Top Five Films of All Time: including Hollywood, British, foreign, independent, documentary, animated, short, whatever

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What are your top five picks, in order of preference if you like? I realize it’s a daunting task, particularly for film buffs. Still working on mine.
 
Well, for me the problem is whether to list the ones I consider to be the best crafted works of art, or the ones that I love to watch over and over. 😃
 
Hmmm…I can’t narrow it down that much, but I can give you my fave by category.

Top Foreign:

Two Women (with Sophia Loren) /Italy
Mother India /India
Diabolique / France
Old Boy (Oldeuboi) / S. Korea
The Host / S. Korea

Top British

Ladykillers
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Ladybird, Ladybird
Educating Rita
Gaslight ( 1940)

Top Horror:

The Exorcist
The Omen
Rosemary 's Baby
Henry Portrait of a Seriel Killer
The Woman in Black

Top Mystery/Suspense

Old Dark House (1932)
Psycho
Memento
Witness for the Prosecution
Double Indemnify

Top Comedy

Monty Python Holy Grail
Young Frankenstein
Bridesmaids
Raising Arizona
Napoleon Dynamite
 
meltzerboy said:
What are your top five picks, in order of preference if you like? I realize it’s a daunting task, particularly for film buffs. Still working on mine.
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This would be a daunting task. I have seen some wonderful films in my 60+ years - domestic, foreign and independent. Most I saw over 15 years ago and I have forgotten many that might have made an impression on me at the time.
 
My top five (at least my first list), in no particular order, include:

The Wizard of Oz–the one and only, and the first film I ever saw at the age of two years.
House of Games–directed by the playwright, David Mamet, a battle of wits between a con man, played by Joe Mantegna, and a psychiatrist, played by Lindsay Crouse. Disturbing and delicious.
After Hours–a Martin Scorsese black-comedy that is definitely not for the timid.
Fiddler on the Roof–beautiful music, beautiful story, and, as they say, you don’t have to be Jewish, but it can’t hurt.
The Verdict (1946)–not as well known as the Paul Newman film of 1982 by the same title (and quite wonderful in its own right), but a totally different story: a clever mystery starring the inimitable Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Joan Lorring.

These are all Hollywood films and ones that I never tire of watching over and over again. They may not be the most finely crafted or most artistic of all films (although none of them is bad in this sense) but they have many appealing qualities to me.
 
meltzerboy said:
My top five (at least my first list), in no particular order, include:

The Wizard of Oz–the one and only.
House of Games–directed by the playwright, David Mamet, a battle of wits between a con man, played by Joe Mantegna, and a psychiatrist, played by Lindsay Crouse. Disturbing and delicious.
After Hours–a Martin Scorsese black-comedy that is definitely not for the timid.
Fiddler on the Roof–beautiful music, beautiful story, and, as they say, you don’t have to be Jewish, but it can’t hurt.
The Verdict (1946)–not as well known as the Paul Newman film of 1982 by the same title (and quite wonderful in its own right), but a totally different story: a clever mystery starring the inimitable Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Joan Lorring.

These are all Hollywood films and ones that I never tire of watching over and over again. They may not be the most finely crafted or most artistic of all films (although none of them is bad in this sense) but they have many appealing qualities to me.
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I love Fiddler on the Roof! The music especially.

My favorites:
  1. The Passion of the Christ
  2. Padre Pio Miracle Man
  3. The Sound of Music
  4. Jane Eyre
  5. Persuasion
  6. The Quiet Man
I’ve watched the first five many times on video.
 
I can think of a lot of good films, but I would have a hard time rating them. Except for the one I’d put at the top of the list: High Noon.
 
  1. Now Voyager
  2. Sound of Music
  3. Pretty Woman
  4. Breakfast At Tiffany’s
  5. The Nun’s Story
  6. Forrest Gump
  7. The Godfather
What an odd eclectic list - this right in with me !:eek:
 
Well, at the very least, without thinking too much ( 'cause it would hurt); in no order and I couldn’t create such an esoteric list and rate them at the same time…

Oh, God!
Iron Giant, oh my goodness, I love it!
Somewhere in Time
Best Years of Our Lives
Rear Window
Back to the Future
Courtship of Eddie’s Father. Little Opie Cunningham was great!!
Superman 1, also with Glenn Ford
Sound of Music
White Christmas
Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Babette’s Feast
North by Northwest
Roman Holiday
Leave Her to Heaven
Its a Wonderful Life, of course
The Temptations
Sweet Dreams
East of Eden w/ Jane Seymour. Poorly done, but Jane Seymour is excellent and convincing as pure evil.

Believe it or not, I do not think that Gone With the Wind, Citizen Kane, or On the Waterfront, were big whoops.
I guess that’s a bit more than five… Again, difficult to limit and rate…
 
cheezey said:
Well, at the very least, without thinking too much ( 'cause it would hurt); in no order and I couldn’t create such an esoteric list and rate them at the same time…

Oh, God!
Iron Giant, oh my goodness, I love it!
Somewhere in Time
Best Years of Our Lives
Rear Window
Back to the Future
Courtship of Eddie’s Father. Little Opie Cunningham was great!!
Superman 1, also with Glenn Ford
Sound of Music
White Christmas
Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Babette’s Feast
North by Northwest
Roman Holiday
Leave Her to Heaven
Its a Wonderful Life, of course
The Temptations
Sweet Dreams
East of Eden w/ Jane Seymour. Poorly done, but Jane Seymour is excellent and convincing as pure evil.

Believe it or not, I do not think that Gone With the Wind, Citizen Kane, or On the Waterfront, were big whoops.
I guess that’s a bit more than five… Again, difficult to limit and rate…
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Leave Her to Heaven with Gene Tierney is a favorite of mine also. She was also good in Laura.
 
The Silence of the Lambs takes up all five of my choices. Nothing else comes close.
 
Loly_Maria said:
The Silence of the Lambs takes up all five of my choices. Nothing else comes close.
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:eek::eek::eek:

I will trust you on this. Too creepy scary nightmarish.
And that was just from the ad!!!

Give me Young Frankenstein and I’m good…
 
By the way, I had never seen a Woody Allen movie til Matchpoint. (I know, huh?!)
I thought it to be fabulous.
 
OK.
Best In Show ( I just about have it memorized :o )
Love and Death
Sound of Music
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Wizard of Oz

followed closely by:
12 Angry Men
Glengarry Glen Ross
White Christmas
Christmas Vacation
The Christmas Story
 
My top five romantic movies are:

You’ve Got Mail
13 Going on Thirty
While You Were Sleeping
Sleepless in Seattle
Groundhog Day

My top five Christmas movies are:

It’s A Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
Going My Way
Remember The Night
Holiday Affair

My top five movies with young people are:

The Trouble With Angels
A Little Princess
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
Cheaper By The Dozen

My top five oldies are:

Now Voyager
The Shop Around The Corner
The Best Years of Our Lives
Random Harvest
I Remember Mama
 
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