Greatest Movies you have ever seen, seriously?

[elshiva]

Maltese Falcon

Follow the Fleet (with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)

Animal Crackers

[malta blue]

1. Casablanca

Out of Africa

Wuthering Heights

** my new fave is Into the Wild but mostly for personal reasons **

[elshiva]

3. Casablanca is amazing.

[DarkTirade]

2. Seven Samurai is right near the top of my list.

[elshiva]

4. Foreign Films that were the greatest

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Bread And Chocolate

Eat Drink Man Woman

[east texas lib]

5. The Manchurian Candidate...

Angela Lansbury's finest hour...IMHO.

[cyberswede]

42. Agree! n/t

[greyl]

6. Survive Style 5+ is newly on my greatest list.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430651/ (don't read the spoilers!)

Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, the Grindhouse double feature, and Night on Earth are a few others.

[DarkTirade]

7. I was debating whether to add Fight Club to my list or not.

[greyl]

8. You didn't because its greatness might be seen as a cliche, right? ;)

Fuck it, it is a damn great movie.
edit: might as well add Pulp Fiction.

Survive Style 5+, though I reeeally recommend.

[DarkTirade]

10. That, and it's one of those that you either get or you don't.

And a lot of people just didn't get it. :P

[greyl]

11. That's true. I know a couple of those people. :) I'll never understand them. nt

[DarkTirade]

13. Yeah... I just don't get them.

:P

[elshiva]

14. FIGHT CLUB

I WANT YOU TO HIT ME AS HARD AS YOU CAN.


Edward Norton, I love you. I want to make sweet love with you, hon.

[DarkTirade]

16. Ow! Why the ear?

:P

[elshiva]

17. One of the themes of Fight Club that strikes home is SIB.

Self-Injuring Behavior (SIB) that is. Like many mentally ill people, I sometimes engage in SIB. This one reason I love Edward Norton. He is also does SIB well in "Primal Fear" when he hits his head against the wall.

[Shell Beau]

40. Edward Norton is one of my favorite actors! He is so good!

He and Kevin Spacey.

[femmocrat]

9. Dr. Zhivago

I have lost track of how many times I have watched it.

I also love The English Patient and the Merchant-Ivory films.

[Rhiannon12866]

85. That was my Dad's favorite movie. He watched that so many times.

He also really enjoyed "Passage to India," from the same genre, which I rented for him. I tried to keep him entertained. And my Dad mainly watched war films, and sports...:-)

[JTG of the PRB]

12. Lawrence of Arabia

Saving Private Ryan

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Schindler's List

Plus many, many others...

[Critters2]

15. Lawrence of Arabia

Dr. Strangelove

Casablanca

Citizen Kane

[elshiva]

18. Lawrence of Arabia was my grandfather's favorite movie.

He used to say, "I am a river to my people alot." In a way he was, RIP.

[grannylib]

19. Here are my faves:

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Rebecca
The Lion in Winter
To Kill a Mockingbird

[NewJeffCT]

20. In the theatre - , the three LotR movies, Schindler's List & The Killing Fields

Not in the theatre - the first two Godfather movies, 12 Angry Men, Bridge on the River Kwai

[harmonicon]

21. Once Upon a Time in the West

.... and all of the Leone westerns.... I don't really like movies, in general, but I like good ones:

Metropolis
Bring it On
Zombi 2
Bubba Hotep

..... you know, the classics.

[ghostsofgiants]

22. My top five, in no particular order...

Mulholland Drive
Fight Club
Inland Empire
Brand Upon the Brain!
Magnolia

[FloridaJudy]

23. Citizen Kane

Amarcord
Singing in the Rain
Casablanca
Raging Bull

[Manifestor_of_Light]

24. The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam.

Best movie I've ever seen.
Made in 2005 by a Persian man living in Houston, Kayvan Mashayekh.

Filmed in Uzbekistan and Houston.

The story of Omar Khayyam, mathematician, astronomer, and advizer to the Sultan, and his friend Hassan who started the Hashashin.

Also shows the lives of the present-day descendants of Omar Khayyam discovering their family history in Persia.

Stars Vanessa Redgrave.

I've watched it nine times and keep seeing new subtleties in it each time.

Not a single shot is wasted; it's less than 100 minutes long.

[kentauros]

34. Okay, I've got to look for that one

since I'm an native Houstonian and I love all things about Persia :)

Such as this artist: Mahmoud Farshchian

Thanks!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

51. Check the website:

www.greatomar.com

You can buy it on the website. It's beautifully packaged.

