Topic: Favourite movies by theme

[surfeur51]

Asian movies

01 - Se, jie (Lust Caution)


02 – Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)


03 - 2046


04 – Ying xiong (Hero)


05 - The Last Emperor


06 –  Ba wang bie ji (Farewell My Concubine )


07 – Chi bi (Red Cliff)     


08 – Yihe yuan (Summer Palace ) 


09 – Fa yeung nin wa (In the Mood for Love)


10 – Oldboy 

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Musical movies

1 – West Side Story
   

2 -Moulin Rouge !

   
3 – Tosca

   
4 – My Fair Lady   


5 – The Sound of Music

   
6 – Chicago   

   
7 – The Phantom of the Opera (2004)   

   
8 – Les Choristes

   
9 – Nine

   
10 – Kiss Me Kate

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Medieval movies

1 – The Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King
   

2 – Kingdom of Heaven

   
3 – Ladyhawke

   
4 – Robin Hood   


5 – Braveheart

   
6 – A Knight's Tale   

   
7 – Ivanhoe   

   
8 – Flesh and Blood

   
9 – Excalibur

   
10 – Notre-Dame de Paris

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Spanish movies

1 – El laberinto del fauno
   

2 -Volver

   
3 – Agora

   
4 – ¡Átame!   


5 – Sólo quiero caminar

   
6 – El Orfanato   

   
7 – Lucía y el sexo   

   
8 – Habitación en Roma

   
9 – El artista y la modelo

   
10 – La piel que habito

[GSyren]

Again some interesting movies to look up. 
I own Pan's Labyrinth, The Orphanage and Sex and Lucía, but that leave seven more Spanish movies to research.
Always good to not get entirely mired in Hollywood movies.

[surfeur51]

I open a serie of "by decade" favourites. The first one covers 1930s-1940s, then I'll send 1950s, 1960s... until 2010s...
Of course, some movies I had already listed will be in those new lists, which allow to cross different genres.

1930s-1940s favourites

1 – Casablanca
   

2 -Le Quai des brumes

   
3 – Joan of Arc

   
4 – King Kong   


5 – La Belle et la Bête

   
6 – The Adventures of Robin Hood   

   
7 – Gone with the Wind   

   
8 – The Thief of Bagdad

   
9 – L'assassin habite au 21

   
10 – Key Largo

[DSig]

Key Largo is possibly Bogart's best movie.  He and Bacall were better together in To Have and Have Not .. but him personally .. i think this was his best work

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1950s favourites

1 – Ben-Hur
   

2 - Rio Bravo

   
3 – 12 Angry Men

   
4 – North by Northwest   


5 – The Ten Commandments

   
6 – Ascenseur pour l'échafaud   

   
7 – The Battle of the River Plate   

   
8 – The Bridge on the River Kwai

   
9 – Le Salaire de la peur

   
10 – Journey to the Center of the Earth

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1960s favourites

1 – West Side Story
   

2 - Doctor Zhivago

   
3 – 2001 : A Space Odyssey

   
4 – Lawrence of Arabia   


5 – Les Aventuriers

   
6 – The Planet of the Apes   

   
7 – The Thomas Crown Affair   

   
8 – My Fair Lady

   
9 – Thunderball

   
10 – Z

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1970s favourites

1 – The Godfather
   

2 - Alien

   
3 – Star Wars

   
4 – Le Vieux Fusil   


5 – A Clockwork Orange

   
6 – Giù la testa   

   
7 – Mad Max   

   
8 – Death on the Nile

   
9 – Midway

   
10 – The Spy Who Loved Me

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1980s favourites

1 – Raiders of The Lost Ark
   

2 -The Untouchables

   
3 – The Empire Strikes Back

   
4 – Dead Calm   


5 – Blade Runner

   
6 – Monsieur Hire   

   
7 – The Abyss   

   
8 – Manon des Sources

   
9 – Romancing the Stone

   
10 – Frantic

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1990s favourites

1 – The Silence of the Lambs
   

2 -Basic Instinct

   
3 – Titanic

   
4 – Schindler's List   


5 – Eyes Wide Shut

   
6 – Terminator 2 : Judgment Day   

   
7 – Mononoke-hime    

   
8 – Dances with the Wolves

   
9 – Pretty Woman

   
10 – Shining Through

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2000s favourites

1 – Avatar
   

2 -Gladiator

   
3 – Kill Bill 1&2

   
4 – The Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King   


5 – King Kong

   
6 – Millenium : Män Som Hatar Kvinnor   

   
7 – Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain    

   
8 – Zwartboek

   
9 – 36 Quai des Orfèvres

   
10 – Erin Brockovich

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2010s favourites

1 – Interstellar
   

2 -La Vie d'Adèle

   
3 – Django Unchained

   
4 – The Martian   


5 – The Artist

   
6 – Nymphomaniac 1&2   

   
7 – Black Swan    

   
8 – Zero Dark Thirty

   
9 – The Wolf of Wall Street

   
10 – Machete

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Movies with Tom Cruise

1 – The Firm
   

2 – Eyes Wide Shut

   
3 – Oblivion

   
4 – A Few Good Men   


5 – Edge of Tomorrow

   
6 – Collateral   

   
7 – War of the Worlds   

   
8 – Minority Report

   
9 – Top Gun

   
10 – Rain Man