What are Everyone's Favourite Films?

[marbles]

Was wondering what everyone's fav films were? Along with reading books, watching films are my favourite past time!

I love many films, although my all time favourite would probably have to be A Time to Kill.

I also love:

The Godfather
The Usual Suspects
Shawshank Redemption
The Notebook
The Lake House
A Bronx Tale
Murder in the First
City of Angels

In fact, there are so many, I couldn't possibly name them all so I'll stop there! The ones above are a very short selection and I have many more I prefer to those...

[Kell]

I kinda love old films, so among my favourites are:

Bell, Book and Candle (1) *
Arsenic and Old Lace (2)
The Philadelphia Story (2)
Bringing Up Baby (2)
His Girl Friday (2)
Harvey (1)
Vertigo (1) *
Rope (1)
Rear Window (1)

(1) Starring James Stewart - one of my all-time favourite actors
(2) Starring Cary Grant - my other all-time favourite actor
* Starring Kim Novak - my all-time favourite actress

There are a couple of modern classics I adore too - they are just so sumptuous:

Dangerous Liaisons (3)
Valmont (3)
Amadeus

(3) Both are versions of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which I plan on reading at some point!

And I'm also very much an 80s film fan:

The Sure Thing
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Beueller's Day Off

[FishAndChips]

Arsenic and Old Lace

Oh that's one of my all time favourites. Absolutely hilarious! I'm also a big hitchcock fan. I love Rear window and psycho.

There's another really good Cary grant one where he works in a shoe shop (or is dating someone in a shoe shop) but I don't know the name of it.

One of my all time fave films is the Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland.

other faves are:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind
Memento
Being John Malkovich

Oh and about a million others but that's all I can think of right now.

[Ruth]

I would have to say....

Starman
The Big Lebowski
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Edward Scissorhands
Frankie and Johnny

[NiceguyEddie]

Being John Malkovich



Wasn't that a great film. There's another much neglected classic starring wossisname - Grosse Point Blanc. He plays a hitman being persued by Dan Akroyd. Very funny & a great soundtrack.

[wrathofkublakhan]

Tough call.

Sometimes my favorites are simply my most recent - I loved the movie Hairspray that came out this week. I was an Instant Fan and bought the soundtrack too!

All Time Favorites:

To Kill A Mockingbird
The Wizard Of Oz
The Quiet Man
Hoosiers
Bull Durham
Shawshank Redemption


I can go nuts sometimes and just follow an actor (Gene Hackman, for example) or a director (Stanley Kubrick) or even a genre (film noir or kung fu) and just steep myself in someone who is brimming with talent or some oddity in film making - I think they call it "wire fu" now, all that martial arts in the air.

Finally, thanks to cable television - they play movies over and over again so I'll watch something that may not be great but just easy to access while I'm reading. Such as:

Freaky Friday
The Parent Trap
You've Got Mail
Forrest Gump
Big

Y'know, I could make a list of just Tom Hanks movies!

[Sedge]

A few of my favourites are:

The Matrix Reloaded
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
The Lost Boys
The Goonies

but far and away the best I consider to be The Green Mile.

[Kell]

Freaky Friday
The Parent Trap
The originals or the remakes? (the original The Parent Trap was on TV at the weekend and I watched part of it again - I love that film! Also love the original Freaky Friday).

[scottishbookworm]

Was wondering what everyone's fav films were? Along with reading books, watching films are my favourite past time!

I love many films, although my all time favourite would probably have to be A Time to Kill.

I also love:

The Godfather
The Usual Suspects
Shawshank Redemption
The Notebook
The Lake House
A Bronx Tale
Murder in the First
City of Angels

In fact, there are so many, I couldn't possibly name them all so I'll stop there! The ones above are a very short selection and I have many more I prefer to those...the first 2 are favourites of mine;)
I also add city of angels and A time to Kill as well and grease too the others I've not seen

[Nici76]

Hmmm....of the top of my head:

Grease
Wizard of Oz
Titanic
The Day after tomorrow
The Crow
All of the Star Wars

[Kylie]

Like others here, I adore The Shawshank Redemption. I also love James Stewart so anything he's in is fine by me (Harvey is a wonderful movie!) Other favourites of mine are:

Girl, Interrupted
Dead Poet's Society
When Harry Met Sally
Hair
The Sound of Music
Alice in Wonderland (Disney)

I'm also a huge fan of Orson Welles: The Third Man and Citizen Kane.

