If you liked any of my favourite movies, please list yours!

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I'm compiling a list for easycinema online dvd rental and feeling a bit stumped. If you liked any of the following, please recommend your favourites - should give you an idea of my taste ... (Top priority = quality acting)

The Station Agent
Heading south
Adaptation
You can count on me
City of God
Boys don't cry
All the real girls
Best in show

... Will add more as I think of them

i've watched a very good old series on dvd lately too 'the omega factor'

The Station Agent is superb.

Do they have to be new? If not I also like What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Baz Luhruman's Romeo and Juliet and When We Were Kings.

Chocolat is very good too.

Oh I love anything with Steve Buscemi in!

Particularly Fargo (dark/black comedy)

Also most Coen Brothers movies are good - The Big Lebowski

Don't know if Woody Allen is your thing but Manhattan is one of my all-time faves.

My Amazon rentals over the last year.......

whatever Happened To Baby Jane? [Disc 1]

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Withnail and I

More Tales Of The City [Disc 2]

More Tales Of The City [Disc 1]

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

Doctor Zhivago [Movie]

La Veuve De Saint-Pierre

Eyes Wide Shut

Brokeback Mountain

Girl on the Bridge

Three Colours White

No End

A Short Film About Love

Three Colours Red

Scrubs - Series 1 [Disc 1 ]

Cathy Come Home

Blind Chance

Under The Sand

Waking Ned

My Life Without Me

One Summer [1983] [Disc 2]

One Summer [1983] [Disc 1]

L'Appartement

Fallen

Babette's Feast

Tales Of The City [Disc 1]

Better Than Chocolate

Butterfly's Tongue

Three Colours Blue

Delicatessen

The Closet

Life Is Beautiful

An Angel At My Table

Ghost in the Shell I and II

Enron -Smartest Guys in the Room

Over the Top

Rocky I, II, and V

noooooooooo

All very high brow I must say!! (apart from rocky, obviously! ) Couldn't sleep last night and happened to switch onto 're-animator' . I felt 14 again - loved that film and the nice bloke in it was my first crush ever!! How good does that kind of nostalgia feel at the grand old age of 35? You just don't get tingles down there from watching films at this age.

Judging from your choices I'm sure you have no idea what I'm on about at all, but, hey!

Surely these - ^ are supposed to do fancy pants italics aren't they???!

classics from the past:

Midnight Cowboy
Apocalypse Now
Diner

last night we watched:
An Inconvenient Truth

recently enjoyed:
Capote
Broken Flowers
Crash

I've always wanted to see Deliverance too, any good?

Hotel Rwanda also very good. but DH always compains that I never choose feel good movies.

I share your taste and recommend The Wire (TV Series, not movie) - superb writing and acting

Everything Is Illuminated. Brilliant film

Butterfly's tonuge, (Spanish, very moving but gentle)
Benny and June
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Schindlers list

and in a more blockbuster (but good) mode:
Master and Commander, forget the hype its a wonderful portrait of friendship,

for TV I rate the West Wing for dialogue and acting.

crash was good

Oh bugger i nearly forgot, A Beautiful Mind. This and Master and Commander show RC can act.

I cried my eyes out over this one, like Benny and June and Whats Eating Gilbert grape it makes you think about how we judge what is normal.

I'll add in my vote for brokeback mountain too, and for another romantic tearjerker the Bridges of Madison County.

in no particular order:

the wizard of oz
eraserhead
strangers on a train
the last broadcast
soft for digging
suspiria
the empire strikes back
jason and the argonauts
modesty blaise
theatre of blood
hidden fortress
martin
the wicker man (original)
if...
a clockwork orange
hapiness of the katakuris
withnail and i
ghost world
lone wolf and cub
bubba ho-tep
rivers edge
peeping tom
my fair lady
mary poppins
the red shoes
planet of the apes (original)
dawn of the dead (original)
plan 9 from outer space
the killer
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bride of frankenstein
creature from the black lagoon
bio-zombie
west side story

will that do for now?

Oh my GOODNESS - only just spotted that my thread had been revived. Thank you all SO MUCH - once again, the films you've recommended that I've seen already are spot on, so I'm adding loads more to my rental list.

13 Tzameti was amazing by the way, would never have seen that without your tip phatcat.

if you are on a dvd rental thing get Shameless series - better than any film!

friends with money