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(in no particular order)
Star Wars trilogy (original)
Star Trek movies (all of them)
The Crow
Red Dawn
El Cid
The Mothman Prophecies
Robin Hood (the classic one)
A Man for all Seasons
Indiana Jones trilogy
Godfather
Hero (as in the one directed Zhang Yimou)
Alexander Nevsky
Hunt for Red October
Monty Python and th Holy Grail
Space Balls (and every other Mel Brooks movie)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eigth Dimension!
Braveheart
James Bond: Goldeneye
The Big Lebowski
the X-Files movie
Enemy at the Gates
Terminator 2
Master and Commander: the far Side of the World
Platoon
Flash Gordon (AAAHHHUH SAVIOR OF THE UNIVERSE!)
Gettysburg
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In no particular order, although many of these favorites are based on the fact that I could watch them over and over... and have.
Stalag 17
Star Wars (first installment)
The Blues Brothers
Where Eagles Dare
Cop Land
Alien (first installment)
Dark City
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Dead Man's Walk (not to be confused with Dead Man Walking)
All James Bond films that don't star Roger Moore.
All campy B horror movies from the late 50's and early 60's minus the Japanese monster movies (i.e., Godzilla).
Religious:
Godspell
Millions
Chocolat
"Chick Flicks" (showing my tender side):
Steel Magnolias
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Sixteen Candles
Tea with Musolini
Mrs. Palfry at the Claremont
And I know it's not what would be considered a "movie," but I have to add the British series "Upstairs, Downstairs."
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Yes, I loved 'Upstairs, Downstairs' too.
I loved Chocolat, Tea With Musolini, and James Bond movies...
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With all due respect..
Logos - I Heart Huckabees????
Zan - Red Dawn????
Alright, I'll put up as well. My favorites, in rough chronological order would be:
Citizen Kane
It's a Wonderful Life
South Pacific
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Sound of Music
1776 (Not well known, but you MUST check it out!)
Crimes and Misdeamenors
What Dreams May Come
The Matrix
Moulin Rouge
Best,
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I found Heart Huckabees intolerable. It made for quite a narrow satire of existentialism.
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1776 (Not well known, but you MUST check it out!) New York Abstains... courteously....
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With all due respect..
Zan - Red Dawn???? hehe its not one of my favs for its artistic cenematic value. Growing up there were 4 of us in our little group, it was tradition for us whenever we went on a road trip to watch Red Dawn (our friends mom had a tv and a vcr in the minivan which was really rare in the early 90s) so now when I watch Red Dawn it always brings back good memories and happier times I forgot to put "What Dreams May Come" on my list too
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Okay, let's see...In no particular order, everything from the sublime to the ridiculous, the ennobling to the profane.
Hero
Shaolin Executioners
Fearless
Dr. Strangelove...How I Learned to Love the Bomb
Gladiator
Fiddler on the Roof
Godfather
Godfather part II
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Conan the Barbarian
Ridicule
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
Crippled Avengers
The Muppet Movie
Life of Brian
Monty Python's the Quest for the Holy Grail
Bruce Lee-The Chinese Connection
Kill Bill vols 1-2
Marco Polo aka 4 Assassins
King Boxer aka Five Fingers of Death
My Fair Lady (Audrey Hepburn 'sigh')
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness
Annie Hall
The Mission
Saving Private Ryan
Hamburger Hill
Full Metal Jacket
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
A Fistfull of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
Unforgiven
Mad Max
Shakespeare in Love
Shawshank Redemption
Vertigo
Psycho
Pride and Prejudice (BBC production miniseries)
Emma
A Beautiful Mind
Five Deadly Venoms
Shogun (James Clavell miniseries)
Equilibrium
Shogun Assassin
Star Wars episodes III & IV
Avenging Eagle
Shaolin Master Killer (36th Chamber of Shaolin)
Amadeus
House of Flying Daggers
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Alien
Predator
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
Jaws
All That Jazz
Blazing Saddles
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
Carrie
The Shining
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
E.T.
