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"This One's my ALL TIME FAVOURITE!!!!!" (113 titles)

just so many great films in my collection cant pick the best of the best , my girfiriend always jokes "oh is that your all time favourite" Well this is my All Time Favourites ever, ever, ever "All Classics!"

by: chris wigfield from torpoint

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Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa is the Action master and it doesn't get any better then this. Toshiro Mifune is incredable.

Seven Samurai on DVD (1954)
Starring: Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Keiko Tsushi
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece tells the story of a group of 17th Century warriors recently detached from the powerful masters who once paid them. Veteran Samurai Kambei (Takashi Shimura) is the leader of the group who are hired by the residents of a village suffering at the hands of a marauding band ..read more »
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Miller's Crossing

Love the Coen Bro's and for me this is their best.

Miller's Crossing on DVD (1990)
Starring: John Turturro, J.E. Freeman, Jon Polito
Director: Joel Coen
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Joel and Ethan Coen's third collaboration, the gangster film Miller's Crossing, stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom Reagan, the right-hand man of big-city Irish mob boss Leo (Albert Finney). The film opens with Italian mobster Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito) and his second in command Eddie Dane (J.E. Freeman) ..read more »
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In The Soup

Any film that has a lead role by steve Buscemi demands attention. Seymour Cassel excells.

In The Soup on DVD (1992)
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Will Patton, Stanley Tucci
Director: Alexandre Rockwell
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Based on his own experiences, writer and director Alexandre Rockwell has crafted a modern day black-and-white (outstanding cinematography by Phil Parmet) classic off-beat comedy. Steve Buscemi plays, Adolpho Rollo, a penniless writer with a 500-page screenplay to sell. When he puts a small ad in ..read more »
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Trees Lounge

Buscemi again in self directed Gem

Trees Lounge on DVD (1996)
Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Samuel L. Jackson, Eszter Balint
Director: Steve Buscemi
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Tommy Basilio (Steve Buscemi) is an unemployed mechanic who leads an aimless life, spending all his time in an alcoholic haze at the Trees Lounge bar. His former boss Rob (Anthony LaPaglia) has taken up with Tommy's ex-girlfriend Theresa (Elizabeth Bracco), who is pregnant with what could be Tommy'..read more »
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Dead Man's Shoes

One of the Best Film I have seen in years and its Home Grown!

Dead Man's Shoes on DVD (2004)
Starring: Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Paddy Considine
Director: Shane Meadows
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A blend of horror, the supernatural, comedy and social realism. Richard (Paddy Considine) has always protected his simple-minded younger brother, Anthony (Tony Kebbell), but when Richard leaves his rural Midlands' village to join the army, Anthony is taken in by Sonny (Gary Stretch), a vicious ..read more »
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Memento

Chris Nolans masterpiece gets better ever time you watch it.

Memento on DVD (2000)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Director: Christopher Nolan
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Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) is suffering from acute short-term memory loss and is unable to remember anything for more than a few minutes at a time. This means that not only does he have no idea who he is, but that also, whenever he meets someone, a few minutes later he will have forgotten who they ..read more »
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The Mean Season

underatted superb Kurt Russel thriller with a stunning villian turn by Richard Jordan.

The Mean Season on DVD (1984)
Starring: Kurt Russell, Richard Jordan, Richard Bradford
Director: Phillip Borsos
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80s crime thriller set in a sultry summer in Miami. Kurt Russell stars as small-time news reporter Malcolm Anderson, who becomes caught up in a career-making story when a serial killer, Alan Delour (Richard Jordan) admires his account of one of his murders and decides to use the journalist as his ..read more »
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Requiem for a Dream

One of the most Shocking denouncements ever, this film stays with you.

Requiem for a Dream on DVD (2000)
Starring: Jared Leto, Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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Sara Goldfarb is a lonely widow who is revitalized by the prospect of appearing on television as a game show contestant, while her son Harry, his girlfriend Marion, and his friend Tyrone have devised an illicit shortcut to wealth and ease. Lulled by early successes, Sara, Harry, Marion and Tyrone ..read more »
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Don't Look Now

A Film of contradictions, an Absolute Masterpiece

Don't Look Now on DVD (1973)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason
Director: Nicolas Roeg
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Nicolas Roeg's chilling film, based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier, follows a married couple as they attempt to recover from the death of their young daughter. John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife, Laura (Julie Christie), are staying in Venice in an attempt to find relief after the ..read more »
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Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia

Warren Oates is my Favourite Actor ever. One of his few Headliner roles delivers.

Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia on DVD (1974)
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Warren Oates, Gig Young
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Gritty and violent cult classic from director Sam Peckinpah in which wealthy Mexican El Jefe (Emilio Fernandez) offers a $1 million reward to anyone who can bring him the head of the man who seduced his daughter. But with the culprit already dead and buried, bartender Bennie (Warren Oates) is ..read more »
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