Top 5 films

Gone with the Wind
The Boy in the striped Pyjamas
Jean de Florette
Manon de Source
American Grafitti

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Any time I need a laugh, it's Hot Fuzz for me.
To fill the next four slots, it's anything with Christopher Lee in it

Shawshank Redemption

The Notebook

The Driving of Miss Daisy

Fried Green Tomatoes

To Kill a Mockingbird.

Mmm, there should be more with Gregory Peck...

Oh, Jean de Florette! Of course! Make that my number 5

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. Pay It Forward
3. Dogma
4. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
5. Aw, shucks - anything directed by Pedro Almodóvar, basically!

Oh my goodness ... how could I have missed Groundhog Day!!! that's the trouble .... 5 is never enough and the top 5 keep shifting!

No-0ne has mentioned Groundhog Day! I'd also go for sleepless in Seattle, 4 weddings and a funeral, marigold hotel (first one) , Quartet, salmon fishing in the Yemen. Sorry that's 6. All but the first 2 are British. Get fed up with American ones but there are some exceptions. There are many more I could choose. We also do Love Film through Amazon and find it good though keeping list topped up is a chore, so lots of new ideas here, thanks!

As good as it gets , brilliantly funny/sad film with Jack Nicholson

Withnail and I , A must watch for those of us who lived through the 60/70`s.

Silver linings Playbook , Fab film about a man with Manic depression .

The Best of Men , TV film about the Dr who changed the way we treated men who came home from WW2 with disabilities .

Lovely Molly , If you like being genuinely scared which I do !

Just a few of my favourites

Five? Impossible..... but in no particular order I love

Brief Encounter
Double Indemnity
The Apartment
Erin Brokovich
Goodnight Mr Tom

but then of course there's also

Sleepless in Seattle
Notting Hill
South Pacific
Enchanted April
Wall-E

Only five? Ok here goes

My left foot

Love Actually

Jean de Florette

Ryan's Daughter

Lamb with Liam Neeson as a priest on the run with a boy ( nothing nasty) I loved this film and have tried many times to find it on DVD.

Untouchable. French film based on true story of crippled millionaire who hires illegal immigrant as a career. Heartwarming and very funny.

The Social Network. The story of Facebook.

Sorry, that's six. I could think of dozens.

I've just watched 'atonement' on DVD it wouldn't be a favourite but it's lovely. A nice little weepy at the end...sigh lovely on a rainy evening

I'll wait until the new rocky is out on DVD pittcity I do go to the cinema but only if I think a wide screen will enhance the film. I think James Bond films, action movies and westerns all warrant the expense. I don't really understand how to subscribe to Netflix or the Amazon thingy. I don't really want to subscribe to virgin or sky. Bit thick really. I'm going to look up some of the films mentioned on this thread, years of interesting film watching

The Reader

The Lives of Others
Fargo
Il Postino
Django Unchained
O Brother Where Art Thou
The Bridge of Spies
Pulp Fiction

Yes, Etre et Avior, Le Gloire de Mon pere and Chateau de Ma Mere.
I subscribe to Love Film which is now part of Amazon.

1.Far from the Madding Crowd ( Julie Christie version)
2. Midnight Cowboy
3. The Sound of Music
4. The Bridges of Madison County
5.A Star is Born ( Kris Kristofferson version)

I love Blazing Saddles and The Big Lebowski too Flippie

Are you going to see the new Rocky movie morethan2 ? I've never watched any of them but saw the trailer the other night.

Would it not be cheaper to subscribe to Netflix or similar instead of purchasing DVDs? We have pay per view movies with our TV package so it is a similar price to when we used to hire a movie from Blockbuster except you no longer have to get out of your chair.

Just remembered another one - Etre et Avoir - set in a French village school - delightful!

Airplane
Blazing saddles
The big lebowski
High society
Mama Mia
I could go on.....

Can I have the 4 Bourne films as my other 4? If so, sorted .

This has been a very interesting thread as I have always been interestied in films. My father used to take me to the "pictures" every week from the age of three. Silent movies in 1926. Saw the first talkie and the first colour film. Now that I am unable to go to the cinema I have make do with DVDs and whatever is on TV.

Shirley Valentine
Mama Mia
Calendar Girls
All Bond films
The King's Speech

Must be something wrong with me. I could watch Pulp Fiction endlessly but failing miserably to put together 5 films . Will keep thinking.

1. Matter of life and death
2. 3 men and a baby
3. Any of the godfather films
4. Any of the rocky movies
5. This happy breed

There's more but I'd be happy to rewatch these five over and over

What a great thread! Really enjoyed reading these. Mine are :

West Side Story
Guys and Dolls
The History Boys
Random Harvest
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Midnight Cowboy.....oops, can't count. Opportunities for a big or little cry in all of these.....