Good list. Here's my top 10 list of favorite flicks, in no particular order; I also reserve the right to change my mind in about five minutes.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Usual Suspects
The Great Escape
Reservoir Dogs
Master and Commander: Far Side of the World
Godfather 2
Casablanca
Trainspotting
LA Confidential

Sent by andy carvin | 4:46 PM ET | 06-25-2007

Here's a challenge I can't resist, although I'll admit upfront that there are a few pretty important movies that I've never seen, such as The Godfather. (Gasp!)

Anyway:
Casablanca
The Sound of Music
Sabrina (1954)
High Fidelity
Clueless
Citizen Kane
Gone with the Wind
The Big Lebowski
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Shawshank Redemption

And I shouldn't include miniseries, but I adore the BBC's Pride and Prejudice. Oh, Mr. Darcy!

Sent by Erica Ryan | 5:09 PM ET | 06-25-2007

the jerk
rushmore
casablanca
raising arizona
thrashin'
breakfast at tiffanys
raiders of the lost arc
hard boiled
blue velvet
catch 22

Sent by john doe | 5:26 PM ET | 06-25-2007

My personal top 10, in no particular order, except the first:

Citizen Kane
Solaris (the Soviet original)
Chariots of Fire
Lawrence of Arabia
The Godfather I (tighter drama than II)
Dr. Strangelove
The Sorrow and the Pity
When Harry Met Sally (a guilty pleasure)
My Darling Clementine (a bit cliched, but taut drama and Ford's photography of Monument Valley)
Return of the Pink Panther

And while it doesn't make my top 10 list, I had exactly the same response to Apocalypse Now. My parents and I saw it together (I was 14 at the time). We drove away from the theater, went to a restaurant and ordered coffee, and just sat there for about 10 minutes before anyone spoke.

Sent by Gene Torisky | 5:32 PM ET | 06-25-2007

Pick any nine from various people's lists and you'd have a great library, but personally "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" would have to be at the top!

Sent by Jim Hunter | 6:18 PM ET | 06-25-2007

I know there are 11. I couln't make myself delete one
Mr. Roberts
Some Like It Hot
Gone With The Wind
Tootsie
The Philadelphia Story
Singing In The Rain
It Happened One Night
Saving Pvt Ryan
Casablanca
The French Connection
Becket

Sent by Julie McClure | 6:33 PM ET | 06-25-2007

Breaker Morant
The Great Santini
Casablanca
Lord of the Rings - fellowship of the ring
Coal Miner's Daughter
Lawrence of Arabia
American Beauty
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next
The Shining
Annie Hall

Sent by Janet | 7:17 PM ET | 06-25-2007

Hollywood seems more interested in the message that the movies send then the entertainment value of the movies. There are far too many dark movies on their list. Too much violence. Very few comedies on their list. Sports is represented by boxing, more violence. No chick flicks. Hollywood just doesn't relate to it's own customers. Here is my top ten list, a list that anyone could watch without feeling slimed or having nightmares. It's in no specific order.
Casablanca
Gone with The Wind
The Wizard Of Oz
Singing In The Rain
Roman Holiday
Fantasia
An Affair To Remember
Ben-Hur
Guess Whose Coming to Dinner
It's A Wonderful Life
Mr Smith Goes To Washington
To Kill A Mockingbird
Oops! That's twelve. Oh well. Notice that four of the movies didn't even make their list.

Sent by Robert C Lowenthal | 7:26 PM ET | 06-25-2007

My favorite ten, and you can guess I'm a boomer!

It's a Wonderful Life
The Wizard of Oz
A Hard Day's Night
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Stella Dallas (with Barbara Stanwyck)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Gone With the Wind
The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Kentucky Fried Movie (guilty cheap laffs)

Sent by Jean Mank | 7:27 PM ET | 06-25-2007

Election
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
Annie Hall
Borat
Royal Tenanbaums
Robin Hood (The Disney Cartoon)
Pulp Fiction
The Graduate
The Godfather

Sent by Rob Kuznia | 7:58 PM ET | 06-25-2007

My Top ten
Dr Strangelove
Rocky Horror Picture Show
casablanca
M.P Holy Grail
Bull Durham
Reservoir Dogs
Stars Wars
PI
The Postman
THe Gift

Sent by Tim | 8:03 PM ET | 06-25-2007

From the look of things, most of these 'movie fans' have never heard of the 'golden age.'
Their choices are mostly contemporary and insult the past.
Don't let their inclinations become law.

