I was looking at the topics and noticed that there was one important topic missing. What are your top 10 movies of all time? I usually ask this (or top 5) when I am getting to know someone. Here's mine.

Jaws
Heat
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Donnie Darko
Mr. Smith GoesTo Washington
Miller's Crossing
Manhattan
Rushmore
The Graduate
The Hustler

Well, I didn't start this, but I'll certainly add to it. This list only leaves off 200-300 films which I believe all movie watchers SHOULD see, but Top Ten is 10. (wong, if you ever return, don't slam me too much.)

1.(tie!) "Elmer Gantry"(1960) and "Jaws"(1975)
3."Star Wars"(1977)
4."Midnight Cowboy"(1969)
5."Raiders of the Lost Ark"(1981)
6."Cabaret"(1972)
7."Little Big Man"(1970)
8."The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"(2003)
9."Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"(1984)
10."Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"(1966)

So much for any pretense that I care for "great art", but then again those are great art, maybe just not pretentious. Let's see...top ten? I think I can sneak at least 100 more on here at the end, especially some classics. There's...shut up, mark( that sounds like a good title.)

My top ten:
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Godfather
Gone With The Wind...
JUST KIDDING! I HAD TO JAKAL!
Ok, the REAL top ten:
It's A wonderful Life
Glengarry Glen Ross
Rushmore
Heat
L.A. Confidential
Seven
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Green Mile
Tombstone
Harvey
As Jakal knows, this is always a hard one. Like Mark, there are a ton of films that could easily go on this list. There are a number of movies that I would need a separate list for, like favorite movies in a trilogy (which could be another thread). Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Godfather, Back to the Future, Lord of the Rings. I wish I could put all these on my top ten. Where do I put Airplane!...and Pi...and Rear Window...and 12 angry men...and Lawrence of Arabia...and...NEED...MORE...LISTS...

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True, it would be nice to list that top 200 or 300, but it is hard for me to get that much time here at work. Maybe sometime though.

my top ten in no specific order.

Lord of the rings- I consider this trilogy to be one movie.
Gladiator
Kill Bill + Kill Bill 2
Matrix
Forrest Gump
Saving Private Ryan
Possibly- The Green Mile, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Pulp Fiction, the truman show and the pianist.

Here is a long list... My Top 100 and Honorable Mentions:

1. The Shawshank Redemption 1994
2. Casablanca 1942
3. Schindler's List 1993
4. Pulp Fiction 1994
5. City Lights 1931
6. Papillon 1973
7. The Graduate 1967
8. Eyes Wide Shut 1999
9. Rear Window 1954
10. The Great Escape 1963
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey 1969
12. Ben Hur 1959
13. Titanic 1997
14. The Rules of the Game 1939
15. Magnolia 1999
16. Raging Bull 1980
17. Braveheart 1995
18. L'Atalante 1934
19. The General 1927
20. Irreversible 2003
21. When Harry Met Sally 1989
22. Citizen Kane 1941
23. Goodfellas 1990
24. Fahrenheit 9/11 2004
25. The Thin Red Line 1998
26. Boogie Nights 1997
27. Mulholland Drive 2001
28. Psycho 1960
29. American Beauty 1999
30. Swingers 1996
31. The Seven Samurai 1954
32. The Birds 1963
33. Amélie 2001
34. Glengarry Glen Ross 1992
35. Metropolis 1927
36. Die Hard 1988
37. The Third Man 1949
38. Lost in Translation 2003
39. Jaws 1975
40. Airplane 1980
41. The Flying Deuces 1939
42. Requiem for a Dream 2000
43. L'Avventura 1960
44. Fargo 1996
45. The Godfather & The Godfather II 1972-4
46. Battleship Potemkin 1925
47. The Passion of the Christ 2004
48. 12 Angry Men 1957
49. Vertigo 1958
50. Taxi Driver 1976
51. The Professional 1994
52. A Simple Plan 1998
53. Chicago 2002
54. Traffic 2000
55. Rashomon 1950
56. Lawrence of Arabia 1962
57. Jean de Florette / Manon 1986
58. Reservoir Dogs 1992
59. Leaving Las Vegas 1995
60. Grand Illusion 1937
61. Das Boot 1981
62. Forrest Gump 1994
63. North By Northwest 1959
64. Midnight Express 1978
65. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid 1969
66. Far From Heaven 2002
67. The Man Who Wasn't There 2001
68. The English Patient 1996
69. Life is Beautiful 1998
70. It's A Wonderful Life 1946
71. Pleasantville 1998
72. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964
73. The Bicycle Thief 1948
74. Run Lola Run 1999
75. The 400 Blows 1959
76. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1975
77. Dr. Strangelove 1964
78. Nixon 1995
79. Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
80. The Dirty Dozen 1967
81. Beautiful Girls 1996
82. The Apartment 1960
83. Hard Eight 1997
84. Dangerous Liaisons 1988
85. Crimson Tide 1995
86. Persona 1966
87. Full Metal Jacket 1987
88. All About Eve 1950
89. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
90. Tokyo Story 1953
91. Rocky 1976
92. Belle de Jour 1967
93. Rounders 1998
94. The Remains of the Day 1993
95. Sunrise 1927
96. The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
97. Three Colors Trilogy 1994
98. Garden State 2004
99. The Hunt for Red October 1990
100. Gerry 2003

