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Title says it all. Post your top 10 for the following genre: Action, Horror, War, Sci-fi, Westerns, Film noir, Fantasy, Comedy and/or Romance. These are not film genres per-se but you can do lists for : Biography, Foreign, Musicals, Gangster.

*Note that I have searched the forums for lists of all these genre but only a few pop out so why not create a massive thread for everything???

I'll get working on this and will post my lists when I get back.



Western

1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
3. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
4. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
5. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)
6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
7. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)
8. The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci)
9. El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
10. Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones)



Biography:

1) Almost Famous
2) Man on the Moon
3) The Social Network
4) The Assassination of Jesse James
5) 50/50
6) Schindler's List
7) Goodfellas
8) All the President's Men
9) Catch Me If You Can
10) A Beautiful Mind



Horror

#1: Psycho
#2: The Shining
#3: Deep Red
#4: The Silence of the Lambs
#5: Halloween
#6: Scream
#7: Videodrome
#8: Alien
#9: The Birds
#10: Rosemary's Baby
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Gangster:

1.Goodfellas
2.The Godfather
3.Once Upon A Time In America
4.Scarface
5.Road To Perdition

Crime/Prohibition/Espionage:

1.Pulp Fiction
2.Eastern Promises
3.Leon
4.Bonnie And Clyde
5.Army Of Shadows
6.Thelma And Louise
7.Reservoir Dogs
8.Se7en
9.Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
10.Tinker,Tailor,Soldier,Spy




War

1.Apocalypse Now
2.Schindler's List
3.The Deer Hunter
4.Idi i Smotri
5.Saving Private Ryan

Superheroes:

1.The Dark Knight
2.Watchmen
3.Spiderman II
4.Kick-Ass
5.X-men (the older ones)

Drama

1.One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
2.There Will Be Blood
3.Forrest Gump
4.The Wrestler
5.Gone With The Wind

Adventure/Action/Fantasy

1.Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
2.Indiana Jones Quadrilogy
3. Harry Potter
4.Pirates Of The Carribean Quadrilogy
5.National Treasure Dualogy
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Precious tritium is what makes this project go.
Sci-Fi

1. Serenity
2. Alien
3. The Matrix
4. Aliens
5. Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
6. The Empire Strikes Back
7. Star Trek
8. A New Hope
9. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
10. Blade Runner
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Precious tritium is what makes this project go.
Superhero


1. Superman II
2. The Dark Knight
3. X-Men First Class
4. Superman The Movie
5. Spider-Man 2
6. Batman Returns
7. The Avengers
8. Batman Begins
9. Kick-Ass
10. The Amazing Spider-Man

Notable Mentions: V For Vendetta, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Rises, The Incredible Hulk.



These aren't in any particular order and many of them (*) could easily be in another genre.

Action:
Die Hard
Sherlock Jr.
Time and Tide / Once Upon a Time in China / Peking Opera Blues / The Blade
The Untouchables *
Police Story III
The Dark Knight Rises / The Dark Knight / Inception
Pedicab Driver
The Incredibles
Enter the Dragon
Black Dynamite
The Legend of the Drunken Master
Gunga Din
Hard Boiled
The Raiders of the Lost Ark
Tiger on Beat
Dragons Forever
The Seven Samurai
King Kong (2005)
Safety Last
Naked Killer
Tarzan the Ape Man / Tarzan's Mate
Steamboat Bill Jr. * / The General *
Blackbelt Jones
Transformers
Jaws
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Dirty Ho
Fist of the North Star
Ninja Scroll
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Van Helsing
The Bourne Supremacy
The Avengers
The Raid: Redemption
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Casino Royale
The Immortals

Horror:
Freaks
Carrie
Gremlins
Kwaidan
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Exorcist
In Dreams
Don't Look Now
The Reflecting Skin
Rashomon *
The Innocents
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Birds * / Psycho
The Ninth Gate * / The Tenant * / Macbeth / The Fearless Vampire Killers * / Rosemary's Baby
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Mr. Vampire *
Halloween
The Shining
Pitfall
The Howling
Suspiria
Lord of Illusions
Eyes Without a Face
Boogeyman
An American Werewolf in London
The Return of the Living Dead
Re-Animator / From Beyond
Candyman
The Cat People / Cat People (remake)
Mad Love
Black Swan
Nadja
Heavenly Creatures * / Bad Taste / Brain Dead
Evil Dead II / Army of Darkness *

