Your Top 5 Movies - By Genre!

[Ham n Cheese]

Movies, not series.
Been similar threads, but not one this detailed I think threads like this are a great way for people to check out movies others think are awesome.

Disclaimer: I'm not saying these are the best made/best whatever movies, I'm saying their my favorite. Also note, I put them in categories based on yahoo movies/netflix... some might seem outa place to you, but going with what it shows me. So if you have one that fits into more than one category just do your own thing~

Drama:
1)Adaptation/Memento
2)Vanilla Sky
3)Good Will Hunting
4)American Beauty
5)Jerry Maguire


Action/Adventure:
1)The Terminator Series
2)Pulp Fiction
3)Die Hard Series
4)The Princess Bride
5)The Patriot

Sci Fi/Fantasy
1)The Matrix
2)Fellowship of the Ring
3)Event Horizon
4)12 Monkeys
5)The Two Towers

Comedy:
1)Dumb & Dumber
2)Office Space
3)American Pie
4)Kingpin
5)Zoolander

Horror:
1)Inteview with the Vampire
2)Halloween 1
3)Poltergeis 1
4)Jaws 1
5)Child's Play 1

Sports:
1)White Men Can't Jump
2)Major League
3)Any Given Sunday
4)Rudy
5)Sandlot (You're killing me smallz!)

Thriller:
1)Donnie Darko
2)L.A. Confidential
3)Fargo
4)Primal Fear
5)Unbreakable

Independent:
1)Requiem for a Dream
2)Rocky
3)Pi
4)The Usual Suspects
5)Better Luck Tomorrow

Animated:
1)Grave of the Fireflies
2)Samurai X (Remeberance/Reflection)
3)Toy Story
4)Voices of a Distant Star (Hoshi No Koe)
5)Shrek

Foreign:
1)Seven Samurai
2)Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
3)Life Is Beautiful
4)Yojimbo
5)About A Boy (Yes I feel Gay Putting this here)

I probably left out my favorite movie, but that's what the edit button is for.

[Muuru]

By Genre? Bah, that's too many :P

1) Memento
2) 12 Monkeys
3) Akira
4) I am Sam
5) Donnie Darko

Note: memento is at the top of the list almost entirely because it fulfils my desire to see a Planescape: torment movie :P

[Stroker Ace]

Kinda Hard to put movies in certain genre's nowadays.

Drama:
1. Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
2. Good Will Hunting
3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
4. Requiem for a Dream
5. Amores Perros

Comedy:
1. The Big Lebowski
2. Schizopolis
3. Dazed and Confused
4. Billy Madison
5. Shaolin Soccer

Fantasy/Sci Fi:
1. Interstate 60
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. The Matrix
4. Back to the Future
5. Donnie Darko

Horror:
1. The Omen
2. Peeping Tom
3. Perfect Blue
4. Battle Royale
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Action/Adventure:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Interstate 60
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Seven Samurai
5. Braveheart

Thriller:
1. Memento
2. Se7en
3. Twelve Monkeys
4. Run Lola Run
5. Natural Born Killers

Crime/Gangster:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Heat
3. Goodfellas
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Scarface

Animated:
1. Grave of the Fireflies
2. Ninja Scroll
3. Akira
4. Ghost in the Shell
5. Waking Life

War:
1. Grave of the Fireflies
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. The Painist
4. Glory
5. Platoon

Western:
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. Yojimbo (gotta give credit where credit is due)
3. Once Upon a Time in the West
4. Dead Man
5. Unforgiven

That's enough for me...