HONORABLE MENTION BELOW

The Age of Innocence
Kramer vs. Kramer
Amadeus
Last Tango in Paris
Apocalypse Now
Le Trou
Apollo 13
Manhattan
Being John Malkovich
Mansfield Park
Birth of a Nation
Memento
Blade Runner
Moulin Rouge
Blazing Saddles
My Life
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Nosferatu
Bonnie & Clyde
Office Space
Children of Paradise
Panic
City Slickers
Paths of Glory
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Patton
The Dreamers
The Princess Bride
Decalogue
Pumpkin
The Deer Hunter
Punch-Drunk Love
Do The Right Thing
Raise the Red Lantern
Dogville
Secretary
8 1/2
The Seventh Seal
Enemy at the Gates
The Shape of Things
Facing Windows
Shoah
Falling Down
Shoot the Piano Player
Fried Green Tomatoes
Silence of the Lambs
Gone With The Wind
Sliding Doors
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Star Wars
High Noon
Sunset Blvd.
In the Company of Men
Thelma and Louise
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
To Kill A Mockingbird
Jacob's Ladder
Tombstone
Jude
Unfaithful
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 + Vol. 2
The Village
The Killing Fields
Wild Strawberries
King Kong (1933)
The Wizard of Oz

These would be my favorite 10 movies and would be the ones I would pick if I could only watch 10 movies the rest of my life. Although if that were the case, I might think about the list a little longer!

1.Conan the Barbarian
2.They Live
3.The Seventh Seal
4.2001:A Space Odyssey
5.Evil Dead 2
6.Lord of the Rings(gotta be the whole series)
7.Master Killer:the 36th Chamber
8.The Empire Strikes Back
9.Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
10.Kill Bill 1 + 2

The last few were difficult in narrowing it down to 10. I am confident in my top 7 as my favorites. Strikingly similar to the list I put in Eccentro's time capsule flicks thread!

Well, this was really difficult. Just my opinion here, but if you don't try to get a list of 10 or so, you're not actually playing the game, because the challenge includes having to cut out the ones it kills you not to include.
So, as of today, in no particular order except for my current #1, my Top Ten Favorite Great Films (as opposed to the guilty pleasure types) are:
1. Goodfellas
2. Citizen Kane
3. Seventh Seal
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Do the Right Thing
6. Heavenly Creatures
7. Hudsuckser Proxy
8. Wings of Desire
9. Platoon
10. A Hard Day's Night

And the ones I have to mention because there should be 15 in a Top Ten List <g> are Grand Illusion, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the original Star Wars, Carlito's Way, and Bonnie & Clyde.

