Greatest movie of all time or just all time greats list

[cletus]

I'm someone who likes movies. Not a film critic or one of those high falutin types who go for the artistic value of a film only. I have seen thousands of films. Wondering if there is any interest in what I think are the best movies of all time and I am interested in knowing what others think are some of the greatest of all time. It's something I've been finally taking the time to work out. I had been just keeping a list of what I liked and would recommend. Then I started on what might be the top 100 according to me (about 400 so far), which lead me to take the original list and just include anything that has ever been worth watching if you really like films and would take the time to watch them.

 

[SleepyBunny]

Am I okay to give reccomendations?

 

[BlasterMaster]

Ghostbusters (1984)
Bladerunner (1982)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Tron: Legacy (2010)
Marvel's Avengers: Endgame

 

[cletus]

Sure give recommendations.

It probably takes me 2 years to be sure since looking at this project again gave me 200 more movies I should get around to.

Here is the you must see these in your lifetime for sure list so far (movies in red text if it comes over are where I'm debating about breaking out the series):

Titanic

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story

The Fly

The Sixth Sense

Taxi Driver

Brokeback Mountain

There Will be Blood

Scarface

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

The Lion King

Saving Private Ryan

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

The Mist

Apocalypse Now

The Thing (1982)

Night of the Living Dead

Pyscho

The Exorcist

The Silence of the Lambs

Jaws

Ghost

The Goonies

The Wolf of Wall Street

Forrest Gump

Monty Python's Life of Brian

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Kill bill part 1 & 2

The Big Lebowski

Grease

Home Alone

Home Alone 2

Inception

Schindler’s List

Full Metal Jacket

Children of Men

The Shining

Logan

2001: A Space Odyssey

Blade Runner

Departures

Ex Machina

It’s a Wonderful Life

Wizard of Oz

Arrival

ET: The Extra-Terrestrial

The Imitation Game

Old School

No Country for Old Men

Independence Day

Atonement

Last of the Mohicans

AI: Artificial Intelligence

Fight Club

Mystic River

The Crow

The 40 Year Old Virgin

The Road

Pulp Fiction

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

The Matrix

Dumb and Dumber

Jurassic Park

The Terminator

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Austin Powers trilogy

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Back to the Future

Star Wars the original trilogy

Alien

Aliens

Joker

The Green Mile

Avatar

Pirates of the Caribbean series

John Wick series

Indiana Jones the original trilogy

Men in Black

Men in Black II

Ghostbusters (1984)

Ghostbusters II

The Hunger Games trilogy

The Karate Kid

Ted

Ted 2

Young Frankenstein

Train to Busan

Rat Race

Her

The Theory of Everything

A Million Ways to Die in the West

XXX

Pinocchio

Eternal Sunshine on a Spotless Mind

Robin Hood Men in Tights

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Pocahontas

Donnie Darko

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazahkstan

Spaceballs

Memento

The Cider House Rules

Rain Man

Elephant Man

Contact

Reservoir Dogs

Bicentennial Man

Grumpy Old Men

Grumpier Old Men

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Unforgiven

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood

Mrs. Doubtfire

Hachi: A Dog's Life

Inglorious Basterds

The Nutty Professor (1963)

The Mask

Wicked

Sophie's Choice

Rambo

Psycho

On the Waterfront

Good Will Hunting

28 Days Later

A Christmas Story

Clerks

Tommy Boy

Of Mice and Men (1992)

Cool Hand Luke

Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

The Producers (1968)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Talk to Me

The Whale

Scott Pilgrim Vs the World

Deadpool and Wolverine

Transformers the Movie (animated)

The Martian

Rocky

Gravity

Gran Torino

Sin City

Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?

Office Space

Gremlins

A Quiet Place

Patch Adams

Django Unchained

Requiem for a Dream

Lincoln

Shawshank Redemption

Gladiator

Paranormal Activity

It Follows

Interstellar

The Fifth Element

Beauty & the Beast

The Little Mermaid

Toy Story

Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Aladdin

Frozen

Citizen Kane

The Bay

It

It Chapter Two

Mission Impossible series

James Bond films

Despicable Me & Minions movies

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Halloween (1978)

Mad Max series

Die Hard

The Silence of the Lambs

Shrek

Zombieland

Zombieland: Double Tap

The Neverending Story

A Quiet Place 2

A Quiet Place: Day One

The Hateful Eight

Gremlins: A New Batch

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Nothing to Lose

Chappie

Big Trouble in Little China

The King’s Speech

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Dante’s Peak

Dirty Dancing

Footloose

Hot Shots

Hot Shots part Deux

Fargo

The Lost Boys

Burn After Reading

American History X

City Slickers

The Return of the Living Dead

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

The Town

Freedom Writers

Annie Hall

True Grit (2010)

True Grit (1969)

