Best Movies

hmmmmmmm
political ish ones

suburbia
made in britain
romper stomper
city of god


other films
pulp fiction
a lot of classic sci fi and horror classics (alien films, hellraisers, blade runner, star wars films etc)
disctrict 9 (fucking awesome new sci fi film)
donnie darko
tetsuo 1,2


thats just a snippet, i have thousands of faves

 

the kids should go see this baby. it's got a lot of socio-political ramifications, and is entertaining as fuck to boot. it's open to a sequel as well*, but i really hope none will be made, it would spoil the sheer power of this unique and challenging film.

("district 10: the return of christopher johnson!!!")

 

Die Hard 1-4
Evil Dead 1+2

 

i like very much:
slc punk
green street hooligans
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Skinhead Attitude
This Is England
Earthlings
Trainspotting
The Pianist
Ray
Was tun, wenn's brennt?
Das Experiment
Die Welle
Home (2009)


very good films (art-house, documentary, art...). I advise u to watch this movies.
I haven`t watched some movies yet:

doc:
1. music, subcultures:
Skinhead Attitude (2003)
American Hardcore
Inside Straight Edge
Squatting (2009)
The Day the Country Died
Rozbrat

2. veg, eco:
Earthlings (2003)
Hidden Tears Behind the Iron Wall
Devour the Earth
Meet your meat (2008)
Home (2009)
The 11th Hour (2007)
Our Daily Bread (2005)

3. others
Loose Change. 2nd Edition
The Fourth World War (2003)
The Corporation (2003)
Zeitgeist (2007)
Super Size Me (2004)
Money As Debt (2006)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Sicko (2007)
Endgame: Blueprint For Global Enslavement
who killed electric car (2006)
The Money Masters (1996)


films:
This Is England
SLC Punk! (1998)
Battle in Seattle (2007)
Quadrophenia
Salvador (2006)
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008)
Threads (1984)
Trainspotting (1996)
Was tun, wenn's brennt?
99 francs
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Network
Football Factory
Fast Food Nation (2006)
Animal Farm
The Great Dictator (1940)
Come and see
Ma 6-T Va Crack-er (1997)
Land and Freedom (1995)
Wag the dog (1997)
Az Ötödik pecsét (1976)
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
It's a Free World... (2007)
Free Rainer (2007)
Edelweiss Pirates (2004)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Panther (1995)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Sometimes in April (2005)
Bread and Roses (2000)

American History X
Romper Stomper

The Pianist
Schindler's List (1993)
Cidade de Deus (2002)
The Edukators (2004)
Into the Wild (2007)
Experiment (2001)
Die Welle (2008)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Brazil
Life of David Gale
Pay It Forward (2000)
I Am David (2003)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
Crash (2004)
Shooting Dogs (2005)

 

Backed hard. Fucking sick movie. I wouldn't even call it sci-fi. I don't think he sat down and said "I'm gonna make a movie about aliens" so much as "I'm gonna make a movie about racial discrimination and corporate evil" and the fact that a south african director made that movie, and shot heaps of it in Soweto of all places really boosts the impact of the film so much more.

If anyone hasn't seen it, doooo it.

 

12 monkeys

 

I own over 200 films, but I'll try to keep it short. Some of my favorite films:
Chasing Amy
Reservoir Dogs
Aliens
Blade Runner
Your Friends and Neighbors
Night of the Living Dead
Sleepers
Closer
Akira
Pulp Fiction
Romper Stomper
Rebel Without a Cause
American Beauty
Star Wars Trilogy
The Big Lebowski
Clerks
American Psycho
The Matrix
Beyond Borders
The Thing
Sid & Nancy
Interview With the Vampire
As Good As It Gets
Hellraiser
The Invisible Man
The Breakfast Club
The Lost Boys

 

I like movies with some sort of social-political message. I also like movies that kick ass.

Pink Floyd's The Wall
Suburbia (Rebel Streets/The Wild Side)
Engel Und Joe
Rebel Without a Cause
Fight Club
V for Vendetta
Over the Edge
The Island
This is England
American History X
SLC Punk!
Donnie Darko
Trainspotting
Disturbing Behavior
American Beauty
What We Do is Secret
The Breakfast Club
Heathers
Mouth to Mouth
Taxi Driver \m/
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Into the Wild
Christiane F
Star Wars
American Psycho
Last Days
The Dreamers
and most of Larry Clark's films

 

I've noticed that there is a lot of overlap. It's a given that we share intellectual and philosophical backgrounds, apparently this also translates into artistic sensibility, as well. Thats' kind of interesting.

 

I like David Lynch's films, especially Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Blue Velvet (in that order). I like Shane Meadows too - This Is England, Dead Man's Shoes, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, A Room for Romeo Brass, Somerstown (in no order). Aside from that, I like a whole bunch of exploitation flicks that I could make an endless list of.

Another great film is Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

 

Every goddamn movie by Aki Kaurismäki!
Almost every goddamn cartoon by studio Ghibli
+ many many more...

 

Jep, good movies! I'll just post some that would also fit to your collection.

