What are your top ten movies of all time?

Well, my list of favorite movies is sorted by how attached to them I am, rather than my appetite for re-watching them, or by my interest in dragging others to see them,

But trying to adjust to your question, to list the most re-watchable and other-person-drag-to-able films on my own favorite film list (which makes it iffy, because other people have varied tastes from each other), I guess something like:

Harold and Maude (1971)
Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope, 1977)
Lawrence of Arabia
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
The Ladykillers (1955)
Charade (1963)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

Sullivan’s Travels
O Brother, Where Art Thou
The African Queen
The Palm Beach Story
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Night of Shooting Stars
The Thin Man
Hurt Locker
Casablanca
A Night at the Opera

Bladerunner

Departures ( Japanese film )

Tokyo Story ( Ozu )

The Ghostwriter ( Polanski )

A Man and a Woman
( Trinignant and Aimee )

High and Low ( Kurosawa )

Babette’s Feast

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Fright Night

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From the posts above I love Harold and Maude, Casablanca, Butch Cassidy and North By Northwest. Super great flicks!

Therea re so many great movies it’s hard to chose. I would add “North by Northwest” too as number 11.

I’ll just post 10 that I really enjoyed.

And Justice For All
The King’s Speech
City of Joy
The Godfather (all of them)
Requiem For a Dream
Black Swan
Babette’s Feast
To Kill A Mockingbird
A Single Man
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Fantastic lists.

Oh – To Kill a Mockingbird too. One of my favorites!

Thanks all, I’m adding many of these to my Letterboxd watch list. I’ve seen many of them. And a special shout out to Kiki’s Delivery Service. I love that movie.

My top ten movies aren’t necessarily the ones I can watch over and over, so these 10 are more of what I think are the best on both an emotional and technical level:

Ikiru
Grand Illusion
Grave of the Fireflies
Paths of Glory
Sunset Boulevard
The Apartment
Parasite
Rebecca
The Iron Giant
Donnie Darko
This Is Spinal Tap

The good the bad and the ugly
Serenity
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Papillon
Taxi Driver
Akira
Heat
Scarface
Pulp Fiction
The Shining

I can’t list 10. My favorite is Babette’s Feast, and I’m thrilled to see it listed by @mazinger88.

@Hawaii_Jake There are just so many! I keep seeing titles on others’ lists and saying, “Oh, that one too!”

@janbb Yeah, my full list is a lot longer than 10, and it’s still pretty personal and selective, and overlaps with some of those others mentioned.

10 Awesome Movies (probably not the best of all time though)
The Goonies
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan
Star Wars: A New Hope
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Life Aquatic
The Shining
Ghostbusters
Snatch
Glory

(Additional amazing movies)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Boondocks Saints
Inception
Belle
Fight Club
Napoleon Dynamite
Donnie Darko
Momento
Labyrinth
Shawshank Redemption
The Breakfast Club
American Beauty
Heat
American Psycho
The Godfather
Scarface
Good Will Hunting
Good Morning Vietnam
Kill Bill
American History X
Crash
Batman (1989)
Blade Runner
Alien
Terminator 2
The Abyss

My favorite Indie movie with a tiny budget: Turbo Kid.

Back to the Future I, II, III
Star Trek II, IV, First Contact
Aliens
Terminator 2
Kill Bill Vol 1
Young Frankenstein

@RocketGuy I am disappointed. No BB?

@Hawaii_Jake I have the Babette’s Feast Criterion blu-ray. I think I’ll never see the likes of such a film…shot in actual film and one with such an impactful meaningful story and storytelling style for me.

^^ I need to rewatch that,

@mazingerz88 My children and I make an event of watching that movie. We cook a feast to relish and then watch the movie.

@Hawaii_Jake @mazingerz88 It’s available on Max if you have that.

@Hawaii_Jake Quite a number of movies have great surprising twists in them that impress
the mind, the twist in this one presses on the soul.

@Caravanfan – I forgot about that! Now I’m at 11.

@RocketGuy Are your saying your list goes to 11.

Yes, boosted by BB!

@RocketGuy What is BB?

@janbb Only the greatest movie ever made. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.

(But @RocketGuy also missed my Spinal Tap joke)

In Spinal Tap, his amp goes to 11 because it is better than all other amps that go to only 10.

Okay here is my list, silly as it is. These are movies I adore and I’ll see multiple times no matter what, They mean a great deal to me, for various reasons. They are not the best movies I’ve ever seen (that’s an entirely different list), but these are my favorite.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Spinal Tap
Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope
The Princess Bride
What’s Up Doc?
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Serenity (including Firefly, of course)
Kill Bill
Dune part 1

The top 10 movies of all time I will go with, this week,
2001
Lawrence of Arabia
Cleo from 5 to 7
Witness
The Maltese Falcon
El Orfanato
Brazil
Ran
Darkest Hour
The UFO movie THEY don’t want you to see (out today on Amazon—added because the producer/director/talent is a friend of mine)

Citizen Kane
Casablanca
City Lights
The Best Years Of Our Lives
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Blade Runner
Apocalypse Now
Fight Club
Unforgiven
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Chinatown
Pulp Fiction
It’s A Wonderful Life
The Lord Of The Rings (trilogy)
The Big Lebowski
Manhattan
Memento
Kill Bill
Lawrence Of Arabia

I’m not much into picking only 5 star movies, but here are ones I love, that I will watch over and over

12 Angry Men
Second Hand Lions
Limitless
Absolute Power
Lincoln Lawyer
Finding Neverland
Return to Me
Connie and Carla
Knives Out
The Princess Bride
My Cousin Vinny

@Caravanfan

I think you accidentally responded to RocketGuy. I intentionally put Spinal Tap as number 11 on my list lol

Edit: Actually, I think it was just a coincidence that I did that right before you mentioned Spinal Tap

I forgot to add:
Rushmore
Army of Darkness

As for Star Wars, it’s Empire strikes back.

