Your Top Ten, Twelve or Twenty Favourite Films.

[mongers]

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For your Height only/Agent 3 1/2 (any Philippino midget secret agent basically)

Nice list Duque, some I shall have to check out.

Just love this as a genre of films.   

[Duque de Bragança]

The Prize of Danger (Le prix du danger plagiarised by The Running Man)

Earlier still you had Das Millionenspiel.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066079/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Funnily, the game show host later went on to become a popular show host on German TV.

I might buy it while I'm still in Germany.
I reckon it's inspired from the same short story by Sheckley. It's just that for the Hollywood movie the producers acquired the rights of the Stephen king book but then took whole sections of of the Prix du Danger without due credit. They were sued and lost after 10 years of sueing.

[Syt]

Interesting.

[CountDeMoney]

Thought about it, and my personal all-time, fave-rave, stuck-on-a-desert-island list:

Rocky
Fight Club
The Bedford Incident
Primer
Planet of the Apes (original, duh)
La Femme Nikita
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Rushmore
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
West Side Story
Danton
Fight Club
The Godfather I and II (I consider them both as one uber-flim)
Young Frankenstein
Zulu

[dps]

The Bedford Incident

Read the book;  it was pretty good.  Interesting idea, re-doing Moby Dick as a Cold War thriller.  Haven't seen the movie.

[The Brain]

  Interesting idea, re-doing Moby Dick as a Cold War thriller. 

Elaborate.

[Caliga]

Triumph of the Will

I liked the part with the Nazis.

[Pedrito]

Rushmore

This,my wife says it's excellent but I never got to watch it;

some of my favourites, on top of my head:

Alien
Blade Runner (NOT the director's cut)
Manhunter
Clerks
Rocky Horror Picture Show
For a few dollars more
Hollywood Party
The Elephant Man
Memento
The Godfather II

L.

[celedhring]

  Interesting idea, re-doing Moby Dick as a Cold War thriller. 

Elaborate.

Saw the movie a few years ago, I don't know how closely it follows the book but [spoiler]a psycho destroyer captain chases a Soviet submarine and recklessly escalates the situation.[/spoiler]

[KRonn]

Some of my favorites:

Schindler's List
The Princess Bride
Lord of the Ring: The last one, Return of the King, is my favorite of them all.
Patton
A Knight's Tale
Zulu
Transformers

[Razgovory]

  Interesting idea, re-doing Moby Dick as a Cold War thriller. 

Elaborate.

An obsessed destroyer captain hunts a Soviet submarine in the North Atlantic.  It doesn't go well.

[Caliga]

2001
Conan the Barbarian
Fargo
Goodfellas
High Noon
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Patton
Pulp Fiction
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rocky
Shawshank Redemption
Spartacus

[Razgovory]

I just watched Fargo last month.  Still a great film.  I noticed it was labeled a "dark comedy", which struck me as weird.  It doesn't seem like a comedy to me.  I guess we are suppose to laugh at the silly accent people have.  The accents are bit overdone, but otherwise the characters seemed very real and interesting.  To me it appeared to be the story of a pathetic criminal who runs a scheme that goes badly almost immediately and the competent, and good-hearted police officer who foils it.

[Caliga]

Jerry Lundegaard is so inept that his actions are laughable.  The interactions between Steve Buscemi and the giant Norwegian dude are funny too.  WHERE IS... PANCAKE HOUSE!

[Admiral Yi]

All the interactions are funny.  Shep Proudfoot being interrogated, Steve Buscemi bitching at the parking lot guy, Steve chatting up his hooker, lunch with the Asian guy, etc. etc., etc.