what are your top ten favourite films?

So far

1.A Beautiful Mind
2.The Green Mile
3.Who's Afraid of Virginia woolf?
4.Moulin Rouge
5.Misery
6.Howl's Moving Castle
7.My Left Foot
8.Terms of Endearment
9.Born on the Fourth of July
10.Capote


Consider

Cabaret
The Reader
The Hours
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Adaptation.
Driving Miss Daisy
There Will Be Blood


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My ten favs..... my ten favs..... in no particular order:

The Empire Strikes Back
Meet the Feebles
Akira
The Shining
Chinatown
Brazil
Neotokyo
Friday
Pom Poko
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Of this list, Meet the Feebles, Friday, and Akira deserve my top billing since they're the ones I always go to in a lull of activity.

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Hi Gloriamorin. Most of the replies you got cover a very narrow period of filmaking. Excepto one, this list are lists of personal favorites.

I agree 100% with Jean-Luc Godard when he said: "Film begins with D.W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami." Scorsese said: "Kiarostami represents the highest level of artistry in the cinema.". Kiarostami added: "This admiration is perhaps more appropriate after I am dead."

So here's the "definitive" list (made by the trascendental "me"):

1. Intolerance
2. Battleship Potemkin
3. Metropolis
4. Citizen Kane
5. Rashomono
6. The Apu Trilogy (Satyajit Ray)
7. Fellini's 8-1/2
8. The Godfather (The Coppola Trilogy!!)
9. The Kiarostami Trilogy (Where's the Friend's Home (87); And Life Goes On (91) Through the Olive trees (94).
10. Farewell My Concubine.

(Number 11 would be Godard's "Breathless")

My list of "favorite" films (the subjective "me") is something else. Some of these films will be there (certainly, Eight and a Half, Citizen Kane, etc.), but also "Scaramouche" (the Stewart Granger version), "The Third Man", "The 10 Commandments", "Yankee Doodle Dandy", "Shoot the Piano Player", "Vertigo", "Cat People", "Ship of Fools", Judgment at Nuremberg", "Casablanca", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "Tales of Terror", "The Bellboy", etc.

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A top 10 is kinda hard I'll try a top 20


1. Dawn Of The Dead (1978)
2. Halloween (1978)
3. Alien (1979)
4. Aliens (1986)
5. Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
6. The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
7. Star Wars A New Hope (1977)
8. Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
9. Star Wars Return Of The Jedi (1983)
10. Psycho (1960)
11. Se7en (1995)
12. The Shining (1980)
13. A Clock Work Orange (1971)
14. 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
15. Return Of The Living Dead (1984)
16. Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984)
17. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
18. T2 (1991)
19. The Thing (1982)
20. The Terminator (1984)

In no particular order, and not a definitive list, and not exactly 10. These are movies that stuck around in my mind long after I watched them, and have made me go back to rewatch them at least a couple times more since then.

General movies:

* Alien and Aliens
* Terminator 2: Judgement Day
* Gattaca
* Leon [The Professional]
* Evil Dead 3: Bruce Campbell Versus The Army Of Darkness
* Strange Days
* Fight Club
* The Breakfast Club
* Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut)
* Donnie Darko
* Good Will Hunting
* Star Wars (the originally released theatrical trilogy)
* 2001: A Space Odyssey

Children's movies:

* Flight Of The Navigator
* The Princess Bride
* The Journey Of Natty Gan
* Matilda
* The Neverending Story
* Frog Dreaming [The Quest]
* Short Circuit
* Ghostbusters

Falling asleep, zzzZzzZZzzZ ! night.

hmm hard one but i would have to say

1.A Clockwork Orange
2.Apocalypse Now
3.Taxi Driver
4.Oldboy
5.Casablanca
6.Vertigo
7.Chinatown
8.One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
9.The Shining
10.Blade Runner