**Pie and Bovril's Top 100 Films of All Time**

[Cheese]

I feel a definitive list of P&B's favourite cinematic masterpieces is long overdue, so here we are.

Are you a Marvel fan ? French Arthouse connoisseur? Blockbuster Guy ? Is Beverly Hills Chihuahua II the greatest film of all time ? (Maybe)

Christmas is the time for lists, and as I don’t have anything better to do than sit on the couch and drink over the festive period, send me your top 10 favourite films either via DM or post them in this thread for P&B's Barry Normans to critique.

10 points will be awarded for the 1st film on your list down to 1 for the 10th. Voting is open until the 31st and I'll start posting the results with a wee bit on each film from New Year's Day onwards. Open to everyone obviously, the more the merrier and I might even stretch to a top 100 if enough of you get involved.

Edited December 19, 2022 by Slim Charles.

[Cheese]

P&B's Top 100 Films.

Spoiler

 

1 Goodfellas 

2 The Shawshank Redemption

3 Pulp Fiction

4 The Godfather Part II

5 Trainspotting 

6 The Big Lebowski 

7 Blade Runner

8 Star Wars V The Empire Strikes Back 

9 2001 A Space Odyssey 

10 The Godfather 

11 Jaws

12 Apocalypse Now 

13 Reservoir Dogs 

14 Back To The Future 

15 The Departed 

16 The Lives of Others

17 The Thing

18 Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan

19 Taxi Driver

20 The Usual Suspects 

21 Zulu

22 Fargo

23 Interstellar 

24 The Third Man

25 Casino

26 Raiders of the Lost Ark 

27 The Outlaw Josey Wales 

=28 The Blues Brothers 

=28 Casablanca 

30 Jurassic Park 

31 Vertigo

32 The Green Mile 

33 LOTR Return of the King

34 Se7en

35 Blade Runner 2049

36 The Shining

37 American History X 

38 Full Metal Jacket 

39 Toy Story

40 Cinema Paradiso 

41 The Dark Knight 

=42 All the Presidents Men 

=42 Snatch

=42 It's a Wonderful Life 

45 Die Hard

=46 Lawrence Of Arabia 

=46 Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade 

=48 Blazing Saddles 

=48 In Bruges

=50 Billy Liar

=50 Dune

52 Donnie Darko 

53 Shinchinin No Samurai 

54 The Battle of Algiers 

55 Heat

56 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 

57 The Longest Day

58 Scarface

59 Dr Strangelove 

60 Mulholland Drive 

61 Planes, Trains And Automobiles 

62 Midnight Run 

63 The Truman Show 

64 Star Wars IV A New Hope

65 Airplane!

66 Monty Python And The Holy Grail 

=67 The Matrix

=67 The Life And Death of Colonel Blimp 

=67 Oldboy

70 Django, Unchained 

71 24 Hr Party People

72 The Master

73 Gladiator

74 Aguirre, Wrath Of God 

75 Master and Commander 

76 Paddington 2

=77 Schindler's List 

=77 Before Sunrise 

=77 Alien

=80 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 

=80 Once Upon A Time In America 

=82 L'Avventura 

=82 La Haine

=84 Once Upon A Time In The West 

=84 12 Angry men

=86 Unforgiven 

=86 LA Confidential 

88 Terminator 2

89 Dead Man's Shoes

90 Inception

=91 Citizen Kane

=91 La Dolce Vita

=91 Raging Bull

94 Inglorious Basterds 

=95 Das Boot

=95 Memento

=97 Under The Skin

= 97 In The Name Of The Father 

99 Saving Private Ryan 

100 Hot Fuzz

 

 

 

 

Edited January 7, 2023 by Slim Charles.

[BFTD]

1. John Carpenter's The Thing
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. City of God
4. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
5. Se7en
6. American Psycho
7. Memento
8. Scanners
9. Dogma
10. Zombie Flesh Eaters

I'm gonna update this when I've thought about it more. Top two are already nailed on, but.

Edit: f**k it, that'll do.

Edited December 28, 2022 by BFTD

[RossBFaeDundee]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road - dir. by George Miller (2015)

2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God - dir. by Werner Herzog (1972)

3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - dir. by Michel Gondry (2004)

4. The Thing - dir. by John Carpenter (1982)

5. Into the Wild - dir. by Sean Penn (2007)

6. Hot Fuzz - dir. by Edgar Wright (2007)

7. Under the Skin - dir. by Jonathan Glazer (2013)

8. The Devils - dir. by Ken Russell (1971) - specifically the unrated version

9. In the Loop - dir. by Armando Iannucci (2009)

10. Pontypool - dir. by Bruce MacDonald (2009)

Spoiler

Sticking my Letterboxd list of all films I love enough to consider a favourite in here regardless if anyone cares or not. All of these have probably been in or around my top 10 at some point, except the last two which are 100% 'so-bad-its-good' films.

https://letterboxd.com/rossbatchelor/list/my-favourite-films-ever/

[Ray Patterson]

1. Pulp Fiction (1994) dir: Quentin Tarintino
2. Blade Runner (1982) dir: Ridley Scott
3. Trainspotting (1996) dir: Danny Boyle
4. Master and Commander: Far Side of the World (2003) dir: Peter Weir
5. Das Leben der Anderen  (The Lives of Others) (2006) dir: von Donnersmarck
6. Spirited Away (1989/2001) dir:  Hayao Miyazaki
7. Blade Runner: 2049 (2019) dir: Denis Villeneuve
8. Serenity (2005) dir: Joss Whedon
9. Goodfellas (1990) dir: Martin Scorsese
10. Cop Land (1997) dir: James Mangold

Edited December 25, 2022 by Ray Patterson

[Arch Stanton]

1. Shichinin no Samurai
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. The Godfather Part II
4. The Godfather
5. The Third Man
6. Heat
7. Irreversible
8. Once Upon a Time in the West
9. 12 Angry Men
10. LA Confidential

Edited December 19, 2022 by Arch Stanton

[Shandon Par]

1: 24 Hour Party People

2: The Wicker Man (not the remake)

3: The Departed (Scorcese version)

4: A Muppet Christmas Carol

5: The Shining

6: Under The Skin

7: Pulp Fiction

8: Easy A

9: Highlander

10: Paddington 2

 

[JustOneCornetto]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey

2. Alien

3. Vertigo

4. Mulholland Drive

5. Apocalypse Now

6. 12 Angry Men

7. L'Avventura

8. The Bicycle Thieves

9. Once Upon A Time In The West

10. Roma                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

There was a P&B Top 50 done about 10 years ago by DomDom (remember him?, used to change his name often so don't know what he's called these days)

Anyway I have a note of how that Top 50 ended up so so will put it in spoilers on this post when I get time. Will be interesting to compare after 10 years how it's changed.

Spoiler

	P&B Top 50 Films  (2012)
1=	Goodfellas
1=	Pulp Fiction
3	Shawshank Redemption
4=	The Godfather
4=	The Godfather II
6	The Dark Knight
7	Trainspotting
8	The Departed
9=	The Usual Suspects
9=	American History X
11	Reservoir Dogs
12	Blade Runner
13	The Big Lebowski
14	Die Hard
15	Once Upon A Time In America
16	The Good The Bad And The Ugly
17	Star Wars V: The Emoire Strikes Back
18=	Alien
18=	12 Angry Men
20	Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King
21=	Forest Gump
21=	Fight Club
23=	Jaws
23=	Star Wars IV: A New Hope
25=	Apocalypse Now
25=	Raging Bull
25=	Scarface
25=	Monty Python & The Holy Grail
29=	Anchorman
29=	Dawn of the Dead (original)
31=	The Deer Hunter
31=	The Great Escape
33=	One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
33=	Superbad
35=	Back To The Future
35=	Se7en
35=	True Romance
35=	Jurassic Park
35=	It’s A Wonderful Life
35=	Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi
41=	Inception
41=	North By Northwest
41=	Gladiator
41=	Remember The Titans
45=	Airplane
45=	Paths Of Glory
45=	Toy Story
48=	American Psycho
48=	American Beauty
48=	No Country For Old Men
48=	Drive
48=	Inglorious Basterds
48=	The Prestige
48=	Monty Python: Life Of Brian
48=	Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring

                                                                                                                                                           

Edited December 18, 2022 by JustOneCornetto

[tongue_tied_danny]

I'm going to DM my list.

It kinda ruins the surprise if everybody just posts their list on here ...

[BFTD]

35 minutes ago, JustOneCornetto said:

There was a P&B Top 50 done about 10 years ago by DomDom (remember him?, used to change his name often so don't know what he's called these days)

He got punted from his fourth/fifth? account by one of the mods, who was sick of him complaining about the fascist modding regime. He was telt not to bother returning.

Don't f**k with Div's minions, people.

[grazza]

1. Pulp Fiction

2. Star Trek Wrath of Khan

3. American History X

4. The Dark Knight

5. Reservoir Dogs

6. The Matrix

7. Back to The Future

8. Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back

9. Terminator 2 Judgement Day

10. Django Unchained

[Mark Connolly]

58 minutes ago, JustOneCornetto said:

 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   2. Alien                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   3. Vertigo                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               4. Mulholland Drive                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             5. Apocalpyse Now                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             6. 12 Angry Men                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   7. L'Avventura                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       8. The Bicycle Thieves                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       9. Once Upon A Time In The West                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   10. Roma

There was a P&B Top 50 done about 10 years ago by DomDom (remember him?, used to change his name often so don't know what he's called these days)

Anyway I have a note of how that Top 50 ended up so so will put it in spoilers on this post when I get time. Will be interesting to compare after 10 years how it's changed.

 

                                                                                                                                                           

Interesting formation you've gone with.

I think I'd have started The Bicycle Thieves on the right, OUATITW on the left, and Roma through the middle.

