Your Favorite Movies (cinema, films, scenes, dvd)

[Bear Up North]

I checked the archives and there are a number of "best" or "your favorite" threads.....but I wanted to add a thread that follows these rules.....

Any genre, any type of movie.
No particular order, just a list of your favorites.

Because of my 61 years on this planet my list tends to be more classic flick oriented. With a younger audience browsing this post there will be films that folks are just not familiar with. I feel that my list is good and true film fans will find pleasure in just about all of my selections. I have most of these movies on VHS or DVD and I watch them often.

I look forward to seeing your list. (And your comments, if you chose to include them.)

The Bear's Favorite Movies
All That Jazz (The final seconds of the movie are so good.)
North By Northwest (Hitchcock at his best.)
Grand Canyon (A testament to how good people can be.)
Anatomy of a Murder (May be the best courtroom drama ever.)
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (A classic and intelligent monster flick)
American Beauty (Superb study of the final year of a man's life.)
Angels With Dirty Faces (James Cagney and Pat O'Brien, classic gangster flick. The last few minutes are dynamite.)
Carrie (Best-ever Stephen King novel turned into a movie. Sissy Spacek, so good.)
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (A wonderful movie. Car chase scenes before they were mandatory.)
Doctor Zhivago (Romantic and broad, and Julie Christie.....yum)
Good Neighbor Sam (Fun Jack Lemmon movie.)
Dr. Strangelove (Classic black comedy. No fighting in the War Room!)
Body Heat (One of the most sensual movies I ever watched.)
The Best Years Of Our Lives (Best-ever treatment of soldiers returning home.)
It Happened To Jane (Fun movie that has town hall meeting government, lobsters, and trains.)
City For Conquest (James Cagney is a prizefighter who loses his vision. You will cry at the end.)
Fail Safe (Excellent view of a an accidental nuclear attack.)
It's A Wonderful Life (Still one of my all-time favorites.)
Little Children (Downright scary, sexy, and thought-provoking.)
Maria Full Of Grace (Pregnant teen is a carrier of coke, in her stomach.)
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (Wonderful political and human drama.)
The Deer Hunter (Best-ever study of male friendship.)
Picnic (The dance scene makes me shudder. So sensual.)
Woodstock (Great rock and roll in a superb documentary.)
West Side Story (Jets are gonna win, tonight! Great stuff.)
Lord of the Rings (All 3 flicks.....great treatment of a broad and complex story.)
Thirteen Days (Super treatment of JFK's little incident with Cuba.)
Run Silent, Run Deep (Excellent submarine movie.)
Dog Day Afternoon (Al Pacino is super.....and manic.)
The Godfather (Both movies, so good, so strong. Violence that is real.)
Once Upon A Time In America (Rent the long version. A superb study of Jewish gangsters.)
Seven Days In May (In our current political climate I keep thinking of this great movie.)
All The President's Men (Wonderful study of the Watergate incident and the reporters who trenched the story out.)
White Heat ("Top of the world, Ma!")
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Bear

[Sandhillian]

Ordinary People
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Amadeus
Meet the Parents
Sound of Music
anything with Star Trek in it

[noela]

Originally Posted by Sandhillian

Ordinary People
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Amadeus
Meet the Parents
Sound of Music
anything with Star Trek in it

Love'em!

Some faves of mine:

Death In Venice.
Senso.
Sur Mes Lèvres.
La Pianiste.
Annie Hall.
La Notte.
Brief Encounter.
Suddenly, Last Summer.
Raise The Red Lantern.
North By Northwest.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
The Squid And The Whale.
Safe.
The Company Of Wolves.
Scenes From A Marriage.
The Virgin Spring.
Barry Lyndon.
Picnic At Hanging Rock.

There are many more, some of them even more favourite, but I had to stop at some point...

[rural lady]

Imitation of Life
You can't take it with you
Madame X
A Patch of Blue
One flew over the cuckoos nest
The Sting
An Officer and a Gentleman
Instinct- Anthony Hopkins & Cuba Gooding
A Streetcar named Desire
Fear and Loathing Las Vegas
The Green Berets
Titanic
Legends of the Fall
The efficienty expert

[hutch5]

Originally Posted by Sandhillian

Ordinary People
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Amadeus
Meet the Parents
Sound of Music
anything with Star Trek in it

I absolutely love "What's Eating Gilbert Grape".

There are many movies I have seen in the years that I loved. Some are:

Used People
The Piano
Baghdad cafè
La vita è Bella
El viaje de Carol
Mediterraneo
Cinema Paradiso
Mar Adentro
The Remains of the Day
Blade Runner
Lady Hawk
City of God
Como Agua para Chocolate


This is just a start. I am sure that many more movies will come to mind in the course of the week.

[hutch5]

I realize I do not have just one favourite movie but many that I really liked watching and that occasionally I like watching again.

Monsoon Wedding
The Cider House rules
Malena
Les Choristers
Mouline Rouge
Raise the Red Lantern
Chocolate
Under Suspicion


There are soooo many movies I have not seen and would love to see but with three children it is not always easy. Bit by bit.....

[DrummerBoy]

The Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
No Country For Old Men
Lonesome Dove
Moonstruck
The Sting
Rio Bravo
Raising Arizona
Caddyshack
Major League
Bull Durham

[westhou]

I love foreign movies. The best coming from France and Germany.

[bs13690]

Kentucky Fried Movie
Airplane
Strange Brew
Naked Gun
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
The Big Lebowski
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
Citizen Kane
Leon: The Professional
Pan's Labryinth

[turkeytrot]

I love the oldies, so here's just a few

White Christmas - Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney

Mr. Smith goes to Washington - Jimmy Stewart

Road To Morocco - Bing Crosby and Bob Hope's best "Road show"

12 Angry men - Henry Fonda. After sitting on a few juries this movie tells it like it can be in a jury room.

Mr. Roberts - Henry Fonda, Jack Lemon and James Cagney. Great different kind of WWII Navy movie

The Quite Man - John Wayne and the beautiful Maureen O'Hara. What scenery

Destination Tokyo - Carry Grant as a WWII sub commander

Yankee Doodle Dandy - James Cagney as George M Cohan

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - John Wayne as a retiring Cavalry Capt. Shot in Monument Valley Utah

Sergeant York - Gary Cooper as real life WWI hero Alvin C York

12 O'clock High - Gregory Peck as a WWII Squadron Commander as the 8th Air Force begins it's daylight bombing of Germany

The Best Years of our Lives - Fredric March, Dana Andrews play WWII veterans coming home to adjust to civilian life.
Outstanding performance from first time actor and disabled WWII Army veteran Harold Russell (Homer Parrish)