Jesus Camp (2006) - a doc about religion fanatics and indoctrination
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) - a film about the rise of microsoft and apple (not only for computer freaks)
Sacco e Vanzetti (1971) - a story of two anarchists who were unfairly charged for murder when it was really for their political beliefs
Religulous (2008) - a doc that is just jerking with religion fanatics (funny)

 

There's some good ones already mentioned, but a few of my faves that aren't already here include:

The Monty Python trilogy (The Holy Grail, Life Of Brian & The Meaning Of Life), especially for this priceless scene from The Holy Grail:

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Scene 3
[clop clop]
ARTHUR: Old woman!
DENNIS: Man!
ARTHUR: Old Man, sorry. What knight live in that castle over there?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old!
ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you `Man'.
DENNIS: Well, you could say `Dennis'.
ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.'
DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
ARTHUR: I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the behind
you looked--
DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior!
ARTHUR: Well, I AM king...
DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By
exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma
which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society!
If there's ever going to be any progress--
WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?
ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons.
Who's castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous
collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.
A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives
in that castle?
WOMAN: No one live there.
ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take
it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified
at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,
[angels sing]
her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur
from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I,
Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.
[singing stops]
That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords
is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power
derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical
aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power
just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just
because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd
put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that,
eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me,
you saw it didn't you?

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Persepolis
Starship Troopers
MASH
Catch-22
Enemy At The Gates
Good Bye Lenin!
1984
Animal Farm (1954 animated version)
Riff-Raff
Pan's Labyrinth

 

Indeed, I'm new here, and it seems that almost every movie I actually like has already been mentioned. I feel at home! My personal absolute favorites, though, are:

V for Vendetta
Clerks
The Boondock Saints
American Hardcore
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
City of God

I really want to see District 9, I haven't gotten around to it yet.

 

Ichi the Killer
Suspiria
Dawn of the Dead (the original, not the horrible remake)
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Blood Feast


aside from Dawn of the Dead, none of these are political in any way. but i'm a huge horror movie nerd.

 

ARMY OF DARKNESS!!!!!
Well, definitly best low budget film eva!

 

A Boy and his Dog (The Only good thing Don Johnson's ever been in)
The Sting
The Hustler
Baby Face
Duck Soup
Heat
Brazil (one of the best sci-fi movies EVER!)
Kin-Dza-Dza (a Russian classic sci-fi, you can see it on You Tube, because you wont find it unless you live in the Russia as far as I know)
Pretty much anything by Hitchcock
Romeo is Bleeding

These are all the ones that are on my computer at the moment, so beyond that there's about 500 more to list.

 

I've been wanting someone to ask me this question for ages. Don't know what other people's faves i might be replicating here, but here's me best ever movies- in no particular order!

Angels with dirty faces
Taxi Driver
One Flew over the cuckoo's nest
12 monkeys
K-Pax
Little Miss Sunshine
Big Lebowski
As Good as It gets
I (heart) huckabees
The Big White
Training Day
The Hunted
Drag Me To Hell
Pulp Fiction
The Departed
It's a Wonderful Life
Rude awakening
This Is England
V 4 Vendetta
Fight Club
Die Welle, (The Wave- must see for anarchists this one)
Breakfast Club
The Holy Grail- my favourite ever monty python scene posted above by 'theoldpunk'!
Life Of Brian
American Beauty
American History X
The Prestige
The Fountain
Into The Wild
Children Of Men
City Of God
Re-Animator
From Beyond
Street Trash
Bad Taste

I could go on all ay, so I'll leave it at that!
Fave documentaries are mainly miscellanious 'nature', as in earth, and 'nature', as in the universe/discovery and pretty much anything by Naom Chomsky, Mark Thomas, John Pilger, Naomi Kliene. Earthlings is one of the most emotive things I've ever seen with regard to animal lib- really good info, but didn't delve into vivesection/testing as much as I'd have liked- it made me feel that they were ducking percieved and/or actual flaws in the argument against it's logic, (which I find often happens when trying to promote something 'radical' to the mainstream). I'd have been interested to know more to help me with my own ambivelance on the subject, (I'm against animal testing, et al, but I feel my argument is significantly weakened when developments/medical breakthrough's are made and I don't know shit about alternatives that could potantially yield the same benefits, but I'll take that to another thread!). Check out 'Taxi To The Dark Side' too.
I'll probably think of loads more movies now I'm finished!

 

I knew it would happen- some of these are my faves cos of watching them with my kids!

The Orphanage
Pans Labyrinth
Fido
Bad Boy Bubby
Once Were Warriors
I.D.
The Goonies
Time Bandits
A Bugs Life
Monsters Inc
Madagascar 1 & 2
Ice Age trilogy
Yes Man
The Hangover
The Man From Earth
Pirates of the Caribbean, (first one)
Fear and Loathin in Las Vegas
A Bronx Tale
Surviving the Game
True Romance
Men at Work
The Chase
War Inc
In The Name Of The Rose
Stigmata
Bringing Out The dead
8mm
Oh! That's more than enough- I don't even watch tv unless there's a movie on!