Just wanted 2 start a thread on your favorite 20 movies. Here's mine in no particular order:

1.Heat
2.The Usual Suspects
3.The Color Purple
4.Friday
5.Purple Rain
6.Saving Private Ryan
7.The Wood
8.Clerks
9.The Shawshank Redemption
10.The Godfather
11.The Godfather II
12.Taken
13.The Hangover
14.Goodfellas
15.American Pie
16.Half Baked
17.Coming To America
18.Harlem Knights
19.E.T.
20.The Temptations

I'll take two of yours for starters.

thecloud said:

The funniest movie ive seen in a long time

part of my list...will add/edit tomorrow after some
purple rain
UTCM
Love Actually
Roadhouse
Wizard of Oz
Willy wonka and the choc factory
All Harry Potter movies (so far)
Star Wars IV-VI (not the prequels )
Notting hill
My Fair Lady
Batman
The Dark Knight

Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy
The Phantom of Liberty
Belle de jour
Under The Sand
8 Women
5x2
Paris When It Sizzles
Victor Victoria
The Prince & The Showgirl
West Side Story
All That Jazz
Guys & Dolls
The Color Purple
Dancer In The Dark
High Fidelity
In The Loop
Down With Love

In no special order...

1. All About Eve
2. The Clock
3. Chameleon Street
4. California Suite
5. She's Gotta Have It
6. Malcolm X
7. Eve's Bayou
8. Brother From Another Planet
9. Nothing But A Man
10. Carmen Jones
11. Wattstax
12. 9 To 5
13. Network
14. Jackie Brown
15. Enchanted April
16. After Hours
17. The Breakfast Club
18. Devil In The Blue Dress
19. Paris Is Burning
20. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

20 doesn't norrow it down because I have MORE fave

PricelessHo said:

I've been meaning to watch for Fanny Ardant alone

These may not be my top 20, but it's the first 20 I could think of off the top of my head that I'd put in my "favorite" category.

True Romance
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Pretty in Pink
Hairspray (the John Waters original)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Color Purple
Dogma
The Sound of Music
Say Anything
Fantastic Mr Fox
Coraline
Funny Face
the Lord of the Rings movies
Star Wars trilogy (original 3)
High Fidelity
Stand By Me
Dream a Little Dream (I loooooved this movie as a child)

That's 20. I could probably list 20-40 more and I might even like them better.

Harlepolis said:

she's amazing in it. her, Catherine and Emmanuelle really did their thing in that film.

and speaking of Emanuelle, it's such a shame how she got her face all jacked up now. she was seriously hot.

In no particular order:

Suddenly Last Summer
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
On Golden Pond
Shawshank Redemption
Hello, Dolly
The Wizard of Oz
The Hairdresser's Husband
A Rumor of Angels
The Breakfast Club
Moonstruck
Wall*E
Riding The Bus With My Sister
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
Indiana Jones trilogy
All Six Star Wars Movies
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
What's Love Got To Do With It?
To Wong Too, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar
Hannibal
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1. the greatest story ever told
2. gone with the wind
3. rear window
4. grease
5. purple rain
6. pursuit of happiness
7. up
8. fival
9. the godfather
10.the godfather II
11.the godfather III
12.the breakfast club
13.breakfast at tiffany's
14.under the cherry moon
15.robots
16.malcolm x
17.training day
18 good fellas
19.carlito's way
20.and most every movie denzel washington has ever done.
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Not in particular order, but #1 is my #1 all-time favorite.

To Kill A Mockingbird
A Patch of Blue
The Shawshank Redemption
Yentl
The Color Purple
Purple Rain
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Goodfellas
Once Upon a Time in America
Miller's Crossing
Risky Business
Funny Girl
Fannie
The Breakfast Club
Wattstax
Bambi Yeah, seriously!
The Women of Brewster Place
Suddenly Last Summer Hepburn was magnificent!
West Side Story

I could watch all of these movies over and over and never get tired of them.
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Heat
Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
The Shining
Cidade de Deus
The Motorcycle Diaries
Withnail and I
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Elephant Man
The Wicker Man
The Fly
Sexy Best
Pulp Fiction
Lost In Translation
Batman (1989)
Slumdog Millionaire
Fargo
The Silence of the Lambs

