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    Posted: September 14 2020 at 11:25
1. Harry and Tonto
2. La Strada
3. Nashville
4. They Shoot Horses, Don't they?
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
6. Network
7. The Battle of Algiers
8. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
9. A Woman Under The Influence
10. Buffalo '66
11. harold and maude
12. Umberto D
13. Shadows in Paradise
14. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
15. La Grande Illusion
16. the seventh seal
17. ace in the hole
18. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
19. Fat City
20. The Bicycle Thief
21. the swimmer
22. mikey and nicky
23. A Child is Waiting
24. on the waterfront
25. wild strawberries
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Going to do this on the fly so I'm sure I'll forget something. The order could change:

1. The Godfather
2. Spartacus
3. The Great Escape
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Godfather II
6. Apocalypse Now
7. Alien
8. The Silence of The Lambs
9. Clockwork Orange
10. Star Wars
11. Monty Python & the Holy Grail
12. Blade Runner
13. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
14. And Justice For All
15. Schindler's list
16. Jaws
17. Papillon
18. The Martian
19. Dog Day Afternoon
20. Seven
21. Night of the Living Dead
22. Casablanca
23. Network
24. The Usual Suspects
25. Fight Club
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1-) The Big Lebowski
2-) Back to the Future
3-) Back to the Future 2
4-) eXistenZ
5-) In the Mouth of Madness
6-) Dark City (1998)
7-) City of Lost Children
8-) Children of Men
9-) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
10-) The Matrix
11-) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
12-) The Lost Boys
13-) The Nightmare Before Christmas
14-) Instinct (1999)
15-) The Truman Show
16-) Dumb and Dumber
17-) The Shining
18-) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
19-) A Clockwork Orange
20-) Snatch
21-) The Butterfly Effect
22-) Hellraiser 
23-) Hellraiser II (Hellbound)
24-) Twelve Monkeys
25-) The Game


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1. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
2. Vertigo
3. Devil Rides Out
4. Night of the Demon
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. Blood on Satan's Claw
8. The Italian Job
9. Melody
10. Ipcress File
11. Get Carter
12. Casablanca
13. Kind Hearts and Coronets
14. The Producers (1967 version)
15. This is Spinal Tap
16. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
17. Back to the Future
18. Sleuth
19. The Swimmer
20. Dark Star
21. Bedazzled
22. The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
23. Carry on Screaming
24. Whiplash
25. 1917

I've stuck purely to picking favourite films that I can enjoy re-watching the most and wouldn't claim that several of these are the "best"  movies ever made.
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I'm only going to list two favourite movies. There have been plenty of movies that I've liked, even loved, but these two made me go "WOW!!!" after the first time I watched them on the big screen:
 
1. Koyaanisqatsi
2. The Matrix
 
 
 
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In no particular (except off the top of my head)

1. The Godfather
2. Godfather II
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. Blade Runner
5. The Quiet Man
6. The Elephant Man
7. Amadeus
8. Good Fellas
9. Robin Hood (1939)
10. Schindler's List
11. The Silence of the Lambs
12. Fargo
13. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
14. The Exorcist
15. Pan's Labyrinth
16. Inherit the Wind
17. Midnight Express
18. Papillon
19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
20. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
21. A Mighty Wind
22. Twelve Angry Men
23. A Man for All Seasons
24. The Breakfast Club
25. The Lion in Winter


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In no order. Subject to change.

Forrest Gump
Psycho
The Evil Dead
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Pink Flamingos
This is Spinal Tap
Young Frankenstein
The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
The Shawshank Redemption
Best In Show
The Big Lebowski
Harry Potter (all eight)
Sleeper
Tommy


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"Favorite"??

1. The Last Samurai
2. Blade Runner
3. The Lion in Winter
4. Amistad
5. Never Cry Wolf
6. Joyeux Noël
7. The Danish Girl
8. Enchanted April
9. Love, Actually
10. Jojo Rabbit
11. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
12. The Joy Luck Club
13. The Bill Murray Stories:  Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
14. About Time
15. Harold and Maude
16. Shakespeare in Love
17. Green Book
18. Lincoln
19. The Sound of Music
20. Being There
21. Off The Map
22. The Matrix
23. Monty Python and The Holy Grail
24. A Room with a View
25. Spanglish
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No order.

