Name three greatest American films ever made, in your opinion

1. Citizen Kane 2. Badlands 3. Mulholland Drive

Greatest anything is hard, but:

Vertigo

Sunset Boulevard

Mulholland Drive

1. All About Eve

2. Bringing Up Baby

3. Annie Hall

Chinatown

Blue Velvet

Godfather II

Nashville OP?

Nashville TN

1939: Gone With The Wind; The Wizard of Oz; Citizen Kane

1. Some Like It Hot

2. Dog Day Afternoon

3. The Graduate

R7 Citizen Kane was made in 1941, missy.

Citizen Kane was 1941, not 1939

The Women (1939)

Valley of the Dolls (1967)

A Star in Born (1954)

1. Some Like It Hot

2. 12 Angry Men

3. Its a Beautiful Life

1- Sunset Boulevard 2- The Godfather 3 - The Grifters

The Matrix

Being John Malkovich?

What was so great about it?

1. Wings

2. Some Like It Hot

3. All About Eve

The Player...pretty much anything made by Altman or the Coen Brothers.

Blood Beach

Nice Girls Don't Explode

Gidget Goes Hawaiian

1. The Godfather

2. Welcome to the Dollhouse

3. Pinnochio

I'm surprised I'm the first one to include an animated film. I mean, what's more quintessentially American than a Walt Disney animated feature is?

The Deer Hunter, Nashville, Carrie

The Godfather - Parts I and II

1. The Jazz Singer

2. Snow White

3. The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz No Country for Old Men Sunset Boulevard

Let's try this again:

The Wizard of Oz

No Country for Old Men

Sunset Boulevard

Ridley Scott is a Genius -

Dr. Strangelove. An American In Paris. Goodfellas.

Groundhog Day

Shape of Water

Coco

Yentl

The Prince of Tides

The Mirror has Two Faces

1. Casablanca

2. North by Northwest

3. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

Kubrick's "Lolita"

The General

Double Indemnity

Marty

Dawson's 50 Load Weekend

1- Citizen Kane

2-Pinocchio

3-Empire Strikes Back

1. Citizen Kane

2. Sunset Blvd.

3. Midnight Cowboy

Glitter

Showgirls

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Psycho (1960)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

An Unmarried Woman

Godfather II

Chinatown

An Unmarried Woman

Cabaret

Godfather

What's Up Doc?

The Great Race

The Road to Rio

What can I say? I like comedy.

The Prince of Tides

Shrek

Singing in the rain

Apocalypse Now

2001 A Space Odyssey

Psycho

2001: A Space Odyssey

Godfather II

Hitchcock was British

Crash

The Green Book

Driving Miss Daisy

Bonnie and Clyde Network The Thomas Crown Affair

Bringing Up Baby (and the Philadelphia Story and Holiday) Vertigo (really more of a European film--Rear Window feels more "American") Annie Hall All That Heaven Allows (weary German expressionism in drag) Donnie Darko (theatrical cut, NOT the director's cut) Dr. Strangelove & 2001 Ninotchka & Queen Christina Now, Voyager and All About Eve

R47 can count.

Based on the number of times I've seen as an adult:

Auntie Mame

Contact

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

High Noon, quintessential American western film. Bringing Up Baby, quintessential American screwball film. It's A Wonderful Life, quintessential American Christmas film.

Police Academy

Police Academy II

Police Academy III

Kindergarten Cop

North

Jingle All The Way

Godfather 1 and 2 (sue me, but its one movie)

Days of Heaven

2001: A Space Odyssey

2nd list - not the "best", necessarily, but the most "American" somehow

The Wizard of Oz

Thelma & Louise

Taxi Driver

Close Encounters, Alien, Blade Runner

[quote]Showgirls

Nomi's a whore, darling

Do we count Kubrick as an American even after he expatriated? If so, I can name two:

2001

Sunset Blvd

I’m tempted to say Streetcar, but many others could fit the third spot: Wizard of Oz, Citizen Cane, Mulholland Drive, The Shining (an eccentric choice but I stand by it), Snow White, Network, Alien, Star Wars...

