What are your favourite movies?

I've just re-read all the suggestions so I'd add about 90% of them to my list. I can't think of one film I'd place above all others.

The Scent of a Woman (especially the Tango scene)
Strictly Ballroom (for the pasa doble at the end)
Top Hat
Lawrence of Arabia
Destry Rides Again
Cat Ballou
Stage Coach
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Kurasowa films
Fellini films
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
Kwaidan (Japanese ghost stories)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf
The Big Country
The Thin Man (Myrna Loy and William Powell and Asta)
Most of Hitchcock's films
Bringing up Baby
ET
Stand By Me

Some of the above I saw several times whilst working at the Cameo Poly in Regent Street and it specialised in foreign films.

Am I right in thinking that this is probably our longest-lived thread, having begun three years ago, in November 2016?

Added plenty to my "to watch" list for the Christmas break from reading here!

I love Saving Mr Banks, Midnight in Paris, Educating Rita, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, and I love Miyazaki films since my niece introduced me to them.

Truly Madly Deeply
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Peters Friends
Misery
Death in Venice
Ronin
Sean of the Dead
and a few others

Last night on BBC 4 - Dr strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and love the bomb.:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b8c3

These are my four year old granddaughter's favourites when she visits me!
Any Disney movie (of course)
Blue Hawaii (she loves Elvis)
GI Blues (mostly for 'Wooden Heart')
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Calamity Jane
Tom Thumb
I'm getting ready to show her Oklahoma and Summer Holiday!

Mississippi Burning
Misery
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The Breakfast Club

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

Oh I forgot the marvellous

Some Like it Hot

Gosford Park
War Horse
The Beckoning Silence
Waking Ned

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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