[Sole]

Drama
1. The Godfather 1 & 2
2. American History X
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Legends of the Fall
5. Gladiator

War:
1. Platoon
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. Braveheart
5. Apocalypse Now

Action & Adventure:
1. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
2. Pulp fiction
3. Blade
4. Terminator Series
5. Spiderman

Thriller:
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Memento
3. The Usual Suspects
4. The Shining
5. Silence of the Lambs

Sci/Fi & Fantasy:
1. Fellowship and The Two Towers
2. The Matrix
3. Star Wars: The Empire Srikes Back
4. Minority Report
5. Clash of the Titans

Comedy:
1. Caddyshack
2. Me Myself and Irene
3. Friday
4. Four Rooms
5. Happy Gilmore

[AngryGerbil]

Usual Suspects is considered Independant?

[Narayen Annihilation]

I'm glad to see some people listing Requiem for a Dream. That movie is own.

[Snootay]

Originally posted by AngryGerbil
Usual Suspects is considered Independant?

Eh, I don't know if you'd call it "Independant", but it really was a break through movie for almost everyone involved. The only major people in it who had actually done anything of note previously were Stephen Baldwin and Gabriel Bryne.

It's easy to look back and say, "Yeah, there's a lot of big stars that everyone knows in that movie!", when at the time they were nobodies.

[Vorph]

Drama:
1) Donnie Darko
2) Taxi Driver
3) The Godfather 1/2
4) The Shawshank Redemption
5) Fight Club

Crime/Thriller:
1) L.A. Confidential
2) Pulp Fiction
3) The Usual Suspects
4) Heat
5) True Romance

Action/Adventure:
1) Equilibrium
2) Aliens
3) Die Hard
4) Terminator 2
5) Pirates of the Caribbean

Sci Fi/Fantasy
1) Lord of the Rings series
2) Blade Runner
3) Underworld
4) Dark City
5) The Matrix

Comedy:
1) Clerks series
2) Office Space
3) O Brother, Where Art Thou
4) Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
5) Old School

Horror:
1) Army of Darkness
2) The Exorcist
3) Alien
4) Psycho
5) Hellraiser

War:
1) Full Metal Jacket
2) Apocalypse Now
3) The Deer Hunter

Animated:
1) Cowboy Bebop
2) Escaflowne (movie)
3) Bubblegum Crisis (original series)
4) Akira
5) Ninja Scroll

Foreign:
1) Hard-Boiled
2) Brotherhood of the Wolf
3) Lola rennt
4) Iron Monkey
5) La Femme Nikita

[Ham n Cheese]

Well it was in the Independent section on Netflix is why I put it there =0 Just because something because Mainstream doesn't mean it's not Indy. Then Again, they could be wrong.

[Cybsled]

Drama:
1)Grave of the Fireflies
2)American Beauty
3)Goodfellas
4)Godfather1/2
5)Green Mile


Action/Adventure:
1)Indiana Jones
2)Leon (The Professional)
3)Braveheart
4)Saving Private Ryan
5)Goonies

Sci Fi/Fantasy
1)Starship Troopers
2)The Matrix
3)LOTR
4)5th Element
5)Terminator 2

Comedy:
1)Evil Dead2/Army of Darkness
2)Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3)Spaceballs
4)History of the World: Part 1
5)Dr. Strangelove

Horror:
1)Evil Dead 2 (It wins twice!!)
2)Jaws
3)Alien
4)Halloween 1
5)Night of the Living Dead

Thriller:
1)Usual Suspects
2)6th Sense
3)Perfect Blue
4)Silence of the Lambs
5)Momento

Animated:
1)Grave of the Fireflies
2)VHD: Bloodlust
3)Wings of Homanaise
4)Perfect Blue
5)Ninja Scroll

Foreign:
1)Seven Samurai
2)Yojimbo
3)Iron Monkey
4)Drunken Master
5)Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

[311]

This thread is too hard. I'm drawing total blanks, so I'll just list the 5 best recent movies from any genre. (Recent being 1999-present, I suppose)

1) The Matrix
2) Donnie Darko (Saw it for the first time yesterday. Fucking.amazing.movie.)
3) Kill Bill
4) Adaptation
5) Death to Smoochy

Honorable mention: Bowling for Columbine.