What is your all time favorite movie?

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After responding to Dave Lackey's thread about the 70th anniversary of 'Casablanca" I thought it might be interesting to find out RFF member's all time favorite movies.
I'll start :
1. Casablanca
2. Lawrence of Arabia
 
I have no absolute favourite, but would include Goodfellas, Inglorious Basterds and Lawrence of Arabia. By number of views probably Star Wars or LOTR, as watch those with the kids.
 
1. The Graduate
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Antwone Fisher
I can pick up these movies at any point and watch it to the end...
 
According to my netflix rating (6000+ club) these are my top (5 star) movies and some TV

Five Stars

The Asphalt Jungle
Spirited Away
Stalag 17
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Big Lebowski
The Sorrow and the Pity
Key Largo
Red Beard (note this film needs to be viewed more then once to really absorb all the story lines).
East of Eden
Closely Watched Trains (I actually have this on 16mm film)
Smiles of a Summer Night
In Cold Blood (easily one of the best B&W films ever shot)
Blue (Tri-Colour)
Breaking Away
The 400 Blows
The Seventh Seal
Connections
A Clockwork Orange
Babe
Ran
Once Upon a Time in the West
Red (Tri-Colour)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Brazil
Wild Strawberries
Trainspotting
To Kill a Mockingbird (Possibly one of the best films ever made)
The Godfather
The Stax Records Story
The Enemy Below
Slumdog Millionaire (I need to see this again in a year or two and see if it stands up to my 5 rating)
The Cove Documentary (I need to see this again in a year or two and see if it stands up to my 5 rating)
Ugetsu
Last Exile
Ken Burns' America: Brooklyn Bridge
Ken Burns' America: Huey Long
Hotel Terminus
Harlan County, U.S.A.
La Strada
The Apartment (another nearly perfect film)
Roman Holiday
My Neighbor Totoro
Ikiru Foreign
The Rules of the Game
Yojimbo (Another nearly perfect film and almost as well shot as In Cold Blood).
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who (I need to see this again in couple of years and see if holds up).
Howards End
The Wire:
The Corporation
The Great Escape (Another nearly perfect film)
Ken Burns: The Civil War
The Man in the White Suit (ealing comedies, need I say more?)
Traffik (Almost as perfect as The Wire).
My Life as a Dog
Princess Mononoke
The Conformist
Shoot the Piano Player
L.A. Confidential
Odd Man Out
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Wallace & Gromit: Three Amazing Adventures Children & Family
The Brother From Another Planet (first indie film I ever saw)
The Thin Red Line
The Seventh Seal
Ulee's Gold
The Double Life of Veronique
Salesman (2nd best documentary ever made)
Rushmore
The Devil Came on Horseback
The Graduate
Fargo
Billy Liar
The Conversation
The Last Emperor
Pan's Labyrinth
Seven Samurai
Grey Gardens (the Documentary, not the movie)
Dead End
Dr. Strangelove
Billy Bragg and Wilco: Man in the Sand
Night and the City
Mad Men
No Country for Old Men
Down from the Mountain
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Le Grand Illusion
 
blade runner
the searchers
serenity
ran
hero
as it is in heaven
once upon a time in the west
lawrence of arabia
dr. zhivago
braveheart
gladiator
paris, texas (haven't thought of that for a while)
usual suspects
 
The"Unforgiven" with Clint Eastwood
The OK Corral - all the movies (4 I think)
Any Cowboy movie with John Wayne.

OK, I like cowboy movies.
 
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