what would your fifty films be?


in no particular order these are my 50:

1) Lion King
2) Star Wars
3) The Godfather
4) Titanic
5) Braveheart
6) Saving Private Ryan
7) North By northwest
8) Die Hard
9) Back to the Future
10) Indiana Jones
11) Dr No
12) The Great Escape
13) Casablanca
14) Toy Story
15) Cast Away
16) The Green Mile
17) A Few Good Men
18) Jerry Maguire
19) Stand By Me
20) Rocky
21) Harvey
22) The Wizard of Oz
23) The Hurricane
24) Malcolm X
25) Remember the Titans
26) Lord of the Rings
27) The Fugitive
28) The Matrix
29) Pulp Fiction
30) Grease
31) Gallipoli
32) Gandhi
33) The English Patient
34) Quiz Show
35) The Shawshank Reemption
36) Good Will Hunting
37) Duck Soup
38) The Africn Queen
39) We Were Soldiers
40) Terminator
41) Courage Under Fire
42) Dead Poets Society
43) Ghost
44) Sister Act
45) City Slickers
46) The Elephant Man
47) Silence of the Lambs
48) Goodfellas
49) Gladiator
50) The Truman Show

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i argee maybe garden state?

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Children of men should be on their.

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The Verdict
The Vanishing
Blade Runner
Wall Street
It's a Wonderful Life
Shawshank Redemption
The Life of David Gale
Touch of Evil
3rd Man
Thomas Crown affair
Cuckoos Nest
As Good as it Gets
English Patient
Gold Finger
Doctor No
Midnight Run
Memento
Donnie Brasco
American Beauty
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Casino
Casino Royale
Layer Cake
Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
GodFather 1 & 2
Once Upon a time in America
Michael Clayton
Schindler's List
Black Book
Imitation of Life
Lock, Stock & 2 smoking Barrels
Bugsy
Serpico
The Shining
Pulp Fiction
GoodFellas
Raging Bull
Heat
Miami Vice
Quadrophenia
Havana
The Piano
The Painted Veil
Platoon
Wall Street
Physco
Vertigo
O Brother Where art thou
Man on Fire
The Pianist
Lord of War
Mulholland Drive
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Star Wars trilogy
American History X
Angel Heart
The Player
Apocalypto
Mad Max
Brave Heart
Being There
Blood Diamond
Titanic
Butch Cassidy
Back to the future
Bringing up baby
What's up Doc
Basic Instinct
Bobby
Butterfly Effect
Just Friends
Batman Begins
The Color of Money
The Hustler
The Quiet American
Hannah & Her 7 Sisters
The Cider House Rules
Forest Gump
Animal House
Children of Men
The Four Feathers
Cinderella Man
Casablanca
Carlito's Way
Cape Fear
The night of the Hunter
Cool Hand Luke
Serendipity
Sweet Home Alabama
Walk The Line
The Long Good Friday
Doctor Zhivago
Deer Hunter
Double Indemnity
Body Heat
Body Double
What Lies Beneath
The Exorcist
French Connection
5th Element
Good Will Hunting
Gangs of New York
There Will be Blood
Gladiator
Grand Prix
Hotel Rwanda
High Fidelity
Hustle & Flow
Do The Right Thing
Rising Sun
In the Name of the Rose
Infernal Affairs
JFK
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Reservoir Dogs
The Last King of Scotland
LA Confidential
the Lady from Shanghai
Leon
Diva
Mystic River
Last Tango in Paris
The Last Boy Scout
Against all Odds

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here are my 20, i am too lazy to think of 50:
lost in translation
requiem for a dream
the united states of leland
american history x
kids
match point
mysterious skin
american beauty
vanilla sky
legend
the visitor
ghost world
the virgin suicides
pretty persuasion
factory girl
about a son
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
wassup rockers
brokeback mountain
all the pretty horses

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Well my list would be kinda different from any of the ones previously mentioned. Try and think outside of Hollywood and the last 3 decades please; unless you are fine with watching linear films from the same country and time. If Shawshank Redemption is anywhere on your best film list then you are going to hate mine.

