top ten films....

[fiskaroo]

what are your top ten films.................

[mockney piers]

blimey, theres a question.

*scurries off to compile notes*

Will return in a few days ;)

[fiskaroo]

Letter to Brezhnev, Shaun of the Dead, Big Blue.......

[mockney piers]

all good films

[Londonse22]

The Life of Others

Black Cat White Cat

Arizona Dream

Baraka

Life is beautiful

All about my mother

...

[yourmomma]

star wars, james bond, escape to victory and Rear Window.

Please no-one pick shawshank it's pony.

[PeckhamRose]

It's a Wonderful Life.

My Cousin Vinny.

Internal Affairs.

Spinal Tap.

Singin' In The Rain.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead.

2001

Being There.

Postcards from the Edge

Sixth Sense.

But that's today. Tomorrow I may have a different list!

[macroban]

American Pop

A spellbinder.

[Chucky]

Not a scary movie guy but 'The Shining' - what a great piece of file making.

[Chucky]

Not a scary movie guy but 'The Shining' - what a great piece of film making.

[*Bob*]

Smokey & The Bandit III

Police Academy 2

Jaws - The Revenge

Porky's

Police Academy 3

The Money Pit

Howard The Duck

Spiceworld

Police Academy 5

Look Who's Talking (1 or 2)

[????]

IT'S HIS SLEDGE

[bon3yard]

Thats a nasty one to respond to right off the cuff...but I'll give it a go. In no particular order(and subject to many changes):

The Shawshank Redemption.

Bladerunner.

Withnail & I.

The Big Lebowski.

Wild at Heart.

Apocalypse Now.

Its a Wonderful Life.

Alien.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Naked.

[Annasfield]

Hmm,

Full Metal Jacket

Labrynth

The Princess Bride

The Green Mile

LOTR (can I have all three as one?)

Oohh, I thought this would be easy.....

I'll be back

[Marmora Man]

Ten films, only ten! What are you some kind of teaser ? that?s not enough. Let?s go:

Casablanca

The Departed

Das Boot

Once Upon a Time in the West

The Shawshank Redemption

Destry Rides Again

The Maltese Falcon

Lawrence of Arabia

Bridge over the River Kwai

Pale Rider

But that's tonight's list. Tomorrow it'll be different. In my youth I was the "Film Officer" on various ships - we had access to films yet to be released and a vast library of films to choose from. I was like a kid in a sweet shop. Real reel to reel movies, to be able to handle a rolling reel change was to have achieved Zen master status as a projectionist.

I haven't listed a Gene Hackman film yet - The French Connection, Enemy of the State, The Conversation, Missippi Burning, or Clint Eastwood ? Play Misty for Me, Unforgiven, Pale Rider, Bird. More Bogart - The Big Sleep, Treasure of Sierra Madra, The Caine Mutiny, or Jack Lemon in The Apartment and Some Like it Hot, don?t forget the Ealing comedies, or more recent films such as American Gangster. Then there?s Micheal Caine ? some really good stuff amongst the dross ? Get Carter, Billion Dollar Brain and The Ipcress File, Alfie.

This is impossible ? I have to stop.

Nearly forgot - Ice Cold in Alex - was only discussing this with PGC at the Clockhouse Bookswap Shop this evening.

[candj]

Chinatown

Charade

Casablanca

Taxi Driver

Fargo (anything Cohen Brothers)

Scarface

Rope (or anything Hitchcock, really)

Bladerunner

Cape Fear (the original)

Citizen Kane

You're right MM, this is just the list du jour!

*edited for gross spelling error

[Marmora Man]

Candj - how could I have forgotten Chinatown, or The Usual Suspects, or LA Confidential. Then there are westerns - The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Noon, Shane, Stagecoach and The Searchers (to see two sides of John Wayne), The Shootist. Vertigo, Bladerunner, 2001 Space Odyssey, The Enemy Below (2nd best submarine movie), Crimson Tide (3rd best submarine movie), Hunt for the Red October (4th best etc). Mr Smith Goes to Washington, The Front Page

Bubblegum movies

Back to the Future

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

My Stepmother is an Alien

Ghost Busters

Indiana Jones series

Romancing the Stone

Missed all the foreign films - Battleship Potemkin, Jules et Jim, Babette's Feast, Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources and more.

I give up - when I die want to go to Movie Heaven - every film ever made is neatly filed and ready to watch.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Had to break down by genre. The first offering is WW II films:

Mrs Miniver

Went the Day Well

The Dambusters

Reach for the Sky

A Canterbury Tale

In Which We Serve

Carve Her Name with Pride

The Way to the Stars

The Colditz Story (for the immortal 'undertaker' line)

Ice Cold in Alex

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Can't get it down to 10

A Matter of Life & Death

A Bridge Too Far

Bridge on the River Kwai

A Town Like Alice

And so many I had to miss out

[SteveT]

Earth

La Strada

The General

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Cul De Sac

Casablanca

Man of Aran

City of God

Gone with the wind

Spartacus

Not nearly enough, I agree MM

[citizenED]

Nice to see you post with such honesty, *Bob*. I share your family's pain.

This was compiled rather on the hoof, so would not be surprised to be potential alternatives in other lists:

The Tin Drum

American Beauty

Land and Freedom

Secrets and Lies

The Pianist

Cast Away

Blue Velvet

Pan's Labyrinth

Crash

Gladiator

[lozzyloz]

Impossible to condense into Top ten but here are a few that come to mind:

Jacobs Ladder

Life is Beautiful

Cinema Paradiso

Chasing Amy

Dr Strangelove

City of God

Sideways

All Quiet on the Western Front

Crash

The Usual Suspects

[Rhinestone Cowboy]

Morning all..

The Last Seduction

Go

About Last Night

Clerks

Good Bad & the Ugly

Sin City

Chasing Amy

Croupier

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Life of Brian

[TillieTrotter]

Midnight Express

Grease

Finding Nemo

The Green Mile

Romeo & Juliette (Baz Lurhman)

A Man for all seasons

Moulin Rouge

Thats all I can think of right now

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[*Bob*]

I seem to be missing something with 'Crash'.

Coincidentally we started watching it for the first time just this week. About 40 minutes in (after a reasonably promising opening) we unanimously (and independently) decided is was disengaging, unconvincing and generally a bit rubbish. So much so that we turned it off.

[Marmora Man]

Should we modify this thread to become "The 100 must see films"? Even then that number is too restrictive - very time I read someone else's post I'm reminded of yet another film or films I forgot to list.