What's on your top ten list of movies? Your desert island favorites?

[bif]

Ones good enough to own.

I'm up to eight. I'll post my list when I get to ten.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Here is my list.....

1) GLADIATOR
2. L.A.Confidential
3) Bohemian Rhapsody
4) A Bridge Over The River Kwai
5) Lawrence of Arabia
6) Lord of The Rings Trilogy (in Extended Edition)
7) Godfather Trilogy
8) Good Morning, Vietnam
9) The Agony and The Ecstacy
10) TITANIC

[pangaia]

2. STILL LIFE

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
RASHAMON
THE SEVEN SAMURAI
EASY RIDER
YOJIMBO, ETC ETC...

[Thyla]

3. In no particular order

Since the first poster is adding Trilogies
Star Wars
Jurassic Parks
Indiana Jones

The Big Lebowski
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A Beautiful Mind
The Labyrinth
Stand by Me
John Carpenters The Thing
Monty Pythons The Holy Grail

That should keep me busy.

[Glorfindel]

4. Tough question! I have two of them already, though.

Giant
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Cleopatra
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
The Ten Commandments
Samson and Delilah (Victor Mature, Hedy Lamarr)
Apocalypse Now
2001: A Space Odyssey
McKenna's Gold
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom*

*If trilogies are permitted, then also Raiders and Last Crusade.

I might possibly survive for a year with just these, but eventually I'd pine away for the Lord of the Rings movies and the Star Wars franchise.

[Zoonart]

5. in no particular order...

Goodfellas
The Hudsucker Proxy
Local Hero
Some LIke It Hot
Barry Lyndon
All About Eve
O Lucky Man
The Lion In Winter
Edward Scissorhands
inherit The Wind

[Mick Travis]

20. Great taste!

Especially "O Lucky Man!", my favorite movie of all time.

(Longer story available upon request) I actually gave Malcolm McDowell his copy of the soundtrack.

[Zoonart]

22. Thanks...

Love to hear that story.

[Mick Travis]

23. O Lucky Man!

Way back in 1983, I went to Denver's International Film Festival. Knowing Malcolm (and Mary Steenbergen) were going to be there and that I might get to meet him, I brought along six copies of the "O Lucky Man" soundtrack I had collected over the years, knowing the album was out-of-print. He signed one and talked with me for a couple of minutes, including my telling him it was my favorite (he told me it was his favorite of those he'd been in), and then he asked how I had six copies, telling me it was out-of-print. He went on to say when moving to New York he had lost his copy, and that "Every record store in NYC is looking for it for me". I nodded my head and walked away with my 9-month pregnant ex.

Totally spacing out after meeting my favorite actor, and completely forgetting about Mary, who I really liked also, I was about to walk out of the building when the light-bulb finally went off..."Give Him a Copy!" I went back into the theater and waited through the people surrounding him, and offered him a copy. He pulled out his wallet and said, "How much do you want? $300. $400?" I said, "No, it's a present". As he was thanking me, the official event photographer came up to me and said, "That was a really nice thing you did there. I want to get some shots". He cleared everyone out and Malcolm posed with me with his arm on my shoulder while holding the album in his other hand. The photographer gave me his phone number and in a week or so I got 8x10s of every shot he took...eight or nine. For years a picture was online as a part of another forum's picture page, but it's been gone for a decade.

[Zoonart]

24. That is a GREAT story.

Thanks do much for sharing it with me. How terrific to have the photos of the moment.

[Runningdawg]

6. My top 10 in no order

A Clockwork Orange
The Last Samurai
GOTG
Pulp Fiction
Harold and Maude
Fight Club
Aliens
House Of Sand and Fog
The Blues Brothers
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

[Mick Travis]

21. "Harold and Maude" is...

...in my Top Five of all time.

[nuxvomica]

26. "House of Sand and Fog" is way too underappreciated

More people should see it.

[sarge43]

7. Difficult to narrow to 10, but here goes

The General (Buster Keaton)
It Happened One Night
The Lady Eve
Shadow of a Doubt
Murder, My Sweet
The Day the Earth Stood Still (original)
Ben Hur (1959)
The Lion in Winter
My Favorite Year
LOTR

Alternate list
All Quite on the Western Front
Fort Apache
12 O'Clock High
Forbidden Planet
Young Frankenstein
Godfather 1&2
The Big Red One
Prince of Egypt
Dogma
The Avengers: Endgame

[hunter]

8. My wife and I eventually end up with DVDs of all our favorite movies and television programs.

We have hundreds of them.

