What are your top 10 favorite films?

[VaderBomb]

Mine at the moment, pretty much solidified in stone at this point:

1. City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
2. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986)
3. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
4. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
5. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
6. Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
7. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
8. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
9. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
10. Marketa Lazarova (František Vláčil, 1967)

[Everlong]

Hey, I've heard of one of those

It's hard for me to distinguish between favorites and top ten BEST, but if I had to pick favorites it might look something like this:

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. The Prestige
3. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Godfather Part II
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. The Godfather
7. Wet Hot American Summer
8. The Dark Knight
9. Star Wars: A New Hope
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

As for BEST (movies I'd probably rate a 10/10, and I don't have many of those)

1. The Godfather Part II
2. The Godfather
3. Schindler's List
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. On the Waterfront
6. Memento
7. The Shining
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. Her
10. Tne Lion King

Kind of an odd list I suppose BUT WHATEVER

[VaderBomb]

Yeah dude, it's tough to correlate personal favorites with what you believe to be the greatest cinematic works of art, but after months and months of list-making (I make lots of lists ) I've decided to just combine those philosophies as best I can. My favorite 10/10 rated films are that above list. I consider them to be the best examples of what I'm personally looking for in a movie. I enjoy a film that you can get lost in, an experience. These favorites of mine tend to be slower paced, but that's what I really enjoy. It sucks because some of my friends would consider me pretentious for a list such as that, but I call BS. I actually, honestly, truly do like these movies more than any others. That's not pretentious at all!

I like your list too. Lot's of personal favorites within... especially The Godfather, On the Waterfront, and Star Wars flicks. I haven't seen The Prestige or Her, but I'm seeing the latter next week.

[ShaneOfan]

01-Empires Strikes Back
02-Glory
03-Sunshine
04-The Godfather Part II
05-The Thin Red Line
06-The Shawshank Redemption
07-The Godfather
08-Letters From Iwo Jima
09-Blade Runner
10-Lean on Me

and one more...

11-Paradise Now

[Settee]

I have a hard time putting them in order, but my 10 favorites are...

Rocky
Rocky II
The Wrestler
LOTR Fellowship of the Ring
LOTR Two Towers
Star Wars A New Hope
Star Wars Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Return of the Jedi
Reign Over Me
The Butterfly Effect

[Ali]

10. Marvel's The Avengers
9. Hot Fuzz
8. Spirited Away
7. Duck Soup
6. Pulp Fiction
5. The Princess Bride
4. Rocky
3. Once
2. 12 Angry Men
1. Blazing Saddles

[Hanley!]

Okay, these aren't in any order. Because this is hard enough already:

1. (500) Days of Summer
2. Up
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
4. The Princess Bride
5. Frozen
6. Die Hard
7. Good Will Hunting
8. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
9. Mirrormask
10. Aladdin

I'm not happy with the amount of movies I left off this list at all.

[JDD]

No order. This was so hard to put together.

1.Scott Pilgrim vs The World
2.Pulp Fiction
3.Resevoir Dogs
4.Serenity
5.Back to the Future
6.That Thing You Do
7.Monsters Inc
8.The Iron Giant
9.Aliens
10.Goodfellas

[Messiah]

This was really difficult. Outside of Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, and The Dark Knight, my list would probably look different if you asked me this same question again in a month.

In no order:
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
American History X (Tony Kaye, 1998)
Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010)

[Matteo]

In no order:

The Ascent (1977, Larisa Shepitko)
Late Spring (1949, Yasujirô Ozu)
Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirô Ozu)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987, Louis Malle)
Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir)
Close-Up (1991, Abbas Kiarostami)
Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)

Impeccable list, Vadar.

[Ace]

In no specific order:

8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002)
Alpha Dog (Nick Cassavetes, 2006)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
Mortal Kombat (Paul W. S. Anderson, 1995)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
The Protector (Prachya Pinkaew, 2005)
Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)
No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
The Invisible (David S. Goyer, 2007)

[VaderBomb]

In no order:

The Ascent (1977, Larisa Shepitko)
Late Spring (1949, Yasujirô Ozu)
Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirô Ozu)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987, Louis Malle)
Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir)
Close-Up (1991, Abbas Kiarostami)
Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)

Impeccable list, Vadar.

You too, man. I love every one of those movies on your list. The Ascent is one of the most underrated films of all time. Whenever I cough, I think of that film.

[Matteo]

In no order:

The Ascent (1977, Larisa Shepitko)
Late Spring (1949, Yasujirô Ozu)
Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirô Ozu)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987, Louis Malle)
Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir)
Close-Up (1991, Abbas Kiarostami)
Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)

Impeccable list, Vadar.

You too, man. I love every one of those movies on your list. The Ascent is one of the most underrated films of all time. Whenever I cough, I think of that film.

It was only recently I discovered The Ascent. Completely blew me away. It is very underrated, I agree. It should be getting the same recognition as Come and See and Stalker as one of the greatest Soviet accomplishments.