Favourite 25 Movies
 

Inspired by the Favourite 25 Albums thread . . .

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My 25 Favourite Movies of All Time
(one per director)

1. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
2. Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
3. The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941)
4. A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
5. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
6. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
7. L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)
8. No Greater Glory (Frank Borzage, 1934)
9. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1973)
10. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
11. Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1962)
12. Made in USA (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
13. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
14. A Day In The Country (Jean Renoir, 1936)
15. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
16. Lola (Jacques Demy, 1962)
17. The Love Eterne (Han Hsiang Li, 1963)
18. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
19. Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)
20. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1993)
21. The Fury (Brian De Palma, 1978)
22. Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)
23. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944)
24. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford, 1941)
25. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

Ooh, I love Movies :D

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. Videodrome
3. Roadie
4. The Man Who Fell To Earth
5. Hairspray (1988)
6. Patti Smith - Dream of Life
7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
8. Union City
9. The Hound of the Baskervilles
10. Quadrophenia
11. Labyrinth (1986)
12. Walk the Line
13. Mean Girls
14. Herbie Fully Loaded
15. Hot Fuzz
16. Romeo + Juliet
17. Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl
18. To Kill a Mockingbird
19. Ghostbusters
20. The Blues Brothers
21. The Neverending Story
22. The Little Mermaid :cool:
23. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
24. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
25. The Nightmare Before Christmas

Make of that what you will :laugh:

I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee movies
1. Forrest Gump (1994)
2. Beaches (1988)
3. Sling Blade (1996)
4. Philadelphia (1993)
5. The Green Mile (1999)
6. Cold Mountain (2003)
7. The Prestige (2006)
8. Braveheart (1995)
9. It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
10. La vita è bella (1997)
11. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
12 .Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
13. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
14. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
15. Memento (2000)
16. Ever After (1998)
17. Identity (2003)
18. The Dark Knight (2008)
19. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
20. Mamma Mia! (2008)
21. The Interpreter (2005)
22. Evening (2007)
23. The Parent Trap (1998)
24. Sophie's Choice (1982)
25. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

In no particular order:

Unbreakable
The Lady In The Water
Wall Street
Wonder Boys
The Game
Romancing The Stone
A Perfect Murder
Unfaithful
The Mothman Prophecies
The Ninth Gate
Kate & Leopold
You've Got Mail
The Cider House Rules
The Shawshank Redemption
High Crimes
The Green Mile
Nights In Rodanthe
Salem's Lot
Annie Hall
Manhattan
The Abyss
Heat
X-Men Orgins - Wolverine
The Freshman
Crimson Tide

I have really horrible taste in movies. I'm just putting that out there and letting you guys know I'm aware of it before you judge my choices. It's not that I can't appreciate a "good" movie, but that I like my film to be escapist. I just want something that takes me away to another world. That said:

1. Beauty and the Beast. Yes, the disney version.
2. Catch Me if You Can
3. The Pursuit of Happyness
4. All the President's Men
5. Witness for the Prosecution
6. You've Got Mail
7. Legally Blonde
8. The Break Up
9. The Life of David Gale
10. Monster
11. Boys Don't Cry
12. A Beautiful Mind
13. Nuremberg
14. Dirty Dancing
15. Rent
16. Mean Girls
17. The Virgin Suicides
18. Milk
19. JFK
20. Breakfast at Tiffany's
21. The Wizard of Oz
22. Sleepless in Seattle
23. The Holiday
24. Never Been Kissed
25. Ever After

I love all of the ones I quoted, but I can't believe someone else but Ever After in their top 25! I should have read yours before I did mine-- I had to go to Drew Barrymore's wiki page to remember what the title was. I love fairy tales :)

25 is a bit much for me right now 'cause I'm headed out the door. But here's ten. :)


1.) Star Wars.

2.) Return of the Jedi.

3.) Revenge of the Sith.

4.) All About Eve.

5.) Avatar.

6.) Anastasia (Yul Brenner version.)

7.) Kung-Fu Panda (very cute and entertaining).

8.) War of the Worlds (older version from the 50s.)

9.) "The X-Files Movie" (1998).

