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Your Top 10 Favorite Movies of All-Time?

posted 5 years ago by BillHicksFan (10091)
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It can be your favorites, or what you think is best.. Especially with so many new movies; its a great way to get a feel for movie tastes, but also to remind us for those who we might have forgotten about -- might be a way to get more passionate movie conversations, and maybe recommendations from others based on what we like that could change our life; which great movies can do.

In order:
Harry and Tonto
La Strada
Nashville
They Shoot Horses, Don't they?
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Network
The Battle of algiers
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
A Woman Under The Influence
Buffalo '66

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

My top 10:

Ben-Hur (1959)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Schindler's List (1993)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Psycho (1960)
The Departed (2006)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Godfather (1972)

Your list is good. La Strada is my 73rd favourite, Nashville is my 17th favourite, and Network is my 18th favourite. I really like One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, The Battle of Algiers, and Treasure of the Sierra Madre too (even though they aren't on my list of all time favourites.) I haven't seen Harry and Tonto, They Shoot Horses, Don't they?, A Woman Under The Influence, or Buffalo '66 yet.

[–] BillHicksFan (10091) 5 years ago

I love Taxi Driver, Citizen Kane, but it was The Godfather that was my first favorite when I was 17, and first started getting into movies, and Marlon Brando.. Also loved "On The Waterfront" almost as much, and it led me to keep searching.

If you ever check those movies out, please reply - very curious to see what you think. Many of them are on YouTube, or other sites.. A great google search is to type out, for example, "Taxi Driver -youtube", and clicking the VIDEO filter, and you can then see all movies NOT on YouTube (if you couldn't find it there in the first place)

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Casablanca
Stagecoach
The Searchers
Jaws
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Third Man
Citizen Kane
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Exorcist
Dr Strangelove

[–] rhesus (51) 4 years ago

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[–] rhesus (51) 4 years ago

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[–] yatzo376 (7441) 5 years ago

Jaws
The French Connection
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Dirty Harry
The Seven Ups
The Godfather
Charley Varrick
The Exorcist
Body Heat
Dazed and Confused

[–] Nanook (1414) a year ago

This list made me bump the Seven-Ups way ahead in my watch list.

[–] andreaahr (2332) 5 years ago

I don't have a particular order but mine are:

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Sound of Music
Clueless
King's Speech
The Shaggy DA (It's a classic Disney film)
Gone with the Wind
Troop Beverly Hills
Send Me No Flowers (It's a Doris Day film)
Greenbook
Social Network

[–] Adam60z (3749) 5 years ago

Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
David and Lisa (1962)
The Graduate (1967)
2001 (1968)
Casino Royale (1967)
Casablanca (1943)
Logan’s Run (1976)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)

[–] Jones70 (6195) 5 years ago

10 I think are masterpieces
Drugstore Cowboy
Mystic River
Dead Man Walking
Match Point
Road To Perdition

The Player

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Memento

A Simple Plan

United 93

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

united 93

an interesting choice. i only watched it once, & never want to revisit it. not because i thought it was bad. far from it. just too painful to watch.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71435) 5 years ago

The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a sadly forgotten masterpiece of the crime thriller genre

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

cement garden
beyond the valley of the dolls
aguirre, the wrath of god
sunrise
dogtooth
sing street
singin' in the rain
evil dead
brand upon the brain
a ghost story

[–] BillHicksFan (10091) 5 years ago

If you like "Dogtooth", you might like "The Castle of Purity"

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

the plot description has more than a touch of familiarity to it, doesn't it?
i've added it to my watch list. i'll see if i can track it down.
thanks again for the recommend, bhf...

[–] BillHicksFan (10091) 5 years ago

It is similar, but a little different. I liked this a little more than "Dogtooth"

I found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNcYBmAcbb0

What I do for non-English YouTube movies is to download it, and then find a subtitle.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

thanks again - how do you find subtitles?

[–] BillHicksFan (10091) 5 years ago

subscene is a good site

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

i'll check it out. thanks again.

you're very helpful!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Nice eclectic list you have/

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

hey, thanks. appreciate the kind words.
i'm sure i'm undervaluing all kinds of great, classic films, but at the end of the day we all have our tastes & preferences.

[–] Information-Police (4032) 4 years ago

I wouldn't put Aguirre on my top 10 list but I am very glad to see that someone saw it and thought very highly of it.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

The Land Before Time is somewhere on there. That much i know.

[–] StoneKeeper (21047) 5 years ago

Awesome!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I heard they are working on a remake. Not sure how i feel about that.