And I LOVE Gene Wilder! Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Young Frankenstein are a couple of my favourite movies.

I'm sure there's more I've forgotten.

[Echo]

This is one of those lists that changes depending on my mood. Well, here are my favorites as of this moment:

Amelie
The Lord of the Rings (all three)
Finding Neverland
Batman 2 and 3
Gosford Park
The Hours
Sleepy Hollow
Signs
The Stand
Breathless (or, A Bout de Souffle)
Center Stage
New Waterford Girl

[marbles]

It's really interesting reading everyone's favourite films as they're all so different! A lot I haven't even heard of let alone seen! Someone mentioned The Breakfast Club - good film!

[Freewheeling Andy]

Delicatessen
The Big Lebowski
The Right Stuff
Lawrence of Arabia
Fargo
Amelie
School For Scoundrels (original version)
Volver
Dr Stangelove
Das Boot

[FishAndChips]

Young Frankenstein


Amelie
The Lord of the Rings (all three)

Yes.

I forgot "Its a wonderful life" with Jimmy Stewart

also
Fight Club (I should really read the book)
Alien (Great suspense - had my stomach in knots)

[scottishbookworm]

It's really interesting reading everyone's favourite films as they're all so different! A lot I haven't even heard of let alone seen! Someone mentioned The Breakfast Club - good film!I love the breakfast club too!

that's a brilliant movie I love the music on it!

I'm a simple minds fan:smile2:

[pontalba]

Oh, that's a hard question. Changes from time to time for me, but these are a few "I'll watch anytime" favorites.....

Casablanca
Arch of Triumph [Charles Boyer]
The Lover
Gone With the Wind
The Sean Connery/Timothy Dalton/Daniel Craig - Bond movies
Lolita [either version]
The Day the Earth Stood Still [Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal]
The Count of Monte Cristo [Gerard Depardieu version]
That Old Feeling [Bette Midler]

[scottishbookworm]

Like others here, I adore The Shawshank Redemption. I also love James Stewart so anything he's in is fine by me (Harvey is a wonderful movie!) Other favourites of mine are:

Girl, Interrupted
Dead Poet's Society
When Harry Met Sally
Hair
The Sound of Music
Alice in Wonderland (Disney)

I'm also a huge fan of Orson Welles: The Third Man and Citizen Kane.

And I LOVE Gene Wilder! Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Young Frankenstein are a couple of my favourite movies.

I'm sure there's more I've forgotten.if you like Gene wilder you must like Blazing saddles! he did that with mel brooks

[Kylie]

if you like Gene wilder you must like Blazing saddles! he did that with mel brooks

Absolutely! That's a great movie :lol:
And I've seen a few that he did with Richard Pryor; See No Evil, Hear No Evil is my favourite collaboration of theirs.

[Liz]

My all-time favourite films are definitely the Monty Python films. I absolutely adore these.
For me, they are the perfect films.

Other favourite films of mine are:

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
Sir Henry At Rawlinson End
Annie Hall
Gosford Park
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
Star Wars (the original trilogy)
all of the Wallace & Gromit films
Wind In The Willows (Terry Jones' version)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Ladykillers (1955 original)
The Lavender Hill Mob
Cromwell
Chariots Of Fire
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Clockwise
Bedazzled (Peter Cook's version)
Yellow Submarine
A Hard Day's Night

Terry Gilliam is my favourite director, so I love all of his films, but a few of my absolute favourites are:

Brazil
The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
Time Bandits
Twelve Monkeys

[wrathofkublakhan]

<snip>

Terry Gilliam is my favourite director, so I love all of his films, but a few of my absolute favourites are:

Brazil
The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
Time Bandits
Twelve Monkeys</snip>

Wasn't The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen simply a wonderful and brilliant film? Come on over to my place and we can watch it twice, I'll buy the popcorn. Maybe we can dance half-way through the film and feel years younger....

[FishAndChips]

Time Bandits
Brilliant!
Wasn't The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen simply a wonderful and brilliant film?

