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What is your favourite film ?

74 replies

Lardlizard · 16/08/2020 20:00

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ScorpioSphinxInACalicoDress · 16/08/2020 21:38

Local Hero for me too.
Dead Poet's Society

Usernameisgone · 16/08/2020 21:39

Shawshank Redemption.

GlitchStitch · 16/08/2020 21:39

Con Air

Kayemm · 16/08/2020 21:41

Joint first are One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and High Society.

Honorable mentions to:-

Sunshine on Leith
The Station Agent
Some Like It Hot
West Side Story
Little Miss Sunshine
The King and I
Kenneth Brannagh's Much Ado
Harry Potter's
Oceans 11
Little Mermaid
Sense and Sensibility

Oh I could go on. 🙂

OohKittens · 16/08/2020 21:42

Abigails party
Clockwise
Breakfast club
Safety not guaranteed

firstimemamma · 16/08/2020 21:42

Lost in translation

JaJaDingDong · 16/08/2020 21:44

The Shawshank Redemption
The Jazz Singer
Singing in the Rain

AnneLovesGilbert · 16/08/2020 21:46

Casablanca
Independence Day
Sliding doors
Sense and sensibility

dementedma · 16/08/2020 21:48

Witness
Lord of the Rings
Dirty Dancing
Children of a Lesser God

golddustwomen · 16/08/2020 21:54

@AnneLovesGilbert LOVE sliding doors. Haven't watched that for years!

quarentini · 16/08/2020 22:04

Beaches ... it manages to be happy and sad at the same time

fiveguy · 16/08/2020 22:07

Towering Inferno

ShowOfHands · 16/08/2020 22:09

Brokeback Mountain

(The Station Agent is awesome. Only watched it because @BitOfFun recommended it many years ago and I loved it)

footballfan1963 · 16/08/2020 22:09

The Odd Couple
Educating Rita
Cinema Paradiso
Parenthood

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 16/08/2020 22:10

Oh I don’t think I could just pick one.
I love horror and weepies and Disney, so quite a contrast really.

Cinderella
Dumbo (Both Disney and weepy)
Step Mom
Marley and Me.
The Shining
Pet Semetary
The others.
Mary Poppins
Muriel’s Wedding

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 16/08/2020 22:11

The parent trap

janj2301 · 16/08/2020 22:18

Paint Your Wagon, Monsters Inc, Wall-e

Kote · 16/08/2020 22:19

Cheesy but... The Notebook

Snoopysimaginaryfriend · 16/08/2020 22:23

If I had to pick just one it would be The Misfits, Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable driving off towards the stars together ... I think it was the last film they both made before they died.

OneTooManyBathtimes · 16/08/2020 22:29

Ooh, Oceans 13 is also one I can easily watch over and over too. Has the same effect as EotM

samandpoppysmummy · 16/08/2020 22:32

About Last Night

Lemming20 · 16/08/2020 22:32

Legally blonde Smile it’s one of the main reasons I do the job I do (but is nothing like the film in real life of course!)

LunaNorth · 16/08/2020 22:37

Rocky
Withnail and I
An American Werewolf In London
Begin Again
Midnight In Paris
When Harry Met Sally
My Fair Lady
Singin’ In The Rain
The Wicker Man
Kes

RustyLeesBogBrush · 16/08/2020 22:38

The Godfather 1 & 2
All About Eve
Blade Runner
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Rear Window
Jaws
Back to the Future
Double Indemnity

I could be here all night and choose more and never decide.

LunaNorth · 16/08/2020 22:38

Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sommersby