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What are your favourite movies?

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DAncer66 Sun 06-Nov-16 14:26:03

Tell me about some of the best movies you ever watched.

annodomini Sun 23-Jul-17 23:29:56

OP, now you have ours, what about yours?

annodomini Sun 23-Jul-17 23:22:41

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.

gulligranny Sun 23-Jul-17 22:11:09

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

Deedaa Wed 19-Jul-17 22:18:28

A bit of a mixture -

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

And many more!

Shamrock Tue 18-Jul-17 14:50:27

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.

Jayh Tue 08-Nov-16 16:19:07

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.

NonnaW Mon 07-Nov-16 22:16:14

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

callgirl1 Mon 07-Nov-16 18:01:45

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)

Welshwife Mon 07-Nov-16 15:17:10

The Deer Hunter - could never wattch it a second time though!
Days of Wine and Roses
Victim
The Scent of a Woman
The French Connection
The Quiet Man and Ryan's Daughter.
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Tea with Mousolini
The new film -- Changeling
And a lot more!

KatyK Mon 07-Nov-16 15:07:35

I love The King and I too.

DAncer66 Mon 07-Nov-16 14:20:08

Movies/films (phoenix smile) I've loved

Four Weddings & A Funeral
Shawshank Redemption
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 1 & 2
The Bourne movies
Jesse Stone movies

Oldies but goodies -

Anyone ever see The Day They Gave Babies Away? My first sad movie. Sooo sad I have never forgotten it.

What about -

The Parent Trap, Catbaloo, The Longest Journey, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Cool Hand Luke, A Street Car Named Desire, On The Water Front, Paint Your Wagon, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, The Graduate, In The Heat Of The Night, Cape Of Fear, Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, Ryan's Express, Bonnie and Clyde, Gone With The Wind, Imitation of Life, Madam X, Whistle Down The Wind, The Sting, Butch Cassidy, Soldier Blue, Shirley Valentine, The Magnificent Seven, Shogun, Adam's Rib, Arsenic and Old Lace, The ghost & Mrs Muir, The African Queen, Casablanca,,,,,

flowers

TerriBull Sun 06-Nov-16 20:23:42

Godfather 1 and 2
Don't Look Now
Death in Venice (The one with the Mahler soundtrack)
Barry Lyndon
Indochine
Jean de Florette and Manon de Source
Gone with the Wind
Dr Zhivago
Ryan's Daughter
The English Patient
Butch Cassidy, Bonnie and Clyde and Funny Girl (loved all of these when I was a teenager sneaked into Bonnie and Clyde X rated when I was 14)
Gladiator
Saturday Night Fever
Pulp Fiction (more for the iconic dance scene than the whole thing)
About a Boy
Big (an early Tom Hanks that my children loved)
Toy Story (First Pixar film that one of my sons sat practically opened mouthed all the way through)
Brief Encounter (just love listening to the clipped accents and marvelling at the stiff acting - of it's time)
The Bridget Jones trio for feel good escapism

Quite sure I've forgotten some.

gettingonabit Sun 06-Nov-16 20:03:08

Birds, Psycho, Vertigo.
Rebecca.
Brief Encounter.
Seance on a Wet Afternoon.
The Piano Teacher (a bit um...strange, that one).
The Exorcist.
The Dambusters.
Double Indemnity.
Niagara.

Shanma Sun 06-Nov-16 19:59:21

The African Queen
Brief Encounter
Rebecca
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
West Side Story
King Kong

I am sure there are more, cannot think of them just now

Greyduster Sun 06-Nov-16 19:05:23

The Lion in Winter;
Out of Africa;
Seven years in Tibet;
Dead Poets Society;
A Bridge Too Far;
The Searchers;
Anything with Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in it;
To Kill a Mockingbird;
Rebecca;
Mrs Miniver;
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
Too many others to mention.

nanaK54 Sun 06-Nov-16 17:29:34

Sleepless in Seattle
City of Angels
Brief Encounter
Shirley Valentine
Calendar Girls
Random Harvest
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

shandi6570 Sun 06-Nov-16 17:28:21

Ooh, forgot The Full Monty grin

KatyK Sun 06-Nov-16 17:28:00

Oh and Midnight Cowboy

KatyK Sun 06-Nov-16 17:26:50

The Way We Were is my all time favourite. Others that come to mind are -

Soldier Blue (it was shocking at the time)
Educating Rita
Billy Elliot
Kes
Too many to mention really
and just lately The BFG smile

shandi6570 Sun 06-Nov-16 17:22:49

The Sting
Grease
Wind Beneath my Wings
Despicable Me (Minions)grin

durhamjen Sun 06-Nov-16 17:20:28

I, Daniel Blake at the moment.
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Kes
Once
Oranges and Sunshine
A Beautiful Mind
All the Tolkein ones.

Heather23 Sun 06-Nov-16 17:16:22

Polyanna - with Hayley Mills (first film I remember seeing)
Out of Africa
English Patient
Born Free
Ring of Brightwater
Mamma Mia
An Education
Don't Look Now (Julie Christie)
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

grannypiper Sun 06-Nov-16 17:10:22

The Quiet man or anything with John Wayne.
THE Devine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood

DanniRae Sun 06-Nov-16 17:07:46

I can't believe that I forgot two of my very favourites = A Town Like Alice - Sense and Sensibility.

They both have such wonderful endings!!

DanniRae Sun 06-Nov-16 17:03:35

Grease - Sleepless in Seattle - Love Actually - Parenthood - Pretty Woman - Harry Met Sally - The Great Escape - Indianna Jones Films - Shrek Films