Here’s mine:

Seven Samurai

Shawshank Redemption

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Usual Suspects

No Country For Old Men

Persona

8 1/2

Dances with Wolves

Goodfellas

There Will Be Blood

:cool: :up:
(I'll check out Persona which I've never seen.)

1. Life of Brian.
2. Holy Grail.
3. Snatch.
4. 2001 A Space Odyssey
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. Bullets over Broadway.
7. Michael Clayton.
8. Jason Bourne (the first three of the Quatregy).
9. Fargo.
10. Badlands.

Special Mentions:
Point of No Return (American, not the original French),
Dead Gorgeous,
Flawless,
Fracture,
Perfume (German).

Not in order:

Wizard of Oz
Casablanca
The Graduate
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - the 1980s version with Alec Guinness. Ok, it's a TV series. So sue me.
LA Confidential
The Donald Trump Jr. Story
The Last Starfighter - It has sentimental value. I remember watching it while holding my infant son (now 37) as he screamed for the whole movie film at a drive in theater.
Tombstone
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Raising Arizona
Caddyshack
The Long Goodbye
Say Anything

More than 10.

Doesn't this belong in the Lounge?

1. Life of Brian.
2. Holy Grail.
3. Snatch.
4. 2001 A Space Odyssey
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. Bullets over Broadway.
7. Michael Clayton.
8. Jason Bourne (the first three of the Quatregy).
9. Fargo.
10. Badlands. — god must be atheist

Didn't see Michael Clayton or Bullets Over Broadway I liked the rest except 2001. I should have put Fargo on my list.

I also liked "Pride and Prejudice". The scene in which the fallen nobleman proposes to the chick (I can't remember any names) and she starts sobbing is the emotionally most laden scene in any movie I've seen. I howl in tears as I cry every time I get to that scene when I watch that movie. Which happened about twice, I'd say.

Anything by Bergman is good, and Seventh Seal is certainly up there — but for me, Persona may be his greatest.



Seen everything there except Snatch and Bullets Over Broadway (surprisingly, since I love Woody Allen). Thanks for reminding me of Allen. I should have included one of his at least…

inker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - the 1980s version with Alec Guinness. Ok, it's a TV series. So sue me. — T Clark

Never seen that one, but Alec Guinness is always fantastic.

Including TV mini series isn’t out of bounds. In that case I would include the Canadian (1980s) version of Anne of Green Gables. Wonderful.

Doesn't this belong in the Lounge? — T Clark

Eh. I put it under “interesting things.”

also liked "Pride and Prejudice" — god must be atheist

Which version?

Which version? — Mikie

Oo. I think the actor's name is Emma something or other.

Including TV mini series isn’t out of bounds. — Mikie

Hurray!! All the episodes of Benny Hill. He is sexist, he is infantile, he never showed an original joke he had created, but he was superb, funny, entertaining and to the core.

1. Perfect Blue
2. Pulp fiction
3. The Godfather (all the parts)
4. Tokyo Monogatari
5. A clockwork orange
6. Ikiru
7. Yojimbo
8. Ran
9. Akira
10. Paprika.

Steven King's "The Langoliers". The philosophy just under the surface would fill a library.

If you have a good three hours (and perhaps something to drink) definitely worth a watch I'd say.

A list of 25 (out of 100(?)) of my favorite films in chronological order (only Anglo-American productions, since 1963 'Year of the Rabbit'):

2001: A Space Odyssey
The Lion in Winter
Five Easy Pieces
Sleuth
The Godfather I & II
High Plains Drifter
Blade Runner
A Soldier's Story
Barfly
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Glory
The Field
Glengarry Glen Ross
Shindler's List
Unforgiven
The Edge
Ray
Doubt
The Grey
The Sunset Limited
Lincoln
12 Years a Slave
Ex Machina
Fury
I Am Not Your Negro

Happy Lunar New Year :sparkle: :party:

I've enjoyed these eleven films the most (that I can bring to mind right now):

The Wicker Man
The Truman Show
Pulp Fiction
2001...
Mulholland Drive
Andrei Rublev
12 Angry Men
Taxi Driver
Stalker
Blade Runner
The Long Goodbye

I was going to try and whittle it down (but wth), and there are plenty more, but some of my favourites:

Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
12 Angry Men
Back to the Future
Headhunters
The Lives of Others
Ex Machina
About Time
Amadeus
The Seventh Seal
Chef
Sound of Metal
Calvary
The Fall
The Salvation
The Father
1917
Oldboy
Fight Club
Dark City
Donnie Darko
Little Miss Sunshine
Groundhog Day
Wish I Was Here

I can't vouch for these being all-time favourites; just movies I like that come to an increasingly porous mind:

The Milagro Beanfield War
Wag the Dog
The Russia House
Finding Forrester
Gandhi
Turtle Diary
Bulworth
Midnight in Paris
The Gods Must be Crazy
Tootsie

I also liked "Pride and Prejudice". The scene in which the fallen nobleman proposes to the chick (I can't remember any names) and she starts sobbing is the emotionally most laden scene in any movie I've seen. I howl in tears as I cry every time I get to that scene when I watch that movie. Which happened about twice, I'd say. — god must be atheist

Are you thinking of "Sense and Sensibility?" The 1990s version has Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Hugh Laurie, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman...

The Truman Show — Jamal

Should have been on my list.

The Fall — Luke

Is this the one with Lee Pace about the injured stunt man? If so, I agree. It really liked it.

Groundhog Day — Luke

This should have been on my list too.

Midnight in Paris — Vera Mont

Woody Allen has his ups and downs. This was definitely one of the ups.

