The 10 BEST movies of all time

[jerrys]

A few years ago an in order BEST 10 movies list of all time was published. Recently a new list came out that is quite different in both the order and movies selected. Not necessarily your favorites but what movies and in what order would you pick as the 10 BEST movies of all time? The toughest one to pick is the tenth.

The list published several years ago:
1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. The Godfather
4. The Godfather 2
5. Gone With the Wind
6. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
7. Rear Window
8. A Streetcar Named Desire
9. Jaws
10. Rocky

The most recent published list:
1. The Godfather
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Casablanca
4. Rear Window
5. Citizen Kane
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Schindlers List
8. Psycho
9. Singin' In The Rain
10.The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

My List:
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather 2
3. Citizen Kane
4. Gone With the Wind
5. The Bridge on the River Kwai
6.The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. Dr. Strangelove
9. 12 Angry Men
10. Rocky

[Peter_Spaeth]

Seven Samurai has to be on any top 10 list IMO.

[glynparson]

I hate the godfather. i watch tons of movies and i can not stand the film. It is bloated garbage in my opinion. As Peter Griffin says it insists upo itself. It tries way too hard. It has very little redeeming qualities besides incredible acting. What I would say are the 10 best films not my favorites but the best.

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Silence Of The Lambs
4. Jaws
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Rear Window
7. The Good The Bad and The Ugly
8. Blackkklansman
9. 2001
10. The Hateful Eight

I of course recognize more people feel the same as you and the list about the godfather I just feel its an utter fraud of a great film.

[barrysloate]

My all-time favorite is "On the Waterfront", but putting together a top ten could be tough because each time I do it, it's likely to change a little.

[samosa4u]

Best horror film of all-time: The Exorcist.
I watched it as a kid and I still have nightmares to this day.

[Jim65]

I would rate Godfather 2 very slighly over Godfather as my favorite. Schindler's List and Taxi Driver would have to be there as well. Favorite comedy is easily Slap Shot.

[the 'stache]

Ten best films of all-time? Tough question. I've been intensively studying film history for about the past five years, as I'm going to write books about the subject. Doing so has exposed me to a great number of films I probably otherwise wouldn't have seen, and I'm a better person for having seen them. The money I used to spend on my collection has been diverted to building my film library over that time. I know that streaming is the way of the future, but I'm a real physical media guy.

This is my top ten right now. I'm not going to put them in any order, as that would be a bit of a nightmare. And it may change, upon further reflection.

My list:

David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia
Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai
David Lynch's Mulholland Drive
Orson Welles' Citizen Kane
Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull
Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon
Carl Th. Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc
Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt
Ingmar Bergman's Persona

With so many different eras, genres and countries of origin to choose from, picking only the ten best films feels like an exercise in futility. As soon as I selected Bergman's film, I'm immediately looking at the list, and trying to figure out how I can get The Godfather in, as well as Tokyo Story, City Lights, Sunrise, and a handful of others.

There's nothing by Billy Wilder, or John Ford. No Andrei Tarkovsky, Francois Truffaut, Jean Renoir, John Cassavetes, or Krzysztof Kieslowski.

This is exceedingly difficult.

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by jerrys

A few years ago an in order BEST 10 movies list of all time was published. Recently a new list came out that is quite different in both the order and movies selected. Not necessarily your favorites but what movies and in what order would you pick as the 10 BEST movies of all time? The toughest one to pick is the tenth.

The list published several years ago:
1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. The Godfather
4. The Godfather 2
5. Gone With the Wind
6. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
7. Rear Window
8. A Streetcar Named Desire
9. Jaws
10. Rocky

The most recent published list:
1. The Godfather
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Casablanca
4. Rear Window
5. Citizen Kane
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Schindlers List
8. Psycho
9. Singin' In The Rain
10.The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

My List:
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather 2
3. Citizen Kane
4. Gone With the Wind
5. The Bridge on the River Kwai
6.The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. Dr. Strangelove
9. 12 Angry Men
10. Rocky

First of all, who published these lists? The ten greatest films of all-time, and the only foreign film appearing in any list is The Bridge on the River Kwai, which is a co-production of the UK and USA?

And Pulp Fiction....one of the ten best films of all-time? Over every film ever made by Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Yasujiro Ozu, Edward Yang, David Lean, John Ford, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Roberto Rossellini, Roman Polanski, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Werner Herzog, Carl Th Dreyer, John Huston, F.W. Murnau, John Cassavetes, Paul Thomas Anderson, Josef von Sternberg, Fritz Lang, Robert Altman, Howard Hawks, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Renoir, Jacques Demy, Vittorio De Sica, Satyajit Ray, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Sergio Leone, Peter Bogdanovich, Terrence Malick, Carol Reed, Ernst Lubitsch, George Cukor, Wong Kar-wai, Woody Allen, Masaki Kobayashi , William Wyler, Elia Kazan, Joel and Ethan Coen, Luchino Visconti , Agnes Varda, Joseph Mankiweicz, Alain Resnais, Jean-Pierre Melville, Luis Buñuel, Robert Bresson, Frank Capra, Mel Gibson, John Frankenheimer, Kenji Mizoguchi, Nicholas Ray, Sergei Eisenstein, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Stanley Kramer, Guillermo del Toro, Brian De Palma, Jean Cocteau, Clint Eastwood, King Vidor, Victor Fleming, Stanley Donen, William Friedkin, David Fincher, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Abbas Kiarostami, Fred Zinnemann, Robert Aldrich and Cecil B. DeMille?

