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[Piz Gloria 1969]

60s :

Village of the damned
For a few $ more
Batman
The biggest bundle of them all
Easy Rider (man , I just love this movie , they don't make'em like this any longer )
2001 : A Space Odyssey

70s :

Kellys Heroes
The Bruce Lee's (Way of the Dragon is my fav)
Dirty Harry
Magnum Force
Shaft in Africa
Cuckoos nest
Jaws
Rocky
SW IV
Superman (RIP Chris )
The Deer Hunter (de Niros & Walkens best ever performance , this movie is truly gold)

80s :

The Shining
Superman II
Conan
Rocky III
SW V & VI
The Dead Zone
Brainstorm
At close range
T1
Commando
Predator
Red Heat
Biloxi Blues
Communion
Batman

90s :

Comfort of strangers
T2
Speed
Street Fighter II
Mortal Kombat
Nick of time

Edited by Piz Gloria 1969, 11 October 2004 - 11:35 AM.

[Agent 76]

besides Bond:

Scent of a Woman
Scarface
Braveheart
Blade (I)
Gladiator
Rain Man
Saving Private Ryan
Rocky
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dirty Dancing

[The Dove]

Oh boy I have quite a few..probably won't be able to list them all here but here are my main favorites...

Apollo 13
Shawshank Redemption
Back to the Future Trilogy
Die Hard Trilogy
Matrix Trilogy
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
All the Star Wars films
Most of the Star Trek films, except for ST: V and Nemesis
Top Gun
E.T.
The Goonies
Disney's Flight of the Navigator
Space Camp
Teen Wolf
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
St. Elmo's Fire
Pretty in Pink
Father of the Bride I and II (the Steve Martin ones)
Animal House
The Birdcage
The Jackal (the re-make with Bruce Willis)
Speed (why oh why did they make Speed 2: Cruise Control??!!)
Office Space
The Secret of my Success
Boyz N the Hood
Karate Kid (only the first two! parts 3 and 4 sucked!!)
Flatliners
Superman movies and all the Batman movies, except for Batman Returns

Schwarzenegger films:
The Terminator Trilogy
Commando
Running Man
Total Recall
Predator
Conan the Barbarian (and I'm starting to warm up to Destroyer even though its not as good.)
True Lies
Eraser

[IndyB007]

Oh boy I have quite a few..probably won't be able to list them all here but here are my main favorites...

I second that sentiment, but here are at least some of them...

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Vertigo
Charade
Papillon
Braveheart
North By Northwest
Out of the Past
Chinatown
Highlander
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Mad Max
Gettysburg
Apocalypse Now
Lunatics: A Love Story
The Man Who Would Be King
The Maltese Falcon
Young Frankenstein
Evil Dead

My mind is drawing up a blank here... I know there are more, but I just can't think of them right now.....

[Harmsway]

Vertigo
The Elephant Man
Schindler's List
The Manchurian Candidate
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
For a Few Dollars More
Edward Scissorhands
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Spartacus

[Kingdom Come]

My list like everyone's is nearly endless..... in no order;

The Lion In Winter
Blade Runner
Being There
The Shining
La Cabina
THX1138
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Network
The Song Of Bernadette
Rosemary's Baby
Masque Of The Red Death
Sleuth
Deathtrap
The Thing
The Name Of The Rose
Paper Moon
The Game
Out Of Africa
The Wizard Of Oz

[Max Zorin]

I'll keep the list short:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ghostbusters
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Godfather, Part II
Goodfellas
Tombstone
Gangs of New York
Blade Runner
Die Hard
The Untouchables
Speed
Pulp Fiction
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Casablanca
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Wayne's World
Dick Tracy

And SO many more...

[Janus Assassin]

The Matrix (all 3 of them)
The Italian Job (2003)
Bad Boys II
Kill Bill Vol 1
EuroTrip
The Muppet Movie
S.W.A.T
Dumb and Dumber
Kingpin

[Double-Oh-Zero]

The Guns of Navarone
The French Connection I & II
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Star Wars Trilogy
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
Alien
The Die Hard Trilogy
Lethal Weapon
Se7en
Predator
The Terminator Trilogy
The Usual Suspects
The Silence of the Lambs
Independence Day
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Matrix
American History X
Tombstone
Unforgiven
Pulp Fiction
Scarface
True Romance
The Godfather Trilogy
Jackie Brown
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill
Just Cause
The Untouchables
From Dusk Till Dawn
Blade I & II
Caddyshack
National Lampoon's Vacation (European, Christmas and Vegas, as well)
Escape From New York
Escape from LA
The Deer Hunter
The Thing
Dumb and Dumber
Serpico
Dog Day Afternoon
Batman
Batman Returns

...that'll do.

