Posted on 05/10/2025 12:48:18 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Greatest movies of all time
This shifts for me. But a handful of movies I find no fault with are:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Star Wars
Alien
Aliens
Life of Brian
There are so damn many good movies. Could have also added:
The Searchers
Cool Hand Luke
Goodfellas
An Officer And A Gentleman.
It is clearly destined for induction into the National Film Registry.
War and Peace, 1973; John Howard Davies, director; Anthony Hopkins as Pierre (TV series)
Pride and Prejudice, 1995; Simon Langton, director; Jennifer Ehle; Colin Firth Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai), 1954: Akira Kurosawa, director
I, Claudius, 1976; Herbert Wise, director; Derek Jacobi; Sian Phillips (TV series)
Gone with the Wind, 1939: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havillands
Tomorrow, 1972; Joseph Anthony, II, director; Robert Duvall; William Faulkner
Los Olvidados, 1950; Luis Bunuel, director
East of Eden, 1955; Elia Kazan, director; James Dean; Julie Harris
The Ascent, 1976; Larisa Shepitko, Director; Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir, Gostyukhin, Ludmilla Poliakova (USSR)
The Godfather, Part I, 1972: Francis Ford Coppola, director; Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
The Godfather, Part II, 1974: Francis Ford Coppola, director; Al Pacino, Robert Duvall
All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930; Lewis Milestone, Director; Lew Ayres.
The Razor’s Edge, 1946; Edmund Goulding, director; Anne Baxter, Gene Tierney, Tyrone Power, John Payne, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, Lucile Watson
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968; Stanley Kubrick, Director; Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood
Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935; Frank Lloyd, Director; Clark Gable, Charles Laughton.
Sideways, 2004; Alexander Payne, Director; Sandra Oh, Paul Giamatti, Thomas Hayden Church, Virginia Madsen
The Secret Life of Bees, 2008; Gina Prince-Blythewood, Director; Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo, Paul Bettany
The Killers, 1946; Robert Siodmak, Director; Ava Gardner, Edmund O’Brien, Burt Lancaster, Albert Dekker, Jack Lambert
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948; John Huston, Director; Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Walter Huston.
Flesh and the Devil (silent), 1926; Clarence Brown, Director; Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson.
Fried Green Tomatoes, 1991; John Avnet, Director; Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jessica Tandy, Cicely tyson, Chris O’Donnell, Stan Shaw, Gary Basaraba.
Ship of Fools, 1965: Stanley Kremer, director; Simone Signoret, Vivien Leigh, Oscar Werner, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, José Greco, Charles Korvin.
Ben Hur, a Tale of the Christ (silent), 1925. Fred Niblo, Director; Ramon Novarro Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Claire McDowell, Kathleen Key, Nigel de Brulier.
Educating Rita, 1983: Lewis Gilbert, director; Julie Walters, Michael Caine
Body Heat, 1981: Lawrence Kasdan, director; William Hurt, Kathleen Turner
Fanny, 1961; Joshua Logan, Director; Leslie Caron, Horst Bucchholz, Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier
House of Gucci, 2021 : Ridley Scott, Director; Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Salma Hayek
A Tale of Two Cities, 1935: Jack Conway, Director; Ronald Coleman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, Donald Woods
Scaramouche (silent) 1923. Directed by Rex Ingram; Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone.
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen, Producer and Writer; Kate Blanchett Alex Baldwin.
The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013; Martin Scorsese, Director; Leonardo DiCaprio.
South Pacific, 2001; Richard Pearce, Director; Glenn Close, Rade Serbedzija, Harry Connick Jr., Lori Tan Chinn, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Robert Pastorelli
The Sixth Sense, 1999: Night Shyamalan, director; Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, Haley Joel Osment
Roman Holiday, 1953: William Wyler, director; Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert
The Yearling, 1946: Clarence Brown, director; Claude Jarman, Jr., Jane Wyman, Gregory Peck
Casino Royale, 2006; Martin Campbell, Director; Daniel Craig; Eva Green
American Beauty, 1999: Sam Mendes, director; Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening
The Heiress, 1949; William Wyler, director; Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift
The Heiress, 1961; Marc Daniels, director; Julie Harris; Farley Granger
Jane Eyre, 2006; Susanna White, director; Ruth Wilson; Toby Stephens
The Shawshank Redemption, Frank Darabont, Director, 1994; Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman
Ballykissangel, 2996; Kieran Prendiville, Creator; Dervia Kirwan, Stephen Tompkinson United 93, 2006: Paul Greengrass, director (TV series)
Barbarians at the Gate, 1993: Glenn Jordan, director; James Garner
State Fair, 1945: Walter Lang, director; Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews
Downton Abbey, 2010, Julian Fellowes, Director; Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Alln Leech, Dan Stevens, jessica Brown Findlay (TV series)
Not As a Stranger, 1955: Stanley Kramer, director; Olivia de Haviland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame
The Color Purple, 1985: Steven Spielberg, director; Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey
The Golden Bowl, 1972, BBC: James Cellan Jones, Director; Novel by Henry James; Barry Morse, Jill Townsend, Daniel Massey, Gayle Hunnicutt
Best in Show, 2000: Christopher Guest, director; Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy
Trading Places, 1983: John Landis, director; Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis
Zelig, 1983: Woody Allen, director; Woody Allen, Mia Farrow
Saturday’s Hero, 1951; David Miller, director; John Derek, Donna Reed, Aldo Ray, Sidney Blackmer, Alexander Knox, Otto Hulett
Their Eyes Were Watching God, 2005: Darnell Martin, director; Halle Berry
Storm at Daybreak, 1933: Richard, Boleslavsky, Director; Kay Francis, Nils Asther, Walter Huston.
Smiling Through, 1932. Sidney Franklin, Director; Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard.
The Kite Runner, 2007; Marc Forster, Director; Khalid Abdalla.
Walk the Line, 2005; James Mangold, Director; Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon.
Dr. Zhivago, Masterpiece Theatre, 2003.Hans Matheson, Keira Knightley, Sam Neill, Alexandra Maria Lara.
The Purple Heart, 1944; Lewis Milestone, Director; Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Grainger, Anne Baxter. La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, 1928 (silent) ; Carl Theodor Dryer, Director ; Maria Falconetti
So many from 1939. Hard to choose one.
This shifts for me. But a handful of movies I find no fault with are:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Star Wars
Alien
Aliens
Villeneuve’s DUNE: Parts 1 and 2
Sand Pebbles and Quarter Mass Experiment.👍
Greatest movies of all time were made well before the 90’s.
The Right Stuff.
Schindler’s List - at the end nobody left the theatre
ET - we all became children again
Gone with the Wind - transported to a world gone by
Casablanca - how classic can you get
Blues Brothers - for every reason you said
Four Weddings and a Funeral - laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe
I suppose there are a lot of others - like Indiana Jones and some of the James Bond - adventures that take you away...
The Sting
High Plains Drifter
My personal Number One Favorite. I even made a pilgrimage to the apartment building In San Francisco where some of the scenes were shot.
My top two are Citizen Kane and the Godfather.
Not in order:
The Matrix
The Usual Suspects
Shawshank Redemption
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Forest Gump
“The Third Man”
Great story and actors. But the black and white cinematography and lighting are works of art. Visually stunning
To be specific: All of the above (Except musicals)
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