10 favorite movies per year.

Submitted by Jeandré on Sat, 12/27/2008 - 06:25

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My favorites are usually a mixed bag of middlebrow movies: a few dramas (Dances with wolves), actioners (Fight club), sci-fis (Terminator 2: judgment day), comedies (Groundhog day), and documentaries (Earthlings); some of the 20 or so screenplay Oscar and Chlotrudis nominated movies (The station agent); and every few years a clever lowbrow comedy (Very bad things) or film school/naked emperor auteur piece (Magnolia).
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2012
of 0
2011
1. The Sunset Limited
of 10
2010
1. Inside job
2. Unthinkable
H: "Just take the deal!"
3. The kids are all right
4. Green zone
Miller: "When you peddled that shit in DC, did they know it was a lie, or did they just never bother to ask?"
Poundstone: "Okay. Okay, come on - none of this matters anymore. WMD? This doesn't matter."
Miller: "What the fuck are you talking about? Of course it fucking matters! The reasons we go to war always matter!"
5. Inception
6. Fair game (i)
7. Of gods and men {French: Des hommes et des dieux}
8. The ghost writer
9. Conviction
of 53
2009
1. Moon
2. The hangover
Doug: "we shouldn't let him gamble or drink too much."
Phil: "Jesus, he's like a gremlin. Comes with instructions and shit."
3. Zombieland
Tallahassee: "Where are you, you spongy, yellow, delicious bastards?"
4. Agora
Hypatia: "Synesius, you don't question what you believe, or cannot. I must."
5. The cove
6. Creation
Charles Darwin: "we can leave that to Mr. Wallace. Shall I advise him to stay abroad, do you think? With his opinions if he shows his face around here, he may be required to kneel on rock salt!"
7. Triangle
8. Brothers
9. The boat that rocked
10. An education
Jenny: "Studying is hard and boring. Teaching is hard and boring. So, what you're telling me is to be bored, and then bored, and finally bored again, but this time for the rest of my life?"
of 102
2008
1. Religulous
Bill Maher: "Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are intellectual slave holders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction."
2. Sunshine cleaning
3. I've loved you so long {French: Il y a longtemps que je t'aime}
4. Taken
Marko: "Good luck."
5. Doubt
Sister Aloysius: "what are you doing out of class?"
Jimmy: "Sister James sent me down."
Sister Aloysius: "For what?"
Jimmy: "Talking."
Sister Aloysius: "Well go back up and shut up!"
6. The reader
7. Waltz with Bashir {Hebrew: Vals im Bashir}
8. WALL·E
MO: "Foreign contaminant!"
9. Body of lies
10. The other Boleyn girl
of 122
2007
1. Gone baby gone
Patrick Kenzie: "Mirabelle"
2. Into the wild
Christopher McCandless: "I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here: rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth."
3. Michael Clayton
Arthur Edens: "I realized Michael, that I had emerged not from the doors of Kenner, Bach, and Ledeen, not through the portals of our vast and powerful law firm, but from the asshole of an organism whose sole function is to excrete the... the-the-the poison, the ammo, the defoliant necessary for other, larger, more powerful organisms to destroy the miracle of humanity. And that I had been coated in this patina of shit for the best part of my life. The stench of it and the stain of it would in all likelihood take the rest of my life to undo. And you know what I did? I took a deep cleansing breath and I set that notion aside. I tabled it. I said to myself as clear as this may be, as potent a feeling as this is, as true a thing as I believe that I have witnessed today, it must wait. It must stand the test of time. And Michael, the time is now."
4. The Savages
5. Bikur ha-tizmoret (The band's visit)
6. Lars and the real girl
7. Bridge to Terabithia
8. Before the devil knows you're dead
9. 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days {Romanian: 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile}
10. Death at a funeral
of 101
2006
1. Snow cake
2. The wind that shakes the barley
Paraphrasing James Connolly:
Damien: "If you remove the British Army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you organise a socialist republic, all your efforts will have been in vain,"
Dan and Damien: "and England will still rule you through her landlords, capitalists, and commercial institutions."
3. The lives of others {German: Das leben der anderen}
4. Children of men
