name your top 5 favorite movies of all time

To borrow a phrase from ManlyBanisters: *moistens*

In answer to your other question, yes i am a Romantic. An utterly hopeless Romantic.

Then there is still hope for those of us who dare to dream. It lies within those mystical, imaginative eyes that do you so much justice.

As an avid movie buff, I see hundred's of my favorites. I do feel that some great ones have been overlooked. Herewith, in no order: El Topo, the most aclaimed underground movie; finally released this spring. World's Fastest Indian, Diabolique, The Ealing Studios films with Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers such as Kind Hearts and Coronets, Belles of St. Trinians, Man in the White Suit (a classic social commentary) Lavander Hill Mob, Baxter (French) Rear Window, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Drowning by Numbers, Frequency and The Majestic. Thanks for all of the other GREAT choices. Someone should compile a maaster list from all these suggestions. Alex

Breaking the waves
Magnolia
Naked
What ever happened to Baby Jane?
The Draughtman's Contract

L'homme qui aimait les femmes.
Casablanca
Apocalypse now
Blade Runner
The Life of Brian

Anything without Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson is good.

Amelie
Paper Moon
North by Northwest
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Raging Bull

Ordinary People
Saving Private Ryan
Sophie's Choice
The Matrix
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cinema Paradiso
Fargo


Yeah, I know that's 7.

Earl! Come back! Earl!

Yeah, let's make it seven

Snatch
The Pink Panther
A Special Day
Search for the Holy Grail
Moonstruck
Fried Green Tomatoes
Cool Hand Luke

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Ten Commandments

Blade Runner

The Day the Earth Stood Still

A Clockwork Orange

The Lady from Shanghai - Love Rita Hayworth as an evil blond.

8 1/2

Brazil

Chinatown

Kurasawa's Dreams - Love that red Tokyo...


Can watch 'em all over and over...

In the next tier I'd put Godfather, City Lights, Sunset Boulevard, The Lion in Winter, and Ed Wood.

gjorg: Will you ever share more of yourself with us? Life's too short...

i can't do just 5!

off the top of my head:

The Talented Mr. Ripley
Jurassic Park
Moulin Rouge
Saving Private Ryan
The Color Purple
The Phantom of the Opera (2004 musical)
and so many more!

honorable mentions:
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (purely because Ian Diarmid made Palpatine into one evil motherfucker)
Eastern Promises (because i watched it last night and loved it)
Fight Club

Short list covering only the last few years

The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Unforgiven
Unbreakable
The Incredibles
Fight Club

but need more room....

so much more room

Rocky (number 1, byfar)
Jaws
Field of Dreams
Halloween
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I loved all of these movies except Unbreakable. I thougth it was horrible and the start of Shamilan's downward spiral. I wonder what you liked about it.