Best movies (Citizen Kane exempted)

[UTUSN]

* All About Eve

* Sunset Boulevard

* Lawrence of Arabia - (Yeah, I know we love Gregory P/Mockingbird)

* The Third Man

* Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Cabaret, Romeo/Juliet

* (Navy) The Last Detail, Cinderella Liberty, Officer/Gentleman

* (comedy ) - Funny Thing/Forum, Fish/Wanda, Producers

* (European stuff) -

[BOSSHOG]

1. Cool Hand Luke

* Paper Moon

* The Enemy Below

* The Way We Were

[UTUSN]

2. Excellent

[FalloutShelter]

3. My desert island list.

All About Eve
Some Like it Hot
West Side Story
Day For Night
Blade Runner
Good Fellas

[UTUSN]

4. I'll go to that island!

[Sneederbunk]

5. Hud.

[UTUSN]

6. Gotta see it - SO out of it!

[LogDog75]

7. My Favorites

The Martian

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Lost Horizon

Casablanca

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[LudwigPastorius]

8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Dr. Strangelove

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Amadeus

City Lights

[milestogo]

16. Crimes and Misdemeanors is an excellent movie.

Despite all his flaws, Woody Allen knows how to put together a good film.

[LudwigPastorius]

19. Martin Landau gives a great performance in that one.

Before I saw that movie I only knew him from cheesy TV fare like Space: 1999.

[GReedDiamond]

9. Here are mine, including 2 titles* that I did some costume graphics in...

Dr. Strangelove

2001: A Space Odyssey

They Live!

Assault On Precinct 13 (1976 original) - BTW, currently on YouTube movies, free with ads

Idiocracy

*To Wong Foo: Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar

*Enemy Of The State

[nuxvomica]

10. My list

If any of these is on the TV when I'm channel surfing, I watch it:

Casablanca (1942)

The Third Man (1949)

The Lion in Winter (1968)

Touch of Evil (1951)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Suddenly Last Summer (1959)

Notorious (1946)

Deception (1946)

Jumanji (1995)

[no_hypocrisy]

11. The Graduate

I see new things each time I watch it.

[Grim Chieftain]

12. To Kill a Mockingbird

I've watched it many times over the years and never tire of it.

[milestogo]

18. Robert Duvall as Boo Radley

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Godfathers i & II

My best Western is Silverado.
My best thriller is North By Northwest.

[KTB2025]

21. Godfather I yes...but Godfather II?...

I know I'm in the small, small minority on this one...but I just don't think Godfather II is a very good movie. It's predictable - since so much of it takes place before Godfather I - with very little action and rehashes of the same characters whose arcs will complete in the first film. Maybe if Clemenza had been the foil, as originally intended... Godfather I, yes, wonderful. Godfather II...nah...

[ProfessorGAC]

22. I Consider II Superior To I

This is, of course, why there are many kinds of movies. People's taste can vary so much

[Doc_Technical]

14. A Matter of Life and Death (AKA Stairway to Heaven)

The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
Bringing up Baby
Doctor Zhivago (1965)

[milestogo]

15. 2001: A Space Odyssey

The Onion Field

The Pianist

Thelma & Louise

Black Hawk Down

Legends of the Fall

[Paladin]

17. I'd add "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" to the comedy group.

And I would certainly hope that the "European Stuff" includes "The Lives Of Others."

[Alpeduez21]

20. The Wizard of Oz

Gone with the Wind

Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis

Singing in the Rain

History of the World Part I

The Outlaw Josey Wales

[Emile]

23. Forrest Gump

Groundhog Day
Saving Private Ryan
Up in Smoke

[CTyankee]

24. Mockingbird or Zhivago

[Mad_Dem_X]

25. Comedy: Tootsie; Drama: Brokeback Mountain, The Color Purple

[Ritabert]

26. The Maltese Falcon

Animal House
The Birds
Chinatown
L.A. Confidential
Ghostbusters

[brush]

27. Casablanca, Shawshank Redemption, Godfather l and 2, Goodfella...

Last edited Sat May 31, 2025, 01:36 PM - Edit history (1)

Watch on the Rhine, Pulp Fiction, The Young Philadelpians.

[Botany]

28. My list

Lion in Winter
Breaker Morant
The Silver Fox
Godfather 1 & 2
Blazing Saddles
Seven Samurai… Japanese
Midway
Animal House
Chef
Dances with Wolves
No Country for Old Men
Fargo
The Shootist
Gandhi
My Cousin Vinny
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Harvey
The Hustler
Remember the Titans

[LSparkle]

29. A short list

Manhattan
The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger)
Casablanca
Notorious
Life Lessons segment of New York Stories
Blue Velvet
Reds
Alphaville

[Dale in Laurel MD]

30. Casablanca

nt

[ms liberty]

31. I will add

Grosse Pointe Blank
Almost Famous
The Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Editing to include the first and last of The Matrix movies, which were amazing. The middle two were formulaic and very meh for me.

[catbyte]

32. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (don't judge me), Kundun, A Room With A View, Desk Set, Double Indemnity

Key Largo, To Have and Have Not, Dark Passage, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, and Club Paradise are some of my favorites.

[justaprogressive]

33. A different list..

1) A Shot in the Dark ( Peter Sellers ...breaks the 4th wall)

2) Casablanca (Humpty of course)

3) Monkey Business (Cary Grant Ginger Rogers)

4) A New Leaf (Walter Matthew Elaine May)

5) Seabiscuit (Jeff Bridges Tobey McGuire)

6) The Money Pit (Tom Hanks Shelley Long)