War:
Soy Cuba
The Thin Red Line
Casualties of War / Redacted
Full Metal Jacket
Forbidden Games
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Boat People
Black Hawk Down
Hell's Angels
Eastern Condors
A Better Tomorrow III
Bullet in the Head
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp / A Canterbury Tale
Men with Guns
The Cranes are Flying
Vacas
King of Hearts
Dr. Akagi
The Human Condition
The Dirty Dozen
Open City

Sci-fi:
The Prestige
Sunshine
The Brother From Another Planet
Blade Runner
Hulk
The Fly *
Cube *
Knowing
Alien *
Akira
Prospero's Books
The Golem
La Jetée
The Face of Another
2001
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955)
Forbidden Planet
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Children of Men
Deja Vu
Mission to Mars
The Devil-Doll
Avatar
District 9
Southland Tales
Surrogates
A Scanner Darkly
Frankenstein / The Bride of Frankenstein
Paprika
Fantastic Planet

Westerns:
Once Upon a Time in the West
Little Big Man
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Claim
The Big Sky
Shane
Unforgiven
The Strawberry Roan
The Outlaw
Stagecoach
Young Guns
Comes a Horseman
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Searchers

Film noir:
The Lady From Shanghai
The Singing Detective (series)
The Long Goodbye
Sunset Blvd.
Kiss Me Deadly
The Maltese Falcon
Zodiac
Rear Window / Vertigo
The Lives of Others
High and Low
The Player
Touch of Evil
Chinatown
The Black Dahlia
Amateur
Body Double
Lone Star
Who'll Stop the Rain *
Everybody Wins
Detective Story
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Michael Clayton
Deep Red *
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler * / The Testament of Dr. Mabuse *

Fantasy:
Three Crowns of the Sailor
Repo Man
Arizona Dream / Time of the Gypsies / Black Cat White Cat
Pinnocchio / Dumbo / Fantasia / Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Seventh Seal / Fanny and Alexander
No Such Thing
The PianoTuner of Earthquakes
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
The Saragossa Manuscript
Ghost Busters *
Blood Tea and Red String
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb
À propos de Nice
Brewster McCloud

High Fantasy / Sword and Sorcery:
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain
Star Wars / The Empire Strikes Back / Return of the Jedi
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Lord of the Rings / The Two Towers / Return of the King
The Forbidden Kingdom
Princess Mononoke / Future Boy Conan / Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind / Horus: Prince of the Sun
The Swordsman II / A Chinese Ghost Story
Band of Ninja
How to Train Your Dragon
Dragon Slayer

Comedy:
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break / The Fatal Glass of Beer / You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
King of Beggars
Throw Momma From the Train / Death to Smoochy
Tampopo
Duck Soup / Animal Crackers / Horse Feathers / A Night at the Opera
Hellzapoppin'
Make Mine Mink
Don't Be a Mennace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Withnail and I
Unfaithfully Yours
Soapdish
Naked
Tricky Brains
You Can't Take It with You
Ghost Busters *
Winners and Sinners
Mystery Men
Hue and Cry
Batman: The Movie (1966)
Stranger Than Paradise
The Wrong Trousers
The Hudsucker Proxy
His Girl Friday
Forbidden City Cop
Nacho Libre
Schitzopolis
Scary Movie 2 / I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

Romance:
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Chungking Express
Annie Hall
Mrs. Soffel / Death Defying Acts / Oscar & Lucinda
Heaven
Rouge
I Am Love
Comrades: Almost a Love Story
Shanghai Blues
Days of Heaven / The New World
Thieves Like Us
Love and Anarchy
The Red Shoes
Inferno of First Love
Conversations with other women
Zhou Yu's Train
Funeral Parade of Roses
Brokeback Mountain
They Might be Giants *
Max mon amour
City Lights / The Circus
Emma

Biography:
Lawrence of Arabia *
Mishima
Vengeance is Mine
Nightwatching
Rikyu
My Dinner with Andre
Sayat Nova (The Color of Pomegranates)
Andrei Rublev
Vincent & Theo
Grizzly Man
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Riley, Ace of Spies (series)
My Winnipeg *
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
The Red Tent
Klimt
Queen Christina
Bronson
Gods and Monsters
Elizabeth
The Straight Story
The Aviator
The Last Emperor
Amadeus
Lola Montès
The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Foreign:
These are well represented on all my other lists