I've never seen that but have always wanted to. I'll have to add it to my TBW (To be watched) list :lol:

[supergran71]

Nothing we fancied on tv last night, so we switched to Film Four and watched "Stepmom" with Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts and Ed Harris. What a brilliant film that was, we really enjoyed it right to the end and my OH didnt fall asleep so it had to be good!! I think Ed Harris has the bluest eyes since Paul Newman, very nice, very nice.:kiss:

[Oblomov]

1. The Killing Fields
2. Night of the Hunter
3. Casablanca
4. United 93
5. Airport (the 1970 original)
6. Thirteen Days
7. Tora! Tora!! Tora!!!
8. The Great Escape
9. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
10.Thief of Baghdad (the 1924 silent version)

[pontalba]

Oh! I'd forgotten about The Great Escape...one of the best chase scenes I've seen. What a cast!

[Liz]

Wasn't The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen simply a wonderful and brilliant film? Come on over to my place and we can watch it twice, I'll buy the popcorn. Maybe we can dance half-way through the film and feel years younger....

:lol: Sounds like a plan!

I completely agree with you - it is a fantastic film and, I think, a beautiful film to watch.

[beef]

My favourites are:
American History X
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/

Clerks

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109445/

To Kill A Mocking Bird

http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=to+kill+a+mocking+bird

Hannibal (all of them)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091474/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367959/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212985/

I am a big film fan so i have ended this here as i could go on forever :lol:

[nero041001]

Mine are

Lotr extended trilogy
sin city
starwars
aliens quad
friday 13th lot

tris

[Adam]

Ladder 49
Backdraft
Stranger Then Fiction
Godfather Part 1,2,3
Scarface
Anything with Will Ferrell
Anything with John Candy
Anything with action in it
Anything that is funny

[ii]

Anything with Will Ferrell
Anything with John Candy
Anything with action in it
Anything that is funny

Man, you're easy! Are you sure we're related? *grin*

Some of mine:
Good Night and Good Luck
The Interpreter
Dogma
Memoirs of a Geisha (so so beautiful movie, the scenery is amazing!)
Slap Shot (the Hanson brothers! And the opening, where the French-Canadian goalie demonstrates the penalties... priceless!)
Syriana
Shall We Dance (it's a feel-good movie)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
M*A*S*H (the golf-joke!)
Anything and everything by the Marx Brothers. Especially A Night In Opera and Duck Soup.

[Gyre]

All the X-men movies
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Road to Perdition
The Fifth Element
Dirty Dancing
Little Big Man
Night of the Hunter
Night Watch (Nochnoy dozor)
Hellraiser
Howl's Moving Castle
Spirited Away
Wallace and Gromit (The Curse of the Wererabbit)
Lord of the Rings (the whole series)
Poltergeist
Shrek 1 and 2
Brazil
Twelve Monkeys:D

[Talisman]

So many I don't know where to start !

The Colour Purple
What Dreams May Come
What the Bleep
American Beauty
Life is Beautiful
Gladiator
All the Babylon 5 movies (American sci fi series)
Star Trek Voyage Home
Star Trek First Contact
Star Wars
When the Whales Came

[Roland Butter]

Fargo, for an absolutely brilliant performance by Frances McDormand.

The Big Easy, for a great New Orleans soundtrack (the first time I typed that it came out as The Big Essay, which would be something quite different :lol: )

[supergran71]

Calamity Jane, Carousel and Gone th the Wind. I know I am showing my age:blush:

[Tiger]

Jurassic Park
Free Willy
Gremlinz :)
All of the Harry Potters
Ice Age 2
Ice Age

[Laramie]

I no particular order...
Harry Potter
Black Beauty
The Horse Whisperer
Straight From The Heart (I only recently saw this. It was made in 2002, at least the version I saw cuz I got the impression from imdb that there's several versions - has anybody else seen it? I LOVE it! :D)
Spirit, Stallion Of The Cimarron
The Holiday
Just My Luck
errr.....I can't think of any more

[Adam]

Man, you're easy! Are you sure we're related? *grin*

Slap Shot (the Hanson brothers! And the opening, where the French-Canadian goalie demonstrates the penalties... priceless!)


