What do you consider the best movies ever...

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Hi everybody! I'm new to the site so i thought the easiest way to introduce myself would be a topic that i know a lot about. Movies. This has most likely been talked about before. But just to get the ball rolling, what do you consider the best movies of all time.

My List:
Gone With The Wind-1939
The Wizard of Oz-1939
Citizen Kane-1941
Casablanca-1942
Singing in The Rain-1953
To Kill A Mockingbird-1962
Lawrence of Arabia-1962 ( i actually haven't seen it, it's way to long for my attention span)
The Godfather-1972
Schindler's List-1994

If you haven't seen Lawrence of Arabia, how did it make your best list?

I was just going by the American Film institue ranking. But all the others i have seen.

Amadeus is the most stunning film I've ever seen. The lighting, music, acting, dialog, dancing, costume design, hell, the food selection in the emperor's boudoir, were second to none. Mediocrities of the world, I am your patron saint. I absolve you! I absolve you! I absolve you! Excellent.

BTW, I like the extended version because it showed Constanze more and she has more depth than is shown in the "short" version.

Honey
Serendipity
You Don't Know Jack
Good News

home movies

How to train your dragon
Peaceful Warrior
Forrest Gump
Ghost Dog
The Thing
Aliens
Jaws
A.I.

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) [El Labyrinth del Faun w/subtitles]

Other favorites:
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Fight Club (1999)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Blazing Saddles (1974)


Edit: added years of release

-Powder (1995)
-The Outsiders (1983)
-The Avengers (2011)
-Interview with the vampire (1994)
-Splash (1984)
-Phantom of the Opera (2004)
-Overboard (1987)

Gattaca
Forest Gump
O Brother Where Art Thou
V For Vendetta
The Dark Knight Rises

I made a top ten list several years ago; one thing I noticed about these movies is that every one of them was something I'd seen in a theatre first Not necessarily in order, except the first two:

Little Darlings
Graffiti Bridge (Prince, sort of a more metaphorical retelling of Purple Rain)
Spinal Tap
Babette's Feast
The Grateful Dead Movie
The Godfather
The Last Picture Show
Labyrinth (I get to stare at Jennifer Connely for two hours and the Mrs. thinks we're watching a Muppet movie)
Dog Day Afternoon
American Graffiti

I've been working on another top 10 list, "Ten More" or something. On the list so far:

Pyaar Impossible (Bollywood movie, geek meets beautiful girl)
Bad Santa (even "Bad" is very, very funny; haven't seen "Badder" yet)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1960s French movie, worth watching just for all the old sports cars - a missed-identity story in the Shakespeare tradition)
Babel (love the way the four separate stories come together)
Mary & Max (claymation Aspies)
The Dam Busters (old WW2 movie that shows pretty rarely because the hero's black lab has a politically incorrect name... they've been working on a remake, but apparently coming up with the right re-name for the dog is holding things up)
The Music Never Stopped (based loosely on the Oliver Sacks story about "The Last Hippie")

Most of these are things I did see on TV/Video first, but we have a much better TV than we used to

I having a hard time making a decision, but I would say a number of the works of Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick were some of the best movies ever. AFI picked a lot of good ones.

bad day in black rock 1955?
this land is mine-1941?
Basketcase-1982
36th chamber of shoalin-1978
texas chainsaw massacre 1971
fistful of dollars 1967
pulp fiction 1994
the setup 1948
any Randolph Scott western
more black and white westerns and film noirs than I could name
And all the dates are guesses-I got tired of typing the question mark.

-Life Is Beautiful
-Carrie
-The Phantom of the Opera
-The Party
-Pan's Labyrinth
-Home Alone
-Gone with the Wind
-Airplane!
-Bridesmaids
-Mommie Dearest
-A.I Artificial Intelligence
-The Lion King
-Bambi
-The Family Stone
-Thirteen
-Black Swan
-Saw Series
-Cruel Intentions
-Girl Interrupted
-Riding in Cars With Boys
-White Oleander
-Shirley Temple movies
-American Beauty
-The Ring
-Anne of Green Gables
-Kindergarten Cop
-The Sound of Music
-Bring It On
-My Sister's Keeper
-Saved!
-Repulsion
-The Love;y Bones
-Ferris Bueller's Day Off
-E.T
-We Need to Talk About Kevin

Some of the movies that I've really enjoyed off the top of my head:

Doctor Strangelove
Unforgiven
Fargo
Reservoir Dogs
Apollo 13
JAWS

As far as I'm concerned, the greatest movies ever made are - -

The Usual Suspects

L.A. Confidential

Star Wars: A New Hope

The Empire Strikes Back

Return Of The Jedi

The Wild Bunch

Blue Velvet

Good Fellas

Re-animator

Alien

This list is subject to change.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer