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1) The Flowers of War (Christian Bale)
2) Enemy at the Gates (Jude Law)
3) The Last Samurai (Tom Cruise)
4) Lust, Caution (Period piece from Ang Lee)
5) Blade Runner (1982)

Many more...
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Some of you have some great lists.

It’s a struggle sticking to five but here goes…

- Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
- Shawshank Redemption
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Casino (many prefer Goodfellas but Casino is underrated)
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Honorable mentions: the holiday fare… Christmas Vacation, the Holiday, etc.
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Can't pick my top 5. I enjoyed many that were mentioned already. Three that I haven't seen mentioned:

The Sting
Kelly's Heroes
Ordinary People
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Probably...
Quiz Show (1994)
Groundhog Day (1993)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Far From the Madding Crowd (1998)

Considered...
Apollo 13 (1995)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
A League of Their Own (1992)
Back to the Future (1985)
Cinderella Man (2005)
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Someone needs to compile statistics from this discussion. It would be useful to see what Bogleheads think are the greatest movies. Then compare that to the general public and a critics list.

As for myself, I don't really have favorites. When I can't fall asleep, one thing I sometimes do is try to compile a list of my top ten favorite movies. I can come up with numbers 1 and 2 to start, but then at 3 I begin to have an internal debate as to whether any of them are really worthy. I have never gotten beyond this point before falling asleep. No idea what number 4 would be.
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The Matrix
Galaxy Quest
Office Space
Shaun of the Dead
Airplane!
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Enjoyed reading others' lists. Here are mine:

First Place:

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Seven Samurai

Animal House

Apocalypse Now

Last of the Mohicans

Second String:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Schindler's List

The Godfather 1/2

The Great Escape

Saving Private Ryan

Third Team:

Kill Bill 1/2

Get Out

Something About Mary

Fist of Fury

Pulp Fiction
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Airplane!
The Incredibles
Indiana Jones
Die Hard
Spirited Away

I am struggling here, Spirited Away is a very close tie with Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, Kiki Delivery Service, Howl Moving Castle, and other Hayao Miyazaki's movie.
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The Graduate
The Black Stallion
Robocop
Blazing Saddles
Valley Girl

Honorable Mention:
Notting Hill
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The Princess Bride. My top movies change around a lot but this one is consistently one of them.

The Usual Suspects

A Hard Day's Night

The Bad News Bears with Walter Matthau. I don't think this movie would be made anymore! I sure loved it as a youngster. Parts of Bizet's opera Carmen are used to great effect. To this day when I hear Carmen I still think of the movie.
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Glad to see this one mentioned. Another one where music really helps shape the film, this time with Rossini's The Barber of Seville. And yet another one with Jackie Earle Haley - he was also in The Bad News Bears.
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Fight club
Cedar rapids
The burbs
The Game
Big trouble in little china
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I have to keep it to five? ARRGH!

The 1st "Star Wars"
No Country for Old Men
Eye of God
Pulp Fiction
Office Space

(.....plus Fargo, American Beauty, 30 Days of Night).
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On the Waterfront
Chinatown
The French Connection
Rear Window
The Departed


Not really my “top 5” , that’s too difficult, but these are ones that come to mind.
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tooluser wrote: Sat Jun 19, 2021 12:00 am Someone needs to compile statistics from this discussion. It would be useful to see what Bogleheads think are the greatest movies. Then compare that to the general public and a critics list.
To me there is a huge difference between what I think the greatest movies are and which are my favorites and those lists would be really different, I imagine!
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Godfather
Godfather 2
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Marathon Man
Double Indemnity
Day of the Jackal
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#Cruncher wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:39 am Sorry, but I can't limit myself to only five. :(

First I'll second these made by previous posters:
Casablanca (1942)
All About Eve (1950)
The African Queen (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
North by Northwest (1959)

My Fair Lady (1964)
Deliverance (1972)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Airplane (1980)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

