Practical Magic

Westward the Women

Ten Things I Hate About You

Indiana Jones (1st and 3rd)

Die Hard (Christmas special in my house)

Planes Trains and Automobiles

Smoke Signals

Pride and Prejudice (BBC version)

Shall We Dance

Outsiders

Goonies (good call, Jess!)

Say Anything

Frequency



not movies, but every year, I re-watch all seven seasons of Buffy and West Wing.

misskate, May 17, 08 14:13

I could watch these over and over:

1 You've Got Mail
2 Pretty Woman
3 Briget Jones Diary
4 Sleepless in Seattle
5 Cinema Paradiso
6 Top Gun
7 Italian Job
8 Scent of a Woman
9 Back to the Future
10 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away)
YouMeCo, May 18, 08 11:36

These are just a few of my favourites (in no specific order). 

 1. Baby Boom
 2. Labyrinth
 3. Pretty in Pink
 4. Annie
 5. You've Got Mail
 6. The Holiday
 7. The Breakfast Club
 8. The Usual Suspects
 9. Top Gun
10. Can't Buy Me Love
magenta, May 18, 08 18:42

forgot one... lucky #13.  Stomp the Yard
Jess, May 18, 08 22:20

These are my all time favorites ...(regardless of the order)...

1. Meet Joe Black
2. Love Actually
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Scent of a Women
5. About a Boy
6. Indian Jones (1 - 4) ( yeah i know i havent seen the 4th one yet.. but im loving it)
7. James Bond (All of Them)
8. Chaplins (The Kid)
9. Sixth Sense
10. Unbreakable
11. Schlinders List
12. Pianist
13. Life is Beautiful
14. American Pie
15. Armageddon

genevorine, May 19, 08 18:15

Ive forgotten these ones.

16. Godfather

17. Bend it Like Beckham

18. Spy Game

19. The English Patient

20. The Holiday
genevorine, May 19, 08 18:24

The list changes quite a bit but I always have a few core movies that I watch over and over, and now looking at my list I think I must be hardcore sci fi.



1.The Forbidden Planet

2.It's a Wonderful Life

3.Aliens

4.Terminator

5.Meet Joe Black

6.Die Hard

7.Back to the Future

8.Blade Runner

9.Highlander

10.Shaun of the Dead

britabroad, May 19, 08 18:37

a difficult choice, but here are my top ten:

1. english patient

2. out of africa

3. sheltering sky

4. va vis et deviens

5. children of men

6. about a boy

7. baraka

8.into the wild

9. Beaches

10. how to lose a guy in 10 days
divagirl, May 19, 08 23:38

Among all the movies I've seen (which is a lot), only these ones can qualify as have been watched by me more than 5 times:



Goodfellas

Wedding crashers

Fight Club

Pulp Fiction

True Romance (tarantino)

Clockwork orange
Rasputin, May 19, 08 23:50

hmmm weve got some repeats.. the following movies have appeared twice (or more) in the lists above..

• Goonies
• Indian Jones 
• 10 Things i hate about you
• About a boy
• Youve got Mail
• The Holiday
• Meet Joe Black
• English Patient
• Life Is Beautiful
• Scent of a Woman
• Die Hard

genevorine, May 20, 08 00:42

Following Rasputin...



Love Actually

Braveheart

Meet Joe Black

The Terminal ...&...

Gladiator



:-) J.
JulianT, May 20, 08 00:43

my 10:



Battle Royal (Takeshi Kitano)

Aliens

Cube

Pi

Saw

Rocky

City of lost children

Doberman

Requiem for a dream

À l'intérieur
extremal, May 20, 08 00:58

The Usual suspects

The good, the bad and the ugly

La cité de la peur (stupid but really funny french movie by "Les Nuls". I actually also really liked the Asterix made by Chabat)

Scarface

Pulp Fiction (and I have to mention reservoir dogs)

Ghost

Inside Man

Godfather

The departed (well, only saw that one once, but only because it's the most recent in the list)

Catch me if you can

Rounders

Die Hard

Ocean's 11

Indiana Jones III



Ok, it's a bit more than 10 ;)



Rémy
RemyS, May 20, 08 02:38

my list:

• Himmel ueber Berlin (Wim Wanders) - Wings of Desire
• City of Lights (Chaplin)
• Das Leben des Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmark) - The life of Others

These are my top three then the others are great and may be if I did the list in one week time some will be in and others out... Sometimes it is just a line that is so great or the tittle or the idea...

