Name your Top 100 films of all time!

[Marco]

Lol - okies, but I'll wait until it comes out on Sky or Virgin, and then let you know what I think!:)

Btw, just as an aside, here is a list of my 100 favourite movies of all time (horror first):

1) The Shining
2) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
3) The Thing
4) Alien (original) and Aliens
5) The Fog
6) The Evil Dead/Evil Dead 2
7) Psycho
8) Poltergeist
9) The Omen
10) Day of the Dead (1985)
11) The House That Dripped Blood
12) Duel
13) Braindead
14) Halloween
15) The Silence of the Lambs
16) I Spit on Your Grave
17) Jaws
18) The Wicker Man
19) Taxi Driver
20) Scarface
21) Goodfellas
22) The Godfather (Part 1 and 2)
23) Casino
24) A Bronx Tale
25) Carlito's Way
26) Pulp Fiction
26) Reservoir Dogs
27) Donnie Brasco
28) Predator 1 and 2
29) Robocop
30) Terminator 2 (Judgement Day)
31) Star Wars (Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)
32) Logan's Run
33) Westworld
34) The Time Machine
35) Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
36) Sleepwalkers
37) A Clockwork Orange
38) Shallow Grave
39) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
40) Dirty Harry
41) A Fist Full of Dollars
42) The Magnificent Seven
43) Play Misty for Me
44) Escape From Alcatraz
45) Magnum Force
46) Where Eagles Dare
47) The Guns of Navarone
48) Saving Private Ryan
49) A Bridge too Far
50) The Dirty Dozen
51) Kelly's Heroes
52) Tora! Tora! Tora!
53) Cross of Iron
54) Zulu
55) The Great Escape
56) The Deer Hunter
57) Battle of Britain
58) Von Ryan's Express
58) Trainspotting
59) American Psycho
60) Falling Down
61) Payback
62) Delicatessen
63) Amélie
64) Cape Fear
65) Get Shorty
66) The Lobster
67) Grease
68) Rocky I and II
69) Raging Bull
70) Titanic
71) Die Hard
72) True Romance
73) Rear Window
74) Gladiator
75) Jurassic Park
76) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
77) Braveheart
78) Rebel Without a Cause
79) Raiders of the Lost Ark
80) Blade Runner
81) Ransom
82) Porky's
83) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
84) Top Gun
85) The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
86) Misery
87) Cocktail
88) Vacancy
89) The Colour of Money
90) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
91) Jackie Brown
92) Scent of a Woman
93) Wrong Turn
94) Dog Day Afternoon
95) Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
96) The Langoliers
97) Papillon
98) Alive
99) Deliverance
100) Live and Let Die

How many do you rate?:D

The same question is also open to everyone else!

Marco.

[Marco]

Anyone?:)

Marco.

[struth]

Lol - okies, but I'll wait until it comes out on Sky or Virgin, and then let you know what I think!:)

Btw, just as an aside, here is a list of my 100 favourite movies of all time (horror first):

1) The Shining
2) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
3) The Thing
4) Alien (original) and Aliens
5) The Fog
6) The Evil Dead/Evil Dead 2
7) Psycho
8) Poltergeist
9) The Ghost Train
10) Day of the Dead (1985)
11) Shivers
12) Duel
13) Suspiria
14) Halloween
15) The Silence of the Lambs
16) I Spit on Your Grave
17) Jaws
18) The Wicker Man
19) Taxi Driver
20) Scarface
21) Goodfellas
22) The Godfather (Part 1 and 2)
23) Casino
24) A Bronx Tale
25) Carlito's Way
26) Pulp Fiction
26) Reservoir Dogs
27) Donnie Brasco
28) Predator 1 and 2
29) Robocop
30) Terminator 2 (Judgement Day)
31) Star Wars (Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)
32) Logan's Run
33) Westworld
34) The Time Machine
35) Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
36) Planet of the Apes (1968)
37) A Clockwork Orange
38) The Matrix
39) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
40) Dirty Harry
41) A Fist Full of Dollars
42) The Magnificent Seven
43) Play Misty for Me
44) Escape From Alcatraz
45) Magnum Force
46) Where Eagles Dare
47) The Guns of Navarone
48) Saving Private Ryan
49) A Bridge too Far
50) The Dirty Dozen
51) Kelly's Heroes
52) Tora! Tora! Tora!
53) Cross of Iron
54) Zulu
55) The Great Escape
56) The Deer Hunter
57) Battle of Britain
58) Von Ryan's Express
58) Trainspotting
59) American Psycho
60) Falling Down
61) Payback
62) Deicatessen
63) Amélie
64) Cape Fear
65) Very Bad Things
66) The Lobster
67) Grease
68) Rocky I and II
69) Raging Bull
70) Titanic
71) Die Hard
72) True Romance
73) Rear Window
74) Gladiator
75) Jurassic Park
76) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
77) Braveheart
78) Rebel Without a Cause
79) Raiders of the Lost Ark
80) Blade Runner
81) Ransom
82) Porky's
83) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
84) Barbarella
85) The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
86) Top Gun
87) Cocktail
88) Rain Man
89) The Colour of Money
90) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
91) Jackie Brown
92) Scent of a Woman
93) Serpico
94) Dog Day Afternoon
95) Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
96) Live and Let Die
97) Dr No
98) Goldfinger
99) The Spy Who Loved Me
100) Quantum of Solace.

How many do you rate?:D



The same question is also open to everyone else!

Marco.

Highlighted the ones that would be on or near my list.. Ive got and like a lot more of them tho

[Marco]

Interesting... Can't believe you haven't highlighted The Godfather, Scarface or Taxi Driver!!:eek::eek:

Wanna have a go at your top 100?:)

Marco.

[struth]

Interesting... Can't believe you haven't highlighted The Godfather, Scarface or Taxi Driver!!:eek::eek:

Wanna have a go at your top 100?:)

Marco.

they might be in there.. not sure yet. About 10/20 years ago they would be..... need to think about that lol

[Marco]

Lol - what difference does 10/20 years make? If it's good, it's good!

The Godfather is quite simply a masterpiece.