1.Patton
2.Godfather I & II
3.The Outlaw Josey Wales
4.Seven Samurai
5.2001: A Space Odyssey
6.The Empire Strikes Back
7.The Verdict
8.In the Heat of the Night
9.Goldfinger
10.Dirty Harry
11.Midnight Cowboy
12.Stardust Memories
13.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
14.The French Connection
15.Death Wish (1974)
16.Rocky
17.Midway
18.Network
19.Taxi Driver
20.Blazing Saddles
21.Monty Python and the Holy Grail
22.Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
23.Full Metal Jacket
24.A Soldier's Story
25.Malcolm X
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

"Favorite"??
1. The Last Samurai
2. Blade Runner
3. The Lion in Winter
4. Amistad
5. Never Cry Wolf
6. Joyeux Noël
7. The Danish Girl
8. Enchanted April
9. Love, Actually
10. Jojo Rabbit
11. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
12. The Joy Luck Club
13. The Bill Murray Stories:  Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
14. About Time
15. Harold and Maude
16. Shakespeare in Love
17. Green Book
18. Lincoln
19. The Sound of Music
20. Being There
21. Off The Map
22. The Matrix
23. Monty Python and The Holy Grail
24. A Room with a View
25. Spanglish

If it had been your favorite 27, Amistad and Lincoln would have made my list (probably should be there anyway).  Two great movies with some great acting performances.
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I don't watch that many films, but I will give it a go (no particular order):

A Hard Day's Night (1964) - Richard Lester
Amadeus (1984) - Milos Forman
Att Angöra en Brygga (Docking the Boat) (1964) - Tage Danielsson
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) (2006) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Dead Poets Society (1989) - Peter Weir
Der Untergang (The Downfall) (2004) - Oliver Hirschbiegel
Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) (1943) - Carl Th. Dreyer
Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Stanley Kubrick
Ed Wood (1994) - Tim Burton
The Great Dictator (1940) - Charlie Chaplin
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) - Coen brothers
Olsenbanden Ser Rødt (The Olsen Gang Sees Red) (1976) - Erik Balling
Modern Times (1935) - Charlie Chaplin
Mon Oncle (My Uncle) (1958) - Jacques Tati
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - Terry Jones
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) - Terry Jones
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) - Henry Selick
This is Spinal Tap (1984) - Rob Reiner
Volver (2006) - Pedro Almodovar



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in no specific order (numbers only for keeping track)

1) M by Fritz Lang
2) Don't Look Now! by Nicolas Roeg
3) Repulsion by Roman Polanski
4) Die Blechtrommel by Volker Schlöndorff
5) Belle de Jour by Luis Buñuel
6) Viva la Muerte by Fernando Arrabal
7) El Topo by Alejandro Jodorowsky
8) De Wisselwachter by Jos Stelling
9) Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa
10) De vierde man by Paul Verhoeven
11) L’important c’est d’aimer by Andrzej Żuławski
12) Chinesisches Roulette by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
13) Week-end by Jean-Luc Godard
14) Une Belle Fille comme moi by François Truffaut
15) Les Innocents aux Mains Sales by Claude Chabrol
16) Zardoz by John Boorman
17) Le Trio Infernal by Francis Girod
18) Themroc by Claude Faraldo
19) Cria Cuervos by Carlos Saura
20) Nosferatu by Friedrich Murnau
21) Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma by Pier Paolo Pasolini
22) Il portiere di notte by Liliana Cavani
23) Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel by Thees Klahn
24) Malpertuis by Harry Kümel
25) Cloud Atlas by Lana and Lilly Wachowski and Tom Tykwer

you may notice there are a lot of weird or controversial movies on the list


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^ Like your lists, The Anders and BaldJean; it takes us out of the Hollywood mainstream...
In a similar vein, here's my rather arbitrary list (in no particular order):

