toldailytopic: Best movies of their genre: Drama, Comedy, Action, Sci-Fi, Horror

[Nathon Detroit]

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[ragTagblues]

Ouch that's a toughie . . . .

Drama - The Shawshank Redemption, however The Pianist runs it close!

Comedy - M.A.S.H

Action - Die Hard

Sci-Fi - Tie between Blade Runner and the original Solaris - Equilibrium close behind.

Horror - Audition

 

[Nathon Detroit]

I haven't put a ton of thought into this but here is my first pass....

Drama: Life is Beautiful
Comedy: Nacho Libre
Action: Die Hard
Sci-Fi: Alien
Horror: Pans Labyrinth

 

[Stripe]

toldailytopic: Best movies of their genre: Drama, Comedy, Action, Sci-Fi, Horror

Drama: Braveheart.
Comedy: The gods must be crazy II.
Action: The Raid.
Sci-fi: The Matrix.
Horror: The Eye (HK).

 

[Sherman]

Drama: Courageous
Comedy: The Great Race
Action: Tora, Tora, Tora
Scifi - Battleship
Horror - The Visitation

 

[Town Heretic]

Western: The Searchers/High Noon

Drama: A Man for all Seasons/Lion in Winter

Film noir: The Maltese Falcon

Horror: The Shining/Alien

Suspense: Sixth Sense/North by Northwest

War: Patton

Romance: An Affair to Remember/Sense and Sensibility

Romantic Comedy: While You Were Sleeping/Sleepless in Seattle

Comedy: His Girl Friday/Raising Arizona

Animation: Up/Bambi

Epic: Lawrence of Arabia/Gone With the Wind

Action/adventure: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Fantasy: LOTR Return of the King/Wizard of Oz

Crime: The Godfather II/Pulp Fiction

Sci-Fi: Blade Runner/The Empire Strikes Back

Musicals: My Fair Lady

 

[Nathon Detroit]

Romance: An Affair to Remember/Sense and Sensibility

Musicals: My Fair Lady

:flamer:

 

[Psalmist]

toldailytopic: Best movies of their genre: Drama, Comedy, Action, Sci-Fi, Horror​

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Drama: Sense and Sensibility, not sure if it's a drama, but M & M Psalmist like it
Comedy: Bringing Up Baby
Action: Beverly Hills Cop, if this counts as action
Sci-Fi: StarWars number 1
Horror: The Wolfman meets Frankenstein (Chaney & Karloff)
Western: Good Old Boys/Rooster Cogburn ​

 

[chickenman]

Comedy: Nacho Libre

"I'm concerned about your salvation and stuff."

Here's one of my favorite scenes.

The Nucleus under the man

 

[Town Heretic]

I haven't put a ton of thought into this

Stealing chrys' motto is uncalled for.

but here is my first pass....

Drama: Life is Beautiful

Call that one anything you want, it's a chick film.

:mock: Knight's hidden sensibility.

And you know what they say: an open love of singing and dancing is better than sensitivity carefully concealed.

 

[Wile E. Coyote]

Stealing chrys' motto is uncalled for.

:chuckle:

 

[Doormat]

Thriller: Wait Until Dark

Drama: Twelve Angry Men

Comedy: A Fish Called Wanda

War: Platoon

SciFi: Dune (the more recent SciFi channel production)

Action: Terminator 2

Romance: Titanic

Foreign (French): A Pure Formality (Psychological Thriller)

Foreign (Spanish): El Mariachi (Action adventure)

Foreign (Hebrew): Time of Favor (Action, suspense, romance)

 

[zoo22]

There are better than some of these, but a current personal favorites:

Drama: Sunset Boulevard, Magnolia, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, No Country For Old Men, Fargo, Raging Bull, The Bicycle Thief, Cool Hand Luke, okay, I better stop there...
Comedy: Being There, School of Rock, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Big Lebowski, Paper Moon
Action: The Road Warrior, Aliens, Apocalypse Now (I'm not big on action films, so there's a bit of stretching)
Sci-Fi: Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, Children of Men
Horror: The Shining, The Exorcist, Let The Right One In

Edit: I also have a real soft-spot for The Bad News Bears (in the drama category of course... Though it's also a great documentary lain.

 

[This Charming Manc]

Favourites not best......

Drama Finding Neverland
Western The Unforgiven / The Searchers
Crime Leon(The Professional)
Fantasy- LOTR Fellowship of the Ring
Rom Comedy - Gross Point Blank
Sci Fi - Never Let Me Go- Obscure British Highly recommended if you want to be disturbed without being grossed out.
Superhero - Spiderman II/ X men II

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[PureX]

toldailytopic: Best movies of their genre: Drama, Comedy, Action, Sci-Fi, Horror

There's far too many to pick "bests". But I'll think of some interesting ones if I can ...

Drama: Samson And Delilah, Walkabout

Comedy: Being There

Action: Kill Bill 1 and 2

Sci-Fi: Firefly and Serenity (series and movie)

Horror: Reservoir Dogs

Western: The Tracker

Historic Drama: Ten Canoes, Apocalypto

 

[The Berean]

Are people listing the best movies in each category or just listing their favorite movie in each category? :idunno:

 

[PureX]

Are people listing the best movies in each category or just listing their favorite movie in each category? :idunno:

I was just listing some that I thought people might like, because I liked them. And maybe they hadn't seen them.

 

[zoo22]

Are people listing the best movies in each category or just listing their favorite movie in each category? :idunno:

I listed some sort of hodgepodge combo. lain:

 

[Psalmist]

Are people listing the best movies in each category or just listing their favorite movie in each category? :idunno:

Favorite :e4e:
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[Selaphiel]

Drama: Departure and Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring
Mystery: Stalker and Moon
Crime: Pulp Fiction and A Bittersweet Life
Adventure: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade
Horror: Martyrs and Inside
Comedy: Dumb & Dumber and Zatoichi (not a pure comedy]
Historical: The Name of the Rose and Andrei Rublev
Action: Die Hard and The Terminator
Sci-fi: 12 Monkeys and Dark City