Marco.

[struth]

Lol - what difference does 10/20 years make? If it's good, it's good!

The Godfather is quite simply a masterpiece.

Marco.

well, its about my current top films, not what they were, or how classic they may be.. going to be going through my videas very soon so will take notes

[struth]

Talking of the Godfather, the mob boss fat tony in the Simpsons had a good line.. one line was " I haven't cried so much since I paid to see the Godfather 3":D

[Marco]

Ok, but it's your top 100 films of all time, not the top 100 ones you've enjoyed most recently;)

Marco.

[struth]

Ok, but it's your top 100 films of all time, not the top 100 ones you've enjoyed most recently;)

Marco.

ah well thats different

[Marco]

Talking of the Godfather, the mob boss fat tony in the Simpsons had a good line.. one line was " I haven't cried so much since I paid to see the Godfather 3":D

Ha - love it! Must be the only funny thing to have come out of that programme.

Marco.

[Marco]

ah well thats different

I did say that in the first place, daftee:ner:

Marco.

[Tim]

Just back from the movies (haha, After the Wedding today), pretty powerful stuff from Julianne Moore and not what I was expecting with that title, as I went in totally blind. Really enjoyed it.

I would rate all the films on that list as good, cool to see a Yorgos Lanthimos in there too, one of my favourite writer/directors. Have you seen any others?

I could never do a top 100, far too hard, so I take my hat off to you. Only thing I do know is that Pulp Fiction would be at the top, then it gets a bit hazy with Alien(s) right up there too, with The Shining, 2001 and then it's get far too tough.

The only film on that list I haven't seen (or I don't think so) is I Spit On Your Grave, so I'll have to look out for that. I'd have True Romance up a bit higher as well ;)

TCM, what a classic, I'm going to watch that tonight now.

[struth]

I see shaving Ryan's privates is there too.. [emoji23]

[Marco]

Just back from the movies (haha, After the Wedding today), pretty powerful stuff from Julianne Moore and not what I was expecting with that title, as I went in totally blind. Really enjoyed it.

I would rate all the films on that list as good, cool to see a Yorgos Lanthimos in there too, one of my favourite writer/directors. Have you seen any others?

I could never do a top 100, far too hard, so I take my hat off to you. Only thing I do know is that Pulp Fiction would be at the top, then it gets a bit hazy with Alien(s) right up there too, with The Shining, 2001 and then it's get far too tough.

The only film on that list I haven't seen (or I don't think so) is I Spit On Your Grave, so I'll have to look out for that. I'd have True Romance up a bit higher as well ;)

TCM, what a classic, I'm going to watch that tonight now.

Lol - they weren't in any particular order, save that The Shining is probably still my favourite film of all time, so it's No1 slot is accurate:)

I spit on Your Grave [the original] is a classic, and rather grim and violent!

The Lobster is I believe the only YL film I've seen, but as that was so intriguing (especially the cock-teasing scene with the maid:eyebrows:), I'd be keen to see more... Yeah, TCM is awesome! I'm off now to eat some 'head cheese':D

Marco.

[Marco]

I see shaving Ryan's privates is there too.. [emoji23]

Haha - yeah, I especially loved it second time round on 4K Blu-ray, through the home-cinema system - the sound effects were stunning!!:eek:

Marco.

[Pigmy Pony]

Pretty good list Marco, but I'd have to drop a few to make room for The Omen, Heat, Marathon Man, The French Connection, Twelve Monkeys, Papillon and Jacob's Ladder...

[Alex_UK]

Christ on a bike - it would take me a year to even come up with my top 20 movies of all time so respect Marco for putting that together. Some great movies in there for sure. I’ll come back in 2025 with my top 100! ;)

[Alex_UK]

Just noticed there’s no Top Gun! :eek: that’d be in my top 5... :sofa:

[Marco]

They're all good, although I haven't seen Jacob's Ladder - you mean the one out this year?:)

The Omen and Papillon should've been in there, so now amended! Twelve Monkeys should've ticked the right boxes, but it was too complicated for me...

Marco.

[Marco]

Just noticed there’s no Top Gun! :eek: that’d be in my top 5... :sofa:

It was originally, but I've slipped some new ones in since!:D

Marco.

P.S Now back in, as it deserves to be in there...

[Marco]

Christ on a bike - it would take me a year to even come up with my top 20 movies of all time so respect Marco for putting that together. Some great movies in there for sure. I’ll come back in 2025 with my top 100! ;)

They just popped into my daft big nut, when I thought about it, so I just typed them out:eyebrows:

Marco.

[Pigmy Pony]

They're all good, although I haven't seen Jacob's Ladder - you mean the one out this year?:)

The Omen and Papillon should've been in there, so now amended! Twelve Monkeys should've ticked the right boxes, but it was too complicated for me...

Marco.

Marco, I highly recommend 'Jacob's Ladder' (1990), a rather dark psychological horror starring Tim Robbins and Danny Aello. Pretty creepy and unnerving at times, and it's got some heart.

Just talked myself into watching it again, it's been a few years :)

[struth]

Angel Heart I think you'll like. De Niro and mickey rourke I think. Was a good one

[Pigmy Pony]

Angel Heart I think you'll like. De Niro and mickey rourke I think. Was a good one

+1. Worth a watch :)

[Marco]

Marco, I highly recommend 'Jacob's Ladder' (1990), a rather dark psychological horror starring Tim Robbins and Danny Aello. Pretty creepy and unnerving at times, and it's got some heart.

Just talked myself into watching it again, it's been a few years :)

Ok, just had a Google... Looks right up my street. Will watch it tomorrow night! Cheers:thumbsup:

Marco.

