Film Top 10s - let's be having you!

[Auntie Helen]

No particular order

Schindler's List
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
Der Untergang (Downfall)
Das Boot
The Pianist (war film, not Holly Hunter piano one)
The Italian Job (Michael Caine version)
Apollo 13
Dave
The Dish
American Beauty

 

[col]

Barry Lyndon was stunningly beautiful, as was 2001!

Several of my second and third elevens have been mentioned - North by Northwest (ultimate romantic escapism) and Cape Fear (although I prefer the de Niro version... come to think of it, I also preferred the remakes of King Kong (both) and The Getaway).

And a couple whose popularity baffles me - Platoon (far inferior to Full Metal Jacket, if you ask me) and Man Bites Dog (as Belgian films go, Toto the Hero seems to me to be about as good as it gets).

Platoon and full metal jacket were two different films really,i liked them both,it would be hard to say which one is better for me?

 

[Greedo]

Today off the top of my head. Tomorrow will be different. Based purely on I could happily watch anyone of them at any time.

The Godfather 1 and 2
The Usual Suspects
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Italian Job (original with Michael Caine)
First Blood
Lavender Hill Mob
The Inside Man
The Great Escape
Pulp Fiction
Some Like It Hot

 

[theclaud]

And my metrosexual entry:

Moulin Rouge – a cinematic delight.

I really hated that movie. I thought Ewan MacGregor's terrible singing was going to make my ears bleed and I had no idea what was going on. I was completely off my tits, mind .

 

[User482]

Brief Encounter
It's a Wonderful Life
The Godfather
Remains of the Day
Shadowlands
Schindler's List
The Birds
Pulp Fiction
Brokeback Mountain
Oh, and The Incredibles

 

[Christopher]

Night of the Sunflowers
Amores Perros
Dr Strangleglove
M
The General (the Buster Keaton film)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie
Gun Crazy
Pepe le Moko
Lacombe Lucien
Manhunter

 

[Paulus]

In no particular order.

The lady killers 1955
Bullitt
The Shawshank redemption
The Lavender Hill Mob 1951
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Out of Africa.
Born Free.
Long arm of the law
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
White heat. James Cagney 1949

 

[theclaud]

Night of the Sunflowers
Amores Perros
Dr Strangleglove
M
The General (the Buster Keaton film)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie
Gun Crazy
Pepe le Moko
Lacombe Lucien
Manhunter

Good ones. The Gael Garcia Bernal connection has made me realise that I forgot the wonderful Y Tu Mama Tambien....

 

[Christopher]

Good ones. The Gael Garcia Bernal connection has made me realise that I forgot the wonderful Y Tu Mama Tambien....

and I forgot 'Goodfellas' and 'Spirit of the Beehive'! oh and Michael Mann's 'LA Takedown' (a TV movie he remade as 'Heat') isn't half bad but not in my top 10. 'Blue Collar' is good too..

Actually the lists above make it plain how many times classic films have been remade and that almost everyone here prefers the originals: The Ladykillers, Italian Job etc...

 

[col]

Black rain too. very good film.

 

[swee'pea99]

Can I add Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to my list? ('Who are those guys?')

 

[Chuffy]

Withnail & I
The LoTR trilogy
Star Wars
Ice Age
Zoolander
Moulin Rouge
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Pee-Wee’s Great Adventure
Rocky Horror Show

Honourable mentions to Some Like It Hot, Destry Rides Again, Spinal Tap and Apocalypse Now.

And Holy Grail, Reservoir Dogs, Dusk Till Dawn, Desperado, Labyrinth (yes, the one with David Bowie's trousers).

 

[Calum]

Shawshank Redemption

Pulp Fiction

Goodfellas

Scarface

The Godfather 1&2

Shaun of the Dead

Annie Hall

The Pianist

Taxi Driver

 

[gbb]

Time Bandits...christ, i watched that film over and over
2001
Leon
Shaun of the dead So many hilarious subtle moments you'd overlook if you were'nt concentrating.
Full Metal Jacket
The Deerhunter
Its A Wonderful Life (James Stewart....an oldie, but goldie)
The Killing Fields
300 (the spartan one)
Life of Brian

So many others....

 

[gbb]

Bugger, i want Hell Drivers as well....