5 best movies ever made

[Henry43]

1)Gone With the Wind

2)Casablanca

3)The Artist

4)The Usual Suspects

5)Fargo

[skymaster]

#1 Airplane

#2 Blazing Saddles

#3 Flight of the Phoenix

#4 A Bridge Too Far

#5 Bridge Over the River Kwai

[Mike M]

1. True Grit (John Wayne)
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Patton
4. Young Frankenstein
5. Original Star Wars (Originality and special effects)

[Henry43]

I would have added another film that I was an Extra in but since my face did not make the screen its not on my list .

[Chuck Palm]

1. My Dinner With Andre
2. An Officer and a Gentleman
3. Second Hand Lions
4. Schindler·s List
5. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas or Au Revoir Les Enfants (Tie)

Some of my choices are a bit offbeat but excellent!


Also would have added Powwow Highway and Smoke Signals

[Aerogirl]

My favorite 5 are; in no particular order
1. Titanic
2. Forest Gump
3. A Bronx Tale
4. Almost Famous
5. Goodfellas

[Golden1]

1)Gone with the wind
2)The sound of music
3)Its a wonderful life
4)The Violin
5)Rocky

[blueliner]

1) Blazing Saddles
2) Airplane
3) In Harms Way
4) Space Balls
5) Backdraft (because I was an extra!)

[Deni]

The Godfather
the Philidelphia Story
Bring Up Baby
Four Weddings and a Fureral
Cabaret

D~

[M n O]

Romancing The Stone
African Queen
Titanic
Silence of the Lambs
Avitar

[anniegb]

Originally Posted by Aerogirl

My favorite 5 are; in no particular order
1. Titanic
2. Forest Gump
3. A Bronx Tale
4. Almost Famous
5. Goodfellas

The only one I have seen is Goodfellas

Annie

[Fern]

1.Four Weddings and a Funeral
2.Notting Hill
3.The Birdcage/La Cage aux Folles
4.Little Shop of Horrors
5.The Bishop's Wife

Also, all the Bing Crosby Holiday movies, anything with Dick or Jerry VanDyke, or Danny Kaye.

[belgique]

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Patton
3. Scent of a Woman
4. The Bird Cage
5. Fargo

[Moiraine]

I don't know if these are the five best that were ever made but I like them. Two of them were tv mini series.

1. Sybil
2. Lonesome Dove
3.The Killing Fields
4. A River Runs Through It
5. To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar

[Cruznut2]

1. The Miracle Worker
2. Gone With The Wind
3. Giant
4.Psycho
5.To Kill A Mockingbird

Laura

[Fieldmouse]

In no particular order:

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. Princess Bride
3. Maltese Falcon
4. All About Eve
5. The Letter

[KDGodwin]

In no particular order.....

The Notebook (also my favorite book!)
Fierce Creatures
The Ring (and The Ring 2)
The Strangers
Phantom of the Opera (2004)

[Sistersolo]

I can't whittle my list down to five, because there are more than that of my favorites already listed!

However, among the missing are:

The Man Who Would Be King
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark

[katlady]

Star Wars
Wonder Man (Danny Kaye)
The Kid (Charlie Chaplin)
The Birdcage(Robin Williams)
Dogfight (the best movie no one ever saw)

[Marc]

My five favorite (not saying best made, just my favorites) are:

1. 12 Angry Men (can watch over and over)
2. Roman Holiday (don't know which is more beautiful; Audrey Hepburn or Roman sites)
3. Barbarella (becuase Jane Fonda probably cringes anytime it is brought up)
4. Brother Sun, Sister Moon (great story and great Donovan soundtrack)
5. Gran Torino (only recent movie I have paid to see three times)

[Henry43]

Originally Posted by Marc

My five favorite (not saying best made, just my favorites) are:

1. 12 Angry Men (can watch over and over)
2. Roman Holiday (don't know which is more beautiful; Audrey Hepburn or Roman sites)
3. Barbarella (becuase Jane Fonda probably cringes anytime it is brought up)
4. Brother Sun, Sister Moon (great story and great Donovan soundtrack)
5. Gran Torino (only recent movie I have paid to see three times)

Did you happen to see The Night They Raided Minsky's ?

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Henry43

Did you happen to see The Night They Raided Minsky's ?

A simple "No" but website rules require a minimum of ten characters.

[ToddDH]

Not necessarily in order:

The Bible

Star Wars ( the original)

A Christmas Carol (tie between the version in the early fifties and the early seventies version starring George C. Scott)
Gone With the Wind
Patton

[Henry43]

Originally Posted by Marc

A simple "No" but website rules require a minimum of ten characters.

I was an extra in The Night That Raided Minsky's ,however ,I did not make the final cut ,apparently I did not look right for the part of a yiddishe mensh .

[Henry43]

Originally Posted by ToddDH

Not necessarily in order:

The Bible

Star Wars ( the original)

A Christmas Carol (tie between the version in the early fifties and the early seventies version starring George C. Scott)
Gone With the Wind
Patton

I had no desire to see Patton when it was released .I saw it for the first time ever last year ,what a GREAT film it was.

[AR]

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Casablanca
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
4.5 North by Northwest
5. Singin' in the Rain