The Redcafe Top 100 movies

OK here is mine. No way I am going to put these in order - alphabetical is as good as its going to get:

1. A Bittersweet Life
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. A Fish called Wanda
4. Alien
5. Aliens
6. Annie Hall
7. Apocalypto
8. Atlantis
9. Batman
10. Beetlejuice
11. Being John Malkovich
12. Black Hawk Down
13. Blade Runner
14. Blood Diamond
15. Blue Velvet
16. Boyz in the Hood
17. Bowling for Columbine
18. Brotherhood of the Wolf
19. Casablanca
20. Casino
21. Chopper
22. City of God
23. Cyrano de Bergerac
24. Dead Man’s Shoes
25. Deconstructing Harry
26. Downfall
27. Edward Scissor Hands
28. Enter the Dragon
29. Fahrenheit 9/11
30. Fatal Attraction
31. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
32. Fight Club
33. Fist of Fury
34. Following
35. Full Metal Jacket
36. Gangs of New York
37. Get Carter
38. Goodfellas
39. Goodnight and Good Luck
40. Grosse Point Blank
41. Groundhog Day
42. Hannah and Her Sisters
43. Hellraiser
44. House of Flying Daggers
45. How To Get Ahead in Advertising
46. Human Traffic
47. I Heart Huckabees
48. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
49. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
50. Itchi the Killer
51. Kung Fu Hussle
52. LA Confidential
53. LA Story
54. Last of the Mohicans
55. Leaving Las Vegas
56. Mad Max 2
57. Mean Streets
58. Memento
59. Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail
60. Mulholland Drive
61. Old Boy
62. Once Were Warriors
63. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
64. Psycho
65. Pulp Fiction
66. Reservoir Dogs
67. Richard III
68. Scarface
69. Seven
70. Seven Samurai
71. Sid and Nancy
72. Stalingrad
73. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
74. Syriana
75. Taxi Driver
76. Team America
77. The Big Lebowski
78. The Corporation
79. The Devils
80. The Godfather
81. The Godfather II
82. The Jungle Book
83. The Life of Brian
84. The Long Good Friday
85. The Lost Boys
86. The Name of the Rose
87. The Motorcycle Diaries
88. The Princess Bride
89. The Seventh Seal
90. The Shawshank Redemption
91. The Shining
92. Three Kings
93. Trading Places
94. Trainspotting
95. True Romance
96. Usual Suspects
97. Visitor X
98. Watership Down
99. Wild at Heart
100. Withnail and I
 
Just watched the Godfather II, what an incredible movie
 
Simon Adebesi said:
I love that movie. But you're right, I bet even the makers of that film would be surprised by its inclusion.

I dont think Im going to get round to putting them in order. If you cant use this list then dont.
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If you're not gonna bother you might as well delete the list before it inadvertantly gets included in the count as is.

PS. You lazy fecker :smirk:
 
what, we're doing points for the position or something?

I thought we were just going to debate the relative merits of peoples' choices?

Ill try and find a gap in my busy schedule to put them in some order but im not promising anything.
 
Simon Adebesi said:
what, we're doing points for the position or something?

I thought we were just going to debate the relative merits of peoples' choices?

Ill try and find a gap in my busy schedule to put them in some order but im not promising anything.
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Keep up at the back Simon :smirk:

The whole point is to come up with a definative Redcafe top 100 list.
 
would it help the counter if i created a thread with just the lists in it? no-one should add additional comments to the thread, in fact i could even lock it
 
Only problem is that we can't edit our lists now.
 
RedNome said:
Only problem is that we can't edit our lists now.
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good point. OK, ive only copied across up to page 3. I've edited my own list, any of the others who i have copied across need to tell me if there are any updates on their list in the next few days and ill change the other post accordingly
 
Interesting list Geebs, especially your number one.

Maybe you should post your list in here too for discussions sake.
 
RedNome said:
Interesting list Geebs, especially your number one.

Maybe you should post your list in here too for discussions sake.
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its on page 3...

I dont think its any great surprise to see Return of the Jedi at number 1

I mean its got everything, and all on a budget too. They used potatoes as asteroids! I mean spuds ffs. In fact Lucas annoyed them so much with reshoots that someone chucked a shoe in as asteroid too!

The film that really launched Harrison Ford imho
 
In order:

1. Leaving Las Vegas
2. Scarface
3. The Godfather II
4. Memento
5. The Godfather
6. Withnail and I
7. Old Boy
8. True Romance
9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
10. Downfall
11. The Devils
12. Wild at Heart
13. Deconstructing Harry
14. A Bittersweet Life
15. Goodfellas
16. Annie Hall
17. Ichi the Killer
18. City of God
19. Black Hawk Down
20. The Name of the Rose
21. How To Get Ahead in Advertising
22. Hannah and Her Sisters
23. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
24. LA Story
25. Groundhog Day
26. Atlantis
27. Usual Suspects
28. The Shining
29. The Life of Brian
30. The Big Lebowski
31. Stalingrad
32. Syriana
33. Sid and Nancy
34. Chopper
35. The Seventh Seal
36. Richard III
37. Apocalypto
38. A Clockwork Orange
39. Boyz in the Hood
40. Three Kings
41. The Shawshank Redemption
42. The Jungle Book
43. Casablanca
44. Blue Velvet
45. The Princess Bride
46. Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail
47. Being John Malkovich
48. Dead Man’s Shoes
49. Seven Samurai
50. Fahrenheit 9/11
51. Blood Diamond
52. The Motorcycle Diaries
53. The Corporation
54. Visitor Q
55. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
56. LA Confidential
57. Fist of Fury
58. Blade Runner
59. The Lost Boys
60. Last of the Mohicans
61. Grosse Point Blank
62. Trading Places
63. Seven
64. Trainspotting
65. The Long Good Friday
66. Once Were Warriors
67. House of Flying Daggers
68. Enter the Dragon
69. Alien
70. Beetlejuice
71. Aliens
72. Kung Fu Hussle
73. Watership Down
74. Taxi Driver
75. Team America
76. Pulp Fiction
77. Mulholland Drive
78. Get Carter
79. Full Metal Jacket
80. Mean Streets
81. Mad Max 2
82. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
83. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
84. I Heart Huckabees
85. Hellraiser
86. Schindlers List
87. Reservoir Dogs
88. Gangs of New York
89. Edward Scissor Hands
90. Goodnight and Good Luck
91. Following
92. Fight Club
93. Casino
94. Cyrano de Bergerac
95. Psycho
96. Bowling for Columbine
97. Brotherhood of the Wolf
98. Batman
99. A Fish called Wanda
100. Play it Again Sam
 
Is anyone watching AFI's top 100 on Channel 4?

Pulp Fiction 94th, Goodfellas 92nd!!?!

Not to mention Blade Runner, Shawshank Redemption and Unforgiven being far too low.
 
100 seems like a wildly arbitrary figure so I decided on the far more sensible 176.


1 Chinatown
2 The Godfather 2
3 Apocalypse Now
4 A Clockwork Orange
5 Laputa: Castle in the Sky
6 Raging Bull
7 Throne of Blood
8 To Kill a Mockingbird
9 Casablanca
10 The King of Comedy
11 Rashomon
12 Goodfellas
13 Network
14 casino
15 citizen kane
16 A Streetcar Named Desire
17 blade runner
18 The godfather
19 yojimbo
20 once upon a time in america
21 brazil
22 In the Mood for Love
23 on the waterfront
24 indiana jones: raiders of the lost ark
25 the seventh seal
26 breathless
27 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
28 city of god
29 one flew over the cuckoos nest
30 come and see
31 Tasogare Seibei
32 The Conversation
33 hable con ella
34 das boot
35 The deer hunter
36 harakiri
37 Alien
38 Secrets & Lies
39 The Conformist
40 manon des sources
41 36th Chamber of Shaolin
42 A Fistful of Dollars
43 Aliens
44 Andrei Rublev
45 birdman of alcatraz
46 double indemnity
47 Adventures of Zatoichi
48 grave of the fireflies
49 oldboy
50 8 1/2
51 The Five Venoms
52 hana bi
53 fecking amal
54 le samourai
55 leaving las vegas
56 pans labyrinth
57 Taxi Driver
58 The Shining
59 Tengoku to jigoku
60 east of eden
61 barry lyndon
62 Ayneh
63 Back to the future
64 400 blows
65 boogie nights
66 cinema paradiso
67 good bye lenin
68 la vita e bella
69 infernal affairs
70 once upon a time in the west
71 ninja scroll
72 the squid and the whale
73 Drunken master
74 gods and monsters
75 ivanovo detstvo
76 in the mood for love
77 memories of a murder
78 ran
79 The Color Of Paradise
80 memento
81 The Silence of the Lambs
82 samurai assassin
83 Seven Samurai
84 Sunset blvd
85 the cuckoo
86 Super Troopers
87 die hard
88 Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
89 howls moving castle
90 Les Diaboliques
91 Aguirre, the Wrath of God
92 the life of brian
93 this sporting life
94 Solyaris
95 butch cassidy
96 being john malkovich
97 amelie
98 Pulp Fiction
99 Sanjuro
100 Ghost in the Shell

Ignore the last 76. Reading them will burn holes into your retinas and render you impotent.