• Blade Runner (Riddley Scott)
• Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
• Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
• Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
• Green Card (Peter Weir)
• Good Bye Lenin (Wolfgang Becker)
• Pane e Tulipani (Silvio Soldini)
• On connait la chanson (Alain Resnais)
• Lord of the Rings (Peter Jakckson)
• 4 Weddings and a funeral (Mike Newell)
• Short Bus (John Cameron Mitchell)
• Star Wars (George Lucas)
• Rocky Balboa (the last one) (Sylvester Stallone)
• Monster & Co (Pixar)
• Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder)
• Le Fatti Ignoranti (Ferzan Ozpetek) - The Ignorant Fairies 

inmoodfor, May 25, 08 21:27

Has to be said by someone - Nine and a Half Weeks - Mickey Rourke & Kim Basinger :)
LouiseK, Jun 17, 08 19:15

hahah brilliant!! I had started smoking after that movie:)) Although regretted afterwards when I saw Kim Basinger's comment that kissing Mickey Rourke was like licking an ash tray:)
Rasputin, Jun 17, 08 19:40

Wings of Desire

Das Leben des Anderen

La Héroes de la Famille

Atonement by Joe Wright

Something American - Valami Amerika  by Gabor Herendi from Hungary

The Secret Door

Blade Runner

Lord of the Rings

4 Weddings and a funeral

Nothing Hill

Star Wars

Out of Africa

 
reka1123, Jun 18, 08 18:31

Brazil, the only film I have seen twice in a row in one sitting, on video though

Evil Dead, one of the best action movies of all time, forget horror as its so ott

Amadeus

Dumb and Dumber, its just stupid fun

Jungle Book, essential viewing for kids and adults

The Village

This is Spinal Tap

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Haunting, original version

Twelve Monkeys, which I've watched the most yet it's not my favourite





Tincrowdor, Jun 20, 08 21:55

Labrynth.. (David Bowie introduced me to men in Spandex)

Saving Private Ryan

Billy Madison

Primal Fear

Fight Club

American History X

Wedding Crashers

Dogma

Office Space

40 Year old Virgin

Gladiator

A Princess Bride

Cleopatra (Classic elizabeth taylor)



Thats my list =)
Lexillent, Jun 20, 08 23:29

I've watched these following movies a thousand times over:

1. Sound of Music

2. Fiddler on the Roof

3. When Harry Met Sally

4. Leon (EN Title: The Professional)

5. Splash

6. Shawshank Redemption

7. Greencard

8. The Pianist

9. Mermaids

10. You've Got Mail

I could go on and on, but I'm afraid it would take me forever to type all my favorite films here.

It was fun doing this.
Jay-Ann, Jun 21, 08 23:54

Easy...

1. Top Gun

2. Wall Street

3. Coming to America

4. Boiler Room

5. Die Hard (it's always on re-runs)
briandxb, Jul 10, 08 17:30

 For me:

- Star Wars

- The Name of the Rose

- Rambo

- Grease

- Rocky

- Gremlins

- James Bond (most of them)

- Many French movies with Louis de Funes
new_concept, Jul 17, 08 16:15

Some of these might be obsure but they are classics to me:

1. Spies Like Us

2. Air America

3. Happy Gilmore

4. Letal Weapon (all of them)

5. Die Hard (all of them)

6. The Pink Panther Movies (Peter Sellers... not the Steve Martin piece of cr*p)

7. Condorman

8. Indiana Jones (just the first three...don't even get me started on the fourth!)

9. The Inside man

10. National Treasure

10. The Italian Job
radroumi, Jul 20, 08 13:54

The Commitments

The Blues Brothers (original)

Breakfast Club

Caddyshack

Love Actually (Christmas tradition)

Dinner for One (New Year's tradition)

The Shawshank Redemption

Tombstone

Grease

Der Schuh des Manitou

Lola rennt

Die Feuerzangenbowle

Murder by Death

A Shot in the Dark (Pink Panther) and other original Pink Panther movies



Zonker, Jul 30, 08 00:26

In no specific order:



Modern Times (Chaplin)

Finding Nemo

The Shawshank Redemption

Goonies (Filmed in Oregon so as an Oregonian it's a mandatory favorite) txtPost_CommentEmoticon(';)');

;)

O Brother Where Art Thou

The Neverending Story

Indiana Jones

The Breakfast Club

Hot Fuzz

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original not the horrible remake)

Nightmare Before Christmas

Brit_1565, Aug 1, 08 13:04

- REAR WINDOW by A. Hitchcock

- I CONFESS by A. Hitchcock

-THE WRONG MAN by A. Hitchcock based on a true story

-WANTED by Timur Bekmambetov

-NE NOUS FACHONS PAS by Michel AUDIARD

-TROY with Brad PITT ...

