Dr. Strangelove A Clockwork Orange Paths of Glory The Shining I should point out that I’ve never seen Spartacus. I’m not quite sure how I’ve gone so long without seeing it. ---
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_The Shining Dr. Strangelove 2001: A Space Odyssey Full Metal Jacket A Clockwork Orange_ ---
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1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 2. Paths of Glory (1957) 3. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 4. Full Metal Jacket (1987) 5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ---
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2001 A Clockwork Orange Dr Strangelove Full Metal Jacket Lolita ---
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1. Dr. Strangelove 2. The Shining 3. 2001 4. Barry Lyndon 5. Eyes Wide Shut Honorable mention: Paths of Glory [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684.md?page=2)