[BFTD]

59 minutes ago, tongue_tied_danny said:

I'm going to DM my list.

It kinda ruins the surprise if everybody just posts their list on here ...

Get it posted - nobody's going to be paying enough attention to tot up all the entries while it's ongoing.

The most interesting part of these threads is seeing which films are of personal importance to different people, as there are always plenty of eyebrow-raisers. f**k knows why The Thing is so important to me, but I suspect it's probably something to do with latent homosexuality.

[coprolite]

1- 2001: a space odyssey 

2- South Park: bigger, longer and uncut

3- Naked

4- Goodfellas

5- The Silence of the Lambs

6- Legend of Fong Sai Yuk/ The Legend

7-Full Metal Jacket

8- Ip Man

9- Naked Lunch

10- Brain Dead (The Peter Jackson one) 

Not necessarily "best" films but ones that i could watch repeatedly most. There's a pretty strong bench that could easily have made the cut: a couple of Scorcese's, a couple of Danny Boyle's and assorted comedies and "family" films. 

@Slim Charles., what's the cut off date for edits here? 

[Cheese]

12 minutes ago, coprolite said:

 

@Slim Charles., what's the cut off date for edits here? 

Cut off date can be the 31st of December, just ensure you tag me if you're making changes.

[coprolite]

2 minutes ago, Slim Charles. said:

Cut off date can be the 31st of December, just ensure you tag me if you're making changes.

Thanks. 

[Frankie S]

My top 10 might be different tomorrow - there are just too many contenders to pick from - so I’ve mentioned some near misses, and I’ve probably forgotten quite a few. 

1-Badlands (Terrence Malick)

2-Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)

3-Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)

4-L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)

5-The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)

6-The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)

7-Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch)

8-Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick) 

9-Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)

10-Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)

Honorable mentions:

Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda), The Fire Within (Louis Malle), I Vitteloni (Federico Fellini), La Strada (Federico Fellini), L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni), La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni), Soy Cuba (Mikhaïl Kalatazov), Come and See (Elem Klimov), The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko), Hard to be a God (Aleksei German), Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky), Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur), In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader), Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville), The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton), Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding), King of New York (Abel Ferrara), Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg), Eureka (Nicolas Roeg), Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Anderson), Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti), Le Notti Blanche (Luchino Visconti), The American Friend (Wim Wenders), Ripley’s Game (Liliana Cavani), Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock), Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese), Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese), The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola), Blade Runner (Ridley Scott), Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle), Carlito’s Way (Brian DePalma), The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson), Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville), Suspiria (Dario Argento), Lost Highway (David Lynch), Blue Velvet (David Lynch), Orpheus (Jean Cocteau), Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog), Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau), High and Low (Akira Kurosawa), The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa), Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda), Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte), Panique (Julien Duvivier), Pepe Le Moko (Julien Duvivier), L’Appartement (Gilles Mimouni), Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi), Wild Strawberrries (Ingmar Bergman), Persona (Ingmar Bergman), Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren), Manhattan (Woody Allen), Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee), Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick), Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone), Plein Soleil (René Clément), Blast of Silence (Allen Barron), Touch of Evil (Orson Welles), A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)… and a few recent (mainly horror) films that, while they might not quite make my top 50 (or even top 100) on merit, show such promise that I’m confident their directors will do something remarkable soon - The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman (Robert Eggers), Hereditary, Midsommar (Ari Aster), Possessor (Brandon Cronenberg), Saint Maud (Rose Glass), Mandy (Panos Cosmatos).

[Detournement]

1. La Dolce Vita (Fellini)

2. Night Of The Hunter (Laughton)

3. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)

4. L'Avventura (Antonioni)

5. Battle Of Algiers (Pontecorvo)

6. The New World (Malick)

7. Blue Velvet (Lynch)

8. After Hours (Scorsese)

9. The Master (Anderson)

10. 400 Blows (Truffaut)

I'll click submit before I make any more changes.

 

[supermik]

Wot! No Usual Suspects from any of the Usual Suspects on here?

[BFTD]

1 hour ago, supermik said:

Wot! No Usual Suspects from any of the Usual Suspects on here?

The Usual Suspects seems to have been re-evaluated in recent years. Folk who don't like it claim it's garbage because it gives the illusion of being a smart thriller with a clever twist ending, but hate it because there are basically no hints about the twist before it lands, and in retrospect it basically amounts to

Spoiler

a bunch of people turning up dead on a boat, with an unknown survivor reeling off an entirely manufactured story, before being released right before the interrogator realises that not a word of it was true. We don't even know who Pete Postlethwaite and Kevin Spacey are playing in the final shots.

Personally, I've no problem with that; it's a thoroughly enjoyable film due to the way it's told, rather than because of the story, which is a bit meta. It's better than Sex and the City 2, so I'll add it to the bottom of my list for now.

Also, Bryan Singer and Kevin Spacey have repeatedly been accused of sex crimes over the past fifteen years or more, along with generally being unpleasant douchebags, so that may well have had an effect on the film's legacy.