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Lets have a favourite film thread1 What's your Top 5?

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dropinthe · 19/09/2005 19:20

Mine are the Lord of the Rings Trilogy but I would also have:

Cape Fear
The Shining
Twin Peaks (Fire Walk with me)
Thelma and Louise
Shirley Valentine

Reading this list has me thinking that I like Shlogcky type films-this is by no means a definitive list and gets changed all the time but these came to mind.
I think I'm going to get some comments re misogyny but I did enjoy all of these films, subject matter aside!

Mind you,Thelma,Louise and Shirley-hardly woamn haters,eh!

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compo · 19/09/2005 19:22

My list is quite sad Here goes...

The Lion King
Beauty and The Beast
Notting Hill
Sliding Doors
Dirty Dancing

MarsLady · 19/09/2005 19:24

ooh this will be difficult.

The Princess Bride
Dirty Dancing
Soul Food
Waiting to Exhale
Heat

but the thing is there are SO many that I love. And those are in no particular order

sharklet · 19/09/2005 19:43

Impossibly different as my favourites change so so often.... In my current mood:

The Shawshank Redemption
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Casablanca
Shakespeare in love
Grosse Pointe Blank

flamesparrow · 19/09/2005 19:45

Hmmm....

Stand by me
Untamed Heart
Benny and Joon
Loser
The Wedding Singer

They are what spring to mind right now....

MarsLady · 19/09/2005 19:45

ooh I love the Shawshank Redemption!

milosmum · 19/09/2005 20:18

mine are:
Matrix
Lord of the Rings (all of them but the Return of the king is the best!)
Dead Poets Society
Shawshank Redemption
Goonies

Donbean · 19/09/2005 20:21

one flew over the coockoos nest
the shining
four weddings
Notting Hill
Green mile...sob...Mr jinggles..sob...

lucy5 · 19/09/2005 20:24

The shining
one flew over the cuckoos nest
its a wonderful life
La gloire de mon pere
Charlie and the chocolate factory (the original)

bee3 · 19/09/2005 20:26

I would probably think of a different 5 each time you asked, but for this evening I'd say

Schindler's List
The Sound of Music
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Withnail and I
Truely, Madly, Deeply

and Life is Beautiful, and Galipolli, and anything with Andrew McCarthy from the 80's for some cheesy teen nostalgia (St Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink, Catholic Boys ...the shame, I know)
Sorry, that was more than five.

helsy · 19/09/2005 20:31

The Commitments
Grease
The Boy Soldier (Welsh film, 1986)
The Mighty Ducks
MASH

tonight, anyway.
Ooh, and Meet me in St Louis. Ooh, and It Happened one Night.

PeachyClair · 19/09/2005 20:36

The Wedding Singer
The Fisher King
Shooting Fish
The Matrix
Star Wars (sorry!) (old ones, not the new ones)
Othello (with lawrence Fishbourne)

OOh I am a saddo, am I not?

shrub · 19/09/2005 20:39

Amelie
The Princess Bride
Educating Rita
Shawshank Redemption
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

shrub · 19/09/2005 20:40

An Affair to Remember makes six! The old ones are always the best

Thomcat · 19/09/2005 20:43

Shawshank Redemption
The Odd Couple
Green Mile
Pulp Fiction
Four Weddings and a Funeral

Hmmmm I'm missing loads off
I also have to have

Jean de Florette
and
Manon de Soures
oh and
Withnail and I
and
Sereno de Bergerac
oh and most definitly
Amelie

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helsi · 19/09/2005 20:46

Four Weddings and a funeral
The Wedding Singer
Briget Jones diary (first one)
Sliding Doors
Top Gun

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Roobie · 19/09/2005 20:49

In no particular order (although v hard to narrow list down to 5)

Donnie Darko
Withnail & I
Cyrano de Bergerac (Depardieu of course)
Goodfellas
Shawshank Redemption

princesspeahead · 19/09/2005 20:50

Casablanca
High Society
The Princess Bride
When Harry met Sally
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Dangerous Liaisons

well those are the ones I can watch repeatedly...

hermykne · 19/09/2005 20:50

true romance - i love love love
heat
lost in translation
wizard of oz

CZJ and m doughlas in that one about the drug lords - shes the drug guys wife

Roobie · 19/09/2005 20:50

Looks like the Shawshank Redemption wins .......

PeachyClair · 19/09/2005 20:54

Ooh leon was good Lockets, forgot that! And glad I'm not the only who likes The Wdding Singer- but I've never seen the Shawshank Redemption, must change that.

helsi · 19/09/2005 20:54

Roobie - what is Donnie darko about. I cannot understand it at all.

wysiwyg · 19/09/2005 20:54

Shawshank Redemption
Spartacus
Truly Madly Deeply
The Truman Show
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe

dropinthe · 19/09/2005 20:56

Loved Leon!

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