Agree with Carol02, the previous poster...the idea is to get it down to 10, which, by definition is very difficult. Listing however many you want to list is the easy way out.

My first four a super-solid, the next two are pretty much always in there, and the next four are frequently interchangeable. But today, it's...

1. Annie Hall
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin classic)
4. Schindler's List
5. The Godfather
6. Chinatown
7. The Graduate
8. Return of the Secaucus 7 (John Sayles)
9. Pulp Fiction
10. Vertigo

Everyone should check out www.ymdb.com it's Your Movie Database. They let you list your favorite and most hated movies and the site complies a list of everyone's top rated movies.

I dont know if I can do ten but top 5 for sure:
1.Shawshank Redemption
2.Seven
3.Pulp Fiction
4.Empire Strikes Back
5.Fight Club

Considerations for the rest: Empire Records (its cheesy but great) Scarface, Clerks, Spaceballs, American Beauty, Rocky IV, Field of Dreams.

My top ten in no aprticular order:

Modern Times
Black Hawk Down
Gladiator
The Triplettes of Belleville
Snatch
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Training Day
Super Troopers
Annie Hall
Sleeper

Hmmm... I could have sworn i replied to this thread. Well, since its been brought back up by a newcomer i might as well share my top 15 (10 is too few):

1) The Lord of the Rings (In this order)
1. Return of the King
2. Fellowship of the Ring
3. Two Towers

2) Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2.

3) Saving Private Ryan

4) Minority Report

5) Forrest Gump

6) Pulp Fiction

7) Gladiator

8) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

9) Memento

10) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

11) The Shawshank Redemption

12) The Last Samurai

13) The Pianist

14) The Truman Show

15) The Godfather

OK, Here we go!I'm not really sure about the order and I'm probably forgetting a few but, here's my To p10 Favourite films for now...

1/ Blade Runner
2/ Edward Scissorhands
3/ The Truman Show
4/ Vertigo
5/ Eternal sunshine OTSM
6/ Abre Los Ojos (Vanilla Sky)
7/ American Beauty
8/ Donnie Darko
9/ The Big Lebowski
10/ True Romance

Fight Club
The Matrix
Gladiator
Cabaret
The Rage in Placid Lake
Notting Hill
Groundhog Day
LOTR: FOTR
Star Wars
Whale Rider

shawshank
lotr (yeah, i'm not singling one out either)
pulp (everyone forgets it, but pop it back in, you'll remember)
the matrix (i guess this one IS getting singled out)
trainspotting
the insider (mann's best and you know it)
the right stuff (1983!!?? This could pass today as a new release. perfect)
braveheart (hey at least its not titanic)
aliens
almost famous / high fidelity (saw both for the first time the same night)

man...no godfather or empire (strikes back not records)
or spielberg...E.T. should be on there somewhere

screw it

In no particular order:
The Usual Suspects
Forrest Gump
The Matrix Series
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
Dogma

Also in no particular order...

Clerks
The Goonies
Battle Royale
Stand by me
Night of the Living Dead '68
True Romance
Taxi Driver
Donnie Darko
Old Boy
The Birds

Like the idiot I am, I forgot my absolute favourite film of all time....One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

1. Breathless 1960, Jean Luc-Godard (10 points)

2. Rebecca 1940, Alfred Hitchcock/David O Selznick (9 points)

3. Red River 1948, Howard Hawks (8 points)

4. Aguirre the Wrath of God 1972, Werner Herzog (7 points)

5. A Place in the Sun 1951, George Stevens (6 points)

6. Gone With the Wind 1939, David O Selznick (5 points)

7. Greed 1924, Erich von Stroheim (4 points)

8. Taxi Driver 1976, Martin Scorsese (3 points)

9. Raise the Red Lantern 1991, Yimou Zhang (2 points)

10. Blade Runner 1982, Ridley Scott (1 point)