Your top five non-western movies?

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I am no fanatic cineast, but just 5 examples of many more movies I liked enough to view more than once, and I still could view again are :

Picnic At Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
Lawrence Of Arabia (David Lean)
Fantasia (Animated Disney production)
Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (Peter Jackson)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)

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Top 5 Non Westerns eh? I usually have trouble with these kinds of lists as I love so many films, but I did try something similar around my 30th Birthday, so Iā€™ll give it a go here.

Top 5:

  1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Spielberg

  2. Yojinbo (Yojimbo) (1961) Kurosawa

  3. Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle) (1970) Melville

  4. Dial M for Murder (1954) Hitchcock

  5. The Wizard of Oz (1939) Fleming/Vidor
    (Donā€™t judge me on this one, itā€™s a childhood favorite of mine)

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Hard enough just to pick five from those already listed aboveā€¦

In no orderā€¦

Battle of Algiers ('66) Pontecorvo
Itā€™s a Gift ('34) McLeod
Bicycle Thieves ('48) De Sica
The Innocents ('61) Clayton
Midnight Cowboy ('69) Schlesinger

And my 5 in no orderā€¦

My Dinner with Andre ('81) Louis Malle
Henry Fool ('98) Hal Hartley
Withnail and I ('87) Bruce Robinson
Together (2000) Lukas Moodysonn
Hobsonā€™s Choice ('54) David Lean

OK and while I think of itā€¦ 5 favourite road moviesā€¦

Two Lane Black Top ('71) Monte Hellman
Kikujiro ('99) Takeshi Kitano
Trafic ('71) Jacques Tati
Kings of the Road ('76) Wim Wenders
Slither ('73) Howard Zieff

Last of these could be in the first listā€¦

5 favourite directors (not counting Leone):

Tati
Lynch
Kurosawa
Ozu
Bergmann

Five favourite ghost moviesā€¦

OK, Iā€™ll stopā€¦

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Very difficult to compile ā€¦ many of those titles mentioned above are great favourites, so Iā€™ll try and list a few not mentioned.

  1. No Country for Old Men

  2. The Thing (1982)

  3. Last Picture Show

  4. The Graduate

  5. Deliverance

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  1. Das Boot
  2. Stalker
  3. Seven Samurai
  4. Fitzcarraldo
  5. Sorcerer

Also: all the best gothic horror movies (with Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Barbara Steele, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, etc.)

All the best Hitchcock (Rope, Dial M, Rear Window, etc.)

All of Ray Harryhausenā€™s fantasy flicks.

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Army of Shadows!!!

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My top five (no attempt at objectivity made):

Little Caesar (1931)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Chinatown (1974)
The Passenger (1975)
Blood Simple (1984)

(Runners-up: Bladerunner, Cul-de-sac, Nosferatu (1922), The Long Goodbye, Touch of Evil, Yojimbo)

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  1. The Seven Samurai
  2. The Godfather Part II
  3. The Godfather
  4. SzindbƔd
  5. The Princess Bride
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Bearing in mind that I consider Easy Rider and Salvatore Giuliano westerns;

The Hobbit (1977)
Heat
Public Enemies
Spirited Away
Conan the Barbarian

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  1. Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa
  2. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick
  3. Avengers: Infinity War/Endgame (Essentially one marathon movie) (2018/2019) Anthony and Joe Russo
  4. High and Low (1963) Akira Kurosawa
  5. Big Trouble in Little China (1986) John Carpenter
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Chucking in my two centsā€¦

Scarface (1983)
The Godfather parts 1&2
True Romance
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction

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Doing a top ten! That said the top 5 are a lock and that 6-10 could have films changed out but just ones that pop to mind at this moment. Neither are in numerical order.

  1. The Godfather Part 1 & 2

  2. Once Upon A Time in America

  3. Vertigo

  4. Taxi Driver

  5. Reservoir Dogs

  6. The Night of the Hunter

  7. The Seventh Seal

  8. A Matter of Life and Death

  9. Cinema Paradiso

  10. Laura

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Great film! I heard Brian De Palma remade it in ā€˜83, but itā€™s pretty obscure.

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The 1932 Scarface is fantastic and sadly most people have no clue about it. Love to pair it in a double bill with The Roaring Twenties (which needs a blu-ray like yesterday).

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ā€œThey got machine guns you can carry!ā€

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  1. The Machinist (2004)
  2. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  3. Commando (1985)
  4. The Warriors (1979)
  5. Joker (2019)
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It seems I have to come clean. I meant the De Palma one, Iā€™ve watched it countless times and love it. Nothing against Howard Hawksā€™ though, itā€™s a good film too.

Feel free to sharpen your pitchforks everybody! :wink:

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  1. Mad Max 2 (1981)
  2. Terminator 2 (1991)
  3. Pulp Fiction (1993)
  4. Duel (1971)
  5. Zodiac (2007)
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  1. Duel (1971)

Duel is friggin great. Think Iā€™m still burnt out from it from high school, though, when I first saw it on my own, then watched it with my sisters, then watched it a third time with my brother all within the span of like a week or two lol.

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My list from a few years ago needs updating ā€¦ but will likely change again in a few weeks :wink:

  1. Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick
  2. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Robert Hamer
  3. The Fist Foot Way (2006) Jody Hill
  4. The Great Escape (1963) John Sturges
  5. Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg

Nice thing about doing this is seeing otherā€™s lists and being reminded to check out many of the titles mentioned.

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