@rockfan No, I was responding to @RocketGuy, but fluther doesn’t thread responses. I was just teasing him. I’ve known him IRL for over 40 years.

Sense and Sensibility
Love Actually
Young Frankenstein
The Sound of Music
The Wizard of Oz
A Hard Day’s Night
Singing in the Rain
Star Wars (Episode IV)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Mary Poppins

Blade Runner
Timecrimes
Fargo
Inside Llewyn Davis
No Country for Old Men
Howl’s Moving Castle
Pulp Fiction
Pan’s Labyrinth
2001 A Space Odyssey
Dr Strangelove

@SnipSnip Wow, great minds think alike indeed! I thought I was the only one here who knows that And Justice For All exist. I have a blu-ray copy. Just love that ending when Pacino smiles and Grusin’s music comes in. Have you seen Author Author?

And I say great minds alike since you also listed Babette’s Feast!

@Caravanfan My top favorite animated films are all Miyazaki creations. Amazing art and tales. Joe Hisaishi’s music makes them more sublime.

As for non-Miyazaki anime I would suggest Wings of Honnemise. Much more serious story though but the animation quality is through the roof.

Picking up 10 more films that I also love from other jellies’ list…

And Justice For All
Rebecca
Chinatown
Manhattan
The Apartment
12 Angry Men ( film and TV remake )
Unforgiven
No Country For Old Men
Space Odyssey 2001
The Wizard of Oz

@mazingerz88 I agree! And I am a huge fan of Dave Grusin; we have several albums. I first encountered that talent when I watched the Meryl Streep movie, Falling In Love. That one was a bomb but I loved that one too. I have watched Babette’s Feast so many times…I really do love it. I was introduced to it in an undergrad class in the 90s…we had to find a copy and watch it. This was a class in one of the behavioral science departments…..I took a lot of those as electives. Thanks for the comments. :) Also who could not love this scene from And Justice For All:

Judge Rayford: Mr. Kirkland you are out of order!

Arthur:
You’re out of order! You’re out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They’re out of order! That man, that sick, crazy, depraved man, raped and beat that woman there, and he’d like to do it again, he told me so! It’s just a show! It’s a show! It’s “Let’s Make A Deal”! “Let’s Make A Deal”! Hey Frank, you wanna make a deal? I got an insane judge who likes to beat the sh*t out of women! Whaddya wanna gimme Frank, three weeks probation?

I have not seen Arthur Arthur.

^Oops. Author Author.

@mazingerz88 I hadn’t heard of Wings of Honneamise. I’ll put it on my list, thanks!

@seawulf575 My Cousin Vinny has one of the most brilliant scripts I’ve ever seen.

@flutherother did you like Blade Runner 2049? I loved it.

@Caravanfan It was an OK film but I found it a bit disappointing compared with the original.

I must add Rebecca…......the old one. The remake is horrible.

@flutherother I lowered my expectations and ended up liking Bladerunner 2049. I bought a copy.

I go to see the original Bladerunner on the big screen whenever possible. One of the lasting perks of being a kid and a teen in the 80s. I got to experience the groundbreaking cinematic impact to the senses of movies like Superman, Alien and Bladerunner in more innocent times.

To this day I still relish the experience and try to recapture it.

I own a copy of Bladerunner. I’ve seen it four or five times. Many of the scenes are now imprinted on my memory. I may give the sequel another chance someday perhaps I expected too much of it.

Alien was another great cinema experience. It made quite an impact on me.

@flutherother Which version do you like?

@SnipSnip I’m a fan of films scored by Grusin. I think he did The Firm and The Yakuza. I just love his dramatic score in The Yakuza.

@Caravanfan I prefer the original 1982 release.

@flutherother The theatrical release? The one with the voiceover?

@Caravanfan I much preferred the version without the voiceover. I was convinced there was no voiceover in the 1982 version released in Europe but it looks as if I was mistaken.

The different versions have totally different vibes, not just additional footage like other movies with extended versions. The theatrical version had a gumshoe novel feel to it, the director’s cut had an intense Sci-Fi feel. I liked the latter.

@SnipSnip Watching Three Days of the Condor now. Great Grusin opening music.

@flutherother Have you seen Blade Runner, the Final Cut? This is the approved version by Scott. It ends much better.

@Caravanfan I have that version on Blu Ray. I didn’t like the happy ending version I prefer a bit of ambiguity.

@flutherother The Final Cut has the unicorn dream, and the movie ends with the unicorn origami. It’s the only version Scott had full control over.