Sent by Jazzbeaux Beiderbecke | 8:03 PM ET | 06-25-2007

In no particular order.

Knife in the Water
Jackie Brown
The Way We Were
Reds
Head On (2004, Fatih Akin)
The Last Seduction
My Cousin Vinny
Amores Perros
The End of Suburbia (2004 documentary)
Wages of Fear
Battle of Algiers

That's eleven.

Sent by Helen Wheels | 8:07 PM ET | 06-25-2007

I love top 10 movie lists. I can usually guess the age group of the lister by the list. It would be interesting if people would put at least an age range with their list.

Me 50-60

The Wizard of Oz
Casablanca
Citezen Kane
Lawrence of Arabia
Being There
Duck Soup
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Local Hero
Children of Paradise...

and many many more!

Sent by Bill Mann | 8:16 PM ET | 06-25-2007

Hope a couple can come from Italian cinema (and, no, that doesn't mean from the Godfather saga---although the first two at least are molto bella).

8 1/2
Alien
The Bride on the River Kwai
Ed Wood
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Notorious
Psycho
The Road Warrior
The Searchers
Seven Beauties

Sent by uncle mikey | 8:22 PM ET | 06-25-2007

The Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cookie's Fortune
Fabuleux destin d'Amelie, Poulin (Le)
Easy Rider
Red Rock West
Blackhawk Down

A real mixed bag. The list probably will look different an hour from now.

Sent by Elizabeth Macy | 9:28 PM ET | 06-25-2007

I really have trouble believing the AFI left out Mr. Roberts. What a great movie. I also love Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Player and Bye Bye Birdie. I totally agree with Singing in the Rain, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Citizen Kane, The Philadelphia Story, and To Kill a Mockingbird. I do agree there are some great movies here.

Sent by Jonni Darby | 9:48 PM ET | 06-25-2007

I am so happy to see Mr. Roberts picked above, its not in my top ten but I love that movie and it was my mothers all time favorite movie. It would be in my top 100 for sure.

Sent by Don | 9:54 PM ET | 06-25-2007

Yellow Submarine
The Ten Commandments
Wizard of Oz
Invaders from Mars (1953)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Exorcist
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Birds
Vertigo
Alien
Aliens
Italianetz (The Italian) (2005)
Mildred Pierce
Jezebel
20 Centimetros
Now, Voyager!
West Side Story
Funny Girl
Butterfield 8

OK, YES, I'M GAY!

Sent by Carlos Ramos | 10:15 PM ET | 06-25-2007

Hopefully my brain can remember 10.
Gaslight
An Affair to Remember
Wait Unitl Dark
Sophie's Choice
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Inn of Happiness
On Golden Pond
Shawshank Redemption
Bird Man of Alcatraz
The French Connection

Sent by Sonny | 10:15 PM ET | 06-25-2007

These are my favorite American films. I would have to change the list a little if I could list foreign films as well.

Casablanca
Shawshank Redemption
The Color Purple
Mr. Roberts
The Godfather
Psycho
Taxi Driver
Annie Hall
Schindler's List
Silence of the Lambs

Sent by Alex DeBernardi | 10:17 PM ET | 06-25-2007

Life of Brian
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Magician (Bergman)
Tromeo and Juliet
Desperate Living
The Producers (1968)
This Is Spinal Tap
Fantasy Mission Force (Jackie Chan)
Why Has Bodhi Dharma Left for the East?
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Sent by Phil Nippert | 10:25 PM ET | 06-25-2007

Wow, you guys have outdone youselves. I see several films here that I would have put on my list (if I had 100 to pick) - Bill Forsyth's great Local Hero, Rashomon, Shawshank Redemption, Being There, Road Warrior, Saving Pvt Ryan. We could get a pretty decent film festival out of this list.

Sent by Tom Regan | 10:26 PM ET | 06-25-2007

OK I am using the criteria that if I watch a movie many, many times over the course of decades, it has to be a favorite and have stood the test of TIME. I'm 61 years old. So if it isn't 20 or more years in circulation it doesn't qualify yet.

Butch Cassidy and....
It's a Mad,Mad,Mad,... World
The Searchers
Star Wars
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Wizard of Oz
Raiders of the Lost Ark
A night at the opera
Gone with the Wind
The Great Escape

Sent by Don | 10:52 PM ET | 06-25-2007

My Top 10 movies in no particular order
________________________________________

The Forgotten Ones - Luis Bunuel
The Return (Russian film)
This Is Spinal Tap
Raising Arizona
Citizen Kane
Secret of the Beehive
The Empire Strikes Back
The Bicycle Thief
Amores Perros
Spirited Away

Sent by Victor M. Garcia | 1:56 AM ET | 06-26-2007

In no particular order:

Casablanca
To Kill a Mockingbird
Shadow of a Doubt
Chariots of Fire
What's Up Doc?
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Waiting for Guffman
The Shawshank Redemption
Star Wars Trilogy
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Sent by Cameron | 3:31 AM ET | 06-26-2007

The definitive list? Got to spread the love around a little bit here...

Baraka
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick!)
Dead Man (Jarmusch/Depp)
Blade Runner
Rashomon
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
The Decalogue (is this cheating?)
The Big Lebowski
The Third Man (especially after hearing Berkeley philosophy Prof. Hubert Dreyfus explain this one on iTunes U)
Heaven (Blanchet/Ribisi...seriously)

Sent by Tim Terpstra | 4:32 AM ET | 06-26-2007

As Tom Regan's title for his list does not seem to limit us to American productions, I will include my favorite foreign films.

Fanny & Alexander
The Best Intentions
The Royal Tenenbaums
Cabaret
Mary Poppins
The Empire Strikes Back
Frida
Peter Pan (2003 production directed by P.J.Hogan)
O Brother Where Art Thou
Babe, Pig in the City

Sent by Aimee Ellingsen | 5:34 AM ET | 06-26-2007

Wow, only 10...ok for this purpose I will use the criteria that if I am channel surfing and run across one of these movies.. the remote gets put down and I settle back to enjoy the ride.

The 5th element
Singing in the Rain
Jaws
Amelie
O Brother Where Art Thou
Forrest Gump
Being There
The Out of Towners
The Empire Strikes Back
Some Like it Hot
Poltergeist

Sent by Lisa R | 8:11 AM ET | 06-26-2007

Age: 25

The Ten Commandments
Gone With the Wind
The Shawshank Redemption
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Chicago
The English Patient(sexiest movie alive)
Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit (the amazing art of clay-mation mixed with British humor-who knew?)
Clue (sooooo underappreciated!)
Schindler's List
The Burbs'

Sent by A Stanley | 8:32 AM ET | 06-26-2007

to kill a mockingbird
far and away
schindler's list
braveheart
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
et
west side story
tootsie

Sent by june | 8:49 AM ET | 06-26-2007

Oh, wow, I forgot about Clue! I'm not sure it would make my top 10, but I loved that movie. I've got to watch it again.

Sent by Erica Ryan | 8:52 AM ET | 06-26-2007

Top Ten (in no order)

Short Cuts
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
The Godfather
Pulp Fiction
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Schindler's List
E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
Annie Hall
Sling Blade

Sent by Morgan Gargis | 9:16 AM ET | 06-26-2007

My 10 favorite:

- Casablanca (Hands down, the best.)
- Charade (An Audrey Hepburn/Cary Grant spoof - absolutely witty, hilarious, and charming.)
- The Godfather
- Gone with the Wind (When I see that it's on TV, I'm drawn in like a magnet.)
- Lost in Translation (My favorite.)
- My Fair Lady (I wanted to BE Professor Higgins when I was a kid.)
- The Philadelphia Story (Throw Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart on screen and something brilliant is BOUND to happen.)
- The Sound of Music (Infinitely rewatchable.)
- Star Wars (Created a universe to fall into.)
- Trainspotting (Choose life. Choose a career...)

Sent by Leslie | 9:26 AM ET | 06-26-2007

My Top Ten:
1. The Third Man
2. The Philadelphia Story
3. Bridge on the River Kwai
4. Apocalypse Now
5. My Darling Clementine
6. Midnight Cowboy
7. Ran
8, Schindler's List
9. Fargo
10. Vertigo

Sent by Joe Farace | 10:27 AM ET | 06-26-2007

The reason newer movies show up in these lists more often than the older, classic movies is because more of us have seen the newer movies in theaters. We've only seen the classics on TV. We need revivals of the classics in local movie theaters. Not just in the big cities and not just once in 25 years or so!

My list:
Casablanca
The Godfather
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
LOTR-Fellowship of the Ring
LOTR-Return of the King
Nashville
North by Northwest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
It's a Wonderful Life
Das Boot

Sent by Jim Dodd | 10:33 AM ET | 06-26-2007

My top 10 are;
(not in order)
The Godfather
To Kill a Mockingbird
Blood Simple
Fargo
Pulp Fiction
Cuckoo
To Sleep with Anger
Reservoir Dogs
Deerhunter
Casablanca
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Do the Right Thing
Go
and the list goes on..........

Sent by Edward Bankston | 10:43 AM ET | 06-26-2007

Casablanca
North By Northwest
E.T.
Lord Of The Rings - all three
Gosford Park
Raiders of the Lost Ark
As Good As It Gets
Stand By Me
Stealing Beauty
Fried Green Tomatoes

Sent by Nathan Cross | 10:48 AM ET | 06-26-2007

I totally agree, Jim. I got a whole new appreciation for "Citizen Kane" when I watched it on the big screen at the Ohio Theater in Columbus last summer. Those kinds of screenings are definitely worth keeping an eye out for.

Sent by Erica Ryan | 10:56 AM ET | 06-26-2007

1. The Return of the King
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Blazing Saddles
5. Forrest Gump
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. The Deer Hunter
8. The Magnificent Seven
9. ET
10. Fight Club

This from an 18 year old who hasn't seen a whole lot.

Sent by Isaac Salapa | 10:57 AM ET | 06-26-2007

In no order, but I have watched Moonstruck the most times:

Moonstruck
Largo
Citizen Kane
Greed (old silent movie--can't find on DVD!)
Dr. Zhivago
Airplane
The Godfather I
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Sixth Sense
Forrest Gump

Sent by Sandy | 11:04 AM ET | 06-26-2007

Everyone has terrific lists, and I realize that mine are probably mentioned in someone else's list.

Casablanca
Dr. Strangelove
The Deer Hunter
The Exorcist
Fargo
Chinatown
The Grapes of Wrath
King Kong (Original)
Psycho (Original)
Zulu
Bringing Up Baby (the original madcap comedy)

As a side note, I've seen both Citizen Kane and Raging Bull. While both are cinematically works of art, I've never been that impressed with the stories.

Sent by Garry Yates | 11:20 AM ET | 06-26-2007

One thing that makes these lists so subjective - and so much fun if you ask me - is that a top 10 list means different things to different people. For my list, I stuck with my 10 favorite films, as opposed to what I think are the 10 best films, or 10 films I'd want to have with me on a desert island. For example, if I were to put together a list of what I think are the 10 best films, I might include Bergman's The Seventh Seal, but I wouldn't want it with me on that desert island. :-) And then there's top 10 lists of the most influential films, in which I'd definitely include films like Rashomon, The Bicycle Thief, Citizen Kane, Bonnie & Clyde, Star Wars, etc.

Sent by andy carvin | 11:46 AM ET | 06-26-2007

The Day the Earth Stood Still
On Golden Pond
When Harry Met Sally
Amelie
What's Up Doc
It's a Wonderful Life
Funny Girl
The Terminator
Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns - A Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; & The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sent by Melissa | 11:58 AM ET | 06-26-2007

Alright Tom, since I gave you "hell" yesterday about your DeNiro/Brando comment, I certainly should put my top 10 (American Films only, I suppose) out there. No particular order here:

1. Magnolia

2. Dead Man Walking

3. Love, Liza

4. One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest

5. Taxi Driver

6. On The Waterfront

7. Hurly Burly

8. The Thin Red Line

9. Fight Club

10. The Godfather (I & II)

Honorable Mentions - Shawshank, Blade Runner, Star Wars (noted heavy Kurosawa influence), Hitchcock's "Rope", Do the Right Thing, Pulp Fiction, The Matrix, Midnight Cowboy, Eternal Sunshine, Buffalo 66, Citizen Cane, Pi, The Graduate, A Clockwork Orange, Badlands, and It's A Wonderful Life.

I am very disappointed with most of the lists on here. I recommend going to your local library instead of your blockbuster or wal-mart.

Sent by Kyle Meyers | 12:00 PM ET | 06-26-2007

Blazing Saddles
When Harry Met Sally
Casablanca
An American President
To Kill a Mockingbird
Schindler's List
The Pianist
Beautiful Life
Cat Ballou
Wizard of Oz

Sent by Barbara Gavin | 12:05 PM ET | 06-26-2007

Bringing up Baby
Harold and Maude
They Might Be Giants
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Fight Club
Amelie
Proof
Northfork
Jackie Browne
Canadian Bacon

I could do a movie marathon of all ten.