[Marco]

Here is my revisited list (after remembering some more goodies):

1) The Shining
2) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
3) The Thing
4) Alien (original) and Aliens
5) The Fog
6) The Andromeda Strain
7) Psycho
8) Poltergeist
9) The Omen
10) Day of the Dead (1985)
11) The Fifth Element
12) Duel
13) Braindead
14) Halloween
15) The Silence of the Lambs
16) I Spit on Your Grave
17) Jaws
18) The Wicker Man
19) Taxi Driver
20) Scarface
21) Goodfellas
22) The Godfather (Part 1 and 2)
23) Casino
24) A Bronx Tale
25) Carlito's Way
26) Pulp Fiction
26) Reservoir Dogs
27) Donnie Brasco
28) Predator 1 and 2
29) Robocop
30) Terminator 2 (Judgement Day)
31) Star Wars (Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)
32) Logan's Run
33) Westworld
34) The Time Machine
35) Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
36) Sleepwalkers
37) A Clockwork Orange
38) Shallow Grave
39) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
40) Dirty Harry
41) Bad Lieutenant
42) The Magnificent Seven
43) Play Misty for Me
44) Escape From Alcatraz
45) Candyman
46) Independence Day
47) The Guns of Navarone
48) Saving Private Ryan
49) The War of the Worlds
50) The Dirty Dozen
51) Kelly's Heroes
52) Tora! Tora! Tora!
53) The Midnight Meat Train
54) Zulu
55) Sleepers
56) The Deer Hunter
57) Battle of Britain
58) The Crays
58) Trainspotting
59) American Psycho
60) Falling Down
61) Payback
62) Delicatessen
63) Amélie
64) Cape Fear
65) Get Shorty
66) The Lobster
67) Grease
68) Rocky I and II
69) Raging Bull
70) Titanic
71) Die Hard
72) True Romance
73) Rear Window
74) Gladiator
75) Jurassic Park
76) Dog Soldiers
77) Braveheart
78) Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
79) Raiders of the Lost Ark
80) Blade Runner
81) The Day of the Triffids
82) Porky's
83) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
84) Top Gun
85) The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
86) Misery
87) Cocktail
88) Vacancy
89) The Colour of Money
90) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
91) Jackie Brown
92) Scent of a Woman
93) Wrong Turn
94) Dog Day Afternoon
95) Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
96) The Langoliers
97) Papillon
98) Alive
99) Deliverance
100) Live and Let Die

:cool:

Marco.

P.S Will move this to a separate thread later.

[YNWaN]

'Angel Heart' is very good - I quite agree :).

I also really liked 'Delicatessen' (as Marco has on his list) - 'City of Lost Children' is also good.

'Dark City' is excellent.

'Martyrs' is very good but also very disturbing (well known as such).

One of my favourite films of all time is 'Brazil'.

(If you like a bit of schlock horror - 'The Devil's rejects')

[Tim]

The Lobster is I believe the only YL film I've seen . . .

Oooo, you could be in for a real treat then old bean. If you like dark and fucked up and enjoyed The Lobster, then YL films should be right in your ball park, he's a master of the fucked up and bizarre, in fact I think he deserves his very own genre. Dogtooth is way out there, but I love them all, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, now that's one really fucked up film. Apologies for using the f word a lot, but it's the only truly correct descriptive word to use. I just love his work.

I'm going to give Doctor Sleep another go, as I won't have any expectations going in a second time and can watch it not thinking I'm going to get The Shining II. Being honest, I thought some of the cinematography was exceptional, those long distance overhead shots were superb and really set the mood, whilst giving a nod to similar shots in TS.

A busy movie week for me it seems!

Right, I've just cracked open a new bottle of Ardbeg Ten, so I'm going to watch :chainsaw:

[Tim]

I'll have a stab at this at some point, but it'll take awhile (a long while) to compile, so carry on gabbing amongst yerselves'

All I can say is it'll (probably) contain;

Pulp Fiction
Alien and Aliens
The Shining
2001
Blade Runner (both)
All Yorgos Lanthimos films
Raw
Gomorrah
Toni Erdman
Roma
Burning (this is outstanding)
The Godfather etc.
Goodfellas
Dog Day Afternoon
Bridges of Madison County
Three Billboards
Cinema Paradiso
Heat
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Layer Cake, Snatch and Lock Stock
Many Clint Eastwood and Quentin Tarantino films.
Casablanca
Brokeback Mountain
The TCM
Ex Machina
Taxi Driver
Most Coen Brothers films
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
To Kill a Mockingbird
Hitchcock (that's going to be tough!)
Leon
Manchester by the Sea
Walk the Line
Restrepo
The Bourne Trilogy
Stieg Larsson Trilogy
All the Tolkien films
Black Hawk Down
Hurt Locker
Zero Dark Thirty

[Pigmy Pony]

I'll have a stab at this at some point, but it'll take awhile (a long while) to compile, so carry on gabbing amongst yerselves'

All I can say is it'll (probably) contain;

Pulp Fiction
Alien and Aliens
The Shining
2001
Blade Runner (both)
All Yorgos Lanthimos films
Raw
Gomorrah
Toni Erdman
Roma
Burning (this is outstanding)
The Godfather etc.
Goodfellas
Dog Day Afternoon
Bridges of Madison County
Three Billboards
Cinema Paradiso
Heat
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Layer Cake, Snatch and Lock Stock
Many Clint Eastwood and Quentin Tarantino films.
Casablanca
Brokeback Mountain
The TCM
Ex Machina
Taxi Driver
Most Coen Brothers films
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
To Kill a Mockingbird
Hitchcock (that's going to be tough!)
Leon
Manchester by the Sea
Walk the Line
Restrepo
The Bourne Trilogy
Stieg Larsson Trilogy
All the Tolkien films
Black Hawk Down
Hurt Locker
Zero Dark Thirty

See, it's impossible and those just came rolling out without really thinking!


How could I have forgotten the Coen Brothers films? Oh Brother Where art Thou and The Big Lebowski are 2 of my fav films :)

[Tim]

How could I have forgotten the Coen Brothers films? Oh Brother Where art Thou and The Big Lebowski are 2 of my fav films :)

It's a tall ask for sure to name a top 100, easier to name a top 10 maybe, but even that's not easy if you enjoy films

[Landloper]

Around 100 films ordered alphabetically...

