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Top 10 Movies...

Extremely difficult to choose from over a century of cinema.

Cinema Paradiso
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Korol Lir (Kozintsevs version of King Lear)
Empire Of The Sun
Donnie Darko
Amadeus
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Gandhi
Apollo 13
Alien

Great British films ?

Oliver Twist (David Lean)
Hamlet (Laurence Olivier)
Repulsion
The Ladykillers
The Servant
Brighton Rock (David Attenborough as Pinkie)
Chariots of Fire
Blow Up
Brassed Off
Barry Lyndon

and several others come very close such as a biopic of Edvard Munch.
 
Off-topic but still related. A Belgian magazine had a special edition about the 100 best television series since 2000. This is the top 30

1. The Wire (completely agree with that)
2. The Shield
3. The Soprano's
4. The Office (UK)
5. The West Wing
6. Mad Men
7. Breaking Bad
8. Deadwood
9. Arrested Development
10. Six Feet Under
11. Friday Night Lights
12. In Treatment
13. Dexter
14. Battlestar Galactica
15. Lost
16. Generation Kill
17. Extras
18. House
19. 24
20. Pushing Daisies
21. The Killing
22. Veronica Mars
23. Big Love
24. Rome
25. Sons of Anarchy
26. Entourage
27. Rescue Me
28. Damages
29. Curb your Enthousiasm
30. Weeds

i also mention 31 because this is the series i absolutely want to see: Treme.

Other great series before 2000:
Twin Peaks
Heimat
 
Not in order

Movies :
Seven
Fight Club
The Shawshank Redemption
Ghostbuster
Terminator 2
Jaws
There's Something About Mary
L'Auberge Espagnole
Die Hard 3
Rocky

Favorite actors :
Bill Murray et Louis de Funes
 
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drekkard said:
And you also know all those films, so your taste is not average neither. :APPLAUD:

If you like neorrealism and you haven't seen much of the franch movement "poethic realism", which is a precursor before the war of the many "realisms" that would come afterwars, I think you'll love it! The movement goes on until the nouvelle vague in the 50s. The "nouvelle vague" became quickly very famous but personally find it more flashy than meaty so to speak.
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u're too kind, but honestly my taste is pretty is pretty dull (those movies i picked, for instance, are all well known classics, unlike the ones u mentioned, which are less popular gems).
thanks for the suggestion about the poethic realism, buddy. any particular director i should be looking for? :))
2 friends of mine studied cinema too. i absolutely love to talk to them about cinema (well, usually they are the ones who talk... i just listen and make questions :P ). i learned a lot from them on the subject, although my knowledge is still ridiculously limited, compared to theirs (as it is compared to yours for sure).
oh, and about leone, i have an obsession for his movies... and when i say obsession i mean could repeat the entire screenplay (from the first scene till the credits) of any of his movies. i honestly have no idea how many times i've watched and watched all his movies again and again.
Drekkard said:
I liked Pulp Fiction a lot when I first watched it! But watching it again and again didn't resist as well as with classics like Blade runner, to say something. It's a bloody good movie anyway, and Tarantino is a good director.
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the very same thing happened to me. when i first watched pulp fiction (in '97, a few years after its first appearance in the movie theatres), i was absolutely mad about it... i must have watched it about 20 times between 1997 and 1999 (and i still perfectly remember then entire "ezechiel 25\17 bit :P ). now, when i watch it again, it still feels great, but it just isn't the same thing anymore. however i still love to watch it, as it reminds me of a very happy and carefree period of my life.

Gerd my mother loves the taviani brothers too, kaos especially. she's been telling me for years to watch it, but for some reason, i still haven't :))
 
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sorry if they're more than 10, as dreckard i studied cinema during my university years so my list could be very longer than this :) .... iadd

Freaks
M
touch of evil
8 e 1/2
the third man
a bout de souffle
the rocky horror picture show
rashomon
the godfather II
the night of the hunter
apocalypse now
doctor strangelove
a clockwork orange
vertigo
north by northwest
badlands
sonatine
hana-bi
le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
le fantôme de la liberté
scarface (howard hawks' one, not that with Pacino)
irma la douce
sunset boulevard
the blues brothers
brazil
indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto
the big lebowski
la femme d'à côté
una giornata particolare
the party
l'atalante
la grande abbuffata
ghost dog
harold & maude
videodrome
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
c'era una volta in America
Monsieur Verdoux
Reservoir dogs (far better than Pulp Fiction imho)
la grande illusion
goodfellas
blak cat, white cat
Mr. Arkadin
the purple rose of Cairo
annie hall



i stop now, don't wanna bore you :) ...just add to my list 90% of the movies written by drekkard before
 
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No worries I was going to put a top ten list together but it seems like me most people can't narrow it down to that, some great films in these lists and plenty I have not seen.

