Your Top Five Favorite Movies Of All Time

[terrygoldman123]

Tough choices. In no order
To Kill A Mockingbird- B/W

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

The Lion in Winter

The Quiet Man

84 Charring Cross Road- Anne Bancroft at her best

 

[Perique]

No order:
Conan the Barbarian (original)

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou

The Green Mile

The Outlaw Jose Wales

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Tough to choose only five. There are a few close honorable mentions...

 

[dermotfahy]

Ice Cold in Alex

Hatari!

Father Brown, aka The Detective

The General
Too many choices for #5, I'm only really sure about the first two as it is.

 

[blindmansleeps]

1. Blade Runner

2. Citizen Kane

3. No Country For Old Men

4. Children of Men

5. Solaris (Tarkovsky's 1972 version)
But, my favorite films change very often.

 

[bryanf]

King of Hearts

Hombre

The Seven Samarai

Shane

To Kill a Mockingbird
Tough to list just 5, but these had the most profound impact on me as a kid.
PS it was very difficult not to include, "The Great Santini" or "Midnight Express". Both of which shocked me as a child.

 

[ssjones]

I like Children of Men as well and have it on DVD.

 

[anglesey]

1. Barry Lyndon

2. LotR (trilogy) Haven't seen Hobbit movies

3. 12 O'clock High

4. The Battle of Britain

5. Tora Tora Tora!

You got a fine collection there!
Mine are:

1. The Battle of Britain

2. Zulu

3. Das Boot

4. Kelly's Heroes

5. Where Eagles Dare
Along with all the other classics like Easy Rider and Dr strangelove, but I'm just a sucker for a good war film. Preferably with Clint Eastwood, Richard Burton, Jurgen Prochnow or Michael Caine in it.

 

[brian64]

As others said, can’t really narrow it to 5. But the first 5 that come to mind at the moment are:
2001 A Space Odyssey

Chinatown

Network

No Country For Old Men

Waking Life
And suddenly an alternate list of 5 emerges:
JFK

Inception

Donnie Darko (Director’s Cut)

Dr. Strangelove

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
And another bonus vote for Children Of Men

 

[brudnic1]

Casablanca

Seven Samurai

LOTR trilogy

Elizabeth R

Flags of our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima

 

[rmason]

The Road to Series (you can't pick just one)

Goodfellas

Casino

Anatomy of a Murder

North by Northwest
~Ron

 

[darthcider]

Creature from the black lagoon

Dumb and dumber

The Commitments

Night of the living dead

The descent
A favourite discussion of mine is if you could only listen to one song for the rest of your like. Mine is 8 miles high by husker du.

 

[hammerhorror]

That's a tough and ever changing list to make, but Zulu is usually on mine.

 

[drwatson]

Man this is tough, I love movies!

JAWS

Gettysburg

Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear

From Hell

The Quiest Man

 

[sfsteves]

Anglesey said:

"I'm just a sucker for a good war film.

Preferably with Clint Eastwood, Richard Burton ... "

"Where Eagles Dare" meets that definition perfectly ... if you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to do so.

 

[kanaia]

1. Josey Wales

2. The Godfather 1 and 2

3. Silence of the Lambs

4. Gladiator

5. Braveheart

 

[Perique]

Brian, I'm also a huge Donnie Darko fan.

 

[rockford]

Casino

Empire Strikes Back

Goldeneye

Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Searchers
and at least 45 more....

 

[rthbaum]

Well this list could change on a daily basis as I have time to sit and think about it. So here goes 5 of my favorites.

Christmas Vacation

First Blood

The Rope

Goodwill Hunting

Taxi Driver
I know this isn't a movie but a mini series, Band of Brothers is an all time favorite and I seem to stop on it whenever I see it on.
This is really impossible I would need to do at least my top 50 if not 100.

 

[warren]

I am totally blown away by how eclectic most of the lists are. I thought that people would be more into one or two genres at most.
Zulu! Michael Caine finally gets noticed. What a great movie. This is the problem with getting old and then trying to make a list of anything. If I had watched Zulu in last month or so I suspect Electra Glide in Blue wouldn't have made my top 5.

 

[foggymountain]

Can't promise they won't change tomorrow.

The Horse's Mouth with Alec Guinness

Seventh Seal

Santa Sangre by Alejandro Jodorowski

Deep Throat

Window Water Baby Moving by Stan Brakhage

Except the first choice, which appeals to me and few others, these are some of the most innovative films that have been made. No history of Cinema that does not mention them all is authoritative.