LOL, I am starting to wonder if we are :lol:

Slap Shot is a great movie, I forgot about that one. I split a gut laughing at it :D

[Angel]

DWMG wrote

The Horse Whisperer


One of my favourites - both book and film

[poppy]

Fargo, for an absolutely brilliant performance by Frances McDormand.

Oh yes, wasn't she good? I really rather enjoyed the black humour of that movie.

[muggle not]

Some of the movies that I have enjoyed over the years, in no particular order, are:

Singing in The Rain

The Great Escape

Stalag 17

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Shane

High Noon

Lawrence of Arabia

It's a Wonderful Life

Saving Private Ryan

[carm]

let's see.... in no particular order---pride of the yankees; field of dreams; while you were sleeping; arthur; the quiet man; shrek; happy feet; steel magnolias;.... that's about all i can remember for now.....carm

[Child.of.God.1989]

Looking at the title of this thread, it's funny that no one even tried to name one all-time favorite movie. Decisions like that are so difficult, with all the good material out there!

Here are my top... few:tong::

The Lord of the Rings series, particularly The Return of the King because you are very attached to all the characters by then

The Mummy with Brendan Fraiser and Rachel Weisz (if I'm watching it with my brother and/or cousins)

Tommy Boy (as you can see, my taste in movies is very developed and somber)

Beauty and the Beast

Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley - how moving! Wow! I've only seen the first half of the BBC one, which is possibly even better.

Maytime (I love the Jeanette Macdonald-Nelson Eddy movies! San Francisco was pretty good, too:D)

Rat Race

The Phantom of the Opera - wouldn't it be wild to be sixteen like the girl who played Christine was, working at an opera house and being asked to audition there for your favorite musical?? Manipulative characters like the Phantom get under my skin, but the songs are beautiful.

Napoleon Dynamite - if you were in high school when this came out, or if you were in high school in the eighties, you either loved or were slightly put off by this movie. Did it receive any notice at all in Britain?

Toy Story - my brother and I used to have this, the first of the great Disney-Pixar movies, memorized

[Tiger]

....Saving Private Ryan

My English teacher showed my class some of this on the Friday before Poppy Day. It was quite good, what we saw of it! :D

[missmellow]

hmmm most of them are chick flicks :lol:
In no particular order:]

Mean Girls - i love high school/college based movies, and Lindsay Lohan + Rachel McAdams are great actresses.
Hot Chick - it stars both of my fav actors!!! Rachel McAdams and ROB SCHNEIDER!! WOO!!
John Tucker Must Die - another high school comedy. The actor who played John Tucker IS SOOOOO CUTE!!! :censored:
Scary Movie series - I love parodies, these movies are hilarious! And i love the actress who plays Cindy (forgot her name, how embarassing)
American Pie 1-3 - Hilarious. I thought the extra American Pies (Band Camp, Beta House, etc) were pretty bad though. I love Stiffler !! haha he's a classic!

[Jordan]

Yeah, you don't have to pick just the one, unless you really want to. For me it's far too hard. So i just have a few favourite films.

Brick
Shawshank Redemption
Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
Da Vinci Code
Children of Men
Into the Wild
Walk The Line
Zodiac

[Kell]

There are a handful that spring immediately to mind for me:

Amadeus (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0086879/)
Dangerous Liaisons (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0094947/)
Stand By Me (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0092005/)
Bell, Book and Candle (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0051406/)
His Girl Friday (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/)
Arsenic and Old Lace (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0036613/)
Bringing Up Baby (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0029947/)
Clue (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0088930/)
The Great Escape (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/)
Equilibrium (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/)
Swordfish (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/)
Ferris Beuller's Day Off (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/)
300 (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0416449/)

There are others I love and can watch over and over again, but these are the "main contenders" as it were. If I had to pick just a handful of films to watch till the end of time, I'd pick from these and be very happy! :mrgreen:

[shelbel]

Yeah, you don't have to pick just the one, unless you really want to. For me it's far too hard. So i just have a few favourite films.

Brick
Shawshank Redemption
Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
Da Vinci Code
Children of Men
Into the Wild
Walk The Line
Zodiac
"Into the Wild" would have to be the best film I've seen this year. Sean Penn is amazing, the cinematography is breath taking, and the soundtrack by Eddie Vedder is wonderful. Enjoyed it so much that I read the book and purchased the soundtrack.

