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!

That's why I like it so much, Helsi..each time I watch it I see it differently and notice new things - really hard to coherently summarise the plot though.

Oh oh oh, now I've read all your I want to add more!
i need Fried Green Tomatoes and I need When Harry Met Sally! I have to stay away from this thread I'm going to get annoying!

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My Cousin Vinny
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cromwell
Anne of the Thousand Days

and lots more

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Can't narrow it down to just 5 I'm afraid!

Top Gun
St Elmos Fire
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Usual Suspects
American Beauty
Jean de Florette and Manon de Sources
When Harry Met Sally
Goodfellas
The Big Easy
Oceans Eleven (the remake)
The Shawshank Redemption
The Accused
Dirty Dancing
Dangerous Liaisons

Better stop there!!!!

The Man With Two Brains
Life of Brian
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
As Good As It Gets
Trains Planes and Automobiles

Stigmata
Butterfly Effect
I am Sam
The Machinist
Withnail and I
Matchstick Men
Castaway
My House in Umbria
Cellular

Ooops, 5?

star wars, i and iii
legally blonde
anne of a thousand days
used to be return of the jedi, but having seen it at least a thousand times, if not more, am a bit bored of it nwo. plus anakin skywalker is waaaaay cooler than luke
cant think lots really.

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is it just me that HATES 4 weddings then? Andie McDowell, bleuchchchchchc

I'll give you dirty dancing though - great film!

hoooooooorah lockets

she was good in sex lies and videotape though. because she was playing an annoying prissy repressed asexual southerner. which is what she is!

Star Wars
Flash Gordon (nostalgia!)
Wierd Science
Grease
Footloose
Crimson Tide
Gladiator (sorry but I love it!)
Officer and a Gentleman
Life of Brian
....the list is endless!

Dog Soldiers! Classic!

Life of Brian
Scum
Withnail and I
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
The Snapper

Coyote Ugly
The Shining
Dirty Dancing
Brief Encounter
Calamity Jane

and just because my dream guy stars in them

XXX
Fast and the Furious
Pitch Black
The Pacifier

I loved The Cook ...film-great cannibal scenes-Fogot Shallow Grave too-did anyone remember a film called Sante Sangre? Was a french film I seem to remember about a circus-very weird! I used to love going to The Scala cinema in Islington and watching strange films! Does anyone know if it is still there? Haven't been to Islington for over 15 years-usesd to drink in a pub called the something Frog too!
Sorry,reminiscing about the times when I could go to the cinema whenever I wanted-I only manage to go once or twice a year now!

In no particular order

Aliens
Contact
Carlito's Way
Whatever happened to Baby Jane?
El Dorado

I also love
Gladiator
Godfather I & II
Unforgiven
North by Northwest
Shawshank Redemption
All the Star Wars films!

I LOVE Gladiator-what a fantastic film! Cry every time-also love Braveheart-another fave weepy!

Not in order, but I love:

The Graduate
Harold and Maude
Some Like it Hot
Withnail and I
Trainspotting
Room with a View
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
It's a Wonderful Life

Can you tell I don't get out to the cinema much these days? The best films I saw in the last few years were Donnie Darko and Fight Club, but as I've only seen them once I can't tell if they're 'favourites' yet.

oh go on then if you insist:

Grosse Point Blank
Out of Sight
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Sense and Sensibility
A Knight's Tale

Has nobody mentioned Cats & Dogs, a little-noted masterpiece?

Also Withnail & I, Room with a View, Casablanca and The Towering Inferno.

Depends what sort of mood I'm in, but here goes:-

Schindlers List
Papillon
The Champ
Whatever happened to Baby Jane
The sound of music