Greatest Films Ever Made


what are your picks for the greatest films ever made mine are:

mines kinda disturbing i hope someone else has more happy films in theirs...

1. Persona
2. Breaking the Waves
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. The Emerald Forest
5. Daisies
6. Koyaanisqatsi
7. Zerkalo
8. Performance
9. Lilya 4-ever
10. A Hole in My Heart

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Forgot to add to my last post:
The Search
Momento
Goodfellas
On Borrowed Time
Empire of the Sun

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my top 10 favorites:

4 Miyazaki:
- Princess Mononoke
- Spirited Away
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Nausicaa

1 Tarkovsky
- Stalker

1 Kubrick
- 2001: A Space Odyssey

1 Kurosawa
- Ikiru

1 Ozu
- Late Spring

1 Takahata
- Grave of the Fireflies

1 Mizoguchi
- Ugetsu

I am a big fan of Japanese movies: they are so powerful.

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1. 2001: ASO (Kubrick, 1968)
2. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
3. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
5. The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)
6. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
7. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)
8. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
9. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
10. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)/Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)

The #10 position can go to either one of those films, and others include (In no particular order):

Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
Zerkalo (Tarkovsky, 1975)
Drive (Refn, 2011)
Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
M (Lang, 1931)
Badlands (Malick, 1973)
El Topo (Jodorowsky, 1970)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)
The Wrestler (Aronofsky, 2008)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
Antichrist (Trier, 2009)
Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
Funny Games (Haneke, 1997)
The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
The Fountain (Aronofsky, 2006)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
Persona (Bergman, 1966)
Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
GoodFellas (Scorsese, 1990)
Festen (Vinterberg, 1998)
Only God Forgives (Refn, 2013)
Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
Fargo (Coen & Coen, 1996)
Hard Boiled (Woo, 1992)
8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
Being There (Ashby, 1979)
Oldboy (Park, 2003)
Casino (Scorsese, 1995)
Memento (Nolan, 2000)
Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)
Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
Dogville (Trier, 2003)
12 Angry men (Lumet, 1957)
The Killer (Woo, 1989)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman, 1975)
Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)
Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)

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Keeping in mind the meaninglessness of comparing and saying what is "best,"

1. Le Quattre Cent Coups
2. M
3. Manhattan
4. The Third Man
5. Suna No Onna
6. Night of the Hunter
7. The Lady Eve
8. Strangers on a Train
9. The Graduate
10. Ladri di Biciclette

Others: Das Weisse Band, Sherlock, Jr., The Last Picture Show, Diabolique, The Hustler, Breaking the Waves, Fa Yeung Nin Wa, Moolaade, Halloween, Lost in Translation, The Fallen Idol, Mulholland Drive, Something Wild, The Conversation, Another Year, Hannah and Her Sisters, Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight, Kynodontas, Amour, and many others.

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Here's a sample of what I consider some of the greatest movies ever made:

Breaking the Waves
Schindler's List
Godfather parts 1 & 2
Taxi Driver
A Clockwork Orange
Pans Labyrinth
Requiem For A Dream
Almost Famous
Mulholland Dr.
The Graduate
Fargo
Silence of the Lambs
American Beauty

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Greatest films ever made (in my opinion):

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Oldboy
3. Se7en
4. Memento
5. Caché
6. Synecdoche New York
7. American Beauty
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. Waltz with Bashir
10. Requiem for a Dream
11. Brazil
12. The Silence of the Lambs
13. Black Swan
14. The Game
15. The Grand Budapest Hotel
16. Amélie
17. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
18. Audition
19. Apocalypse Now
20. Vertigo
21. Pulp Fiction
22. Downfall
23. Fargo
24. Fight Club
25. The Artist
26. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
27. The Shawshank Redemption
28. Persona
29. Stalker
30. Blue Velvet
31. Antichrist
32. The Machinist
33. Casino Royale
34. Gone Girl
35. Shame
36. Birdman
37. Wild Strawberries
38. The Big Lebowski
39. Lost Highway
40. Only Lovers Left Alive
41. Adaptation.
42. Sin City
43. The Skin I Live In
44. Certified Copy
45. Pan's Labyrinth
46. The Kid With a Bike
47. Twelve Monkeys
48. Come and See
49. Winter Sleep
50. Crimes and Misdemeanors

Breaking the Waves is somewhere between #100-150 which is still fantastic in my books.
I'm going to find it and I'm going to destroy it. I don't know how yet. Possibly with dynamite.

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