Recently these are showing up in thrift stores, much as video cassettes once did when DVDs became the preferred video format.

Some we've bought at retail prices, sale prices or otherwise. Ten dollar or less DVDs catch my eye. DVDs fifteen dollars or more generally don't.

My own movie tastes are a bit darker than my wife's.

She did not enjoy Brazil or Repo Man. They are brilliant.

Movies we have in common are Galaxy Quest, the first three Indiana Jones, first three Star Wars, various Star Trek movies most importantly Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, The Wizard of Oz, Auntie Mame, the entire Harry Potter set (books and DVDs), all the MASH episodes, all the West Wing episodes, Firefly, Singing in the Rain...

Ooops, more than ten.

[bif]

12. My five star rating system

1. So bad you're embarrassed to tell anyone you saw it
2. Just so so
3. Decent. But not worth a second watching
4. Good enough to recommend and worth repeated viewings
5. Good enough to own

I was so pissed when Netflix got rid of their 5 star rating system and went with the stupid thumbs up or down.

[mockmonkey]

9. These are the movies that I enjoy the most

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Harold and Maude
29th Street
Let It Ride
Defending Your Life
North by Northwest
The In-Laws (1979)
Catch-22
Parting Glances

[Auggie]

10. No trilogies:

The Godfather
The Godfather Part 2
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Dr. Strangelove
Animal House
Up in the Air
Top Hat
Singing in the Rain
The Sky’s the Limit

Wow - really weird list.

[bif]

11. Mine. In random order.

2001: A Space Odyssey
This is Spinal Tap
Amaracord
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The Way
The Station Agent
Local Hero
Garden State
My Dinner with Andre
Monty Python's Holy Grail

[nuxvomica]

28. I think a saw "My Dinner with Andre" five or more times

Way back when it was first on HBO. I have this image memory of people running around and lying down in graves but that wasn't actually in the movie, it was part of a story Andre told.

[Demsrule86]

13. I don't have a list yet...but I really enjoy muder mystery with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston

on Netflix...I also liked the Spy who dumped my...don't remember where I saw that ...either Netflix or Prime.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. Mine also in no particular order

Victor, Victoria
The Princess Bride
Godfather 1 & 2
Better Off Dead
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Ghostbusters
Arsenic and Old Lace
Aladdin (animated)
Spirited Away

Not included but deadly obvious: All of the obvious trilogies and trilogies +

[DesertRat]

15. All the Christopher Guest movies

My very favorite is Best in Show.

[dewsgirl]

16. My list in no particular order.

Bridget Jones Diary
Titanic
American Beauty
The Departed
Forrest Gump
Walk the Line
Man on the Moon
Love Actually
The Family Stone
It's Complicated

[bif]

17. I have to add "The Man From Earth" to the list.

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Fascinating movie no one's ever heard of. And "Mr. Nobody."

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. Wow. Many of these movies listed were horrible to me.

Like couldn't even watch the whole thing horrible.

Thankfully, other people have better taste than I do. :

[bif]

27. I have to agree

There are some cringeworthy movies here.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

29. bif- you are. DU's Resident Film expert! Have you

Ever thought about what makes a movie a person's favorite movie? Like ones they can watch countless times with a minimum gap between and never be bored?

Wish there was a more finite search engine than we have now. One that is independent of the service providing the movies (who have a vested interest)

I have seen these movies many, many times although. Wish there was an algorithm to find similar:

Sleeping with the Enemy
Mystic Pizza
Fatal Attraction
Sideways
Sound of Music
Romancing the Stone
Dave
No Looking Back

[nuxvomica]

25. These are movies I will always watch if they are on TV

If I'm channel surfing, and one of these is on, I watch it. The things they have in common are great dialogue, great acting and a consistent, compelling atmosphere. And I will watch anything with Bogart or Welles.

Casablanca (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Deception (1946)
The Third Man (1949)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Being There (1979)
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)