It also has the full movie with the director's commentary on it as well.

Mr. Mashayekh's next project is a movie about Cyrus the Great.

[kentauros]

64. Thanks for the link!

:)

First off, the music on the page reminds me of Muslim Gauze. I know from looking through the site that's not them, but it has some similarities. It would be cool if he did a movie on the life of Rumi, too :) I just don't know how much action there is in Rumi's life. It seems like what I've read of him is mostly spent with his spiritual love, Shams. In the hands of the right writer, it could be an equally well-made story.

The Cyrus the Great movie sounds good, too. I'll have to read up on the subject though...

[khashka]

25. Ok...

The Secretary - best movie made about S/m
Hellraiser - Same as above but horror
Maltese Falcon.
The Lady Vanishes - totally got me confused. A bit slow to begin with, but Hitch messes with your mind.
To Kill A Mockingbird - who doesn't fall in love with Atticus, or get hurt by the way scary Boo loves and protects the kids. Plus the whole race thing.
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, What Did I Do To Deserve This, Matador, The Laws of Desire - he's a freakin' genius.
Not necessarily in that order.

Khash.

[pokerfan]

26. Lawrence of Arabia

The Grapes of Wrath
The Sting

and Showgirls. (Elizabeth Berkley really showed me something in that one. :))

[stuntcat]

27. Harold and Maude & Being There & Fargo

Those are my favorites if I take out the horror and the sci-fi :)

[Zavulon]

28. The first Godfather movie

was the best movie ever made.

[YankeyMCC]

29. Forbidden Planet

Almost any Bogart movie, it's hard for me to choose between Maltese Falcon and Casablanca as the best.

Magnificent Seven

12 O'Clock High

Tora, Tora, Tora

Original Star Wars and Indiana Jones

I'll even include the LoTR movies by Peter Jackson

[zingaro]

61. Hey didn't you forget

300?

Come on, my ancients friend. You can't forget that one. ;)

[YankeyMCC]

74. The Doors have opened and Ares is on his way

to smite you :)

[zingaro]

87. I fear not Ares.

I'll just have the gold-laden Xerxes kick his sissy ass. :rofl:

:hi:

[YankeyMCC]

91. The mortal that fears not one of the immortal gods

is a fool. Does a mortal think any hurt they can inflict on a deathless god can be of any measure against the suffering the gods will punish such folly? No father Zeus and the Fates will not allow it. Think of Tydidus, what harm did he do to Athene or Ares in is unnatural rage against them? Their suffering, deep anguish it may have been for the moment, was but a flickering in their immortal lives and he, that lord of the War Cry, suffered in the end. Suffering in his departure from the lands of Troy and living out the end of his life in excile by the will of the fates and the gods. And his suffering was all the much more portion of his mortal life.


;)

[Hangingon]

76. Good list. I'd add Hellzapoppin (1941)

[rppper]

30. Full Metal Jacket......

i think it's the best movie about Vietnam ever...besides, how can you not like R. Lee Ermy's role as Sgt Hartman(ok, he was basically playing himself, but it was brilliant...). the film has a saying for every situation too....

my other faves as follows...

Casino
Goodfellas
Murphy's war
the sand pebbles
an american werewolf in london

[Rambis]

43. good one

I walked out of that movie feeling frustrated, angry, confused, sick and hopeless. We went to a bar afterward and a friend who is a vietnam vet said that movie comes the closest to the experience he has ever seen. He said he wished he never would have gone to see it because his PTSD got worse after that movie.

[bertha katzenengel]

31. Witness. Sophie's Choice. Tootsie (comedies can be great movies, too).

[raccoon]

32. Hud. Saving Private Ryan. Places in the Heart. nt

[kentauros]

33. So many, so very many

:)

Try these:

Koyaanisqatsi
2001: A Space Odyssey
Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin)
Until the End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt)
Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no haka)
Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi)
Akira
Contact
Metropolis
M
Bringing Up Baby
The Blues Brothers
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
North by Northwest
Psycho
The Day the Earth Stood Still


And I recently watched on on hulu.com that I'm going to have to get on DVD soon
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

[logosoco]

59. Yes! Koyaanisqatsi

I always want to recommend that..but I can NEVER spell it!
Our local PBS used to play that all the time in the 80s. It took us forever to find it to buy on tape when we got the internet (thanks to google helping you figure out what you mean).