Musicals:
Muppet Movie
The Phantom of the Paradise
Starstruck (1982)
Popeye
Amar Akbar Anthony
Singin' in the Rain
The Girl Can't Help it
Stormy Weather
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Music Room
My Fair Lady
Street Angel (1937)
Minnie the Moocher
Footlight Parade
South Pacific
Bad Boy Bubby
1/2 Mensch
Music and Lyrics
Across the Universe
The Jazz Singer
The Show Boat (1936)

Gangster:
Sonatine
Minbo *
The Godfather
Too Many Ways to Be No.1 *
The Zodiac Killers *
Infernal Affairs
Miller's Crossing *
Election/Triad Election
The Sun's Burial *
Angels with Dirty Faces
Pale Flower



I am the Watcher in the Night
I'll start with

Action:

Terminator 2
Inception
The Dark Knight
Commando
The Raid
Rambo: First Blood
Face Off
Police Story
The Matrix
Die Hard

In no particular order.



Action

Taken
Braveheart
Inception
Jason Bournes 1
Jason Bournes 2
Jason Bournes 3
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Die Hard
Heat
Raiders of the Lost Ark



Horror

Psycho
The shining
Texas Chainsaw massacre
Dawn of the Dead
The exorcist
Poltergeist
The Evil Dead
Halloween
Black Christmas
Night of the living dead



Who's going to believe a talking head?
Top 10 Sci-fi

1. Blade Runner
2. Brazil
3. Alien
4. Dark City
5. Contact
6. The Matrix
7. Gattaca
8. Starship Troopers
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
10. Star Wars



lot of my favorite movies cross into several genres... for example, is Aliens a sci-fi, a horror, or an action movie? well, it's all three... but i'll probly lean towards action for this thread. so i guess i have to fit them into only one genre and exclude them from the others...

gonna keep it to Top 5 for the sake of brevity

Action

1) the Terminator (1984)


2) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)


3) They Live (1988)


4) Aliens (1986)


5) Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom (1984)




Horror

1) a Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)



2) Halloween (1978)



3) Psycho (1960)



4) the Thing (1982)



5) Night of the Living Dead (1968)




War


1) Casablanca (1942)



2) the General (1926)



3) Gone with the Wind (1939)



4) the Thin Red Line (1998)



5) Apocalypse Now (1979)




Sci-Fi


1) Alien (1979)



2) Blade Runner (1982)



3) Metropolis (1927)



4) Moon (2009)



5) the Invisible Man (1933)




This is going to be a bit of a challenge. I'm not going to place these in particular order.

Action
1. The Dark Knight Rises
2. Batman Begins
3. The Dark Knight
4. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
5. Die Hard
6. The Avengers
7. Desperado
8. Death Race
9. Iron Man
10. Man of Steel

Science Fiction
1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2. Planet of the Apes
3. David Cronenberg's The Fly
4. The Fly (original)
5. Predator
6. Dark City
7. The Hunger Games
8. The Invisible Man
9. Chronicle
10. Total Recall (original)

Fantasy
1. Pan's Labyrinth
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
4. The Dark Chrystal
5. The Fellowship of the Ring
6. The Return of the King
7. The Two Towers
8. Clash of the Titans 2010 - I know a lot of people hated this movie, but I enjoyed the hell out of it.
9. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
10. The Witches

Animated
1. Rango
2. The Lion King
3. Beowulf
4. Todd McFarlane's Spawn
5. Tarzan
6. Up
7. Coraline
8. The Triplets of Belleville
9. Aladdin
10. Monsters Vs Aliens

Comedy
1. Scott Pilgrim Vs the World
2. Kung Fu Hustle
3. Tucker and Dale Vs Evil
4. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
5. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
6. A Day at the Races
7. Anchorman
8. Austin Powers
9. Dumb and Dumber
10. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Drama
1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. The Green Mile
3. Deliver Us from Evil
4. Tuck Everlasting
5. American History X
6. Changeling
7. Goodfellas
8. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
9. Monster
10. Schindler's List

Horror
1. Excision
2. Repo: The Genetic Opera
3. Hatchet
4. Evil Dead 2
5. The Devil's Rock
6. Freaks
7. Bad Taste
8. The Devil's Backbone
9. Dawn of the Dead 2004
10. The Mist