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What are your top 20 favorite films?


Here's mine...In no particular order

1) There Will Be Blood
2) Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
3) Goodfellas
4) The Shining
5) Schindler's List
6) GO
7) A Clockwork Orange
8) Rain Man
9) Natural Born Killers
10) Bully
11) Funny Games
12) Killing Zoe
13) The Doors
14) The Inglorious Basterds
15) I Am Legend
16) The Aviator
17) Scarface
18) Full Metal Jacket
19) Taxi Driver
20) American Psycho

Okay, so that's definitely not all of them. But close enough.

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in no order....
1) sling blade
2) a serious man
3) the godfather I & II
4) one-eyed jacks
5) how green was my valley
6) mccabe & mrs miller
7) the third man
8) casablanca
9) pulp fiction
10) burnt by the sun
11) seven samurai
12) wild strawberries
13) the unforgiven
14) ft apache
15) 2001 a space odyssey
16) full metal jacket
17) taxi driver
18) the pink panther
19) paths of glory
20) rob roy

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The Godfather
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Fargo
City of God
Les diaboliques
Wild Strawberries
The Shawshank Redemption
Magnolia
Goodfellas
Gone Girl
A Clockwork Orange
M
Seppuku
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (my screen name is a reference)
American Beauty
Die Hard
Psycho
21 Grams
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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I can't list 20 but here are a few:

Some Like It Hot
St. Vincent
Bagdad Cafe
Hard Eight
The Cooler
My Man Godfrey
The Thin Man
Citizen Kane
Psycho
Taxi Driver
On The Waterfront
. . . . .and anything with Marlon Brando and Robert DeNiro

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In no particular order, these are my some of my favourites not ones I consider the greatest of all time.

Aliens
The treasure of the sierra madre
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Indiana Jones and the temple of doom
Die Hard
The Lady Vanishes
Groundhog day
Charade
Ed Wood
The Shawshank Redemption
The Great Escape
Back to the future
The Empire Strikes Back
Terminator 2
The Wizard of Oz
The Breakfast Club
Rounders
Ghost
Raiders of the lost ark
The Fugitive

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Rounders won’t make my top 20 but it an underrated movie that no one ever talks about. It is really entertaining.

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Wow, this is hard... lemme try.

In no particular order:
1. The Lion King (1994)
2. The Matrix (1999)
3. Inception (2010)
4. Spirited Away (2001)
5. The Godfather (1972)
6. Infernal Affair (2002)
7. Hero (2002)
8. Léon: The Professional (1994)
9. Shaolin Soccer (2001)
10. Lust, Caution (2007)
11. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
12. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
13. American Beauty (1999)
14. Terminator 2: The Judgement Day (1991)
15. Trainspotting (1996)
16. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
17. Toy Story (1995)
18. Cicade de Deus (2002)
19. Forrest Gump (1994)
20. Fight Club (1999)

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In no particular order...

1. Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)
2. See No Evil (1971)
3. Black Christmas (1974)
4. Deliverance (1972)
5. Scarface (1983)
6. The Last House on the Left (1972)
7. Manhunter (1986)
8. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
9. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
10. Airplane! (1980)
11. Carrie (1976)
12. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
13. The Godfather (1972)
14. The Vanishing (1988)
15. Bullitt (1968)
16. They Live (1988)
17. The Shining (1980)
18. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
19. The Room (2003)
20. Duel (1971)

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The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one my favorite horror films.

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(No order):

1)Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
2)Frankenstein (1931)
3)The Blues Brothers (1980)
4)The Wizard of Oz (1939)
5)Batman: The Movie (1966)
6)Lilies of the Field (1963)
7)To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
8)Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
9)Tarzan: The Ape Man (1932)
10)Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
11)The Ten Commandments (1956)
12)The Planet of the Apes (1968)
13)Blazing Saddles (1974)
14)Mr. Sardonicus (1962)
15)Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan: Lord of the Apes (1984)
16)My Name is Nobody (1973)
17)Highlander (1986)
18)Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
19)Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
20)Big Fish (2003)

~~/o/

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i love your list. so unique, fun and honest.

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That's a nice compliment!
Being able to laugh a little, reaching out for support, and having hope in life are very important to me.

~~/o/

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Nice to see a list with some variety. 👍

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I credit my adventurous, artistic family with my wide range of interests. Thanks, Glen.

~~/o/

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1) Aliens (1986)
2) Almost Famous (2000)
3) Stand By Me (1986)
4) Back to the Future (1985)
5) The Terminator (1984)
6) Halloween (1978)
7) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
8) The Princess Bride (1987)
9) Jaws (1975)
10) The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
11) The Goonies (1985)
12) Groundhog Day (1993)
13) A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
14) The Thing (1982)
15) Halloween II (1981)
16) Rounders (1998)
17) Coming To America (1988)
18) Better Off Dead (1985)
19) Rocky III (1982)
20) Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

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I totes forgot about Rounders. Have to edit my list now. ty

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