8 1/2 [Fellini]
The 39 Steps [Hitchcock]
42nd Street [Bacon]

Aguirre [Herzog]
All that Heaven Allows [Sirk]
An Actor's Revenge [Ichikawa]
Aparajito [Ray]
L'Argent [L'Herbier]
Armee des Ombres [Melville]
The Asphalt Jungle [Huston]
Assassination [Shinoda]
L'Atalante [Vigo]
L'Avventura [Antonioni]
The Awful Truth [McCarey]

Bakumatsu Taiyo-den [Kawashima]
Best Years of Our Lives [Wyler]
The Bicycle Thieves [De Sica]
The Black Narcissus [Powell & Pressburger]
The Blue Angel [von Sternberg]

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari [Wiene]
Cabiria [Pastrone]
Casque D'Or [Becker]
La Chinoise [Godard]
La Cienaga [Martel]
The Colour of Pomegranates [Paradjanov]
Le Corbeau [Clouzot]
Cria Cuervos [Saura]
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange [Renoir]

Day of Wrath [Dreyer]
Diary of a Country Priest [Bresson]
Dr Mabuse, der Spieler [Lang]
Dresczce [Marczewski]


L'Eclisse [Antonioni]

F for Fake [Welles]
Faust [Murnau]
La Femme Infidele [Chabrol]
Floating Weeds [Ozu]
The Furies [Mann]

Grey Gardens [The Maysles brothers]

Hamlet [Kozintsev]
The Human Condition [Kobayashi]
Humanity & Paper Balloons [Yamanaka]

The Insect Woman [Imamura]
Ivan the Terrible II [Eisenstein]

Late Spring [Ozu]
The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp [Powell & Pressburger]
Listen to Britain [Jennings]

The Magnificent Ambersons [Welles]
Make Way for Tomorrow [McCarey]
A Man Vanishes [Imamura]
Marketa Lazerova [Vlacil]
The Merchant of four Seasons [Fassbinder]
Metropolis [Lang]
Miracle in Milan [De Sica]
Mirror [Tarkovsky]
Murder My Sweet [Dmytryk]
My Man Godfrey [La Cava]

Nashville [Altman]
Night of the Shooting Stars [The Taviani brothers]
Nosferatu [Murnau]

The Old Dark House [Whale]
One-Eyed Jacks [Brando]

Partie de Campagne [Renoir]
People on Sunday [Siodmak]
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles [Hughes]
Le Plaisir [Ophuls]
The Pornographers [Imamura]
The Postman Always Rings Twice [Garnett]
Il Posto [Olmi]

Quai des Orfevres [Clouzot]

Rapture [Guillermin]
Rashomon [Kurosawa]
Regle de Jeu [Renoir]
Ride Lonesome [Boetticher]
Ride the High Country [Peckinpah]
La Ronde [Ophuls]

Le Samourai [Melville]
The Satyricon [Fellini]
The Searchers [Ford]
The Seventh Seal [Bergman]
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors [Paradjanov]
Spirit of the Beehive [Erice]
Stagecoach [Ford]
Sullivan's Travels [Sturges]
El Sur [Erice]

Thirst for Love [Kurahawa]
This Happy Breed [Lean]
Tokyo Story [Ozu]
Le Trou [Becker]

Ugestu Monogatari [Mizoguchi]
Un Flic [Melville]

Valley of the Bees [Vlacil]
Les Visiteurs du Soir [Carne]

War & Peace [Bondarchuk]
Went the Day Well? [Cavalcanti]
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs [Naruse]

Young Mr Lincoln [Ford]

[Pharos]

It could well be that I am a complete ignoramus, particularly so in the genre of film; I only recognise about 1% of John's favourites.

It does of course depend on how we see and use films, some purely for excitement and pleasure, and others for different reasons.

A film can 'grab me' profoundly if it reveals a truth I had not been aware of, or perhaps confirms something I have felt in my own life subconsciously, sometimes repressed and now revealed. Empathising with a predicament shown in a film is also strong for me. Once something has affected me in these ways, and this may be a transient thing, the potency of the art may well be diminished on later viewings, because we have learnt, and it may be difficult to remember just how powerful it may have been on first seeing.

Perhaps I am sloppy and sentimental, but I notice no one has mentioned The Shawshank Redemption, or The Green Mile, both of which I find very moving.

I think it disgraceful that the Freeview channels show only a very restricted range of films, often repeats, when there is so much available. Is this a corporate policy to prevent emotional understanding and hence intellectual growth in the population?

[Pigmy Pony]

It could well be that I am a complete ignoramus, particularly so in the genre of film; I only recognise about 1% of John's favourites.

It does of course depend on how we see and use films, some purely for excitement and pleasure, and others for different reasons.

A film can 'grab me' profoundly if it reveals a truth I had not been aware of, or perhaps confirms something I have felt in my own life subconsciously, sometimes repressed and now revealed. Empathising with a predicament shown in a film is also strong for me. Once something has affected me in these ways, and this may be a transient thing, the potency of the art may well be diminished on later viewings, because we have learnt, and it may be difficult to remember just how powerful it may have been on first seeing.

Perhaps I am sloppy and sentimental, but I notice no one has mentioned The Shawshank Redemption, or The Green Mile, both of which I find very moving.

I think it disgraceful that the Freeview channels show only a very restricted range of films, often repeats, when there is so much available. Is this a corporate policy to prevent emotional understanding and hence intellectual growth in the population?

No, I think it's just corporate tightfistedness showing the same film day after day, week after week. I normally only get to see a film or two on Fridays or Saturday, and it always seems to be Van Damme, Steven Seagal or Chuck Norris. I can feel my brain cells withering just typing these names.

