What are your favourite movies?

I’d forgotten about ‘ThePainted Veil’. Wonderful film.

Legends Of The Fall
American History X
The Painted Veil
Keeping The Faith
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The Scent of a Woman
The French Connection
The Quiet Man and Ryan's Daughter.
Chicago...musical
Mission Impossible films

Midnight in Paris
An Affair to Remember
Trains, Planes and Automobiles
When Harry Met Sally
Moulin Rouge
The 39 Steps
Now Voyager
Gone Girl
To Kill A Mockingbird
As Good as it Gets
Annie Hall
Serendipity
The Third Man

I tend to like old films, feel-good films and thrillers. Not so fond of sci fi and I avoid horror films

Out of Africa........ The music so captures the mood,as images

My "favourite" changes with my mood. One film I can watch over and over is "Usual Suspects", (let's face it just about anything with Kevin Spacey). To lower the tone a bit - at the moment I am loving Deadpool - yes I know it has a lot of swearing and over the top violence but it is also very very funny (and I think Ryan Reynolds is very under-rated)

Avatar
The Abyss
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas watched first time July 2017
Schindlers List watched first time July 2017
Les Miserables...musical version with Hugh Jackman, Russel Crowe, etc
Chicago...musical
Mission Impossible films
The Matrix films
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo watched first time June 2017

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].

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

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.

Ah yes, On Golden Pond.

I also forgot The Princess Bride.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Forgot Educating Rita and Tokyo Story

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

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".

Exotic not Exootic sorry

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

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