I saw Network for the first time last year and was so excited given the hype. I didn’t get it. It was slow and rambling. I am probably not sophisticated enough for it; it’s so revered thst it must be me. But I really didn’t like it. I’d choosed Three Women over Nashville.

Sorry, that last paragraph was about NASHVILLE, not Network.

Kubrick didn't direct Sunset Boulevard, r57

Jaws

Poseidon Adventure

Beauty and the Beast

Ordinary People

Kramer vs. Kramer

And Justice for All

I think of Kubrick's movies as American through Lolita, then British after that, but I wonder what he himself thought, or if he cared one way or another?

Kramer vs. Kramer was television-film quality.

"Gone With The Wind"

Manhattan, Annie Hall, Midnight in Paris

Lady Sings the Blues

Mahogany

The Wiz

R63 Kramer vs. Kramer won 23 awards.

I know, R57. It was for 2001. If Kubrick didn’t count after his move to England, I’d have chosen Sunset Blvd and two others...not sure which ones, though.

I don’t consider any Hitchcock films really American, so I guess that no Kubrick films are really British.

Thanks for clarifying r68

Paper Moon

The Bad News Bears (1976)

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Network

I love Carry Grant but never .liked Bringing Up Baby.

I ranked Bringing Up Baby as among the "greatest" but, yes, his double-take schtick does wear thin.

I love so many, I love The Shining.

1: Casino - 1995

2: Gone With the Wind - 1939

3: Fatal Attraction - 1987

Central Station but I need to see it again.

Mame

Yours, Mine and Ours

Stone Pillow

1. Chinatown

2. The Godfather

3. Pulp Fiction

r77 made me lol

Showgirls

What Ever Happened To Baby Jane

Mommie Dearest

Tootsie

Whoops those are the three CAMPIEST American films ever made

OP, I'll never forget Sam Drucker's poor dog in Rear Window.

Virtago Apocalypse Now On The Waterfront tie A Star is Born Garland tie

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Silence of the Lambs

Serial Mom

1. Dr Strangelove 2. The Godfather 3. Casablanca

I think Chinatown's ahead by a nose...

Citizen Kane

Nashville

Grey Gardens

Blue Lagoon

Blue Valentine

Blue Velvet

Not sure about "greatest", but my favorites:

1. The Deer Hunter

2. Schindler's List

3. Breakfast At Tiffany's

Casablanca

His Girl Friday

Gone With The Wind

The Haunting

Goodbye Mr Chips (‘69)

What’s Up Doc?

1. Nashville

2. The Godfather

3. Citizen Kane

On The Waterfront Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff? Citizen Kane

Rear Window

Chinatown

Raiders of the Lost Ark, or Reds, or Casablanca or All About Eve or Vertigo or Godfather II. I’d say “The Haunting,” but technically it was a British film with an American director and star.

LOL, R35!

1. Rear Window

2. Auntie Mame

3. Foul Play

All That Jazz, The Deer Hunter, Cuckoo's Nest.

ordinary people

who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

what's up Doc?

Gone with the Wind

The Godfather

Some Like It Hot

Honourable Mention: Casablanca

Musicals: 1. 42nd Street; 2. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; 3. West Side Story

Melodrama: 1. Stella Dallas; 2. Written on the Wind; 3. Peyton Place

Romance: 1. A Place in the Sun; 2. All That Heaven Allows; 3. The Way We Were

Message: 1. I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang; 2. The Lost Weekend; 3. The Defiant Ones

Gay Subtext: 1. Johnny Eager; 2. Bend of the River 3. Rebel Without a Cause

Ones I saw the most times:

Godfather II

An Unmarried Woman

All That Jazz

Goodfellas

Chinatown

Days of Heaven

Special mention: I've watched [italic]the Maltese Falcon[/italic] more than any other movie, but it has directorial flaws. It was Huston's directing debut; he didn't know how to get actors out of the shot, resulting in some overcrowded scenes. But excellent acting, great story and script, excellent mood, my favorite noir movie, and so very American.

