Your 25 Top Movies of Any Era

[RCMerchant]

1930's, 50's, 80's- whatever.

I'm gonna start with the 1930's.

1. M (1931) with Peter Lorre and directed by Fritz Lang.

2. the RAVEN (1935) with Lugosi and Karloff.

3. MONKEY BUSINESS (1931) with the Marx Bros.

4. the BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) with Karloff and an all star cast.

5. WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) with Lugosi.

More later!

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2000s Revisited



 1. Memento (2000)
 2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
 3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
 4. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
 5. Donnie Darko (2001)
 6. Sin City (2005)
 7. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
 8. City of God (2002)
 9. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
 10. American Psycho (2000)
 11. Oldboy (2003)
 12. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
 13. Zodiac (2007)
 14. 500 Days of Summer (2009)
 15. Children of Men (2006)
 16. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
 17. Lost in Translation (2003)
 18. The Machinist (2004)
 19. The Others (2001)
 20. Mulholland Drive (2001)
 21. Moon (2009)
 22. Coraline (2009)
 23. 21 Grams (2003)
 24. Let the Right One In (2008)
 25. Grindhouse (2007)

[RCMerchant]

More films of the 30's-

6. MAD LOVE (1935) with Peter Lorre.
7. the PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) with Jimmy Cagney.
8. DRACULA (1931) with Bela Lugosi.
9. FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
10. KING KONG (1933)
11. LITTLE CEASAR (1931) with Edward G. Robinson.
12. SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939)
13. ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938) with Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.
14. MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1932) with Bela Lugosi (1932).
15. the WIZARD OF OZ (1939) with Judy Garland (1939).



More later!

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2010s Revisited



 1. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
 2. Gone Girl (2014)
 3. The Revenant (2015)
 4. Black Swan (2010)
 5. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
 6. Prisoners (2013)
 7. Arrival (2016)
 8. Drive (2011)
 9. Get Out (2017)
 10. Argo (2012)
 11. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
 12. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
 13. The Conjuring (2013)
 14. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
 15. The Shape of Water (2017)
 16. Hereditary (2018)
 17. Bridesmaids (2011)
 18. It Follows (2014)
 19. Train to Busan (2016)
 20. Upgrade (2018)
 21. ParaNorman (2012)
 22. The Guest (2014)
 23. Suspiria (2018)
 24. Mandy (2018)
 25. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

[RCMerchant]

16. OF MICE AND MEN (1939) with Lon Chaney Jr. and Burgess Merideth.
17. DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1932) with Fredrick March and Miriam Hopkins (which won a Best Picture Oscar!)
18. ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932) with Charles Laughton.
19. the HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1939) With Charles Laughton.
20. the OLD DARK HOUSE (1932) with Boris Karloff and Ernest Thesiger.
21. PETRIFIED FOREST (1938) with Bogie and Bette Davis.
22. the INVISIBLE MAN (1933) with Claude Rains.
23. MANIAC (1934)
24. REEFER MADNESS (1936)
25. the BLACK CAT (1934) with Lugosi and Karloff.

[Alex]

80s

1 The Thing.
2 The Fog.
3 Aliens.
4 Re-Animator.
5 The Terminator.
6 The Predator.
7 Highlander.
8 Labyrinth
9 Neverending Story.
10 Raiders of the Lost Ark.
11 Ghostbusters.
12 Dark Angel.
13 Weird Science.
14 Ice Pirates.
15 Hitcher.
16 The Beast of War.
17 This Is Spinal Tap.
18 Remo: Unarmed & Dangerous.
19 Airplane.
20. Maniac Cop.
21. Stir Crazy.
22. Creepshow.
23. Big Trouble In Little China Town.
24. Robo Cop.
25. Bad Taste.

[bob]

The Pandemic Era of film - December 2019 onward

Dune (2021)
John Wick 4 (2023)
No Time to Die (2021)
The Invisible Man (2020)
Nope (2022)
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
Tár (2022)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
The Devil All the Time    (2020)
Tenet (2020)
The Batman (2022)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
Violent Night (2022)
Cocaine Bear (2023)
The Black Phone (2022)
The King's Man (2021)
Black Widow (2021)
Eternals (2021)

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1990s



 1. Fight Club (1999)
 2. Forrest Gump (1994)
 3. Pulp Fiction (1994)
 4. The Matrix (1999)
 5. Se7en (1995)
 6. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
 7. The Green Mile (1999)
 8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
 9. The Truman Show (1998)
 10. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
 11. Jurassic Park (1993)
 12. Fargo (1996)
 13. Groundhog Day (1993)
 14. Dumb and Dumber (1994)
 15. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
 16. Jackie Brown (1997)
 17. Boogie Nights (1997)
 18. Misery (1990)
 19. Dark City (1998)
 20. Dazed and Confused (1993)
 21. Ed Wood (1994)
 22. Lost Highway (1997)
 23. Jacob's Ladder (1990)
 24. Showgirls (1995)
 25. Heavenly Creatures (1994)

[Trevor]

My top 25 SA movies 1960 - 1980 (no order)

SHANGANI PATROL
THE WINNERS
DIE KANDIDAAT
WILD SEASON
KATRINA
DIRKIE
THE HELLIONS
THE NIGHT RIDER
LORD OOM PIET
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY
THE LAST LION
STRANGERS AT SUNRISE
MR KINGSTREETS WAR
GEHEIM VAN NANTES
THE CAVALIERS
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
ELOLLIPOP
DR KALIE
KARATE OLYMPIA
KILL & KILL AGAIN
RIDE THE HIGH WIND
THE EXILE
THE PATHFINDERS
RIP VAN WYK
SONG IN MY HEART