5. Letters from Iwo Jima {Japanese: Iô-Jima kara no tegami}
6. An inconvenient truth
7. 300
8. Babel
9. The lake house
10. Once
of 91
2005
1. Earthlings (watch it online)
2. Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noël)
3. Match point
4. Transamerica
5. Paradise now {Arabic} http://image.bayimg.com/aaldcaadh.jpg
6. Munich
7. Syriana
8. Good night, and good luck.
9. The cave of the yellow dog {Mongolian}
10. Memoirs of a geisha
of 107
2004
1. Vera Drake
2. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
3. Hotel Rwanda
Paul: "How can they not intervene when they witness such atrocities?"
Jack: "I think if people see this footage they'll say, "oh my God that's horrible," and then go on eating their dinners."
4. Control room
5. Sideways
6. Forgiveness
7. The motorcycle diaries {Spanish: Diarios de motocicleta}
8. Super size me
9. As it is in heaven {Swedish: Så som i himmelen}
10. The ninth day {German: Der neunte tag}
of 93
2003
1. The station agent
2. The lord of the rings: the return of the king [extended edition]
3. Lost in translation
4. Finding Nemo
5. The corporation [special edition]
6. Japanese story
7. Good bye, Lenin! {German}
8. Touching the void
9. Red dust
10. Spring, summer, autumn, winter... and spring {Korean}
of 68
2002
1. The lord of the rings: the two towers [extended edition]
2. Rabbit-proof fence
3. City of God {Portuguese: Cidade de Deus}
4. The pianist
Władysław Szpilman: "I wish I knew you better."
5. The Magdalene sisters
6. Bowling for Columbine
Marilyn Manson: "the President was [bombing Kosovo and] nobody said 'well maybe the President had an influence on this violent behavior' because that's not the way the media wants to take it and spin it, and turn it into fear, because then you're watching television, you're watching the news, you're being pumped full of fear, there's floods, there's AIDS, there's murder, cut to commercial, buy the Acura, buy the Colgate, if you have bad breath they're not going to talk to you, if you have pimples, the girl's not going to fuck you"
7. The guys
8. 28 days later...
9. Whale rider
10. The Bourne identity
of 73
2001
1. The lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring [extended edition]
2. In the bedroom
3. Amélie {French: Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain}
4. Hatuna meuheret (Late marriage) {Hebrew}
5. The man who wasn't there
6. The believer
7. The shipping news
8. Shallow Hal
9. Enemy at the gates
10. A beautiful mind
of 73
2000
1. Memento
Leonard: "Yes I will."
2. The perfect storm
3. For the birds [short] {none}
4. Crouching tiger, hidden dragon {Mandarin: Wo hu cang long}
5. High fidelity [with deleted scenes]
6. In the mood for love {Cantonese: Fa yeung nin wa}
7. Cast away
8. 28 days
9. Sound and fury
10. The dish
of 54
1999
1. Fight club
2. Being John Malkovich
3. The matrix
4. The insider
Lowell Bergman: "What got broke in here, doesn't go back together again."
5. Snow falling on cedars
6. Limbo
7. October sky
8. The Hurricane
9. Galaxy quest
10. Magnolia
of 69
1998
1. Very bad things
2. The Truman show
3. Saving private Ryan
Captain Miller: "Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is that I get back to her. And how I'll ever be able to, to tell her about days like today. Ah, Ryan, I don't know anything about Ryan and I don't care. The man means nothing to me it's just a name, but if, you know if going to Ramelle and, finding him so he can go home, if that earns me the right to get back to my wife, well then, then that's my mission. [...] I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel."
4. Pleasantville
5. The big Lebowski
6. American history X
7. Meet Joe Black
8. The negotiator
9. Fallen
10. Antz
of 71
1997
1. Gattaca
2. L.A. confidential
3. Grosse Pointe Blank
4. Contact
5. Good Will Hunting
Will Hunting: "Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin', 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president."
6. The fifth element
7. Donnie Brasco
8. Amistad
9. Men in black
J: "Did you ever flashy-thing me?"
K: "No."
J: "I ain't playing with you, K. Did you ever flashy-thing me?"
K: "No."
10. G.I. Jane
of 82
1996
1. City hall
2. Trainspotting
3. The truth about cats & dogs
4. Romeo + Juliet
5. A time to kill
Carl Lee: "That's why I picked you."
6. Sling blade
7. Kolja {Slovak}
8. Courage under fire
9. Ghosts of Mississippi
10. Bed of roses
of 84
1995
1. Braveheart
Robert the Bruce: "I will never be on the wrong side again."
