- The Godfather.
- Blade Runner.
- Scarface.
- The good, the bad, and the ugly.
- The fight club.
No particular order, these are some of my favorites.
Alien and Aliens could be there too.
And a bunch of animates movies like Ghost in the Shell, Akira, A silent voice, Grave for the Fireflies, The Tale of Princes Kaguya, Princess Mononoke, Howls moving Castle.
Also Toy Story 2, Shrek 2, The Prince of Egypt, Fantasia, Klaus, Into the Spiderverse.
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Dead Man: A film by Jim Jarmusch starring Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer and an all-star cast. Beautiful acid western about friendship in harsh circumstances. Wonderful original soundtrack by Neil Young.
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The Fall: A film by Tarsem. This films story isn't necessarily amazing, but this is a love letter to classic cinema. It has a plot about classic cinema, and it uses all classic techniques to achieve the effects. Tarsem famously went out of their way to ensure there wasn't any CGI in this film. It's one of the most vividly colorful and visually stunning films I have ever seen.
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Dreams: A film by Akira Kurosawa. A montage of short films inspired by dreams experienced by filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. In partnership with Lucasfilm. Almost as visually stunning as The Fall but much more cohesive stories for being inspired by dreams. Come for "The Peach Orchard," and stay for "Village of the Watermills."
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Brazil: A film by Terry Gilliam starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert DeNiro, Kim Greist and Michael Palin. A treatise on dreams in a totalitarian society. The only cut worth watching is the Directors Cut. The film was famously butchered by the studios to give it a "happy ending" because the original was considered too bleak.
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Sneakers: A film by Phil Alden Robinson starring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, and Ben Kingsley. One of the only films that ever presented a semi-realistic portrayal of hacking. Good plot, good pacing, and arguably prescient considerations.
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I'll do "so far" instead of "all time" because all time has not yet elapsed, but I'll shut up and list the current roster:
- Werckmeister Harmonies
- Fellowship of the Ring
- The Dreamers
- The Wind Rises
- L'eclisse
Honorable mentions go to Casino Royale, Ashes and Diamonds, The Empire Strikes Back, Paprika, and Vanilla Sky.
- Back to the Future
- Wall-E
- Into The Spider-verse
- Interstellar
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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Young Frankenstein
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The Princess Bride
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Blazing Saddles
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The Matrix
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The Shawshank Redemption
It's a toss-up on a couple of those. The Blues Brothers could easily make the list, as could Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2, Alien, Interstellar, and I'm sure there are many others. I will abandon what I'm doing to watch any one of these, if they come on, probably 90% of the time.
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Blade Runner // Apocalypse Now // Goodbye, Dragon Inn // Guardians of the Galaxy 2 // Any Bourne film
- Star Trek: First Contact
- Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
- October Sky
- 12 Angry Men
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- Blade Runner
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Jurassic Park
- Back To The Future
Runners up: Empire Strikes Back, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, ET, Close Encounters, Alien(s), Ghostbusters, Stand By Me, Full Metal Jacket, A Bronx Tale, Good Will Hunting
It's too hard to pick just 5!
I actually sat down a coworker years ago and did this. It was surprisingly easy once I realized something - I'll sit down and watch a lot of movies on TV, but there are a few I refuse to. Too many commercials and edits just make me furious... those are my favorites. Getting down to 10 was hard enough, so top 5 are in no order. Some changed how I thought about things, some just entertained me for years:
The Matrix
Interstellar
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Fight Club
Schindler's List
And because it was so hard, here are a few more that just as easily could be top 5:
Silence of the Lambs, Inception, V for Vendetta, OG Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, Kung Pow, Blair Witch Project
Edit: Forgot one - Arrival. Probably in top 5, no idea which to demote. Fight Club maybe
Super hard to limit to just 5 but here's the first that came to mind: Star Wars: A New Hope, The Matrix, Delicatessen, The Science of Sleep, The Fifth Element.
Any of the following could easily go somewhere on the above list :) Blade Runner, 12 Monkeys, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Brazil, The Hudsucker Proxy, Groundhog Day, Dark City, Inception & Intersteller (if only it didn't have the whole love is a force that transcends dimensions and can be used to communicate across time and space stuff?!)
Akira
Fight Club
The Matrix
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
But I guess my firsty firstingly forever first is Blade Runner 2049My cat is sitting on my lap so you get both of ours combined together
- The Fifth Element
- The Matrix
- Dark City
- The Big Lebowski
- Burn After Reading
- Fargo
- Lost In Translation
- Snatch
- Grosse Pointe Blank
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Dazed and Confused
- Jurassic Park
- Fellowship of the Ring
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- The Matrix
Monty Python and the holy grail
DnD movie
And all three LOTR movies. Extended of course.
Such a hard thing to do.
