The Best of the Best: top 10 lists per genre

A personal compilation based on whhat I have watched and liked. You can post your own lists, but be aware that I am always right, so don't come with " what he picked!" bullshit.

Spanish/Foreign Language

1. Camila (Argentina) - based on a true story about the affair between a Jesuit priest and a young rich girl.
2. Macario (Mexico) Fascinating supernatural moral tale
3. Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned) Mexico-This 1950 film about juvenile delinquency was controversial for its brutal realism. It hasn't missed its impact 70 years later.
4. Pan's Laberynth - if you haven't watched this yet, what are you waiting for?
5. La Femme Nikita (France)- the original French version, not the rip-off reboot
6. La Perla (The Pearl) Mexico- the best adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway book. Pedro Almendariz deserved a fucking Oscar for his performance.
7. Amelie (France) This is all about the main character's weird view of the world. The actress made the film with her tour de force performance.
8. Rashomon (Japan) - one of the best films ever made of any genre. Period.
9. Aguirre: the wrath of God (Germany) -Werner Herzog's masterpiece about conquistadors search for el Dorado with catastrophic results.
10. The Killer (Hong Kong) - John Woo's action classic remains the most influential film of the last 25 years. Still none of its imitators have come close to this fast paced power pack film.

 

Science Fiction

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1967)
2. Forbidden Planet (1957)
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1952)
4. The Thing (1982)
5. The Time Machine (1960)
6. The Matrix (1999)
7. Journey to the Center of the Earth(1962)
8. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
9. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
10. War of the Worlds (1951)

Fantasy
1. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
3. The Seventh Voyage of Simbad
4. The NeverEnding Story
5. Excalibur
6. The Thief of Baghdad (1940)
7. Beauty & the Beast (1946)
8. King Kong (1933)
9. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
10. Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

 

Action

1. Die Hard
2. Rambo: First Blood 1 & 2
3. The Killer
4. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
5. The Raid
6. The Bourne Identity
7. 300
8. Kill Bill: Volume 1
9. Predator
10. Terminator

 

Drama

1. Gone with the Wind
2. The Godfather parts 1 & 2
3. Citizen Kane
4. Braveheart
5. Gladiator
6. The Shawshank Redemption
7. Titanic
8. City of God
9. There will Be Blood
10. Taxi Driver

 

Comedy

1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. Young Frankenstein
3. Blazing Saddles
4. Airplane
5. Top Secret
6. Clueless
7. Mean Girls
8. Coming to America
9. Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me
10. Meet the Parents

 

Too many of them blend together...Horror/Science fiction....etc...

Horror:
1. Halloween
2. Dawn Of the Dead
3. The Thing
4. Jaws
5. 28 Days Later
6. Alien
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3
8. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
9. The Silence Of The Lambs
10. The Descent


Science Fiction:
1. 12 Monkeys
2. The Matrix
3. Planet Of the Apes
4. Dark City
5. Total Recall
6. Mad Max Fury Road
7. Snowpiercer
8. Dredd
9. Arrival
10. 1984


Action:
1. Die Hard
2. Terminator
3. The Dark Knight
4. Predator
5. Terminator 2
6. Aliens
7. Jurassic Park
8. Lethal Weapons
9. Leon: The Professional
10. Speed


Drama:
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather 2
3. Goodfellas
4. Schindler's List
5. The Shawshank Redemption
6. American History X
7. Saving Private Ryan
8. Se7en
9. Heat
10. Forrest Gump

Comedy:
1. The Princess Bride
2. Spaceballs
3. Elf
4.Groundhog Day
5. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
6. Team America: World Police
7. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
8. Dumb and Dumber
9. Coming to America
10. The Jerk

 

I'll give horror a shot:

1. Psycho
2. Jaws
3. The Shining
4. The Exorcist
5. The Wicker Man
6. The Omen
7. Silence of the Lambs
8. The Amityville Horror (70s version of course)
9. American Werewolf in London
10. Carrie

I was gonna include Alien and The Fly, but I feel like they belong on a sci-fi list.

 

Just like you should´ve felt...
1. Pscyho
7. Silence Of The Lambs

...belong on a thriller list?










Because you´d be 100% correct!

