BR top 100 movies

laurentian

Goodfellas
Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction
The Godfather (II if I'm not allowed the trilogy)
City of God

. . . oh, and Heat

thegreatdivide

I've got waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many fave films, but here are five that sit near the top of the pile:

Blade Runner ;-)
Kelly’s Heroes
Michael Clayton
Manhunter
Assault on Precinct 13

All of the above have excellent soundtracks too. I like a move that has a good soundtrack.

simonhead

thegreatdivide wrote:

I've got waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many fave films, but here are five that sit near the top of the pile:

Blade Runner ;-)
Kelly’s Heroes
Michael Clayton
Manhunter
Assault on Precinct 13

All of the above have excellent soundtracks too. I like a move that has a good soundtrack.

Forgot Kellys Heroes..........now thinking Heartbreak Ridge.

seanoconn

Shawshank Redemption



Red: I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.

Escadrille Ecosse

Way Out West
The Cruel Sea
Blade Runner
Rear Window
The Big Country

Some that didn't quite make it

Ice Cold in Alex
Uncle Buck - "Get in your mouse and get out of here"
Jungle Book
Indiana Jones The Temple of Doom
True Grit (2010)

Heat....pompous, overblown and ridiculous eg a bunch of blokes wandering up the middle of the street picking off, with single shots from the hip, trained police firing from cover..cobblers, utter cobblers.

richk

Blade Runner (original)
The Italian Job (original)
The Ladykillers (original)
Kung Fu Panda
Diva

SmellTheGlove

Broadway Danny Rose
A Matter of Life and Death
Miller's Crossing
Psycho
Paths of Glory

honourable mentions
Nosferatu (Murnau)
Lagaan
Animal Kingdom

(edit)

EKIMIKE

La Haine


Hubert: Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land!

bernithebiker

Damn!

I forgot La Haine!!

Would have been in my Top 5!!

Absolutely brilliant. In fact there are quite a lot of other excellent French films that don't even get released in the UK.

EKIMIKE

Well give us a few titles then...

Brassknocker

The Day Of The Jackal (Edward Fox)
Withnail & I
The Big Lebowski
KingPin
2001: A Space Odyssey (have to be in the mood for it)
Das Boot
Alien
...
The Eye Of The Needle
GodFather Part 2
Darjeeling Limited
Meet the Parents
There's something about Mary...

..give or take one or two...

napoleond

Napoleon Dynamite
Anchorman
Caddyshack
Apocalypse Now!
The Bourne thingy

Loretta Damage

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Searchers
Bull Durham
Big Wednesday
Animal House

wheelwobble

Unforgiven
Se7en
Assault on Precinct 13 (original)
Jaws
Schindlers List

meursault

Loretta Damage wrote:

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Searchers
Bull Durham
Big Wednesday
Animal House

Big Wednesday very cool. Also loving the scene from Jaws, absolute class.

The Deerhunter



Cool Hand Luke



The Big lebowski



The Passenger



Bicycle Thieves

dynamicbrick

La Haine
Clerks
Forrest Gump
Gran Torino
The Truman Show

Just missed the cut;
Once Were Warriors
Saving Private Ryan
Ronin
The Last Samurai (yeah, I know, but I really enjoyed it)
Human Traffic

seanoconn

A quick count up reveals Shawshanks Redemption is in a narrow lead.

How'd you like them apples afx237vi!! :P

afx237vi

seanoconn wrote:

A quick count up reveals Shawshanks Redemption is in a narrow lead.

How'd you like them apples afx237vi!! :P

Meh. Unsurprising.

crumbschief

Tough choices but here are 5 in my top lot

The Thing
Hellboy
Event Horizon
The Keep
Resident Evil

metronome

Everything is Illuminated
Buffalo 66
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Napoleon Dynamite
Stranger than Fiction

edit. + any Wes Anderson movie

seanoconn

crumbschief wrote:

Tough choices but here are 5 in my top lot

The Thing
Hellboy
Event Horizon
The Keep
Resident Evil

Good picks Haven't seen The Keep but I will when I get the chance.

crumbschief

seanoconn wrote:

crumbschief wrote:

Tough choices but here are 5 in my top lot

The Thing
Hellboy
Event Horizon
The Keep
Resident Evil

Good picks Haven't seen The Keep but I will when I get the chance.

Ah you have good taste ,you should be able to find The Keep online it will be on VHS though,have a look on Sky it was on a few weeks ago they might show it again.

Davdandy

I doubt you will get The keep apart from some dodgy old video tape.But it has been on tv recently a couple of times on one of the free movies channels,not sure which one.

It is a good film though it has to be said that age has got the better of it.Still a worthy watch though.

thegreatdivide

crumbschief wrote:

seanoconn wrote:

crumbschief wrote:

Tough choices but here are 5 in my top lot

The Thing
Hellboy
Event Horizon
The Keep
Resident Evil

Good picks Haven't seen The Keep but I will when I get the chance.

Ah you have good taste ,you should be able to find The Keep online it will be on VHS though,have a look on Sky it was on a few weeks ago they might show it again.

No! No! No! No! No!

The Keep is SHOCKINGLY bad. Brilliant (and very rare) soundtrack by Tangerine Dream and some of the scenes look ace, but it's so badly acted that it becomes comedy. I'm sure that Glenn, Byrne and the mighty Prochnow would like to see this one buried.

Watch Manhunter instead ;-)

team47b

Black cat white cat - a definite top five film

nchappy

1. Heat
2. Black Hawk Down
3. The Searchers
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Leon

seanoconn

FFS! Heat's joint top now! Stop it ok, just stop it!

fat_cat

Not necessarily in this order, but:

- The Green Mile

- Tombstone

- Zulu

- Lock Stock And Two Smokin Barrells

- Control

W12_Lad

Life of Brian
The Devils Rejects
Man on Fire
Million Dollar Baby
The Business

crumbschief

EKIMIKE wrote:

Well give us a few titles then...

I have not seen many but two French horror films i enjoyed were Malefique and Brotherhood of The Wolf.