<p>The Godfather
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove
Fanny and Alexander
Muriel’s Wedding
Empire of the Sun
The Lady Eve
Casablanca
Bringing up Baby
Indiscreet</p>
<p>The Godfather
Kelly’s Heroes
Apocalypse Now
Rocky
Breaking Away</p>
<p>Almost any comedy with Monty Python, John Belushi, John Candy, Bill Murray or those done by Mel Brooks.</p>
<p>Okay, I’ll give it a try</p>
<p>Raising Arizona
Singing In The Rain
All That Jazz/Cabaret (Bob Fosse was a brilliant director)
Chinatown
Blazing Saddles
The Thin Man
Rear Window
Heavenly Creatures
Alien
In America</p>
<p>I’m glad to see somebody appreciates Bob Fosse. 
Actually many do. I’m surprised to see All That Jazz mentioned by others.</p>
<p>Looks like Local Hero is another movie worth watching. Many people seem to like it very much. Whcih reminds me that I also like Atlantic City and Crossing Delancey.</p>
<p>I second Local Hero, I rewatched it recently with my d, still wonderful. And Mark Knofler’s score is excellent too, the only movie sound track I’ve ever bought.</p>
<p>Other great movies from that era:
Stranger than Paradise
Brother from another planet
My beautiful launderette</p>
<p>Doh! Breaking Away! Of course, how could I have missed that? Also:</p>
<p>The Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
Bull Durham
Twelve Angry Men</p>
<p>Here’s mine. I guess I’m including a bunch no one else has mentioned, so I must be in the minority on those. But here goes:</p>
<ul>
<li> To Kill a Mockingbird (this list is in no order, other than this movie is and always will be #1)</li>
<li> Dr. Strangelove</li>
<li> Grand Illusion (haven’t seen anyone else mention this movie. What a great, great film. If you haven’t seen it, you might want to rent it)</li>
<li> A Few Good Men</li>
<li> Apollo 13</li>
<li> 12 Angry Men</li>
<li> The Gods Must Be Crazy (1 and 2)</li>
<li> Independence Day (a guilty pleasure, since I have to admit it’s hokey. But I love it!)</li>
<li> All the President’s Men</li>
<li> High Noon</li>
<li> Laura (after all these years, I still grip the arms of the chair during the last scenes !)</li>
</ul>
<p>Full Metal Jacket, Old School, American History X, Higher Learning, Scarface, Fight Club, Boogie Nights, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Major League, Good Will Hunting, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Total Recall, Road Trip, Wedding Crashers</p>
<p>My favorites are:
- The Sting
- My Fair Lady
- While You Were Sleeping
- Driving Miss Daisy
- The Great Escape</p>
<p>Others I like: Kramer vs Kramer, The Odd Couple, Doctor Zhivago, The Russians are Coming, 9 to 5, It Happened One Night, Private Benjamin,Casablanca, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Apartment, M<em>A</em>S*H, The Maltese Falcon, Rear Window, Tootsie, In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, All the President’s Men, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Wait Until Dark, Going My Way, Raiders of the Lost Ark, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Days of Wine and Roses.</p>
<p>Okay, I’ll give it a whirl:</p>
<p>African Queen
Shawshank Redemption
Casablanca
Glory
Cool Hand Luke
To Kill a Mockingbird
Bull Durham
Monty Python
Robin Hood
Little Miss Sunshine</p>
<p>guilty pleasure: My Cousin Vinny
College favs hard to watch now after I made my kids watch them and they made fun of them: Harold and Maude, King of Hearts</p>
<p>I’m sure I’m forgetting some biggies.</p>
<p>Cuckoo’s Nest, Crash and American History X were close. I still have a lot of affection for the Sting and Butch Cassidy. And Raiders of the lost Ark and Last Crusade (hated the middle one, though). And Star Wars. ANd In the Heat of the Night.</p>
<p>Well, at least today’s top 10 list would be:</p>
<p>The Graduate
To Kill a Mockingbird
Stalag 17
Wait until dark
Back to the Future
Breaking Away
The Odd Couple
American Graffiti
Magnificent 7
Dr. Strangelove</p>
<p>Absolutely Blazing Saddles and The Gods Must be Crazy! Two dvds I was proud to introduce to DS…</p>
<p>Rest of my list:</p>
<p>Camelot (all time #1)
Funny Girl
Father Goose (with “Goody Two-Shoes and the Filthy Beast”)
Miracle on 34th Street
almost any version of A Christmas Carol, including Mr Magoo’s
Amadeus
Gone With the Wind
Legally Blonde</p>
<p>Okay, so I prefer movies that don’t have me sobbing at the end. I was upset for days after seeing Schindler’s List. Amazing film, but yikes. I will never, ever see Hotel Rwanda.</p>
<p>(Actually, in keeping with my upbeat theme, I should replace Amadeus with Beauty and the Beast.)</p>
<p>[smacks forehead]</p>
<p>Raiders of the Lost Ark!