[ACE]

Apart from the Bonds and Bond spin off/spoof films...

Buying your favourite films on DVD is a bit like capturing a butterfly. Mounted, on the wall, it is pretty but not as nice as catching sight of it, occasionally, in the wild (i.e. TV and cinema re-releases).

However, my favourite films all contain elements or moments or images or words that I respond to on a personal level, for whatever reason. The films listed below are not necessarily what I consider "the best" or "good", but they have got under my skin.

I think also think time and re-watchability is an important qualities. Away from the hype, the fashion and one's own mood on first viewing, the following films endure and mature on repeated viewings. Recent cinema films will take a couple of years to percolate through to this list.

There are many more films I like but a non-exhaustive list of my favourites;
i) at the moment
ii) from what I can remember
iii) and in no particular order but listed with director (optional)
is as follows:

1) Twelve Angry Men

Edited by ACE, 11 September 2005 - 10:02 AM.

[tdalton]

In no particular order:

The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson)
Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
Heat (Michael Mann)
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
The Exorcist III (William Peter Blatty)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick)
A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
Collateral (Michael Mann)

[Kara Milovy]

Just some of my faves, off the top of my head...

Casablanca
Top Hat
Singin' in the Rain
Arsenic and Old Lace
It Happened One Night
Moonstruck
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Monsoon Wedding
Morocco
The Music Man
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Notorious
The Producers
The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Superman: The Movie
The Hospital
Young Frankenstein
To Have and Have Not
The Right Stuff
Gregory's Girl
Star Struck
Resevoir Dogs
2001: A Space Odyssey
Chasing Amy
Annie Hall

[Moore Not Less]

Here are just some of my favourite's. In no particular order.

The War Of The Worlds (1950's version)
Forbidden Planet
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Them!
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1950's version)
The Fly (1950's version)
The Day The Earth Caught Fire
Planet Of The Apes (1960's version)
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Jaws
The Searchers
Red River
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Misfits
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
The Italian Job (1960's version)
Apocalypse Now
Cape Fear (1960's version)
The Omen
Lawrence Of Arabia
Schindler's List
The Guns Of Navarone
The Great Escape
The Diary Of Anne Frank
The Whicker Man
Witness
Patriot Games
Casablanca
Key Largo
Vertigo
The Birds
The Terminator
Dr Strangelove
The Matrix
The Bourne Identity

Edited by Moore Not Less, 10 September 2005 - 08:18 PM.

[Lazenby880]

From the top of my head and in no particular order:

Norht By Northwest
The Towering Inferno
Vertigo
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
Marnie
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
The Birds
The Big Heat ('Somebody's going topay... because he forgot to kill me')
Batman Begins
Torn Curtain
The Getaway
Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Liquidator
The Hustler
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes back
Return Of The Jedi
What Lies Beneath
Spirited Away
Rear Window
Rebel Without A Cause
Hud
The Big Sleep ('Such a lot of guns around town, and so few brains')
The Indredibles
Kiss Me Deadly
To Catch A Thief
Cool Hand Luke
Memento
Minority Report (Does not make a huge amount of sense, but an excellent film nonetheless)
Notorious
The Night Of The Hunter
The Third Man

Edited by Lazenby880, 10 September 2005 - 10:06 PM.

[Qwerty]

Besides Bond, and from the top of my head:

Notorious
Spellbound
Strangers On A Train
Rear Window
Dial M For Murder
To Catch A Thief
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Vertigo
North By Northwest
Psycho
The Birds
Marnie
Jaws
The Sixth Sense
Unbreakable
Signs
The Village
Memento
What Lies Beneath
The Perfect Murder
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Star Wars Original Trilogy
Collateral
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Temple Of Doom
The Last Crusade
Die Hard Trilogy
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Begins
Se7en
Panic Room
Independence Day
Apollo 13
Double Jeopardy
Lethal Weapon - all 4 of them
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Pulp Fiction
Magnolia
Crash

...and so many more.

[Gabe Vieira]

These are just some of my favorite films.

[Agent 76]

Let's see:

Mystic River
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
Rain Man
A Scent Of A Woman
Scarface
The Godfather Part I
The Godfather Part II
The Fugitive
Batman
Batman Begins
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Die Hard
Rocky I
Rocky II
Collateral
Nikita
Blade
Braveheart
Desperado
The Great Escape
Goodfellas
Meeting the Parents
Bruce Almighty
....

[Icarus]

Just about all the Godzilla movies, except for that Emmerich and Devlin POS. *spits at the thought of that movie*

A few more:

Spaceballs
This Island Earth
The Matrix Trilogy
The Austin Powers Trilogy
The Italian Job (1968)
The Princess Blade

[terminus]

Hmmm. Not sure what I actually look for in movies - my tastes are quite far flung from each other.