In no particular order, and this is only my mind right now,
- Grave of the Fireflies
- LOTR
- The Mummy (Brendan Fraser)
- Fifth Element
- The Northman
Honorable mentions, and depending on my mood, any of these might sneak into the list:
- Empire Strikes Back
- Spirited Away
- Hotel Rwanda
- The Lives of Others
- Princess Bride
- White Christmas
- Blade Runner / Blade Runner 2049
- Dune
- Your Name
- Alien
- The Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le pacte des loups)
- Arrival
- Children of Men
- Pretty much any Mel Brooks movie, but particularly Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Robin Hood MIT, Dracula dead and loving it
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- In Bruges
- A fish Called Wanda
- The Life of Brian
- Some Like it Hot
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Wrath of Khan
- Best in Show
- Them
- Something Wes Anderson, likely Grand Budapest Hotel or Royal Tenenbaums
- Hot Fuzz
- There will be Blood
- 1917
- The Color of Money
- The Godfather Part 1
- Master and Commander
- Tropic Thunder
- The Sting
- Burn After Reading
- A River Runs Through It
For now, anyway;
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Sorcerer; confusingly about 4 men driving volatile dynamite through the jungle, no wizards present
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Manhunter; I literally stand up out of my chair during the tiger scene every time
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Body Double; Brian de Palma is a weird perv and it's great
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Threads; it's the scariest movie ever made
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Annihilation; more upsetting bear than The Edge, only slightly less upsetting lighthouse than The Lighthouse
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- Jurassic Park
- Lord Of The Rings (prefer Two Towers)
- Back to The Future (1 but 3 rocks too)
- Blade Runner 2049
- Gladiator
No way I can do all time, because my tastes change. However, I guess right now it's:
- My neighbour Totoro
- Grave of the Fireflies, even though I can't watch it
- into the spider verse
- knives out
- everything everywhere all at once
The top two there never really shift but the other three do all the time.
In no particular order: The Mission, Children of Men, Passport to Pimlico, Ben Hur, My Name is Nobody
- LOTR trilogy
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- A Midnight in Paris
- The Matrix
- Howl's Moving Castle
Interstellar
Inception
About Time
Arrival
The Green Mile
- There Will Be Blood
- The Fabelmans
- Gangs of New York
- Memento
- The Dark Knight
This is an incredibly difficult question for me, so I have to list my runners up:
- The Prestige
- Shawshank Redemption
- Pulp Fiction
- Spirited Away
- 2001: A Space Oddysey
- Dallas Buyers Club
I'm probably an idiot for not including The Godfather but it's been a long time since I saw it so I probably need to watch it again.
- LOTR: For staying close to the book while still being amazing.
- The Matrix: Still can't forget walking out of the theater, everyone so silent with their minds collectively blown.
- Cinema Paradiso: For the way it shows the love for cinema.
- Life is Beautiful: For showing that only we control how we live our lives.
- Children of Heaven: For its depiction of love in its purest forms.
- Once upon a time in the West
- Dogville
- Pulp Fiction
- American Beauty
- Fucking Γ mal
Top rated because of the story (all), acting (all), music (except for 2), number of awesome quotes (3 and 4) and all in all just being amazing.
Also, since I saw someone mention it, I'd like to add that the worst movie of all time is imho 2001 A Space Odyssey. On IMDb I don't rate movies lower than 2 stars because I have 1 exclusively reserved for 2001 ASO. Watching it has been the most boring experience of my life, which btw is saying a LOT. Punishment in hell probably shifted to eternally watching this movie, with sinners wishing to go back to when they were physically tortured. I cannot stress enough how much I dislike this movie. You can be absolute sure that my top 5 is nothing like that.
- Morbius
- Morbius: Crimson Redemption
- Morbius: Dark Descent
- Morbius: Nightfall Chronicles
- Morbius: The Immortal Hunger
Leto's performance is genuinely captivating and the storytelling is top-tier. The film strikes a perfect balance between deep emotional resonance and stunning visuals. It's not just a superhero movie, it's a profound exploration of the human condition. Highly recommend it to anyone looking for more than just escapism.
Harold and Maude Silence of the Lambs Thor: Ragnarok Singing in the Rain Unforgiven
Silly to hold us to five but those were the first to come to mind.
