This thread is for the serious film connoisseur of Feature length films. Appreciating all genres of film, we have it here along with the occasional reviews of recent and past films. The discussion is focused on films you have seen, like, hate, or anything related to the film making process, the subject matters it focuses on, and to the art of Cinema itself.
Here is my list of the top 100 films along with Honorable mentions which some can be considered Cult Classics, and also my top TV Shows and Miniseries currently.
Top 100 Films
Once Upon a Time in The West
Citizen Kane
2001 Space Odyssey
Lawrence of Arabia
The Godfather part 1 and 2
The Wizard of OZ
Apocalypse Now
The Last Emperor
Dr. Strangelove: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love The Bomb
Blade Runner
Rear Window
Once Upon a Time in America (uncut)
Sunset Boulevard
North by Northwest
Raging Bull
Saving Private Ryan
Doctor Zhivago
Bonnie and Clyde
The Magnificent Ambersons
Gladiator
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
12 Monkeys
Amadeus
Blazing Saddles
Mulholland Drive
Vertigo
Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind
Good Fellas
China Town
Empire of The Sun
Kundun (Scorsese, 1997)
Clock Work Orange
Taxi Driver
The Big Lebowski
The Usual Suspects
Fight Club
The Shining
American Beauty
Star Wars
The Princess Bride
The Graduate
The Sound of Music
Full Metal Jacket
To Kill a Mockingbird
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Empire Strikes Back
Schindler’s List
Casablanca
Spellbound
Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
Mighty Python and the Holy Grail
Jaws
Requiem For a Dream
Lady in the Lake
Videodrome
Topaz
Lord of The Rings (Fellowship of the Ring)
Lord of the Rings (The Return of the King)
On the Waterfront
The Raven
Easy Rider
Tokyo Story
Breathless
Late Spring
Singing in The Rain
L’Avventura
All the Right Stuff
Shoah
Bicycle Thieves
La dolce vita
La Jetee
Touch of Evil
Barry Lyndon
Night of the Hunter
Rio Bravo
Blue Velvet
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Beau Travail
Papillon (1973)
Aguirre Wrath of God
Man with a Movie Camera
Seven Samurai
The Man Who Would be King
Rebel without a Cause
Midnight Cowboy
Electra Blue Glider
Young Frankenstein
Platoon
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Blood Simple
Angel Heart
Watchmen
Drugstore Cowboy
Senna
Inception
Rashomon
Snatch
The Fountain
Thin Red Line
Honorable Mentions and Cult Classics
Evil Dead II
Equal Librium
Whitenail and I
Primer
Used Cars
Slam Dance
Dune
Serpent and The Rainbow
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Life of Pi
Barton Fink
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
King of Hearts
Caddy Shack
Ferris Buellers Day off
Breakfast Club
16 Candles
UHF
The Endless Summer
Raising Arizona
West World
Dirty Harry (1971)
Lady Snowblood
The New World
Attack of The 50 Foot Woman
Up in Smoke
The Deer Hunter
My Own Private Idaho
American Pop
Excalibur (1981)
Legend
Fright Night
Highlander
A Scanner Darkerly
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Robo Cop
The Warriors
Kuroneko
The Swimmer
Fantastic Voyage
2000 Leagues under the Sea
Clash of The Titans
Mommy Dearest
Escape from New York
Solaris
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Conversation
The Hitcher
Animal House
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
Army of Darkness
Kung Fu Hustle
Endless Summer
Harold and Maude
Mad Max (The Road Warrior)
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Last Picture Show
An American Werewolf in London
American Psycho
Wall-E
Man Hunter
The Patriot
Das Boot
Christmas Story
Its a Wonderful Life
East of Eden
Giant
Midnight Express
Black Hawk Down
The Hurt Locker
Kingdom of Heaven
Mighty Python’s Life of Brian
Death Race 2000
Rushmore
Troy
Existenz
Repo Man
Office Space
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Idocracy
Donnie Darko
Akira
Brazil
The Evil dead
The Blues Brothers
Latest Films
Waves
A Hidden Life
Just Mercy
The Lighthouse
Uncut Gems
Parasite
The Invisible Man
Calm With Horses
The Irishman
Joker
1917
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Top Mini Series, TV Shows
Band of Brothers
Narcos
Altered Carbon
Jessica Jones
Making a Murderer
Stranger Things
Halt and Catch Fire
Maniac
Legion
Parades End
Mildred Pierce
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (Documentary)
These are actually all films I have written reviews about, so the list changes if a film comes along that knocks your socks off, which to be honest hasn’t happened in a very long time. “Waves” I thought was a very realistic film that was both real on the emotional level as it was on the mental.