[struth]

Top 100 in no particular order. a few interesting ones and a few omissions too. only managed first 10 for years and directors.. might try later but pooped now

1/ Das Boot.. 1981-Petersen
2/ Lawrence Of Arabia.. 1962-Lean
3/ Dr Strangelove.. 1964-Kubrick
4/ The Searchers.. 1954-Ford
5/ The Grapes Of Wrath .. 1940-Ford
6/ Young Frankenstein .. 1974-Brooks
7/ Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers .. 1956- Siegel
8/ Scarface .. 1932 - Hawks
9/ Some Like It Hot .. 1959- Wilder
10/ The Day The Earth Stood Still .. 1951-Wise

11/ Zulu
12/ Ice Cold In Alex
13/The Asphalt Jungle
14/ The Man Who Wasn't There
15/ The Last Samurai
16/ Pulp Fiction
17/ Hobsons Choice
18/ Once Upon A Time In The West
19/ 2001 A Space Oddity
20/ Bladerunner 2049

21/ Kelly's Hero's
22/ The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
23/ Spartacus
24/ The Bridge On The River Kwai
25/ Butch Cassiday And The Sundance Kid
26/ Citizen X
27/ Whisky Galore
28/ Soylent Green
29/ Dances With Wolves
30/ A Night To Remember

31/ Raging Bull
32/ Predator
33/ Kagemusha
34/ Fargo
35/ The Man Who Would Be King
36/ Tombstone
37/ Tunes Of Glory
38/ The Mountains Of The Moon
39/ The Thing
40/ Jeramiah Johnston

41/ The Ladykillers
42/ Rambo, First Blood
43/ On the Waterfront
44/ Mash
45/ The Good The Bad And The Ugly
46/ A Clockwork Orange
47/ Shane
48/ To Kill A Mockingbird
49/ White Heat
50/ In Which We Serve

51/ Irma la Douce
52/ The Railway Children
53/ The Unforgiven
54/ Convoy
55/ Forrest Gump
56/ Three Days Of The Condor
57/ Blazing Saddles
58/ Apollo 13
59/ The Maltese Falcon
60/ Gladiator

61/ Brief Encounter
62/ This Happy Breed
63/ The Hateful Eight
64/ The Rock
65/ Yankee Doodle Dandy
66/ The Time Machine
67/ Once Upon A Time In America
68/ The Big Sleep
69/ An Inspector Calls
70/ The Outlaw Josey Wales

71/ The Italian Job
72/ The Ladykillers
73/ St Martin's Lane
74/ Cabaret
75/ The Enforcer
76/ Went The Day Well
77/ Mystery Train
78/ Tremors
79/ We're No Angels
80/ Life Of Brian

81/ Cat Ballou
82/ Cool Hand Luke
83/ Get Carter
84/ My Darling Clementine
85/ Lifeboat
86/ Schindler's List
87/ Doctor Zivago
88/ The Great Escape
89/ The Apartment
90/ O' Brother Where Art Thou

91/ The Shootist
92/ Charley Varrick
93/ High Noon
94/ Miller's Crossing
95/ Enemy Of The State
96/ Casablanca
97/ Man Of A Thousand Faces
98/ Seven samurai
99/ The Day The earth Caught Fire
100/Great Expectations


One thing I now notice. Not many from this century. Lol

I need to add these too.

Harvey.
Kind Hearts and Coronets.
Little Big Man.
Stagecoach.
The Card.
Close Encounters...

[RobbieGong]

A top 100 might be hard.

The ones that come to mind are in my top absolute fave’s. When fave films are mentioned they always come to mind and I’d, quite happily watch them again with friends / good company.

Just a few, off mi 'ed, in no particular order then....

1. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
3. The Postman Always Rings Twice
4. Play Misty For Me
5. 10 Rillington Place
6. Caddy Shack
7. The Driver
8. Midnight Cowboy
9. The Harder They Come
10. Home Alone
11. Trading Places
12. Get Carter
13. Elephant Man

[montesquieu]

Lol - okies, but I'll wait until it comes out on Sky or Virgin, and then let you know what I think!:)

Btw, just as an aside, here is a list of my 100 favourite movies of all time (horror first):

1) The Shining
2) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
3) The Thing
4) Alien (original) and Aliens
5) The Fog
6) The Evil Dead/Evil Dead 2
7) Psycho
8) Poltergeist
9) The Omen
10) Day of the Dead (1985)
11) The House That Dripped Blood
12) Duel
13) Braindead
14) Halloween
15) The Silence of the Lambs
16) I Spit on Your Grave
17) Jaws
18) The Wicker Man
19) Taxi Driver
20) Scarface
21) Goodfellas
22) The Godfather (Part 1 and 2)
23) Casino
24) A Bronx Tale
25) Carlito's Way
26) Pulp Fiction
26) Reservoir Dogs
27) Donnie Brasco
28) Predator 1 and 2
29) Robocop
30) Terminator 2 (Judgement Day)
31) Star Wars (Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)
32) Logan's Run
33) Westworld
34) The Time Machine
35) Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
36) Sleepwalkers
37) A Clockwork Orange
38) Shallow Grave
39) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
40) Dirty Harry
41) A Fist Full of Dollars
42) The Magnificent Seven
43) Play Misty for Me
44) Escape From Alcatraz
45) Magnum Force
46) Where Eagles Dare
47) The Guns of Navarone
48) Saving Private Ryan
49) A Bridge too Far
50) The Dirty Dozen
51) Kelly's Heroes
52) Tora! Tora! Tora!
53) Cross of Iron
54) Zulu
55) The Great Escape
56) The Deer Hunter
57) Battle of Britain
58) Von Ryan's Express
58) Trainspotting
59) American Psycho
60) Falling Down
61) Payback
62) Delicatessen
63) Amélie
64) Cape Fear
65) Get Shorty
66) The Lobster
67) Grease
68) Rocky I and II
69) Raging Bull
70) Titanic
71) Die Hard
72) True Romance
73) Rear Window
74) Gladiator
75) Jurassic Park
76) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
77) Braveheart
78) Rebel Without a Cause
79) Raiders of the Lost Ark
80) Blade Runner
81) Ransom
82) Porky's
83) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
84) Top Gun
85) The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
86) Misery
87) Cocktail
88) Vacancy
89) The Colour of Money
90) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
91) Jackie Brown
92) Scent of a Woman
93) Wrong Turn
94) Dog Day Afternoon
95) Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
96) The Langoliers
97) Papillon
98) Alive
99) Deliverance
100) Live and Let Die

How many do you rate?:D

The same question is also open to everyone else!