Satantango - Béla Tarr
La notte - Michelangelo Antonioni
Im Lauf der Zeit - Wim Wenders
L'année dernière à Marienbad - Alain Resnais
De vierde man - Paul Verhoeven
Man with a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov
The Cranes are Flying - Mikhail Kalatozov
L'Atalante - Jean Vigo
Kuhle Wampe - Slatan Dudow
Vampyr - Carl Theodor Dreyer
Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa - Luchino Visconti
A Taste of Honey - Tony Richardson
Persona - Ingmar Bergman
Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson
Fata Morgana - Werner Herzog
Ugetsu monogatari - Kenji Mizoguchi
Tokyo monogatari - Yasujiro Ozu
Warm Water under a Red Bridge - Shohei Imamura
Once upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone
Modern Times - Charles Chaplin
L'age d'or - Luis Bunuel
El sol del membrillo - Victor Erice
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - Peter Greenaway
Through the Olive Trees - Abbas Kiarostami
The Birds - Alfred Hitchcock

... and many others...


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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

In no particular (except off the top of my head)

1. The Godfather
2. Godfather II
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. Blade Runner
5. The Quiet Man
6. The Elephant Man
7. Amadeus
8. Good Fellas
9. Robin Hood (1939)
10. Schindler's List
11. The Silence of the Lambs
12. Fargo
13. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
14. The Exorcist
15. Pan's Labyrinth
16. Inherit the Wind
17. Midnight Express
18. Papillon
19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
20. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
21. A Mighty Wind
22. Twelve Angry Men
23. A Man for All Seasons
24. The Breakfast Club
25. The Lion in Winter

Nice List Dark Elf! A lot of those made my list, several others could have as well.  




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Hi,

My list consists of a lot of things that were not on the popular lists ... so you won't find many of those famous films that everyone saw ... here goes and it is by sections that I reviewed them on my website ... I didn't count them, btw!

After The Fox
Amadeus
Bad Timing, A Sensual Obsession
Bedazzled (Original)
Brazil
Performance
Prospero's Books
The Devils
Dr. Strangelove

Belle du Jour
Camille Claudel
Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring
Indochine
The City of Lost Children
La Belle Noiseusse

Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Allegro Non Troppo
Babette's Feast
The Island on Bird Street
Carmen (Carlos Saura)
Cinema Paradiso
The Fencing Master
The Road Warrior
The Double Life of Veronique

All That Jazz
Blade Runner
Henry and June
The Last of the Mohicans
The Wild Bunch
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Two separate lists for foreign and Soviet movies. 

Of all the non-porn fiction I like comedies only. So... 

25 foreign movies 

English-speaking ones: 
best to worst, more or less

1. Modern Times
2. The City Lights 
3. A King In New York 
4. Silent Movie (by Mel Brooks)
5. Monty Python's German episodes (two counting for one movie?)
6. Monsieur Verdoux 
7, 8, 9 - The Naked Gun trilogy
10. Police Squad (6 episode TV series - counting for one movie?)
11. The Naked Truth (1992 comedy by Nico Mastorakis) 
12, 13. Hot Shots!-1, 2 
14. The Cheap Detective 
15. Murder By Death 
16. The Kentucky Fried Movie 
17. Clue

French
no real order...  
18. Les Fous Du Stade
19. La Course A L'echalot
20. Le Coup Du Parapluie
21. Je Suis Timide Mais Je Me Soigne
22. A Gauche En Sortant De L'ascenseur
23, 24, 25. Fantomas trilogy.

Not so sure, Soviet ones will be any familiar to you
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25? I can only think of 12:

1) Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
2) Chariots of Fire (1981)
3) Avalon (1990)
4) Local Hero (1983)
5) Inside Out (2015)
6) Dunkirk (2017)
7) Green Card (1990)
8) Silver Streak (1976)
9) Quicksilver (1986)
10) Epic (2013)
11) The Truman Show (1998)
12) You've Got Mail (1998)
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1. Blade Runner 2039
2. Blade Runner
3. Alien
4. The Abyss
5. John Carpenters The Thing
6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7. The Long Good Friday
8. The French Connection II
9. The French Connection
10. The Orphanage
11. Sin City
12. 16 Blocks
13. Dunkirk
14. American Beauty
15. Shallow Grave
16. Straw Dogs
17. When Harry Met Sally
18. The Wicker Man (1973)
19. North by North West
20. Enemy At The Gates
21. Single White Female
22. The Last Seduction
23. The Tale Of Buster Scruggs
24. Duel
25. Apollo 13
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