Movie masterpieces — Page 2

The Goonies.

Rear Window
Notorious
Ran
The Heiress
Gaslight
High Noon
The Little Foxes
Meet Me in St. Louis
Oliver!
Amour
Smiles of a Summer Night
Amarcord
The Sixth Sense
Singin' in the Rain
The Nun's Story
Roman Holiday
Capote
United 93
Midnight
Midnight Run
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Hannah and Her Sisters
Fanny and Alexander
Cries and Whispers
Scenes From A Marriage
Rosemary's Baby
A Special Day
Now Voyager
The Wizard of Oz
The Godfather Part II
The Lives of Others
The Official Story
Law of Desire
Talk to Her
All About My Mother
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Breaker Morant
Modern Times
The Night of the Hunter
All About Eve
The Lady Eve
The Awful Truth
Dr. Strangelove
Spartacus
Tokyo Story
A Cry in the Dark
Summertime
Don't Look Now
Far From Heaven
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Eat Drink Man Woman
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Persuasion
Clueless
A Simple Plan
The Shop Around the Corner
Life is Beautiful
The Dead
Pan's Labyrinth
The Innocents
The Devil's Backbone
The African Queen
Bringing Up Baby
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The House of Mirth
Chinatown
The Grifters
Dangerous Liaisons
Heavenly Creatures
Look At Me
Children of Paradise
The Earrings of Madame De...
Nostalgia for the Light
Eight Women
Under the Sand
Swept Away (Wertmuller's - OBVIOUSLY!)
Seven Beauties
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Paris is Burning
The Apartment
Henry V (Branagh's)
It's A Wonderful Life
Double Indemnity
Cape Fear (1962)
Enchanted April
Goodfellas
Carrie
Charade
Two for the Road
The Wings of the Dove
A Letter to Three Wives
Klute
My Left Foot
Secrets and Lies
Topsy Turvy
Nashville
Waltzing with Bashir
Fargo
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Updated On: 6/5/13 at 01:39 PM

>> Rear Window
Notorious
Ran
The Heiress
Gaslight
High Noon
The Little Foxes
Meet Me in St. Louis
Oliver!
Amour
Smiles of a Summer Night
Amarcord
The Sixth Sense
Singin' in the Rain
The Nun's Story
Roman Holiday
Capote
United 93
Midnight
Midnight Run
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Hannah and Her Sisters
Fanny and Alexander
Cries and Whispers
Scenes From A Marriage
Rosemary's Baby
A Special Day
Now Voyager
The Wizard of Oz
The Godfather Part II
The Lives of Others
The Official Story
Law of Desire
Talk to Her
All About My Mother
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Breaker Morant
Modern Times
The Night of the Hunter
All About Eve
The Lady Eve
The Awful Truth
Dr. Strangelove
Spartacus
Tokyo Story
A Cry in the Dark
Summertime
Don't Look Now
Far From Heaven
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Eat Drink Man Woman
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Persuasion
Clueless
A Simple Plan
The Shop Around the Corner
Life is Beautiful
The Dead
Pan's Labyrinth
The Innocents
The Devil's Backbone
The African Queen
Bringing Up Baby
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The House of Mirth
Chinatown
The Grifters
Dangerous Liaisons
Heavenly Creatures
Look At Me
Children of Paradise
The Earrings of Madame De...
Nostalgia for the Light
Eight Women
Under the Sand
Swept Away (Wertmuller's - OBVIOUSLY!)
Seven Beauties
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Paris is Burning
The Apartment
Henry V (Branagh's)
It's A Wonderful Life
Double Indemnity
Cape Fear (1962)
Enchanted April
Goodfellas
Carrie
Charade
Two for the Road
The Wings of the Dove
A Letter to Three Wives
Klute
My Left Foot

I agree with all of those. I'd also add:

The Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
Pulp Fiction
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Twelve Angry Men
Schindler's List
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Fight Club
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Inception
Goodfellas
Star Wars
Seven Samurai
Forrest Gump
The Matrix
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
City of God
Seen
The Silence of the Lambs
Once Upon a Time in the West
Casablanca
The Usual Suspects
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window
It's a Wonderful Life
Psycho
Léon: The Professional
Sunset Blvd
American History X
Apocalypse Now
Memento
Terminator: Judgment Day
Saving Private Ryan
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
City Lights
Alien
Spirited Away
North by Northwest
Modern Times
Citizen Kane
Back to the Future
The Shining
Django Unchained
The Pianist
Life Is Beautiful
The Departed
The Dark Knight Rises
M
Vertigo
Paths of Glory
American Beauty
Taxi Driver
Aliens
Double Indemnity
Toy Story
WALL·E
The Lives of Others
The Intouchables
The Green Mile
Gladiator
A Clockwork Orange
The Great Dictator
The Prestige
Amélie
Lawrence of Arabia
To Kill a Mockingbird
Reservoir Dogs
Das Boot
Cinema Paradiso
The Lion King
The Third Man
Requiem for a Dream
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Once Upon a Time in America
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Full Metal Jacket
Braveheart
LA Confidential
Oldboy
Chinatown
Singin' in the Rain
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Some Like It Hot
Bicycle Thieves
Metropolis
Amadeus
Rashomon
Princess Mononoke
2001: A Space Odyssey
All About Eve
The Sting
Unforgiven
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Apartment
Raging Bull
Grave of the Fireflies
Witness for the Prosecution
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Die Hard
Batman Begins
A Separation
Yojimbo
Inglourious Basterds
Snatch
For a Few Dollars More
The Great Escape
Pan's Labyrinth
Downfall
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Up
Toy Story
On the Waterfront
The Elephant Man
Heat
The Seventh Seal
The General
The Maltese Falcon
Blade Runner
The Kid
Rebecca
Scarface
Gran Torino
Wild Strawberries
Fargo
Ran
The Big Lebowski
Touch of Evil
The Deer Hunter
Cool Hand Luke
The Gold Rush
It Happened One Night
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
No Country for Old Men
Sin City
Strangers on a Train
Casino
The Sixth Sense
Platoon
Jaws
The Thing
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Good Will Hunting
Trainspotting
The Wizard of Oz
High Noon
Kill Bill: Vol 1
Hotel Rwanda
The Avengers
Warrior
The Secret in Their Eyes
Gone with the Wind
Annie Hall
The Grapes of Wrath
My Neighbor Totoro
V for Vendetta
Notorious
Finding Nemo
Into the Wild
Dial M for Murder
Life of Brian
How to Train Your Dragon
Star Trek Into Darkness
The King's Speech
There Will Be Blood
The Night of the Hunter
The Terminator
Network
The Big Sleep
Ben-Hur
Million Dollar Baby
Stand by Me
Groundhog Day
The Best Years of Our Lives
Donnie Darko
Twelve Monkeys
Dog Day Afternoon
The Blows
Mary and Max
Amores Perros
The Bourne Ultimatum
Persona
Black Swan
Howl's Moving Castle
Gandhi
The Killing
The Graduate
A Beautiful Mind
The Princess Bride
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Hustler
La Strada
Slumdog Millionaire
Rocky
Life of Pi
Anatomy of a Murder
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Manchurian Candidate
The Exorcist
Rope
The Wild Bunch
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Stalag
Barry Lyndon
In the Name of the Father
Sleuth
Infernal Affairs
Roman Holiday
Stalker
The Artist
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Truman Show
Monsters Inc
Memories of Murder
A Fistful of Dollars
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part
Star Trek
District
Ip Man
Ratatouille
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jurassic Park
A Streetcar Named Desire
La Haine
Shutter Island
All Quiet on the Western Front
Rain Man
Beauty and the Beast
Three Idiots
Incendies
Like Stars on Earth
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Rosemary's Baby
Harvey
Mystic River
Papillon
Manhattan
The Untouchables
Nosferatu
Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Big Fish
The Help
Three Colors: Red
In the Mood for Love

In "List" threads like this (particularly when the lists are so long), do folks read every post, or just scroll to the bottom to "reply" and add their list?

I was going to ask that exact same question, John. I could rattle of about 200 films that I consider masterpieces, but without any reasons to debate/discuss it's all rather boring.

Especially since the film lovers in our little community by and large have similar choices.

I almost listed about 50 and was going to toss B.A.P.S. in there just to see if anyone caught it.

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The question was about movies we considered masterpieces, not movies we consider perfect or flawless. For those of us who have seen tens of thousands of films in our lifetimes, it's not at all strange that the very small percentage of them we consider to be masterpieces would still add up to a sizable list.

The WICKED movie will be on these lists. I know it will be so good.

Oh no you did NOT just use the "A" word, Jane.

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"Oh no you did NOT just use the "A" word, Jane"

haha, why yes, yes I did, Taz. And I chose that obnoxious word on purpose!

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Honorable mentions: TEETH, THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (1&2), PINK FLAMINGOS


:)

I LOVE VERSAYCE!!!!!

I'm with henrik on this. I read his list and agree with all (or nearly all) of his choices.

The popcorn is ready any time you want a "movie night!"

And if you don't like long lists, don't read them.

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2001: A Space Odyssey
Apocalypse Now
The Exorcist
The Godfather
Raging Bull

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Moonstruck. So perfect. THE masterpiece of its genre.