I'm a massive fan of foreign film and I'm finding loads I've missed...
 
Hey Gigi, good list! How could I miss Hanna-Bi and Brazil? Definitely must-see films! Haven't seen Monsieur Verdoux, so I add it to my list of films to watch. It's getting too big now...

@lo zio: You can watch any film from Renoir to start if you haven't.
- La grande illusion
- Les regles du jeu
- Also a short 40 mins film by Renoir: Une partie en campagne which is absolutely lovely.

And there are other interesting films by other directors like Le quais des brumes, Pepé le Moko, La bêtte humaine or L'atalante (as gigi put in his list).

One particularly interesting thing in this period is that there's a great actor, a kind of french Humphrey Bogart called Jean Gabin starring in almost all of this films. One of my favorite actors ever and pretty unknown to general public.

These films are all nice and have some magic touch, and some kind of underlying hope. It's cinema just before the WWII, with all the innocence, good hope but underlying darkness roaming. It's frightening to see how this movies were being watched at the same time the nazis started to bully everyone..
 
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I agree that Jean Gabin was a great actor.
I remember one film in particular about the murder of an English tourist (a woman) by a French "paysan" played by Gabin, he was fantastic in that film (L'Affaire Dominici), i also liked him a lot in "Le clan des Siciliens".
 
@ drekkard

Monsieur Verdoux is a movie by Chaplin based on an idea by Welles, can you imagine something better (well, except Orson as director and Charlie as scriptwriter :D ) ? Absolutely wonderful, believe me, you gotta watch it....
I completely agree with you about Gabin and the cinema before the second World War.
 
i don´t have any top movies from many good i saw..but i have some movies i realy love and enjoy watching again and again... this are:

Casino
Saving private Ryan
Forrest Gump
Back to the Future trillogy (i absolutely love it)
Heat
Die Hard
Once upon a time in America
Divided We Fall (Czech movie)
Taxi driver
Cosy Dens(Czech movie)
Godfather series
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction

I love Al Pacino, De Niro, Brad Pitt, Di Caprio, Joe Pesci, Matt Damon movies... this guys act in one of best movies i enjoy to watch..
 
My Top recent movies are (in no particular order):

•Inception
•Bridesmaids
•Inglorious Bastards
•The Blind Side
•Friends with Benefits
•Crazy Stupid Love
•Fast Five
•Frozen
•Let me in
•Easy A
•Machete
•Dear John
 
In no particular order

The Shawshank Redemption
The Hongover 1 & 2
Horrible Bosses
Forrest Gump
Inception
The Dark Knight
Malena
Cinema Paradiso
El Secreto de Sus Ojos
Take Me Home Tonight
The Damned United
12 Angry Men
The Prestige
Memento
Das Leben Der Anderen
A Separation
Back To The Future
V for Vendetta
Slumdog Millionnaire
Frequency
Vantage Point
Ocean's 11, 12 & 13
Tropa de Elite 1 & 2
 
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PIPA23 said:
i don´t have any top movies from many good i saw..but i have some movies i realy love and enjoy watching again and again... this are:

Casino
Saving private Ryan
Forrest Gump
Back to the Future trillogy (i absolutely love it)
Heat
Die Hard
Once upon a time in America
Godfather series
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
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Amen to that bro, yoou read my mind :BOP:
 
Top 20

Fight Club
Y tu mamá también
There Will Be Blood
Badlands
Before Sunset
The Spirit of the Beehive
Eastern Promises
Children of Men
Apocalypse Now
The Parallax View

Bleeder
Amélie
The Pianist
In Cold Blood
With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II
Fallen Angels
Little Children
Central Station
Night on Earth
The Deer Hunter
 
Hard to list to be honest, there'll be some I've forgotten or some I'd post now that I don't like as much as others.

Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz/Paul (huge Pegg/Frost fan)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright as above)

Fear and Loathing in Last Vegas
The Matrix
Old Boy
Seven Samurai
Battle Royale
Inglorious Basterds
All three Bourne films (can't believe they're making another without Damon and it looks terrible)
Hurt Locker
Anchorman
City of God
Escape from New York (not so much LA)
Air Force One (cheesy, rubbish action film but damn entertaining, like the subject as well)
 
Let me remember..

1.Inception
2.Great expectation
3.l'apartment & wicker park
4.Lord of the rings
5.Pirates of carribean
6.Catch me if you can
7.Guy ritchie's RocknRolla, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Sherlock holmes,Snatch
8.In bruges
9.Before sunrise/before sunset
10.Finding nemo
 
My top-10:

10. Terminator 1 and 2

09. Rocky 1

08. Nikita

07. Vertigo

06. Superman 1

05. Saturday night fever

04. Star wars - The Empire strikes back

03. The Blues Brothers

02. The Matrix 1

01. Seven samurai
 
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