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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsBest movies (Citizen Kane exempted)
* All About Eve
* Sunset Boulevard
* Lawrence of Arabia - (Yeah, I know we love Gregory P/Mockingbird)
* The Third Man
* Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Cabaret, Romeo/Juliet
* (Navy) The Last Detail, Cinderella Liberty, Officer/Gentleman
* (comedy ) - Funny Thing/Forum, Fish/Wanda, Producers
* (European stuff) -

BOSSHOG
(42,575 posts)* Paper Moon
* The Enemy Below
* The Way We Were
FalloutShelter
(13,383 posts)All About Eve
Some Like it Hot
West Side Story
Day For Night
Blade Runner
Good Fellas
UTUSN
(74,306 posts)Sneederbunk
(16,218 posts)UTUSN
(74,306 posts)LogDog75
(465 posts)The Martian
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Lost Horizon
Casablanca
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
LudwigPastorius
(12,565 posts)Dr. Strangelove
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Amadeus
City Lights
milestogo
(20,682 posts)Despite all his flaws, Woody Allen knows how to put together a good film.
LudwigPastorius
(12,565 posts)Before I saw that movie I only knew him from cheesy TV fare like Space: 1999.
GReedDiamond
(5,445 posts)Dr. Strangelove
2001: A Space Odyssey
They Live!
Assault On Precinct 13 (1976 original) - BTW, currently on YouTube movies, free with ads
Idiocracy
*To Wong Foo: Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar
*Enemy Of The State
nuxvomica
(13,342 posts)If any of these is on the TV when I'm channel surfing, I watch it:
Casablanca (1942)
The Third Man (1949)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Touch of Evil (1951)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Suddenly Last Summer (1959)
Notorious (1946)
Deception (1946)
Jumanji (1995)
no_hypocrisy
(51,727 posts)I see new things each time I watch it.
Grim Chieftain
(186 posts)I've watched it many times over the years and never tire of it.
milestogo
(20,682 posts)
ProfessorGAC
(72,912 posts)My best Western is Silverado.
My best thriller is North By Northwest.
KTB2025
(13 posts)I know I'm in the small, small minority on this one...but I just don't think Godfather II is a very good movie. It's predictable - since so much of it takes place before Godfather I - with very little action and rehashes of the same characters whose arcs will complete in the first film. Maybe if Clemenza had been the foil, as originally intended... Godfather I, yes, wonderful. Godfather II...nah...
ProfessorGAC
(72,912 posts)This is, of course, why there are many kinds of movies. People's taste can vary so much
Doc_Technical
(3,674 posts)The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
Bringing up Baby
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
milestogo
(20,682 posts)The Onion Field
The Pianist
Thelma & Louise
Black Hawk Down
Legends of the Fall
Paladin
(30,613 posts)And I would certainly hope that the "European Stuff" includes "The Lives Of Others."
Alpeduez21
(1,935 posts)Gone with the Wind
Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis
Singing in the Rain
History of the World Part I
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Emile
(34,901 posts)Groundhog Day
Saving Private Ryan
Up in Smoke
CTyankee
(66,285 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(9,931 posts)Ritabert
(1,145 posts)Animal House
The Birds
Chinatown
L.A. Confidential
Ghostbusters
brush
(60,075 posts)Last edited Sat May 31, 2025, 01:36 PM - Edit history (1)
Watch on the Rhine, Pulp Fiction, The Young Philadelpians.
Botany
(74,302 posts)Lion in Winter
Breaker Morant
The Silver Fox
Godfather 1 & 2
Blazing Saddles
Seven Samurai
Japanese
Midway
Animal House
Chef
Dances with Wolves
No Country for Old Men
Fargo
The Shootist
Gandhi
My Cousin Vinny
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Harvey
The Hustler
Remember the Titans
LSparkle
(12,021 posts)Manhattan
The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger)
Casablanca
Notorious
Life Lessons segment of New York Stories
Blue Velvet
Reds
Alphaville
Dale in Laurel MD
(774 posts)nt
ms liberty
(10,242 posts)Grosse Pointe Blank
Almost Famous
The Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Editing to include the first and last of The Matrix movies, which were amazing. The middle two were formulaic and very meh for me.
catbyte
(37,016 posts)Key Largo, To Have and Have Not, Dark Passage, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, and Club Paradise are some of my favorites.
justaprogressive
(3,905 posts)1) A Shot in the Dark ( Peter Sellers ...breaks the 4th wall)
2) Casablanca (Humpty of course)
3) Monkey Business (Cary Grant Ginger Rogers)
4) A New Leaf (Walter Matthew Elaine May)
5) Seabiscuit (Jeff Bridges Tobey McGuire)
6) The Money Pit (Tom Hanks Shelley Long)