10.) Kenneth Branaugh's version of Hamlet. (and also his version of Henry V.)


I also just recently saw a great science fiction movie from the 70s called "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston. This is the same story as the movie "I Am Legend" which recently came out starring Will Smith. (There was also a version from 1964 starring Vincent Price, called "The Last Man on Earth." - They're all based on a novel called "I Am Legend" by someone named Richard Matheson which has received a lot of attention.)
Anyway I thought the Charlton Heston version was VERY good! The Will Smith version (i.m.o.) didn't really capture the emotional impact of the story. The 1964 version was also pretty good, for similar reasons. But Heston's version blew me away; I felt that it was VERY well-done! :)

In no particular order:

1-Batman
2-The Nightmare Before Christmas
3-LA Confidential
4-Batman Returns
5-A Christmas Story
6-Ghostbusters
7-Ace Ventura
8-Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
9-The Lord of the Rings (all 3 equally)
10-As Good As It Gets
11-Die Hard
12-Back to the Future
13-Dr. Strangelove
14-Pan's Labyrinth
15-Beetlejuice
16-Fright Night
17-Lawrence of Arabia
18-The Big Lebowski
19-Ed Wood
20-Wonder Boys
21-V For Vendetta
22-Terminator 2
23-Blade Runner
24-National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
25-Young Frankestein

First of all, The Man Who Fell To Earth is one of the weirdest movies ever. In a good way, since David Bowie can do no wrong.

Also, Maris, you WOULD like the Virgin Suicides. It's one of my favorites too.

I'm obsessed with film. I see 2+ movies in theatres a week and often drive around the bay area to do it. I'm actually going to 12 different films at the San Francisco International Film Festival within the next two weeks and I'm SO EXCITED.

In no particular order:
1. Stardust Memories (and anything Allen)
2. The Virgin Suicides
3. Stealing Beauty
4. The Hours
5. A Single Man
6. Dead Poet's Society
7. 8 1/2
8. The Hours
9. Life Is Beautiful
10. Doubt
11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (and anything Kaufman)
12. Vertigo (and anything Hitchcock)
13. Fight Club (if only for Helena Bonham Carter!)
14. Scarface
15. Blue Velvet
16. Some Like It Hot
17. The Ghost Writer
18. An Education
19. The Hurt Locker
20. For My Father
21. Amelie
22. The English Patient (but probably just because I'm obsessed with ANYTHING related to that novel...)
23. Synecdoche, New York
24. Manhattan
25. Mary Poppins :)

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love this movie. It was also nominated for best picture, so no reason for embarrassment. I bought it on VHS, DVD, and am eagerly awaiting the Blu-Ray release. I hate the Cocteau version Stevie loves so much. I guess I'm just not that deep.

In no particular order:

1. American Psycho
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. Requiem for a Dream
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Casino
6. The Godfather
7. The Godfather II
8. Goodfellas
9. The Color Purple
10. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
11. Memento
12. Sophie's Choice
13. A Clockwork Orange
14. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
15. Fight Club
16. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
17. The Seven Year Itch
18. Moonstruck
19. The Remains of the Day
20. Howard's End
21. Sense and Sensibility
22. Bram Stoker's Dracula
23. Pan's Labyrinth
24. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
25. This Is Spinal Tap

How could I forget this one?!

I love how wonderfully done Ever After is! I can't watch that movie without crying.

You love Beaches?? It's one of the best chick flicks ever! So sad!

I love the majority of the movies on your list, but these are some highlights:

Beauty and the Beast is amazing. I watched it a couple weeks ago at 2 in the morning and was comparing my life to Belle's. Bahahah pathetic, yes. I love watching Disney movies! After you've grown up a bit, you can see the story a different way than from what you saw as a little kid.

You've Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle = classic Meg Ryan movies (when Meg Ryan still looked like Meg Ryan).

The Holiday is perfect!! Love the storylines/relationships. I can watch it over and over.