The Bad news Bears (the original one with Walter Matthau)
Rocky
Rocky II
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Blade Runner
Logan's Run
Flash Gordon (Especially the soundtrack by Queen)
Apocalypse Now
That's all I can think of at the moment.
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Some of my favorite movies are very old and I think very few of you would remember them. Of course, they were made before my time.
Here are they are:
My Man Godfrey - William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady
Maytime - Jeannette MacDonald
The Heiress - Olivia deHavilland, Sir Ralph Richardson
Notorious - Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Rasputin and the Empress - Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore
In This House of Brede - Dame Diana Rigg
Rebecca - Sir Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Dame Judith Anderson
The Queen - Helen Mirren
The Nun's Story - Audrey Hephren
Anastasia - Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brunner
Major Barbara - Dame Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Marie Lohr, Deborah Kerr
The Merry Widow - Jeannette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier
Murder She Said - Dame Margaret Rutherford
Murder at the Gallop - Dame Margaret Rutherford
The Shoes of the Fisherman
The Cardinal
Take care,
John Doucette
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Some more.
The Man Who Would Be King
Captains Courageous
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1939)
Public Enemy
Boys Town
The Wild One (cracks me up every time)
Dirty Harry
F.I.S.T.
Breaker Morant
Angels With Dirty Faces
The Seventh Seal (brilliantly macabre)
The Others
In The Name Of The Father
Viva Zapata
Moby Dick
Ivanhoe (1952)
Cooley High
The Wizard Of Oz
The 300 Spartans (not to be confused with 300)
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
Goodfellas (I know I should have better taste)
Stalag 17
Full Metal Jacket
The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
Spartacus
And I'll stop there.
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Some of mine too--in no particular order--that I watch over and over and never tire of:
Oh Brother, Where art Thou? (George Clooney)
Moulin Rouge (Kidman/McGregor)
Chocolat (Binoche/Dench/Depp)
Splendor in the Grass (Beatty/Wood)
The first 3 Star Wars movies
Scrooge (Albert Finney)
Chicago (Gere/Zellweger/Zeta-Jones)
Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield/Peter Lawford/George Sanders)
Lady Jane (Helena Bonham Carter/Cary Elwes)
Flash Gordon (Sam Jones/Max von Sydow)
all the Pink Panther movies (Sellers)
History of the World-Part I (Mel Brooks)
Hello Dolly (Matthau/Streisand)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (Grant/MacDowell)
Doctor Zhivago (Omar Sharif)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (Curry/Sarandon)
I could go on...
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It's funny that I've seen nearly all of these movies and have liked them.
Hero, you mean the version from Hong Kong?
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Either middle age does something to the memory, (mine), or you guys are all movie buffs, because I could only recall a few movies at first.  Now that I have read your posts, I am recalling more of them, though I am basically only mentioning movies that I have and could watch many times...So, I will add to my other posts: 'Dr. Zhivago' 'The Wizard of Oz' 'Correlli's Mandolin' 'Jesus of Nazareth' 'The Producers' (the most recent version/I was fortunate to have seen the Broadway play for one of my anniversaries, and I have to say that the movie was just as good and hilarious as the play) There are some people, like my daughter, that will never get tired of watching movies over and over again. As you can see, I only do that with a very few movies. Are all the movies all of you listed, movies which you watch often, or just movies you recall as being your favorites?  Alice
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Any recommendations for old Greek and Russian (and Ukrainian and other Slavics) films?
I already know Mat', Alexander Nevsky, Andrei Rublev, Ivan the Terrible...
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Rocky
Casablanca
Lord of the Rings
Glory
Roots
Daughters of the Dust
Butterfly Effect
Pedro Almodovar flicks- I know, super controversial, but much deeper than he seems.
Traffic
Matrix
Tons of foreign and independent films whose titles escape me now but I'll record them as I remember them.
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