Your Top Movies List

We also created a 'best ever' movies list. Here it is!

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How do we compare to IMDB's top 250 movies of all time? If the movie
was found, it is proceeded by the top 250 ranking, otherwise a '-'.
(any spelling variation could have caused one to not display its
proper rank, do not despair!)
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34      5       The Matrix       (1999, Wachowski bros)
32      4       Fight Club       (1999, David Fincher)
33      3       American Beauty  (1999, Sam Mendes)
37      3       Apocalypse Now
97      3       Blade Runner
105     3       Fargo    (1996, Coen Brothers)
49      3       Monty Python and the Holy Grail
9       3       Pulp Fiction
-       3       The Fifth Element        (1997, Luc Besson)
65      3       The Shining      (1977, Stanley Kubrick)
-       2       12 Monkeys       (1995, Terry Gilliam)
79      2       2001: A Space Odyssey    (1968, stanley Kubrick)
-       2       Akira
58      2       Alien
-       2       Blood Simple
95      2       Braveheart      1996
-       2       City of Lost Children    (1995, Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
-       2       Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
99      2       Full Metal Jacket        (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
-       2       Ghost in the Shell
-       2       Good Will Hunting
23      2       Goodfellas
-       2       Grave of the Fireflies   (1988, Isao Takahata)
-       2       Hero     (2002, Yimou Zhang)
28      2       Lawrence of Arabia
-       2       Life Is Beautiful
-       2       My Neighbor Totoro
-       2       O Brother, Where Art Thou?       (2000, Coen brothers)
-       2       Pirates of the Caribbean
17      2       Raiders of the Lost Ark
-       2       Raising Arizona
64      2       Saving Private Ryan
48      2       Spirited Away    (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)
155     2       Stand by Me
11      2       Star Wars
1       2       The Godfather   1972
69      2       The Manchurian Candidate        1962
-       2       The Piano
125     2       The Princess Bride
2       2       The Shawshank Redemption         (1994, Frank Darabont)
16      2       The Usual Suspects
92      2       The Wizard of Oz
-       2       There's Something About Mary
-               A Bug's Life
-               A Night At The Opera
-               A Time for Drunken Horses        (2000, Bahman Ghobadi)
-               Alice in Wonderland
72              Aliens
-               Amelie
-               American Graffiti
138             Amores Perros    (2000, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
-               Angel's Egg
-               Barfly
-               Before the Rain  (1994, Milcho Manchevski)
-               Bent
-               Big Trouble in Little China
-               Black Hawk Down
-               Boondock Saints
236             Brazil
-               Breakfast Club
-               Breaking Away
-               Brokeback Mountain
-               Castaway
-               Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
-               Chasing Amy
-               Chicken Run
-               Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
21              Citizen Kane
-               Clerks
-               Close Encounters of the Third Kind
-               Closer
-               Collateral
-               Contact
-               Dances with Wolves
-               Dead Poets Society
-               Death and the Maiden     (1994, Polanski)
240             Doctor Zhivago
-               Dogma
101             Donnie Darko
19              Dr. Strangelove
-               Dreams   Akira Kurosawa
-               Drunken Master
-               Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
-               El Dorado
38              Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-               Ever After
-               Fame
-               Ferris Bueller's Day Off
-               Field of Dreams
-               Fitzcarraldo
-               Five Easy Pieces
-               Flirting
86              Forrest Gump
-               Forsyte Saga
-               From Russia With Love
-               Garden State
-               Gentleman's Agreement    1947 - Postwar film about anti-semitism
139             Gladiator
-               Glengarry Glen Ross
159             Glory
-               Grease
-               Hair
199             Heat
-               Hiroshima, Mon Amour     (1959, Alain Resnais)
-               How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
-               I Heart Huckabees
229             Ikiru    (1952, Akira Kurosawa)
83              Jaws
-               Jimmy Neutron
-               Kung Fu Hustle
-               Kung Pow
-               La Haine         (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz)
-               Laputa: Castle in the Sky
-               Leaving Las Vegas
-               Mallrats
-               Memoirs of a Geisha
-               Men in Black
60              Metropolis      1927
-               Miller's Crossing
221             Monsters, Inc.
-               Moonstruck
-               Moulin Rouge
-               Mr. Deeds
-               My Left Foot
-               Mystery Train
-               Night of the Were Rabbit
-               No Way Out
-               Nosferatu       1922
-               Oceans 11       (1960, Lewis Milestone)
-               Office Space
117             Oldboy   (2003, Chan-wook Park)
-               Overboard
-               Philadelphia
-               Play it forward
-               Pride & Prejudice        The A&E/BBC mini-series - Colin Firth at his finest
-               Princess Mononoke
-               Queen Margo
70              Raging Bull      (1980, Martin Scorsese)
-               Raising Arizona
103             Ran
-               Rashomon         (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
-               Regarding Henry
-               Repo Man
62              Reservoir Dogs
-               Rio Bravo
-               Run Lola Run     (1998, Tom Tykwer)
-               Rush Hour
-               Rushmore
-               Sanjuro
235             Scarface
6               Schindler's List
-               Sense & Sensibility      Emma Thompson version
-               Serendipity
7               Seven Samurai
185             Shrek
-               Singles
-               Sleepless in Seattle
-               Snatch
-               South Park (the movie)
-               Space Balls
-               Stargate
-               Strictly Ballroom
36              Taxi Driver
-               Terms of Endearment
-               The Big Chill
191             The Big Lebowski
-               The Breakfast Club
-               The Bridges of Madison County
-               The Butterfly Effect
-               The Count of Monte Cristo
-               The Devil's Advocate
10              The Empire Strikes Back
187             The Exorcist
-               The Fugitive    (1993, Andrew Davis)
-               The Game
-               The Gift
8               The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
76              The Great Escape
129             The Green Mile
-               The Haunting    (1963, Robert Wise)
-               The Hunt For Red October
88              The Incredibles
-               The Jerk
-               The Last Unicorn
-               The Life of Brian
-               The Lion King
14              The Lord of the Rings
-               The Lord of the rings, Two Towers
56              The Maltese Falcon
-               The Man Who Planted Trees       (1987, Frederic Back)
-               The Mothman Prophecies
-               The Muppet Movie
-               The Music Man
-               The Nightmare Before Christmas
-               The Others
-               The Pink Panther        (1963, Blake Edwards)
-               The Quiet Man
27              The Silence of the Lambs        1992
-               The Sound of Music
81              The Sting
-               The Survivors
-               The Thin Man
-               The Thomas Crown Affair
178             Toy Story
142             Toy Story 2
-               Uncommon Valor
119             Unforgiven
110             V for Vendetta
35              Vertigo
-               Wallace and Gromit
-               Watership Down
-               Whale Rider
-               What the Bleep
-               When Harry Met Sally
-               Wickerman       (1973, Robin Hardy)
-               X Men 2
123             Yojimbo
213             Young Frankenstein

