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This is from the IMDB forum rated by IMDB users. What's your favorite films in general?

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone) - 9.5 (30 votes)
Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) - 9.4 (58 votes)
Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese) - 9.3 (60 votes)
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa) - 9.3 (33 votes)
Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola) - 9.2 (67 votes)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner} - 9.2 (42 votes)
Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman) - 9.2 (39 votes)
The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick) - 9.2 (50 votes)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick) - 9.1 (68 votes)
The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola) - 9.1 (63 votes)
Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders) - 9.1 (38 votes)
Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese) - 9.1 (64 votes)
Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick) - 9.0 (40 votes)
Come and See (1985, Elem Klimov) - 9.0 (21 votes)
The Godfather: Part 2 (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) - 9.0 (38 votes)
North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock) - 9.0 (53 votes)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Sergio Leone) – 9.0 (24 votes)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone) - 9.0 (47 votes)
The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman) - 9.0 (44 votes)
Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky) - 8.9 (48 votes)
Star Wars (1977, George Lucas) - 8.9 (42 votes)
The Wages of Fear (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot) - 8.9 (20 votes)
Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz) - 8.8 (55 votes)
The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) - 8.8 (46 votes)
Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese) - 8.8 (51 votes)
Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean) - 8.7 (22 votes)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles) - 8.7 (49 votes)
In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai) - 8.7 (30 votes)
M (1931, Fritz Lang) - 8.7 (31 votes)
No Country For Old Men (2007, Joel and Ethan Coen) - 8.7 (61 votes)
The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick) - 8.7 (66 votes)
There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson) - 8.7 (60 votes)
Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood) - 8.7 (48 votes)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) - 8.7 (58 votes)
Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bernman) - 8.7 (27 votes)
Alien (1979. Ridley Scott) - 8.6 (37 votes)
Fargo (1996, Joel and Ethan Coen) - 8.6 (64 votes)
Hud (1963, Martin Ritt) - 8.6 (20 votes)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo del Toro} - 8.6 (43 votes)
Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino) - 8.6 (77 votes)
Zodiac (2007, David Fincher) - 8.6 (58 votes)
The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder) - 8.5 (24 votes)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean) - 8.5 (40 votes)
Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter) - 8.5 (28 votes)
Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen) - 8.4 (46 votes)
Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott) - 8.4 (64 votes)
Blood Simple (1984, Joel and Ethan Coen) - 8.4 (37 votes)/8.3 (38 votes)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992, James Foley) - 8.4 (31 votes)
Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones) - 8.4 (36 votes)
Amarcord (1973, Federico Fellini) - 8.3 (27 votes)
Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick) - 8.3 (56 votes)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick) - 8.3 (68 votes)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont) - 8.3 (64 votes)
Aliens (1986, James Cameron)- 8.2 (35 votes)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Robert Wiene) - 8.2 (20 votes)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick) - 8.2 (58 votes)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, Woody Allen) - 8.2 (34 votes)
The Hurt Locker (2009, Kathryn Bigelow) - 8.2 (32 votes)
La haine (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz) - 8.2 (22 votes)
Moon (2009, Duncan Jones) - 8.2 (46 votes)
A Serious Man (2009, Joel and Ethan Coen) - 8.2/10 (33 votes)
Up in the Air (2009, Jason Reitman) - 8.2 (33 votes)
Young Frankenstein (1974, Mel Brooks) - 8.2 (34 votes)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, Andrew Dominik) - 8.1 (43 votes)
East of Eden (1955, Elia Kazan) - 8.1 (22 votes)
Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch) - 8.1 (45 votes)
For a Few Dollars More (1965, Sergio Leone) - 8.1 (29 votes)
Let the Right One In (2008, Tomas Alfredson) - 8.1 (64 votes)
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter) - 8.1 (37 votes)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill) - 8.0 (26 votes)
Clerks (1994, Kevin Smith - 8.0 (40 votes)
Dawn of the Dead (1978, George A. Romero) - 8.0 (35 votes)
King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack) - 8.0 (35 votes)
The Pianist (2002, Roman Polanski) - 8.0 (34 votes)
Sling Blade (1996, Billy Bob Thornton) - 8.0 (21 votes)
Return Of The Jedi (1983, Richard Marquand} - 8.0 (42 votes)
Gran Torino (2008, Clint Eastwood) - 7.9 (40 votes)
Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino) - 7.9 (44 votes)
The Mist (2007, Frank Darabont) - 7.9 (36 votes)
Up (2009, Pete Doctor) - 7.9 (51 votes)
The Searchers (1956, John Ford) - 7.8 (38 votes)
Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman) - 7.8 (36 votes)
Rain Man (1988, Barry Levinson) - 7.8 (31 votes)
The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir) - 7.8 (38 votes)
The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan) - 7.7 (69 votes)
American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes) - 7.6 (60 votes)
Edward Scissorhands (1990, Tim Burton) - 7.6 (40 votes)
Tootsie (1982, Sydney Pollack) - 7.6 (28 votes)
(500) Days of Summer (2009, Marc Webb) - 7.5 (46 votes)
Audition (1999, Takashi Miike) - 7.5 (25 votes)
First Blood (1982, Ted Kotcheff) - 7.5 (36 votes)
Wayne's World (1992, Penelope Spheeris) - 7.5 (28 votes)
Elephant (2003, Gus Van Sant) - 7.4 (44 votes)
Fight Club (1999, David Fincher) - 7.4 (81 votes)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Sergio Leone) - 7.4 (29 votes)
Forrest Gump (1994, Robert Zemeckis) - 7.4 (51 votes)
Gladiator (2000, Ridley Scott) - 7.4 (43 votes)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson) - 7.4 (48 votes)
Titanic (1997, James Cameron) - 7.4 (61 votes)
Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg) - 7.3 (69 votes)
Antichrist (2009, Lars von Trier) - 7.3 (37 votes)
Avatar (2009, James Cameron) - 7.3 (80 votes)
The Lion King (1994, Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff) 7.3 (46 votes)
Dancer in the Dark (2000, Lars Von Trier) - 7.2 (30 votes)
Into the Wild (2007, Sean Penn) - 7.2 (37 votes)
Watchmen (2009, Zack Syder) - 7.2 (52 votes)
District 9 (2009, Neill Blomkamp) - 7.1 (53 votes)
Scream (1996, Wes Craven) - 7.1 (34 votes)
The Godfather: Part 3 (1990, Francis Ford Coppola) - 7.0 (36 votes)
Gremlins (1984, Joe Dante) - 7.0 (35 votes)

