What are you favorite Top 5 Movies of all time?

[Reel]

Taxi Driver
The Shining
Punch Drunk Love
Jackie Brown
Sling Blade
Ghost World
Body Double
Ordinary People
Adaptation
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

second set ( no particular order )

Doubt
Blow Out
Being There
Deliverance
Rashomon
Drive
Magnolia
Storytelling
Poltergeist
I <3 Huckabees

[Yes]

1. Dumb and Dumber
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. Goodfellas
4. Magnolia
5. Star Wars


6. Royal Tenenbaums
7. Clerks
8. Blue Velvet
9. Dazed and Confused
10. Superbad

[Reel]

Cool, we have the same top 2, high five! I wonder what that says about us as men, or movie lovers, or members of society in general... PDL(obv) and Ghost World are also in my top ten. That was only a post ago, Idk why I'm reiterating it.

Drive is the most recent addtion on my list.

[polkablues]

Cool, we have the same top 2, high five! I wonder what that says about us as men, or movie lovers, or members of society in general...

That you identify with violent, unstable loners?

Drive is the most recent addtion on my list.

Nailed it.

[SailorOfTheSeas]

Hmm.

1. The Master
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring EE
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Oldboy

These are my absolute top 4. I can't wait to see somethings that gets to me as much as the above. Other favourites are Amelie, TWBB, Magnolia, PDL, The Shining, Lady Vengeance and some more. still relatively young so ive got many many years to add more stuff to this list. What do you lot recommend based on what ive said? 

[MacGuffin]

What do you lot recommend based on what ive said?

Anything before 1968.

[jenkins]

think a solid start based on what you listed, and building from what macguffin said, is john huston. he's a pta favorite, so he's got the higher-authority status that's often helpful. the master bluray has huston's let there be light, let's call that covered

here's the john huston section:

treasure of the sierra madre -- you can google what this movie meant to pta while he was making twbb. it meant a lot to him. plus, john huston's dad walter is in it, and walter makes fun of people in the most interesting and playful way possible (dancing is involved)

key largo -- for when you're into john huston and humphrey bogart. great filmmakers in that time period were terrific at making bogart a pathetic person

asphalt jungle -- by calendar dates this is the first serious allout heist movie within the crime genre, according to a guy who once told me that

the african queen -- jungle, bogart, boat, hepburn. a lot of the best features of early hollywood movies are here -- there's so much less fun and adventure in the jungle these days! and fewer characters who know what to do in the jungle and how to do it, and you believe the characters, partially because irl all the rich people loved going into jungles and wild areas and killing animals, and anyway everyone is serious in a human way and believable in a storytelling way

beat the devil -- i keep meaning to watch this. will you watch it? i think it's some kinda zany movie that truman capote helped write

moby dick -- john huston, whose the maltese falcon helped launch film noir and i didn't even mention the maltese falcon, because i don't like it, john huston could spot a jewel. this isn't his best movie and it's got all these problems like ray bradbury wrote the screenplay, orson welles gives a thunderous and lyrical sermon, gregory peck plays captain ahab, and there's a showdown with a whale

[SailorOfTheSeas]

thanks for the thorough reply jenkins, i'll try and watch all of those over the summer, including beat the devil, and tell u what i think  and i guess with that, i will have covered MacGuffin's recommendation too! 

[03]

spirit of the beehive
vivre sa vie
begotten
window water baby moving
last life in the universe;

as all old schoolers here know, i can go on, but ill leave it to this for now.

[Korova]

Well, this is difficult, but I'm gonna go with these:

8 1/2
A Clockwork Orange
Scenes from a Marriage (the TV-series)
Mulholland Drive
The Tree of Life

Now for 5 runners-up (just because):
Pulp Fiction
M
Vertigo
Jules et Jim
Taxi Driver

Favorite campfest: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
Favorite tearjerker: Dancer in the Dark

Well, this was easier than I thought.

[samsong]

Sunrise
Raging Bull
They Live By Night
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Days of Heaven

well, this has changed quite a bit, sort of...

nights of cabiria
playtime
make way for tomorrow
mulholland drive
days of heaven

[Sleepless]

1.  Jurassic Park
2.  There Will Be Blood
3.  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
4.  Easy Rider
5.  American Beauty

A couple months shy of two years later...

1.  There Will Be Blood
2.  Easy Rider
3.  Jurassic Park/Raiders of the Lost Ark
4.  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
5.  Eraserhead

[wilder]

An attempt:

Chinatown
Eyes Wide Shut
Heat
The Night of the Hunter
Scenes from a Marriage
The Talented Mr. Ripley

Got it to 6. It feels criminal leaving off Lumet, Kieslowski, and Cassavetes. Next few:

Crash (1996)
The Decalogue
Dog Day Afternoon
Love Streams
Midnight Cowboy
Pusher II / Pusher III
Safe (1995)
We Won't Grow Old Together

[Reel]

Inspired by eward's "PTA movies with emojis post"

My top ten:

Taxi Driver 🚖👶🏻🤷🏼‍♀️
The Shining 🏔🏯🛀🏼
Jackie Brown 👩🏾‍💼💵🛫
Sling Blade 🍟🍟🍗
Punch Drunk Love 🙍🏻‍♂️💳🥊
Ghost World 👩🏻‍🏫👩🏻‍🎨🚎
Body Double 🤸‍♀️🔭⚰️
Ordinary People 🚤🆘🏊🏻
Adaptation 🌸📝🐊
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? 🍻🥃🤼‍♂️

[wilberfan]

Boogie Nights
2001: A Space Odyssey
Apocalypse Now
Goodfellas
Cool Hand Luke


Clockwork Orange
Animal House
Cabaret
Singin' in the Rain
Pulp Fiction