Off Topic Favourite Films

No Rangers action and the refugee situation is too depressing, so something lighthearted perhaps.

I imagine this has been done before in one form or another, but what are your top ten films? Not as works of art, but just those that have affected you in one way or another, or that you would watch again and again.

Here are mine, in no particular order:

Quadrophenia
Good Fellas
Field Of Dreams
Woodstock
Contact
Missing
It's A Wonderful Life
A Matter Of Life And Death
The Wild Bunch
Easy Rider

 

Bambi

 

In no order.
Shawshank Redemption
Life Of Brian
Bullitt
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
Borat
A Christmas Carol (1951 Black and White)
Bananas
Philadelphia
Hannibal Rising

 

All the Roger Moore as Bond films.
Falling Down
Misery
Oliver!
Planet of the Apes (the original with Charlton Heston)
Escape From Alcatraz
The Great Escape
Papillon
Sleuth
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Quadrophenia

 

Bloody Hell Aqua, I think I like most of those. Especially the Moore Bond movies.

Sheer Class.

 

I could have included Life Of Brian.

 

In chronological order, as I discovered them,

The 7 voyages of sinbad (1963)
Oliver (1969)
Mandy (1975)
Lonely are the Brave (1977)
The Grapes of Wrath (1980)
The Tin Drum (1982)
Clockwork Orange (1984)
Wings of Desire (1989)
Le chateau de mon pere, la gloire de ma mere (1992)
L'Amour (2014)

 

Yes BR, I've got a fascination with prison escape based films. very odd.
Moore is easily the best Bond imo....adds humour to the part.

 

In no particular order:

Night of the Demon
Midnight Cowboy
2001 A Space Odyssey
Clockwork Orange
Get Carter
Blues Brothers
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Avatar

Plenty of others could be included on any given day...

 

With the minimum of thought, as they came into my head:
This is Spinal Tap
Withnail and I
Breaker Morant
Eraserhead
American Beauty
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
In Bruges
Napoleon Dynamite
The Duellists
Bladerunner
Grand Budapest Hotel
Bicycle Thieves
The Leopard
Mad Max Fury Road (only at the cinema, pointless on small screen).

 

Alien
Blade Runner
The Thing
Ghost Busters
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars

 

I make that fourteen, Stan, so four are disqualified and handed to Flummox who couldn't come up with ten.

Breaker Morant (very moving), Bladerunner (how could I not have chosen this), American Beauty and The Good The Bad and the Ugly are now in Flummox's ten.

 

Dr Strangelove (so far above all other films)









Howls Moving Castle
Watership Down
(Original) Animal Farm animated...1954??
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Shawshank Redemption

 

How can you put watership down in there Beth, I still cry like a baby if its on.

Bright Eyes.....here I go

 

You have no idea Rhino....I am crying now.
But to elicit that response, in "the cold light of day" ...it must be a great film


I find fivers death scene, the most poignant 2-3 minutes of animated film ever....beautiful

 

Good lists above...


In no order,

Apocalypse Now
Trainspotting
Fight Club
The Raid
Shawshank Redemption
Star Wars (any of the original ones)
White Chicks
A Clockwork Orange
The Usual Suspects
Twelve Monkeys

Could easily pull out a couple, and put others in dependant upon mood

Will have to try and look out some of the recommendations above too

 

Dr Strangelove good call, Howl's Moving Castle lovely, I marginally prefer Spirited Away, masterpieces of the imagination.

Oops, I didn't notice the number limit. The most moving one on my list is Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di Biciclette), almost unbearable.

 

This is Spinal Tap
Life of Brian
Rocky Horror Picture show
The Great Escape
A View To A Kill
Air America
Lost Boys
Blues Brothers
The Four Year Plan (especially the ending...)
Star Wars (Sorry)

 

****ing hell has no one chosen the Godfather I and II? So now I have 16.....

 

Might call for another thread - films that made you cry. Four of my choices on this thread would qualify, as would Watership Down.