The Chorus.fm Users Definitive Films List • Page 2

Mucking around when I should be working, here's something that I'm as close to comfortable as I can get. 50 is obviously hugely restricting, but any limit would be restricting, so this will broadly do. The order is definitely a bit sketchy (I can see I've sort of thought of films in batches), but it is what it is.

1. In The Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)

2. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

3. Joint Security Area (Park Chan-Wook, 2000)

4. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)

5. The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach, 2006)

6. Where is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)

7. A Seperation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)

8. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1991)

9. Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung, 1984)

10. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996)


11. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008)

12. Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953)

13. Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)

14. Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010)

15. Cache (Michael Haneke, 2005)

16. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1995)

17. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)

18. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, 2002)

19. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989)

20. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindō, 1964)


21. There Will be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)

22. Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985)

23. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1962)

24. The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou, 1992)

25. The Skin I Live in (Pedro Almodovar, 2011)

26. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)

27. Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-Dong, 2007)

28. Parasite (Bong Joon-Ho, 2019)

29. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)

30. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)


31. Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997)

32. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)

33. This is England (Shane Meadows, 2006)

34. Withnail & I (Burce Robinson, 1987)

35. Encounters of the Spooky Kind (Sammo Hung, 1980)

36. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)

37. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978)

38. Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2008)

39. Not One Less (Zhang Yimou, 1999)

40. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)


41. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)

42. Cave of the Yellow Dog (Byambasuren Davaa, 2005)

43. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)

44. The Mummy (Stephen Sommers, 1999)

45. Poetry (Lee Chang-Dong, 2010)

46. Pyscho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

47. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995)

48. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)

49. Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)

50. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)

 

I’m glad that the Wind That Shakes the Barley will get at least 2 votes

 

As will Wake in Fright

 

So many great choices on that list, especially happy to see The Mummy, haha.

 

I will join you in this endeavor

 

• Going Overboard (1989)
• Shakes the Clown (1991)
• Coneheads (1993)
• Airheads (1994)
• Mixed Nuts (1994)
• Billy Madison (1995)
• Happy Gilmore (1996)
• The Wedding Singer (1998)
• The Waterboy (1998)
• Big Daddy (1999)
• Little Nicky (2000)
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
• Anger Management (2003)
• 50 First Dates (2004)
• The Longest Yard (2005)
• Click (2006)
• Reign Over Me (2007)
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)
• You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
• Funny People (2009)
• Grown Ups (2010)
  
• Jack and Jill (2011)
• Hotel Transylvania (2012)
• Grown Ups 2 (2013)
• Blended (2014)
• Pixels (2015)
• Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
• The Ridiculous 6 (2015)
  
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
• Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
• Murder Mystery (2019)
• Uncut Gems (2019)

 

Don’t know how many spots I’ll have left after I put in all the MCU, Star Wars, and Pixar movies but I’ll give it a go

 

Don't forget Shrek and minions

 

we will inevitably have some overlap

 

thank god I have something to distract me from work today :) this will be fun

 

At least 3

 

don't @ me when Small Soldiers takes my number one spot

 

That movie had one of the biggest marketing pushes I can remember for an original IP. One of the only times as a kid I can remember being excited enough to buy toys and stuff before the movie came out

Dante has a wild filmography

 

once this hits the 20s the ranking feels so interchangeable--but here's mine


1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

2. Back to The Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)

3. La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)

4. Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)

5. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)

6. Kids (Larry Clark, 1995)

7. The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979)

8. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

9. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

10. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

11. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

12. Singin in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952)

13. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

14. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)

15. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

16. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991)

17. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)

18. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)

19. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)

20. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)

21. First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)

22. This is England (Shane Meadows, 2006)

23. Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)

24. The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, 1999)

25. The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)

26. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

27. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

28. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)

29. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

30. The Godfather II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

31. Good Time (Josh and Benny Safdie, 2017)

32. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)

33. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)

34. Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997)

35. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)

36. The VVitch (Robert Eggers, 2015)

37. Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie, 2019)

38. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)

39. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995)

40. Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)

41. Female Trouble (John Waters, 1974)

42. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)

43. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)

44. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, 2008)

45. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016)

46. Dumb and Dumber (Peter Farrelly, 1994)

47. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2002)

48. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951)

49. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)

50. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)

 

Love this list! Lots of stuff on here that would have just missed the cut in mine, and lots of overlap.

