Film Your Top 5 Films of all Time

[hobbers]

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Alien
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Blade Runner
5. No Country for Old Men

 

[Wing Attack Plan R]

1. Alien
2. Blade Runner
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Apocalypse Now
5. The Shining

 

[Cheimoon]

Godfather and Apocalypse Now are definitely in there.

After that, I'm not sure. Probably some of Casablanca, The Third Man, Double Indemnity, Once Upon A Time In The West, Blade Runner, and Heat, or maybe something from Hitchcock (Rear Window? North By Northwest? Notorious?) or one out of It's A Wonderful Life, The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown, The Pianist, La vita è bella, The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, and Children Of Men. And maybe Citizen Kane once I've rewatched it.

I don't know how people can ever choose.

 

[3KDré]

Out of curiosity, do people believe the number of great films has decreased over the years? Or is it nostalgia attached to those older films?

 

[Stack]

Out of curiosity, do people believe the number of great films has decreased over the years? Or is it nostalgia attached to those older films?

As time rolls by the volume of films that were great grows and so it dwarfs the recent films that were great which gives the impression newer films arent as good as the older ones.

 

[Jippy]

Matrix
Robocop
Total Recall
Terminator 2
Trading Places

 

[Jev]

Any other day I might have picked five others, this is impossible. But here are five that would be near the top five.

Pulp Fiction
Children of Men
Blade Runner 2049
Taxi Driver
Before Sunset

 

[Beans]

Based on quality with a strong consideration for personal impact:

1. The Godfather (IMDB 9.2)
2. Inception (8.8)
3. Star Wars (8.6)
4. Se7en (8.6)
5. Schindler's List (9.0)

 

[Beans]

Matrix
Robocop
Total Recall
Terminator 2
Trading Places

I love Total Recall, I've probably seen it 30 times as it's one we had on VHS when I was in school. Ronny Cox is convincing in that and Robocop as the psychopathic politician/businessman.

And somehow I didn't realize that was him in Beverly Hills Cop.

No idea why he disappeared from big action movies.

 

[Invictus]

• Rashomon
• The Godfather
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Shoplifters
• Apocalypse Now

 

[AaronRedDevil]

1. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
4. Interstellar
5. Good Morning Vietnam

 

[Kazi]

Godfather
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Wall-e
Mean Girls

 

[Gentleman Jim]

Godfather and Apocalypse Now are definitely in there.

After that, I'm not sure. Probably some of Casablanca, The Third Man, Double Indemnity, Once Upon A Time In The West, Blade Runner, and Heat, or maybe something from Hitchcock (Rear Window? North By Northwest? Notorious?) or one out of It's A Wonderful Life, The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown, The Pianist, La vita è bella, The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, and Children Of Men. And maybe Citizen Kane once I've rewatched it.

I don't know how people can ever choose.

Congratulations. A real film fan who realises that superb cinema existed pre 1965

 

[Jippy]

I love Total Recall, I've probably seen it 30 times as it's one we had on VHS when I was in school. Ronny Cox is convincing in that and Robocop as the psychopathic politician/businessman.

And somehow I didn't realize that was him in Beverly Hills Cop.

No idea why he disappeared from big action movies.

He's brilliant and underrated. So is Kurtwood Smith to a lesser extent.

Can't believe I forgot The Raid.

 

[RadoRed]

1. Charade
2. School of Rock
3. Singing in the rain
4. Stranger than fiction
5. Flipped

 

[Big Andy]

If it’s based on how many times I’ve watched then it probs has to be (in no order)

BTTF
Goonies
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
Indiana Jones (Last Crusade)
LOTR: Return of the King

if it’s one off, non franchise, films that I’ve loved then it’s different

interstellar
Shawshank
The Martian
Gladiator
Edge of Tomorrow

 

[Bilbo]

The Sting
Rear Window
The Godfather
Donnie Darko
Pulp Fiction

 

[Freak]

In no particular order:

Shawshank
The Dark Knight
Forest Gump
Inception
Gladiator

 

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

The Matrix
Leon the professional
Fast and Furious (1)
Heat
No country for old men

Made the mistake of watching the French/International version.

Ruined the movie for me, especially raving about it and showing my missus. She was curious why I loved a film where a 12 year old shags a middle aged man.

 

[Mike Smalling]

In terms of personal favourites. No particular order.

LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
No Country for Old Men
Se7en
Schindler’s List
The Departed

I could put any from LOTR in there, but the first one is my favourite. I’d like to put something by both Nolan (Interstellar or Oppenheimer) and Villeneuve (Prisoners or Sicario) in there, but they just miss out.

