Top 25 Favourite Movies

I thought it would be nice to view everyone's top 25 favourite movies, to see who has the same favourites as me, or maybe some favourites I haven't seen or even heard of. If 25 is too much for you then just a top 10 or 15 would do. Just to get an idea of who's posting the list please state your age and gender if you will. I'm a male, 27 years old, and here's my list.

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (I count all 3 as 1 movie)
4. Forrest Gump
5. The Green Mile
6. The Truman Show
7. Vanilla Sky
8. American History X
9. A Clockwork Orange
10. The Wolf of Wall Street
11. Gone Girl
12. The Departed
13. Goodfellas
14. Mystic River
15. Catch Me If You Can
16. Saving Private Ryan
17. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
18. Gladiator
19. Training Day
20. Gangs of New York
21. Pulp Fiction
22. Blood Diamond
23. The Last King of Scotland
24. The Shining
25. Hook

Feel free to critique my list, but don't forget to post yours as well! Thanks.

We do have the Top 10s feature on each and every MoFos profile page. Just click any user name in any post to head on over to a profile. This is an easy way to quickly get at least a fair idea of any given MoFo's taste. Plenty of people also do a Top 100 favorites, which you will see floating around in a thread of their own.

Obviously, this thread is fine too, but I just wanted to make sure you were aware of the current Top 10 features we have embedded in the site, or that users tend to post.

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You have The Wolf of Wall Street in your top 10. I approve!

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A lot of great movies on the list.

Just curious - why's Sawshank Redemption rated to high? It borrowed heavily from the plot of the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo", so IMO it's a good film, but is overrated because it lacks originality.

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (I count all 3 as 1 movie)
4. Forrest Gump
5. The Green Mile
6. The Truman Show
7. Vanilla Sky
8. American History X
9. A Clockwork Orange
10. The Wolf of Wall Street
11. Gone Girl
12. The Departed
13. Goodfellas
14. Mystic River
15. Catch Me If You Can
16. Saving Private Ryan
17. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
18. Gladiator
19. Training Day
20. Gangs of New York
21. Pulp Fiction
22. Blood Diamond
23. The Last King of Scotland
24. The Shining
25. Hook

Feel free to critique my list.......OK if you insist.

All these are excellent choice, IMO of course with the exceptions I noted.

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy...(#2 was so bad I never watched #3)
4. Forrest Gump
5. The Green Mile
6. The Truman Show...some don't like this, I do!
7. Vanilla Sky...ditto here too
8. American History X
9. A Clockwork Orange
10. The Wolf of Wall Street
11. Gone Girl
12. The Departed
13. Goodfellas
14. Mystic River
15. Catch Me If You Can
16. Saving Private Ryan
17. Planes, Trains and Automobiles...good to see some comedy
18. Gladiator...some don't like it, I do!
19. Training Day
20. Gangs of New York
21. Pulp Fiction
22. Blood Diamond
23. The Last King of Scotland
24. The Shining
25. Hook

Very sharp list, I've seem most all.

Now there's a list that I can generally get behind! The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, A Clockwork Orange, The Departed, Gladiator, Blood Diamond and all three Lord of the Rings are all particular favorites of mine, and many other I like to varying degrees. Looking at your list, movies like The Killer, The Raid: Redemption and The Raid 2 might especially appeal to you.

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Shawshank at #1. Respect! Its is the stuff of legends, best movie in any language, any time period, any given day, any given weather.... and more any's if you want.

I base my ratings comparing with Shawshank!


Mystic River! Another good choice! It somewhat flies under the radar a bit! But excellent movie.

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Shawshank Redemption speaks to the human soul and how it can thrive under the worst situation. Very few movies can speak to that, like Shawshank does.

Some of my favorites are
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
9. A Clockwork Orange

also loved
24. The Shining

Also liked
1. The Shawshank Redemption

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This is my top 25, in the order of preference...

The Passion of Joan of Arc
Eight and Half
Night and Fog
Eternity and a Day
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Stalker
Modern Times
La Strada
That Obscure Object of Desire
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Knife in the Water
An Occurrence at the Owl Creek Bridge
Battleship Potemkin
400 Blows
Rules of the Game
Ivan's Childhood
Nights of Cabiria
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Soy Cuba
Playtime
Metropolis
Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Our Hospitality
Kes
Repulsion

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Never been able to sit through a Lord of the Rings movie and I just don't get Vanilla Sky. I still haven't seen Gone Girl or The Wolf of Wall Street, but I have no problem with the rest of your list.

I finished the trilogy in eight sittings!

Now this is an awesome list, many of my all-time fave's and some of the very best of best films.

I am a male, 40 years old and here's my list!

The last of the Mohicans
The empire strikes back
Gods and generals
Inception
The dark knight trilogy
The passion of the Christ
Its a wonderful life
Wall.e
Citizen kane
The birds
The outsiders
Die hard
Big trouble in little china
On borrowed time
Lonesome dove [t.v movie]
Heat
All quiet on the western front
Rio bravo
A.I.
Dawn of the planet of the apes
Rear window
Highlander
Dazed and confused
Ferris Buellers day off
The iron giant

Nice list...However, I must call out a discrepancy between this Top 25 and your Top 10 list on your profile.

Oh yes, you know exactly what film I am talking about!



Yes, I know it is hard to admit to liking this disco era classic. And when I say classic, I mean guilty pleasure, because this is a terrible, horrible film.

I love every second of it.

It is so ridiculously bad, that I must sing along to all the tunes, basking in the nostalgia of my childhood/teen crush on Ms. Newton-John, all while watching poor ol Gene Kelly stranded in this turd, with Micheal Beck posturing and attempting to act, while failing completely.

I hate love this film, and will never watch it again, ever watch it again very soon.

You will NOT find much love for this flick on the site, that's for sure. However, there are a few of us sad sacks hanging around that, for some alien, despicable reason, love it.

I love Xanadu.

That's a pretty loaded question. I'll come back later with my favorites; I need to sit down and think about this for a while.

This is my favorite list so far. It's great to see some love for international cinema.

Here are 25 films I would consider to be my current favourites, in random order:

8½
Eraserhead
Apocalypse Now
The 400 Blows
2001: A Space Odyssey
Persona
Raging Bull
The Mirror
Seven Samurai
There Will Be Blood
Amarcord
Tokyo Story
Barry Lyndon
Modern Times
Tirez sur le pianiste
The Rules of the Game
Bicycle Thieves
Une femme est une femme
La grande illusion
Vertigo
Citizen Kane
Man with a Movie Camera
Seven Chances
The Tree of Life
Shame



25 films doesn't even begin to justify what I think is the best of cinema.

Why aren't there more fun films on your lists? They're full of "great" movies but only a few elicit any joy or personal, idiosyncratic love of cinema. They resemble some critics' consensus.

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