-The first two are a must watch for anyone.

Spoorloos
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Adaptation
Eraserhead
Hana-bi
Intolerance
M
Sunset Boulevard
Oldboy
The Apu Trilogy
Paradise Now
Sonatine
Breathless
2001: A Space Odyssey
The 400 Blows
Metropolis
The Public Enemy (1931)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie
Get Carter
Andrei Rublev
Stray Dog
Hard Boiled
Rashomon
Grizzly Man
Once Upon a Time in the West
Freaks
Easy Rider
8 1/2
Angels With Dirty Faces
The Apartment
Akira
Rushmore
Birth of a Nation
The Killing
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Man Bites Dog
Night of the Hunter
THX 1138
Tokyo Story
Paths of Glory
Some Like it Hot
Scarface (1932)
Strike (1925)
Notorious
12 Angry Men
Seven Samurai
The Searchers
Midnight Cowboy
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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toonces12, wow...great *beep* list man!!!

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It's not your best 50 movies, it's just 50 movies someone should see before they die. Maybe even movies you would only need to see once (ie Pink Flamingoes).

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im nt sure of the order or 50 films in fact, but these r deffo sum of my favs of all time

the green mile
men of honour
billy elliot
grease
carry on camping
oldboy
bridge to terabithia
schindlers list
one flew over the cuckoos nest
rainman
in the name of the father
star wars
lost boys
eight below
jumanji
lion king

to name but a few

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1) The Green Mile
2) Shawshank Redemption
3) Matrix
4) V for Vendetta
5) Fight club
6) Requiem for a dream
7) Titanic
8) To kill a mockingbird
9) Grease
10) Lion King
11) Jacob's Ladder
12) Lord of the rings trilogy (counting as one)
13) Star Wars episodes
14) Braveheart
15) Gladiator
16) 300
17) Pulp Fiction
18) Labyrinth
19) American History X
20) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
21) A Beautiful Mind
22) Princess Bride
23) The Exorcist
24) August Rush
25) Forrest Gump
26) Remember the Titans
27) Edward Scissorhands
28) Stand by me
29) Schindler's List
30) Misery
31) Rain Man
32) Awakenings
33) Dark knight
34) What Dreams May Come
35) The Bucket List
36) Full Metal Jacket
37) Silence of the lambs
38) Erin Brockovich
39) Wizard of Oz
40) Magnolia
41) Trainspotting
42) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
43) Armageddon
44) Crash
45) Donnie Darko
46) The godfather
47) Scarface
48) Walk the Line
49) Some like it Hot
50) The Shining

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In no particular order:

1) american Beauty
2) The Usual Suspects
3) The Shawshank redemption
4) Jurassic Park
5) The night of the Hunter
6) Almost Famous
7) Good Night and Good Luck
8) No Country for Old Men
9) The Fugitive
10) Adam's Rib
11) Platoon
12) The Deer Hunter
13) Amadeus
14) Being John Malkovich
15) High Fidelity
16) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
17) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
18) Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
19) Sunset Boulevard
20) Chinatown
21) Annie Hall
22) M*A*S*H
23) Das Leben der Anderen(The Lives of Others)
24) The Wizard of Oz
25) The Searchers
26) Straw Dogs
27) The man who shot Liberty Valance
28) Rear Window
29) Psycho
30) Star Wars
31) star Wars: The empire strikes Back
32) OldBoy
33) The Sound of Music
34) My Fair Lady
35) LA Confidential
36) Back to the Future
37) The Bourne Identity (the good one, before Paul greengrass got his hands on the two sequels)
38) The French Connection
39) Raise the Red Lantern
40) Indiana Jones (the first three as one)
41) Lawrence of Arabia
42) Trainspotting
43) The Wicker Man (the original)
44) Rain Man
45) Misery
46) Pulp Fiction
47) One flew over the cuckoo's nest
48) Saving Private Ryan
49) Wo Hu Cang Long (Crouching Tiger Hiden Dragon)
50) The Bond Movies, if I had to choose five to represent them: From Russia with Love, Moonraker, Live and Let Die, the Spy who loved me and The World is not enough

