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Films List

Post by Swaminathan » Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:12 pm

This is from the IMDB forum rated by IMDB users. What's your favorite films in general?

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone) - 9.5 (30 votes)
Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) - 9.4 (58 votes)
Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese) - 9.3 (60 votes)
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa) - 9.3 (33 votes)
Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola) - 9.2 (67 votes)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner} - 9.2 (42 votes)
Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman) - 9.2 (39 votes)
The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick) - 9.2 (50 votes)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick) - 9.1 (68 votes)
The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola) - 9.1 (63 votes)
Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders) - 9.1 (38 votes)
Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese) - 9.1 (64 votes)
Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick) - 9.0 (40 votes)
Come and See (1985, Elem Klimov) - 9.0 (21 votes)
The Godfather: Part 2 (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) - 9.0 (38 votes)
North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock) - 9.0 (53 votes)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Sergio Leone) – 9.0 (24 votes)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone) - 9.0 (47 votes)
The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman) - 9.0 (44 votes)
Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky) - 8.9 (48 votes)
Star Wars (1977, George Lucas) - 8.9 (42 votes)
The Wages of Fear (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot) - 8.9 (20 votes)
Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz) - 8.8 (55 votes)
The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) - 8.8 (46 votes)
Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese) - 8.8 (51 votes)
Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean) - 8.7 (22 votes)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles) - 8.7 (49 votes)
In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai) - 8.7 (30 votes)
M (1931, Fritz Lang) - 8.7 (31 votes)
No Country For Old Men (2007, Joel and Ethan Coen) - 8.7 (61 votes)
The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick) - 8.7 (66 votes)
There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson) - 8.7 (60 votes)
Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood) - 8.7 (48 votes)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) - 8.7 (58 votes)
Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bernman) - 8.7 (27 votes)
Alien (1979. Ridley Scott) - 8.6 (37 votes)
Fargo (1996, Joel and Ethan Coen) - 8.6 (64 votes)
Hud (1963, Martin Ritt) - 8.6 (20 votes)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo del Toro} - 8.6 (43 votes)
Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino) - 8.6 (77 votes)
Zodiac (2007, David Fincher) - 8.6 (58 votes)
The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder) - 8.5 (24 votes)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean) - 8.5 (40 votes)
Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter) - 8.5 (28 votes)
Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen) - 8.4 (46 votes)
Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott) - 8.4 (64 votes)
Blood Simple (1984, Joel and Ethan Coen) - 8.4 (37 votes)/8.3 (38 votes)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992, James Foley) - 8.4 (31 votes)
Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones) - 8.4 (36 votes)
Amarcord (1973, Federico Fellini) - 8.3 (27 votes)
Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick) - 8.3 (56 votes)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick) - 8.3 (68 votes)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont) - 8.3 (64 votes)
Aliens (1986, James Cameron)- 8.2 (35 votes)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Robert Wiene) - 8.2 (20 votes)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick) - 8.2 (58 votes)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, Woody Allen) - 8.2 (34 votes)
The Hurt Locker (2009, Kathryn Bigelow) - 8.2 (32 votes)
La haine (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz) - 8.2 (22 votes)
Moon (2009, Duncan Jones) - 8.2 (46 votes)
A Serious Man (2009, Joel and Ethan Coen) - 8.2/10 (33 votes)
Up in the Air (2009, Jason Reitman) - 8.2 (33 votes)
Young Frankenstein (1974, Mel Brooks) - 8.2 (34 votes)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, Andrew Dominik) - 8.1 (43 votes)
East of Eden (1955, Elia Kazan) - 8.1 (22 votes)
Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch) - 8.1 (45 votes)
For a Few Dollars More (1965, Sergio Leone) - 8.1 (29 votes)
Let the Right One In (2008, Tomas Alfredson) - 8.1 (64 votes)
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter) - 8.1 (37 votes)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill) - 8.0 (26 votes)
Clerks (1994, Kevin Smith - 8.0 (40 votes)
Dawn of the Dead (1978, George A. Romero) - 8.0 (35 votes)
King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack) - 8.0 (35 votes)
The Pianist (2002, Roman Polanski) - 8.0 (34 votes)
Sling Blade (1996, Billy Bob Thornton) - 8.0 (21 votes)
Return Of The Jedi (1983, Richard Marquand} - 8.0 (42 votes)
Gran Torino (2008, Clint Eastwood) - 7.9 (40 votes)
Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino) - 7.9 (44 votes)
The Mist (2007, Frank Darabont) - 7.9 (36 votes)
Up (2009, Pete Doctor) - 7.9 (51 votes)
The Searchers (1956, John Ford) - 7.8 (38 votes)
Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman) - 7.8 (36 votes)
Rain Man (1988, Barry Levinson) - 7.8 (31 votes)
The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir) - 7.8 (38 votes)
The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan) - 7.7 (69 votes)
American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes) - 7.6 (60 votes)
Edward Scissorhands (1990, Tim Burton) - 7.6 (40 votes)
Tootsie (1982, Sydney Pollack) - 7.6 (28 votes)
(500) Days of Summer (2009, Marc Webb) - 7.5 (46 votes)
Audition (1999, Takashi Miike) - 7.5 (25 votes)
First Blood (1982, Ted Kotcheff) - 7.5 (36 votes)
Wayne's World (1992, Penelope Spheeris) - 7.5 (28 votes)
Elephant (2003, Gus Van Sant) - 7.4 (44 votes)
Fight Club (1999, David Fincher) - 7.4 (81 votes)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Sergio Leone) - 7.4 (29 votes)
Forrest Gump (1994, Robert Zemeckis) - 7.4 (51 votes)
Gladiator (2000, Ridley Scott) - 7.4 (43 votes)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson) - 7.4 (48 votes)
Titanic (1997, James Cameron) - 7.4 (61 votes)
Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg) - 7.3 (69 votes)
Antichrist (2009, Lars von Trier) - 7.3 (37 votes)
Avatar (2009, James Cameron) - 7.3 (80 votes)
The Lion King (1994, Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff) 7.3 (46 votes)
Dancer in the Dark (2000, Lars Von Trier) - 7.2 (30 votes)
Into the Wild (2007, Sean Penn) - 7.2 (37 votes)
Watchmen (2009, Zack Syder) - 7.2 (52 votes)
District 9 (2009, Neill Blomkamp) - 7.1 (53 votes)
Scream (1996, Wes Craven) - 7.1 (34 votes)
The Godfather: Part 3 (1990, Francis Ford Coppola) - 7.0 (36 votes)
Gremlins (1984, Joe Dante) - 7.0 (35 votes)
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Re: Films List

