50 films to see before you die

[samantha1303]

Not quite 50 but here we go -

I.D - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...lance&n=283926
When Saturday Comes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0IQ-...elated&search=
Patriot Games - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fb4ZVJNRxE
Clear and Present Danger
Godfather 1,2,3
Goodfellas - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt0Bl6kdpiU
Ronin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDttS...elated&search=
The Sicilian
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDvda...elated&search=
The Ring 1,2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF6gbwU9Lro
Gothika - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuk_TORDk-s
Seven
Saw
Point Break - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygztZjtOA5E
In The Name Of The Father - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUMab1GYMIY
Michael Collins - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmuuymdgsDk
Bloody Sunday
Monster
Boys Dont Cry
Blade 1,2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqdqtz_6q_U

( you can all groan now )

Fatal Beauty
Flatliners
Weekend At Bernies 1,2
City Of Angels - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zSG_oVliis
Ghost
Indecent Proposal - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4c7Q...elated&search=
Single White Female
Notting Hill - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq8MM5iBsrc
4 Weddings and a Funeral - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD31i9SKw80
Lost For Words
Jumping Jack Flash
Dancin Thru The Dark
Crazy Beautiful - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGpSlHkME0
Pretty Woman

[vegyjones]

How can anyone have the audacity to say that Shawshank Redemption
ican not make the top 50, but Shaun of the Dead can!

Okay, I've seen it, and it is funny, but it's not THAT funny!

[Fadetoblack]

don't think anyone said that it can't make the top 50.

[samantha1303]

don't think anyone said that it can't make the top 50.

It can't make my top 50 :)

[Fadetoblack]

It can't make my top 50 :)

You go girl :wink

[vegyjones]

It can't make my top 50 :)

Yes, but you didn't have Shaun of the dead in there! :D

[Fadetoblack]

But it's a 50 films you must see....not a 50 of the most aesteticly pleasing films ever made.

It's just a personal choice but Shaun scored a home run for me anyway...

[mathare]

Okay, I've seen it, and it is funny, but it's not THAT funny!

I didn't find Shawshank Redemption funny

[samantha1303]

I've never heard of Shaun of the dead to be honest.

Everyone should watch disney movies at least once -
my faves are -

Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
Pocahontas
The Little Mermaid
The Jungle Book
The Fox and the Hound

And EVERYONE on here should watch Racing Stripes.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...UTF8&s=gateway

[Fadetoblack]

Haha I've watched that with the missus....warmed the cockels of my heart.

[sparkyminer]

I've never heard of Shaun of the dead to be honest.

Everyone should watch disney movies at least once -
my faves are -

Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
Pocahontas
The Little Mermaid
The Jungle Book
The Fox and the Hound

And EVERYONE on here should watch Racing Stripes.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...UTF8&s=gateway

Oh yeah.
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Alladin
Monsters Inc
Finding Nemo
:D :D :D

[vegyjones]

The bestest comedy... ever.
That must be seen at least once in everyone's lufe, is

Airplane

[lowe1]

The bestest comedy... ever.
That must be seen at least once in everyone's lufe, is

Airplane

nothing is funnier than life of brian

"is there a brian here"

"now what have the romans ever done for us"

"bigus diiickus"


I could quote all night

[sparkyminer]

Top Gun.
Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter
Alien
Aliens
The Matrix
The Thing
American Werewolf in London

There's loads more.

[mathare]

Top Gun.

A proper 80s classic that one, albeit rather homoerotic

[muggsy1080]

city of god
scarface
seven
casino
oldboy
usual suspects
snatch
waterboy
stander

[samantha1303]

Racing Stripes clip -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqq8_eczPoI

[samantha1303]

I'll add clips to my list above as I find them

[hudsonmat]

A few of my personal faves:

Usual Suspects
Mississippi Burning
Falling Down (Anybody who has had one of them days will surely know how he feels)

regards
matt

[John]

Usual Suspects

A first-class twist, trickery and above all, cunningly intelligent.

Absolutely brilliant. :)

[GlosRFC]

Not all good films but ones that have cracking surround sound or amazingly realistic effects:
Black Hawk Down
Matrix
King Kong
Saving Private Ryan

Visually stunning films:
Traffic
True Romance
Ocean's Eleven

Jaw-dropping special effects/car chases/etc:
Gladiator
Kill Bill
House of Flying Daggers
Ronin
Bullit

Genuinely great films that will stand the test of time:
All of the Lord of the Rings
French Connection I and II
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Leon
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Apocalypse Now
The Untouchables
Almost every Ealing comedy made

[Littlegaz]

Agree with a lot of the above, but as a fan of the gangster genre my all time faves would be The Godfather (all three) and Goodfellas. More recently trendy is the cockney gangster theme and here the unmissables are:

Sexy Beast (awesome performance from Ben Kingsley)
The Business
Love, Honour and Obey (more violent comedy than outright gangster stuff)

The Krays would be there if it hadn't been spoilt by such crap casting.

[TheOldhamWhisper]

Scum - looks quite dated nowadays but a must see (IMHO).

House of Flying Daggers (as mentioned by Glos) - stunning film with strong storylines and a very neat twist to a complex plot - should be watched at a cinema with the original subtitles.

