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what are your top ten favourite films?


just interested, what would you say are your top ten favourite films of all time?

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Wow... after read through those 30 something pages of "favorites", I think I saw 2001 mentioned at least 50 times.

Probably 3 or 4 David Lynch movies per list.

Taxi Driver cropped up like a sore thumb.

Sprinklings of Citizen Kane and The Godfather.

And then of course, the black sheep of bad taste, 'The Dark Knight' trilogy.

People really are content with being sheeple, aren't they?

Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to its awesomeness.

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Yes, life would be so much better if you could just tell us what we ought to like instead of allowing us to express our preferences.

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They're not very original preferences.

Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to its awesomeness.

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The reason movies keep popping up is because they're so amazing, a lot of people have them in their top ten.

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Well then it's not really their own top ten. Why would you want to have a list that's the same as everyone else's? Where's the fun in that?

Try to tell people something they don't know.

Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to its awesomeness.

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It is their top ten though. Some of my favorite movies are Citizen Kane, Sunset Blvd. and Pulp Fiction. I like them because they touched me, and they affected me. Sunset Blvd. to me is so relate-able and really grabs my fears of loneliness. I don't like it because other people do, I like it because it is good to me.

A lot of people just like the same movies. Me and my sister both have Fight Club in our top-five. It doesn't mean we're copying each other, we just really *beep* like Fight Club.

I do, however, try to watch movies that are not as well known, such as Wings of Desire and Shock Corridor. But, truly great movies will reach a wide audience and create a lot of fans.

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Hmmm, well I guess that makes sense. Maybe everyone should make alternative lists, if their original top 10 is to be discarded.

Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to its awesomeness.

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my top twelve best movie:

1 Citizen Kane (Welles)
2 Tokyo Story (Ozu)
3 Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
4 Vertigo (Hitchcock)
5 2001: A space odyssey (Kubrick)
6 The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
7 Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
8 Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
9 Raging Bull (Scorsese)
10 The Godfather (Coppola)
11 Rashomon (Kurosawa)
12 The Searchers (Ford)

but my favorit films is:

1 Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
2 Citizen Kane (Welles)
3 Dekalog (Mini series, Kieslowski)
4 Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
5 Talk to Her (Almodóvar)
6 The Spirit of Beehive (Víctor Erice)
7 Histoire(s) du Cinema (video, Godard)
8 The Human Condition Trilogy (1959-1961, Kobayashi)
9 The Tree Of Life (Malick)
10 The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel)
11 Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
12 Life is Beautiful (Benigni)


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8 1/2 is next on my list to watch, but I still have yet to see it... anyway...

1. Brazil
2. The Godfather
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. Crimes and Misdemeanors
5. Dr. Strangelove
6. The Big Lebowski
7. Apocalypse Now
8. Magnolia
9. Double Indemnity
10. Pulp Fiction

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1. The Princess Bride
2. The Big Lebowski
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
5. 8 1/2
6. Repo Man
7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
8. Miller's Crossing
9. In Bruges
10. High Fidelity

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10. Groundhog Day
9. Brazil
8. Inception
7. It’s a Wonderful Life
6. Gravity
5. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
4. The Elephant Man
3. Fantasia
2. Vertigo
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey

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English speaking:

1 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
2 Midnight Cowboy 1969
3 ET The Extra-terestial 1982
4 The Good Earth 1937
5 The Wizard of Oz 1939
6 Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
7 Paths of Glory 1957
8 The Godfather Saga (both 1&2 combined chronologically 1972/74) 1977
9 MASH 1970
10 The Maltese Falcon 1941

These non english speaking films would make the list above

Bicycle Thieves 1948
8 1/2 1963
To Live 1994

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Cries and Whispers
Stalker
The Mirror
Solaris
Persona
Winter Light
La Strada
Viridiana
The Decalogue
Wings of Desire

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10/10
1. Alice in Wonderland (1985, Harry Harris)
2. Haven (2001, John Gray)
3. The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Christopher Nolan)
4. The Lady Vanishes (1938, Alfred Hitchcock)
5. The Sting (1973, George Roy Hill)
6. Oz the Great and Powerful (2013, Sam Raimi)
7. Limelight (1952, Charles Chaplin)
8. Mario Puzo’s The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
9. Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
10. Rome, Open City (1945, Roberto Rossellini)
11. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940, Boris Ingster)
12. The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
13. Above Suspicion (1943, Richard Thorpe)
14. The Great Dictator (1940, Charles Chaplin)
15. The Phantom of Paris (1931, John S. Robertson)
16. Captain Phillips (2013, Paul Greengrass)
17. The Monster (1925, Roland West)
18. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914, Mack Sennett)
19. Fear (1954, Roberto Rossellini)
20. Seven Chances (1925, Buster Keaton)
21. Blaise Pascal (1972, Roberto Rossellini)
22. The Conjuring (2013, James Wan)
23. They Drive by Night (1940, Raoul Walsh)
24. Wings (1927, William A. Wellman)
25. Hide and Seek (2000, Sidney J. Furie)
26. Journey to Italy (1954, Roberto Rossellini)
27. Cinema Paradiso (1988, Giuseppe Tornatore)
28. Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
29. Anatomy of a Murder (1959, Otto Preminger)
30. The Racket (1928, Lewis Milestone)

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Very difficult, but straight away I would say, atm my favourite movies are:

1. Oldboy
2. Dr Strangelove...
3. Watchmen
4. Harakiri
5. Rashomon
6. Millers Crossing (reduced all other mafia movies to absurdity)
7. M
8. Psycho
9. 2001
10.Lik Wong / Story of Ricky (the best trash movie, not more, not less)


movies worth mentioning

- Rope
- Alien
- Brazil
- City of God
- Once upon a time in the west
- Dark City
- Mr. Nobody
- The Third Man
... and lots more

now I´m going to watch 8 1/2

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