- LOTR (it may be 3, but let's just call it a single movie)
- Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
- Jean de Florette
- The Matrix
- Top Gun
Honourable mentions: anything Monty Python, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Alladin, Indiana Jones (up to and including Last Crusade), any Bond film with Sean Connery, Die Hard, Rocky, Rambo: First Blood, The Passion of Christ, Cross and the Switchblade, The Godfather, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park
In no particular order: -Contact -The Matrix -Inglourious Basterds -Spirited Away -Moonrise Kingdom
- The Princess Bride
- Shawshank Redemption
- The Thing
- Panβs Labyrinth
- Requiem for a Dream
- Fight Club
- LOTR
- The Matrix
- V for Vendetta
- Star Wars
Thats really hard to decide, i guess off the top of my head:
- LotR Trilogy
- Spiderman into the Spiderverse
- Interstellar
- Dune 2022
- Your Name
Some more neccessary mentions:
- Akira
- star wars Ep1-6
- Avatar
- The Batman
- Fight Club
- Bladerunner
5 of my top 10
Withnail and I
Mad Max Fury Road
Casino Royale
It's A Wonderful Life
Synecdoche, New York
The other 5 are predictably The Matrix, Fight Club, Inception, Blade Runner 2049, and LOTR π
Jurassic Park
The 5th Element
Brazil
Joker
Life of Brian
Idk if I'd say these are the top 5, but ones that come to mind:
Team America World Police Airplane Fargo Apollo 13 Apollo 13 a second time
The Thing Tropic Thunder Doctor Sleep Top Gun: Maverick Requiem for a Dream
Very hard to choose a top five. Here were my runner ups: Cold Pursuit Ace Ventura (both) The Devils Rejects Halloween 2018 The Loved Ones Train to Busan Tucker & Dale vs Evil Zoolander
Ohh, this is tough. I guessss they're:
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Step Brothers
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Jurassic Park
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Wet Hot American Summer
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Pulp Fiction
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Evil Dead 2
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Die Hard, First Blood, True Lies, Lethal Weapon and Point Break.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
American Psycho
Hot Fuzz
Reservoir Dogs
Snatch
- Everything all at Once
- V for Vendetta
- Matrix
- Joker
- Gladiator
anime movie - Demon Slayer: Mugen Train
Not in order:
- Inception
- Stand by me
- Shawnshank Redemption
- Inglorious Basterds
- The Untouchables
Back to the Future
Raiders Of the Lost Ark
Star Wars
Alien
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Honorable Mentions:
Any of the LOTR Trilogy, Wrath of Khan, Dune (2021), Interstellar, Arrival, Avatar (2009)- Arrival
- The Matrix
- Dogma
- Boondocks Saints
- Fight Club
Honorable mentions:
- Spirited Away (subs, not dubs)
- Die Hard - With a Vengeance
- Indiana Jones (all the old ones)
- Star Wars (everything except the lego stuff and Resistance, which I endured)
- Harry Potter (all)
- Mallrats
- Clerks
- Chasing Amy
- Donnie Darko
- Wall-E
- Interstellar
- Inception
- The Truman Show
- Borat
- Close Encounters
- What Dreams May Come
- Good Will Hunting
- Clue
- Labyrinth
- Shawshank Redemption
- Forest Gump
- Contact
- Star Trek: First Contact
- Independence Day
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (particularly the end scene paired with Pink Floyd Echoes)
- Pulp Fiction
The Godfather The Empire Strikes Back Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Interstellar and both the spiderverse movies
- The Lion King
- Silence of the Lambs
- Seven
- 12 Angry Men
- Forrest Gump
- The Dark Knight
- The Iron Giant
- Forrest Gump
- Pulp Fiction
- Dumb and Dumber
- John Wick
- John Wick : Chapter 2
- John Wick : Chapter 3
- John Wick : Chapter 4
- Upcoming John Wick 5 movie
Bring It On, Liar Liar, The Hot Chick, House Party 4, and Burn After Reading
With exquisite taste, I embrace a diverse spectrum of films, from the captivating cheerleading rivalry and wit of "Bring It On" to Jim Carrey's comedic brilliance in "Liar Liar," and the hilarious escapades of body-swapping in "The Hot Chick." "House Party 4" evokes a nostalgic charm, while the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading" showcases their unparalleled storytelling, leaving me captivated. This selection embodies my discerning taste and appreciation for a wide range of cinematic experiences.
American Flyer
Eurovision
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
All Rush Hours
All Jphn Wicks
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Sorcerer
- Silent Running
- The Omega Man
- Primer
Bonus: Trancers/Jack Deth movies.
I thought for a solid 5 minutes. Sorry, can't decide on top 5.
In no particular order
Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Hunt for Red October The Abyss Master and Commander
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy 2-β. Idunno.
Rush Valkyrie Are definitely can't really decide on the other 3 right now
Snatch
Inglourious Basterds
Children of Men
There Will Be Blood
Shaun of the Dead
Back to the Future
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Interstellar
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Empire Strikes BackHonorable Mentions:
Any LOTR, Wrath of Khan, First Contact, Arrival, Dune (2021), Alien, Avatar, Inception, Die Hard- Kikiβs Delivery Service
- Itβs Such a Beautiful Day
- Panβs Labyrinth
- Bo Burnham: Inside
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Mr. Hollandβs Opus, Steel Magnolias, The Truman Show, Clueless, Little Miss Sunshine
Dune (hopefully)
Until then, it might be something like:
- Last of the Mohicans
- Mad Max Fury Road
- Children of Men
- The Matrix
- Dr Strangelove (&c)
Bladerunner final cut,
Shawshank redemption,
Alien,
Galaxy quest,
The Big Lebowski.
- oldboy
- Memento
- Blade Runner, more for its influence than anything else
- In Bruges
- ex machina
55 Steps, Escape From L.A., K-Pax, MacGyver Lost Treasure of Atlantis, Short Circuit
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