[kentauros]

66. I was lucky enough to see it in the theater when it came out.

And then I took a different friend to see it each time, for four more times in a row :D
All of them were equally blown away and loved it just as much. I think when Powaqqatsi came out that one of the producers was at the showing, but it wasn't Reggio. I'm thinking Philip Glass was there, too, but I'm not really sure about that.

It took many years between seeing Powaqqatsi then and in recent years to fully appreciate that movie. At the time, it seemed too heavy-handed on the plight of the Third World, but knowing more about their situations today, I was able to appreciate it far more. It also was more emotional to me this time around.

I still haven't seen Naqoyqatsi.

[Shell Beau]

35. Sling Blade, Godfather I & II, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,

Shawshank Redemption, etc.

I know I will think of tons more as I keep thinking. I am forgetting lots.

[DS1]

36. Platoon, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Alien, Blade Runner,

Terminator 2, Ronin

[bif]

37. Station Agent, The Game, Amaracord, The Usual Suspects

Darjaleen Limited, Garden State. The list goes on and on.

[av8rdave]

38. I have a lot of favorites

2001

Shawshank Redemption

A River Runs Through It

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The French Connection

Crimson Tide

Animal House

Apollo 13

Full Metal Jacket

Jacob's Ladder

To Kill a Mockingbird

Dr. Strangelove

Cool Hand Luke

A lot of others I can't think of at the moment.

[kentauros]

39. Yeah, that's another list of ones I couldn't think of at the moment

;)

Jacob's Ladder was amazing! Would have loved to have seen it in the theater :)

[av8rdave]

41. Kind of a quirky movie....I'm convinced I'm one of the 1% that liked it...

Thought it was awesome!

[Dinger]

44. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

[ceile]

45. In the Heat of the Night

28 Days Later
Psycho
Manchurian Candidate
Blazing Saddles

[Lydia Leftcoast]

46. Best films I've seen on my new Netflix subscription:

The Lives of Others
Pan's Labyrinth

(I'm playing catch-up with films that played during the period when I was flat broke.)

[ceile]

53. The Lives of Others

blew me away! One of the best movies I'd seen in years.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

57. The ending was wonderful

:-)

Not a traditional Hollywood ending at all, but very satisfying.

[SCantiGOP]

47. All That Jazz

runners-up = Godfather 1 and 2, Breaker Morant and Braveheart.

[khashka]

56. Oh that's a good one!

I love All That Jazz!

Khash.

[MAGICBULLET]

48. oh so many

City Lights - Charlie Chaplin

Los Olvidados - Luis Bunuel

Ran - Akira Kurosawa

Barry Lyndon - Stan Kubrick

Biloxi Blues - Mike Nichols

[RandomKoolzip]

49. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

Fantastic, quirky little French movie from 1975, dealing with the aftermath and localized rebirth of the revolutionary impulses of 1968. One of my all-time favorites.

Also:

Do the Right Thing
Rushmore
Catch-22
Rules of the Game
California Split

[Bennyboy]

50. Schindler's List.....

Simply amazing movie and I am NOT Jewish. Really made me thing aobut how that all came to be...

Edit to add the NOT.....

[mochajava666]

52. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

The original Rollerball with James Caan
The Godfather
Thief (James Caan again)
Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction
The Great Escape
A Perfect World

Some comedies:
Stay Tuned
Mr Mom
After Hours
Being There
PCU
Best in Show

[Iris]

54. Chasing Amy

I don't know if it was really all that good but I saw it at a time when my faith in humanity was at an all time low. And when this movie ended, I thought if someone could still make a movie like that, maybe things weren't so bad.

[khashka]

55. The Secretary, Maltese Falcon and

Full Metal Jacket (and I hate war movies)
Hellraiser
Summer of 42
To Kill A Mockingbird


Khash

[zingaro]

62. oh I knew I liked you for a reason.

I've never EVER met another soul who had a penchant for Pinhead.

[khashka]

71. I had a major crush on him!

Poster I had framed, model by my computer. I was in love. Still get all hot and bothered by him.

"it's a waste of good suffering"
"I will tear your soul apart"

Demon to some, angel to others - that was written on the bottom of the poster.

Khash.

[Rhythm]

75. I knew someone years ago who had worked on one of the "Hellraiser" sequels

They were filming at Carolco Studios, just outside Wilmington NC, and a friend of mine named Scott was on the makeup crew. He said that Doug Bradley was such a sport -- even after having to be in the makeup application trailer for a zillion hours -- that he let them take him out to one of the local diners, just so they could play havoc on the nerves of the locals.