But a random assortment of my favourite movies are:

Cold Mountain
Bridget Jones' Diary
Muppets Xmas Carol
Coyote Ugly
XXX
Transporter (and Transporter 2, tho' 1 is better)
Practical Magic
Vanity Fair
Twister
The Shipping News
Charlies Angels

[Alessandra]

Hmmm. Not sure what I actually look for in movies - my tastes are quite far flung from each other.

But a random assortment of my favourite movies are:

Cold Mountain
Bridget Jones' Diary
Muppets Xmas Carol
Coyote Ugly
XXX
Transporter (and Transporter 2, tho' 1 is better)
Practical Magic
Vanity Fair
Twister
The Shipping News
Charlies Angels

LOL Terminus, you ALWAYS have something I like in your lists...
so.. being a movie maniac, there's just TOO MANY to list..
MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE ABOVE ALL IS

Sabrina (THE ORIGINAL!! AUDREY HEPBURN, WILLIAM HOLDEN AND HUMPHREY BOGART)

then there's
Breakfast at Tiffany's
To Catch a Thief (I noticed MANY of us like it.. how nice..)
High society
A Summer Place
Gone With the Wind

and just about ANY Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Sandra Dee movie.
and I LOVE old musicals such as
An American in Paris
Singin' in the Rain

and all those..

as far as movies who were filmed AFTER I was born (UNLIKE the above mentioned lol ) are concerned:

Top Gun
Rainman
When Harry Met Sally
MI and MI2
Ocean's 11
Up, Close and Personal
The Replacements
Remember the Titans
The Wedding Date
How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
Lethal Weapon II
Miss Congeniality
Hope Floats
My Best Friend's Wedding
Someone Like You
Dirty Dancing
Grease
Footloose
The Fabulous Baker Boys
One Fine Day

and too many others to just think about and remember now

[terminus]

I know the entirity of Bridget Jones off the top of my head and I'm mouthing the words as they say them -

Am most like her friend Shazza though as have a tendency to swear a lot.

[Alessandra]

I know the entirity of Bridget Jones off the top of my head and I'm mouthing the words as they say them -

Am most like her friend Shazza though as have a tendency to swear a lot.

I had trouble liking the first Bridget Jones as I found it "too British"..but once I got to like that one, I saw the second, which I found ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS. Agree with you on Shazza.. she cracks me up.

[Kingdom Come]

The Lion In Winter (1968)
La Cabina
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Family Life
Paper Moon
Masque Of The Red Death
THX 1138
Blade Runner
Being There
Midnight Cowboy
Network
Hannibal
Wilde
Deathtrap
Sleuth
Wit
Barbarella
Scarecrow (1973)
Song Of Bernadette
Thunderbolt & Lightfoot
The Game
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
On Golden Pond
What Dreams May Come
Young Frankenstein
Bad Company (1972)
Wag The Dog
Rosemary's Baby
The Name OF The Rose
The Thing [1982]
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Dead End [1937]
Grey Gardens
Seance On A Wet Afternoon
White Christmas
Wizard Of Oz
The Shining

[terminus]

Had to explain to my boyfriend about the James Bond riff in the second one which I found hilarious -

[Alessandra]

Had to explain to my boyfriend about the James Bond riff in the second one which I found hilarious -

ahahhahahahah DEFINITELY!!!

[keva]

Spider-man
Batman
Fantastic Four
X-Men

[Qwerty]

Masque Of The Red Death

When was that one made, do you know?

[uncanny]

Wow...this thread hasn't been touched in a long time!
My favorite films are:
Grey Gardens (both the documentary and the adaptation)
Murmur of the Heart
Big Fish
Forrest Gump
Changeling
The Virgin Suicides
and of course every James Bond film!

[O.H.M.S.S.]

Casablanca
The Third Man
The Godfather trilogy
Ben-Hur
M - Eine Stadt sücht einen Mörder
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
C'era una volta il west
Scarface
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
La dolce vita
Le samouraï
Das Boot
The Exorcist trilogy
The Pink Panther
det sjunde inseglet
Alexander
Jaws
Death on the Nile
Nineteen Eihgty-Four
The Mark of Zorro
Rocco e i suoi fratelli
La piscine
Mr. Klein
The Devil Rides Out
Harry Potter 3-6
...

as for Bond:
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
From Russia with Love
The Living Daylights
Goldfinger
Thunderball

Edited by O.H.M.S.S., 10 January 2010 - 11:04 AM.

[Aris007]

One that comes directly to my mind: The Silence Of The Lambs