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1980s



 1. The Shining (1980)
 2. The Terminator (1984)
 3. Blade Runner (1982)
 4. Aliens (1986)
 5. The Thing (1982)
 6. Predator (1987)
 7. RoboCop (1987)
 8. Airplane! (1980)
 9. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
 10. Gremlins (1984)
 11. The Evil Dead (1981)
 12. Blue Velvet (1986)
 13. The Fly (1986)
 14. The Road Warrior (1981)
 15. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
 16. Poltergeist (1982)
 17. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
 18. Hellraiser (1987)
 19. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
 20. Fright Night (1985)
 21. Re-Animator (1985)
 22. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
 23. Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
 24. Dressed to Kill (1980)
 25. Near Dark (1987)
 26. Possession (1981)
 27. Santa Sangre (1989)
 28. The Company of Wolves (1984)
 29. Mommie Dearest (1981)
 30. One Deadly Summer (1983)

Most difficult list to put together. I had to expand to 30 titles but I still couldn't fill in all my faves. I had to drop the Indiana Jones movies. I like them but I don't watch them that often except for Temple of Doom. I put in Dressed to Kill and took out Scarface simply because I watch it more.  My fave 1980s Tim Burton movie is Pee-wee, so I took out Batman and (gasp!) Beetlejuice. Nothing wrong with Ghostbusters. I like it very much but obviously not enough to include in my top 30.

[Cult_Moody_Movies]

1980's - Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Picks
1. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) & Return of the Jedi (1983)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
3. The Evil Dead (1981) & Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn (1987)
4. Aliens (1986)
5. John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)
6. Ghosbusters (1984)
7. Akira (1988)
8. The Secret of NIMH (1982)
9. Back to the Future (1985)
10. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
11. (Tie) The Goonies & The Monster Squad (1985, 1987)
12. Heavy Metal (1981)
13. The Princess Bride (1987)
14. Robocop (1987)
15. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
16. The Last Unicorn (1982)
17. The Lost Boys (1987)
18. Predator (1987)
19. (Tie) Escape from New York (1981)/Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
20. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
21. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
22. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
23. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
24. Scanners (1981)
25. Phenomena (1985)

[RCMerchant]

1960's

1. the HAUNTING (1963)
2. JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961) All star cast.
3. PLANET OF THE APES (1968) With Roddy McDowall and Charleton Heston.
4. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
5. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) With Faye Duaway and Warren Beatty.
6. the SADIST (1963)
7. WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966) With Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
8. the GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (1966) With Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach.
9. the MISFITS (1961) with Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe.
10. the WILD BUNCH (1969) All star cast.
11. EASY RIDER (1969) with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper.
12. the WILD ANGELS (1966) With Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, and Nancy Sinatra.
13. 2001: A SPACE ODDESSY (1968)
14. COOL HAND LUKE (1967) With Paul Newman and George Kennedy.
15. BLACK SUNDAY (1960) With Barbara Steele.



More to come!

[zombie no.one]

25 of anything is a lot to think of... :)

will go 90s. roughly in order...

Usual Suspects (best film EVER)
Goodfellas
Fargo
Casino
Dazed & Confused
The Howling Part 7: New Moon Rising
Under Siege 2 (way better than the first... way)
Scanners 3: The Takeover (pure madness)
Death Wish 4 + Death Wish 5
Wild At Heart (David Lynch's finest moment)
Return To Savage Beach (parody of bad movies and also an actual bad movie)
Samurai Cop (filmed 89 released 91)
The Nostril Picker (filmed 88 released 93)
Se7en
Naked Gun 2 1/2 + Naked Gun 33 1/3
Waiting For Guffman
Species
The Krays (best uk gangster film by a mile)
Beavis & Butthead Do America
The Big Lebowski
Critters 2
Pulp Fiction
Terminator 2

yes, I apparently think Critters 2 is better than Pulp Fiction... let's not go there

[RCMerchant]

 Continued!

16. GOLDFINGER (1964) With Sean Connery.
17. PSYCHO (1960) With Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh.
18. FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965) with Clint and Lee Van Cleef.
19. WHAREVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962) With Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
20. KILL, BABY, KILL (1966)
21. FASTER, p***yCAT! KILL! KILL! (1965) With Tura Satana.
22. 2000 MANIACS (1964)
23. the PINK PANTHER (1963) With Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom.
24. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964) With Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, and everyone else!
25. the BIRDS (1963)

EDIT: I had to keep deleting movies- because I would think of ones I liked better!

[Cult_Moody_Movies]

1950's - Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Picks
1. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
2. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
3. The Creature from Black Lagoon (1954)
4. Forbidden Planet (1956)
5. Gojira(1954)/Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956)
6. Horror of Dracula aka Dracula (1958)
7. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
8. Them! (1954)
9. Les Diaboliques aka Diabolique (1955)
10. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
11. Night of the Hunter (1955)
12. The Blob (1958)
13. The Thing from Another World (1951)
14. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955)
15. The Bad Seed (1956)
16. X the Unknown (1956)
17. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1952)
18. House of Wax (1953)
19. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
20. The War of the Worlds (1953)
21. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
22. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
23. It Came from Outer Space (1953)
24. The Mummy (1959)
25.  The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas (1957)