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In no particular order:

01) Batman (1989)
02) Terminator
03) The Matrix
04) Scarface
05) Back to the Future
06) Die Hard
07) From Russia with Love
08) Robocop
09) First Blood
10) Twelve Monkeys
11) Minority Report
12) Indiana Jones trilogy
13) Star Wars trilogy (parts 4, 5 and 6)
14) Los cronocrímenes
15) Pulp Fiction
16) Sin City
17) Inception
18) Memento
19) Vertigo
20) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
21) American History X
22) Wall-E
23) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
24) Reservoir Dogs
25) Up
26) Donnie Darko
27) The Sixth Sense
28) V for Vendetta
29) Ed Wood
30) King Kong
31) Kill Bill (vol. 1 & 2)
32) Rain Man
33) Stargate
34) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
35) Liar Liar
36) The Naked Gun: from the files of police squad
37) Kick-Ass
38) Coffy
39) A Few Good Men
40) The Devil's Advocate
41) THX 1138
42) 2001: A Space Odyssey
43) Videodrome
44) The Fly
45) Superman: The Movie
46) Jurassic Park
47) Darkman
48) Airplane! (1980)
49) Girl, Interrupted
50) Midnight Cowboy

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In no special order:

1) Lion King
2) The Sixth Sense
3) The Godfather
4) The Godfather part 2
5) Braveheart
6) Memento
7) North By northwest
8) Die Hard
9) Back to the Future
10) Indiana Jones
11) American History X
12) The Deer Hunter
13) Casablanca
14) Toy Story
15) The Shining
16) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
17) Sin City
18) Gladiator
19) Stand By Me
20) Rocky
21) Taxi Driver
22) On The Waterfront
23) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
24) Terminator
25) Terminator 2: Judgement day
26) Lord of the Rings
27) Love Actually
28) The Matrix
29) Pulp Fiction
30) Grease
31) Amélie
32) To Kill A Mockingbird
33) Chinatown
34) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
35) The Shawshank Reemption
36) Unforgiven
37) Strangers on a train
38) The Graduate
39) Blue Velvet
40) Terminator
41) Planet of the Apes
42) Hannah and her sisters
43) Annie Hall
44) Forrset Gump
45) Ben-Hur
46) The Elephant Man
47) Silence of the Lambs
48) Goodfellas
49) The Killer
50) Saw

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In no special order:

1) Lion King
2) The Sixth Sense
3) The Godfather
4) The Godfather part 2
5) Braveheart
6) Memento
7) North By northwest
8) Die Hard
9) Back to the Future
10) Indiana Jones
11) American History X
12) The Deer Hunter
13) Casablanca
14) Toy Story
15) The Shining
16) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
17) Sin City
18) Gladiator
19) Stand By Me
20) Rocky
21) Taxi Driver
22) On The Waterfront
23) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
24) Terminator
25) Terminator 2: Judgement day
26) Lord of the Rings
27) Love Actually
28) The Matrix
29) Pulp Fiction
30) Grease
31) Amélie
32) To Kill A Mockingbird
33) Chinatown
34) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
35) The Shawshank Reemption
36) Unforgiven
37) Strangers on a train
38) The Graduate
39) Blue Velvet
40) Battle Royale
41) Planet of the Apes
42) Hannah and her sisters
43) Annie Hall
44) Forrest Gump
45) Ben-Hur
46) The Elephant Man
47) Silence of the Lambs
48) Goodfellas
49) The Killer
50) Saw

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waking life
stalker (tsarkovsky)
fight club
matrix
star wars (456)
waking the dead
out cold
dumb and dumber
traffic
caddyshack
bram stokers dracula
catch me if you can
the adventures of mark twain (claymation)
porn

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