The films you love and will never forget

Stella Dallas, an old black & white Barbara Stanwyck film. I always cry at that.

I also love old Clint Eastwood spaghetti Westerns

I don't sit through that many films but ones I have managed to purely because they were great films are...
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
The King and I ... Many times
The Sound of Music... Many times
Dirty Dancing ..I watched this 5 times in one week after having my first stroke as it's all I could focus on and make me forget my woes for a while.
Pretty Woman
South Pacific
Full Metal Jacket
Ones I can remember as a child but don't know the famous actors or film title but you might enjoy guessing what I'm on about are...
One where a man and woman rescue a load of children during a war and lead them through the jungle . I think she "was" a nun!P
Another one a wartime film about meeting under a clock and I think it may have been Judy Garland in it.Jacket
I'm sure I will think of more.

Woman in a Dressing gown.
I'm not sure I was born when it came out but its my absolute favourite.
More recently Iris. Jim Broadbent excellent in it.

When I was young my dad took me to see "The King and I" and we loved it so much that we took my mum to see it. After a little while I turned to my mum to say "It's good isn't it?" and she was fast asleep!

The Graduate - I must have watched it 50 times, I love it - I had read the book and Dustin Hoffman was completely the opposite to how the character was described so it's quite surprising that he managed to play the part so well.
My other is Zero Population Growth but have never managed to find it again or find anyone else who ever saw it - it haunted me for years. I have the feeling it was quietly withdrawn because of the subject matter - it was around the time of Soylent Green, which again was memorable.

I took my daughters to see Yul Brynner in The King and I in the Palladium in the seventies. It really is a spectacular stage show.

I recall seeingA tale of Two Cities with Dirk Bogarde when I was at boarding school. I thought he was just wonderful!

To all of you Gransnetters out there who love 'The King and I' as much as I do.
Then do go and see the show in London at the Palladium.
It is absolutely wonderful. I came out of the theatre singing 'Shall we dance', and I kid you not, if a gentleman had stopped and asked me to dance down the street, I would have done, and I have 2 left feet !!!
A Fabulous Show.

I love many of the films mentioned here. I think my favourite film is The Way We Were, followed closely by Dances with Wolves. Back in the day I loved Love Story, To Sir with Love, lots more. I can remember going to the cinema to see Soldier Blue and when it ended, no one in the cinema moved. It was the first time most people realised the atrocities the soldiers committed against the native Americans. People were shocked.

And for a bit of relaxation pleasure, I do like watching my dvd of The Jazz Singer, starring Neil Diamond.

North by Northwest - a great fun Hitchcock film.

Some Like it Hot - fabulous

Magic - really scary film with Anthony Hopkins

Don't look Now Visually beautiful, moving, and spooky as well. Favourite adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier story apart from Hitchcock's The Birds.

Reach for the Sky with Kenneth More
Genevieve with Kenneth More
The 39 Steps with Kenneth More
also loads of the wonderful WW11 films.

I love Brief Encounter - it's so buttoned up, but with that incredibly passionate Rachmaninov soundtrack it's one of the most romantic films ever made.

I also love Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Field of Dreams, Now Voyager (Bette Davis at her fabulous best) and The Lion in Winter. Plus South Pacific, West Side Story and The King & I.

So many. I have always been an efficiando of musicals tho and I could see any of them over time and time again. Off hand "Singin' in the Rain" and "The Sound of Music" BIG COL

Some Like It Hot - best comedy
West Side Story - best musical
Deadly Pursuit - best thriller
The 39 Steps - best espionage
The Shining - best scary

I'm not a huge film buff, but I loved 'Educating Rita'.

the Road To Morocco.

I liked the old 'Road' films, watched one this Summer with DGS who laughed his head off.

Not massively old but my favourite film of all time is To Sir with Love . Sydney Poitier plays a teacher who " tames" a classroom of unruly teenagers. Lulu sung the soundtrack song and Judy Geeson was one of the kids so you can see it's not recent but I love it, watched it many times. I think Poitier was a brilliant actor and very sexy. Loved him also playing Virgil Tibbs in The Heat of the Night with Rod Steiger

How could I forget Casablanca - we will always have Paris

J52
I'm with you there on Gone with the wind.
I think the ending of American Graffiti is rather sad.
If I could only have one film it would have to be Laurence of Arabia, I fell in love with Peter O'toole in his white 'robe'
I wish I could watch Out of Africa again, but I can't, I found it unbearably sad.
Has anyone mentioned The Shawshank Redemption? great film.
For a good laugh it has to be Blazing Saddles.

Casablanca and soooo many others ( play it again Sam)

Gone With the Wind, it has everything in it.
American Graffiti because it’s a rights of passage set in a time when teenagers were ‘born’ and the music’s great.

So many films to choose, and not enough space.
I love the King and I, the songs are amazing, and ditto Yul Brynner who was the sexiest bald man alive when bald was considered unattractive.
Off to see the show in London soon, I cannot wait.