 

[Gavinb33]

In no order

Star Wars: Rogue one
Avengers End Game
The usual suspects
The Bourne identity
Ferris Buellers day off

These are the films I could never get bored of watching

 

[RedBanker]

Interstellar
The Holiday
As Good as it gets
The Big Year
Zodiac

 

[decorativeed]

I love Total Recall, I've probably seen it 30 times as it's one we had on VHS when I was in school. Ronny Cox is convincing in that and Robocop as the psychopathic politician/businessman.

And somehow I didn't realize that was him in Beverly Hills Cop.

No idea why he disappeared from big action movies.

He was cast against type in Robocop, as before that he'd always played nice guys. As it was the first thing I ever saw him in, it was weird seeing him play anything other than a baddie after that though!

Anyway, today at least, my list would be this (in no particular order):

The Big Lebowski
Robocop
Back to the Future
Withnail and I
North by Northwest

 

[Bole Top]

it would look something like:

The Seventh Seal
12 Angry Men
Groundhog Day
American Beauty
Ben-Hur

 

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

Today

Jaws
Chinatown
Glengarry Glenn Ross
Oldboy
Magnolia

Honourable mentions


Clerks
Unforgiven
Memento
Heat
Fight Club
Black Swan
Copland
There will be Blood
Silence of the Lambs
Moneyball
Trollhunter
Parasite
Rear Window
Rust and Bone
Shame
Grosse Pointe Blank
Se7en
Spirited Away
Bravestarr: The Movie
LA Confidential
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Blade Runner/2049
The Lives of Others
Pans Labyrinth
High Fidelity
Whiplash
The Big Lebowski

This list is never fixed so will be different tomorrow! Can never choose.

 

[Desert Eagle]

I'll go with what i consider are the greatest rather than my 5 favorites:

1) LOTR trilogy.

2) Requiem for a dream

3) The Godfather

4) Infernal Affairs

5) In the mood for love

 

[Zen86]

In no order:

• Godfather
• Alien
• Starship Troopers
• Terminator 2
• LOTR

 

[DutchSerb]

1. The Godfather 1 + 2 (I'm cheating here, but I only ever watch both in one sitting. If I had to choose I prefer 2 because I'm a big Al Pacino fanboy.)
2. Heat
3. Inglorious Bastards
4. Donnie Brasco
5. The Lion King. Animated, of course.

 

[FreakyJim]

The Village
Unbreakable
Sixth Sense
Signs
Congo

 

[HTG]

Barry Lyndon
Andrei Rublev
M
Ran
Hiroshima Mon Amour

 

[Wheato]

Goodfellas
The Godfather
No country for all men
The Royal Tenenbaums
O brother, where art thou
&
(There will be blood)

 

[711]

Life of Brian
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
The Producers
Dirty Harry
10 Rillington Place

 

[Lay]

1. Sleepers
2. A Bronx Tale
3. Forrest Gump
4. 21/22 Jump Street
5. Castaway

 

[Reditus]

Star Wars and LOTR are my favourite ever movies. So not including them

There Will be Blood
Bladerunner
Alien
The Exorcist
Goodfellas

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Glengarry Glenn Ross

Amazing!!!

 

[Revan]

The Matrix
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Oldboy
The Godfather

 

[V.O.]

Taxi Driver
12 Angry Men
The Lives of Others
Seven
Oppenheimer

 

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

Amazing!!!

Oh I love that film, the patter, the pacing, the general feel of middle-aged men breaking down, it's a great film. Not long either.

 

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

In terms of personal favourites. No particular order.

LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
No Country for Old Men
Se7en
Schindler’s List
The Departed

I could put any from LOTR in there, but the first one is my favourite. I’d like to put something by both Nolan (Interstellar or Oppenheimer) and Villeneuve (Prisoners or Sicario) in there, but they just miss out.

Se7en is an overwhelmingly bleak movie, the palette, the score, the general grey, damp misery of it and I love it. The quick, effective world-building is a great feature and one slightly overlooked by people in my opinion. I think it's a tad underrated due to the ending that was aped a bit like the Matrix, which was lampooned and became a cultural touchstone/zeitgeist thing.

 

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

He's brilliant and underrated. So is Kurtwood Smith to a lesser extent.

Can't believe I forgot The Raid.

The Raid is phenomenal, remember seeing it in the cinema, mid-week, late showing, and was blown away by it.