straight off the top of my head is
The princess bride, i adore that movie.

My current top 25, according to my movieranker program.

Edward Scissorhands
Dancer in the Dark
Aliens
The Poseidon Adventure
Halloween
Jaws
Grease
American Beauty
Love, Actually
Cloverfield
The Evil Dead
Nosferatu
Rosemary's Baby
The Wicker Man
Equus
Jaws 2
1984
Freeway
Casablanca
Halloween II
With Honors
The Brave Little Toaster
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
May
The Exorcist

I have a lot of favorite movies...but favorites I watch over and over and I have memorized and can quote the whole movie?

I know i know what can i say i love this film

Crimes and Misdemeanors
Alice
Shadows and Fog
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Celebrity
Deconstructing Harry
Broadway Danny Rose

I, Curmudgeon
Religulous
Unforgiven
Drugstore Cowboy
The Love Guru
One False Move
Klute
"Life Lessons" (from New York Stories)
Dirty Work
Vanya on 42nd Street
Not Another Teen Movie

Ace said:

did that have Columbo in it?
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SUPRMAN said:

GG. By the way, I've always wondered: Is that Ice Cube in your avvie?

EmeraldSkies said:

You have got to see this:

CalhounSq said:

LaBute! My fave of his.

Ace said:

it's top 10 for me

ZombieKitten said:

If you mean Peter Falk, no. Set in the '30s, it stars Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels and Danny Aiello. Mia's a timid young movie junkie who ends up in a relationship with a romantic movie character who literally steps off the screen.

CalhounSq said:

I always knew I liked you, CS.

I love Shawshank Redemption and The Usual Suspects and Rocky!

I think "best" and "favorite" are very different for me. Most of my favorites would hardly qualify in the "best" category. But some would.

In any case, the movies I watch over and over and still love every time:

Annie
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Clueless
Cry Baby
Dogma
The Devil Wears Prada
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Funny Face
The Goonies
Hairspray (the John Waters original, not the musical remake)
all the Harry Potter movies
Little Shop of Horrors
all the Lord of the Rings movies
Pretty in Pink
Sleeping Beauty (the only disney animated movie I like)
The Sound of Music
True Romance

Those are the ones I just picked off of my movie shelves, hence the alphabetical order. Mostly light-hearted, musical, comedy or fantasy adventure. Stuff that doesn't make you think much.

I have a bunch of favorites I don't watch over and over, but maybe every 5-10 years I'll want to watch it again. Stuff like:

Dancer in the Dark
Secretary
all my David Lynch movies

stuff like that.

CalhounSq said:

..almost verbatem!

Purple Rain
School Daze
Scarface
the Breakfast Club
Malcolm X

oh yeah,
goodfellas
the sound of music
the wiz
[Edited 7/3/09 5:58am]

^ Mahogany

The Fifth Element

Mr & Mrs Smith

Casino Royale

Harlem Nights

Clue

Chicago

Under The Cherry Moon

Purple Rain

Graffiti Bridge

Many of the Brat Pack Films

Most of Jim Carrey's movies

Scream 1, 2 & 3

Predator

Sleepy Hollow

Black Snake Moan

The Bodyguard

Waiting To Exhale

Dreamgirls

Beauty & The Beast

The Lion King

Harry Potter

Twilight

! Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers films

Friday
one flew over the coo coos nest
Scarface
Saturday Night Fever
Its a wonderful life
The color purple
The Breakfast club
Ferris Bueller's day off
Casino
Amadeus
The Godfather
Roll Bounce
Grease
Mulan

How could I forget Skinny, Submissive Bitches in Fetishwear Get It Hard in the Ass?

Ace said:

1. Alien

2. Aliens

3. The paper - Michael Keaton

4. The Sound of Music (yes, yes. I've resigned myself to the fact that it really is a terrific movie)

5. Indian Summer

6. The Hurricane - Denzel Washington

7. I wish I could remember the name of this movie but it's a Chinese movie. The story is about a spoiled little boy from the city who is sent to visit his grandmother in the country side. She is unable to read and write, and he absolutely hates living in her shack. He's extremely rude to her and at times mean. But at the end of the movie he realizes he cares for and loves her and the scene where he teachers her to write two very simple words so that she can send him a letter in the post to let him know that she is ok or if he needs to come out and see her....that scene is one of the most touching things I've ever seen in cinema.

8. Forest Gump

9. Shindler's List


10. My Cousin Vinny

Imago said:

http://prince.org/msg/100/312717

Ace said:

Yes that is Ice Cube.

ufoclub said:

I own this. Hate to say I enjoy it, but . . .