Classic films you feel your children must see before growing up?

[Enko]

DH and I have decided to create a movie night with the children (all teens to 21)

Tonight we are going to watch Casablanca or Some like it hot.

What classic films do you feel are " must watch?"

I introduced my two to 80s films, and they love Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Not sure it's a classic, mind.

Some Like it Hot is perfect.
I have taught dd well and she introduces all her friends to Singing in the Rain.

Withnail & I - but maybe just for the older ones

ET and The Breakfast Club. But ET mostly.

The princess bride

I second ET ... but mine also like all the Indiana Jones movies.

ET definitely
Back to the future
Grease

The Great Escape
Mr Deeds Goes to Town

• ET for sure!
• Jurassic Park when they are a bit bigger.
• Father of the Bride (90’s version)
• Schindlers List (when they are old enough to understand - the Holocaust is a very important part of our family history unfortunately. I’d rather them watch it with me and ask questions that I can answer properly than leave their holocaust education to a chapter in a history textbook at school)

Clueless

Indiana Jones
The Princess Bride
Robin Hood - Men in Tights
The Goonies
The Italian Job

Big Momma’s House
The Lives of Others
Katyn
The Pianist

The Towering Inferno

I made my DC watch ET at Christmas.
Back to the Future
The Goonies
Gremlins!

The Truman show
Miracle on 59th street
The sound of music
Disney Robin Hood
The wizard of oz

My two gave up on Grease.

They do like Home Alone and Tremors.

Donnie Dario
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
Trainspotting
Clerks
Lost Boys

DH watched Shaun of the dead and Monty Python and the holy grail with 13 year old DD when her little brothers were off on sleepovers and I was out.

Those are quite good ones.

ET and Home Alone for slightly younger children.

I've never watched Casablanca myself - it doesn't appeal.

The teenagers made me watch Hot Fuzz. I didn't get it at all.

I do this with my children. On my list are:

• The Breakfast Club
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Pretty in Pink
• Valley Girl
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• St Elmo's Fire
• The Outsiders
• A Little Romance
• Purple Rain
• The Apartment
• Sunset Boulevard
• All About Eve
• The Graduate
• To Kill A Mockingbird
• The Godfather 1
• The Godfather 2
• The Philadelphia Story
• Rear Window
• The Sound of Music
• Oklahoma
• When Harry Met Sally
• Dead Poet's Society
• Mystic Pizza
• Good Will Hunting
• Rocky I
• Casablanca
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• On the Waterfront
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Charade
• Roman Holiday
• Sabrina
• Star Wars 4,5,6
• Tampopo
• 400 Blows
• Argent de Poche
• La Boum
• Jean de Fleurette
• Manon du Source

Breakfast at tiffanys
The shining
The omen
Dirty dancing
Ben but
Towering inferno
All about eve
The birds
Rebecca

I've shown them Blazing Saddles so Young Frankenstein still to go. The Python films, Casablanca, Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, Local Hero, The Long Good Friday, Breakfast Club, Alien, Blade Runner, Now Voyager, Seven Year Itch or Some Like it Hot, Withnail and I.

Escape to Witch Mountain
The Time Bandits
Labyrinth

I have a 7yo. s far he¡'s been introduced to:

Indiana Jones
Goonies
ET
Home Alone 1+2
Wizzard of Oz
Matilda
Top Secret
Willow
Top Gun (LOVED it, although he asked us to fast forward the 'euw, kissing' scene )
Karate Kid 1+2 (80s original)
Police Academy (is his favourite above all!)
Labrynth