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10. Miller's Crossing
Holden, I'm not the Coen Brothers fan you are, but I do love Miller's Crossing and agree that it's their best film. Barton Fink would be close behind, followed by O' Brother Where Art Thou.
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Born in 1985.

1) Goodfellas 1990
2) Pulp Fiction 1994
3) Trainspotting 1996
4) Full Metal Jacket 1987
5) Seven 1995
6) La vita è bella 1997
7) L.A. Confidential 1997
8) Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989
9) The Big Lebowski 1998
10) American History X 1998



1) Blade Runner
2) Being John Malkovich
3) Adaptation
4) Good Fellas
5) The Big Lebowski
6) Seven
7) Sixth Sense
8) Shawshank Redemption
9) Big Fish
10) Lost in Translation



1997

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Departed
3. The Social Network
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
5. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
6. Inception
7. Revenge of the Sith
8. The Hangover
9. Avatar
10. Batman Begins
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Born 1996.

1. Zodiac
2. Toy Story 2
3. Fight Club
4. The Dark Knight
5. Lord Of The Rings:The Fellowship Of The Ring
6. L.A Confidential
7. City Of God
8. Shaun Of The Dead
9. The Prestige
10. Memento
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1988

Goodfellas
Rushmore
Magnolia
Amorres Perros
21 grams
Trainspotting
Pulp Fiction
Gangs of New York
The Departed
Inglorious Basterds
Old Boy



1993

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Pulp Fiction
3. La Haine
4. Spirited Away
5. Lord Of The Rings
6. Werckmeister Harmonies
7. Wall-E
8. There Will Be Blood
9. Eternity and a Day
10. Kung-Fu Hustle



1980:

Once Upon a Time in China
Akira
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
A Zed & Two Noughts
The Thin Red Line
Sunshine
King Kong
Limbo
My Dinner With Andre
2046



I was born in 1990,so best movies for me are:

Terminator 2
Silence of the lambs
Se7en
Wall-E
Lion King
Shutter Island
Pretty Villages Pretty Flame
Wounds
Hangover
Being John Malkovich



1988

1. Magnolia (1999)
2. City of God (2002)
3. Lost in Translation (2003)
4. The Big Lebowski (1998)
5. As Good As It Gets (1997)
6. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
7. Goodfellas (1990)
8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2007)
9. Mulholland Drive (2001)
10. Trainspotting (1996)



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Born in 1988:

"Goodfellas" - 1990
"Jurassic Park" - 1993
"Schindler's List" - 1993
"Se7en" - 1995
"The Usual Suspects" - 1995
"As Good As It Gets" - 1997
"The Big Lebowski" - 1998
"The Matrix" - 1999
"LoTR: The Fellowship of The Ring" - 2001
"The Dark Knight" - 2008
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1987

1. Trainspotting
2. Spirited Away
3. A Prophet
4. Akira
5. Leon:The Professional
6. Fargo
7. 12 Monkeys
8. Sunshine
9. Love Exposure
10. City of God



1991

1. In Bruges
2. Snatch
3. No Country For Old Men
4. Fight Club
5. The Big Lebowski
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. The Departed
9. Good Will Hunting
10. Magnolia



Born in 1984

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Gleaming the Cube (1989)
Home Alone (1990)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Batman Returns (1992)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Mallrats (1995)
Independence Day (1996)
Titanic (1997)



Born in 1989

The Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
Schindler's List
The Dark Knight
Inception
LOTR: The Return of the King
Fight Club
Goodfellas
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
City of God



Since the founding of Ghibli in 1985, many of the best movies came from there. So, in my top favorites 10 since 1989, more than half would be Ghibli:

Ghibli:
- Princess Mononoke (1997) (1st best)
- Spirited Away (2001) (2nd best)
- Only Yesterday (1991) (3rd best)
- If you Listen Closely (1995) (4th best)
- Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) (6th best)
- Porco Rosso (1992) (9th best)

Not Ghibli:
- The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) (5th best)
- There Will Be Blood (2007) (7th best)
- Schindler's List (1993) (8th best)
- Pulp Fiction (1994) (10th best)

Honorable mentions: Mulholland Drive, Dreams (Kurosawa), City of God.

The best movie since the fall of the Berlin Wall, hence, best movie of the present globalized world is also perhaps one that reflects more than any other the problems and realities that humanity is passing on it's history after the end of the Soviet Union:

One of the world's most grave problems is global warming and its effects on the global ecology, so a movie with an ecology theme, though seems a bit silly, fits perfectly to some of our most pressing global concerns.

An animated Asian movie also reflects our post Berlin Wall world. The short 20th century, from 1914 to 1991, was a century centered on the continents bordering the North Atlantic, Europe and North America, but the "long 21st century", that began in 1991, is the Asian century. Thus, an Asian movie is the best representative for this new century. Also, live action film is a 20th century archaic construct, instead animation reflects more our postmodern era.

The high fantasy elements also reflect our current preference for movies set on exotic settings instead of the mundane settings of classical hollywood pictures: The top 10 highest grossing movies of the last 15 years have been all science fiction or fantasy. Thus, a high fantasy movie is also more consistent with our current world and reflects the differences between our current world and the world of the short 20th century (1914-1991), which loved stuff like Gone With the Wind, Casablanca and Citizen Kane. Nothing could be more apart from this world than something like Princess Mononoke (imagine showing that to a 1940's audience!).

While Pulp Fiction has been described as a post-modern film, Mononoke fits this description even better, considering it is a near perfect synthesis of our current zeitgeist.



Since 1995

The Big Lebowski
There Will Be Blood
Mulholland Drive
Sin City
Fargo
Boogie Nights
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
Inglourious Basterds
City of God
Pan's Labyrinth
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1997

1. The Pianist
2. Donnie Darko
3. True Grit
4. Oldboy
5. Frost/Nixon
6. American History X
7. Triangle
8. Mullholand Drive
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Fight club

That's more or less it.
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1978

Mulholland Drive
Schindler's List
Raging Bull
Blue Velvet
Apocalypse Now
Silence of the Lambs
E.T
Deer Hunter
Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
Pan's Labyrinth
The Shining
Life of Brian
Toy Story
Pulp Fiction
Once upon a time in America
City of God
The Elephant Man
Midnight Express
Amadeus
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind
Full Metal Jacket
The Departed
Fargo
The Social Network