Also enjoyed Walk the Line, Shawhank Redemption. I've not seen the Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford, but was wondering if that was the film Nick Cave did the soundtrack for.

[Jordan]

Into the Wild is an amazing film. I saw it and straight awa went out and bought the DVD. Just a brilliant film. Emilie Hirsch really established himself as a great promising actor in the difficult role. It was superbly shot showing the great outdoors and the surrounding that the really Christopher McCandless came into contact with.

Yes, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis did the soundtrack for the Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. It's a phenomenally good soundtrack. The only reason it didn't get nominated, or even win, an oscar was because the Academy have a stupid rule where things that are co-wrote by two people arn't accepted. Even though they've changed that to suit the Coen's. Not complaining about Joel and Ethan, they're fantastic, i'm a fan.

[Amanda]

Jordan: Re: Into the Wild. Funny. I loved the movie, too: went right out and bought the book! It was a great one!

[Amanda]

One of my favorite movies is Elizabethtown. It contains a "deep beautiful melancholy" layer to it, that I particularly appreciate.

[scottishbookworm]

Absolutely! That's a great movie :lol:
And I've seen a few that he did with Richard Pryor; See No Evil, Hear No Evil is my favourite collaboration of theirs.See no evil hear no evil is also a funny movie that's great! movie that also has Kevin spacey in it!


I like Tootsie which dustin hoffman plays an out of work actor that gets the job in a female part of a drama that is so funny:lol:

[wrathofkublakhan]

Romancing the Stone!

[Kylie]

Bell, Book and Candle (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0051406/)


I have been looking everywhere for this movie. One particular store keeps advertising it in catalogues and in-store posters but I can't find it anywhere. :motz: One day...

[nursenblack]

I have sooo many favorites I could never list them all, but here are a few

Gone With the Wind
Pride & Prejudice (one w/ Keira Knightley)
You've Got Mail
Schindler's List
Groundhog Day
Clockwork Orange
The Good Girl
Napoleon Dynamite
The Color Purple

and the list goes on and on and on.......

[prospero]

Gone with the Wind
Gladiator
The Passion of the Christ
The Lion in Winter
Gandhi

I don't know if I've already answered in this thread, but that's my undoubted top 5 (in no particular order).

[shelbel]

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
The Graduate
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
To Kill a Mockingbird
Edward Scissorhands
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
The World According to Garp

[tbain]

Mine are:

The Shawshank Redemption.
Pulp Fiction.
Desperately Seeking Susan.
Dirty Dancing. ( Corny I know but takes me back to my youth!)
Frankie and Johnny.
Breakfast at Tiffanys.
Goodfellas.
Witness.
The Money Pit.

[beef]

update to add some movies i have seen recently and loved

Lars and the real girl

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805564/

this movie was AMAZING, it such an odd film and at a few places i actually thought i was going to be in tears laughing.

Mobsters

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102460/

The rise of luck lucciano and crew, good watch

V for Vendetta

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/

[re-saw this and forgot how good it is]

[pint6x]

Annie Hall
Withnail and I
A Fish called Wanda
Sleeper
Woodstock (film of the festival)
Big Time (Tom Waits)
Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads)
Most films by Woody Allen

[tbain]

Annie Hall
Withnail and I
A Fish called Wanda
Sleeper
Woodstock (film of the festival)
Big Time (Tom Waits)
Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads)
Most films by Woody Allen

I love Woody Allen films as well. My favourites are Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters.

[Enthusiast]

I've got to many to list! :)

[Kenny]

The Star Wars Films
Lord Of The Rings
Reign Of Fire
Monty Python The Life Of Brian
IRobot
Pirates Of The Carrabien
Spider Man 1,2 and 3
Men In Black 2
Indiana Jones (all of them)
Gladiator
Anchor Man:tong:

[Ruth]

Brokeback Mountain
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset
Fearless
Edward Scissorhands
21 Grams

[peacefield]

Too numerous to mention all, but here are some favorites:

Buffalo 66
Bottle Rocket
Gross Pointe Blank
Jaws
Smoke Signals
The Big Lebowski
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Being John Malkovich
Stranger Than Fiction
Magnolia
Ordinary People
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Rear Window

[Bookworm74]

Cinema Paradiso
It's A Wonderful Life
Moulin Rouge
Romeo + Juliet (the Baz Lurman version)
Full Metal Jacket
The Money Pit

[Inver]

OK here are a few of mine.