 

Medicis, Feb 21, 11 18:02

ok here goes

1) Annie Hall by woody Allen 

2) sleeper by woody Allen 

3) casablanca 

4) Annie 

5) The prince of Egypt

6) oliver

7) The Adams family

8) la strada

9)Three colors -kieswilski ( not sure of the spelling polish) 

10) All the shreks and the toy storys   

star, Feb 21, 11 18:39

p.s. 

charlie and the cholocate factory

chitty chitty bang bang 

star, Feb 21, 11 18:54

1. Pulp Fiction

2. Memento

3. Requiem for a dream

4. Taxi Driver

5. The Shawshank redemption

6. American History X

7. Annie Hall

8. Seven

9. Waking Life

Aditya Kumar, Feb 21, 11 20:57

Die Hard (1,2,3,4.0)

Dirty Dancing

Pride and Prejudice (version of BBC)

Pirates of the Caribbean (1,2,3)

Back to the Future

Valami Amerika

 

Kati K, Feb 21, 11 22:12

Ghost in the Shell

Final Fantasy

Lord of the Rings

Star Wars

Dune

Kung Pow (the funniest movie ever)

Freddy got Fingered (quite funny as well)

Jack Frost (Christmas/new year tradition)

Andrew I, Feb 21, 11 22:20

Bravo for "resurrecting" this thread from year 2008 :)

1. God Father

2. Life is Beautiful

3. Matrix Trilogy

4. Bicycle Thief

5. Bourne Series

6. Ocean Series

7. Three Colors (Red, White)

8. Before Sunrise, Before Sunset

9. Some where in Africa

10. Spy Game

11. Pulp Fiction

12. 3 Idiots, Taray Zameen Par

13. Sholay and Shahinshah

14. Death at a funeral

15. Good bye Lenin

16. Motorcycles Diaries

17. CHE (part 1 and 2)

18. American Psycho (part 1)

19. Four weddings and a funeral

20. [to be continued....]

 

hyeomer, Feb 21, 11 22:33

Thanks Jess for this  fun&relaxing  thread!!

here is my short list, starts with a few super-favourites...
and then unable to give an order to the others:-))

Lawrence of Arabia
Dr Zhivago
Casablanca
Gone with the Wind
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Planet of the Apes
Grease
Ben-Hur
Spartacus
Un américain à Paris
La strada
La dolce vita
Dark Eyes
The Guns of Navarone
Persépolis (animation)

+ Charlie Chaplin's
+ Don Camilo's
+ Pierre Richard's
+ Laurel and Hardy's

nomades, Feb 21, 11 23:55

The few that I can remember:

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Roman Holiday

Sound of Music

My Fair Lady

Mary Poppins

Bridges of Madison County

Julie Julia

Casablanca

God Father

Scent of a Woman

Closer

Chocolat

2 days in Paris

Before Sunset

Before Sunrise

In the mood for love (Wong Kar Wai)

Lust Caution

The Sheltering Sky

Out of Africa

Comme les autres (French)

Mar Adrento/ Sea Inside (Spanish)

Lives of Others

Trois couleurs bleu

"dosar" bengali

"Anthony Phiringi" Bengali

Sonar Khella (Bengali Satyajit Ray)

"Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne" Bengali

 Ray's "AgantuK" ( Bengali )

"Antaheen" Bengali

Subarnorekha Ritwik Ghatak

"Arth" hindi

"Silsila" hindi

"Dev D"

To Sir with Love

Guess who's coming to diner?

Frida

Surviving Picasso

Remains of the Day

You've got mail

Woody Allen: (most of them watched several times)

You've met a tall dark stranger

Purple Rose in Cairo

Scoop

Match Point

Annie Hall

Manhattan

Husbands and Wives

Bullets over Broadway

Cassandra's dream

Melinda Melinda

Whatever Works

Hannah and her sisters

Vicky Christina Barcelona

King's Speech

Bridget Jone's Diary

Invictus

Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)

The Making of the Mahatma ( Rajat Kapoor)

Love Story

God Father

Sardari Begum  (Shyam Benegal)

Abhimaan (hindi)

Guantanamera (Spanish)

Fresa y chocolate (Spanish)

Sex and the City ( I & II)

Pride and Prejudice (BBC series with Collin Firth)

La vien rose (French)

Life is beautiful

The Pianist

A single man

English Patient

Mr and Mrs Iyer (bilingual Aparna Sen)

36 Chowringhee Lane (bilingual: English and Bengali)

Paroma

A Japanese Wife ( Aparna Sen bilingual)

Lawrence of Arabia

 BenHur

10 commandments

Sweet November

Walk in the Clouds

Falling in Love

Home Alone

Kramer vs Kramer

Casper 

Dr Zhivago 

Casablanca 
Gone with the Wind

GHOSH, Feb 22, 11 00:50

The Shining

Dr. Strangelove

(Almost) all Woody Allen movies

The Meaning of Life

The Life of Brian

Catch-22

Marksist, Feb 22, 11 00:59

1.)  Real Genius

2.)  Death at a Funeral

3.)  Amadeus

4.)  All Rocky Movies

5.)  The Peaceful Warrior

 

DrCat, Feb 25, 11 02:25

Le Grand Blue (The Big Blue) by Luc Besson

Shine (with Geoffrey Rush)

Fania B, Feb 25, 11 08:34

The Impossible "Mulholland Drive" by David Lynch.