This is incredibly hard to do! In no particular order:

1. All About Eve (perfect script)
2. Casablanca (nearly perfect script)
3. Some Like it Hot
4. Bonnie & Clyde
5. Vertigo
6. Rear Window (really anything Hitchcock)
7. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
8. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
9. Life is Beautiful
10. The Wizard of Oz
11. Amadeus
12. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
13. Harold and Maude
14. Office Space
15. Sideways
16. Love Actually
17. The Last Picture Show
18. The Breakfast Club
19. Steel Magnolias :p
20. Breakfast at Tiffany's
21. The Way We Were
22. Adaptation
23. E.T. (favorite from my childhood)
24. A League of their Own
25. Splendor in the Grass

HOW COULD I FORGET THIS ONE?? :nod:

LOVE your list. I have a lot of these films on mine :thumbsup:

Most of these are pretty recent, others are definitely not, but I've only been really watching movies for the past decade or so and my list reflects that.

Also I have a slightly twisted sense of humor. I think this list reflects that as well.

1. Quills
2. Gladiator
3. Ratatouille
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Fight Club
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte de Loups)
8. Bubba Ho-Tep
9. The Departed
10. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
11. Being John Malkovich
12. Milk
13. The Cell
14. The Boondock Saints
15. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
16 Clay Pigeons
17. The Breakfast Club
18. Up
19. Casualties of War
20. Dances With Wolves
21. Catch Me If You Can
22. A Mighty Wind
23. Saved!
24. The Robe/Demetrius and the Gladiators (sort of a tie, but to me these movies are inseperable)
25. Untamed Heart

Honorable Mentions: Zodiac, Tropic Thunder, Philadelphia, anything Pixar, Army of Darkness, The Libertine, A League Of Their Own, A Perfect World, Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, The Sandlot, Serial Mom, The Shawshank Redemption

Forget my other list. This is my real choice. :woohoo:

1.Kill Bill Vol.1
2.Kill Bill Vol. 2
3.Disco Pigs
4.Life As A House
5.Requiem For A Dream
6.Titanic
7.The Silence Of The Lambs
8.Wild Things
9.Pulp Fiction
10.Aladdin
11.American History X
12.The Virgin Suicides
13.Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope
14.Baby Boy
15.London
16.The Lion King
17.Thin Line Between Love And Hate
18.Death Becomes Her
19.Pan's Labyrinth
20.Waiting To Exhale
21.Hannibal
22.Cruel Intentions
23.The Dark Knight
24.Harsh Times
25.The Other Boleyn Girl

Honorable mentions: Running Scared, all the other Star Wars, American Psycho, Ace Ventura...

I keep making changes to this but I promise that this time I am done. :wavey:

They forgot to dot one of the i's.

Other than that . . . yyyyyyeah! :nod:

This is a strange list for me. YOu have some of my favorites and some movies I really care about and some I even admire and then you've got some of the worst movies ever made. Fascinating.

Dani - I LOVE that you included this!

How did this thread pass me by?! I'm doing a film phD and this is one of the questions I always, always get asked... So here's my list! Such lists sometimes annoy me because people often put on what they think they Sshould like rather than what they actually like. It's your list! I think it's perfectly possible to have a mix of both...

This is so hard to narrow downa and I'm not totally sure of the order of these as I get out of the top 10 but there they are:

1. The Silence Of The Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
2. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
3. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
4. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989)
5. All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1950)
6. To Die For (Gus Van Sant, 1995)
7. Back To The Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
8. Thelma And Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)
9. 10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger, 1999)
10. Love Me Or Leave Me (Charles Vidor, 1955)
11. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
12. Superman (Richard Donner, 1978)
13. Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, 1986)
14. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
15. Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964)
16. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
17. Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker, 1976)
18. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Lhrmann, 2001)
19. Overboard (Gary Marshall, 1987)
20. Gone With The Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
21. The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985)
22. 500 Days Of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
23. Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004)
24. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
25. Empire Records (Allan Moyle, 1995)

Honourable mention to: St. Elmo's Fire (Joel Schumacher, 1985)

Sorry, but did I just read an earlier post that described Some Like It Hot and Casablanca as BAD?!? No, no, no! See, this is what happens with me and these lists, I'd better stop...

