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Elvira Madigan

Closely observed Trains

South Pacific

From Here to Eternity

Black Narcissus

Seven Samurai

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

The Chess Players

The Seventh Seal

Fanny and Alexander

Babette's Feast

Cinema Paradiso

Lacombe Lucien

la Dolce Vita

Whats new Pussycat

Some like it Hot

The Searchers


la Gloire de mon Pere and

le Chateau de mon mere

Jean de Florette and

Manon des Sources

All About Eve

High Noon

Midnight Cowboy

Bonnie and Clyde

The Thomas Crown Affair

The Graduate

Dr Zhivago

Rosemary's Baby

To kill a Mockingbird

Psycho

Casablanca!

Godfather films

Harold and Maud

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Apocalypse Now

Chinatown

Easy Rider

American Graffiti

Taxi Driver

On the Waterfront

A Streetcar named Desire

2001

Metropolis

Night of the Hunter

The Deer Hunter

The leopard (Il Gattopardo)

Eat Drink Man Woman

The scent of Green Papaya

The Go Between and

Far from the Madding Crowd


Italian Job

Une Homme et une Femme

The Bicycle Thieves

Casablanca !

Gone with the Wind


Don't Look Now

Solaris (original)

Raise the Red Lantern

Leon

Spirited Away

Grave of the Fireflies


This is my over and over again list, you will note a lack of gratuitous violence, convoluted plots and the Shawshank Redemption. If you have only one from my list I will be delighted (if you enjoy it)

I think there are good and great films still being made, but the mainstream is going from bad to worse.


I thought it would be interesting to compare the top 10 films of last year and 1997 (the year of Grosse Pointe Blank)


1997 had 2 sequels. 2015 has 8! (including Minions)


Rank Title Studio Worldwide gross

1. Titanic Paramount / Fox $1,843,201,268[2]

2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park Universal $618,638,999

3. Men in Black Columbia $589,390,539

4. Tomorrow Never Dies United Artists $333,011,068

5. Air Force One Columbia $315,156,409

6. As Good as It Gets TriStar $314,178,011

7. Liar Liar Universal $302,710,615

8. My Best Friend's Wedding TriStar $299,288,605

9. The Fifth Element Columbia $263,920,180

10. The Full Monty Fox Searchlight $257,938,649


1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Disney $2,068,176,052

2 Jurassic World Universal $1,670,400,637

3 Furious 7 $1,516,045,911

4 Avengers: Age of Ultron Disney $1,405,413,868

5 Minions Universal $1,159,398,397

6 Spectre MGM / Columbia $880,674,609

7 Inside Out Disney $857,427,711

8 Mission: Impossible ? Rogue Nation Paramount $682,330,139

9 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay ? Part 2 Lionsgate Films $653,428,261

10 The Martian 20th Century Fox $630,161,890

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