The most recent that I am doing is “The Trial of The Chicago 7” not sure what to expect, because expectations of what some call a great film has shifted in opinions to being not great cinematic pieces, but ones about social justice and tagging lines. I often meet these types of films with great resistance and they just start pissing me off altogether after awhile that I am about to just say fk it with the entire media business right now.
The thing is, with a list, its subjective. You or anybody else is almost always going to have a differnt opinion for sure, which is why having a conversation as to why you disagree with or what you like is kinda of the point right? Its fun!
They don’t have to wear masks but we are suppose to which is absurd.
I was driving on Hollywood Blvd and Sunset blvds late last night. NO ONE was wearing masks on street, restaurants or clubs. Streets were packed The only people wearing Masks were Trump supporters having a Support Trump rally on Sunset near Vine. Ironic
I have a long Hitchcock thread on Hannity forum in trivia section. many Hitchcock films are free on Youtube search IOF Hitchcock on youtube.
I think I will list favorite movies by director
Since I 've been on a recent Hitchcock binge, I’ll start there. When I search Best Hitchcock films the list are very different. Saying Best film, vs. Favorite film one the “Greatest Overall” is more objective.
Greatest/Favorite Hitchcock films
1.Greatest Overall Film----North by Northwest
Favorite:
1 The Birds
2 Marnie
3 North by Northwest
3 Vertigo
4 Psycho
5 Spellbound
6 Rear Window
7 Strangers on a Train
8 The Man Who Knew to Much (remake)
9 Rebecca
10 Rope
11 Family Plot
12 Frenzy
13 Lifeboat
14 The Wrong Man
15 Dial M for Murder
16 The Trouble with Harry
17 Shadow of a Doubt
18 To Catch a Thief
19 Suspicion
20 Torn Curtain
21 Foreign Correspondent
22 Topaz
I’d have to dig deeper to rate older films…
I may rearrange this as I reconsider it…for instance looking at the list, I remember I always love watching “The Man who Knew to Much” whenever it appears on TV Maybe it should be higher on my list? I should add the date of the films.
my favorite director since I was a little kid (after Cecil B De Mille)
Greatest Overall: How can this even be answered?
Eyes Wide Shut
2001
Spartacus
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Paths of Glory
Barry Lyndon
Full Metal Jacket
The Killing
Killer’s Kiss
Ultimately each film I love the same for different reasons,
Favorite movies when I was real young (12 and younger). —List not finished—
Ben Hur
The Ten Commandments
1984. (the 1954 masterpiece)
Bringing up Baby
North by Northwest
Monkey Business --Cary Grant
Some like it hot
Bridge over the River Kwai
A Christmas Carol
Gone with the Wind
Paths of Glory
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Killing
Lifeboat
Spellbound
This is Cinerama
Cinerama Holiday
Godzilla
Mighty Joe Young
Penny Serenade
Arsenic and Old Lace
Cary Grant anything
Solomon and Sheba
Some came Running
Picnic
Hamlet
King Kong
All the Universal Monster Movies
The Greatest Show on Earth
To Have and Have Not
Key Largo
John Wayne movies
Rebel without a Cause
East of Eden
Robin Hood
Errol Flynn movies
So many more
a lot of these were on TV a lot.
This list needs work I had so many this just scratches the surface
“…In the Brginning…”
I was insane about this movie seeing it at the Stanley Warner Theater I became hooked
There are Bluray/DVDs with Curved screen appearance. “SmileBox”. How the West was Won and Mad Mad Mad Mad World, was also 3 screen Cinerama and there is a SmileBox for those too.
Films at the top are such a toss-ups. Even as a very little Kid I was disappointed Gone with the Wind wasn’t Wide Screen (70mm type ) and didn’t have enough civil war details. But of course I’ve seen it 50 times at least. After Cinerama in 1952 I was a Wide Screen snob.
. Lots of work.
