Your Favorite Movie of All Time

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Here is a new, updated list:

THE TOP 150 FILMS OF ALL TIME
AS OF: 18/11/09

  1. Citizen Kane (Dir. Orson Welles) B/W 1941.
  2. The Magnificent Ambersons (Dir. Orson Welles) B/W 1942.
  3. The Third Man (Dir. Carol Reed) B/W 1949
  4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Dir. Sergio Leone) 1966.
  5. Once Upon a Time in the West (Dir. Sergio Leone) 1968.
  6. The Maltese Falcon (Dir. John Huston) B/W 1941.
  7. The Seventh Seal (Dir. Ingmar Bergman) B/W 1957.
  8. For a Few Dollars More (Dir. Sergio Leone) 1965.
  9. Vertigo (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) 1955.
  10. Chinatown (Dir. Roman Polanski) 1974.
  11. The Wild Bunch (Dir. Sam Peckinpah) 1969.
  12. Pulp Fiction (Dir. Quentin Tarantino) 1994.
  13. Lawrence of Arabia (Dir. David Lean) 1962.
  14. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Dir. Stanley Kubrick) 1968.
  15. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Dir. Irvin Kershner) 1980.
  16. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Dir. Peter Jackson) 2001.
  17. A Fistful of Dollars (Dir. Sergio Leone) 1964.
  18. The Bridge on the River Kwai (Dir. David Lean) 1957.
  19. Black Narcissus (Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) 1947.
  20. 12 Angry Men (Dir. Sidney Lumet) B/W 1955.
  21. The Stranger (Dir. Orson Welles) B/W 1946.
  22. The Big Heat (Dir. Fritz Lang) B/W 1953.
  23. Das Boot (Dir. Wolfgang Petersen) 1981.
  24. One Eyed Jacks (Dir. Marlon Brando) 1961.
  25. On the Waterfront (Dir. Elia Kazan) B/W 1954.
  26. Strangers on a Train (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) B/W 1951.
  27. High Noon (Dir. Fred Zinnemann) B/W 1952.
  28. O, Brother, Where Art Thou? (Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) 2000.
  29. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Dir. George Roy Hill) 1969.
  30. Only Angels Have Wings (Dir. Howard Hawks) B/W 1939.
  31. Notorious (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) B/W 1946.
  32. Casablanca (Dir. Michael Curtiz) B/W 1942.
  33. North by Northwest (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) 1959.
  34. La Battaglia Di Algen (Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo) B/W 1967.
  35. Laura (Dir. Otto Preminger) B/W 1944.
  36. Rebecca (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) B/W 1940.
  37. Kagemusha (Dir. Akira Kurosawa) 1980.
  38. The Red Shoes (Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) 1948.
  39. King Rat (Dir. Bryan Forbes) B/W 1965.
  40. Duel (Dir. Steven Spielberg) 1971.
  41. Chariots of Fire (Dir. Hugh Hudson) 1981.
  42. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Dir. Peter Wier) 2003.
  43. Gone with the Wind (Dir. George Cukor, Victor Fleming, Sam Wood) 1939.
  44. October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Dir. Sergei Eisenstein) B/W Silent 1928.
  45. The Manchurian Candidate (Dir. John Franknheimer) B/W 1962.
  46. Niagara (Dir. Henry Hathaway) 1953.
  47. Doctor Zhivargo (Dir. David Lean) 1962.
  48. The Battleship Potemkin (Dir. Sergei Eisenstein) B/W Silent 1925.
  49. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Dir. Martin Ritt) B/W 1965.
  50. Gilda (Dir. Charles Vidor) B/W 1946.
  51. Duel in the Sun (Dir. King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, Wlliam Cameron Menzies, David O. Selznick, Josef von Sternberg) 1946.
  52. The Killers (Dir. Robert Siodmak) B/W 1946.
  53. Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Dir. Stanley Kubrick) B/W 1963.
  54. Farewell My Lovely (Dir. Edward Dmytryk) B/W 1944.
  55. Our Man in Havana (Dir. Carol Reed) B/W 1959.
  56. Double Indemnity (Dir. Billy Wilder) B/W 1944.
  57. The Lady from Shanghai (Dir. Orson Welles) B/W 1948.
  58. Sabotage (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) B/W 1936.
  59. The Great Escape (Dir. John Sturges) 1963.
  60. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) B/W 1935.
  61. Witness for the Prosecution (Dir. Billy Wilder) B/W 1957.
  62. The Naked City (Dir. Jules Dassin) B/W 1948.
  63. The Devil and Daniel Webster (Dir. William Dieterle) B/W 1941.
  64. Freaks (Dir. Tod Browning) B/W 1932.
  65. Moby Dick (Dir. John Huston) 1956.
  66. Fahrenheit 451 (Dir. François Truffaut) 1966.
  67. Close Encounter of the Third Kind (Dir. Steven Spielberg) 1977.
  68. The Barefoot Countessa (Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) 1954.
  69. Paths of Glory (Dir. Stanley Kubrick) B/W 1957.
  70. The Ladykillers (Dir. Alexander Mackendrick) 1955.
  71. Duck Soup (Dir. Leo McCarey) B/W 1933.
  72. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Dir. John Ford) B/W 1962.
  73. Brighton Rock (Dir. John Boulting) B/W 1947.
  74. Some Like it Hot (Dir. Billy Wilder) B/W 1959.
