Ten Favorite Movies of All Time

[Rianne]

Catch Me If You Can
American Hustle

Truth is stranger than fiction. Following with Molly's Game, Hidden Figures, Spotlight (finally), Schindler's List, 127 Hours, Solo.



And a bunch of documentaries, list too long to mention.

 

[kgtest]

In no particular order:

1 20 000 leagues under the sea
2 Titanic
3 Top Gun
4 Braveheart
5 Saving Private Ryan
6 Behind Enemy Lines
7 Fast and the Furious
8 A Christmas Story
9 Requiem for a Dream
10 Kill Bill (I had to throw in a Tarantino)
11 Scarface Which do I really even need to mention it?

For the ladies, Pretty Women, Dirty Dancing and Ghost.

But then I could add in monty python and the holy grail, Full Metal Jacket and Princess Bride and Back to the Future as well for honerable mentions.

 

[kgtest]

Not sure if anyone mentioned Harry Potter yet.

 

[mickeyd]

If I could have added one more movie (#11) it would have been The Accountant staring Ben Affleck. Look for application of Benford's Law and Mozambique Drill.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140479/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

 

[Lakewood90712]

The Accountant, that reminds me to add The Temp to the list. Crummy movie, but Laura Flynn Boyle in the early days.

 

[NW-Bound]

Recently, on an Air France flight I was able to watch Forbidden Games (Jeux Interdits), 1952, which was a classic movie in their selection.

I learned of this movie some years ago, due to a guitar piece played by Narciso Yepes which became better known than the film itself, and has been known world-wide as "Spanish Romance". In researching this guitar piece, I found that it was originally a musical score in the above movie. I was curious and wanted to watch it but had not had the occasion.

The movie turned out to be quite touching, and indeed won several awards. And it was the popularity of the movie that spread to the guitar piece, and not the other way around.

 

[stephenson]

This was a very interesting, odd, but charming movie ... The Valerian ... not well rated, but incredible special affects.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2239822/

 

[lucky penny]

Many of my favorites have been mentioned (a shout-out to Brokeback Mountain, The Day of the Jackal, The Remains of the Day) - so here's a new list:

Desk Set (Hepburn-Tracy)
Summertime (Hepburn)
The Heiress (superb acting, great story)
Coming Home
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A Hard Day's Night (forever young & wonderful)
About Schmidt (retirement anyone?)
Reversal of Fortune (Irons' Oscar)

 

[bolt]

Heres suggestions some might like.

"Federal Reserve, Not Federal, No Reserves" on Amazon w/ Hunter Green
"Ghost Exchange" on Amazon
"The Town" Affleck movie
"Meltdown" on Amazon

Arbitrage (2012)
Too Big To Fail (2011)
Margin Call (2011)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
The Informant (2009)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Boiler Room (2000)
Rogue Trader (1999)
Heat (1995)
Wall Street (1987)


Few Documentaries:

The Flaw (2011) - Hulu
Freakonomics (2010)
Chasing Madoff (2010)
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010)
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010)
Mind Over Money (2010) - Youtube, PBS
Inside Job (2010)
The Madoff Affair (2009) - PBS
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (2009) - Youtube
Ten Trillion and Counting (2009) - PBS
The Card Game (2009) - PBS
The Warning (2009) - PBS
I.O.U.S.A. (2008)
Can You Afford to Retire? (2006) - PBS
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
The Secret History of the Credit Card (2004) - PBS
The Corporation (2003)

Few more than 10...
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[Rianne]

^^Looks like a good list, many I haven't seen (documentaries). I have the PBS app, hope I can get to these. Sent list to my movie folder, thanks.

 

[FREE866]

Heres suggestions some might like.

"Federal Reserve, Not Federal, No Reserves" on Amazon w/ Hunter Green
"Ghost Exchange" on Amazon
"The Town" Affleck movie
"Meltdown" on Amazon

Arbitrage (2012)
Too Big To Fail (2011)
Margin Call (2011)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
The Informant (2009)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Boiler Room (2000)
Rogue Trader (1999)
Heat (1995)
Wall Street (1987)




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How in the world can you put Wall Street :Money never Sleeps even into the same conversation as the original Wall Street!??!?!?
Please tell me this is a typo


Seriously that was maybe the worst "sequels" ever !

 

[Car-Guy]

How in the world can you put Wall Street :Money never Sleeps even into the same conversation as the original Wall Street!??!?!?
Please tell me this is a typo


Seriously that was maybe the worst "sequels" ever !

-1

 

[aiken]

In no particular order
High Plains Drifter
Gladiator
Blue Velvet
A Few Good Men
The Fugitive
Austin Powers - Goldmember
The Big Lebowski
Forrest Gump
Field of Dreams
Major League
True Grit
Chinatown

 

[bolt]

How in the world can you put Wall Street :Money never Sleeps even into the same conversation as the original Wall Street!??!?!?
Please tell me this is a typo


Seriously that was maybe the worst "sequels" ever !

Everyones has different tastes......? no?
I liked the sequel better than the original.

 

[Car-Guy]

Everyones has different tastes......? no?
I liked the sequel better than the original.

+1

 

[24601NoMore]

Braveheart (best movie ever made, hands down).
Les Miserables (a close second).

 

[NW-Bound]

How in the world can you put Wall Street :Money never Sleeps even into the same conversation as the original Wall Street!??!?!?
Please tell me this is a typo

Seriously that was maybe the worst "sequels" ever !

I did not know about the sequel.

I just requested it from the local library to watch and decide for myself.

I would not expect it to be in the top 10 or anything like that, but it may still be entertaining.

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

(trying to delete a scrambled post using my phone.)

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

Casablanca

A Hard Days' Night

A Night at the Opera

And the two most frightening movies I ever saw:
Psycho,
and
Seven Days in May (which I saw in a movie theater on-post at West Point. Imagine!)

 

[Oz investor]

so many good movies , i am a big fan of international movies ( not just Asian ones )

which 10 to pick ?

 

[gettingthere]

I agree with so many others have listed.

I'd like to add:

The Odd Couple

 

[bolt]

"The Four Horsemen" released by the RenegadeEconomist & Ashcroft films on Youtube.....

Another must see for many imho.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

Has anyone mentioned "Once Upon a Time in the West?" To me it's the ultimate spaghetti western. Also probably Charles Bronson's finest turn as a leading man/protagonist.

 

[BoodaGazelle]

Very difficult... our list is almost all the "golden age" of Hollywood. Not in strict order:


Love Me Tonight
Trouble In Paradise
The Merry Widow
To Be Or Not To Be

His Girl Friday
The Awful Truth
Double Indemnity
Sullivan's Travels
The Palm Beach Story
It Happened One Night


I would probably need to list at least 25 to get the ones that I think are
not just my favorites, but the best of all time.


If you are a fan of older movies (like TCM) and you have not seen these, check
them out on IMDB and watch them.

 

[foxfirev5]

Grapes of Wrath
Rebel without a Cause
Wild One
Easy Rider
Rocky