 

Here are 50 that I have not ordered yet:

Dazed and Confused
The Master
Goodfellas
Billy Madison
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Reservoir Dogs
The Big Lebowski
Spring Breakers
Pulp Fiction
American Psycho
Wet Hot American Summer
Boogie Nights
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Stand By Me
Can't Hardly Wait
KIDS
Holy Motors
Beau Travail
Come and See
House of 1000 Corpses
Breathless
Scream
On the Waterfront
A Face in the Crowd
A Goofy Movie
The Irishman
The Edge of Seventeen
Tommy Boy
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
Spookies
Scary Tales
The Rules of Attraction
The Breakfast Club
Heavyweights
There Will Be Blood
Halloween
Queen of Diamonds
American Movie
Hoop Dreams
The Tree of Life
Demons
After Hours
Synecdoche New York
True Romance
Road House
Clueless
Punch Drunk Love
Blue Velvet
Before Sunrise

A mix of all time favorites, "best" and recent favorites

 

people are going to fucking hate my list i cannot wait to post in a bit (or tomorrow, no idea how quickly this will come about) lmao

 

Here's what I have so far. I don't think I'll be as rigid with the categories in the end result.


edit:

just finished watching something, so here's the new list.

1-50: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

I guess that gets it 1275 points, is that enough to win?

 

I’ll do this tonight. I started a list and just know that it includes The Mummy and Garden State.

 

50 is just such a small number. there are so many good movies!!!

 

went to the SIZZLAH! ...shut the place down.

 

ok let's go with this list of 50. it's funny, from 2009-2012 or so i was way into movies and buying blu-rays and having a home theatre set up and whatnot and mid-year 2012 when i moved back to Wisconsin it just completely evaporated and i sold off most of my collection when i moved back because all that shit was a pain in the ass to pack. ever since then i've really fallen off the movie watching train, as can likely be seen in the films listed below since almost all of these are likely 2012 or earlier releases except for maybe 4-5?

Top 10 is probably pretty close to being my actual top 10, just not sure of the order. and probably 40-50 would always be in the 40-50 range, the rest is really a toss up and depending on my mood could be moved up or down 15-20 spots.

i haven't put one of these lists together in almost a decade, this was like a weird trip down memory lane and was actually hard to find 50 to list and many of these i've only seen once or twice 8+ years ago so who knows what i'd think if i watched them all now...

The Rules of Attraction
Michael Clayton
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Blair Witch Project
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Magnolia
Coherence
Armageddon
Fight Club
(500) Days of Summer
The Wedding Singer
Lost in Translation
Boogie Nights
Dumb and Dumber
Scream
Up in the Air
Mean Girls
Idle Hands
The Breakfast Club
Toy Story
Zodiac
Triangle
Tommy Boy
Heat
I Love You, Man
Independence Day
Superbad
Alien
Moon
Joy Ride
Home Alone
2001: A Space Odyssey
Garden State
Sex Drive
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Happy Gilmore
A Bug's Life
Last Year at Marienbad
Solaris (2002)
Final Destination
Mulholland Drive
Apocalypse Now (Redux)
Jurassic Park
The Girl Next Door (the comedy one with Cuthbert)
Into the Wild
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Fountain
The Lives of Others
Revanche

 

I appreciate the tag, but there is no way I can complete this list!

 

1. Office Space (Mike Judge, 1999)
2. American Movie (Chris Smith, 1999)
3. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
4. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
5. Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
6. Dawn of the Dead (George Romero, 1978)
7. WNUF Halloween Special (Chris LaMartina, 2013)
8. Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
9. The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
10. The Matrix (The Wachowskis, 1999)

11. Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfield, 1997)
12. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron, 1991)
13. Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018)
14. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
15. Ready or Not (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett, 2019)
16. Batman Returns (Tim Burton, 1992)
17. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
18. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
19. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
20. Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris, 1992)

21. Friday the 13th (Sean Cunningham, 1980)
22. The Crow (Alex Proyas, 1994)
23. Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)
24. Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)
25. Paradise Lost (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, 1996)
26. The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)
27. Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
28. Man on the Moon (Milos Forman, 1999)
29. Creepshow (George Romero, 1982)
30. Phantasm (Don Coscarelli, 1979)

31. The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O'Bannon, 1985)
32. Silent Night, Deadly Night (Charles Sellier Jr, 1984)
33. Jackass (Jeff Tremaine, 2002)
34. The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)
35. Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik, 1983)
36. Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992)
37. Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007)
38. Killer Klowns From Outer Space (The Chiodo Brothers, 1988)
39. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
40. John Wick (Chad Stahelski, 2014)

41. Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018)
42. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
43. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
44. The Amityville Horror (Stuart Rosenberg, 1979)
45. Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
46. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993)
47. Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
48. Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998)
49. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)
50. Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996)