Post Your Top 25 Favorite Movies of All Time

[johns]

1. Vertigo (1958)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. Forrest Gump (1994)
4. My Fair Lady (1964)
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
6. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
7. Pinocchio (1940)
8. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
9. Modern Times (1936)
10. Rear Window (1954)

[Escapay]

I don't think I've ever posted my top 25, mainly because it changes every couple of years. At the moment, thinking about my favorites leads to this unreliable list. I can't put them in any order, so it's chronological for now

1930s:
Footlight Parade (1933, dir. Lloyd Bacon, Warner Bros.)
Swing Time (1936, dir. George Stevens, RKO)
Bringing Up Baby (1938, dir. Howard Hawks, RKO)

1940s:
Random Harvest (1942, dir. Mervyn LeRoy, MGM)
Laura (1944, dir. Otto Preminger, 20th Century Fox)
Brief Encounter (1946, dir. David Lean, Cineguild)
Gilda (1946, dir. Charles Vidor, Columbia)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946, dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, The Archers)
The Red Shoes (1948, dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, The Archers)

1950s:
A Place in the Sun (1951, dir. George Stevens, Paramount)
The Band Wagon (1953, dir. Vincente Minnelli, MGM)
Sabrina (1954, dir. Billy Wilder, Paramount)
The Ten Commandments (1956, dir. Cecil B. DeMille, Paramount)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957, dir. Billy Wilder, United Artists)

1960s/1970s:
Swiss Family Robinson (1960, dir. Robert Stevenson, Disney)
Mary Poppins (1964, dir. Robert Stevenson, Disney)
The Graduate (1967, dir. Mike Nichols, Embassy Pictures)
Ryan's Daughter (1970, dir. David Lean, MGM)

1980s/1990s:
Somewhere in Time (1980, dir. Jeannot Szwarc, Universal)
Clue (1985, dir. Jonathan Lynn, Paramount)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989, dir. Rob Reiner, Castle Rock)
Aladdin (1992, dir. Ron Clements & John Musker, Disney)

2000s:
Love Actually (2003, dir. Richard Curtis, Working Title Films)
Paris je t'aime (2006, dir. Olivier Assayas, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel & Ethan Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, and Gus Van Sant, Victoires International/Pirol Stiftung/Canal+/X-Filme Creative Pool)
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day (2008, dir. Bharat Nalluri, Focus Features)

albert

[avonleastories95]

I am also going to include Disney movies. Is that all right?
(the first five are Faerie Tale Theatre)
25. Faerie Tale Theatre: Thumbelina (1983)
24. Faerie Tale Theatre: Princess and the Pea (1983)
23. Faerie Tale Theatre: The Frog Prince (1982)
22. Faerie Tale Theatre: The Snow Queen (1985)
21. Faerie Tale Theatre: Little Red Riding Hood (1983)
20. Faerie Tale Theatre: The Little Mermaid (1987)
19. Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)
18. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
17. Annie (1982)
16. Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985)
15. My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
14. Les Miserables (1996 Recording of the Musical)
13. The Muppet Movie (1979)
12. The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
11. Music of the Heart (1999)
10. Godspell (1973)
9. Pete's Dragon (1977)
8. Miracle on 34th Street (original) (1947)
7. SCROOGE (1951)
6. Anastasia (1997)
5. The Little Mermaid (1989)
4. The Parent Trap (1961)
3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
2. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
1. Holiday Inn (1942)

[Avaitor]

Scaps, really? No Beauty and the Beast? I'm surprised.

Looking at my list, I'm pretty satisfied with it, but I may want to make one addition: replace Goodfellas with


Scott Pilgrim vs. The World- 2010
Directed by Edgar Wright

[Escapay]

Scaps, really? No Beauty and the Beast? I'm surprised.

The Rocketeer isn't on there too, and it's one of my favorite live-action Disney movies. Oddly, Swiss Family Robinson and Mary Poppins, which are in my top 10 but not #1, made it before The Rocketeer. Well, I did say the list was unreliable.

But for Beauty and the Beast, I hated to not include it. But I had so many movies from the 40s/50s that by the time I reached the 80s/90s, I had to really cut it close. I wanted to include both Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, and very nearly did, but in the end decided to toss a coin and see what that would tell me to do.

Looking at the list (which I did call unreliable anyway), if I were to remove one movie to include Beauty and the Beast, it'd probably be The Graduate. Great film, but I don't replay it as much as Beauty and the Beast. And it is about favorites anyway, not best.

albert

[Just Myself]

I'm glad to say that 6 1/2 years later, my tastes in films haven't changed, but merely expanded. You can see my old top 25 up further on the list (it's on Pg. 1). As of today, here's my top:

1. Inception


2. The Shawshank Redemption


3. Pulp Fiction

4. The Dark Knight

5. The Departed

6. Raiders of the Lost Ark

7. The Lion King

8. V For Vendetta

9. Back to the Future

10. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

The rest in alphabetical order:

The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Aliens
Batman Begins
The Empire Strikes Back
Fight Club
GoodFellas
The Goonies
Hot Fuzz
Iron Man
Jurassic Park
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Return of the Jedi
Star Trek (2009)
Star Wars
Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Cheers,
JM

[DVDBuff1]

In no order...

Almost Famous
Amadeus
The Apartment
Beetlejuice
The Big Lebowski
Casablanca
Clerks
Coraline
Dazed and Confused
The Godfather Pts. I & II
Goodfellas
Jaws
M
Mrs. Doubtfire
Napoleon Dynamite
Pan's Labyrinth
Persepolis
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
The Shining
The Silence of the Lambs
Singin in the Rain
Spirited Away
Waiting for Guffman
Whiplash

[Patricier21]

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