Post by Lostark » Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:58 am

Hi Swami ... Namaskaram

As far as your list goes I have some all-time favorites like Star Wars and Aliens-II.
Other than that I have some closer to my heart like -
1-Terminator series
2-Titanic
3-Avatar
4-Lord of the Rings series
5-Harry Potter series
6-True Lies
7-Mission Impossible 1&2
8-Shatranj Ke Khilari 1970s hindi movie ( partly about a chess theme)
9-Shaolin Temple series
10-The Mask

The list goes on...

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Re: Films List

Post by Swaminathan » Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:02 am

Hi, Thanks for your response. From the list, I happen to think you must be a young smart lad :)

Welcome to the forum.
Lostark wrote:Hi Swami ... Namaskaram

As far as your list goes I have some all-time favorites like Star Wars and Aliens-II.
Other than that I have some closer to my heart like -
1-Terminator series
2-Titanic
3-Avatar
4-Lord of the Rings series
5-Harry Potter series
6-True Lies
7-Mission Impossible 1&2
8-Shatranj Ke Khilari 1970s hindi movie ( partly about a chess theme)
9-Shaolin Temple series
10-The Mask

The list goes on...
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Re: Films List

Post by Angel » Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:37 pm

post some links to films :idea: :arrow: Avator please :)
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Re: Films List

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Re: Films List

Post by Lostark » Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:21 am

Swaminathan wrote:Hi, Thanks for your response. From the list, I happen to think you must be a young smart lad :)

Welcome to the forum.
Namaskaram Swaminathan

at 40 ... I take that as a pleasant compliment Swami ... ;)

And its my pleasure to be a part of this forum.

Regards:

Lostark

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Re: Films List

Post by Taner Altinsoy » Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:42 pm

In no particular order:

- Fight Club
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (might add others like For a fistfull of dollars etc)
- Seven Samurai
- The Godfather
- Into the Wild (the book is also great)
- Blues Brothers (Best comedy film ever, ever!)
- Lord of the Rings series
- Indiana Jones Series
- Das Boot
- Papilion (A masterpiece imo)
- Great Escape
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Saving Private Ryan
- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs
- The Deer Hunter

The list goes on... these are just the ones came to mind.

Taner

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Re: Films List

Post by mariaclara » Tue Jun 15, 2010 1:05 am

Hi Swami,
:?:
based on your info, is it true The Magnificent Seven and For a Fistful of Dollars are adaptations of Kurosawa's
7 Samurai, and Yojimbo ( Toshiro Mifune) ?

TY

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Re: Films List

Post by Swaminathan » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:51 am

Hi Maria, I haven't seen those movies, but going by the comments in movie board, apparently yes.
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Re: Films List

Post by Swaminathan » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:53 am

Taner Altinsoy wrote:In no particular order:

- Fight Club
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (might add others like For a fistfull of dollars etc)
- Seven Samurai
- The Godfather
- Into the Wild (the book is also great)
- Blues Brothers (Best comedy film ever, ever!)
- Lord of the Rings series
- Indiana Jones Series
- Das Boot
- Papilion (A masterpiece imo)
- Great Escape
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Saving Private Ryan
- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs
- The Deer Hunter

The list goes on... these are just the ones came to mind.

Taner

Hi Taner,

thanks for posting the list, these are all well known films :)

From your list, Into the wild, The Great Escape and LOTR are some of my favorites.
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