Sent by Anna | 12:08 PM ET | 06-26-2007

I'm glad some people included

Children of Paradise
Cabaret
Das Boot - awesome!

But Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is too sexist to watch. It hasn't aged well. IMHO

Sooo many good movies listed above. I'd like to see top ten lists of westerns and film noir. Here are three "westerns."

Friendly Persuasion
The Sundowners
Stagecoach

Sent by Helen Wheels, again | 12:15 PM ET | 06-26-2007

I notice no one has mentioned Titanic. I wonder why that is?

Sent by Nathan Cross | 12:56 PM ET | 06-26-2007

(Timeless classics - Top 10 plus 1 -- dark, dark, dark!)
North by Northwest
Butterfield 8
Leave Her to Heaven (Blink and you miss it -- Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Vincent Price -- 1945)
An Affair to Remember
All About Eve
Sunset Boulevard
Double Indemnity
Jezebel
I Want to Live!
Of Human Bondage (1934 version)
Suddenly Last Summer

(Contemporary classics Top 10 plus 1- more darkness)
Star Wars (All six - or any 1)
The Godfather (1 or 2 or both)
Fargo
Silence of the Lambs
Crash
Bonnie and Clyde
The Exorcist
Shindler's List
GoodFellas
Glengarry Glen Ross
Wait until Dark

(There are a few comedy/fantasy works that could possibly nudge there way into my bests -- Mighty Aphrodite, Barbarella, Shakespeare in Love, Some Like it Hot, Desk Set, Rocky Horror Picture Show -- are a few.)

Sent by Noel | 1:56 PM ET | 06-26-2007

I was glad to finally find Cat Ballou, but I missed Scarface (the Al Pacino one), The Sting and Marathon Man. Always a fun exercise

Sent by D Foos | 2:08 PM ET | 06-26-2007

I included many noir films in my list(s) above; however, as suggested by Helen Wheels up there, here are some of my other noir faves:

Gilda
Laura
Notorious
Shadow of a Doubt
Strangers on a Train
Mildred Pierce
Casablanca
Gaslight

add post-classics:
The Manchurian Candidate
Cape Fear
The Onion Field

Sent by Noel | 5:15 PM ET | 06-26-2007

Don, I'm glad someone included "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad..World. Jonathan Winters as the tow truck driver is absolutely classic.

Sent by Tom Granaas | 5:18 PM ET | 06-26-2007

Okay, so this list is more than 10 films long.
Classic (pre-1970s): Gone With the Wind (my brother and I quote lines at each other, much to the chagrin of others in the room); Casablanca; All About Eve; Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (underappreciated Bette Davis & Olivia De Havilland)
Quirky Comedies: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad....World; Murder By Death (for those who like Clue, this is the original formula); A Fish Called Wanda (a couple of Pythons, Kevin Kline & Jamie Lee Curtis - what's not to like); Grosse Point Blank (another underappreciated film); Young Frankenstein (Frahnk-en-steen!); Holy Grail/Life of Bryan - hard to pick
Fantasy/Sci-Fi: Empire Strikes Back (though, I'll sit through any of the Star Wars films - this was the best); Fellowship of the Ring (as a Tolkein fan, this was the closest to the book); Raiders of the Lost Ark; Silent Running (really makes you feel for droids); Blade Runner
Contemporary (post 1970s) Drama: Henry V (Branagh version); Saving Private Ryan; American Beauty; Usual Suspects; Silence of the Lambs; Amadeus
Musicals: Singing in the Rain; Cabaret; Hair (if advertisers understood the contextual meaning of the song "Let the Sunshine In", they'd never use it again); Chicago (a great musical to get divorced to, by the way)
Amimated: Fantasia; any Wallace and Gromit film (for those who have only seen Curse of the Wererabbit, get the collection of shorts - just as good); Heavy Metal (guilty pleasure - not - it really is good); Wizards (my favorite Ralf Bakshe film)
Films not easily pigeonholed: Dr. Strangelove; Forrest Gump; The Sting; Donnie Darko (A-list cult fave); The Sixth Sense; Unbreakable (darker and deeper than Sixth Sense); Being John Malkovich; Pan's Labyrinth (I had the same reaction to this that others had to Apocalypse Now - whoa)
There's so much gorgeous, entertaining film out there - who can pick just 10 or 100?

Sent by KJW | 7:02 PM ET | 06-26-2007

If Butch and Sundance are "too sexist to watch" I need to add a disclaimer to the recommendation that follows: if you ever get a chance to view The Searchers in a theater in full VistaVision don't miss it.
But be warned, it is not a politically correct movie, racial hatred is displayed in abundance, Comanchees are depicted in a very uncomplimentary fashion and it's probably "too sexist" as well.

