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    dtatroom — 17 years ago(July 17, 2008 02:36 PM)

    The Verdict
    The Vanishing
    Blade Runner
    Wall Street
    It's a Wonderful Life
    Shawshank Redemption
    The Life of David Gale
    Touch of Evil
    3rd Man
    Thomas Crown affair
    Cuckoos Nest
    As Good as it Gets
    English Patient
    Gold Finger
    Doctor No
    Midnight Run
    Memento
    Donnie Brasco
    American Beauty
    The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
    Casino
    Casino Royale
    Layer Cake
    Silence of the Lambs
    Hannibal
    GodFather 1 & 2
    Once Upon a time in America
    Michael Clayton
    Schindler's List
    Black Book
    Imitation of Life
    Lock, Stock & 2 smoking Barrels
    Bugsy
    Serpico
    The Shining
    Pulp Fiction
    GoodFellas
    Raging Bull
    Heat
    Miami Vice
    Quadrophenia
    Havana
    The Piano
    The Painted Veil
    Platoon
    Wall Street
    Physco
    Vertigo
    O Brother Where art thou
    Man on Fire
    The Pianist
    Lord of War
    Mulholland Drive
    Lord of the Rings trilogy
    Star Wars trilogy
    American History X
    Angel Heart
    The Player
    Apocalypto
    Mad Max
    Brave Heart
    Being There
    Blood Diamond
    Titanic
    Butch Cassidy
    Back to the future
    Bringing up baby
    What's up Doc
    Basic Instinct
    Bobby
    Butterfly Effect
    Just Friends
    Batman Begins
    The Color of Money
    The Hustler
    The Quiet American
    Hannah & Her 7 Sisters
    The Cider House Rules
    Forest Gump
    Animal House
    Children of Men
    The Four Feathers
    Cinderella Man
    Casablanca
    Carlito's Way
    Cape Fear
    The night of the Hunter
    Cool Hand Luke
    Serendipity
    Sweet Home Alabama
    Walk The Line
    The Long Good Friday
    Doctor Zhivago
    Deer Hunter
    Double Indemnity
    Body Heat
    Body Double
    What Lies Beneath
    The Exorcist
    French Connection
    5th Element
    Good Will Hunting
    Gangs of New York
    There Will be Blood
    Gladiator
    Grand Prix
    Hotel Rwanda
    High Fidelity
    Hustle & Flow
    Do The Right Thing
    Rising Sun
    In the Name of the Rose
    Infernal Affairs
    JFK
    Kill Bill 1 & 2
    Reservoir Dogs
    The Last King of Scotland
    LA Confidential
    the Lady from Shanghai
    Leon
    Diva
    Mystic River
    Last Tango in Paris
    The Last Boy Scout
    Against all Odds

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      latashamj — 17 years ago(October 09, 2008 09:07 PM)

      here are my 20, i am too lazy to think of 50:
      lost in translation
      requiem for a dream
      the united states of leland
      american history x
      kids
      match point
      mysterious skin
      american beauty
      vanilla sky
      legend
      the visitor
      ghost world
      the virgin suicides
      pretty persuasion
      factory girl
      about a son
      eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
      wassup rockers
      brokeback mountain
      all the pretty horses

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        toonces12 — 17 years ago(October 22, 2008 07:26 PM)

        Well my list would be kinda different from any of the ones previously mentioned. Try and think outside of Hollywood and the last 3 decades please; unless you are fine with watching linear films from the same country and time. If Shawshank Redemption is anywhere on your best film list then you are going to hate mine.
        -The first two are a must watch for anyone.
        Spoorloos
        Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
        Adaptation
        Eraserhead
        Hana-bi
        Intolerance
        M
        Sunset Boulevard
        Oldboy
        The Apu Trilogy
        Paradise Now
        Sonatine
        Breathless
        2001: A Space Odyssey
        The 400 Blows
        Metropolis
        The Public Enemy (1931)
        Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie
        Get Carter
        Andrei Rublev
        Stray Dog
        Hard Boiled
        Rashomon
        Grizzly Man
        Once Upon a Time in the West
        Freaks
        Easy Rider
        8 1/2
        Angels With Dirty Faces
        The Apartment
        Akira
        Rushmore
        Birth of a Nation
        The Killing
        The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
        The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
        Man Bites Dog
        Night of the Hunter
        THX 1138
        Tokyo Story
        Paths of Glory
        Some Like it Hot
        Scarface (1932)
        Strike (1925)
        Notorious
        12 Angry Men
        Seven Samurai
        The Searchers
        Midnight Cowboy
        Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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          joeymo — 16 years ago(November 12, 2009 08:04 PM)

          toonces12, wowgreat beep list man!!!

