Your Top 5 Favourite For-All-Time Films

[thaimeme]

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[Maanaam]

Where's yours?

Someone will say "The Shawshank Redemption". I'll say it if I can't think of 5 better ones.

The Big Blue. For both the underwater scenes and the story.
The entire Lord of The Rings trilogy, as one story/film.
The entire Star Wars epic.
Saving Private Ryan.
Jumper.

Fork...there's quite a few more, can't prioritise.

[Davis Knowlton]

Casablanca
From Here To Eternity
The Bridge On The River Kwai
Cool Hand Luke
Cross Of Iron
Doctor Zhivago
The Great Escape
The Hill
In The Heat Of The Night
King Rat
The Lost Battalion
Papillon
Platoon
Zulu
Zulu Dawn

[bsnub]

Apocalypse Now
Ran
Seven Samurai
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
A Fist Full of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More

Well that six. I could keep going...

Goodfellas
Heat
Heng em High
Akira
My Neighbor Totoro.

[Storekeeper]

Top 5

The Bridges of Toko-Ri
Gladiator
Hoosiers
The Exorcist
Gangs of New York

Honorable Mention

The Ten Commandments
An Officer and a Gentleman
The Great Santini
The Green Mile
Good Will Hunting
Kiss the Girls

[Maanaam]

The Green Mile
Good Will Hunting

Yes...both good.

[VocalNeal]

Battle Of Britain
Lawrence of Arabia
Usual Suspects
Snatch
The Last Samurai

[Humbert]

Hard to choose five.

Fanny and Alexander
Persona
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Ben Hur

[Humbert]

Delete

[bsnub]

The Last Samurai

WTF?

[hick]

The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut
....ok just: Kubrick's finest.

The Hudsucker Proxy
Slacker

HMs:

Lost Highway
Waking Life
Training Day
Minority Report
The Fifth Element
The Purge
Jack Reacher
Boyhood
Short Cuts
The Departed
Babel
Django Unchained
True Romance

[hick]

More HMs:

The Contender
21 Grams
The Book of Eli
Armored
Dead Man Walking
Apollo 13
Mystic River

[reinvented]

christ these are impossible:

but

The Warriors
Every which way but loose
Fight Club
Casablanca
Glengarry Glenross

[VocalNeal]

The Last Samurai

WTF?

Hey! I liked it. Fantasy, the warrior code,

[Dillinger]

^^ The Warriors brought back some memories

heres a list, that i doubt anyone else will repeat

Porkys
Airplane
Police Academy
Stir Crazy
The Life of Brian

do you reckon theyd be as good now as when i was a yoof ?

think i shall find out and download Davis' list too.

[Dillinger]

An Officer and a Gentleman

reminder of the old naval days, eh?

is a storekeeper the Yank equivalent of Blanket Stacker?

[Storekeeper]

An Officer and a Gentleman

reminder of the old naval days, eh?

is a storekeeper the Yank equivalent of Blanket Stacker?

Skivvie stacker ...

Favorite part of the movie is when the Gunny kicks the officer right in the nuts ...

[Stumpy]

Man.. I'd have to say my top 5,

Hunt for Red October

Shooter

Rambo 4 (Only because I had a 50Cal and I love the power of the gun and the total damage it does)

Gladiator

IPMan

[Passing Through]

Spirited Away
Diva
Casablanca (again)
Un coeur en hiver
The Third Man

[Norton]

Gladiator

Usual Suspects

The Last Samurai

Papillon

Plus.
Fargo
The Big Lebowski

[snakeeyes]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[Storekeeper]

The Last Samurai

WTF?

In that case I'll take, American Westerns for $1000:

The Shootist

[Dillinger]

for the intellectually impaired;

Your Top 5 Favourite For-All-Time Films

[Norton]

Your Top 5 Favourite For-All-Time Films

Oops I have 6. Oh well reckon I'm disqualified but I hardly give a fuck.

[Troy]

The Lady Vanishes
The 39 Steps
Rear Window
North by Northwest
A Bright Shining Lie

You guessed it, I'm a Hitchcock fan.
The last one has great opening music and has the news scenes that are etched into my memory...as well as being a decent film.