Kubrick, Kurosawa, Bergman, Fellini, for sure. Some I didn't see listed by others:

The Last Picture Show
Solaris by Tarkovsky
Richard II, with Lawrence Olivier
Alexander Nevski and Ivan the Terrible by Eisenstein
Koyaanisqatsi
Lawrence of Arabia
Heart of Glass by Herzog
High Noon
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

So far, the list below I haven't seen (way more than I anticipated). I always thought my movie knowledge was fairly wide. Quantitatively proven wrong today.

Next is to prioritize which of the following to see first. :chin:

Perfect Blue — javi2541997

4. Tokyo Monogatari — javi2541997

10. Paprika. — javi2541997

Steven King's "The Langoliers" — Outlander

The Lion in Winter — 180 Proof

Sleuth — 180 Proof

A Soldier's Story — 180 Proof

Barfly — 180 Proof

Glory — 180 Proof

The Field — 180 Proof

Ray — 180 Proof

Doubt — 180 Proof

The Grey — 180 Proof

The Sunset Limited — 180 Proof

Lincoln — 180 Proof

Fury — 180 Proof

I Am Not Your Negro — 180 Proof

The Wicker Man — Jamal

Andrei Rublev — Jamal

Stalker — Jamal

The Long Goodbye — Jamal

Headhunters
The Lives of Others — Luke

About Time — Luke

Chef — Luke

Calvary — Luke

The Fall
The Salvation
The Father
1917
Oldboy — Luke

The Milagro Beanfield War — Vera Mont

The Russia House — Vera Mont

Turtle Diary — Vera Mont

The Last Picture Show
Solaris by Tarkovsky
Richard II, with Lawrence Olivier
Alexander Nevski and Ivan the Terrible by Eisenstein
Koyaanisqatsi — Paine

Heart of Glass by Herzog
High Noon
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie — Paine

Damn...

Kubrick, Kurosawa, Bergman, Fellini, for sure. — Paine

Indeed. I'd add Scorsese, Wes Anderson, PT Anderson, and the Coen brothers whose entire filmographies everyone should watch.

Yes, they are worthy.

We've been watching some of our old VCR's.
Close Encounters and Fantastic Voyage are idiotic. What did we ever like about these lame SF offerings? Obviously, the film-makers were besotted with special effects.
But Apollo 13 and The Day the earth Stood Still (1951 - but the remake didn't stink) are still excellent.
So's The Martian among new ones. And 2010 The Year We Make Contact was better than 2001, if you consider story vs novelty. I couldn't Include Avatar, because I only liked the first half.

We watched Lawrence recently, too and was less impressed, but it's still big, smart and engaging.
I had left of
Searching for Bobby Fisher
Cider House Rules
Dave
and
The Princess Bride

Here ya go:

The Last Picture Show
Harold and Maude
Five Easy Pieces
Night of the Hunter
Citizen Kane
A Thousand Clowns
Rear Window
Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolff
The Conversation
Midnight Cowboy
Bonnie and Clyde
Blazing Saddles
Spellbound
Carnal Knowledge
Days of Wine and Roses
Straw Dogs
Klute
Almost Famous
Bullitt

Electric Horeseman
and
Finding Forrester are pretty good, too.

Perfect Blue and Paprika are anime films. Satoshi Kon is the director and he was a pure genius (sadly, he died of cancer in 2010...) his films are mixed with a sense of abstract, surrealism and a technique of different uses of colours. Whenever you watch anime, it is easy to recognise Satoshi Kon's works because his films are so original.

For example: You can see in the following video that his anime is based on surrealism but full of colours and weird characters.



In the other hand, Tokyo Monogatari is a 1953 film of Yosujiru Ozu. It is old but according to Japanese film historians, is one of the most important films of Japan. If you are not so interested in Japanese culture it could be boring because the plot is basically the ordinary life of a family in Tokyo and how the modernity is surpassing the traditional conventions of Japan after WWII. An iconic pic of the film is this one:

Adding to the list:

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1776
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
The Little Thief of Baghdad (1940)
Saving Private Ryan
others already mentioned
Moby Dick
Going Places (Fr.)
West Side Story (1961 - haven't seen the new one)
Swept Away (1974)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)

Braveheart
12 angry men
The grapes of Wrath
To kill a mocking bird
Gettysburg
Waterloo
Lord of the rings (all of them)
Powder
Sunset Boulevard
Platoon

hand, Tokyo Monogatari is a 1953 film of Yosujiru Ozu. — javi2541997

Oops. Yes I did see that — I know it as Tokyo Story. The Japanese didn’t ring a bell. Ozu is incredible and it’s a great movie.

I love almost everything I’ve seen out of Japan, which admittedly isn’t a lot. Ozu and Kurosawa are at the very top. Miyazaki is up there too.

Braveheart — universeness

Glad someone mentioned that one. I forgot but I still think it’s great, no matter what anyone says.

:up: Alba gu bràth, BUT, my earthling status means more. Braveheart is historically inaccurate, but the main story is true ........ or at least as true as any such historicity is true.

I cry like a baby when I watch the movie 'Powder,' thankfully, not all the way through, but some scene's just destroy me. I try not to watch it in company.

I love almost everything I’ve seen out of Japan, which admittedly isn’t a lot. Ozu and Kurosawa are at the very top. Miyazaki is up there too. — Mikie

:up:

They are in the top of Japanese films. I have seen all Ozu's films, and they are fantastic. We can learn of a complex culture such as Japanese one thanks to his works.
Another film I recommend of him is Good Morning (お早よう, Ohayō).