Rear Window! (“How would you go about cutting up a body?”)
African Queen!
High Noon!</p>
<p>Sheesh. I’ve forgotten more great movies than I’ve listed…</p>
<p>An eclectic list in no particular order:</p>
<p>The Sting
My Fair Lady
Eating Raoul (black comedy at its oddest)
Casablanca
Raising Arizona
The Money Pit/Big
LOTR
The Empire Strikes Back
Mr. Roberts
That Sir John Gielgud movie about the robbers and the little old lady, that got re-made a few years ago.
Field of Dreams
Lawrence of Arabia (in small doses)
Any Katherine Hepburn movie
Most John Wayne movies, particularly with Maureen O’Hara.
O Brother Where art Thou</p>
<p>My guilty pleasure - Notting Hill
Recent movies I loved that no one else did - Everything is Illuminated and Zoolander (don’t ask)</p>
<p>These are the movies that I can watch over and over.
I had a wonderful, wonderful time watching The Sting with my now college soph D and a couple of friends her age, about 3 years ago. The movie is a little dated, and they had never really understood what all the hoopla re Robert Redford and Paul Newman was, now they understand after seeing those two in tuxes ;). But watching the kids’ reaction at the end was truly priceless, they were completely taken in, completely snookered, the looks on their faces were total shock, they felt they had seen it all, and no “old movie” could be as good as new movies.</p>
<p>I have been torturing myself about this all afternoon. I’m gonna do it like ripping off a bandaid:</p>
<p>Groundhog Day
All About Eve
On the Town
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Gay Divorcee
Bringing Up Baby
Godfather II
Double Indemnity
Casablanca
GWTW</p>
<p>Okay, there must be something wrong with me, because no one’s mentioned one of mine which is</p>
<p>West Side Story.</p>
<p>Of the ones mentioned, my tops include
To Kill a Mockingbird
Midnight Cowboy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Pscyho
Wait Until Dark
Patton
Annie Hall
Best in Show</p>
<p>coronax has a bunch of my all time faves! Like…</p>
<p>Last of the Mohicans
The Graduate, and
Dances with Wolves</p>
<p>Also loved:</p>
<p>The Verdict
Traffic
The Godfather(s)
The Virgin Suicides</p>
<p>Make this my Daniel Day Lewis section:
Gangs of NY (LOVE the ending montage)
The Crucible
Last of the Mohicans
In the Name of the Father</p>
<p>My Emily Watson section:
Breaking the Waves
Hilary and Jackie</p>
<p>My Cate Blanchett section:
Elizabeth
Veronica Guerin</p>
<p>My one Gwyneth Paltrow:</p>
<h2>Proof </h2>
<p>jmmom - I think Best in Show is one of the most hilarious movies ever!!</p>
<p>The Age of Innocence
Casablanca
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
The Wizard of Oz
Shakespeare in Love
It’s a Wonderful Life
Gone with the Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird
Father of the Bride 1 & 2</p>
<p>Washdad and I are cheating because our lists are a lot larger than 10. :)</p>
<p>Somebody mentioned The Apartment. That movie was definitely in my top 10, 20 years ago and I still like it.</p>
<p>Nobody has mentioned Sunset Boulevard. </p>
<p>Nobody has mentioned Sleuth which probably still is in my top ten.
I really like Double Indemnity and On the Town too. </p>
<p>Nobody has mentioned the silent movies. I know The Kid isn’t Charlie Chaplin’s most famous movie, and I really like both the Gold Rush and City Lights, but when Charlie Coogan screams out, “I want my daddy”, well, it is one of my favorites.</p>
<p>Also, I like Buster Keaton’s The General. Great, great, movie. Plus in 10 years my son could play Buster very well in a biography. He looks and moves just like Buster. Also has the deadpan down. He’s a little young now.</p>
<p>Do our kids ever watch any of the old silent movies?</p>
<p>Okay, if we’re talking The Apartment, then I think I’m inspired to add</p>
<p>Days of Wine and Roses</p>
<p>Sleuth is pretty good, too.</p>