Marco.

You forgot

Babette's Feast
My Dinner with Andre
Solaris (the Tarkovsky version).

And the finest movie of all time: The Blues Brothers.

[struth]

Nearly had the blues bros in mine but was not enough places.

[Alex_UK]

So, in alphabetical order, and having seen other posts possibly subject to change!

8 Mile
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Airplane!
Alien
American Beauty
American Graffiti
American Werewolf in London
An Officer and a Gentleman
Apocolypse Now
Avatar
Back to the Future
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner
Bohemian Rhapsody
Breakfast Club
Bullitt
Caddyshack
Cannonball Run
Carry on at your Convenience
Carry on Screaming
Casino
Coming to America
Commando
Convoy
Dead Poets Society
Enter the Dragon
ET
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
Full Metal Jacket
Get Carter
Girl, Interrupted
Gladiator
Good Morning, Vietnam
Gremlins
Ice Cold in Alex
It's a Wonderful Life
Jumanji
Karate Kid
Kill Bill
Lady and the Tramp
Leaving Las Vegas
Logans Run
Lost Boys
Memento
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Mission Impossible
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mystic Pizza
Platoon
Polergeist
Predator
Pretty Woman
Pulp Fiction
Rain Man
Rambo
Reservoir Dogs
Return of the Jedi
Road House
Seven
Seven Years in Tibet
Short Circuit
Sliding Doors
Smokie and the Bandit
Stripes
Terminator
The Accused
The Bridges of Maddison County
The Da Vinci Code
The Exorcist
The French Connection
The Goonies
The Great Escape
The Greatest Showman
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
The Italian Job
The Killing Fields
The King and I
The Last Samurai
The Matrix
The Ring
The Rock
The Runninng Man
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sixth Sense
The Wizard of Oz
Thelma and Louise
Tomb Raider
Tootsie
Top Gun
Total Recall
Trading Places
True Lies
Two Lane Blacktop
Underworld
Warriors
Witness

[struth]

Good list. I just realised I forgot my blueray collection which has some good ones in. Not huge amount but...

[Landloper]

It could well be that I am a complete ignoramus, particularly so in the genre of film...


I disagree, Pharos. Here's why:

I am now in my late fifties so some of the 25% of English language films on my list are known to me because of the cultural environment I grew up in. Were I 30 years younger I expect my list would be substantially different.

As to the non-English language films that form the bulk of the list, no one should feel an ignoramus for not recognizing them. Most of them are known locally but are pretty obscure elsewhere, unless you are a student of cinema or, like me, someone who sets themselves projects to increase their knowledge/capacity in certain areas. I used to very much dislike Japanese cinema, it seemed cold and distant to me for many years, so I decided to take a more structured approach and sought out Japanese films held in esteem by decent critics and those well-liked by the Japanese themselves. It took me a few years to come around to another perspective on that country's cinema. Now I watch a lot of Japanese stuff.

It is understandable that people should prefer films with dialogue written in their own language. Subtitles are intrusive and do detract from the viewing experience. Those who won't watch a foreign language film have a point when they say they prefer 'to watch films rather than to read them'.

The trouble is that [in my opinion] the larger part of the best cinema is to be found on the other side of the language barrier. I'm content to use subtitles as they allow me access to a great many films I would otherwise be unaware of. Over many years I have become so accustomed to subtitles that they have become normal. Once I am used to a film I sometimes dispense with them altogether.

The advantage of silent films was that there was effectively no language barrier; towards the end of that era directors began to catch on and do away with inter-titles altogether [e.g May's '[I]Asphalt', Germany 1929]. The introduction of sound compartmentalized cinema. Early audiences in Hollywood were drawn largely from immigrant communities, many of whom couldn't speak much English, and, it has been argued by one scholar [I'm afraid I can't recall his name], that were film to have been invented with sound from the start it might never have caught on the US.

[struth]

A good foreign film and you concentrate a bit harder as to catch the dialogue so I find you follow the film better. Its more tiring tho, especially when you get older.

[Lawrence001]

Lol - okies, but I'll wait until it comes out on Sky or Virgin, and then let you know what I think!:)

Btw, just as an aside, here is a list of my 100 favourite movies of all time (horror first):

1) The Shining
2) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
3) The Thing
4) Alien (original) and Aliens
5) The Fog
6) The Evil Dead/Evil Dead 2
7) Psycho
8) Poltergeist
9) The Omen
10) Day of the Dead (1985)
11) The House That Dripped Blood
12) Duel
13) Braindead
14) Halloween
15) The Silence of the Lambs
16) I Spit on Your Grave
17) Jaws
18) The Wicker Man
19) Taxi Driver
20) Scarface
21) Goodfellas
22) The Godfather (Part 1 and 2)
23) Casino
24) A Bronx Tale
25) Carlito's Way
26) Pulp Fiction
26) Reservoir Dogs
27) Donnie Brasco
28) Predator 1 and 2
29) Robocop
30) Terminator 2 (Judgement Day)
31) Star Wars (Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)
32) Logan's Run
33) Westworld
34) The Time Machine
35) Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
36) Sleepwalkers
37) A Clockwork Orange
38) Shallow Grave
39) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
40) Dirty Harry
41) A Fist Full of Dollars
42) The Magnificent Seven
43) Play Misty for Me
44) Escape From Alcatraz
45) Magnum Force
46) Where Eagles Dare
47) The Guns of Navarone
48) Saving Private Ryan
49) A Bridge too Far
50) The Dirty Dozen
51) Kelly's Heroes
52) Tora! Tora! Tora!
53) Cross of Iron
54) Zulu
55) The Great Escape
56) The Deer Hunter
57) Battle of Britain
58) Von Ryan's Express
58) Trainspotting
59) American Psycho
60) Falling Down
61) Payback
62) Delicatessen
63) Amélie
64) Cape Fear
65) Get Shorty
66) The Lobster
67) Grease
68) Rocky I and II
69) Raging Bull
70) Titanic
71) Die Hard
72) True Romance
73) Rear Window
74) Gladiator
75) Jurassic Park
76) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
77) Braveheart
78) Rebel Without a Cause
79) Raiders of the Lost Ark
80) Blade Runner
81) Ransom
82) Porky's
83) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
84) Top Gun
85) The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
86) Misery
87) Cocktail
88) Vacancy
89) The Colour of Money
90) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
91) Jackie Brown
92) Scent of a Woman
93) Wrong Turn
94) Dog Day Afternoon
95) Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
96) The Langoliers
97) Papillon
98) Alive
99) Deliverance
100) Live and Let Die

How many do you rate?:D

The same question is also open to everyone else!