And here are others of my favorites that I didn't see listed. Some I didn't expect to see, but many I'm surprised no one else named:
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
The Four Feathers (1939)
Goodby Mister Chips (1939)
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Ninotchka (1939)

His Girl Friday (1940)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Random Harvest (1942)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Great Expectations (1946)
Out of the Past (1947)
The Big Clock (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
The Winslow Boy (1948)

Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Big Country (1958)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Fugitive (1993)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Edited 7:20 AM 6/19/21 to add the following. (Didn't realize I had so many favorite movies!)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Gunga Din (1939)

Ball of Fire (1941)
Laura (1944)
The Valley of Decision (1945)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Third Man (1949)

Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
The Court Jester (1955)
Rififi (1955)
The Killing (1956)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Charade (1963)
Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Sting (1973)

The Terminator (1984)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Fargo (1996)
Outstanding List except Terminator and Judgement Day
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The films of Akira Kurosawa
Especially "Ikiru"
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American Beauty
English Patient
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Virgin Suicides
Waking the Dead
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City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
To Catch a Thief (1955, sometimes I prefer Vertigo, 1958)
Carmen (Carlos Saura, 1983 or Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Pedro Almodovar, 1988)
Mediterraneo (Gabriele Salvadores, 1991)
Atomic Blonde (David Leitch, 2017)
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The Gumball Rally
The Jerk
Smokey and the Bandit or Caddyshack (I can't decide)
Back to the Future
The Final Countdown (splash the zeros....my favorite part)
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JMacDonald wrote: Sat Jun 19, 2021 5:56 pm The films of Akira Kurosawa
Especially "Ikiru"
Also Ran, as I remember it's like King Lear with a character that makes Lady Macbeth look like a Girl Scout Den Mother.
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My five (minus about a hundred more favorites) centering on comedy and with links to favorite scenes:

Two Chaplin films, elements of which have been copied in many good comedies to follow:

The Gold Rush
The Great Dictator https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wzPZJwczLVA

From Ernst Lubitsch:

The Shop Around the Corner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xk56EBHicE

From Preston Sturges:

Sullivan’s Travels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ofxELr5sa4

From Leo McCarey:

The Awful Truth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdbQsl5msxA)
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Shaolin Soccer starring Stephen Chow has a real kick to it, winner of many awards, and absolutely hilarious. Given all the serious movies listed in this thread that I have never watched, I can tell my tastes run completely different from most others. Anybody else like this movie?

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I'm really surprised that no one mentioned either 5Easy Pieces or Raging Bull.
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davibi02 wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:53 pm Brazil (1985)
Children of Men (2006)
The Fall (2006)
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
Game Night (2018)
Not my favorite but I really can’t encourage people to watch Won’t You Be My Neighbor enough. The movie is about the power of forgiveness and that being positive and nice is an effort worth doing.
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Great thread! So many good movies which I've seen but somewhat forgotten. Thank you for the suggestions and recollections. I've picked out a few "new" ones that interest me for one reason or another and I'll check them out. And one makes me interested in reading the book that inspired it (made into a movie I'd never heard of, multiple times decades ago), so it's on my reading list.

And I'd totally forgotten about Hairspray. Classic. Baltimore.

I didn't see Shakespeare in Love on anyone's list. Not a Boglehead's fare?
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Boy this is tough but here’s my list:
1. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
2. O Brother Where Art Though
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. Die Hard
5. The Departed
6. Lord of the Rings and Dark Knight Trilogy

Honorable mentions:
Monty Python Holy Grail, Last of The Mohicans, The Thing, Snatch, 1917, Gangs of New York

Wild Card:
Tango and Cash


Someone put Big Trouble Little China on their list, well done!
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1.) Jeramiah Johnson - 1972 - Robert Redford
2.) Mountain Men - 1980 - Charlton Heston
3.) A Fistful of Dollars - 1964 - Clint Eastwood (really any of Eastwoods westerns would fit)
4.) Logan's Run - 1976 - Michael York
5.) Blade Runner - 1982 - Harrison Ford
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1) Aliens
2) The Spanish Prisoner
3) The Usual Suspects
4) Tombstone
5) Whiplash