October Sky

The Sound of Music

About Schmidt

Groundhog Day

From Dusk Till Dawn

Tremors

Team America: World Police

Network

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Total Recall

Annihilation

Rosemary's Baby

Doctor Sleep

Knives Out

Judy

Old Guard

The Jerk

Under the Skin

Upgrade

Les Miserables

The Bride of Frankenstein

Dave Made a Maze

Tucker & Dale vs Evil

The Descent

The Ring

Till

Dune (2020's)

Black Adam

Nobody

Don't Look Up

M3gan

Prey

Jacob's Ladder

Candyman (1992)

Lake Mungo

Ip Man

The Cabin in the Woods

Troll Hunter

Cube

Color Out of Space

RRR

The Babadook

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Atomic Blonde

Dunkirk

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

The Notebook

Idiocracy

Happy Death Day

Malignant

Babylon

Godzilla Minus One

The Book of Eli

Million Dollar Baby

Cloverfield

Liar Liar

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Edward Scissorhands

Blade Runner 2049

Cloud Atlas

Looper

The Pursuit of Happiness

Jackie Brown

Ender’s Game

Dawn of the Dead

Road to Perdition

Hot Fuzz

Adventures in Babysitting

Vertigo

Clerks II

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Unbreakable

Split

Glass

Carrie

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Sleeping Beauty

The Polar Express

Finding Nemo

Up

Bambi

Cinderella (1950)

Alice in Wonderland

Peter Pan

Dumbo

Scream

Raising Arizona

Singin' In the Rain

Apollo 13

Little Shop of Horrors

Lawrence of Arabia

1917

The Woman King

The Blob (1988)

West Side Story (1961)

Enter the Dragon

District 9

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Passengers (2016)

Beetlejuice

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Savageland

Twister

Armageddon

Contagion

Greenland

War of the Worlds (1953)

The Impossible (tsunami movie)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Wonder Woman

Shazam!

Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy

Logan

Deadpool

Deadpool 2

Thor movies

Captain America movies

Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Iron Man movies

Superman: The Movie

Man of Steel

Avengers movies

Spider-Man movies

Pet Semetary (1989)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Evil Dead (1981)

The Omen

Saw

Hellraiser

Insidious

The Amityville Horror

Jeepers Creepers

Candyman (1992)

Hereditary

Get Out

Creepshow

Child's Play

REC

Triangle

Midsommar

The Invisible Man (2020)

A Beautiful Mind

Evil Dead (2013)

Evil Dead Rise

Lucy

1408

Greyhound

Hacksaw Ridge

The Father

Seven

Mary Poppins

Living (2022)

Game Night

Drive

The Warriors

A Star is Born (either 2018 or 1954)

An American Werewolf in London

Happy Gilmore

The Waterboy

Tombstone

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Blazing Saddles

Pan's Labyrinth

Modern Times

Harry Potter movies

Sunset Blvd

Gangs of New York

Predator

King Kong (1933)

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Up in Smoke

Whiplash

Fences

Batman Begins (Scarecrow)

The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight Rises (Bane)

 

[cletus]

Ok so evidently can't just copy and paste from a spreadsheet. Anyone know how to do it without having to retype all that junk? I threw it into Word and then pasted it over.

 

[TMF Jeff]

My top three are The Godfather, which I consider to be possibly the only truly perfect movie. There isn't a single bad performance, false beat, dangling plot thread, or any other error to be found.

Man on Fire (The Denzel Washington one,) which is close in perfection (except for the horrible accent of the woman playing Dakota Fanning's mother.)

and Primer, which is the best time travel movie ever made (a genre I love) and rises far about itself because it was made for seven thousand dollars.

 

[cletus]

Of course the Godfather how could I forget?

 

[wolfman40]

Kurosawa stuff, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Hidden Fortress, Rashoman..

The usual suspects, noir stuff, things with a twist..

Predator, love that film, one that you can disengage your brain!

 

[SleepyBunny]

The Predator series is great! Including the crossover with Alien, think it was my first alien and predator movie.

 

[FootballGuy]

Nice list!!

All of my top 20 are on there except one. The Joy Luck Club. You should watch it some time. Great, underrated epic of a movie.

 

[Deleted member 298024]

Memoirs of a Geisha.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (US/Rooney Mara is my future wife).

Tombstone.

Goodfellas.

All The President's Men.

Casino.

 

[Deleted member 298024]

I'm someone who likes movies. Not a film critic or one of those high falutin types who go for the artistic value of a film only. I have seen thousands of films.

Oh, if you're ever down to explore shit from The Golden Age of Hollywood, I can hook you up. Those are FILM FILMS.

 

[kurchatovium]

No one seems to have mentioned Killer Klowns From Outer Space

 

[Deleted member 298024]

No one seems to have mentioned Killer Klowns From Outer Space

They actually made a video game out of that movie!

 

[kurchatovium]

They actually made a video game out of that movie!

Wow. That's so cool. Gotta look for that one. Thanks

 

[cletus]

My overall list is now about 1000 films that you could hand someone who's never seen a movie and wants to watch anything that might have been good.