Top 5 favorite movies

[akmiss]

What are your favorite movies? List the first 5 that come to your head

mine in no particular order
The Big Lebowski
The Sound of Music
Amelie
Crash
The Whale Rider
Muriel''s Wedding

 

[Madam Bijoux]

Only 5? OK--My top 5 are

West Side Story
The Great Gatsby (1974)
Titanic
Scarface (1983)
South Pacific

 

[Steel]

The Birds
The Bodyguard
Misery
Psycho
Wallace and Grommit (Curse of the Were Rabbit)

Fun thread akmiss! But so many to greats choose from! These are the ones I throw on in the background or sit down to watch when I am on my own all snuggled up. Either way there are greats.

 

[bee*]

Mary Poppins from my childhood days.
Muriel''s wedding.
Westside Story.
Sex and the city!
Pirates of the Caribbean 1

 

[Lorelei]

My most favourite is The Summer of '42, love the soundtrack too.

Forrest Gump
Valley Girl ( dating meself, cheesy but the ultimate chick flick)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Little Women ( the thirties and fifties versions)

 

[Fancy605]

The Princess Bride
Lady Hawk
Top Gun
Lady and the Tramp
Tombstone (Well, probably Tombstone. It changes)

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 6/27/2008 7:57:34 AM
Author: Fancy605

The Princess Bride
Lady Hawk
Top Gun
Lady and the Tramp
Tombstone (Well, probably Tombstone. It changes)

Forgot to mention that one, knew there was one I was forgetting...

 

[Northern Lights]

My Top Five Are:

Gone With the Wind
Ordinary People
Les Diaboliques
Romeo and Juliet
Shrek

 

[movie zombie]

All About Eve
Citizen Kane
The Third Man
Blade Runner
Jeremiah Johnston

movie zombie

 

[Skippy123]

City of God
Psycho
Sunset Blvd
Immortal Beloved
A Beautiful Life

 

[gwendolyn]

Everything Is Illuminated
Grosse Point Blank
The Princess Bride
Office Space
It's A Wonderful Life
12 Angry Men

(I listed 6 because the OP listed 6.

)

 

[joflier]

The Shawshank Redemption
Se7en
Finding Nemo
Oceans 13
Mickey Blue Eyes

 

[Clio]

Casablanca
Conspiracy
The Women
Notorious
Cyclo

 

[ladypirate]

The Princess Bride
Dave
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie

I know--not really any heavy drama in there...I guess movies I want to watch over and over again tend to be a bit more light hearted! Hard to choose just 5, though.

 

[OUpearlgirl]

Gone With the Wind
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
What Dreams May Come
Knocked Up
The Little Mermaid

 

[Ellen]

Gone With The Wind
The Big Chill
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Wuthering Heights
Pretty Woman

Now I'll go see what everyone else piocked, I didn't look first.

p.s. You picked six.

 

[Lorelei]

Blast!!! How could I forget Its a Wonderful Life????

 

[gwendolyn]

Date: 6/27/2008 11:45:07 AM
Author: Lorelei
Blast!!! How could I forget Its a Wonderful Life????

Because it''s not Christmastime?

...still...

 

[OUpearlgirl]

Date: 6/27/2008 12:07:47 PM
Author: SanDiegoLady
Funny Farm

Gone with the Wind

Under the Tuscan Sun

My Fair Lady

The Green Mile



(This was VERY hard, I love a great number of older movies)

How could I forget? I also love old movies, especially old musical movies!

 

[Po10472]

The Matrix
Serenity
Lord of the Rings
Sense and Sensibility
The Lake House

and about a trillion others.

 

[Haven]

A Christmas Story
Breakfast at Tiffany''s
When Harry Met Sally
Steel Magnolias
Elf

Ask me again tomorrow and I''ll have a new Top 5!

 

[Haven]

Ooooh, and I think with time Dan in Real Life is going to become one that I watch over and over again. LOVED it.

 

[Dreamgirl]

I have so many!!!! But top 5 are probably:

The Notebook
Forrest Gump
Sleepless in Seattle
Office Space
Meet the Parents

 

[risingsun]

In no particular order:

Godfather 1 & 2
Pulp Fiction
Silence of The Lambs
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [with Shawshank Redeimptiion and Fargo breathing down its neck

]

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 6/27/2008 12:08:08 PM
Author: gwendolyn

Date: 6/27/2008 11:45:07 AM
Author: Lorelei
Blast!!! How could I forget Its a Wonderful Life????

Because it''s not Christmastime?

...still...

You could have a point there.....

 

[Linda W]

Oh Poo, it is hard to just pick 5!!!

Scent of a Woman
Somewhere In Time
Godfather 1 & 2
Forrest Gump (love the music in that movie)
All musicals


Linda

 

[wishful]

My top five faves are:

The Birdcage
Apollo 13
The Hours
Moulin Rouge
Phar Lap (no one is going to know what that one is

)

 

[Dreamgirl]

I forgot to add The Departed to my list. That would make it 6 though lol

But GREAT movie, definitely should be in my top 5

 

[pixley]

Wings of Desire (the original City of Angels)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Annie Hall
Amelie
Y Tu Mama Tambien

Oooh, what a fun thread. I always blank out when I go to the video store, and this is reminding me to go get Amelie next time! I love the Notebook too (but I cry like a baby and have to watch it when no one's around!). The Whale Rider is an AMAZING film as well. What a fantastic and eclectic list of films we've got goin'.

 

[akmiss]

Oh, how could I forget The Princess Bride and Office Space! And Eternal Sunshine of the spotless Mind and Last of the Mohicans.......

Skippy, City of God is a crazy but good movie. Are you talking about the one that takes place in Brazil with a character named Lil' Dice?