Blue Velvet Star Wars Citizen Kane

Running on Empty

Giant

While You were Sleeping

R101 wins.

Nashville

Fargo

The Godfather

Central Station was a Brazilian film, technicallly "American" but not a U.S. film. One of my favorites.

Godfather.

Hoosiers.

The French Connection.

[quote][R101] wins.

And wins.

And wins.

And wins.

And wins.

1.ace in the hole.2.from here to eternity.3.the apartment.

Planet Of The Apes(1968)

Two of a Kind

Xanadu

Toomarrow

Even though Hitchcock was British in origin, his most famous films are set in America and have American characters, so I would consider those American films. The same argument might be made about Kubrick's most famous films.

Dog Day Afternoon, Mississippi Burning, Godfather

Imitation of Life, The Warriors, White Dog

1) Network

2) Chinatown

3) The Truman Show

Singing in the Rain

Godfather I/II

All About Eve

Comedies are not fairing well. Here: 1. terms of endearment 2. Tootsie 3. Blazing saddles

12 Angry Men

Some Like it Hot

Dog Day Afternoon

Three choices just aren't enough.

[quote]The Bad News Bears (1976)

LOL

These are just people's fave movies not the "three greatest American films ever made".

But it's a funny read.

[quote][R101] wins.

This is a competition?

Zodiac

Gone With the Wind

Silence of the Lambs

Chinatown

Bonnie & Clyde

Network

R126 thinks she's clever

and better than us

1. Dr Strangelove 2. Godfather 3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 4. Casablanca

R127 I'm a he, not a she, you misgendering culprit.

And I really think those three films are Americana cinema at their best and growing up were my three favorite films.

One day I thought, wait - the same actress is in all of 'em....hmmmm

1. "Casablanca" 2. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" 3. "Network"

1. Bonnie and Clyde 2. Dr. Strangelove 3. Who's afraid of Virginia Woolfe

And can always watch these over and over and never tire of them.

Time hasn't been very kind to Dr. Strangelove (or any other Peter Sellers film for that matter, with the possible exception of Being There).

Kansas City Trucking Co.

L.A. Tool and Die

El Paso Wrecking Co.

I just watched Mississippi Burning. I'd never seen it. The crimes of mankind at the ignorance of many is reminiscent of Trumpism today. Frightenly forboding. It left a pit in my stomach.

Sunset Boulevard

Some Like it Hot

Singing in the Rain

Wilder - Sunset Blvd. or Some Like it Hot (probably Sunset)

Tourneur - Out of the Past

Von Sternberg - Blonde Venus

By birth Europeans telling American Stories

The greatest American born director is Howard Hawks and I'll name Scarface with is just about as gritty, violent, glamorous, and sexual as any movie ever but was made in 1932.

1) Citizen Kane 2) The Godfather 3) Amadeus

1. Three Women 2. Sunset Boulevard 3. Blue Valentine

Roller Boogie Can't Stop The Music Thank God It's Friday

Pizza Boy...He Delivers! Pleasure Beach Centurion!

Bullets Over Broadway (because of Dianne Weist)

Serial Mom (hilarious)

The Bad Seed (because of its camp value)

Glitter Shanghai Surprise Poetic Justice

I like R120's choices. 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon would probably be two of mine. Not sure about the other. Bonnie and Clyde, perhaps?

Annie Hall

Badlands

Napoleon Dynamite

R119, “Tootsie” is a good one!

No "The Last Picture Show"?

Badlands, Dod Day Afternoon, No Country for Old Men

CHINATOWN / YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN / 2001

For America: Schindler's List, The Player, Wizard of Oz For Me personally, these films left me stunned and satisfied:

1. Koyannisquatsi- 1st run, Big theater on w57th, 2. Stop Making Sense- Same theater, the poster was in French, complete surprise 3. Horse Hung Hispanics vol.19- met one of the stars in Central Park