What are your favourite movies?

Dark Victory
I`ll Cry Tomorrow
Imitation of Life (agree about the tissues)
Any Rodgers and Hammerstein musical
The Quiet Man
The Champ (more tissues!)
Some of the 1930s musicals (those filmed from above)

Singing in the Rain and all those old Hollywood musicals. Used to love all the Judy Garland films. As well as lots mentioned already.

I am a big fan of black and white movies. So anything with the usual suspects, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Edward G Robinson. Etc.

Recently, I have been introduced to my GDs favourites.
Inside Out,
The Minions
The Secret Life Of Pets

I also like the Star Wars Films and all the Harry Potters as well as many of the films already mentioned.

Recently the whole family watched the movie Albert: Up, Up And Away! - I strongly advise to view. You can even view online, for example on putlockers.zone/ - there are a lot of movies in great quality). Albert: Up, Up And Away! Is an animated adventure based on the book by beloved Danish children's writer, Ole Lund Kirkegaard. Full of action and laughs, Albert also teaches children an important lesson on the value of friendship as young Albert goes on an epic quest to become a balloon captain.

A bit of a mixture -

The Godfather 1 & 2
Love Actually
Rebecca
Fantasia
Raiders of the Lost Ark

And many more!

Brief Encounter
South Pacific
Field of Dreams
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Erin Brokovich
Enchanted April
Big
The Apartment
The Shawshank Redemption
Goodnight Mr Tom

Loads more, too many to mention

Slumdog Millionaire
Brother, Where Art Thou?
Local Hero
Some Like it Hot
Apocalypse Now
High Noon
Guys and Dolls
South Pacific
Singing in the Rain
The Philadelphia Story
On Golden Pond
The African Queen
Casablanca
Doctor Zhivagp

and anything with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

OP, now you have ours, what about yours?

The Commitments
Back to the Future, particularly the first one.
Incredible me

Favourite of all time To Sir with Love. Just think Sidney Poitier is fantastic.
Also like him in They call me Mr Tibbs

Other films
Ghost
Dirty Dancing
The Shawshank Redemption
Lion King 1&2
It's a Wonderful Life
The Queen
Arthur Christmas ( hilarious and very suitable for the grandchildren)
Schindlers List ( harrowing but very good)
The Best Exootic Marigold Hotel
Top Gun
Australia ( great story fabulous scenery)

I could go on and on

Exotic not Exootic sorry

Oh dear - I've just noticed I wrote "Incredible me" - I meant, of course, "Despicable Me".

If I had to rescue just one DVD in a fire I think it would be "My Fair Lady".

Too many to fully list but here are a few

Driving Miss Daisy
Crash (not the David Cronenberg one)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Ides of March
Kes
Philomena
Grease
Castaway
The Little Shop Around the Corner
Once Around
Baghdad Cafe
Midnight Cowboy
The Lacemaker
Japanese Story
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
Notting Hill
Spirit of 45
The Parallax View
Three Days of the Condor
Up in the Air
Big
Jean de Florette/Manon de Source

Forgot Educating Rita and Tokyo Story

Some like it hot. Marilyn Monroe a true sex symbol
The shining. Jack Nicholson terrifying.
Deliverance. Good mix of actors. Loved the Duelling Banjos.
Jurassic Park - love dinosaurs, just like my two grandsons.
Deadly Pursuit - Sidney Poitier excellent.
Any Hitchcock film, especially The Birds.

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday - cracks me up every time!
Calamity Jane - I know all the words to every song!
Some Like it Hot - ditto
Singing In The Rain - ditto again
Philadelphia Story - and again
Pillow Talk or anything with Doris Day
Blazing Saddles
Lion

Yes, where to begin - and where to stop ...
Newest favourite: About Time

Old favourites:
The Shop Around the Corner
It's a Wonderful Life
The Apartment
The Quiet Man
To Sir With Love
Groundhog Day
When Harry Met Sally

I've just carefully combed through this thread again and am amazed that no one has mentioned Mary Poppins.

Most of the films listed I agree with, but there are some awfully sad and brutal ones in there, too.

A really cheering film is Jumping Jack Flash. So many others keep flitting through my mind, but I can't remember them all.

Don't like Hitchcock films. Not because they are scary, but because they aren't. They all seem so amateurish.

Just remembered a surprise hit with my children was ' Blackbeard's Ghost' - it is when it becomes vital that they add it to their own collection in later years that you realise they valued the memories built around watching it ... and same goes for Muppet's Christmas Carol.

JackyB your post made me realise that my own top choices are all 'feel good' movies. Must say something about me - I do tend to avoid horrors and thrillers.

Out of Africa
Educating Rita
Shirley Valentine
Its a wonderful life
Steel Magnolias
Butch cassidy&the sundance kid
Camelot
Rain man..

..forgot..The quiet man
. On golden pond
. Never ending story
Driving Miss Daisy
. Fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe.

Ah yes, On Golden Pond.

I also forgot The Princess Bride.

Before Sunrise/Before Sunset/Before Midnight
LA Story
Jour de Fete
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
High Noon
Any of Greta Garbo's - going back a bit I know, but so do I!

There are more, of course.

Bridges of Madison County ...absolute favourite,pass the hankie
Some Like it Hot.......still funny,no matter how many times you see it
Metropolis......can't believe such an old film is so good
Don't Look Now...chilling

Eloethan; I saw The Lacemaker on tv many many years ago but I must have loved it because it stuck in my mind. I must see it again. I've just bought The Quiet Man; so NOT CORRECT these days, but I love the locations and I was named after Maureen O'Hara.I'll have a think about my list as I dust the next room [am spring cleaning/decluttering at the moment].