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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

angie95 Sat 09-Jan-16 09:21:22

So many great films,
I would have to say

Brief Encounter
Wuthering Heights( Ralph Fiennes)
Casablanca
Brave
Highlander

Pittcity Sat 09-Jan-16 08:38:01

Loads more mentioned that I love.
Gran Torino, Marigold Hotel, Little Shop of Horrors, Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption.

The Hateful Eight was fabulous. I recommend it to the die hard Tarantino fan with a strong stomach. Yes Tegan it was very long and slow burning. You needed to concentrate on the dialogue, like with Reservoir Dogs, which DH found a bit of a chore, he likes an action movie. I found it very funny and most of the full cinema was laughing along with me. You can't go wrong with Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell and Tim Roth.

WilmaKnickersfit Sat 09-Jan-16 01:25:40

Today I would choose

Strictly Ballroom
Little Shop of Horrors
My Fair Lady
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Calamity Jane

But it will change when others come to mind. wink

Indinana Fri 08-Jan-16 22:03:01

Schindlers' List
Life is Beautiful
The King's Speech
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables

Oh but wait, what about....

Ghost
Beaches
Sister Act
Pretty Woman
Good Morning Vietnam
Saving Private Ryan
The Full Monty

Sorry, I've never been any good at choosing blush

NanSue Fri 08-Jan-16 21:31:55

The Kite Runner
gran Torino
The green mile
Fault in their stars
Love actually

NanKate Fri 08-Jan-16 21:31:39

Some like it hot (a favourite of a lot of us)
Westside Story
All the Hitchcock films
The theory of everything
Deadly pursuit (all set in the Rockies)

NanaandGrampy Fri 08-Jan-16 21:24:47

Tough choice

Dirty Dancing -- well no one puts baby in the corner!
Grease - I remain awed by Olivia Newton Johns trousers!
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
White Christmas
Top Gun

I feel a movie weekend coming on!!

Tegan Fri 08-Jan-16 21:19:10

I like Tarantino but I think his films are always too long.

Deedaa Fri 08-Jan-16 20:27:30

So glad I wasn't the only one weeping over Little Women last week - and I've watched it so many times!

The Godfather
Godfather 2
Love Actually
Some Like It Hot
Time Bandits

rosesarered Fri 08-Jan-16 19:36:20

Some like it hot
It's a mad mad mad mad world
Midnight run
A simple plan
It

Londongirl Fri 08-Jan-16 19:13:05

OMG, only 5. Difficult decisions
1 Shawshank redemption
Pulp Fiction
Wonderful life
Cinema Paradiso
Leon
Brooklyn

That's six already..

Greyduster Fri 08-Jan-16 15:15:48

Gosh! Just five! Let's see.... Can all the Star Trek and Star Wars films count as one? No i don't suppose so!

The Lion in Winter (Hepburn/O'Toole version);
A Bridge Too Far;
Out of Africa;
The Searchers;
The Prisoner of Zenda (but it has to be the one with Douglas Fairbanks, not Stuart Grainger).

I would add, like Andyf, Little Women, if i could. I watched it again last week on the tele with tears in my eyes!

granoffour Fri 08-Jan-16 15:01:31

Ooh - hang on, I might need to revise my list... Amelie is one of my favourites too!

dangernan Fri 08-Jan-16 14:54:31

Ooh mine have to be...

Dr Zhivago (the Omar Sharif version of course)
Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola
Jurassic Park
Sabrina (the Audrey Hepburn one, although the Harrison Ford version wasn't bad either)
All the Rocky films!

Andyf Fri 08-Jan-16 14:34:10

Back to the future.
Forrest Gump.
Seven.
ET
Little Women. (for sentimental reasons)

annodomini Fri 08-Jan-16 14:09:42

But tomorrow it might be five different films!

annodomini Fri 08-Jan-16 14:08:05

Some Like it Hot
Slumdog Millionaire
Guys and Dolls
Henry V (Branagh version)
The King's Speech

Lillie Fri 08-Jan-16 13:49:34

The Sound of Music
The Bodyguard
Schindler's List
E T
Amelie

Each depending on my mood, of course!

Pittcity Fri 08-Jan-16 13:41:48

I will gillybob. Thought I was the only one who liked Tarantino and the Coen brothers.

matson Fri 08-Jan-16 13:31:40

Star wars
Lady in the van
the good dinosaur
django unchained
forrest gump.

gillybob Fri 08-Jan-16 13:05:31

I love anything by Quentin Tarantino.

Can you report back Pittcity without giving away anything of course. smile

Imperfect27 Fri 08-Jan-16 12:35:35

Hey nooooo - just reminded ...
Number Five - When Harry Met Sally smile

Imperfect27 Fri 08-Jan-16 12:34:45

My list has to include

It's a Wonderful Life

The Apartment

The Quiet man

And a new entry- came out in 2013 and watched very recently, is

About Time

...leaving a space because the list will go on changing xx

Eloethan Fri 08-Jan-16 12:33:45

Driving Miss Daisy
Once Around
Starman
Falling in Love
The Sixth Sense

(but there are loads more that I like just as much)

Anniebach Fri 08-Jan-16 12:24:03

Casablanca - 'we will always have Paris'

When Harry met Sally

The Third Man

Four Weddings and a Funeral

All Hitchcock films , can't choose one