Movies that you'll never forget, or wish you could!

Victim with Dirk Bogarde is really good.
And I loved Sceance on a Wet Afternoon.

I used to love those Mike Leigh films (I tend to prefer British ones!) like Meantime and Secrets and Lies. Pretty dated now, I suppose.

And I have a very soft spot for Shaun of the Dead.

Loved
Captain Courageous
One flew over cuckoos nest
South Pacific
Sound of Music
English patient
Black Christmas (scared me stiff)
Didnt enjoy
Mama Mia

Soldier Blue, TheRabbit Proof Fence, Punishment Park and, most of all, Life Is Beautiful.

I hated Sophie's choice when I watched it my daughter and son were the same age as the children in the film.

I agree with icanhandthemback "The Human Centipede." it is just sick and revolting!

I went to see The Exorcist' when I was a teenager. It was a bank holiday and a lovely sunny day. There was a load of lads from the same pub sitting in the same area in the cinema and they were hilarious. When the bed starts jumping up and down one wag shouted 'You can tell that is not a Slumberland' and the whole audience started laughing. When Regan started vomiting / spewing green bile another lad shouted 'Oh look mushy peas!'. Again the whole audience was laughing their heads off. The lads kept making funny comments and it took the terror of the movie away. When we came out of the cinema it was still lovely and sunny and I wasn't the least bit bothered. On the other hand a girlfriend had gone in the evening with her boyfriend to see this film. She was so disturbed she turfed her father out of his bed and slept with her mother for about two weeks with the door open and the landing light on. Her dad had to sleep in her bed.

Silverlady33 - I think you were lucky those boys were there! Most people seem to have been totally traumatised including me. However, if it had been any other film I think I'd have been really annoyed with their behaviour.

ananimous OHHH myyy gosh!! I saw the title of the thread and thought *erasurehead! oh myy..

I was convinced no one else had seen this movie..lol

It must have been about 35 yrs ago myself and hubby went to little cinema .I seem to think it was in black n white or maybe it started off like that.

Wasnt it about bodies ground up or heads and made into pencils with a rubber on the end...( I can never look at a pencil with rubber on end without thinking about it) cant believe you named that is your film) quite disturbing actually, i've never forgotten about it

Just looked up the plot of Eraserhead:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraserhead
Some people have very sick minds and make movies for people with sick minds who presumably enjoy them. I do remember seeing it maybe on TV many years ago, but I think we switched it off! ?

It was on late one night. I couldn't make out what I was watching so called up to my daughter who came down and watched it with me. We sat in silence for the duration. When it ended she said 'thank you for that, mother' and went back to bed. I don't think we ever spoke about it; however we do tend to watch weird things anyway.

...having said that, I would never watch The Human Centipede. There's wierd and there's downright sick...

[Chestnut] we had no clue what the film was about, those days (I must be talking 40 yrs ago about) you didn't have as much info about the film, these days by time you have seen the trailers, you have almost seen all the film.

I thankfully don't rem much about it only it was weird and the end results were pencils!

Ryan's Daughter was a good one, think it was John Mills.

I agree bikergran; all I can remember is the baby crying and the pipes. At least it didn't give me nightmares for 50 years like The Exorcist.....

See the power of the Exorcist after all these years!!!! we are still talking about it. Just shows how these things can have a lasting impression on your mind. I'm fairly sure that if I now watched it as an adult I would find it laughable but I really CANT ?

I agree May7 and I have never been able to watch it again. I was a horror fan until the Exorcist but that finished me. I never saw a horror film at the cinema again, only on TV where I can switch off!

Yes Chesnut me too.

Childhood films - Mandy and Calamity Jane

My colleague and I, both third year student nurses, on night duty shifts, deciding to see The Exorcist one afternoon. That night we sat at our desk in an eerie old Victorian ward scared witless at the least noise.

Out of Africa
Life is Beautiful
Shining Through
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
All Monsieur Hulot films
Casablanca, especially when they sing La Marseillaise
Now Voyager

My all time favourite has got to be Lawrence of Arabia. Great score, wonderful desert scenes, great story and acting by then unknowns, Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole.

Most unfavourite, at the other end of the scale, I watched one evening. I went out with OH and a friend I thought to see Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a romance with Ewan McGregor and (I think) Clare Danes.

Turns out the friend had decided she wanted to see something about drug dealing in the backstreets (and underground car parks) of Buenos Aires. No idea what it was called, but it was a horrible let down...

Still remember The Divided Heart from 60+ years ago, and the original Dumbo and Bambi!
Loved Stella, and Beaches both with Bette Midler. Also
Out of Africa, Dr. Zhivago, Secrets and Lies, Sophie's Choice, Midnight Cowboy, Cathy Come Home (that station scene, so harrowing}
Never seen Exorcist, Clockwork Orange or Reservoir Dogs, quite glad now after reading all the negative comments.
Just watched Parasite. Not sure what all the hype was about!

What about Bonnie and Clyde and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid both favourites of mine from the 1960s. There were two programmes on TV recently about the real people (both films) which were fascinating. They were all folk heroes despite being criminals because people sympathised with them. They were raised in very tough times. Butch and Sundance didn't kill people, Bonnie and Clyde definitely did but still loads of people turned up at their funerals to mourn them. The movies were of course highly glamorised but basically portrayed what actually happened. I adored those movies because I was in love with the three leading men! ?

I saw Gorillas in the Mist many years ago. I started crying half way through and couldn't stop for hours. I could never watch it again because it was so distressing.

I've loved so many films over the years that it's almost impossible to list them. I particularly enjoy all musicals, my favourite being Cabaret I think.... or Carousel...
In particular The Graduate made a huge impression as it started my long admiration of Dustin Hoffman as an actor, and introduced me to the music of Simon and Garfunkle.
One daft film which sticks in mind is Tremors with Kevin Bacon, it's so stupid and yet so funny.

2001: A Space Odyssey! Watched it on a h-u-g-e Panorama Screen around 1970 - amazing film. Modern screen cinemas and TV screens just can't do this film the justice that it deserves.

Also watched:
Soldier Blue
Shawshank Redemption
Empire of The Sun
Schindler's List - all of which left a very lasting impression on me .

Forgot to add - @Kalu - 'Mandy' leaves me in tears every time that I watch it!

My daughter suffered very badly with 'glue ear' until the age of 5 - and it always reminds of 'what COULD have been' . But my youngest granddaughter was a 'dead ringer' for the young Mandy Miller - with that confused/quizzical look on her face.