Whether for purpose or excitement, movies are made to entertain. So which are your favorites? These need not necessarily be made Hollywood. If you dabble in international films (Bollywood anyone?) these count as well.

Bollywood
1. Devdas

Hollywood
1. Gladiator

2. The Last Samurai

3. Hotel Rwanda

Jeez, its hard to say my overall favorites.

"Apocalypse Now" would have to be up there.

"Wilber" which is a realitivly new movie is really good, so that would have to be on my list as well.

"Fight Club" is definatly on my list.

"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is my favorite comedy.

"Gone with the Wind" is good as well.

Its hard to really narrow it down, I'll probably think of a boatload more that aren't on my list, but "Fight Club" is definatly up there.

Bollywood
Kama Sutra

There was one other I saw that I liked but I can't recall its name.



Other
Glory
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
12 Angry Men (Original)
Zulu (1964)
Night of the Living Dead (Original)
Shawshank Redemption
American History X
Oscar
Training Day
Dances With Wolves

all time favourite:
"Todo sobre mi madre"
(brilliant, fantastic, gush gush, hyperbole :P )


also very hot I think:
Mexico: "Amores Perros"
Spain: "Hable con ella", "Entre Tinieblas", "Solas", "Familia"
Brazil: "Central do Brasil", "Ciudad de Dios"
France: "Amélie", "Nómadas del viento" and 3 colores: "Bleu" and "Rouge"
USA: "Baraka", "Jackie Brown", "Night on Earth", "Bowling for Columbine"
GB: "French Lieutenant´s Woman", "Breve Encuentro", "Prick up your ears", "Beautiful Thing", "Passage to India"
Germany: "Lili Marleen", "Der bewegte Mann"
Japan: "Tampopo"
Serbia: "Gato negro, gato blanco"
Canada: "Red Violin"
Australia: "Priscilla Queen of the Desert"

(btw: admit I am a DVD addict/freak :ermm: )

That is an awesome movie. Gael Garcia Bernal is one of my favorite actors.

I'm a Netflix and Turner Classic Movies fanatic. And although I'll watch anything for a laugh, I naturally gravitate towards quiet, character-driven pieces in which nothing much happens. Plot tends to bore me.

I'm a fan of the German New Wave, 1970s Hollywood, and some of the stuff that's come out of Europe more recently. Werner Herzog, Robert Altman, Terrence Malick, Hal Ashby, David Gordon Green, Lars von Trier, Michael Winterbottom, Peter Greenaway. You know, the usual suspects.

I also enjoy making lists:

1. Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
2. Harlan County, USA (Barbara Kopple, 1976)
3. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
4. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
5. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
6. Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (Werner Herzog, 1974)
7. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
8. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997)
9. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby, 1973)
10. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green, 2003)
11. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1974)
12. Die Große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (Herzog, 1974)
13. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000)
14. Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler, 1969)
15. Festen (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
16. Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)
17. George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000)
18. In the Bedroom (Todd Field, 2001)
19. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969)
20. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)

But truth be told, I watch far too many movies to uphold any consistent standard; at times I'm honestly convinced that Back to the Beach (Who the Hell Knows, 1987) is the greatest film ever made. I'm a bit of a movie slut.

-iain

Favourites are always so difficult....

Lord of The Rings Trilogy
Monty Python (Life of Brain/Holy Grail/Meaning of Life)
Shawshank Redemption
American History X
Beautiful Mind
Pulp Fiction
Cool Runnings
Schindler's List
The Italian Job (original)
Blade (trilogy)
Shawn of The Dead
Apollo 13
Labrynth
Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels

Wingfoot

I forgot to add:

O' Brother Where Art Thou?

If you havn't seen it, I'd recommend you pick it up.

I rarely watch movies, and the ones I do watch (in theatres, rented from a regular movie rental place) are usually not too good (no real message, too many discontinuities, two-dimensional actors, etc.). I have seen, however, a few good movies...

Lumumba (Raoul Peck, 2000)- The Congo, 1960-61- A newly freed Congo led by the charismatic nationalist PM, Patrice Lumumba, suffers from internal strife promoted by former Belgian colonialists, US CIA agents, an army colonel attempting to subvert the government, and secessionists in Katanga province.

Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004)- Rwanda, 1994- A hotel manager attempts to protect 1,000 Tutsis hiding from Hutu committing genocide.

Apocalypse Now (Francis Coppola, 1979)- Vietnam, 1969-70- A US Army Captain is ordered up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret.

No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic, 2001)- Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1993- A Serbian soldier and Bosnian soldier confront each other in a trench.

Scarface- (Brian de Palma, 1983)- Miami, 1981- A Cuban immigrant rises from petty goon to druglord.

MacArthur Park- (Billy Wirth, 2001)- Los Angeles, 2001- Everyone tries to survive in a park rife with desperation and drug-use.

Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)- San Diego (CA), Cincinnatti (OH), Tijuana, Mexico, 2000- Intertwining stories about a good Mexican cop fighting a corrupt bureaucracy, a conservative judge spearheading the US war on drugs with a teenage daughter who's an addict, and a DEA agent fighting to get a druglord in jail.

In This World (Michael Winterbottom, 2002)- Peshawar, Pakistan, 2002- Two Afghan refugees travel across Asia and Europe to try and get to Great Britain.

Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, 1982)- South Africa, early 1900s, India, first-half of the 20th century- The story of a young lawyer, Mohandas K. Gandhi, who would end up leading a concerted campaign of nonviolent direct-action advocating the end of British rule in India and peace among Hindus and Muslims.

I think one of mine too.
If you compare him in "amores perros" and "la mala educación" (don´t know if any people here have seen it), you see a 1st class actor.
I didn´t like "y tu mamá también" tanto, but it was nice to see a Mexican film being so successful and I read that a lot of american young people got into the film, which is cool.

I've seen all of those. Just saw "La Mala Educación" last week actually. I have to agree with you, I didn't care much for "Y Tu Mamá También", but his acting was still pretty good.

He was also in "The Motorcycle Diaries", and I thought he was excellent in that.

I think it was the "road film" aspect of y tu mamá también and Motorcycle Diaries that turned me off of both movies. The last person to work effectively in this genre was, well, Homer.

Underworld
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Wars 3-6
LOTR Trilogy
American Werewolf in London
Sleepy Hollow
From Hell
Pirates of the Caribbean
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Silence of the Lambs
The New Guy :lol:

I saw this a few weeks ago, first Bollywood movie I've ever seen. I was quite impressed, although the movie was in Hindi and the subtitles were in French (a language I never was taught, but can read it suprisingly well).

Anyone else have some movies to add?

my top 20 off the top of my head

lock stock
snatch
trainspotting
football factory
the business
pulp fiction
shaun of the dead
the day after tomorrow
godfather 1 and 2
austin powers
collateral
man on fire
training day
the bourne supremacy
italian job (original)
hotel rwanda
fight club
little nicky