What are your top 10 favorite films - or simply your favorites? (1 Viewer)

[LCD22]

These are (some of) my favorite films:

Indiana Jones trilogy (I like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade equally.)
Back to the Future trilogy
The Bourne Trilogy
Field of Dreams
The Freshman (1990) - I watched this one the most out of all them.
Jack Ryan trilogy (The Hunt for Red October/Patriot Games/Clear and Present Danger)
The Truman Show
Scrooge (1970) - This is either watched on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. I don't recall at the moment.
Sleepless in Seattle
That Thing You Do! (theatrical)
Christine
Rudy
Hoosiers (Of the two, I like Rudy a bit more but love both.)
Stargate (theatrical)
Contact
Clue: The Movie (home video version)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Special Longer Version
The Ten Commandments (1956) - (watch this on Easter Sunday)
Say Anything...
The X-Files: Fight the Future (theatrical)
King Kong (2005) (theatrical)
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Apollo 13
Blast from the Past
The Grocer's Son (Le Fils de l'épicier)
The 'Burbs (In addition to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow starring Jeff Goldblum on Halloween, watch this either Halloween or outside the holiday/October.)
Groundhog Day (watch throughout the year except Groundhog Day)
The Great Buck Howard
Crimson Tide (theatrical)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (theatrical)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (theatrical)

I don't have physical copies of all the above just yet.

 

[Wes Candela]

JFK
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
FIGHT CLUB
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
MALCOLM X
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
GOODFELLAS
2001: A SPACE ODESSEY
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
THE DARK KNIGHT

 

[Indy Guy]

My 10 are based on how repeatable they are to me. This is not a list of prestigious undertakings, just films that are the equivalent of comfort food...things I return to again and again. These films make me feel good or can stir my emotions without being a challenge to watch.

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
THE WIZARD OF OZ
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD
SLEEPING BEAUTY
MARY POPPINS & MP RETURNS
CAMELOT
INDIANA JONES (TRILOGY)
PEARL HARBOR
TANGLED

 

[Jeffrey D]

The Godfather (first film)
Pulp Fiction
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
SE7EN
Lone Star (sure would like a good BluRay of this one)
Jaws
All About Eve
Network
Hell Or High Water
National Lampoon’s Animal House

Those are off the top of my head. The three films at the top of my list are etched in stone. The rest could vary, depending on what day I’m asked.

 

[Walter Kittel]

There are a lot more than ten, but these are all favorites that hold up remarkably well and I enjoy them without reservation. I could easily switch in other films particularly at the bottom of this listing, but the top five are immutable.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Chariots of Fire
Once Upon A Time In The West
The English Patient
Cool Hand Luke
Pulp Fiction
A Clockwork Orange
The Big Country
Alien
Heat

- Walter.

 

[Keith Cobby]

Tough call, whittled down from my original list of 25:

Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone series)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 47
Three Little Words 50
To Catch a Thief 55
High Society 56
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 57
The Big Country 58
North by Northwest 59
The Professionals 66
Back to the Future 85

 

[Konstantinos]

My 10 favourites, are essentially films that I've seen in my childhood/teens.

1. Ε.Τ. -Τhe Extra Terrestrial
2. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
-Fantasia
-Indiana Jones & temple of Doom
-The Empire Strikes Back
-Amadeus
-Jurassic Park
-Terminator 2
-Batman Returns
-Titanic

 

[Angelo Colombus]

Some of my favorites:

The Third Man
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
2001: A Space Odyssey
8 1/2
Citizen Kane
Andrei Rublev
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Wild Strawberries
There Will Be Blood
The Rules of the Game

 

[anytimepally]

Häxan
Night of the Living Dead
The Dark Crystal
The Lion in Winter
The Producers
El Laberinto del Fauno
Strangers on a Train
Horse Feathers
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Beginning of the End

 

[Joe Bernardi]

The Godfather
Goodfellas
On the Waterfront
Last of the Mohicans
High Noon

 

[cinefan]

Let's see. If I have to keep it to 10 favorites. Ask me tomorrow and I'll probably change half of these. In no particular order.