2. Before sunrise
3. Twelve monkeys
4. Leaving Las Vegas
5. Murder in the first
6. The last supper
7. The Tuskegee airmen
8. Dead man walking
9. Sense and sensibility
10. Apollo 13
of 77
1994
1. The Shawshank redemption
2. Léon
3. Speed
Howard Payne: "Interactive TV, Jack! Wave of the future."
4. Stargate
5. Reality bites
6. Clerks.
7. Immortal beloved
8. Renaissance man
9. Interview with the vampire: the vampire chronicles
10. Pulp fiction
of 64
1993
1. Three colours: blue {French: Trois couleurs: bleu}
2. Groundhog day
3. The pelican brief
4. Schindler's list
5. And the band played on
6. Sommersby
7. Untamed heart
8. The remains of the day
9. Rudy
10. The fugitive
of 57
1992
1. Reservoir dogs
2. Baraka {none}
3. A few good men
4. Passion fish
5. The player
Griffin Mill: "Suspense, laughter, violence. Hope, heart, nudity, sex. Happy endings. Mainly happy endings."
6. Like water for chocolate {Spanish: Como agua para chocolate}
7. Sneakers
Whistler: "I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man."
Abbott: "Oh, this is ridiculous."
Martin: "He's serious."
Whistler: "I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men."
Abbott: "We are the United States Government - we don't do that sort of thing."
8. Of mice and men
9. Lorenzo's oil
10. Diggstown
of 56
1991
1. Terminator 2: judgment day
2. Regarding Henry
3. Thelma & Louise
4. The silence of the lambs
5. Fried green tomatoes
6. Meeting Venus
7. The doors
8. The fisher king
9. Backdraft
10. City slickers
of 34
1990
1. Dances with wolves [extended version]
2. Green card
3. Kindergarten cop
4. Arachnophobia
5. The hunt for Red October
6. Pump up the volume
7. Awakenings
8. Postcards from the edge
9. I love you to death
10. Home alone
of 38
1989
1. Dead poets society
2. Francesco
3. Glory
4. Her alibi
5. Driving Miss Daisy
6. Turner & Hooch
7. The abyss [cinema version]
8. Batman
9. Knick knack
10. My left foot: the story of Christy Brown
of 34
1988
1. Cinema paradiso [cinema version] {Italian}
2. The big blue [European version]
3. Grave of the fireflies {Japanese: Hotaru no haka}
4. Big
Josh: "What's a marketing report?"
MacMillan: "Exactly."
5. Rain man
Raymond: "Are you taking any prescription medication?"
6. Die hard
7. Dirty rotten scoundrels
8. Heathers
9. Mississippi burning
10. Platoon leader
of 37
1987
1. The princess bride
2. Full metal jacket
3. The untouchables
4. Good morning, Vietnam
5. Adventures in babysitting
6. Summer school
7. Lethal weapon
8. RoboCop
9. Wall street
10. La bamba
of 39
1986
1. Aliens [special edition]
2. Highlander
3. Stand by me
4. Ferris Bueller's day off
5. The mission
6. The name of the rose
William of Baskerville: "Have you ever known a place where God would have felt at home?"
7. The mosquito coast
Allie Fox: "Everything we need is right here."
of 28
1985
1. Witness
2. Back to the future
3. American flyers
4. Remo Williams: the adventure begins
5. Enemy mine
of 20
1984
1. The terminator
2. The killing fields
3. Starman
4. Blood simple. [director's cut]
5. 2010
6. Ghostbusters
of 26
1983
1. The right stuff
2. Never cry wolf
3. WarGames
of 12
1982
1. Gandhi
2. Koyaanisqatsi {none}
3. Blade runner [the final cut]
4. First blood
of 14
1981
1. Arthur
of 13
1980
1. The shadow warrior {Japanese: Kagemusha}
of 8
1979
1. Being there
2. Alien
Ripley: "Yes. I read you. The answer is negative."
of 12
1978
1. Days of heaven
of 7
1977
1. Close encounters of the third kind
of 5
1976
1. All the president's men
2. Rocky
3. Network
of 5
1975
1. One flew over the cuckoo's nest
of 7
1974
1. The taking of Pelham one two three
2. The conversation
3. Chinatown
4. The Odessa file
of 13
1973
of 12
1972
of 3
1971
of 7
1970
1. Tora! Tora! Tora!
2. Five easy pieces
of 6
1969
of 5
1968
1. Once upon a time in the west
2. 2001: A space odyssey
of 8v
1967
1. Cool hand Luke
2. The dirty dozen
of 5
1966
1. A man for all seasons
Thomas More: "If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly; but since we see, that avarice, anger, pride, and stupidity, commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice, and thought; perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes."
2. The good, the bad, and the ugly
of 7
1965
of 4
1964
1. Dr. Strangelove or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
of 5
1963
of 2
1962
1. To kill a mockingbird
of 2
1961
1. Judgment at Nuremberg
of 4
1960
1. The apartment
of 5
1959
of 5
1958
of 1
1957
1. The bridge on the river Kwai
Major Clipton: "Madness!"
