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

92 replies

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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flamesparrow · 20/09/2005 09:11

Lilo and Stitch!

I love it and I don't care what you all think of me so there!

bakedpotato · 20/09/2005 10:16

ET
Persuasion
The Sound of Music
Master and Commander
Field of Dreams

wartybosoms · 20/09/2005 10:29

Henry V
Heidi

Cam · 20/09/2005 10:30

Five Easy Pieces
Reservoir Dogs
True Romance
Saturday Night Fever
Room At The Top

Cam · 20/09/2005 10:36

I wrote mine before reading the thread and thought no-one else would put True Romance, now I see loads of us like it!

4 weddings, no, no, no, Andie McDowell is nearly as bad as Hugh Grant in it

northerner · 20/09/2005 10:37

Dirty Dancing
Officer & a gentleman
Mrs Winterbourne
Beaches
Footloose

Anyone see Dirty Dancing 2?!! What a load of rubbish.

puddle · 20/09/2005 10:40

In no particular order....the first five that came to mind are

Cinema Paradiso
Matter of life and death
Philadelphia story
Some like it hot
Annie Hall

oliveoil · 20/09/2005 10:41

Rita, Sue & Bob Too ("make your own f**king tea")
Big Lebowski
Shawshank
Casino
Goodfellas

puddle · 20/09/2005 10:43

I agree about Andie Macdowell too. And the outfit Hugh Grant is wearing when he bumps into her on the south bank (floppy shirt, too-short shorts and loafers with no socks) made me lol when I last saw the film. Sexy? Don't think so

spacedonkey · 26/09/2005 12:20

The African Queen
Amelie
Happiness
Pulp Fiction
The Wizard of Oz

sorrel · 26/09/2005 12:26

Il postino
Amelie
The piano
pulp fiction
rear window

dropinthe · 26/09/2005 12:30

Are you 2 bezzer mates,or what?

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turquoise · 26/09/2005 12:36

Charade
The Princess Bride
Dirty Dancing
Oliver (Reviewing the situation is my all time favourite film moment)
Tootsie
The African Queen

edgetop · 26/09/2005 12:36

grease
titanic
sound of music
10
see no evil hear no evil

expatinscotland · 26/09/2005 12:38

Dangerous Liasons
Moulin Rouge
Etre et Avoir
Amelie
Breakfast at Tiffany's

turquoise · 26/09/2005 12:39

Andie Macdowell sucks - I didn't like 4 Weddings much anyway but she ruined Green Card.

OOh - forgot Jean de Florette on favourites list.

donnie · 26/09/2005 12:43

the outlaw josey wales
the godfather part 2
barton fink
the shining
the shawshank redemption

loads of others!

Rowlers · 26/09/2005 12:44
  • Delicatessen - atmospheric and odd
- The Big Lebowski - Jeff Bridges fan here, and love Coen brothers films - Midnight Cowboy - a classic, oh how I cry at the end every time - LA confidential - a more recent classic - Strictly Ballroom - girly crap but hey - Terminator 2 Sorry, that's 6
waterfalls · 26/09/2005 12:45

See no evil hear no evil, love that film

teeavee · 26/09/2005 12:46

21 Grams
the cook, the thief....
fargo
master and commander (in the cinema only!)
dr strangelove - for peter sellers
the shining - for j nicholson

oops - gone over the limit already! so many others, but those ones stand out (today), could watch them again and again

spykid · 26/09/2005 12:47

Moulin Rouge
Dirty Dancing
Family Man
Shakespeare in love
When Harry met Sally

dropinthe · 26/09/2005 12:48

The Cook-has come up quite often! Thats a bit worrying,isn't it?-most fitting for a bunch of psycho bitches!!

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spykid · 26/09/2005 12:48

o and Peter Sellers , The Party

Birdy num nums!

teeavee · 26/09/2005 12:55

OMIGOD - i acnnot believe ileft out Short Cuts, the Robert Altman film - it's the only one I actually own on video!

teeavee · 26/09/2005 12:56

and Down by Law, with tom waits and roberto begnigni - for the "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream" prison riot scene!!!