101 One Armed Swordsman
102 north by northwest
103 nausicaa
104 kagemusha
105 la confidential
106 il grande silencio
107 children of men
108 The Searchers
109 zerkalo
110 fanny och alexander
111 Airplane
112 mysterious skin
113 hate
114 Dolls
115 Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
116 The Children of Heaven
117 the usual suspects
118 Sympathy for mr Vengeance
119 wings of desire
120 The Apartment
121 rebecca
122 festen
123 office space
124 ong bak
125 A Face in the Crowd
126 hard boiled
127 ikiru
128 the third man
129 the woman in black
130 battle royale
131 dog day afternoon
132 12 Monkeys
133 Pather Panchali
134 das leben der anderen
135 rififi
136 touch of zen
137 For a Few Dollars More
138 dersu uzala
139 American Beauty
140 my cousin vinny
141 millers crossing
142 Stray Dog
143 wages of fear
144 jean de florrete
145 the sting
146 Stalker
147 notorious
148 Samurai Rebellion
149 The Goonies
150 the machinist
151 Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
152 repulsion
153 be with you
154 Todo sobre mi madre
155 deliverence
156 All about eve
157 ponette
158 sexy beast
159 The Terminator
160 the killer
161 the innocents
162 unforgiven
163 Y Tu Mama Tambien
164 the philadelphia story
165 Trois Colours bleu
166 the last king of scotland
167 red beard
168 Superbad
169 tale of the zatoichi
170 being there
171 blood simple
172 pickpocket
173 tootsie
174 tokyo story
175 Wandafuru Raifu
176 Carlito's Way


There are a couple old school cheesy kung fu films in there, which I guess are an acquired taste (specifically no.41 and no.51).
 
I've downloaded Harakiri, Shotgun. How does it compare with Kurosawa's stuff? and have you seen Kaidan??
 
It's different. A bit more emotionally loaded, less action, more talking and it doesn't attempt to portray samurai as ubermensch in the same way as Kurosawa did.

I've also got a trilogy of films called Human Condition by Kobayashi. I haven't watched it yet, but if you enjoy Harakiri you might want to try those. I've heard good things about 'em.

I haven't seen Kaidan yet. Might track it down when I get a chance.
 
Shotgun Rebellion's meant to be good as well. You must to check out Kwaidan by Kobayashi, Shotgun. Stunning piece of work.
 
I might have seen Samurai's Rebellion already. I've watched so many B/W samurai movies that they all begin to blend into one after a while.

I tried to include the ones that left a lasting impression on me, but I'm older and wiser now so it might be worth rewatching some of the films I was introduced to in my teens. That and Kaidan are a couple I can add to my list. Cheers Spoony.
 
It took me ages to get from 400-odd down to 176, and then a load of excel wizardry to put them into some kind of order. As a compromise I'll leave the last 76 up there in diminutive form for my own sanity as well as for the Caf's blind eunuchs to read and possibly discuss. I'll only be submitting my top 100 as it stands of course.
 
Here you go then. Though I may watch Amadeus before sleeping tonight, so the list could change. Infact I will keep watching some till the deadline and changing it....

1. Godfather 2
2. The Godfather
3. Dr Strangelove
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Apocalypse now
6. Schindler's List
7. One flew over the Cuckoo's nest
8. Taxi Driver
9. The good, the bad and the ugly
10. Memento
11. Goodfellas
12. 12 Angry Men
13. Paths of Glory
14. City of God
15. The Deer hunter
16. Fight Flub
17. Usual Suspects
18. Rear window
19. Shawshank Redemption
20. It's a wonderful life
21. Great Escape
22. Life of Brian
23. Der Untergag aka The Downfall
24. Reservoir Dogs
25. Silence of The Lambs
26. Das Boot
27. Matrix
28. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
29. Oldboy
30. In The Mood For Love
31. Seven
32. To kill a mocking bird
33. Life of the others
34. Three colours: Blue
35. Pianist
36. The Sting
37. A clockwork orange
38. Raging Bull
39. Life is Beautiful aka Vita è bella, La
40. Rocky
41. American History x
42. Casino
43. On the Water Front
44. Terminator 2
45. Requiem of a Dream
46. Hotel Rwanada
47. Being John Malkovich
48. Spartacus
49. Psycho
50. Casablanca
51. Rope
52. Mulholland Drive
53. Dog day afternoon
54. Donnie Brasco
55. Dial M for Murder
56. Scarface
57. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
58. Full Metal Jacket
59. A street car named desire
60. Three colours: Red
61. Almost Famous
62. Leaving Las Vegas
63. Good Will Hunting
64. LA Confidential
65. Die Hard
66. Barry Lyndon
67. Leon
68. The Constant Gardener
69. Network
70. Batman Begins
71. 12 Monkeys
72. Three Colours: white
73. Before Sunset
74. Scent of a Woman
75. BraveHeart
76. Good Bye Lenin
77. Jurassic Park
78. Prestige
79. Donni Darko
80. Snatch
81. Magnolia
82. Das Experiment
83. No Man's Land
84. Colour of Money
85. As Good As It Gets
86. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
87. Forest Gump
88. A History of Violence
89. Science of Sleep
90. True Romance
91. There is something about Mary
92. Breakfast at Tiffany's
93. Annie hall
94. Fugitive
95. A Beautiful Mind
96. Gladiator
97. Predator
98. Rudy
98. The Incredibles
100. Sleepers
 
reelworld said:
I thought it was a bit weak IMO.
But maybe because I thought the book was much better.
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It was very average.

and it depends Reelworld. Are you going to stick American History X, Forrest Gump or Requiem for a Dream in it???????? They spoil Crappy's otherwise decent list.
 
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