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Top 5 films

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granoffour Fri 08-Jan-16 11:29:35

I'm really rubbish at watching latest releases - I'd rather watch the ones I know I love over and over again. Here are my top 5 (in no particular order) - would love to know what other gransnetters' are? It's meant to be very cold next week and I think a few movie and hot chocolate days may be in order grin

1) The Grand Budapest Hotel
2) Casablanca - I know, predictable but it really is brilliant)
3) The Jungle Book - have plenty of excuses to watch it over again with the grandchildren
4) Braveheart
5) Slumdog Millionaire

Katek Sat 09-Jan-16 11:14:29

Close Encounters
Brief Encounter
Little Shop of Horrors
Towering Inferno
The Day After Tomorrow

Why only five?!! I need to list more!

Jaxie Sat 09-Jan-16 11:15:00

Some Like it Hot
The Last of the Mohicans
La Reine Margot
L'Histoire d'Adèle H
The Well Digger's Daughter
Something Wild

LizRhodes Sat 09-Jan-16 11:26:23

Citizen Kane
Amelie
Love Actually
The Magnificent Seven (Yul Brynner version - why on earth have they done a re-make?)
Les Enfants du Paradis

maggieb7478 Sat 09-Jan-16 11:28:43

Only 5 - that is sooo difficult! Mine are:-

It's a Wonderful Life.
Dead Poet's Society.
Stand By Me.
Mamma Mia.
Brokeback Mountain.

maggieb7478 Sat 09-Jan-16 11:35:31

Can I also add?

Les Miserables and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel!

nipsmum Sat 09-Jan-16 11:54:12

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.

NotSpaghetti Sat 09-Jan-16 12:18:11

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

Juggernaut Sat 09-Jan-16 12:25:03

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!

merrellina Sat 09-Jan-16 12:40:45

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.

Bijou Sat 09-Jan-16 12:43:23

Brief Encounter

Jean de Florette

Cinema Paradiso

Il Postino

Cary Grant films

adrisco Sat 09-Jan-16 12:47:12

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

Grannygizmo Sat 09-Jan-16 12:59:15

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

gran5up Sat 09-Jan-16 13:08:45

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

jennyg Sat 09-Jan-16 13:09:41

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

AllTheLs Sat 09-Jan-16 13:15:21

Oh, easy -

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

BRedhead59 Sat 09-Jan-16 13:30:16

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.

WilmaKnickersfit Sat 09-Jan-16 13:49:20

Today my 5 are

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

and a sneaky 6 is ET grin

12rg12ja Sat 09-Jan-16 14:15:14

My list is

Some like it hot

Life is Beautiful( probably the best)

South Pacific in CinemaScope

Vertigo

Little Voice

hicaz46 Sat 09-Jan-16 14:35:47

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

chicken Sat 09-Jan-16 15:25:02

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.

Skweek1 Sat 09-Jan-16 15:37:18

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

Teacher11 Sat 09-Jan-16 17:11:46

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!

Teacher11 Sat 09-Jan-16 17:14:26

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

Nelliemoser Sat 09-Jan-16 17:23:55

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.

PamSJ1 Sat 09-Jan-16 17:42:41

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)