Top Five Films Please

[jinn77]

Would be interesting to see the tastes and trends of my fellow U2 addicts, here are my top 5

Heat
Magnolia
The Big Lebowski
The Empire Strikes Back
At Close Range

 

[00Kevin]

1.Return of the King
2.North by Northwest
3.stop making sense
4.stranger on a train
5.prizoner of azkaban

 

[meegannie]

Un héros très discret
Goodbye, Lenin
The Neverending Story
City of God
Wings of Desire

 

[Jack In The Box]

wrong forum, isn't?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lost in Translation
Batman Begins [/geek mode]
Amelie
anything by Hayao Miyazaki

 

[elevation2u]

hmmm this is hard but i'll give it a humble try

pulp fiction
office space
the shining
magnolia
clockwork orange


runnerups:
american history x
broken flowers
amelie
full metal jacket
ed wood

 

[roy keane]

schindlers list
citizen cane
taxy driver
deer hunter
platoon

 

[elevation2u]

citizen kane

 

[Needle_Chill]

1) Forrest Gump
2) Rudy
3) Empire Of The Sun
4) Pulp Fiction
5) The Breakfast Club

BTW, I'm an 18 year-old male, just for some context.

 

[Laura M]

In no particular order:

A Beautiful Mind
Meet Joe Black
Wuthering Heights
Amelie
Trainspotting

 

[meegannie]

I would've added an Audrey Tautou film (Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Dirty Pretty Things, He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not), but I couldn't decide on just one.

 

[Bonochick]

1. The Poseidon Adventure
2. The House Of Yes
3. Clerks
4. High Fidelity
5. Empire Records, Donnie Darko, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off...

Okay, now I'm cheating.

 

[chiso]

1) The Motorcycle Diaries
2) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3) Leon: The Professional
4) Garden State
5) A Bronx Tale

(I'm 20 yrs old... for what it's worth...)

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

1. Last Year At Marienbad
2. Rushmore
3. Trainspotting
4. City Of God
5. Amelie

 

[trevster2k]

1. The Godfather
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Good Fellas
5. The Incredibles

Honourable mention: Apocalypse Now, Ben Hur, Casino, Casablanca, Cool Hand Luke, Field of Dreams, The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, Groundhog Day, Kill Bill 1&2, Last of the Mohicans, In the Name of the Father, Scarface, Schindler's List, Unforgiven

 

[dandy]

life is beautiful

the pianist
chocolat
crash (2005)
american history x

 

[U2MaNaIcWeIdO]

Run Lola Run
The Crow
Stigmata
Pulp Fiction
Monster Inc.

Honourable mention: Monster's Ball, all three Lord of the Ring movies, Night of the Living Dead, Rocky Horror Picture Show

 

[jinn77]

Hope nobody here likes Kubrick, unashamedly over hyped, like The Strokes, The White Stripes etc etc.

 

[The Sad Punk]

Well, it always changes, but right now, I'd say:

No Man's Land
M
Fritz the Cat
Un Chien Andalou (hence avatar)
Edward Scissorhands

Yeah, it's very much a teen's list.

 

[roy keane]

Kubrick rules.He is underrated

 

[The Sad Punk]

I think he's overrated, and I think Eyes Wide Shut is underrated. Nobody ever agrees with me.

 

[meegannie]

Un Chien Andalou (hence avatar)
Edward Scissorhands

Yeah, it's very much a teen's list.

I used to love those when I was a teenager. I was really obsessed with Salvador Dalí.

 

[Slapnutz]

It's impossible to cut my fav flicks down to just five, but these are the ones I seem to watch the most.

American Psycho
Leon: The Professional
Rear Window
Batman Begins
Jaws

 

[Slapnutz]

Oh, and Kubrick is a genius. And Eyes Wide Shut is his true masterpiece.

 

[yimou]

To Live
The Road Home
Gandhi
Fight Club
Schindler´s list

 

[Tilli]

Schindlers List
The Shawshank Redemption
Dog Day Afternoon
The Goonies
Taxi Driver

 

[HelloAngel]

I have plenty of movies I love but can't name solid faves.. here goes:

American Psycho
Garden State
Eyes Wide Shut
Breaking the Waves
Trainspotting

 

[tiny dancer]

No particular order

Schindler's List
Out Of Africa
Gone With Wind
Brave Heart
Saturday Night Fever

 

[Hallucination]

1. LOTR Trilogy(count them as one)
2. Star Wars Trilogy(original, count them as one)
3. The Breakfast Club
4. Braveheart
5. Interview with the Vampire

Also the kid in me will always love the cartoon The Last Unicorn

 

[meegannie]

Also the kid in me will always love the cartoon The Last Unicorn

One of my favourites too. The book is even better.

 

[schnazdoodle]

This is tough!!! I can't name absolute favorites, but at the moment...

North By Northwest / Notorious (I'm not sure which I like best)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
A Philadelphia Story
Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run)
Edward Scissorhands or Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh's adaptation) or The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)

I also really love Moulin Rouge, Eternal Sunshine, Rebecca, Ghost & Mrs. Muir, My Fair Lady, LOTR Trilogy (Esp. FotR, RotK), Amadeus, Harry Potter & the PoA, Ferris Bueller, Signs, Gladiator, It Happened One Night, Braveheart, Rear Window, Finding Neverland, Vertigo, Spellbound, La Vite e Belle (Life is Beautiful), Chocolat, Ameile, Goodbye, Lenin!, Big Fish, My Favorite Wife, Back to the Future (any), Indiana Jones (any), Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Lion King, English Patient, Schindler's List, Gone With the Wind, Casblanca, Dr. Strangelove, It's a Wonderful Life, Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, To Kill A Mockingbird, Roman Holiday, Bourne Identity, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, American Beauty, LA Confidential, Der Untergang, Incredibles, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, Toy Story I, II...

Wow - overboard. Ok, I have to stop... let's just say I love movies, haha...