GTF out of here. I like (and own) Pulp Fiction. But there's not a chance in hell it's a top ten film of all-time.

Pulp Fiction in the top ten, and a complete lack of landmark foreign films makes me call the source into question.

[PolarBear]

Originally Posted by the 'stache

First of all, who published these lists? The ten greatest films of all-time, and the only foreign film appearing in any list is The Bridge on the River Kwai, which is a co-production of the UK and USA? .

There probably aren't too many Metropolis fans out there.

[stlcardsfan]

Some favorites I can think of in no particular order:

Breaking Away
Silence of the Lambs
A Few Good Men
The Verdict
Godfather II
Alien
Shawshank Redemption


Comedies:
Caddyshack
Animal House
Stripes
Dumb and Dumber

Edited to add:
Rounders (Ed Norton is phenomenal)
Spy Games with Robert Redford and Brad Pitt

[AgonyandIvy]

Well, here’s my nominations for the ten best:

Citizen Kane (1941)
2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Ben Hur (1959)
Casablanca (1942)
Goodfellas (1990)
Singing in the Rain (1952)
Duck Soup (1933)
Hells Angels (1930)
Water (2005)

[Wihawk]

It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
North by Northwest
The Man who Knew Too Much
The Godfather
Saving Private Ryan
Napoleon Dynamite
Gone with The Wind
Blazing Saddles
The Good,The Bad and the Ugly
Field of Dreams

Great lists so far, nice to see everyone's opinion

[Tom S.]

My top 10 would include these:

Star Wars
The Usual Suspects
Dances With Wolves
Saving Private Ryan
Young Frankenstein
Pulp Fiction
Casablanca
The Wizard of Oz
Unforgiven
The Longest Day

[insidethewrapper]

Shawshank Redemption is great.

My all-time favorite that I laugh out loud everytime I see it is : Blazing Saddles

Must watch the unedited version, not the versions they play sometimes on Cable without a lot of the language and comments edited and left out. Funniest film of all-time in my opinion.

[55koufax]

WTF? Nobody has THE GOAT on any of these lists?

Ever seen a film called ANIMAL HOUSE ?

[Runscott]

After watching Comet for a little while, I would have to add "Prehistoric Cave Women" to my list. It got me very excited.

[ClownQuestionBro]

I haven't seen a lot of the older "classics". maybe i'll get around to them now that sports are shut down for a few months....

my list:

Band of Brothers ( I know its a mini series, but this is MY list)
Shawshank redemption
Godfather movies (2 is best)
Saving private ryan
Rounders
Legends of the fall
Rocky 4
Gladiator
Dances with Wolves
Office space (gotta have a comedy)

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by ClownQuestionBro

I haven't seen a lot of the older "classics". maybe i'll get around to them now that sports are shut down for a few months....

my list:

Band of Brothers ( I know its a mini series, but this is MY list)
Shawshank redemption
Godfather movies (2 is best)
Saving private ryan
Rounders
Legends of the fall
Rocky 4
Gladiator
Dances with Wolves
Office space (gotta have a comedy)

Band of Brothers is one of my favorite "anything" on film. I could watch that 100 times and not get tired.

[Snapolit1]

My top 10 would include Night of the Living Dead. Made by students and college profs. Negligible budget. A gore horror movie that is terrifying and has important societal points to make. To me a top 10.

Bear movie ever. That’s easy. The Wizard of Oz. Case closed.

[drcy]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

My top 10 would include Night of the Living Dead. Made by students and college profs. Negligible budget. A gore horror movie that is terrifying and has important societal points to make. To me a top 10.

Bear movie ever. That’s easy. The Wizard of Oz. Case closed.

Yes, a great horror movie made on a shoestring budget. Would likely have been worse if it had a big budge.

[mr2686]

"Best" can mean something different to everyone. Not sure if these are the best, but they sure are my favorites that I've watched many times.

The Shawshank Redemption
The Sting
The Godfather
The Godfather 2
Heartbreak Ridge
Heat
Takers
The Patriot
8 Men Out
Tombstone

[Touch'EmAll]

I really liked:

Glory Road - the black college basketball team that won it all, outstanding!
The Blues Brothers
Rocky
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Wizard of Oz - for the younger crowd
The Magnificent Seven - awesome old Western