Singin In The Rain
The Glenn Miller Story
Love Actually
Gladiator
Anything with Sean Connery
Anything with Harrison Ford
Ladies in Lavender
Mrs Brown
When Harry Met Sally
Chariots of Fire
Local Hero
The Jungle Book
Chocolat
Wallace & Gromits (them all)

[Talisman]

A few of some of mine:

The Babylon 5 movies (In the Beginning, the Gathering, River of Souls, Third Space)
Star Wars films
Star Trek First Contact
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home

Life is Beautiful
What Dreams May Come
American Beauty
The Colour Purple
Fried Green Tomatoes
Thelma and Louise
Gladiator (especially THAT scene - when he tells Commodus who he is!)
Life of Brian
Carry on films
True Lies

[Inver]

Seems to be a lot of Gladiator fans here (is it the film or the man?????:smile2:)

[petit_canard25]

The Notebook
The Green Mile
The entire disney collection
van wilder: the party liaison
the invisible
transformer
bring it on
A Walk to Remember
A goofy movie

[Talisman]

Seems to be a lot of Gladiator fans here (is it the film or the man?????:smile2:)

A bit of both I suspect !

[whispering_pines]

My favourites are:
The Princess Diaries
Titanic
Harrry Potter(all parts!!)
The Parent Trap
Just My Luck
Home Alone

[Sedge]

Gremlins
The Goonies
Ghostbusters
The Green Mile
The Lost Boys
Alien
Back To The Future

[beef]

I have been looking everywhere for this movie. One particular store keeps advertising it in catalogues and in-store posters but I can't find it anywhere. :motz: One day...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bell-Book-Candle-James-Stewart/dp/B00006AFIH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1216840445&sr=8-1

t'intertubes to the rescue! :)

[Isidro]

Galaxy Quest
Saving Grace
Aliens
Alien 4 ("I'm the monster's mother" Classic!)
Lord of the Rings - all of em
Harry Potter - all so far
Labyrinth.

[literarisch]

I *adored* Babel..

[Gyre]

Batman Begins
Chicken Little
Dirty Dancing
Hellraiser
Highlander
Howl's Moving Castle
Little Big Man
Lord of the Rings (the whole series)
Night of the Hunter
Night Watch (Nochnoy dozor)
Poltergeist
Road to Perdition
Shrek 1 and 2
Spirited Away
The 40 Year Old Virgin
The Fifth Element
The Green Mile
The Shawshank Redemption
Wallace and Gromit (The Curse of the Wererabbit)
X-men
Zodiac

:D

[happyanddandy]

Muriel's Wedding :smile2:

[Kylie]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bell-Book-Candle-James-Stewart/dp/B00006AFIH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1216840445&sr=8-1

t'intertubes to the rescue! :)

Thanks Beef :D I might hold off a bit longer in hopes it will be released in Australia.

[supergran71]

I thought there was a thread for this, but I cant find it so I am starting another one.

I wanted to say that "Beaches" with Bette Midler is a real favourite of mine. I have just been listening to the song she recorded related to this film "Did you ever know that your my hero" what a great song, what a great film.

[Stephanie2008]

Wow. That's one of my faourites too. One of only a few films I would give 10/10. Others include:
*Pirates of the Caribbean - all 3. I love Johnny Depp and this is utter heaven.
*Girl Interrupted - don't know why I love it but I do.
*Finding Neverland - again with Johnny Depp.
*Clue - a must see for everyone.
*One True Thing - I'm a big big big fan of Meryl Streep.
*World Trade Centre - I thought it was very tastefully done.

[Raven]

I'm currently trying to work out a list of my top ten films for a poll on another web site.