Sent by Don | 9:13 PM ET | 06-26-2007

Okay, I can't resist. Here are mine:

Lawrence of Arabia
Sunset Boulevard
Double Indemnity
Casablanca
North by Northwest
Chinatown
Glengarry Glen Ross
Shawshank Redemption
2001: A Space Odyssey
Crimes and Misdemeanors

If I could have an eleventh, it would be "Annie Hall."

Sent by Jon | 12:39 AM ET | 06-27-2007

Here's my take on the new AFI 100 Years (Shouldn't it be 110 Years?), 100 Movies List.

My Top Ten (Alphabetical Order) -- Casablanca (1942), Citizen Kane (1941), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Gone With the Wind (1939), It's A Wonderful Life (1946), Schindler's List (1993), Star Wars (1977), Sunrise (1927), and The Wizard of Oz (1939).

You could argue that The Graduate (1967) and On the Waterfront (1954) were in the top ten 10 years ago, Raging Bull (1980) and Vertigo (1958) made it this time around, and Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Singin' in the Rain (1952) have been there on both lists, but I just don't agree. I am heartily convinced that Godfather Part II is just as great (if not slightly better) than Godfather I, and The Godfather I is definitely one of the ten greatest American films of all time. It's a Wonderful Life is so timeless and full of life that it still makes you laugh, and cry, and laugh, and cry even after years and decades of repeated viewings. Star Wars is to Gen X and Y what Gone With the Wind was to our Grandparents and Great Grandparents generation: The biggest, most sprawling popcorn flick of our generation. And Sunrise is (I think easily) the Greatest of all silent pictures, with some of the greatest visuals of any film, even to this day, and the one silent picture that stands the test of time best.

But like LeVar Burton always says -- Don't take my word for it.

Sent by Tim Krieg | 12:42 PM ET | 06-27-2007

The 10 that give me joy:
La Ley Del Deseo
Auntie Mame
Crossing Delancey
Wings of Desire
La Dolce Vita
Day for Night
Waiting for Guffman
Shirley Valentine
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Truly, Madly, Deeply

Sent by Tim Keene | 8:49 PM ET | 06-29-2007

Many of my favorite movies are not American, so if I am constrained by that, my list is disqualified.
American Splendor
MP Holy Grail
Iron Giant
Seven Samurai
Hidden Fortress
Jean de Florette
Raise the Red Lantern
Silence of the Lambs
Unforgiven
Spinal Tap

Sent by Tanya Kitterman | 1:08 PM ET | 06-30-2007

I have a hard time with so many of today's popular films but I love movies so much that I can always find a new one to add to my list of favorites. Chinatown has been on my top ten for years. I recently saw the German film Other People's Lives and was really impressed. Almost anything Billy Wilder wrote and directed will always be on my list (the Apartment, Some Like It Hot). The Preston Sturges films are also on that list - although it took seeing them on the big screen to really appreciate his amazing humor. Others on my list, in no particular order:
LA Confidential
Klute
The Way We Were
Stranger Than Fiction
The Third Man
The Sting
Chicago

Sent by Susan | 4:29 PM ET | 06-30-2007

Age 40
We're not adding 10, but here are a few:
Panic (William H Macy is brilliant)
Defending Your Life Falling in Love Throw Momma From the Train
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Anything with Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart
Life is Beautiful
Shawshank Redemption
Rushmore
The Full Monty
Waking Ned Devine
12 Angry Men
Ma Vie en Rose

Okay that is 11 plus some actors. Too bad we can't all get together for a movie night! Popcorn anyone?

Sent by Jenny and Daniel Knight | 5:19 PM ET | 06-30-2007

Searching for Bobby Fischer
Winged Migration
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Amestad
Zelary (Czech Republic - 2003 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film)
Shower (Chinese, 1999)
Shawshank Redemption
The Great Escape
Dr. Strangelove
American History X

Sent by Les Rohssler | 9:31 PM ET | 06-30-2007

English Patient
Breaking the Waves
Knife in the Water
Fanny and Alexander
Red
Best In Show
Purple Rose of Cairo
The Royal Tenenbaums
High Fidelity
But Im a Cheerleader

Sent by Nicole | 1:24 AM ET | 07-01-2007

MY favorites:
The Magnificent Ambersons
Niagara
The Deer Hunter
Spring Forward
Japanese Story
Citizen Kane
Dodsworth
The Red Shoes
Rear Window
Bell, Book and Candle

Sent by Kathleen Hale | 2:53 AM ET | 07-01-2007

My top ten - no order:
Young Frankenstein
The Graduate
Schindler's List
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Phenomenon
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (far and away the best of the trilogy)
Platoon
Mississippi Burning
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
My Fellow Americans

Almost made it:
Big Fish
The Wizard of Oz
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Apocalypse Now

Sent by Hal Hankins | 9:38 AM ET | 07-01-2007

Like many, I hate some of these choices, but i love the response you got.

