Your Top 20 Favourite Films?

[Ivich]

I know Godfather 1, 2, Goodfellas, Casino, Donnie Brasco, Departed, Papillion are on the list.

DeNiro turned The Departed down.

[IceTrayDaGang]

Three that would not make my top thousand but, different strokes---

im not much of a movie guy...

[Ivich]

im not much of a movie guy...

Well, we are all different,and all the better for it.

[billeau2]

At the risk of encouraging simpleton trolls like Left hook Tua ,What are your 20 favourite films,not necessarily considered the greatest just your favourites?
I'll take a shot at this. Limiting myself to English language films
On The Waterfront
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Casablanca
Godfather 1
Godfather2
Great Expectations
Once Upon A Time In America
Oliver Twist
This Happy Breed
Citizen Kane
The Deer Hunter
The African Queen
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The G****s Of Wrath
Its A Wonderful Life
Inherit The Wind
The Red Shoes
The Wild Bunch
Once Upon A Time In The West

I like Westerns ,so many B/W films , reflecting my age and being brought up on the old style Warner Bros films as a kid.

In no particular order,

Get Out (recent)
2001 A Space Odyssey
Diva (has my favorite character of all time Detective Gorodish)
Clockers
Full Metal Jacket
Fright Night / Fright Night 2 (the original; "2" not the more modern "2"
Gothic
Star Wars
Star Trek the Wrath of kahn
The Shining (even if the book was better!)
Above the Law (I know I know...) Mostly for the original scene where Seagal does his Akido sequence with an intent never seen in a martial arts movie of Japanese arts.
The seven samurai
Coppola's Dracula
Cheech and Chongs series
Ghost Dog
China Town
Gangs of New York
The Wanderers
Ghost Busters Sigourney Weaver was so hot!

Man! these are just a few that come to mind! LOL.

[billeau2]

I'm sure I'll think of adding something five minutes after I write this. Be that as it may, here is my list (not necessarily in order).

Horror:
FRANKENSTEIN - Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Dwight Frye.

DRACULA - Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye.

THE WOLF MAN - Lon Chaney, Jr., Bela Lugosi, Claude Raines.

KING KONG - Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, Robert Armstrong.

GODZILLA - Raymond Burr (1956)

THE EXORCIST - Linda Blair

FROM HELL IT CAME -

THE TINGLER - Vincent Price

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL - Vincent Price

THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON - Julie Adams, Richard Dennng

Comedy:
ABBOT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN - Bud Abbot, Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Jr., Glenn Strange.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF - James Garner, Joan Hacket, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam.

Drama:
ANASTASIA - Yul Brynner, Ingrid Bergman, Helen Hayes.

GONE WITH THE WIND - Clarke Gable, Vivien Leigh

Western:
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN - Yul Brynner, Steve Mcqueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, Hoerst Cruchholz, and Eli Wallach.

GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL - Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, John Ireland

THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE - Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin

ALL THE SPAGHETTI WESTERNS - Clint Eastwood

War:
THE ALAMO - John Wayne, Richard Widmark

ARMORED ATTACK (VILLAGE NORTH STAR) - Dana Andrews, Ann Baxter, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston

I could do 20 just horror films, and you have some great ones on there. The Mummy, Artif Bey lol.

I loved all the classic horror films, from karloff and Lugosi, through to the schlock B movies of Ed Wood (loved plan 9 from Outer Space) also loved the Dep film honoring Ed Wood, and up to Copola's Dracula.

[Left Hook Tua]

I wouldn't attempt to tell you anything,but I will correct you if I know you to be wrong.

A Fistful Of Dollars.
Directed by an Italian,with a soundtrack by an Italian co starring an Italian Gian Maria Volonte,with I believe only one American in the cast Eastwood ,who only got the part because his co star in Rawhide, Eric Fleming turned it down.

Made in Spain.

Yeah its as American as apple pie,as in not at all! lol





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[Batko10]

I could do 20 just horror films, and you have some great ones on there. The Mummy, Artif Bey lol.

I loved all the classic horror films, from karloff and Lugosi, through to the schlock B movies of Ed Wood (loved plan 9 from Outer Space) also loved the Dep film honoring Ed Wood, and up to Copola's Dracula.

I hear you. I was a HUGE horror movie fan as a kid. Back in the '50's and '60's horror and "monster" movies were a massive genre. Everyone read "Famous Monsters of Filmland" and other "monster" ****zines. Back in East New York Brooklyn the "Biltmore Theater" on New Lots Avenue would show 2 horror movies and 10 cartoons for a 50 cent admission on specific Saturdays!!! Every parent in the neighborhood got a rest from their kids for an entire afternoon. LOL

The older classics we would watch on television on "Shock Theater" hosted by Zacharly.

[phallus]

DeNiro turned The Departed down.

he was offered the role of frank costello i'm guessing, it's hard to imagine him playing that character after seeing nicholson.

my favorite films that i can remember right now: Seven, Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. i think i might have to also add Eyes Wide Shut because of all the scenes of kidman naked

[billeau2]

I hear you. I was a HUGE horror movie fan as a kid. Back in the '50's and '60's horror and "monster" movies were a massive genre. Everyone read "Famous Monsters of Filmland" and other "monster" ****zines. Back in East New York Brooklyn the "Biltmore Theater" on New Lots Avenue would show 2 horror movies and 10 cartoons for a 50 cent admission on specific Saturdays!!! Every parent in the neighborhood got a rest from their kids for an entire afternoon. LOL

The older classics we would watch on television on "Shock Theater" hosted by Zacharly.

By the time I was a kid we had Chiller Theatre and Creature Feature. and yes! there was so much printed material. Sounds like the dollar theatres we had in Manhattan as a kid lol. They had everything for a buck! kung fu movies on 42nd street, horror movies, the latest films. My fondest childhood memory EVER was, as a little boy during the Blackout in the seventies. New York was boiling! Power was coming back, we lived in East Harlem and it was going to be a while... so mom decides to take me to a double feature down in Times Square. Taxi Driver and The Farmer! Good ole mom! I was thrilled to see a real movie, there was air conditioning, and that movie (I forgot for my list!) "The Farmer" was an incredible movie. You cannot find it these days... I had nightmares for a week lol, but it was the best time I ever had with my mother on an outing.

[billeau2]

Well, we are all different,and all the better for it.

I forgot one BIG for my favorites and I want to mention it because: If anyone can find a copy of this, please tell me! It was a movie called "The Farmer" (I also should have put Taxi Driver palm slap) and was really violent but very well done. It had a great ending which I do not want to spoil in case anyone can find this! I started looking some time ago...