Hi Swami ... Namaskaram

As far as your list goes I have some all-time favorites like Star Wars and Aliens-II.
Other than that I have some closer to my heart like -
1-Terminator series
2-Titanic
3-Avatar
4-Lord of the Rings series
5-Harry Potter series
6-True Lies
7-Mission Impossible 1&2
8-Shatranj Ke Khilari 1970s hindi movie ( partly about a chess theme)
9-Shaolin Temple series
10-The Mask

The list goes on...

Hi, Thanks for your response. From the list, I happen to think you must be a young smart lad

Welcome to the forum.

Lostark wrote:Hi Swami ... Namaskaram

As far as your list goes I have some all-time favorites like Star Wars and Aliens-II.
Other than that I have some closer to my heart like -
1-Terminator series
2-Titanic
3-Avatar
4-Lord of the Rings series
5-Harry Potter series
6-True Lies
7-Mission Impossible 1&2
8-Shatranj Ke Khilari 1970s hindi movie ( partly about a chess theme)
9-Shaolin Temple series
10-The Mask

The list goes on...

post some links to films Avator please

Mongol
Das Boot
A Shock To The System
Jack's Back
Experiment in Terror

Swaminathan wrote:Hi, Thanks for your response. From the list, I happen to think you must be a young smart lad

Welcome to the forum.

Namaskaram Swaminathan

at 40 ... I take that as a pleasant compliment Swami ...

And its my pleasure to be a part of this forum.

Regards:

Lostark

In no particular order:

- Fight Club
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (might add others like For a fistfull of dollars etc)
- Seven Samurai
- The Godfather
- Into the Wild (the book is also great)
- Blues Brothers (Best comedy film ever, ever!)
- Lord of the Rings series
- Indiana Jones Series
- Das Boot
- Papilion (A masterpiece imo)
- Great Escape
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Saving Private Ryan
- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs
- The Deer Hunter

The list goes on... these are just the ones came to mind.

Taner

Hi Swami,

based on your info, is it true The Magnificent Seven and For a Fistful of Dollars are adaptations of Kurosawa's
7 Samurai, and Yojimbo ( Toshiro Mifune) ?

TY

Hi Maria, I haven't seen those movies, but going by the comments in movie board, apparently yes.

Taner Altinsoy wrote:In no particular order:

- Fight Club
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (might add others like For a fistfull of dollars etc)
- Seven Samurai
- The Godfather
- Into the Wild (the book is also great)
- Blues Brothers (Best comedy film ever, ever!)
- Lord of the Rings series
- Indiana Jones Series
- Das Boot
- Papilion (A masterpiece imo)
- Great Escape
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Saving Private Ryan
- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs
- The Deer Hunter

The list goes on... these are just the ones came to mind.

Taner

Hi Taner,

thanks for posting the list, these are all well known films

From your list, Into the wild, The Great Escape and LOTR are some of my favorites.