I can hear him ordering... "I'll have the BLSsss...."
"BLS? What's the S?"
"You're SOUL........"

:rofl:

[zingaro]

89. I ask you

What's not to love?



Demon to some, angel to others. Ain't that the truth?

[Inchworm]

58. Gone Baby Gone

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452623/

is my current favorite.

:hi:

[Shell Beau]

78. That was very good. It actually surprised me that I liked it so much.

Plus I love Morgan Freeman.

[Godhumor]

60. Tombstone and Paths of Glory

Tombstone is my favorite movie, bar none. It always will be.

Paths of Glory is my favorite Kubrick movie, and is a phenomenal look at WWI and military insanity in general.

My third favorite just rotates through whatever my current other favorite happens to be (Though Salt of the Earth tends to occupy the space when I can't think of anything else.).

[begin_within]

63. The 10 best:

1. Tokyo Story (1953) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/
2. The Bicycle Thief (1948) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/
3. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060138/
4. Soy Cuba (1964) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058604/
5. Psycho (1960) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/
6. Salt of the Earth (1954) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047443/
7. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059170/
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/
9. Five Easy Pieces (1970) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065724/
10: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056687/

[bamacrat]

65. The Big Lebowski, Blow

[Quantess]

67. Splash affected me deeply, because I was 10

I liked it marginally better than Star Wars II, at the time.

A Clockwork Orange is still a favorite, The Big Lebowski, The Shining, Sleeper, Fargo.

I have too many to mention. To be fair, I have not seen any of the movies you mentioned in your OP! Maltese Falcon came out in the 1980s, but I never saw it. The other 2 are before my time. :-)

[4_Legs_Good]

68. Amadeus

Easily the best movie I've ever seen.



David

[Lorien]

69. That and Laurence of Arabia are my two favorites.

though the Director's Cut of Amadeus was awful, while the expanded Laurence was brilliant!

[4_Legs_Good]

82. Wow! I agree about the Director's Cut of Amadeus!

I *LOVE* director's cuts, and I really enjoyed watching the D.C. of Amadeus, and seeing all of the extra stuff, and figuring out some of the larger plot holes in the film (particularly why Constanza hates Salieri soooo much).

But, IMO, the fact that Milos Forman had to figure out how to hit the time constraints for the theatrical release, and those limitations helped him to make an incredibly tight movie that flowed perfectly. When he was given more room, the film started to meander and the pace fell apart.

I haven't seen the expanded LoA. I'll have to watch it soon!

David

[girl gone mad]

72. Great one..

They nailed Mozart's personality and the pure joy he brought to his music. Even his darkest works are full of such amazing joie de vivre. Personally, I don't think there will ever be another musician like him.. it's as if all of the stars were aligned. He was a musical genius with a stage father, born in the era of our highest musical achievements. As a pianist, I always thought he was the most fun to play, too.

And the Salieri character was such a heartbreakingly perfect portrayal of mediocre talent who longs for the ability to be truly great. Really, anyone who is mediocre at anything that they love can probably relate.

[4_Legs_Good]

81. The film, IMO, is really about mediocrity

which is why the film rings so true for me!

F. Murray Abraham, in the film, gives one of my two favorite performances of all time (the other being Denzel Washington in Malcolm X).

And the score is so perfect, put together so well that it makes 2.5 hours FLY.

It's cool to know you think his music is fun to play. As a non-musician with zero talent, I wonder about things like that!

David

[regnaD kciN]

90. Except, of course...

...that the characters in Shaffer's play/film bear about as much resemblance to the real-life Mozart and Salieri as the average G.O.P. talking points do to the real world...

[girl gone mad]

95. Not true.

While the Salieri character and his relationship with Mozart and involvement in his death are greatly embellished, the film did a good job of capturing Mozart's personality. He was really a happy-go-lucky guy who, with his wife, lived way beyond his means, was spoiled and arrogant, felt most comfortable around the poor, had a crude sense of humor, was afraid of his overbearing father, loved animals, detested royalty and died a near pauper. Several of the lines are lifted straight from his letters. He and his wife were really two peas in a pod and his father did hate her (and vice versa).

Don't watch for historical accuracy, but if you want a sense of what the real Mozart was like, Amadeus is probably as close as we will ever get in the movies.

[girl gone mad]

70. My Own Private Idaho.

[DFW]

73. A couple of VERY many

The Red Violin
The Shawshank Redemption
The Witness
Young Frankenstein
French Connection (I)
Les 400 Coups
Die Blechtrommel
Ådalen '31
The Seventh Seal
If....
Z

The list goes on and on..........

