Top 5 films

Thanks for your review, will definitely watch it tomorrow

Just want to thank all you ladies but hope you realise you've cost me a fortune, ordering loads of your suggestions on Amazon.
I'll be just fine when the promised Arctic spell arrives, all cosied down on the sofa watching all my new DVD's.

all time favourites are:

A Man for all Seasons - watched it hundreds of times and never get bored

High Society - Grace Kelly's beautiful clothes

Singing in the Rain

Some Like it Hot

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (yes I do still go to the flics occasionally)

My favourites are:- apologies if some have been mentioned before

The Jazz Singer - Neil Diamond
The Full Monty
Titanic
Little Voice
The Bodyguard

Choosing 5 was quite hard, but I prefer older films to anything new. It also depends what mood I am in.

Mine changes all the time but currently
Breakfast at Tiffany's
It's a Wonderful Life
A Matter of Life and Death
Wizard of Oz
Little Women (1949 version)

In no real order.

Life is Beautiful.

Empire of the Sun.

Some like it Hot.

"Ealing comedy" The Ladykillers

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Burton/ Taylor C 1966. A fantastic staging of the play.

Citizen Kane
The Usual Suspects
The Lord of the Rings (All three -cheating but then...)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
A Room With A View

Glad to see 'The Searchers' on someone's list. I used to teach it at A Level and it is a fantastic film from many points of view. That opening shot... Wow!

The Green Mile
Negatives (I was one of the very few people who saw this when it spent a week at Notting Hill Gate cinema in about 1972, after which it disappeared never to be seen again!)
The Angel who Pawned Her Harp
The Bicycles of Belsize
Breezy

Some Like It Hot
Shawshank Redemption
Fiddler On The Roof---especially the dream scene with the pearls.
La Belle Et Le Bete---those hands with candelabra emerging from the walls.
Gone With The Wind

You can tell the great films by the number of times they get chosen.

Don't Look Now - nicely scary and makes Venice look very sinister
Magnificent Seven - Yul's version
West Side Story - fabulous music and dancing and a timeless love story
Drowning By Numbers - never been able to identify all the famous paintings
Midnight Cowboy - really sad
and a sneaky 6th Lawrence of Arabia
I also liked Bijou's film choices

My list is

Some like it hot

Life is Beautiful( probably the best)

South Pacific in CinemaScope

Vertigo

Little Voice

Today my 5 are

Fargo
O Brother Where Art Thou?
High Society
The Sound of Music
Billy Elliott

and a sneaky 6 is ET

As a very young women I was greatly moved by:- Dr Zhivago, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, Music Lovers, and Women in Love.
After I met my husband we were both moved by Far From The Madding Crowd and The Way We Were. I've watched them all since and I am no longer moved but hey ho.

After we were parents Schindlers List stands out and many kids films are essential adult viewing it's one of the perks of having kids and Grandchildren

Others might be Sliding Doors, and Crash but I am rarely moved in the way I was these days.

Oh, easy -

The Elephant Man
ET
The Sixth Sense
A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sym version)
Shawshank Redemption

1 ben hur, 2 brokeback mountain, 3 some like it hot , 4 orlando ,5 lord of the rings

Wizard of Oz:colour so rich you squelch in it,wonderful music,laughs and scares...
Billy Elliott
Time Bandits
Neverending Story
And on days when I feel more grown up, Shawshank Redemption

My favourite films would be:
English Patient
Chariots of Fire
Educating Rita
Crash
Help
Song for Marion ...
Impossible to chose just 5!

Bridges of Madison County
Shirley Valentine
Out of Africa
As Good As It Gets
Love Actually

Brief Encounter

Jean de Florette

Cinema Paradiso

Il Postino

Cary Grant films

Does anyone remember a film called " I Remember Mama "? I watched it as a child, it left a great impression on me. It was about a Jewish family in
in America . Thats one of my favourites , I shall have to think a few more.

Bringing up Baby
Twelve Angry Men
Lawrence of Arabia
Brief Encounter
The Rock

And the other three hundred and odd which I'm not allowed to list here!

Pulp Fiction
Like Water For Chocolate
Vacas
The Godfather(s)
Twin Peaks....
..... so many more....

Grand Budapest Hotel.
The first film I ever saw in the cinema The Sound of Music
Lady in the Van
The kite runner
Mrs Brown and anything by Judy Dench except the Bond films.

Can I also add?

Les Miserables and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel!