Some of my all time favs are:

Gone with the Wind
Shawshank Redemption
Green Mile
It's a Wonderful Life
 Great Escape
Last of the Mohicans

Ta for reminding me to watch Bambi

Quite a few surprises particularly in the War and Action sector. I hadn't even seen any of the top 10 and Mrs C had seen one, yet it's our favourite genre.

It's a Wonderful Life and Shawshank Redemption were in the top 25  (I've only displayed the top 10 here), but I am surprised 'Wonderful Life' was not higher.
Also surprised no mention of Buster Keaton or Laurel and Hardy.

Having said that we usually take the Grauniad's film and TV reviews with a pinch of salt. (unless it's Nancy Banks-Smith)

Once Upon a Time in the West  is majestic  

I think the Action and war section is particularly poor...that Crouching Tiger  thing is vastly over rated...nice to look at but no story to it!

And why is there no Lion King in the Family bit??

What section was Cannibal Holocaust in?  Family?

Or Toy Story? And why no Enter the Dragon? (*whispers* and Love Actually)

Stoopid people.

Comedy is pretty rubbish too....there's only 3 in that ten that have raised a laugh from me and that's Team America, Life of Brian and Some Like it Hot but i wouldn't have put Team America in there at all.

I'd have put Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in there!

And the Notebook in romance!

What about 'the Railway Children' ? My fave family entertainment


Was there no Sci-Fi section...'Aliens' has to be at the top in that one!


Shawshank & It's a wonderful life are brilliant movies Baz!


'As good as it gets' should be in the comedy section too!

I've just been looking in the Guardian list of their top 50 family films as there seemed to be a few omissions from the top 10 listed above.

For instance:
At 12 ET
At 24 Mary Poppins
At 30 Singing in the Rain
At 34 Star Wars
At 41 The Railway Children

But where was THE WIZARD OF OZ? Believe it or not it came in at the 44th best family film

Wizard of Oz is a great musical 

I wonder what the Daily Mail readers would vote for their top 10 in each category?

Romance...Hitler: The Eva Braun Years.

Crime: Debbie does Dallas

I think the closest that's going to get to the top ten in the Guardian lists is that apparently the "star" is called Bambi (not that I have ever seen D does D and obviously nobody on this forum has either )

You remind me of the Pope the way you can speak for the masses

But I don't claim to be infallible (and who is going to actually admit they've seen D does D or any of that genre )

I've seen it....30 years ago when I was about 17

only agree with Up out of that lot

I've seen D does D, and the remake too. The original was a discreet, sensitive and romantic look at sports groupiedom. The remake was a rather tawdry affair.

where was the horror list???? evil dead is a classic.. also omen, american werewolf etc

I think the Horror list is yet to be published. They have done a different genre each day.

Today they have published the "Sci-Fi & Fantasy" list.
1.   2001: A Space Odyssey
2.   Metropolis   (1927)
3.   Blade Runner
4.   Alien
5.   The Wizard of Oz
6.   Solaris
7.   ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
8.   Spirited Away
9.   Star Wars
10. King Kong    (1933)
11. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
12. The Terminator / Terminator 2: Judgment Day
13. The Matrix
14. Alphaville
15. Back to the Future
16. Planet of the Apes
17. Brazil
18. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
19. Dark Star
20. The Day the Earth Stood Still
21. Edward Scissorhands
22. Akira
23. The Princess Bride
24. Pan's Labyrinth
25. Starship Troopers

Oh come on... Star Wars is obviously the best film series ever with classic acting like this...

I'm not big on sci-fi and fantasy but I did like Spirited Away

Having seen virtually every one of the 25 films listed in the Sci Fi & fantasy list, I would tend to agree with them for the top 3 when you allow for when they were made, though would disagree with the order of some of the others. I saw 2001 at the cinema (the only sensible place to see it) and it was the film that sparked off my interest for film ever since.

So that people do not get confused the Solaris shown in position 6 is not the remake with George Clooney. It is the original Russian version directed by the late Andrei Tarkovsky, the greatest Russian director since Sergei Eisenstein. Although the American remake is faithful to the original it fails to capture the beauty of the original. Although it was advertised at the time as the Russian 2001, it is a totally different type of film. I was lucky to see that at the cinema. I was also able to see Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev in a London cinema when it was released in 1973. This was only his second full length film and it is staggering that someone relatively inexperienced would have been entrusted with a film as epic as this and carry it off. Although I did not see it on opening night, at the end of the film, the audience instinctively stood up and applauded - a genuinely great film.

My favourite film of all times is 'Dr. Strangelove'. I don't usually have the patience to sit through a film, but I could watch that one at least once a week.

I'll never understand all the love for Apocalypse Now....i found it a complete bore fest.

Loving the love for Addams Family Values though.... *crawls back into my ashamed hole*

 it's brilliant.

Today The Guardian has published its "Greatest Horror" list.


1.   Psycho
2.   Rosemary's Baby
3.   Don't Look Now
4.   The Wicker Man
5.   The Shining
6.   The Exorcist
7.   Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
8.   Let the Right One In
9.   Vampyr
10. Peeping Tom
11. The Innocents
12. Ring
13. The Haunting
14. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
15. Dead of Night
16. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
17. Halloween
18. Bride of Frankenstein
19. Les Diaboliques
20. Dracula
21. Audition (Odishou)
22. The Blair Witch Project
23. The Evil Dead / Evil Dead 11
24. Carrie
25. Les Vampires

We were discussing this over breakfast. My least favourite genre, but I'd actually seen five of 'em!

And of the horror list I have seen 15 of them. I saw The Wicker Man (original not the remake) when it was first released. It was shown as the supporting film to Don't Look Now before it became the cult success. I remember thinking at the time that it was The Wicker Man was the better of the two, and I still think that.

And I've just checked to make sure that it is the Christopher Lee version of Dracula, not the Bela Lugosi one.

The last on the list Les Vampires is easily the oldest and was made in 1915. It was made as a 10 part serial and is available on DVD.

Do people agree with Psycho being number 1, or is anyone surprised by that?


The list also seems to prove that you don't need the latest film-making techniques and computer graphics to make a film horrifying.

IMHYCO, most horror fillums are rubbish and made for tarts.
(That was for you Quimper)

Never seen it! I did see the Birds though. Out of the Top 25 my favourite would be Don't Look now, but it's difficult to take many of them seriously.

I'm surprised at the ommission of any Stephen King films/novels.

I think that The Shining is mebbees one of his. I well remember after reading the excellent book IT,  seeing that it was to be made into a TV  Film. Reader! It was shieght. But in my opinion generally they can't make films from books and vice versa.