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Here now, the original votes and voters, with any comments they sent along concerning the movies they voted for.

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///julian
Star Wars
Blade Runner
Alien
Aliens
Life Is Beautiful
Snatch
2001; A Space Odyssey
The Big Lebowski
Raising Arizona
The Piano
There's Something About Mary
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Pulp Fiction
Fargo
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pirates of the Carribean
The Matrix
When Harry Met Sally
The Wizard of Oz
The Music Man
The Sting
Brokeback Mountain
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Kung Fu Hustle
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- recent version
Saving Private Ryan
Apocolypse Now
Forrest Gump
Castaway
Philadelphia
The Shawshank Redemption
Blood Simple
Black Hawk Down
Grease
Hair
The Fifth Element
The Shining
Five Easy Pieces
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Terms of Endearment
The Bridges of Madison County
Breaking Away
My Left Foot
Closer
The Usual Suspects
American Beauty
Glengarry Glen Ross
Twelve Monkeys
The Fugitive (Harrison Ford remake)
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Life of Brian
The Pink Panther (original)
South Park (the movie)
The Lion King
The Incredibles
Toy Story 1 and 2
A Bug's Life
Monsters, Inc.
Office Space
Brazil
I Heart Huckabees

///pam
The Matrix It blew my mind
The Gift - Never again can you claim that Keanu can't act!
The Manchurian Candidate - 1962 version
Dreams - Akira Kurasawa
O Brother Where Art Thou - I'm a Dapper Dan man!
Singles - The anthem of my youth
Pride & Prejudice - The A&E/BBC mini-series - Colin Firth at his finest
Sense & Sensibility - Emma Thompson version - Beautiful, nuanced
acting by the entire cast
Gentleman's Agreement - 1947 - Postwar film about anti-semitism

///dennis
Action
Heat Best shoot-out ever seen - (the downtown LA shoot-out is
incredible in surround sound.) De Niro and Pacino, come on does it get
any better?
the Matrix
Reservoir Dogs
Uncommon Valor
Lord of the Rings
Gladiator
Scarface
Makes you think:
Saving Private Ryan
Braveheart
Dances with Wolves
Good Will Hunting
The Devil's Advocate
Apocalypse Now
Mushy:
Serendipity
Sleepless in Seattle
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ultimate twist:
No Way Out A real NO WAY!Movie in the last five minutes
The Game
The Usual Suspects
Tingly chill feeling going down you back:
Field of Dreams - more goose bumps than any movie so far - yes, I'm a pussy.
The Green Mile
Cowboy Movies:
El Dorado
Rio Bravo , wait isn't this the same movie as El Dorado?
Comedy:
Pirates of the Caribbean
Rush Hour
The Princess Bride
Dogma
Mr. Deeds
Space Balls
Chasing Amy
Mallrats
Clerks
Drama:
The Godfather series
Goodfellas
The Great Escape
Full Metal Jacket
Glory
Filmography:
Collateral – love the lighting and camera angles

