What are your 10 favourite movies

I forgot Tea with Mussolini. With such a stellar cast it had to be brilliant!

The Quiet American (from the Graham Greene novel) was brilliant - I’d happily watch that again.

There are several that I thought brilliant but wouldn’t choose to see again, because they’re too sad or poignant - especially if true stories, e.g. Schindler’s List.

There was a brilliant TV docu-drama a couple of years ago, about Rudolf Nureyev and his ultimate defection. Did anyone else see it? The young actor they got to play RN was astonishing - so amazingly like him. And it certainly brought back the Cold War shivers familiar to anyone old enough to remember.
I’m very glad I recorded it - have re watched more than once.
I think it was Beeb but can’t be sure.

Most of my favourites are in the lists, but would add:
K-Pax
The Green Mile
The Shawshank Redemption

Good to have other people's recommendations

A Lion in Winter
On Golden Pond
To Kill a Mockingbird
Casablanca
The Party (with Peter Sellers)
Somersby
The return of Martin Guerre
How to train your dragon - all 3
Bridges of Madison county
Jules et Jim

On Golden Pond
Dances with Wolves
Baby Boom
Cast Away
Waterworld
Ice Cold in Alex
A Town like Alice
The Admirable Crichton
Cold Mountain
Message in a Bottle

Incredible Hithere Thank you.

Well done Hithere - You get a Gransnet "Masses of Effort" Award

Film Director Sam Mendes gives his top ten

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/8hq8dMdVmqTTg0yldwyRV4/life-cinematic-sam-mendes-10-greatest-film-moments

Thanks varian!

I want to watch several of them now

Brilliant compilation Hithere

Well done - that is not a random sample of moviegoers but still very interesting.

For that specific entry, yes, it was only mentioned once

However, if somebody had mentioned "all Matt damon movies", it is not part of the count for your pick, I hope it makes sense.

Was I the only one who liked the talented Mr Ripley?
Or have I missed its rating?

The Lion in Winter (Hepburn and O’Toole);
A Bridge Too Far (for its wonderful casting);
Bring Up Baby (Hepburn and Cary Grant);
Bridges of Madison County;
A River Runs Through It;
Raiders of the Lost Ark;
All the Star Wars films;
Skyfall;
The Searchers (in fact, all the John Wayne/John Ford westerns);
Shenandoah (James Stuart).

2 continued -
Fiddler on the roof
Far from the madding crowd
Elf
East of eden
Dracula (1992)
Disney movies
The commitments
The colour purple
A Christmas Carol
Carve her name with pride
Carousel
Bridge of spies
Breakfast at tiffany's
Born free
The bodyguard
12 angry men
About a boy
Admirable chricton
All the president's men
Annie hall
As good as it gets
Back to the future series
Bambi
Barry Lyndon
Bishop's wife
Blade runner

2-
Withnail and i
When harry met sally
What we did on our holiday
Went the day well?
The war of the worlds (original)
The taste of honey
Spartacus
Sleeping with the enemy
Silkwood
Shrek movies
The shining
Shall we dance
Serendipity
The searchers
Saving mr banks
Saturday night fever
The remains of the day
Rear window
Rabbit proof fence
The quiet man
Quartet
Pride and prejudice
The pianist
Philomena
The Philadelphia story
Miracle on 34th street
Mildred pierce
The magnificent seven
Lord of the rings
Lion king
Les miserables
Leon
Lady killers
It is a mad mad world
Interview with a vampire
The inn of the 6th happiness
Indiana Jones series
Home alone
Harvey
The great Gatsby
Gran turino
Gosford park
Godfather trilogy
Godfather 1
Ghost goes west
Gangs of New York

4 -
You've got mail
The way we were
The good, the bad and the ugly
Seven brides for seven brothers
Sense and sensibility
The pelican brief
Love story
Local hero
The King and i
The graduate
The english patient
The deer hunter
Bringing up baby

3-
Whistle down the wind
Top gun
Thelma and louise
The sting
Star wars
Silence of the lambs
Ryan's daughter
Rebel without a cause
Rain man
The railway children
The prime of miss Jean bridie
The priest
The piano
Paddington
Out of Africa
Now Voyager
A night to remember
Mrs doubtfire
Moonstruck
Mission
Marigold hotel
Mamma Mia
Little women
Kind hearts and coroners
The holiday
High society
Harry Potter series
The green mile
Great expectations
Goodbye mr chip
Godfather 2
Erin brockovich
Downtown abbey
Dead poet's society Casablanca
Calamity jane
Cabaret
Blithe spirit
Better Davis' movies
Beaches
The apartment
Alien
The African queen
84 charring cross road
2001 a space odyssey

7 - sleepless in seattle, shawshank redemption, pulp fiction, ET, dances with wolves
6- one flew over the cuckoo's nest, an officer and a gentleman, notting hill, mary Poppins, Lawrence of Arabia, the last of mohicans, the great escape, ghost, dont look now, butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid
5- south Pacific, shadowlands, rebecca,midnight cowboy, life of Brian, godfather, four weddings and a funeral, brasses off

16 votes - brief encounters
15 - gone with the wind
14 - some like it hot
14 - love actually
13 - west side story
12 - dirty dancing
11 - sound of music, grease, dr zhivago
9 - to kill a mocking bird, Schindler's list, it's a wonderful life, bridges of Madison county

The winner with 17 votes is.......

Pretty woman!

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Now consolidating results and see which movies are the favourites

Thanks for your patience!

PamelaJ1, I'm usually wary of films of stage musicals because they usually mess things up and, well, my ASD kicks in. The most egregious being ~Cabaret~ in my humble opinion; I love the original London cast album with the young Judi Dench as the slightly fly-blown Londoner Sally Bowles, so unlike American vamp Sally Bowles. And they took good songs out.

BUT SBFSB is a made-for-TV musical so even if the story is a bit iffy I don't care, I love it!

Quite a few of you share my love of 7Brides for 7 brothers. It always cheers me up and it was on this afternoon.
Great start to Christmas.

Back to the old days - National Velvet.
And the Lassie films.
More recent, but stll old
Last Tango in Paris.
The Deerhunter
And 2 Billy Wilder films
The Appartment
and
Some like it Hot.
There's a page on BBC iplayer with favourite films:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p065hg34

I forgot 'Harvey'

I have just enjoyed re-watching "It's a Wonderful Life" - a really great film and the plot has been imitated on other classics like "Back to the Future"

Hello all! Cannot believe I left the wonderful 'Paint your wagon' off my list. If I have to stick to the rules I will take Calamity off as I already have the blissful Doris on my list. Fair's fair but this wasn't half difficult. I'm absolutely revelling in the current binge of golden oldies on telly.