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            Neon-man — 16 years ago(March 30, 2010 10:59 PM)

            It's not your best 50 movies, it's just 50 movies someone should see before they die. Maybe even movies you would only need to see once (ie Pink Flamingoes).

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              kelly18-1 — 17 years ago(December 11, 2008 08:02 AM)

              im nt sure of the order or 50 films in fact, but these r deffo sum of my favs of all time
              the green mile
              men of honour
              billy elliot
              grease
              carry on camping
              oldboy
              bridge to terabithia
              schindlers list
              one flew over the cuckoos nest
              rainman
              in the name of the father
              star wars
              lost boys
              eight below
              jumanji
              lion king
              to name but a few

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                oilers_girl05 — 16 years ago(September 03, 2009 12:00 PM)

                1. The Green Mile
                2. Shawshank Redemption
                3. Matrix
                4. V for Vendetta
                5. Fight club
                6. Requiem for a dream
                7. Titanic
                8. To kill a mockingbird
                9. Grease
                10. Lion King
                11. Jacob's Ladder
                12. Lord of the rings trilogy (counting as one)
                13. Star Wars episodes
                14. Braveheart
                15. Gladiator
                16. 300
                17. Pulp Fiction
                18. Labyrinth
                19. American History X
                20. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
                21. A Beautiful Mind
                22. Princess Bride
                23. The Exorcist
                24. August Rush
                25. Forrest Gump
                26. Remember the Titans
                27. Edward Scissorhands
                28. Stand by me
                29. Schindler's List
                30. Misery
                31. Rain Man
                32. Awakenings
                33. Dark knight
                34. What Dreams May Come
                35. The Bucket List
                36. Full Metal Jacket
                37. Silence of the lambs
                38. Erin Brockovich
                39. Wizard of Oz
                40. Magnolia
                41. Trainspotting
                42. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
                43. Armageddon
                44. Crash
                45. Donnie Darko
                46. The godfather
                47. Scarface
                48. Walk the Line
                49. Some like it Hot
                50. The Shining
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                  yonus_565 — 16 years ago(October 03, 2009 12:44 AM)

                  In no particular order:

                  1. american Beauty
                  2. The Usual Suspects
                  3. The Shawshank redemption
                  4. Jurassic Park
                  5. The night of the Hunter
                  6. Almost Famous
                  7. Good Night and Good Luck
                  8. No Country for Old Men
                  9. The Fugitive
                  10. Adam's Rib
                  11. Platoon
                  12. The Deer Hunter
                  13. Amadeus
                  14. Being John Malkovich
                  15. High Fidelity
                  16. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
                  17. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
                  18. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
                  19. Sunset Boulevard
                  20. Chinatown
                  21. Annie Hall
                  22. MAS*H
                  23. Das Leben der Anderen(The Lives of Others)
                  24. The Wizard of Oz
                  25. The Searchers
                  26. Straw Dogs
                  27. The man who shot Liberty Valance
                  28. Rear Window
                  29. Psycho
                  30. Star Wars
                  31. star Wars: The empire strikes Back
                  32. OldBoy
                  33. The Sound of Music
                  34. My Fair Lady
                  35. LA Confidential
                  36. Back to the Future
                  37. The Bourne Identity (the good one, before Paul greengrass got his hands on the two sequels)
                  38. The French Connection
                  39. Raise the Red Lantern
                  40. Indiana Jones (the first three as one)
                  41. Lawrence of Arabia
                  42. Trainspotting
                  43. The Wicker Man (the original)
                  44. Rain Man
                  45. Misery
                  46. Pulp Fiction
                  47. One flew over the cuckoo's nest
                  48. Saving Private Ryan
                  49. Wo Hu Cang Long (Crouching Tiger Hiden Dragon)
                  50. The Bond Movies, if I had to choose five to represent them: From Russia with Love, Moonraker, Live and Let Die, the Spy who loved me and The World is not enough
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                    flvdberg — 15 years ago(October 04, 2010 01:32 PM)

                    In no particular order:

                    1. Batman (1989)
                    2. Terminator
                    3. The Matrix
                    4. Scarface
                    5. Back to the Future
                    6. Die Hard
                    7. From Russia with Love
                    8. Robocop
                    9. First Blood
                    10. Twelve Monkeys
                    11. Minority Report
                    12. Indiana Jones trilogy
                    13. Star Wars trilogy (parts 4, 5 and 6)
                    14. Los cronocrmenes
                    15. Pulp Fiction
                    16. Sin City
                    17. Inception
                    18. Memento
                    19. Vertigo
                    20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
                    21. American History X
                    22. Wall-E
                    23. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
                    24. Reservoir Dogs
                    25. Up
                    26. Donnie Darko
                    27. The Sixth Sense
                    28. V for Vendetta
                    29. Ed Wood
                    30. King Kong
                    31. Kill Bill (vol. 1 & 2)
                    32. Rain Man
                    33. Stargate
                    34. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
                    35. Liar Liar
                    36. The Naked Gun: from the files of police squad
                    37. Kick-Ass
                    38. Coffy
                    39. A Few Good Men
                    40. The Devil's Advocate
                    41. THX 1138
                    42. 2001: A Space Odyssey
                    43. Videodrome
                    44. The Fly
                    45. Superman: The Movie
                    46. Jurassic Park
                    47. Darkman
                    48. Airplane! (1980)
                    49. Girl, Interrupted
                    50. Midnight Cowboy
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                      sandor-enckell — 15 years ago(October 10, 2010 02:12 AM)

                      In no special order:

                      1. Lion King
                      2. The Sixth Sense
                      3. The Godfather
                      4. The Godfather part 2
                      5. Braveheart
                      6. Memento
                      7. North By northwest
                      8. Die Hard
                      9. Back to the Future
                      10. Indiana Jones
                      11. American History X
                      12. The Deer Hunter
                      13. Casablanca
                      14. Toy Story
                      15. The Shining
                      16. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
                      17. Sin City
                      18. Gladiator
                      19. Stand By Me
                      20. Rocky
                      21. Taxi Driver
                      22. On The Waterfront
                      23. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
                      24. Terminator
                      25. Terminator 2: Judgement day
                      26. Lord of the Rings
                      27. Love Actually
                      28. The Matrix
                      29. Pulp Fiction
                      30. Grease
                      31. Amlie
                      32. To Kill A Mockingbird
                      33. Chinatown
                      34. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
                      35. The Shawshank Reemption
                      36. Unforgiven
                      37. Strangers on a train
                      38. The Graduate
                      39. Blue Velvet
                      40. Terminator
                      41. Planet of the Apes
                      42. Hannah and her sisters
                      43. Annie Hall
                      44. Forrset Gump
                      45. Ben-Hur
                      46. The Elephant Man
                      47. Silence of the Lambs
                      48. Goodfellas
                      49. The Killer
                      50. Saw
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                        sandor-enckell — 15 years ago(October 10, 2010 02:14 AM)

                        In no special order:

                        1. Lion King
                        2. The Sixth Sense
                        3. The Godfather
                        4. The Godfather part 2
                        5. Braveheart
                        6. Memento
                        7. North By northwest
                        8. Die Hard
                        9. Back to the Future
                        10. Indiana Jones
                        11. American History X
                        12. The Deer Hunter
                        13. Casablanca
                        14. Toy Story
                        15. The Shining
                        16. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
                        17. Sin City
                        18. Gladiator
                        19. Stand By Me
                        20. Rocky
                        21. Taxi Driver
                        22. On The Waterfront
                        23. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
                        24. Terminator
                        25. Terminator 2: Judgement day
                        26. Lord of the Rings
                        27. Love Actually
                        28. The Matrix
                        29. Pulp Fiction
                        30. Grease
                        31. Amlie
                        32. To Kill A Mockingbird
                        33. Chinatown
                        34. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
                        35. The Shawshank Reemption
                        36. Unforgiven
                        37. Strangers on a train
                        38. The Graduate
                        39. Blue Velvet
                        40. Battle Royale
                        41. Planet of the Apes
                        42. Hannah and her sisters
                        43. Annie Hall
                        44. Forrest Gump
                        45. Ben-Hur
                        46. The Elephant Man
                        47. Silence of the Lambs
                        48. Goodfellas
                        49. The Killer
                        50. Saw
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                          phreak9 — 14 years ago(December 15, 2011 01:59 AM)

                          waking life
                          stalker (tsarkovsky)
                          fight club
                          matrix
                          star wars (456)
                          waking the dead
                          out cold
                          dumb and dumber
                          traffic
                          caddyshack
                          bram stokers dracula
                          catch me if you can
                          the adventures of mark twain (claymation)
                          porn

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                            johnno74 — 14 years ago(February 20, 2012 11:57 AM)

                            Note; this is not my top fifty, but some of the films are included in my personal top 50. This list is in no particular order.