Cool Hand Luke - just a darned good movie.

Blackboard Jungle (or just about any Sidney Poitier film will do).

Stir Crazy - possibly the funniest film I have ever seen!

[bigcumba]

These are in no particular order but every one is a true classic... and apologies, but I can't narrow it to a smaller list.. and I'm sure there are many more!

The Lord Of The Rings trilogy
Indiana Jones - especially the 1st and 3rd
Apocalypse Now
The Great Escape
Alien / Aliens
Batman Begins
The Incredibles
Braveheart
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Gladiator
Lawrence Of Arabia
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Badges? Badges? we don't need no stinkin' badges!)
The African Queen
To Have And Have Not
Key Largo
Wallace & Gromit - Curse Of The Wererabbit
King Kong (1933 and 2005 versions)
The Searchers
The Man Who Would Be King
Toy Story 1 and 2
Shrek
The Iron Giant (very underrated animated film)
Goodfellas
Raging Bull
The Elephant Man
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Ed Wood
Bonnie & Clyde
Modern Times (Chaplin at his best)
Monty Python - Holy Grail & Life Of Brian
Some Like It Hot
It Happened One Night
The General (the amazing Buster Keaton - incredible stunts!)
Annie Hall
Harvey
All Marx Brothers movies apart from Room Service and Love Happy!!!!
The Graduate
Arsenic And Old Lace
The Godfather 1 & 2
12 Angry Men
M (Peter Lorre at his creepiest - and you must see the German lnaguage version with subtitles - the most complete version)
Chinatown
Double Indemnity
Touch Of Evil
Reservoir Dogs
On The Waterfront
The Big Sleep
Once Upon A Time In America
I AM A Fugitive From A Chain Gang
Shawshank Redemption
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
It's A Wonderful Life
To Kill A Mockingbird
Metropolis
Das Boot
ET
Nosferatu (1922)
The Green Mile
Pirates Of The Caribbean
The Maltese Falcon
The Lost Weekend
The Night Of The Hunter
White Heat
Scarface (1932 version!)
The Big Heat
All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
The Killing Fields
Psycho
The Shining
Frankenstein / Bride Of Frankesntein
Onibaba (1964 black and white Japanese classic horror)
The Exorcist
Invasion Of The Body snatchers (1956 version)
The Thing (both versions)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Hound Of The Baskervilles (1939)
Dracula (Hammer 1958)
Halloween
Evil Dead 1 and 2
The Uninvited
The Haunting (1963 version)
Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
Blue Velvet
Freaks
The Wicker Man
Witchfinder General
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931)
Profondo Rosso
Suspiria
Demons
Night Of The Demon
Dawn Of The Dead
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Kes
Spinal Tap
Singing In The Rain
The Blues Brothers
The Court Jester
The Jungle Book
In The Heat Of The Night
Forest Gump
Gone With The Wind
The Hustler
The Wild One
2001 A Space Odyssey
Terminator 2
Blade Runner
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Solaris (1972)
Planet Of The Apes (1968)
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Jaws
Duel
Seabiscuit
The Deerhunter
Stalag 17
The Caine Mutiny
A Fistful Of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Once Upon A Time In The West
High Noon
Unforgiven
The Wild Bunch
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Stagecoach
My Darling Clementine
Red River
Rio Bravo
Way Out West (and most Laurel and Hardy movies up until 1940)
Dances With Wolves
Winchester 73
Destry Rides Again
Shane
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Big Country
Fort Apache
The Shootist
High Plains Drifter
Tombstone
Support Your Local Sherriff
Titanic
War Of The Worlds (1953)


whew :D

[Merlin]

Some oldie films which are good(imo).......in addition to lots above already mentioned, which I havent duplicated)....

Psycho
Face Off
The Crying Game
The Manchurian Candidate
The Deer Hunter
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
A Clockwork Orange
Some Like It Hot
The Graduate
Scarface
Poltergeist
Rollerball

[Fadetoblack]

The Crying Game reminded me of this film which is coming out soon

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_se...land/trailera/

No he-shes mind you

[John]

Some nice looking lists there!

A few that stand out from that lot, that I haven't seen and would like to:-

Edward Scissorhands
If...
Full Metal Jacket
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Life of Brian
Taxi Driver
Pi
Se7en
Sleepers*
Snatch
Taxi Driver**
The Graduate
The Green Mile

I heard The Green Mile was ok but really long and could have been ended much earlier, but they dragged it on and on and on and on and...... We have Se7en on DVD but I haven't watched it, it's definitely a night-time movie though by the sounds of it. Wednesday night I'm at the cinema with Person B... I have no idea what's showing at the moment though...

I have seen Taxi Driver** but can't really remember what happens much. I remember some guy is given a car, and it's parked, and it's raining... and there's a taxi driver who drives a yellow taxi... I have also seen Sleepers* but can't remember it too well... can't remember it at all actually.

[Merlin]

Take a look at that Fade......I thought the Crying Game was a great film.......

[mathare]

I expect when lists such as this are compiled in years to come then Snakes On A Plane will be near the top

[presto]

that better be the origional rollerball merl :wink
the re-make was absolute tosh.