The Best Years of Our Lives
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Vertigo
The General
Horse Feathers (nice to see somebody else lists this -- I thought I was the only one with this as my favorite Marx Bros. movie)
Matinee
Salesman
A Thousand Clowns
Do The Right Thing
The Graduate

Oh, I have to do a runners-up list. Just 10 more.

The Pajama Game
1776
Henry V (Branagh)
The Crowd
Went The Day Well?
Seance On A Wet Afternoon
The Apartment
Taxi Driver
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Searchers

Another 10 would be... Sorry, I'll stop.

 

[Robin9]

This thread should be in the Movies forum as it's about films and not Blu-ray discs.

 

[AnthonyClarke]

My favourite repeatable-viewing Blu rays (ok for this forum) with a couple of ring-ins are
Casablanca
For Me and My Gal
Groundhog Day
Deep Impact
Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 and 2
The Maltese version (second version, the one with Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor)
The Gay Divorcee
Swing Time
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (I've seen that SO many times. Total bliss).
And of course North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief and Notorious
And anything by Jacques Tati and Francois Truffaut.

 

[johnmcmasters]

These lists for me are always transitory, but just off the top of my head, in the moment, without too much "botheration":

• Once Upon a Time in the West
• North by Northwest
• The Thin Man
• The Big Sleep
• The Maltese Falcon
• The Bandwagon
• The Devils
• Suspiria
• La Dolce Vita
• Call Me By Your Name

Runner Ups

• Women in Love
• Vertigo
• Local Hero
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• The Mummy (Karloff)
• King Kong
• Performance
• If…
• Renaldo and Clara
• Dual of the Titans

 

[albert_m2]

Some top favorites:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
North by Northwest
Trading Places
Cinema Paradiso
Rear Window
The Graduate
Midnight Run
3 Days of the Condor
Key Largo
Hold that Ghost
Marathon Man
Wait Until Dark
The Untouchables
Patriot Games
Sneakers
When Harry Met Sally
Foul Play
Where Eagles Dare
Inglorious Basterds

 

[Jeffrey D]

Some top favorites:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
North by Northwest
Trading Places
Cinema Paradiso
Rear Window
The Graduate
Midnight Run
3 Days of the Condor
Key Largo
Hold that Ghost
Marathon Man
Wait Until Dark
The Untouchables
Patriot Games
Sneakers
When Harry Met Sally
Foul Play
Where Eagles Dare
Inglorious Basterds

Yes I forgot to include Midnight Run on my list, and I saw it again last weekend. Wonderfully entertaining film.

 

[tsodcollector]

this is my list
close encounters of the third kind
porky's
revenge of the nerds
the little mermaid(disney)
the lion king (90's)
and the rest
blazing saddles
blackboard jungle
girls just wanna have fun
can't buy me love
teen witch.
and the others
wayne's world
the karate kid(1,2& 3)
the deep
almost famous
that thing you do
the posedon adventure
cool hand luke
what about bob
police academy (the first one)
hoop dreams.
before sunrise/before sunset
best in show.

 

[Jeffrey D]

this is my list
close encounters of the third kind
porky's
revenge of the nerds
the little mermaid(disney)
the lion king (90's)
and the rest
blazing saddles
blackboard jungle
girls just wanna have fun
can't buy me love
teen witch.
and the others
wayne's world
the karate kid(1,2& 3)
the deep
almost famous
that thing you do
the posedon adventure
cool hand luke
what about bob
police academy (the first one)
hoop dreams.
before sunrise/before sunset
best in show.

Geez- another film I forgot when I posted my list- Almost Famous. One of my favorites. It really is impossible to just list 10 films. This is why these list categories are so fun- others will jog your memory of an oversight.

 

[Peter M Fitzgerald]

I can't do 10, but --taking a cue from what director Edgar Wright once did-- here is my list of 1000 favorite films, in chronological order. Enjoy.

 

[BobO'Link]

Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Wolf Man (1941)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Alien (1979)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blade Runner (1982)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)