Marco.
Ok, but it's your top 100 films of all time, not the top 100 ones you've enjoyed most recently;)

Marco.Yes but if you've seen any really good films in the last 20 years they'll bump off some of the ones on your old list, so it will change.

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[Tim]

Yes but if you've seen any really good films in the last 20 years they'll bump off some of the ones on your old list, so it will change.

Mine would change every-time I sat down to think about a top 100! I don't think it's achievable for me :scratch:

[fatmarley]

My 11 year old sons favourite movie is Back to the future. It's funny but that movie definitely had the biggest impact on me when I was a kid. I can vividly remember coming out of the cinema feeling like i'd just been on the most amazing adventure.

I watched Pulp fiction a number of times, so that's another of note.
The Matrix
Terminator 1 & 2
Star Wars
Evil dead 1 & 2 (I was very excited when Evil dead 2 came into our local video shop)
The Thing
Deadpool
The Blade movies
Rocky movies
Jaws
Jurassic park
A.I Artificial intelligence
Poltergeist
The Goonies
Gremlins
E.T.
The Princess Bride
No Country For Old Men
Shaun Of The Dead
Return of the living dead
Zombieland
Scary movie movies
An American werewolf in London
Beetlejuice
Tremors
Fright night
The lost boys
Ghostbusters
The good the bad and the ugly
Alien
Cockneys vs zombies (probably more to do with watching my son laughing at the zombie vs 'old guy on zimmer frame' chase scene)
I am legend
Dawn of the dead
Braindead
Men in black
i Robot
Hancock
Independance day
Die hard
Attack the block
The fifth element
The karate kid
Top gun
A nightmare on elm street
Weird science
Robocop
Highlander
Beverly hills cop
Trading places
Wargames
Escape from new york
They live
Lethal weapon
Big trouble in little china
National lampoon christmas vacation
Dirty rotten scoundrels
Death wish

How many is that?

[struth]

indeed, all 3 BTTF films are good, although the first is iconic and still a fav, although I didnt include it in mine

[Joe]

I can probably do 20 or so off the top of me head (in no particular order):

The Big Lebowski
Withnail and I
Bringing Up Baby
Rear Window
Vertigo
My Dinner with Andre
Wayne's World
Naked (calm down, it's a Mike Leigh film about a mouth Mancunian)
Blow-Up
Mean Streets
The Conversation
Annie Hall
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Don't Look Now
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Out of the Past (US Title: Build My Gallows High)
The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon
Bullitt
Donnie Darko

[Barry]

It is understandable that people should prefer films with dialogue written in their own language. Subtitles are intrusive and do detract from the viewing experience. Those who won't watch a foreign language film have a point when they say they prefer 'to watch films rather than to read them'.

The trouble is that [in my opinion] the larger part of the best cinema is to be found on the other side of the language barrier. I'm content to use subtitles as they allow me access to a great many films I would otherwise be unaware of. Over many years I have become so accustomed to subtitles that they have become normal. Once I am used to a film I sometimes dispense with them altogether.



I don't find it at all difficult to read subtitles and watch the film at the same time. I much prefer subtitles to dubbed dialogue - dubbing never matches the lip motion (how could it?), it looks odd and hence is distracting; anyway I much prefer to hear the sound of the native spoken word.

[IslandPink]

Can't do 100 quickly, but here's a stab at a few -
Top 5 - (probably )
2001
Tokyo Story
Chinatown
Pat Barrett and Billy the Kid
The man who fell to Earth

Next 25 -
The Conversation ( Coppola )
Blue Velvet
Citizen Kane
The Killing of a Chinese bookie ( Cassevetes )
Two-lane blacktop
Annie Hall
Stardust memories
Godfather part 2
Don't look now
Walkabout
The long goodbye
Badlands
Paris, Texas
Casablanca
Prospero's books ( Greenaway )
Apocalypse now
Time Bandits
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Three colours blue
Eraserhead
Deliverance
Wild Strawberries
Pather Panchali
Rear window

[fatmarley]

I actually managed to find 100 of my favourite movies:

1) Back to the Future 1 & 2
2) Pulp Fiction
3) The Matrix
4) Terminator 1 & 2
5) Star Wars
6) Evil dead 1 & 2
7) The Thing
8) Deadpool
9) The Blade movies
10) Rocky movies
11) Jaws
12) Jurassic park
13) A.I Artificial intelligence
14) Poltergeist
15) The Goonies
16) Gremlins
17) E.T.
18) The Princess Bride
19) IT
20) No Country For Old Men
21) Shaun Of The Dead
22) Return of the living dead
23) Zombieland
24) Scary movie movies
25) An American werewolf in London
26) Beetlejuice
27) Tremors
28) Fright night
29) The lost boys
30) The howling
31) Ghostbusters
32) The good the bad and the ugly
33) Alien
34) Cockneys vs zombies
35) Dawn of the dead
36) Braindead
37) Hawk the slayer
38) Men in black 1 & 2
39) iRobot
40) Hancock
41) Independance day
42) Die hard
43) Attack the block
44) The fifth element
45) The karate kid
46) Top gun
47) A nightmare on elm street
48) Weird science
49) Robocop
50) Highlander
51) Beverly hills cop
52) Trading places
53) Wargames
54) Escape from new york
55) They live
56) Lethal weapon
57) Big trouble in little china
58) National lampoon christmas vacation
60) Dirty rotten scoundrels
61) Death wish
62) The Mist
63) Halloween
64) Scarface
65) Carlito's way
66) Dirty harry
67) Independance day
68) The spy who loved me
69) Forrest gump
70) The wizard of oz
71) Enemy at the Gates
72) Man on fire
73) Black hawk down
74) Fury
75) American sniper
76) Flight
77) The pianist
78) The deer hunter
79) Taken
80) Collateral
81) Law Abiding Citizen
82) The Next Three Days
83) Seven
84) Happy gilmore
85) You dont mess with the zohan
86) Click
87) Pixels
88) The Pursuit of Happyness
89) Unbreakable
90) Armageddon
91) From dusk till dawn
92) Desperado
93) Die hard
94) Bugsy malone
95) A history of violence
96) Boyz in the hood
97) Menace II society
98) Friday
99) Puff the Magic Dragon
100) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

