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What are your favorite movies of all time?

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Drama: There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, American History X, Goodfellas

Comedy: I Heart Huckabees, Adaptation

Thriller/Action: Jurassic Park, Eastern Promises, Pulp Fiction

I'm going to answer about band movies, here are my favorites: The Commitments, Josie and the Pussycats, Begin Again.

The Commitments for the scene where the venue tries to screw them on pay. Josie had me at "Take the Chevy to the levy." Begin Again for that second pass through the song. All three are great throughout, but I love those particular scenes.

The Matrix, Gladiator, Gattaca, Event Horizon, Lord of The Rings, Cleopatra, Spartacus, American History X, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Eastern Promises, Spy Game, 12 Monkeys, Ace Ventura, History of The World, Start The Revolution Without Me, Galaxy Quest, Pirates of Silicon Valley.

Kind of random sampling of my favorites and there must be 50 more.

Sleuth (1972), The Lion in Winter, Slaughterhouse Five, Field of Dreams, Princess Bride, Amadeus, To Kill a Mockingbird, Doctor Zhivago, The Third Man, The Ghost and Mrs Muir

Hi randcraw - sorry for irrelevant response, but I can't reply to older comments.

When you posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9340889

It was really helpful. Do you have any suggested reading on the topic?

My top 5:-

Dog Day Afternoon, Clue, Murder By death, Fearless Vampire killers and Down By Law.

As is usually the case with me, next time someone creates a similar thread the list will be totally different :)

mainstream: American beauty, Pulp fiction, No country for old men, American History X, Saving Private Ryan, Taken, The pianist

classics: Lawrence of Arabia, The Shawshank Redemption, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Terminator I & II

hipster: Knife in the water (Polanski), Come and See (Idi i smotri - best war movie I've seen), Haute Tension (french horror movie), Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting, City of God, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Goodbye Lenin, The cube

"Trois couleurs: Bleu" by Krzysztof Kieslowski "La grande bellezza" by Paolo Sorrentino "The Seventh Seal" by Ingmar Bergman

Jurassic Park.

Timecrimes (Los cronocrímenes), Predestination, Triangle, Primer are some of my favorites.

The Primer director, Shane Carruth, released a new film last year - Upstream Color. Exceptionally strange, beautiful film. One of my favorites for sure.

The Shawshank Redemption, V for Vendetta, Thor, Star Wars (1977), The Devil Wears Prada

Gladiator, Baraka, My Neighborhood Totoro, Holy Motors, 12 Monkeys

Earthlings, Into the Wild, City of God, Fight Club, Whiplash

Watched Whiplash last night after seeing an interview and your reference. Enjoyed might not be the word I'd use, though I was very compelled. Does make one think. Art comes from pain. How to create great art/artists?

- Thank you for Smoking - The Big Lebowski - Reservoir Dogs

The Pursuit of Happyness, Top Gun, The Shawshank Redemption

American History X | Momento | The Life of David Gale

Brazil is probably my favorite movie of all times.

The Natural, UHF, Spaceballs, Hoosiers, Hero

American Beauty, Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction

Princess Bride

The Matrix, Real Genius, Office Space

Good Will Hunting, Limitless, Taken.

The Terminal

The Big Sleep

Howard Hawks, 1946.

The Godfather, Part II

2001: A Space Odyssey

PI: Faith in Chaos

- Jurassic Park

- The Truman Show

the original lord of the rings trilogy

What do you mean by "original"? Sounds like you're not referring to Peter Jackson's version. Can you be more specific?

I think they mean LOTR and not the newer Hobbit movies.

The Guardian

Bugsy Malone,

Tron,

Drugstore Cowboy

Kiki's Delivery Service

Hackers

Fight Club

The Matrix trilogy

Gattaca

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