2. 12 angry men
of 4
1956
of 2
1955
of 4
1954
1. Rear window
of 3
1953
of 1
1952
of 1
1951
of 3
1950
1. All about Eve
of 3
1949
of 1
1946
of 2
1945
1. Rome, open city {Italian: Roma, città aperta}
of 1
1944
of 2
1942
1. Casablanca
Captain Renault: "The winning side would have paid you much better."
of 2
1941
of 3
1940
1. The grapes of wrath
of 6
1939
1. Mr. Smith goes to Washington
James Taylor: "I'll make public opinion out there within five hours! I've done it all my life."
2. Gone with the wind
Scarlett: "I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill, as God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
of 2
1938
1. Jezebel
of 3
1937
of 1
1936
1. Modern times
of 1
1935
of 1
1934
of 1
1933
of 1
1932
of 1
1931
1. M {German}
of 2
1927
of 1
1926
of 1
1925
of 1
1921
1. The kid
of 1
1920
of 1
2010s
1. Inside job (2010)
2. The Sunset Limited (2011)
3. Unthinkable (2010)
4. The kids are all right (2010)
5. Green zone (2010)
6. Inception (2010)
7. Fair game (2010i)
8. Of gods and men (2010) {French: Des hommes et des dieux}
9. The ghost writer (2010)
10. Conviction (2010)
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2000s
1. Memento (2000)
2. Earthlings (2005)
3. The station agent (2003)
4. Snow cake (2006)
5. The lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring [extended edition] (2001)
6. Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noël) (2005)
7. Vera Drake (2004)
8. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004)
9. The perfect storm (2000)
10. Match point (2005)
of 890
1990s
1. Fight club (1999)
2. Gattaca (1997)
3. Dances with wolves [extended version] (1990)
4. L.A. confidential (1997)
5. Terminator 2: judgment day (1991)
6. Braveheart (1995)
7. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
8. Three colours: blue (1993) {French:Trois couleurs: bleu}
9. Groundhog day (1993)
10. Reservoir dogs (1992)
of 632
1980s
1. Gandhi (1982)
2. Aliens [special edition] (1986)
3. Cinema paradiso [cinema version] (1988) {Italian}
4. Dead poets society (1989)
5. The big blue [European version] (1988) {French}
6. The right stuff (1983)
7. The terminator (1984)
8. Grave of the fireflies (1988) {Japanese: Hotaru no haka}
9. Highlander (1986)
10. Die hard (1988)
of 231
1970s
1. Close encounters of the third kind (1977)
2. All the president's men (1976)
3. Being there (1979)
4. Alien (1979)
5. Rocky (1976)
6. Network (1976)
7. One flew over the cuckoo's nest (1975)
8. The taking of Pelham one two three (1974)
9. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
10. The conversation (1974)
of 77
1960s
1. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
2. A man for all seasons (1966)
3. Cool hand Luke (1967)
4. To kill a mockingbird (1962)
5. Dr. Strangelove or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (1964)
6. The apartment (1960)
7. The good, the bad, and the ugly (1966)
8. Once upon a time in the west (1968)
9. 2001: A space odyssey (1968)
10. The dirty dozen (1967)
of 47
1950s
1. Rear window (1954)
2. The bridge on the river Kwai (1957)
3. 12 angry men (1957)
4. All about Eve (1950)
of 28
1940s
1. Rome, open city (1945) {Italian: Roma, città aperta}
2. The grapes of wrath (1940)
3. Casablanca (1942)
of 17
1930s
1. Mr. Smith goes to Washington (1939)
2. Modern times (1936)
3. Gone with the wind (1939)
4. Jezebel (1938)
5. M (1931) {German}
of 13
1920s
1. The kid (1921)
of 5
All
1. Gandhi (1982)
2. Fight club (1999)
3. Gattaca (1997)
4. Memento (2000)
5. Dances with wolves [extended version] (1990)
6. Aliens [special edition] (1986)
7. L.A. confidential (1997)
8. Terminator 2: judgment day (1991)
9. Braveheart (1995)
10. Earthlings (2005)
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Author Comments:

75-79, 80-89, 90-100.
I'm using the IMDb title and year even if I prefer a special version released years later. Including TV movies ("(TV)" in IMDb title), straight to video/DVD movies "(V)", and short films; but excluding TV series, episodes ("), and TV mini-series.

sunset44801/20/2009

Great list! Good to see Fight Club and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on here.

Jeandré01/20/2009

Like those two, Memento also has a disrupted narrative and is about memory. Have you seen it?

sunset44801/20/2009

Memento is one of my favourite movies! Takes a little while to understand fully- I might buy it so I can watch over and over again...

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