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

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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!

My list is quite sad Here goes...

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

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

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

Hmmm....

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

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

ooh I love the Shawshank Redemption!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

Loved Leon!