I love your list ! Those are four of my favorite movies ever.
Well, here's mine, in no particular order (I just can't) :

Thelma and Louise
Arizona Dream
When Harry Met Sally
Into the Wild
Gone with the Wind
Some like it Hot
Elephant man
The Shining
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Forrest Gump
School of Rock (:D 'cause of Stevie)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Bonnie and Clyde
Bus Stop
The Full Monty
Time of the gypsies
Lost in Translation
The Virgin Suicides
Four Friends
Little Miss Sunshine
Titanic
The fifth element
Harold and Maude
Anastasia
La belle et la bête.


And many, many others...

No order, except Goodfellas which is my most favorite movie EVER. The list is very random, and a few couldbn't be considered all that good. But they are my favorites.

Goodfellas
Imitation of Life (any version)
Wedding Crashers
Dazed & Confused
My Left Foot
Dirty Dancing
Terms of Endearment
Officer and a Gentleman
Wille Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version)
National Lampoon's European Vacation
Pulp Fiction
Silence of the Lambs
Mask (Cher)
The Color Purple
Steel Magnolias
The Breakfast Club
Overboard
Dances with Wolves
Braveheart
When Harry Met Sally
Thelma & Louise
The Lost Boys
The Goonies
Tommy Boy
Legends of the Fall

even though I hate lists, I'll play. I really had a hard time coming up with this list, but here it is...in no order.

Imitation of Life
Madame X
For Pete's Sake
Big Business
Terms of Endearment
Yentl
The Mirror Has Two Faces
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Steel Magnolias
Fried Green Tomatoes
Driving Miss Daisy
Kill Bill 1/2
Labyrinth
Red Sonja
Because I Said So
Conan series
Blade
Resident Evil
Underworld
28 Days Later
Loblolly by the Sea
The Notebook
Riding in Cars with Boys
Death Proof
Lord of the Rings trilogy

YES!!! Someone else who loves Overboard! It's in my list too! It's so brilliantly quotable!

"Andrew! Are you going to bring me my lemon or do I have to squeeze it through my hat?!"

Some of the worst movies ever made? :laugh: I'd hate to see what you'd call Crash, Rain Man, or any Schwarzenegger movie. :cool:

I know! It hurts my feeling, I am reeling. :laugh:

And I love that you included To Die For and The Goonies. They were just outside of my list. :)

You're still on the record as thinking that "The Dark Knight" and "WALL-E" are amongst the most abominable man-made creations (let alone movies), right? Just checking :)

well, i guess i'll put my 2 cents in--- (just eleven cause i don't really watch movies)
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!!!
1. The Hangover (Two words for you - BRADLEY.COOPER)
2. Much Ado About Nothing ( i love Shakespeare and Emma Thompson's work!)
3. The Last Song - surprisingly, this was a really great film! Possibly my favorite if Miley wasn't the lead
4. Music and Lyrics (really cute!!!)
5. Enchanted (PATRICK DEMPSEYYYYY)
6. Twilight (i read and loved this book LONG before it was popular!)
7. New Moon
8. Across The Universe
9. The Outsiders
10. Cinderella 2...NOT ONE, NOT THREE - 2! The one that came out on DVD. It's AMAZING!
11. Hard Day's Night


alright, feel free to criticize now!

Wow. Totally unfunny and shouldn't be in anyone's top 25. Ever. ;)

I love lists. Here we go:

1. Forrest Gump
2. Practical Magic
3. Moulin Rouge
4. Boys on the Side
5. Thelma & Louise
6. Hocus Pocus
7. Now and Then
8. Fried Green Tomatoes
9. A League of Their Own
10. The Parent Trap
11. Titanic
12. Beaches
13. Almost Famous
14. Dirty Dancing
15. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
16. Jerry Maguire
17. Me, Myself and Irene
18. The Waterboy
19. Across the Universe
20. Grease
21. Twister
22. Ghost
23. Coal Miner's Daughter
24. The Goonies
25. The Wedding Singer

well, being 15, it was easily one of the funniest movies i've seen - we teens have such perverse minds! :laugh:

Well so do I, but there's plenty of other "perverse" comedies out there that are 10x better than The Hangover. Jeez. What a let down. :nod:

"The Party Animal" drinks "Hangover"'s milkshake.

LOVE your list!