+1 for Belfast flyer who note “The Game” as that was also a contender for my list

Honorable mention - The Princess Bride
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BradJ wrote: Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:29 pm Not my favorite but I really can’t encourage people to watch Won’t You Be My Neighbor enough. The movie is about the power of forgiveness and that being positive and nice is an effort worth doing.
"Power of forgiveness" makes me think you might be thinking of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018) is a lovely documentary which I highly recommend. (In an I'm-not-crying-YOU'RE-crying sort of way.)
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davibi02 wrote: Sat Jun 19, 2021 10:27 pm
BradJ wrote: Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:29 pm Not my favorite but I really can’t encourage people to watch Won’t You Be My Neighbor enough. The movie is about the power of forgiveness and that being positive and nice is an effort worth doing.
"Power of forgiveness" makes me think you might be thinking of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018) is a lovely documentary which I highly recommend. (In an I'm-not-crying-YOU'RE-crying sort of way.)
Yes, you are correct. I need to watch that documentary.
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livesoft wrote: Sat Jun 19, 2021 7:46 pm Shaolin Soccer starring Stephen Chow has a real kick to it, winner of many awards, and absolutely hilarious. Given all the serious movies listed in this thread that I have never watched, I can tell my tastes run completely different from most others. Anybody else like this movie?
Seen Kung Fu Hustle? That's one I like. Another from Stephen Chow. Very re-watchable. The Landlady wsa brilliant.

I've seen Shaolin Soccer. I liked it but It seems like a warmup for Hustle.
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Winter Light (1963)
Mirror (1975)
Come and See (1985)
Satantango (1994)
Naked (1993)
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1. Layer Cake
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
3. Get Shorty
4. The Fast and the Furious Part 6
5. Better Luck Tomorrow
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Moonstruck
Downfall (2004)
Das Boot
Sophie's Choice
Longtime Companion
Madness of King George+
Coco (2017 animation)+

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In no particular order:

Dragon the Bruce Lee Story
Jurassic Park
Bad Boys
Stand By Me
Training Day
The Big Lebowski

As an aside, at the end of Stand By Me when Richard Dreyfuss types on his computer "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?" It hits me in the feels every time :shock:
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My top favorites change periodically. However these are the ones that usually make the list:
Amelie
An Ideal Husband
Love Actually
Moulin Rouge
Mononoke Hime
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I'm surprised that Tokyo Story, Citizen Kane, and Gone with the Wind are hardly ever mentioned on this thread.

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My Cousin Vinnie
Baby Boom (Diane Keaton)
The Sound of Music
Pillow Talk (Doris Day and Rock Hudson)
Bringing up Baby (Katherine Hepburn)
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Chariots of Fire
Casa Blanca
The Watch on the Rhine
The Sound of Music
Fiddler on the Roof
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1. The Mask of Demetrius
2. Flamingo Road
3. Kansas City Confidential
4. Baby Face
5. Peggy Sue Got Married

(I also like the old Godzilla movies.)
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triggerfish10 wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 6:38 am In no particular order:

Dragon the Bruce Lee Story
Jurassic Park
Bad Boys
Stand By Me
Training Day
The Big Lebowski

As an aside, at the end of Stand By Me when Richard Dreyfuss types on his computer "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?" It hits me in the feels every time :shock:
Great list. Jurassic Park withstands the test of time, and Training Day is just a great movie. Big Lebowski is that one movie I just don’t get, even though I fit the “type” to like it.
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In no particular order:

Chariots of Fire
Gladiator
2001 A Space Odyssey
Lawrence of Arabia
The French Connection
Bullett
Star Wars
Most of the James Bond's Movies
All 3 of the Bourne Movies
For A Fist of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Outlaw Josey Whales

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Great list.

I’d add “Just Mercy” an award winning recent film about a Harvard Law graduate.
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1) Dead Poets Society
2) The Hunt for Red October
3) Patton
4) Saving Private Ryan
5) Young Frankenstein
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