what ought to be on my amazon rental list? your must see films please

[hatwoman]

I've just signed up for the Amazon rental thingy and am totally befuddled by the choice. my mind has gone comepletely blank. so far I have

• Our Friends in the North
• Brideshead
• The Departed
• The Queen

what are your must-sees?

Walk the Line
Colour Purple
Goodfellas
Scarface

You want to see the Guardian, its an ok movie, but its worth getting because Ashton looks gorgeous in a uniform. (Tom who?)

at the suggestion of mners we have so far watched this month

L'Homme du Train
The Station Agent

both of which were great

also would recommend Shopgirl

Walk the Line

Chocolat if you are a Johnny Depp fan.

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

Havent seen it but I'd be curious to watch little miss sunshine.
thouroughly recommend Pan's labyrinth (in spanish with subtitles). very sad, non hollywood, intelligent movie.
I've been meaning to sign up for something similar, in order to rent some oldies, like anything from Lubitsch to billy wilder.
another very good one was vera drake (trying to think what I watch in the last 5 years.... very little...)

Brokeback Mountain

Lost in Translation is excellent

Sideways if you haven't seen it
haven't seen little miss sunshine but it's had v good reviews

Lantana
Godfather I and II
Devil Wore Prada if you want to give your brain a bit of a holiday
All about my Mother (Almodovar)
House of Cards
21 grams
Pride and Prejudice series
Sopranos series

Big Fish
Moulin Rouge
Schindlers List
Life is Beautiful
The End of the Affair
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (new one)
Scrubs (esp first series)

thanks everyone. unfortunately I must have quite similar taste - to the extent that I've seen most of your suggestions! we've managed to get the list up to about 15 now. I'm really excited about it. my main motivation is to have a dvd to watch when the fancy suddently takes us, but also to stop dh buying the bloody things (why??? we watch them once and we have no room to keep them...)

Can I suggest you look at this thread...

I have 190 on my list

Gone with the wind

Beaches

The Breakfast club

Top Gun

How stuck in the 80's am i?? I think i need advice for what to update with!

Recently, I have watched:

Jesus Camp (documentary)
Catch a Fire (about Apartheid in South Africa, based on true story)
Hotel Rwanda
Rabbit Proof Fence
Northern Exposure
The Passion of Christ (really graphic, not nice)
Flushed Away
An inconvenient Truth
Click (was very bored!)

and just added Babel to my list.

HTH

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are we talking all time top films?

well, there's ....

shawshank redemption (which you must have seen but could see again!)
amelie
a very long engagement (similar to amelie)
12 monkeys
the big lebowski
the hudsucker proxy
o brother where art thou.

must see some more recent films. well, I've seen a few but nothing brilliant. was v dissapointed by lost in translation.

this is what I've got on the list so far

Brideshead x3
Our Friends in the North x3
Sideways
Zidane
The Queen
The Departed
Pan's Labyrinth
Little Miss Sunshine
History Boys
The Constant Gardener
Peep Show

will add House of Cards

butterfly effect
Con Air
Moulin Rouge
The Village
Shawshank Redemtion
Chocolat
Seven
Fight Club

I could go on and on and on but they are my fave!!

hope this'll do for now!

the straight story
infernal affairs (movie on which the departed is based)
happiness of the kakaturis
ghost world
art school confidential
peeping tom
mean streets
sideways
dawn of the dead (original)
the wicker man (ditto)
azumi
versus
mean streets
capote
a boy and his dog
soft for diggingzatoichi
suspiria
zatoichi
arahan
get carter
r-point
auto-focus
the notorious bettie page
ping pong
the city of lost children
rosemary's baby
ashura
blue velvet
eraserhead
dead man's shoes
the host
my fair lady
3 iron
the babycart series

Little Mermaid
Babe
The Wiggles
Lady and the Tramp
Snow White

Not the point of this thread but the best thing we've done in recent weeks!