                            1. Schindler's List
                            2. ET The Extra Terrestrial
                            3. Wizard Of Oz
                            4. Godfather
                            5. It's A Wonderful Life
                            6. Mr Smith Goes To Washington
                            7. Thelma & Louise
                            8. Jaws
                            9. Star Wars IV
                            10. Pinocchio
                            11. To Kill A Mockingbird
                            12. On The Waterfront
                            13. Good The Bad & The Ugly
                            14. Battleship Potemkin
                            15. Fantasia
                            16. Saving Private Ryan
                            17. Lord Of The Rings (whole trilogy)
                            18. Reservoir Dogs
                            19. Gone With The Wind
                            20. Kramer Vs Kramer
                            21. Ten Commandments
                            22. Dead Poets Society
                            23. Elephant Man
                            24. Braveheart
                            25. Rocky
                            26. Unforgiven
                            27. Edward Scissorhands
                            28. Amistad
                            29. Full Metal Jacket
                            30. Jurassic Park
                            31. Taxi Driver
                            32. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
                            33. Casablanca
                            34. Bridge On The River Kwai
                            35. Searchers
                            36. In Which We Serve
                            37. Terminator
                            38. Superman
                            39. Jason & The Argonauts
                            40. French Connection
                            41. Lawrence Of Arabia
                            42. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
                            43. Beauty & The Beast (disney version)
                            44. Enter The Dragon
                            45. Fiddler On The Roof
                            46. Amadeus
                            47. Basic Instinct
                            48. Chicken Run
                            49. Great Escape
                            50. Any Robin Hood film
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                              concretedreams — 13 years ago(May 18, 2012 11:16 AM)

                              1 Battle Royale
                              2 The Color Purple
                              3 District 9
                              4 The Shining
                              5 La Haine
                              6 American Beauty
                              7 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
                              8 Sunset Boulevard
                              9 But I'm a Cheerleader
                              10 Norbit (you might as well before you die)

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                                walkerus — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 01:35 AM)

                                In no particular order:
                                1)Charley Varrick 1973
                                2)The Dresser 1983
                                3)Martin Chuzzlewit 1994
                                4)The Goodbye Girl 1977
                                5)Secrets & Lies 1996
                                6)Great Expectations 1946
                                7)Brideshead Revisited 1981 (Series)
                                8)Bullets over Broadway 1994
                                9)Stanley & Iris 1990
                                10)Wives & Daughters 1999 (Series)
                                11)A Shock to the System 1990
                                12)Things Change 1988
                                13)Out of Africa 1985
                                14)The Remains of the Day 1993
                                15)Derailed 2005
                                16)Breakdown 1997
                                17)Heaven can Wait 1978
                                18)Eagles Wing 1979
                                19)Pulp Fiction 1994
                                20)Castaway 2000
                                21)Fargo 1996
                                22)A Few Good Men 1992
                                23)Pride & Prejudice 1995 (Series)
                                24)Groundhog Day 1993
                                25)Burn After Reading 2008
                                26)Master & Commander (Far Side of the World) 2003
                                27)Death at a Funeral 2007 (English Version)
                                28)Cinderella Man 2005
                                29)My Cousin Vinny 1992
                                30)Life of Brian 1979
                                31)The Edge 1997
                                32)Tiara Tahiti 1962
                                33)Panic 2000
                                34)Murphy's War 1971
                                35)Accidental Hero 1992
                                36)Death Trap 1982
                                37)Little Voice 1998
                                38)Sleuth 1972
                                39)Payback 1999
                                40)Double Jeopardy 1999
                                41)Scoop 2006
                                42)The Omega Man 1971
                                43)Shawshank Redemption 1994
                                44)Ransom 1996
                                45)Dave 1993
                                46)The Man Who Would Be King 1975
                                47)A Simple Plan 1998
                                48)Godfather 1 & 2
                                49)Philadelphia 1993
                                50)Vice Versa 1988

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                                  bull-boy — 1 year ago(February 03, 2025 02:37 PM)

                                  Great lists 👍

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                                    /.ㅤ — 1 year ago(February 03, 2025 02:39 PM)

                                    Did you like Cuties (2020)?
                                    My password is password.

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                                      bull-boy — 1 year ago(February 03, 2025 02:48 PM)

                                      If that's the zombie movie with Elijah Woods then yes 👍 but imo that's not a top 50 movie at all but still very entertaining and original, I still wish there would've been a sequel ✌️

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