  75. The Thing from Another World! (Dir. Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks) B/W 1951.
  76. His Girl Friday (Dir. Howard Hawks) B/W 1940.
  77. Foreign Correspondent (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) B/W 1940.
  78. The Man Who Would be King (Dir. John Huston) 1975.
  79. The Misfits (Dir. John Huston) B/W 1961.
  80. A Matter of Life and Death (Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) 1946.
  81. Gandhi (Dir. Richard Attenborough) 1982.
  82. Metropolis (Dir. Fritz Lang) B/W Silent 1927.
  83. All Quiet on the Western Front (Dir. Lewis Milestone) B/W 1930.
  84. Ladri di Biciclette (Dir. Vittorio de Sica) B/W 1948.
  85. Rancho Notorious (Dir. Fritz Lang) 1952.
  86. The Enforcer (Dir. Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh) B/W 1950.
  87. The Ballad of Cable Houge (Dir. Sam Peckinpah) 1970.
  88. In a Lonely Place (Dir. Nicholas Ray) B/W 1950.
  89. Oliver Twist (Dir. David Lean) B/W 1948.
  90. Day of the Outlaw (Dir. Andre De Toth) B/W 1959.
  91. Singin’ in the Rain (Dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly) 1952.
  92. All the King’s Men (Dir Robert Rossen) B/W 1949.
  93. Brief Encounter (Dir. David Lean) B/W 1945.
  94. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Dir. Don Siegel) B/ W 1956.
  95. The Ipcress File (Dir. Sidney J. Furie) 1965.
  96. Patton (Dir. Franklin Schaffner) 1969.
  97. And Then There Were None (Dir. Rene Clair) B/W 1946.
  98. The Lodger (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) B/W Silent 1927.
  99. Alexander Nevsky (Dir. Sergei Eisenstein) B/W 1938.
  100. The Thin Man (Dir. W. S. Van Dyke) B/W 1934.
  101. Suspicion (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) B/W 1941.
  102. All About Eve (Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) B/W 1950.
  103. Monkey Business (Dir. Norman Z. Mcleod) B/W 1931.
  104. Limelight (Dir. Charles Chaplin) B/W 1952.
  105. The Shootist (Dir. Don Siegel) 1972.
  106. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Dir. Robert Hamer) B/W 1949.
  107. A Day at the Races (Dir. Sam Wood) B/W 1937.
  108. Hamlet (Dir. Laurence Olivier) B/W 1948.
  109. Gigi (Dir. Vincente Minnelli) 1958.
  110. The Magnificent Seven (Dir. John Sturges) 1960.
  111. E. T: The Extra Terrestrial (Dir. Steven Spielberg) 1973.
  112. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Dir. Steven Spielberg) 1981.
  113. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Dir. Stanley Kramer) 1965.
  114. Jurassic Park (Dir. Steven Spielberg) 1993.
  115. Charade (Dir. Stanley Donen) 1963.
  116. Harvey (Dir. Henry Koster) B/W 1950.
  117. The Taking of Pelham 123 (Dir. Joseph Sargent) 1974.
  118. Romancing the Stone (Dir. Roger Zemeckis) 1984.
  119. The Sting (Dir. George Roy Hill) 1973.
  120. To Kill a Mocking Bird (Dir. Robert Mulligan) B/W 1962.
  121. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Dir. John Ford) 1950.
  122. Apollo 13 (Dir. Ron Howard) 1995.
  123. Swing Time (Dir. George Stevens) B/W 1936.
  124. From Here to Eternity (Dir. Fred Zinnemann) B/W 1953.
  125. It’s a Wonderful Life (Dir. Frank Capra) B/W 1946.
  126. Funny Face (Dir. Stanley Donen) 1956.
  127. A Night at the Opera (Dir. Sam Wood) B/W 1935.
  128. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Dir. Robert Wise) B/W 1951.
  129. Zulu (Dir. Cy Endfield) 1964.
  130. Way Out West (Dir. James W. Horne) B/W 1937.
  131. The Bank Dick (Dir. Eddie Cline) B/W 1940.
  132. Saboteur (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) B/W 1942.
  133. Back to the Future (Dir. Roger Zemeckis) 1985.
  134. The Italian Job (Dir. Peter Collinson) 1969.
  135. Heaven Can Wait (Dir. Ernest Lubitsch) 1943.
  136. Time Bandits (Dir. Terry Gilliam) 1981.
  137. The Lady Vanishes (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) B/W 1938.
  138. El Dorado (Dir. Howard Hawks) 1967.
  139. Monkey Business (Dir. Howard Hawks) B/W 1952.
  140. An American in Paris (Dir. Vincente Minnelli) 1951.
  141. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Dir. Gore Verbinski) 2003.
  142. King Kong (Dir Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack) B/W 1933.
  143. My Favourite Brunette (Dir. Elliot Nugent) B/W 1947.
  144. The Seventh Victim (Dir. Mark Robson) B/W 1943.
  145. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Dir. Michael Curtiz, William Knighley) 1938.
  146. Young Frankenstein (Dir. Mel Brooks) B/W 1974.
  147. The African Queen (Dir. John Huston) 1951.
  148. Groundhog Day (Dir. Harold Ramis) 1993.
  149. The Private Life of Henry VIII (Dir. Alexander Korda) B/W 1933.
  150. Our Hospitality (Dir. Jack Blystone, Buster Keaton) B/W Silent 1923.
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I don’t want to be sarcastic, but what’s n° 151 ?