[Landloper]

I don't find it at all difficult to read subtitles and watch the film at the same time. I much prefer subtitles to dubbed dialogue - dubbing never matches the lip motion (how could it?), it looks odd and hence is distracting; anyway I much prefer to hear the sound of the native spoken word.

I don't mind them either, Barry. Without them I'd be excluded from a huge part of the best cinema has to offer. As to dubbing, the Italian film industry never used to care much about accurate lip synchronization when matching sound and picture in their own films, never mind foreign ones.

Personally I can't abide foreign language films dubbed into English.

[Pigmy Pony]

Subtitles for me every time too. Trouble with dubbed into English is that the dialogue/picture mismatch just makes them look like really bad actors. And I think the recording of the overdubs must be done in the studio or the toilet or something - the acoustics never fit the location and that does my head in a bit. Subtitles look like a bit of a chore for about 2 minutes, then you're used to it :)

[Pigmy Pony]

And if you have difficulty keeping up, you could try the Evelyn Woodhead speed reading course, as endorsed by Cheech & Chong :)

[wee tee cee]

midnight run

Paul

Seven psychopaths

The medusa touch

contact

stanley and iris

Untouchable(french version)

Ronin

tinker taylor

reacher

Rambo 5

red dragon - both the brian cox /ralph fiennes versions

For my good lady,,,,,Dirty dancing!!!


I will get my coat!!!

[struth]

midnight run

Paul

Seven psychopaths

The medusa touch

contact

stanley and iris

Untouchable(french version)

Ronin

tinker taylor

reacher

Rambo 5

red dragon - both the brian cox /ralph fiennes versions

For my good lady,,,,,Dirty dancing!!!


I will get my coat!!!Paul is good

[paulf-2007]

Jeez you fellas must have too much time on your hands, life is too short to even think of 100 films let alone my favourites.
In no particular order and more recent than some I like from way back.
Payback
Red
Predator, that's it my brain hurts now

[Made in 1968]

No way on earth could i entertain 100 Films..Just seven i can think of

A Clockwork Orange [Malcolm McDowell]
THX 1138 [Robert Duvall]
Logans Run [Macheal York]
Performance [James Fox]
Silent Running [Bruce Dern]
Fahrenheit 451 [Original with Oskar Werner]
Hannibal Brookes [Oliver Reed]

[Mikeandvan]

No way on earth could i entertain 100 Films..Just seven i can think of

A Clockwork Orange [Malcolm McDowell]
THX 1138 [Robert Duvall]
Logans Run [Macheal York]
Performance [James Fox]
Silent Running [Bruce Dern]
Fahrenheit 451 [Original with Oskar Werner]
Hannibal Brookes [Oliver Reed]

Performance was an amazing film, James Fox underwent a similar transformation in 'The Servant' a decade earlier. Clockwork Orange is one of my faves too, much of the enjoyment is in the dialogue.

[Made in 1968]

It was a masterpiece, A lot more to that movie than people thing, Kubrick was a master at his game..

[Mikeandvan]

Taxi Driver is in my top 10, the 70s was a high point for Hollywood, other 70s thrillers of a high calibre include Night Moves with Gene Hackman, The Conversation also with Hackman, absolutely outstanding films. Killing of a Chinese bookie directed by John Cassavetes and starring Ben Gazarra who played it kind of funny, but was a serious role, I really don't think actors these days have the same naturalness as these guys, he was amazing. Another fave from the 70s is 'Cutters Way' - do make an effort to seek that one out, it really is very special, starring Jeff Bridges, its actually from 1981, but looks and seems like a 70s film. I like 40s/50s thrillers too like Maltese Falcon, and Billy Wilder films, especially Sunset Boulevard, black and white was an art form. I think the 80s were rubbish, until the indies came through. I had the pleasure of watching most of these films at the southbank in London on the big screen at the BFI.

[paulf-2007]

Taxi Driver is in my top 10, the 70s was a high point for Hollywood, other 70s thrillers of a high calibre include Night Moves with Gene Hackman, The Conversation also with Hackman, absolutely outstanding films. Killing of a Chinese bookie directed by John Cassavetes and starring Ben Gazarra who played it kind of funny, but was a serious role, I really don't think actors these days have the same naturalness as these guys, he was amazing. Another fave from the 70s is 'Cutters Way' - do make an effort to seek that one out, it really is very special, starring Jeff Bridges, its actually from 1981, but looks and seems like a 70s film. I like 40s/50s thrillers too like Maltese Falcon, and Billy Wilder films, especially Sunset Boulevard, black and white was an art form. I think the 80s were rubbish, until the indies came through. I had the pleasure of watching most of these films at the southbank in London on the big screen at the BFI.when you recommended a film I had to smile, a mate of mine kept going on about a film, Freddie got fingered Tom Green, so I bought it on DVD, was the worst film I ever watched, in fact I didn't watch it all. The story was nothing like my mate described. I won't go into details, watch it if you're curious and have an animal porno type sense of humour

[Mikeandvan]

when you recommended a film I had to smile, a mate of mine kept going on about a film, Freddie got fingered Tom Green, so I bought it on DVD, was the worst film I ever watched, in fact I didn't watch it all. The story was nothing like my mate described. I won't go into details, watch it if you're curious and have an animal porno type sense of humour

one man's trash is another mans treasure, but that film really does look like trash!