1. Forrest Gump
2. We Were Soldiers
3. Godfather II
4. Fight Club
5. Field of Dreams
6. Face/Off
7. True Lies
8. ALIENS
9. E.T. The Extraterrestrial
10. The Matrix

My personal top 10

Casablanca
Judgement At Nuremberg
Five Easy Pieces
Cool Hand Luke
Wild Strawberries
Seven Samurai
Some Like It Hot
A Clockwork Orange
Lost In Translation (I think it will stand the test of time)
The Godfather Part II

Hmmm...my top ten...

Pulp Fiction
Boogie Nights
Saving Private Ryan
The Godfather
Kill Bill
Fight Club
Chasing Amy
The Professional
The Royal Tenenbaums
Traffic

my ten favorite in no particular order...

Psycho
The Godfather
Schindler's List
Taxi Driver
Star Wars
Citizen Kane
Saving Private Ryan
Veritgo
Back to the Future
Beauty and the Beast (Disney)

Currently,

My Top 10
[list=1][*]Seven Samurai[*]Umberto D.[*]Seventh Seal[*]Children of Paradise[*]Lord of the Rings: Trilogy (viewed as one film)[*]Les Diabolique[*]Ikiru[*]Cinema Paradiso[*]Hiroshima Mon Amour[*]In the Mood for Love[/list=1]

Honorable mentioned:
Blade Runner
Color of Paradise
Thin Red Line
Ladykillers (1955)

to be totally anal, which versions of The Two Towers, Cinema Paradiso and Blade Runner - do you prefer.

- Two Towers :EE in my opinion is vastly superior to the theatrical edit

- the theatrical cut of Cinema Paradiso (not the recent director's cut) is my prefered version of the film

- the European cut of Blade Runner to be my fave cut of the film.

care to elaborate?

Using the "favorite" criterion, as opposed to "best", and in no particular order:

The Shawshank Redemption
It's a Wonderful Life
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
A Few Good Men
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Princess Bride
The Hudsucker Proxy
Sneakers
Fletch
Rounders

Honorable mention (it's so hard to choose just ten!): The Usual Suspects; Swingers; Office Space; The Straight Story; Ghost World; Harvey; Finding Nemo; Clerks; The Great Escape; Run Lola Run

Favorites, in no particular order...

Miller's Crossing
Clockwork Orange
Godfather part 1
Taxi Driver
Empire Strikes Back
Raiders
Adaptation
Chinatown
O Brother
Straw Dogs

Others: Blade Runner, The Killing, Rabid Dogs, Blazing Saddles, Traffic, 8 1/2, Fight Club, The Game, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, AI, Band of Outsiders, and of course The Big Lebowski.

EDIT: How could I have forgotten Casablanca...slide that in instead of Raiders, heh.

wow, no one's mention Renoir's "The Rules of the Game"

I haven't seen it yet, but have read enough critics top film lists that this is always mentioned.

I actually agree with you on the Lord of the Rings (I prefer the EE's)

I also agree on Cinema Paradiso, as the longer version seems to be full with extra visuals and not necassary to the story itself.

In regards to Blade Runner, the director's cut, which is the only version I have seen.

Cheers :beer:

DVD Smurf :)

Not a top 10, however, it is a perfect 10. The reason is that I think the other films on my top 10 is better overall cinematic experiences than Rules of the Game.

Perhaps it's influence and impact have been dilluted by imitators, but I think not. Personally, I was hugely dissappointed in the film, as I read the same hype you did and the film did nothing for me. Not a bad movie by any means, but just a puzzle to me why its SO well thought of. It could be a case of the emperors new clothes. It wasn't wildly innovative as far as I can tell. Give me Le Grande Illusion any day.

I am really surprised at the few responses for Lawrence of Arabia and I saw only one Frank Capra movie.

I couldn't beging to put them in order.

Memento
Lawrence of Arabia
It's a Wonderful Life
Wizard of Oz
The Birds
Vertigo
Sunset Blvd
Princess And The Warrior
Young Frankenstein
Sorcerer

1. The Godfather
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Schindler's List
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Dumb & Dumber
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Return of the King
8. Unforgiven
9. Animal House
10. Bridge on the River Kwai

Very Spielberg-centric but he's the man

Somebody likes his mafia movies ....

My personal Top 10 favorites:

1. Brazil
2. Seven Samurai
3. The Godfather
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. Dumbo
7. Rashomon
8. The Seventh Seal
9. Fantasia
10. Taxi Driver

And in case anybody's interested, the remainder of my Top 20 would be:

11. Star Wars
12. Throne of Blood
13. Mulholland Drive
14. Record of a Tenement Gentleman
15. Rebecca
16. The Red Shoes
17. Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau, not Disney)
18. Hable con Ella
19. An Autumn Afternoon
20. In The Mood For Love

Kickboxer 1 thru 10.