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Herbie Goes Bananas?

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(Straight face): The 39 Steps (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) B/W 1935.

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Top 5 films:

  1. Deep Red
  2. Django
  3. Compañeros
  4. The Great Silence
  5. Torso
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I was thinking of that cause you have Saboteur and Foreign Correspondent (and some other Hitch’s) on your list too.

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Thought so

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[quote=“Silence, post:65, topic:1396”]Top 5 films:

  1. Deep Red
  2. Django
  3. Compañeros
  4. The Great Silence
  5. Torso[/quote]
    It’s funny, but I haven’t yet seen one of these fiilms.
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That’s not funny.

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Is the a kind of joke, or is the expression not used where you come from (this might sound like I’m being sarcastic, but I’m not)?

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You haven’t seen Django or TGS?

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Nope.

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Well you need to rectify that situation asap John.
I’m not saying you’ll like them as much as the Leones but if you are a Spaghetti fan, and your involvement in a forum on this site lends me to believe you are, then they are both important fims to see. I’m sure you’d find them interesting if nothing else.
Companeros too for that matter.

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Important indeed. If you think FOD is brutal…

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I will try to as soon as possible. I’ve heard great things about them.

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They aren’t very hard to find.

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Yes all of those are essential viewing. I’m quite surprised at Django not being viewed yet John!

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I know it´s an expression, I just took it literally. Anyway, it´s not haha funny, but it is peculiar funny that you haven´t seen any of the 5 listed by Silence. No offense meant of course.

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I could never pick one favourite movie of all time, but one movie I can sit down and watch start to finish at any given moment is Reservoir Dogs. A fantastic film and I love the interaction between all these characters.

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No offence taken!