It's movie time - My top 10 best movies ever made

- The Godfather (1 and 2)

- One flew over the cuckoo's nest

- The Great Escape

- Deer Hunter

- Guess who is coming to dinner

- Goodfellas

- Schindler's List

- Forrest Gump

- The Shawshank Redemption

- Casino

May I add my best, some are already included in your list.

Enchanted April
Winter's bone
Raise the Red Lantern (a Chinese movie)
My fair Lady
Who is afraid of Virginia Wolf
in the Heat of the Night
Apoclypse Now

Big Fish
God Father
Blade Runner
Saturday Night Fever (my coming of age movie)
Missing (Jack Lemon)
Y tu mamá también (Mexican/Spanish: "And your mother too")
The Usual Suspects
Fight Club
Dark Knight
The Sound of Music
National Lampoon's Animal House
Before the Devil Knows You are Dead
A Simple Plan

Brother Safwat,

I gather we are of the same age, judging by the SDNF comment. I recall when premiered in Halfaya Cinema, we had to sneak out of the school to guarantee a spot in the long, serpentine queue.

I'm a big fan of Jack Lemmon but not familiar with 'Missing'. Is it the one about an employee in a nuclear plant?

I believe I also share a passion for movies about Mexican hoodlums. I liked the movie 'Blood in blood out' about gangs ethnic rivalries in jail (Blaccks, whites and Latinos).

I wonder if the 'Fight Club' is the one featuring Brad Pitts as a boxer. I liked his role as a ruthless serial killer in 'Kalifornia'.

Like the movies listed by Asma above, the movies you mentioned will also be added to my watch list.

Salam Asma,

Except for Apocalypse now, I haven't seen any of the movies you listed, although I read very positive critical reviews about them, specially the 'Who is afraid of Virginia Wolf'. Your list will be my next target, starting with 'Who is afraid..

i'm sure you have other movies to recommend. Please add more..

I never get tired of watching:

- Papillon

- Enemy at the gate

- Joyeux Noel

- Some mother's son (the true story of Bobby Sands)starring my favourie Helen Mirren)

- Calendar girls (also starring Helen Mirren)

- Agnes Browne

- Osama

- Death on the Nile

- The mouse that roared

- The full monty

Hi Hassan and All,

Some of my favorites that I remembered so far, are:

1. The Deep End Of The Ocean
2. Blood Diamond
3. Cold Mountain
4. Pretty Woman
5. Gladiator
6. Troy
7. Beautiful Mind
8. The Bodyguard
9. Sweet Home Alabama
10. All Nicole Kidman´s movies (there is a cheat here!)

Salam ya Hadeer,

Quote: All Nicole Kidman´s movies (there is a cheat here!)

I liked her in Bangkok Hilton (TV mini series), when she was a budding star in Australia.

Godfather Triology

One of the best movies in the last century.

Thanks for the post.

Dear Ombadda,

Quote: Triology

1 and 2 were the best no doubt about that. However, I didn't like 3. Al Pacino looked old, exhausted and disinterested. Besides, the idea of forbidden love between his daughter and nephew also didn't click for me.

Today, I saw a re-run of Harold and laughed my guts out. It is a movie about a 13-year old boy who develops baldness and gets treated as a grown up man. Cuba Gooding Junior's brilliant portrayal of the school janitor almost gave me a heart attack. I am still laughing

A few good men

Men of honor

As good as it gets

Anger management

Home alone

The good, the bad and the ugly

In the line of fire

Escape from Alcatraz

Platoon

Hair

Dil se (Hindi)

Tootsie

Kramer Vs. Kramer

Rain man

Philadelphia

Mississippi burning

Separate but equal

Scarface

Jaws

Finding Forrester (The only film I like for Sean Connery)

The Fugitive

Heist

Bird's cage (somehow eccentric for us but was extremely funny)

Shark's tale (my favourite animated movie. Unfortunately, it lost academy award to the less-fun The Incredibles)

12 angry men (one of Jack lemmon's best)

Here are a few of excerpts from Wikipedia about your questions;

Missing is a 1982 American drama film directed by Costa Gavras, and starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea and Charles Cioffi. It is based on the true story of American journalist Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody aftermath of the US-backed Chilean coup of 1973 that deposed leftist President Salvador Allende.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_(film)

Fight Club is a 1999 American film adapted from the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an "everyman" who is discontented with his white-collar job in American society. He forms a "fight club" with soap maker Tyler Durden, played by Pitt, and becomes embroiled in a relationship with him and a dissolute woman, Marla Singer, played by Bonham Carter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(film)
It is not a movie about action heroes. The fast paced script and the twist at the end makes it a cult movie. A must see for any serious buffs.

Y tu mamá también (Spanish: "And your mother too") is a 2001 Mexican drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, and co-written by Cuarón and his brother Carlos. The film is a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys taking a road trip with a woman in her late twenties; it stars Mexican actors Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal and Spanish actress Maribel Verdú in the leading roles. The film, a road movie, is set in 1999, against the backdrop of the political and economic realities of present-day Mexico, specifically at the end of the uninterrupted 71-year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, and the rise of the opposition headed by Vicente Fox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_tu_mam%C3%A1_tambi%C3%A9n

I hesitated to add all films directed by Christopher Nolan and chose Dark Knight because in this one Nolan, I believe, created a model for future movie making like Spielberg did when he made Jaws in 1975.

Salam Walid and thank you for the information

I grew more interested in watching that Mexican saga. I always believed that Central and Latin Americas constitute a world that is totally different to the one we live in when it comes to politics, revolutions, entertainment and sport.

Quote: Costa Gavras

I believe here, one can judge the book by its title. I watched Z for Gavras and enjoyed it very much

Very enjoyable and useful post.
Ya hassan Kaifak?
You sound like interested in movie reviews.
Would you point out for me a site or magazine
where I can read more reviews in either Arabic
or English? Please and thank you!

Salam ya Mustafa and Eid Saeed to you and to all members here.

I'm really honoured. When I am intersted in a certain movie, I usually go to New York Times' arts section to see their reviews. They are the best.

Recently, I watched a very nice movie called 'The Sunset Limited' starring Samuel jackson and Tommy Lee Jones. The entire movie is a diaolgue between the two great actors about life, religion, suffering, with each one defending his philosophy.

I then read an article in NY Time http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/arts/televi....html?pagewanted=all about the movie, featuring the two actors and I felt the need to see it again.

Dear Hassan, thank you for sharing us your list, which is great -I think-
allow me please to arrange it again according to my eyes;
- Godfather 1 & 2
- Shawshank Redemption
- Great Escape
-12 angry Men
-Pulp Fiction
-Gladiator
-Beautiful Mind
-Troy
-Casino

Dear Hassan
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Reciprocal Linking!

Well well ..!

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Happy New Year Hassan ...