Here are some from a gen-X media professor:

Chinatown
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Fog of War
Rushmore
Gosford Park
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Casablanca
Spirited Away
American Beauty
Night and Fog

Hey Bob Mondello, can i write some reviews : )

Sent by Jason Osder | 11:09 AM ET | 07-01-2007

My favorites:
Cinema Paradiso
The Garden of the Finzi Continis
Jean de Florette
The Way We Were
When We Were Kings
Tootsie
Dead Man Walking
The Life of Brian
Lone Star
Shadow Army

Sent by Bonnie Friedman | 2:36 PM ET | 07-01-2007

No Respect For Mallick out there at all? Jarmusch? Everybody Loves Lynch, right?

Top 10:

Days of Heaven
Jackie Brown
Dr.Strangelove
Down By Law
Wild at Heart
The Matrix
Hard Day's Night
The Big Lebowski
Rushmore
A Bout de Souffle
Spinal Tap

Sent by will | 3:10 PM ET | 07-01-2007

Malena
Y Tu Mama Tambien
History of the World, Part 1
The Motorcycle Diaries
Igby Goes Down
Saving Private Ryan
Field of Dreams
On the Waterfront
Crash
The Lion King

Sent by Colleen | 7:51 PM ET | 07-01-2007

anne of green gables** (all time Best!)
dead poet's society
amelie
shawkshank redemption
royal tenenbaums
reality bites
a christmas carol (alistair simm's)
billy elliott
dances with wolves
harold and maude

Sent by beth | 9:47 PM ET | 07-01-2007

My favorite 10 that I can watch over and over again and never get tired of (no particular order):

Casablanca
Braveheart
Chinatown
Groundhog Day
Die Hard
The Wizard of Oz
Heat of the Night
Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back
Hard's Day Night
Reservor Dogs

Sent by Chris Miehl | 1:39 AM ET | 07-02-2007

Action -- The Fugitive
Drama -- 12 Angry Men
Chick Flick -- Sabrina
Funny -- Horsefeathers (Marx Brothers at their best)
Modern Musical -- Blues Brothers
Older Musical -- Singing in the Rain
Trilogy -- Lord of the Rings
Sci Fi -- Star Wars
Spoof -- The Kentucky Fried Movie
Top of the Heap -- The Godfather Part I

Almosts: My Cousin Vinny, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade, North by Northwest, Bringing up Baby and Arsenic and Old Lace

Sent by Mark Giacini | 5:04 AM ET | 07-02-2007

I love seeing everyone's list of favorites! There's a whole website for this kind of dicussion called Cinescopes. Maybe seniors should get to name a top twenty--I've been enjoying movies for nearly 60 years and ten isn't really a big enough number to include all my favorites, but here is my top ten:
Bambi (Disney)
Snow White (Disney)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The Shining
Wings of Desire
Wizard of Oz
Apocalypse Now
Godfather 2
Dr. Strangelove
Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior - Kurosawa)

Sent by Margaret Williams | 7:23 AM ET | 07-02-2007

dances with wolves
pulp fiction
gone with the wind
wizard of oz
revenge of the sith
groundhog day
fantasia
platoon
jaws
true grit

Sent by Christopher A Rogers | 7:41 AM ET | 07-02-2007

Some underrated gems:

Constant Gardener
Millions
Children of Heaven (Iranian)
Sex and Lucia
Dear Frankie
Maria Full of Grace
Tortilla Soup
American Beauty
Y Tu Mama Tambien
About a Boy
A Door in the Floor

Sent by Janet | 8:35 AM ET | 07-02-2007

Stalag 17
Back to the Future 1
Breaking Away(1979)
High Noon
Rocky
The Last Detail (Jack Nicholson)
Dog Day Afternoon
The Sting
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
The French Connection

Sent by Manny | 8:56 AM ET | 07-02-2007

My favortites:
The Godfather (Classic)
The Godfatther Part 2 (Even better)
The Wizard of OZ (Can't miss it when it's on TV, ads and all)
Citizen Kane (Rosebud)
The Long Good Friday (an overlooked gem with Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren)
A Man for All Seasons (another overlooked gem)
Animal House ('nuff said)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (it's even funnier when you pay attention)
The Day of the Jackal (no stars, just a great cast and crew doing a great job)
Manchurian Candidate (the original; I have never looked at solitaire the same way since.)