///megan
Godfather 1972
Good Will Hunting
Breakfast Club
Taxi Driver
SIlence of the Lambs 1992
Braveheart 1996
American Beauty
Dead Poets Society
Pulp Fiction
Fargo

///gary
V for Vendetta,
Ghost in the Shell,
Donnie Darko,
Two Towers,
Fifth Element,
Pulp Fiction,
Alice in Wonderland,
Fight Club,
Drunken Master,
City of Lost Children,
Flirting,
Akira,
Matrix,
Shrek,
Princess Bride,
Ferris Bueller's Day Off,
Barfly
Leaving Las Vegas
Star Wars
Blade Runner
X Men 2
My Neighbor Totoro
Holy Grail

///Christy
The Jerk (Because Steve Martin was the funniest man alive back then
and the movie was just so full of funny moments. Ironically funny. )
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Others
Something About Mary
How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
Overboard
Ever After
Moonstruck
Regarding Henry
Contact
Stargate

///Michael B.
The Big Chill (The movie is all about making and keeping connections
and believing in life while accepting death)
Lawrence of Arabia
Stand By Me
American Graffiti
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Shining
Young Frankenstein
From Russia With Love
The Hunt For Red October
Oceans 11 (the original)
The Thin Man
The Quiet Man
Doctor Zhivago

///Bianka
Queen Margo
Boondock Saints
Amelie
Forsyte Saga
Strictly Ballroom
Raising Arizona
The Piano
Bent
The Survivors
Wickerman (the orginal)

///sandra
Before the Rain (1994, Milcho Manchevski)
Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959, Alain Resnais)
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000, Bahman Ghobadi)
The Shining (1977, Stanley Kucbrick)
Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes)
Fargo (1996, Coen Brothers)
Death and the Maiden (1994, Polanski)
La Haine (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz)
Fight Club (1999, David Fincher)
Amores Perros (2000, Alejandro González Iñárritu)

///will
The Fifth Element (1997, Luc Besson)
Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa)
City of Lost Children (1995, Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Coen brothers)
12 Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam)
The Matrix (1999, Wachowski bros)
Spirited Away (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)
Hero (2002, Yimou Zhang)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988, Isao Takahata)
Fight Club (1999, David Fincher)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, stanley Kubrik)
Oldboy (2003, Chan-wook Park)
Run Lola Run (1998, Tom Tykwer)
Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
The Man Who Planted Trees (1987, Frederic Back)

///kate
The Muppet Movie
Whale Rider
What the Bleep
Stand by Me
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Garden State
The Sound of Music
The Wizard of Oz
Fame
Moulin Rouge

///shelly jeffrey michael
Play it forward
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
Kung Pow
Monty Python
Jimmy Nuetron
Men in Black
Chicken Run
Night of the Were Rabbit
Wallace and Gromit

///allen
Seven Samurai
Miller's Crossing
Good Fellas
Princess Mononoke
Dr. Strangelove
The Haunting 1963
The Maltese Falcon
Akira
Ran
Vertigo
Citizen Kane
Big Trouble in Little China
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Bladerunner
My Neighbor Totoro
The Manchurian Candidate 1962
A Night At The Opera
Apocalypse Now
The Breakfast Club
Repo Man
Lawrance of Arabia
Metropolis 1927
Watership Down
Nosferatu 1922
Fitzcarraldo
Rushmore
Sanjuro
Yojimbo
Mystery Train
Alien
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
Unforgiven
Hero
Fight Club
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Empire Strikes Back
Angel's Egg
Ghost in the Shell

///Elizabeth
The Last Unicorn
Schindler's List
The Mothman Prophecies
The Butterfly Effect
Life is Beautiful
The Exorcist
Memoirs of a Geisha
Grave of the Fireflies
Spirited Away

///steve
Star Wars - Original mind blower
The Matrix - Beautiful, innovative
There's Something About Mary - Laughed 'til I hurt
When Harry Met Sally - First romantic movie I dug; well done
Singles - Anthems of my youth; all time favorite soundtrack; Seattle
Dreams - Gorgeous
O Brother Where Art Thou - Fun, great music
Pride & Prejudice (BBC version) - Fantastic dialog; stands up to watching over and over
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Best high school kid movie out there
Better Off Dead - Second best high school kid movie out there
Holy Grail - Don't know I've even seen the entire thing, but it's so quotable
Run Lola Run - Edge of your seat the whole time; different
Moulin Rouge - Quality; beautiful

(Steve, alas, voted too late, and his votes didn't make it into the compiled list at the beginning- but they're here now! Better late than never- thanks Steve!)