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I won't write in order of preference cos this is imposible:
1)Original Planet of the Apes cos the idea of evolution in reverse or involution and the surprise at the end of the movie the astronauts just traveled in time but not in space.Charlton Heston was excellent.
2)Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton)cos the performance of Tim Roth as the chimp-general, the aged father Charlton Heston, the effort to imitate walking and gestures, jumps and monkey, orangotango and gorilla's behavior and a new twisting of the end mixing previous sagas of the sequels of the original. Smart way not to repeat the already known epilogue and yet surprise the audience!
3)2001 Space Odysee cos you can interpret in different ways how evolution was "pushed" by unknown monolith. By the time we didn't even go to the Moon and yet the depiction of the space and shifts was very scientific and the milions of years of evolution gap between dawn of civilization in Africa to the future was in a second flat in the scene when a bone thrown in the air transforms into a huge structure "floating" in the air, something not ever repeated in such magnificent way.
4)Potemkyn, the black & white Russian film with the original idea of the baby chart climbing down the ladder (repeated in the excellent THE UNTOUCHABLES though in slow motion). You can check the difficult scene was filmed with hundreds of people climbing down the ladder and a CRIPPLED guy in front of them all, the scenes of the rotten meat the sailors had to eat and the mechanism of the ship, outstanding film by the time.
5)SIBERIA, excellent performance of Russian actors and British actress and landscapes.
6)DREAMS by Akiro Kurasawa with Lucas technology Light & Magic. Poetry in images without bla-bla-bla like European films.
7)BEN HUR somehow imitated by Riddley Scott in Gladiator, but Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd acting was excellent too, and the horse race was the most excellent action to me, better than the usual race cars (done better in old films like in Steve Mc Queen BULLIT in Gene Hackman's FRENCH CONNECTION
8)MATRIX the idea better explained than 13TH FLOOR with the best action scenes and original 360 degrees BULLET-TIME scenes plus high tech kung fu, the myth mixing Budhism-Christianism-Nanotechnology-Kantism-Descartes, superb!
9)The 10 Commandments, good historical discussion and magnificent Egyptian details not even modern MUMMY could achieve without talking about RED SEA and plagues scenes in a time when no computers were available.
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