[HERVEPA]

77. "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" , "The Graduate", "Derzu Usula, The Hunter"

[liberalitch]

79. GEEEEEEEEZ-us who flames over favorite movies?

When the best movie is The Wizard of Oz

[bikebloke]

80. Casablanca

Lawrence of Arabia
La Dolce Vita
Jean de Florette & Manon de Source (a pity the DVD versions have such shite transfer quality)
Sergio Leone's westerns (I'm looking at them again since I first saw them as a kid. Back then they were cool. Now I can see the art. Brilliant!)
A Day at the Races

[AngryAmish]

83. Disorderlies

[Shell Beau]

86. That was a classic!

:P

[Rhiannon12866]

84. Hard question. But I think I prefer the older movies.

My cousin lived with us for awhile and wanted to become acquainted with older movies. I rented "Bringing Up Baby" and "My Favorite Wife" for her, both really funny, with Cary Grant. He's always very good. My all-time favorite movie is "A Thousand Clowns" with Jason Robards. I really like comedies, though I prefer Shakespeare's historical plays... And I love Fred and Ginger movies, also. I think my favorite is "The Gay Divorcee." A stellar cast and so many memorable lines...:-)

[driver8]

96. "Bringing up Baby" is one of my favorites!

What a great movie.

I work at Warner Bros. and we re-master a lot of the older movies for DVD and TCM. One of the perks of my job (audio operator) is that I get to see a lot of these old movies!!

This week I got to work on "Dr. Zhivago" and "An Affair to Remember."

[Rhiannon12866]

103. Oh, wow! What a great job! Are they hiring?! LOL.

I love "Bringing Up Baby," one of my all-time favorites, and pretty much anything with Cary Grant. He was amazing, could do comedy like nobody else, but could also make you cry. I've also seen "An Affair to Remember" numerous times. Talk about a tear-jerker! Cary Grant at his best, and I also love Deborah Kerr. They just don't make them like that anymore...:-)

On edit: Did you ever see the scene in "Sleepless in Seattle" where Rita Wilson (Tom Hanks' actual wife, though she played his sister in the movie, go figure...) was describing the final scene in "An Affair to Remember?" That was truly priceless, as someone who's familiar with the movie could appreciate...:applause:

[Paladin]

88. "Chinatown," "Lawrence Of Arabia," "Red River,"....

...."12 O'Clock High," and "The Lives of Others," just to name a very few......

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

92. The Man Who Would be King

adapted from the Kipling story.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

93. The Tenant. and Sorcerer

a couple of tension tighteners.

[erinlough]

94. How Green Was My Valley.....

anyone I have shown it to crys. It was a great film. IMO

[Spike89]

97. Lots of great movies

but I gotta go with a boy and his dog with Monty Python's Holy Grail right behind.

[EnviroBat]

98. I really didn't think a great movie would come along that would fundamentally

change my life. But I rented "Into the Wild" and it was easily one of the most emotionally powerful movies I've ever seen. Please see this film, it is especially meaningful in these times we are living in. It's a story about Christopher McCandless, and it was directed by Sean Penn.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

99. Tombstone. Now THAT'S acting. Russell & Kilmer? Career-best performances.

Other choices:

On An Island With You (Esther Williams)
Key Largo (Bogart / Bacall / Robinson)
Godfather 1 & 2
Casino
Magnum Force
Night Of The Living Dead
Serial (Martin Mull)

...and a couple of hundred more.

:toast:

[devilgrrl]

100. The Lives of Others

Outstanding! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[WinkyDink]

101. "The Heiress"------"The Godfather"------Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet".

[bamademo]

102. Shawshank Redemption

Best ending ever

[Rhiannon12866]

104. My friend, if you like Fred and Ginger, you must see "The Gay Divorcee."

That's my personal favorite of theirs. It has nothing to do with being gay, LOL, is the old meaning of the term, but is very funny and entertaining. Eric Rhodes, the "correspondent," is my favorite character. BTW, my aunt and my brother met Ginger Rogers many years ago at the Saratoga Race Track, where she was a guest one summer. Wish I'd been there, that time...:hi:

[frickaline]

105. Airplane, Barcelona, Life of Brian, Holy Grail, SW: A New Hope

I saw Barcelona again the other day. Still funny.

Yeah so my picks aren't very deep. Sue me. :P