Sent by Mike | 9:56 AM ET | 07-02-2007

greatest movie list EVER

1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather II
3. Requiem for A Dream
4. American Psycho
5. American History X
6. 12 Angry Men
7. Taxi Driver
8. Raging Bull
9. The Shining
10.Crash

Sent by joe k. | 10:29 AM ET | 07-02-2007

1. Life is Beautiful 2. LOTR-Fellowship
3. LOTR-KIng 4. Cinema Paradiso 5. The English Patient 6. The Color Purple 7. Shindler's List 8. Silence of the lambs 9.Spirited Away 10. Gods and Monsters
No particular order...I did not notice Gods and Monsters on anybody's list.

Sent by Angela D | 10:57 AM ET | 07-02-2007

The same thing should be done with TV

Sent by Mike | 11:31 AM ET | 07-02-2007

See if you get the trend of this list:
Brokeback Mountain
Boys Dont Cry
The Birdcage
Tootsie
My Best Friend's Wedding
De-Lovely
The Crying Game
Boys in the Band
The Producers (2005)
And of course, Spartacus.

Sent by Mike | 4:16 PM ET | 07-02-2007

Shindler's List
The Lord of the Rings
Casablanca
Gone with the Wind
The Philadelphia Story
Wizard of Oz
It's a Wonderful Life
Star Wars
Sound of Music
An Affair to Remember

Sent by Douglas Freeman | 11:20 PM ET | 08-18-2007

the Cameraman, 8 1/2, the Conformist, Raging Bull, Clockwork Orange, Crumb, Open Doors,Vengeance is Mine, Coup de Torchon, and Persona.

Sent by Achilles Palmieri | 6:11 AM ET | 11-06-2007

mY aLL-tIME fAVORITE 13 fILMS. tHESE aRE aLL eNDLESSLY rEWATCHABLE tIMELESS aND mEANINGFUL cLASSICS:

TITANIC (Love)

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (original version) (Discovery)

STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Good vs. Evil)

BLADE RUNNER (Reality)

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (Friendship/Achieving A Goal)

42 UP (Lifetimes)

AS GOOD AS IT GETS (Every Kind of Love)

CONTACT (What is the truth about God and aliens?)

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Love is worth it!)

CASABLANCA (Sacrifice)

MIND THE GAP (Renaissance)

OFF THE MAP (Rebirth)

THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (Salvation analogy)

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Deep Space conflict with a ship's computer, the epitome of man's intelligence)

THE APOSTLE (The Gospel of salvation in Christ)

Sent by Curtis Smale | 3:49 AM ET | 12-09-2007

I googled "top ten films deer hunter" looking for lists that might link me to some ideas from people who appreciate the types of films that I appreciate. This NPR site came up with so many lists that I haven't googled the other films...but here is my top 15 list in no particular order.

Godfather I&II
Deer Hunter
Lord of the Rings (all three parts)
A River Runs Through It
Out of Africa
One Flew Over the Cuckoo???s Nest
Shawshank Redemption
Silence of the Lambs
Ghandi
Life of Brian
Braveheart
Fight Club
Deliverance
True Romance
Apocalypse Now

This is the first time I ever actually logged the favorites. I've had them in my head, so this was interesting and fun.

Sent by S Daily | 11:35 PM ET | 12-22-2007

my top ten have got to be:
godfather (trilogy)
shawshank redemption
pulp fiction
scarface
reservoir dogs
goodfellas
carlitos way
the green mile
lock stock and two smoking barrels
forrest gump

Sent by Adam Wescott | 3:34 PM ET | 01-09-2008

1. City Lights
2. Citizen Kane
3. Double Indemnity
4. Singing in the Rain
5. Chinatown
6. 400 Blows
7. Seven Samuari
8. The Bicycle Thief
9. Miller's Crossing
10. The Day the Earth Stood Still (bad title award)

Sent by philip Middlemiss | 12:40 AM ET | 01-13-2008