I've whittled my choices down to the following, but I'm still trying to work out the exact order:

Amelie
Blade Runner
Sideways
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Matrix
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Jaws
Spirited Away

[bookwormmum]

Empire Records
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
The Wedding Singer

[Jo-Bridge]

LA Confidential

The Godfather

Silence Of the lambs

Singing in The rain

[Raven]

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind

Good film, I must watch it again some time.

LA Confidential

The Godfather

Silence Of the lambs

Singing in The rain

LA Confidential: Organised crime and guns

The Godfather: Organised crime and guns

Silence Of the lambs: Serial killers ahoy!

Singing in The rain: Gene Kelly

I can see a pattern there!

In all seriousness though, I do like LA Confidential, a brilliantly conceived and realised film.

[Jo-Bridge]

LA Confidential: Organised crime and guns

The Godfather: Organised crime and guns

Silence Of the lambs: Serial killers ahoy!

Singing in The rain: Gene Kelly

I can see a pattern there!

In all seriousness though, I do like LA Confidential, a brilliantly conceived and realised film.[/quote]

My favourite tv programs are Dexter, CSI and Criminal Minds. Even more of a pattern!!! I like High School musical though so i cant be that "dark"

[Tiger]

Love Life of Brian. But I think I must be the only person of my age to hate things like High School Musical and Camp Rock and Hannah Montanna... *shivers*

Also I love the new-ish St Trinians- we watched it on one of the last days of the school year last year, not knowing what to expect, and we were all hooked! :blush:

[pipread]

The Holy Grail, The Life of Brian & The Lord of The Rings films. :)

[Kylie]

I wanted to say that "Beaches" with Bette Midler is a real favourite of mine.

*Girl Interrupted - don't know why I love it but I do.

Two movie I can watch over and over again and never get sick of them.

In fact, I seem to recall watching Girl, Interrupted 3 times in one week. I think I hired it, and was so impressed that I bought it and then it was on TV :D

And The Shawshank Redemption is another one that stands up to repeated viewings. I could go on but I won't - I'm pretty sure I've posted all of this elsewhere.

[Ruth]

I thought I had posted on this thread, but I can't find my post, so apologies if I am repeating myself!

My favourites are:

Brokeback Mountain
Before Sunrise / Before Sunset
Edward Scissorhands
The Big Lebowski
Fearless

[Purple Princess]

A few movies that came to mind just now are:

The Notebook
The Prince of Egypt
The Butterfly Effect
American Pie
The Shawshank Redemption
Lord of the Rings
Independence Day

A very random list! :mrgreen:

[Charm]

I can't think of all my favourites at this moment so I'll just post a few! lol

Pulp Fiction
American Werewolf in London
Highlander
Silence of the Lambs
Goodfellas
Usual Suspects
Sixth Sense
Hannibal
Dog Soldiers
As Good As It Gets
Somethings Gotta Give

Now I could think of loads more but it would take up too much room! :smile2:

[bonnie banks]

lord of the rings [only watch the extended versions now]
local hero [a wee gem of a film, beautiful scenery and mark knoffler music, mmmm]
as good as it gets
uncle buck
anything with steve martin

this is a great forum! now I`ve got a TBW list and a huge TBR list

[O's]

Seven
Return of the Jedi
From dusk till dawn
Airplane
Loaded Weapon
Naked Gun films
Saw
Cabin Fever
Highlander

[Fluffyblue]

Some of my favourite films are:

Breakfast at Tiffanys
Withnail and I
Bad News, More Bad News and Mr Jolly Lives Next Door - The Comic Strip
Rear Window
Shakespeare in Love
Doctor Zhivago
The Big Blue
High Fidelity

I could go on, and on, and on... I love books and films SO much.

[Amanda]

Elizabethtown
The Jerk
Roman Holiday
Anything Hitchcock

[Vince]

overall fav Sexy Beast
then in no particular order
Blazing Sadles
Love, Honour & Obay
Scrooged
Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
Scum

[Raingirl]

Ice Cold In Alex
Whistle Down The Wind
Brief Encounter

[William]

The Notebook
A Walk To Remember
Die Hard (all 4)
The Butterfly Effect
Chicken Run
Mockingbird, Don't Sing
Forrest Gump
The Green Mile
Love Actually
Ice Age
The Lion King
Minority Report
Toy Story
Napoleon Dynamite
12 Angry Men
Braveheart