What are your favourite movies?

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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

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)

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

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

Victim
The Scent of a Woman
The French Connection
The Quiet Man and Ryan's Daughter.
Chicago...musical
Mission Impossible films

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Legends Of The Fall
American History X
The Painted Veil
Keeping The Faith
Fargo

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

Harry Potter 1 & 2
IT
Raiders of the Lost Ark
La La Land

From childhood:
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Oklahoma
The King and I
Fantasia, Bambi, Peter Pan (Disney)
The Ten Commandments
How the West Was Won
Whistle Down the Wind

From teens:
Far From the Madding Crowd
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Bonnie and Clyde
Dracula Prince of Darkness
The Great Escape

I'd have to think about any later films!

After you
My best friend
Conversations with my Gardner
Le Placard (hilarious)
La Cage au Folles
Tait Toi
The Women on the 6th floor
The dinner guest
Diary of a chambermaid
The Intouchables
Seraphine (utterly wonderful if you are an artist. A true story.)

What can I say? I love French films, and think Daniel Auteuil fantastic. Conversations with my Gardener especially is so moving.

The Last Emperor
The Sting. (This film for its superb design, lighting and production)

Educating Rita (because some of it is my story too).
Came a Hot Friday
Smash Palace
Utu (the ending has such an impact, made me cry)

Mephis Belle (another film based on a true story; the DVD extras feature the real crew)
Cranford (a TV series but I loved it)
Lark Rise to Candleford (ditto)
Tea with Mussolini
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Othello & Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh versions)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Keeping Mum
Muriel's Wedding
Arthur (the original with Dudley Moore)
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Shadowlands

Oh my goodness, I got a bit carried away.........sorry

1970s/1980's/1990s movies
Towering Inferno
Jaws
Grease
Speed
Saturday Night Fever
The Poseidon Adventure
An Officer and a Gentleman
Jurassic Park
Dances with Wolves

I am into musicals and comedies mainly as I see myself as a light hearted person. My favourite Musical has to be the iconic "The Sound of Music" but I love them all. xxxxxx

Uncle Buck
The Railway Children
Shenandoah
The Great Escape
The African Queen
Dances with Wolves

Anything with Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, James Stewart, John Wayne etc etc

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Big
Schindler's List
Stella Dallas
Goodfellas
Casino
Ghost
The Scent of a Woman
Dirty Dancing
Trains, Planes & Automobiles
Uncle Buck

Brief Encounter
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Enchanted April
Stepmom
The Third Man
Now, Voyager
Local Hero
Shirley Valentine
The Italian Job
The Big Short

What's eating Gilbert Grape
Come back to the five & dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are dead (Gary Oldman version)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
Secrets and Lies

Favourite Films:

Educating Rita BradfordLass2 - fits my life in so many ways. Good choice with Michael Caine and Julie Walters.

It's a Wonderful Life
The Empire Strikes Back
The Italian Job
The Remains of the Day
Blade Runner (original)
Up
To Kill a Mockingbird

Butch Cassidy
Apollo13
Pretty woman
Ryan’s daughter
The Parent Trap
Bridge over the River Kwai

I think 'The Sting' must be one of the most perfect films ever made. You cannot fault it. Not only two very handsome lead men plus the wonderful Robert Shaw, but a brilliant plot which keeps you guessing, and a very satisfactory outcome! I've just bought it on DVD for £4.39 as I'm longing to see it again.

I haven't actually been to the pictures as we used to call it for ages; but my passion is for the old musicals of the 50's and 60's. Out of those I think I would have to have to say all of the Rodgers and Hammerstein genre especially "Sound of Music" and maybe a contender might be "Seven brides for Seven brothers". I love Howard Keel. I like comedies as well and the old silent lie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and things. Magic xxxxx

Brooklyn, about a young Irish girl who emigrates to New York. A wonderful nostalgic film with a touching love story.

Favourite films -

Downton Abbey
Butch Cassidy..
I Know Where I`m Going
Local Hero
Apollo 13
The Philadelphia Story
Little Women (I think it was a TV film)
Educating Rita (my life too!)

I`m sure there are lots more, mostly old films it seems.

Oh I forgot the marvellous

Some Like it Hot

Gosford Park
War Horse
The Beckoning Silence
Waking Ned

Downton Abbey (saw it 3 times at pictures got DVD ordered)
Bohemian Rhapsody (saw it twice got DVD)
Finding Their Feet
Rebecca
The Searchers
Dark Victory
Now Voyager