Interview with a Vampire

Scream

Purple Rain

Billy Madison

Wedding singer

Studio 54

Labyrinth

Breakfast club

Fast times at Ridge mont High

Wayne's world

Happy gilmore

Lost boys

Roadhouse

Dirty Dancing

Footloose

Super Bad

Cant Hardly Wait

Beetle juice

Empire Records

I know What You Did Last Summer

These are in no particular order
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It's A wonderful Life
To Kill A Mockingbird
Lean On Me
The Shawshank Redemption
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Superbad
The Hangover
Precious
Army of Darkness
American History X
The Color Purple
The Joy Luck Club
Steel Magnolias
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Clerks II
A Time To Kill
The Rainmaker
Lilies of the Field

1) The Green Mile

2) Forrest Gump

3) Under The Cherry Moon

4) Rain Man

5) American History X

6) Cast Away

7) Purple Rain

8) The Big Lebowski

9) Jude The Obscure

10) Burn After Reading

11) The Game

12) Being There

13) Catch Me If You Can

14) Inglorious Basterds

15) Saving Private Ryan

16) Groundhog Day

17) Borat

18) The Beach

19) A Beautiful Mind

20) Schindler's List

I'd also like to add "Of Mice And Men", "Pursuit Of Happiness" and "Aristocats"

In no particular order...

Terminator
Hannah and Her Sisters
Aliens
Spider-Man 2
Fargo
Purple Rain
The Big Chill
All About Eve
Up
The Empire Strikes Back
Murder by Death
Contact
The Hangover
The Dark Knight
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Silence of the Lambs
Moonstruck
When Harry Met Sally
Sixteen Candles
Manhattan Murder Mystery

Dave1992 said:

I would probably bump off a couple of my own choices and add Forrest Gump and Half Baked. And probably add RoboCop. I've seen that movie at least 50 times.

in no real order, and this is more than 20 I guess...

Monty Python's The Holy Grail
West Side Story
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The Shining
Repo Man
Young Frankenstein
The Deer Hunter
The Graduate
Singin' in the Rain
Annie Hall
Alien
The Silence of the Lambs
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Beetlejuice
The Women (original)
Dumb and Dumber
The Exorcist
Blow-Up
Amelie
Showgirls
This Is Spinal Tap
Almost Famous
Airplane
The Exorcist

Amadeus, Aliens, American Beauty, Akira, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Being John Malkovich, Das Boot, Beautiful Thing, Citizen Kane, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Color Purple, Donnie Darko, Dancer In The Dark, Dangerous Liaisons, The Dark Crystal, Elizabeth, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, ET, The Empire Strikes Back, Ever After, Farewell To My Concubine, Fargo, Four Weddings And A Funeral, Le Grand Blue, High Society, Hedwig And The Angry, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956), The Insider, The Iron Giant, The Jungle Book (by Disney), Koyaanisqatsi, Key Largo, Life Of Brian, Lola Rennt, LA Confidential, Lost In Translation, Magnolia, Memento, M (by Fritz Lang), Metropolis (also by Frits Lang), The Matrix, Het Meisje Met Het Rode Haar, My Fair Lady, Microcosmos, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Notting Hill, Once Upon A Time In The West, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Princess Bride, Raise The Red Lantern, Rear Window, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, The Shawshank Redemption, Silence Of The Lambs, Some Like It Hot, Seven Samurai, The Sound Of Music, Singing In The Rain, 12 Monkees, Trainspotting, Der Untergang, The Usual Suspects, Vertigo, De Vierde Man, While You Were Sleeping, The Wizard Of Oz, Yara

^ that is WAY more than 20.

I'll take your American Beauty, Der Untergang, The Sound Of Music, Fargo, High Society, Life of Brian, Donnie Darko, and a few others and add it to mine though.

minneapolisgenius said:

This is my old list, actually. I need to add a few nubies.

in no particular order

La Haine
City Of God
Apocalypto
The Edukators
La Pianiste
MacBeth (orson welles)
La Reine Margot
Goodbye Lenin
Christiane F
Serial Mom
Pulp Fiction
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Virgin Suicides
Requiem For a Dream
Fight Club
Dead Calm
Elizabeth
Trainspotting
Shallow Grave
Nil By Mouth

insatiable3 said:

omg, I LOVE that movie. No one I know has even seen it.

IstenSzek said:

CarrieMpls said:

I keep hearing my friends talk about this movie and I have never seen it. Who's in it and what's it about?

JDInteractive said:

agreed. it's one of my fav movies too. it's such a good film.
when it finished i put it right back on.

minneapolisgenius said:

omg get thee to watching Trainspotting. If you love Shallow Grave,
you'll also love Trainspotting.