your top five best films ever?

[The Laughing Bluebird]

Is it my imagination, or has Kev chosen 10 films there?

Anyway, my top 5 is:

1. Jaws 1, 2, 3 and 4
2. Halloween 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8
3. Alien 1, 2, 3 and 4
4. A Nightmare On Elm Street 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7
5. Friday The 13th 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10

The scarious selection of films you're ever likely to see......

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I'm sorry I can't think of ten so I'll just give a top 5

Goodfellas
Seven Samurai
The Ladykillers
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Its a Wonderful Life

Although my top five will be different tomorrow

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

that's 10 films thicko

 

[Beeercan]

1.) Downfall
2.) Saving Private Ryan
3.) LOTR trilogy
4.) Original Star Wars trilogy
5.) American Beauty

Great List me thinks

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Schindler's List
ET - The Extraterrestrial
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Magnolia
The Shawshank Redemption

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Reserves

Saving Private Ryan
Gladiator
The Machinist
Field of Dreams
Aliens

 

[Highfields Seagull]

In no particular order (and whenever I try to do anything like this my choices seem to change on a daily basis):

Goodfellas
Man Bites Dog
Amores Perros (spelling?)
Where Eagles Dare
Dangerous Liaisons

 

[SK1NT]

1) Shawshank Redemption (best film by a mile)

2) The Usual Suspects

3) Gladiator

4) Big

5) Planes Trains and Automobiles

 

[johnnyjetlag]

Brazil
A Matter of Life and Death
An American Werewolf in London
The Usual Suspects
Dr Strangelove

hey, hold on a minute, Kev had 10 films...

 

[On the Left Wing]

Field of Dreams
Terms of Endearment
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood version)
Schindlers List
Sixth Sense


reserves:

Amistad
Stigmata
It's a Wonderful Life
Shawshank Redemption
Shadowlands

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

OLTW Thats a great list

All of these would be in my top dozen

Schindler's List
Field Of Dreams
Its a wonderful life
Shadowlands
Shawshank Redemption

 

[On the Left Wing]

OLTW Thats a great list

All of these would be in my top dozen

Schindler's List
Field Of Dreams
Its a wonderful life
Shadowlands
Shawshank Redemption

Just dawned on me - all those films have real feel good endings - I could watch the endings again and again and still have a lump in my throat (without any of it being corny)

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Apart from Shadowlands when she dies OLTW !

 

[On the Left Wing]

Apart from Shadowlands when she dies OLTW !

aha ... but the ending is the bond between CS Lewis and her little boy as they walk through Golden Valley with the dog running along (feel good) ...PS I just love Debra Winger

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

1 The Godfather
2 The Shawshank Redemption
3 Once upon a time in America
4 Goodfellas
5 It's a wonderfull life

 

[Hampden Park]

aha ... but the ending is the bond between CS Lewis and her little boy as they walk through Golden Valley with the dog running along (feel good) ...PS I just love Debra Winger

thanks alot guys, i was going to rent this one out tonight but you've told me the ending, cheers

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Its a great film with Hopkins best ever performance imho.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Swingers
Cool Runnings
Anchorman
Leon
Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Cool Runnings was great.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Cool Runnings IS great.