 

SOTL maybe more of a psych thriller. But Psycho imo is both.

Psycho birthed the slasher subgenre. It definitely belongs in horror.

 

I thought about including The Dead Zone, but I definitely think Dead Zone is more thriller than horror.

 

Fixed.

 

Horror
1 The Exorcist
2. The Omen
3. Psycho
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Frankenstein
6. Bride of Frankenstein
7. Aliens (I know is scifi/ action, but the fucking face-huggers scene almost made me shit on my pants!)
8. Bram Stoker's Dracula
9. The Innocents (1961)
10. The Conjuring

 

HORROR
Rosemary's Baby
The Exorcist
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Dawn Of The Dead
The Shining
Alien
The Thing
The Omen
Dawn Of The Dead
Ring

 

I guess movies like Alien, The Thing, and The Fly can be used in both sci-fi and horror.

 

surely the board is slow enough to be able to break it up into like 5 seperate threads

 

Western:

1. Tombstone
2. The Searchers
3. High Noon
4. The Magnificen Seven
5. True Grit (remake)
6. The Good The Band and the Ugly
7. Unforgiven
8. Once Upon a Time in The West
9. High Plains Drifter
10. Rio Bravo
*honorable mention just because I loved that film so much "Todo por Nada" (All for Nothing)

Martial arts

1. Enter the Dragon (1973)
2. Ong Bak: the Thai Warrior (2003)
3. Hero (2002)
4. Kuro Obi (Black belt) -2007
5. Five Fingers of Death aka the Invincible Boxer aka King Boxer -1972
6. Blood Brothers (1973)
7. The Man From Hong Kong aka The Dragon Flies (1975)
8. Blood Sport (1988)
9. Best of the Best (1989)
10. Ip Man series

Superhero

1. Superman: The Movie
2. The Dark Knight
3. Captain America: Civil War
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. Iron-Man
6. Spider-Man 2
7. Watchmen
8. X-Men 2: X-Men United
9. Wonder Woman
10. Black Panther

Animated

1. The Lion King
2. Spirited Away
3. The Iron Giant
4. Watership Down
5. Animal Farm
6. The Little Mermaid
7. Aladdin
8. Finding Nemo
9. Frozen
10. Shrek

 

Come on CUNT now you are going too far...


but Animated I agree the LION KING(old version) over everything...wait is does South Park, Team America: World Police count as animated?

Superhero: 1) The Dark Knight...then everything else...

Western agree 1) TOMBSTONE then everything else..

Martial Arts: Bloodsport, The Big Boss, American Ninja II....

 

I am just STARTING, Maricon!

Yes, South Park movie does count as animated. Team America? Not sure, maybe.

 

Crime thrillers

1. The Untouchables
2. The Usual Suspects
3. The Fugitive
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Infernal Affairs
6. Seven
7. Scarface
8. Fargo
9. Sicario
10. The Hound of the Baskervilles

RomCom

1. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
2. Bridesmaids
3. When Harry Met Sally
4. Pretty Woman
5. 13 going on 30
6. 10 things I hate About You
7. Some Kind of Wonderful
8. The Wedding Singer
9. Splash!
10. Moonstruck

Chick Flicks

1. Little Women (1949)
2. My Best Friend's Wedding
3. Eat Drink Love
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. The Notebook
6. Easy A
7. Terms of Endearment
8. Sixteen Candles
9. Pitch Perfect
10. Legally Blonde

 

Historical/Period

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Nicholas & Alexandra
3. Ben Hur
4. Spartacus
5. Patton
6. Black Hawk Down
7. JFK
8. The Last of the Mohicans
9. Cromwell
10. Viva Zapata!

 

Musical

1. The Sound of Music
2. Grease
3. Singing in the Rain
4. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
5. Tommy
6. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
7. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
8. Jesus Christ Superstar
9. Fiddler on the Roof
10. West Side Story

 

Infernal Affairs or Internal?

 

A historical list is a joke without Bridge on The River Kwai and El Cid.

El Cid takes a steaming, hot shit on Spartacus.

 

I'm sure he means Infernal Affairs aka the film The Departed copied off of.

He doesn't mean the cop thriller with Richard Gere and Andy Garcia.