David_Lawson, Feb 25, 11 09:09

In no particular order:

*Star Wars Trilogy (originals of course, probably my most watched films of all time)

*American Beauty (seminal)

*The Matrix (only the first one, the other two are crap)

*V For Vendetta (such an awesome and underrated movie)

*Gladiator

*Godfather Trilogy

*Goodfellas

*Alien Quadrilogy

*Groundhog Day (one of the best comedies ever made)

*Knocked Up (such a great comedy)

*Love Actually (im semi-ashamed to admit, but it makes me mushy every time)

Other than the above there's probably more i've seen a lot, but those ones stand out in my mind at this moment in time.

Richdog, Feb 25, 11 09:16

1) Troy

2) Gladiator

3) Matrix Trilogy

4) Bourne Trilogy

5) Taken 

6) Armageddon

7) Face off

8) The longest yard 

9) Happy gilmore

10) Wedding crashers

Abdul A, Feb 25, 11 09:39

I have many more but by heart would say the following:

The sound of music

ET

Love Actually

Fried Green tomatos

Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain

Green mile

Cinema Paradiso

Happy Potter

Godfather

Star wars (4.5.6)

When harry mets Sally

Notting hill

The Life of Brian

Plus I have a thing for musicals so 8femmes, Mamma Mia, De lovely etc I watch many times

 

Paula M, Feb 25, 11 11:34

My desert island 10:

1) Snatch ("Do you like dags?")

2) Rock'n'Rolla ("that fucking Russian tried to poison me")

3) Goodfellas (" so you think I'm a funny guy? Funny like what? Funny ha ha?")

4) Heat ("there is a dead man on the other end of this phone")

5)Scarface ("say jello to mi lill' fren')

6) Austin Powers series ( "Twins Basil, twins!")

7) Troy ("is there anyone else?")

8) Gladiator ("on my command unleash hell")

9) All Monty Python films ("Bloody splitters", "Your mozzer was a 'amster, end yoor fazer smelled of elderberries", "Darling I think its the little man from the village".)

10) American Pie Series ("this one time at band camp...")

Charlie, Feb 25, 11 13:07

3 years after, I know but you can't say that "la cité de la peur" is stupid!!

It's BRILLIANT!!

However, I would go to watch a movie with you!!

Mae G, Mar 11, 11 10:13

one flew over the cuckoos nest

turtles can fly

life is beautiful

snatch

schindlers list

city of god

sevket, Mar 11, 11 10:39

Heat was a bout as realistic as you can get for a movie with gunshots. Not a single car exploded during the whole movie ;)

catalin, Mar 11, 11 10:51

My list:

1. You've got mail

2. American Beauty

3. French Kiss

4. Love Actually

5. Beyond Borders

6. The Holiday

7. Borat

8. Definitely, Maybe

9. The Pursuit of Happyness

10. Sex and the city

Lina M, Mar 11, 11 14:01

- all the Rocky movies (it moves me when he screams Adriaaaaaaaan!)

- the Indiana Jones movies (with a preference for the one with Sean Connery as his father)

- A Room with a View by James Ivory (love to see victorian Brit tourists in Italy)

- You've Got Mail (because the match Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks works really great!)

- The Devil Wears Prada (Meryl Streep is absolutely fantastic in the devil part)

- Miss Potter (for the beautiful landscapes of the Lake District and Ewan Mc Gregor...)

- Kama Sutra, A Tale of Love (not a porn one I promise although much too sexy for a usual Bollywood movie!)

- Sense & Sensibility (for the great script adaptation by Emma Thompson)

- Memoirs of a Geisha (for the beautiful picture and love story)

- Some Like It Hot

- Le dîner de cons

.... and all those mentioned on that link http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/100-movies-to-see-before-you-die.html

Izzie, Mar 11, 11 14:01

the hangover

Shaun M, Mar 11, 11 16:44

Definitely going to have to agree with you 100% on original Star Wars!

Groundhog Day too.

Katya N, Mar 11, 11 18:20

- Dogday afternoon

- The Godfather trilogy

- Chisum

- Scarface

- Rambo (1)

- Motorcycle Diaries

- Bourne trilogy

- Pulp Fiction

- New York Serenade

- Top Gun

- Jesus of Nazareth

- 300

- Papillon

- Amores Perros

- Buena Vista Social Club

- Eyes Wide Shut

- The great escape

- Lost in Translation

- Ghost

- El Barrendero

- Geronimo

- Rio Bravo

- The good, the bad and the ugly

- American History X

- Kramer Vs. Kramer

... and a few more.

Tulio S, Mar 11, 11 18:36