Over the years, we have had many movies projected onto a silver screen. I would love to hear which are your favorites and why. Is there any movie that has some sentimental value to you? Lets hear it!!
My all-time favorite is Yound Frankenstein. I love Mel Brooks movies. You have to watch them several times, to get the full effect, since he has so much going on in the background in many scenes. "What knockers!"
I would have to say my all time classic favorite would probably be The Philadelphia Story, Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, and the lydia the tattooed lady song, amazing! But my masters in cinema studies forces me to add also The Lady Eve, and Jezebel.
I loved the Wizard of Oz. But I have to say that my favorite was Gone with the Wind. I fell in love with the romance of the story when I was a teenager. I studied everything Gone with the Wind. Used to collect memorabilia and I would make my Dad "quiz" me on Gone with the Wind facts on the way to school in the mornings. Truth is, there are so many good ones out there, it makes it hard to choose.
Thanks for sharing! I do have my favorites but there are too many. But to mention some I will tell, The Pianist, La Vida es Bella, Schlinder List, How to lose a Guy in ten Days, Walt Disney Pictures, Memoirs of a Geisha and more. Th Why is self-explanatory just has to take a look a each of them to know. Thank You!
My all-time favorite is The Wizard of Oz, but I have several runners up...
Nobody's Fool - Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy....great stuff
The Sting - Paul Newman, Robert Redford....fabulous
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid - Newman, Redford, and Katherine Ross...fun, fun, fun!
Family Man - Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni....excellent story on family values, check it out
Gilda - Rita Hayworth....need I say more?
Harvey - Jimmy Stewart...one of my favorite actors of all time
True Grit - John Wayne...my absolute favorite actor of all time
McClintock! - John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara....loved this pairing, and the movie is hilarious
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks...at his finest, IMO
Rear Window - Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly...not only does the screen fairly smolder with the heat of their chemistry, but you've got an excellent Hitchcock plot to keep you riveted.
I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of them right now.
Two of my favorites are African Queen - Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn and Citizen Kane. My favorite modern flick is Independence Day with Jeff Goldblum.
African Queen and Citizen Kane have strong plots and strong character development and I came away in awe after seeing these movies.
Independence Day has a logical and believeable plot and I particularly liked the heroism of many of the characters.
Oh, gosh, there are so many. The few that come immediately to mind are classics in the true sense, made before color. They would be Gunga Din and Arsenic and Old Lace, both starring Cary Grant.
And then further forward are The Birds with Tippi Hedron and Bell, Book and Candle with Kim Novak.
And in no particular order; Forest Gump, The Mission with Robert DeNiro, Beautiful Mind with Russell Crowe and the list could be endless.
Fun remembering these movies. Thanks for posing this.
Independence day, Forest Gump, Sound of Music, Family Man - these are films i really enjoyed and still enjoy. Notting Hill is another totally sentimental film I like plus Pretty Woman
Beng a sci-fi nut, of sorts, I'd have to say STAR WARS, the first of the trilogy, was my favorite. The special effects, for that period, were awesome, as well as a good story and plot. Being a screenwriter, myself, I can relate. For the record, anyone daring to can read my entire screenplay, Destiny's Divas in order at destinysdivas.gather.com - I'd love to hear some of the reviews from you folks, the ones who spend the money to go and see movies.
OK I have 2 favorites. Put either one in and Im right there and will put everything else off till its over.. First is "A Walk To Remember" With Mandy Moore It hits home since I had a friend die of Leukemia when I was 15 and there were so many things that she never got to see or do in life but had the best attitude about being sick, she was never afraid or never showed it. Second is "Sweet Home Alabama" With Reese Witherspoon Just a good movie to sit and watch. Kind of reminds me of a life I once lived. There are a few more movies that I truly enjoy watching which are "the notebook", The Lake House", City of Angels" and last but not least "The Secret Garden"
"Arsenic and Old Lace," Cary Grant. The reason is that my teenagers, who have never sat and watched an entire b&w movie, were glued to the set and laughing throughout the movie. Cary Grant's performance rivals that of Jim Carey in "Liar, Liar," and this classic proves timeless!
For emotion, "It's a Wonderful Life" still provides the most riveting and emotional messages, but "Blood Diamond" follows as a close second! Normally I am NOT a Leonardo fan, but he really outperformed himself in this movie, and its message should be heard loud and clear! Cubic Zirconia all the way baby!
Strange - I though I answered this one! One of the movies I recommend more than any other is "The Iron Giant," but I have a list of movies I love that's rather long, including everything from "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "La Femme Nikita," "The Wedding Guest," and "Bicentennial Man."
A movie that surprised me was "Man of the Year." I expected it to do nothing but poke fun at the political process, but it actually made some incredibly wonderful points, and had a deeper plot than I expected.
"The High and the Mighty" - watching John Wayne's character walk away alone after fighting to save the whole plane load of people is an enduring image, and the wonderful Dimitri Tiomkin theme is always close to the surface in my memory.
My favorite out of all the movies that I have ever seen is Ben Hur. I know the acting is kind of cheesy by current standards, but I love the movie. I was 9 years old when I first saw Ben Hur. I was madly in love with Charlton Heston and still am today. My husband even says to me (when a Charlton Heston film is on) "Honey, your man is on TV."
My favorite scene is the chariot race. I could watch just that part over and over.
I would have to say any movie by Mel Brooks. I love to laugh and Mel's Movies seem to always do that, to me and anyone else who sees his movies. Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part 1
One of my favorites is The Shining and another is Magnolia. Training Day is a good one, too. There's too many good ones to name. There's so many bad ones.
My taste is wide and varied (and excellent - but that's my own opinion...) - but here are I think most of my all time favourites - good enough to own and watch over and over again... These are the movies I don't want to live without:
84 Charing Cross Road A Fish Called Wanda A Walk To Remember All About my Mother Arabian Nights Billy Elliot The Black Velvet Gown Calendar Girls Citizen X Cold Comfort Farm The Color Purple Contact Corrina, Corrina Dances With Wolves Dangerous Beauty Dead Man Walking Dead Poets Society Don Juan de Marco Fanny & Alexander Fly Away Home Gattaca Gladiator Goodbye, Mr Chips Grabben i Graven Bredvid (The Guy in the Grave Next Door) Grand Canyon The Green Mile Ha'Bu'ah (The Bubble) Ha'Ushpizin Hero High Heels (Tacones Lejanos) Howard's End The Hurricane Keeping Mum Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al Bordes de un Ataque de "nervios") Legally Blonde Leon Love, Actually Lucky Number Slevin Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed (Romuald et Juliet) Man on Fire Matrix, The Memoirs of a Geisha Much Ado About Nothing My Left Foot The Name of the Rose Outsider, The Overboard Patch Adams Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Remains of the Day Remember the Titans Saving Grace Schindler's List Secrets & Lies Sense and Sensibility Shadowlands Shall We Dance? (the Japanese original) The Shawshank Redemption Spy Game Strictly Ballroom Talk of Angels Trading Places True Blue Tuskegee Airmen X Twelve Monekys Under the Tuscan Sun Walking on Water (Lalechet al Hamayim)
Let's see if I can keep the list down to a "Top 5" or so:
Groundhog Day Inside Moves (Why is this one NOT on DVD yet?????) The Hunt for Red October Gladiator Midnight Cowboy
(So many others: M, Citizen Kane, Ben-Hur, 61*, Apollo 13, Casablanca, Diner, Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and my "guilty pleasures"; The Star Trek and Star Wars series.)
French Kiss- Meg Ryan & Kevin Kline Gone With The Wind- Must be watched everytime it is on. The Wizard of Oz- No brainer Napolean Dynamite- Shaun of The Dead Steel Magnolias- I must watch it at least until the funeral scene...sad and funny at the same moment.
A lot of great movies listed so far, but I can't believe nobody has mentioned one of the ultimate trips of all -- Stanley Kubrick's 2001:A Space Odyssey. It's probably one of the slowest-paced movies ever made, and by all rights it should have been a total bust, but somehow I've watched it probably 10 times or more over the years, and that's far more than any other movie can claim from me!
I'd like to think of myself as a musician, but somehow musical movies turn me off. The only exception to that rule is the unforgettable Jesus Christ: Superstar by (as I recall) Norman Jewison. That one comes in second only to 2001. Of course a monkey could have directed and it would still be great, thanks to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. - - Jim Swan's "None-Too-Great Hits" now on iTunes. Not the usual Top-40 stuff.
Having many favorite films, it is hard to pick one. My film viewing goes back a long way. I would start with "It's a Wonderful Life" with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed and "The Holly and the Ivy" featuring Sir Ralph Richardson and Margaret Leighton. Others I watch as often as I can are "Citizen Kane" and "Amadeus". Then there is "Out of the Past" with Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas and Rhonda Fleming. I've enjoyed most Robert Mitchum films as well as those of Orson Welles and Humphrey Bogart. And the films directed by Frank Capra are also favorites.
As for musicals, I loved "Singing in the Rain", "American in Paris", Fanny", "sound of Music" and all Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly films including the dramas like "Gilda".
And then there are so many Gregory Peck films like "Gentleman's Agreement".
As for animated features, "Bambi", "Pinocchio", and "Finding Nemo" stand out
Am thinking of many more and will have to finish the list later.
The Wizard of Oz! I can watch it over and over. As a small child I was BLOWN AWAY by it! Now I mostly enjoy it for its studio craftsmanship and star performances. I think it's much better now than when it first came out. In 1939 it must have all been very jarring to those who were fans of the books.
I think you have to categorize movies into groups:
Most impact on me, growing up:
"Mame"....the old one with Rosalind Russell (1958) They say that Cher is re-doing it? "Citizen Kane" "Sunset Blvd" "Lost Horizons" "Wizard of Oz" "Mash"
Movies I liked watching with my kids:
"The Never ending story", "Matilda", "SuperStar", "High School Musical", "Goonies", The one with Witches in it......"Sister's, I smell a child...." "Star Wars"/"Star Trek" movies OMG, there are too many to list.....kids r gr8 2 have around, u never have to grow up ;-) "The Adventures of Baron Muchhausen" is the absolute best though!!
Foreign: "A very long Affair"
musical: Yeah, "paint your wagon" is good; but "Oklahoma" is easy to sing to. As is "Carousel," "Fiddle on the Roof", "Sound of Music," "Man of LaMancha"....
"Tis I, Don Quiote; the man of La Mancha!" FYI, got my windmill chasing from him....
Drama:
Oh, so much drama.....who can pick?
"Dr. Zhivago", "Roots", "The color purple," are the older ones...."Shogun", "The Godfather"
Superheros:
"Spiderman", "Batman", "The Hulk", "X-Men"...."Fantastic Four"
Alternative:
"The Object of My Affection", "As Good as it Gets", "Latter Days," "The Broken Hearts Club"
Love story type things:
"you've got mail", "love Story", "gone with the wind", "City of Angels" is the best...
Comedy:
Yeah, Mel brooks is a side-splitting fart fest....and the knockers joke is funny; but I'd say that there are funnier ones:
"The Producers", "The Witches of Eastwick", really cheesy old SF flicks (do the "Mystery Science Theatre" thing with friends)
SF/Fantasy:
"Lord of the Rings", "Gattaca", ("Soylent Green", "The Omega Man,' and "Westworld" for oldies that said something) "Dune"....the Sf channel ones.
Mystery:
"Charlie Chan" movies.
Adventure:
"Indianna Jones" movies, "The Librarian", and that lot of movies....
Scary/suspense:
"Jurassic Park", "Hotel", the first "Posieden Adventure","journey to the center of the earth" for an oldie...
Well, there are tons more....these just jump to mind ;-)
I was going to say "The English Patient" Stephen, but I thought they'd think me gay ;-) You should try "A very long Engagement" it runs the same way....only in French. Jodie Foster is gr8 in it. A far cry from "Taxi" and drain-o, eh?
It's hard to condense the list of movies I like. However, one that almost always jumps out pretty high on the list is "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Perhaps the best Jim Carey "serious" performance I've seen. Yes, it had some comedy, but it wasn't his normal slapstick routine. I think it would more likely fall under "Dramady" Add in Kate Winslett and a good supporting cast, and it made for an odd, yet amazingly touching film.
I am a Turner Classic Movies Addict so: Kings Row- Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings- it's the only Reagan movie that I think he actually acted in and he was great!
Gilda-I can't say enough about this movie. I actually used to sing at a Jazz club and the song, Put the Blame on Mame, was one of my first numbers.
The Lost Weekend- I hate to say it, but there are somethings that I can really relate too in this movie.
A slightly weird more current one is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I always drop everything and watch this one. It is so fun to have all of those favorite characters in one movie and the sets are gorgeous!
All-time fav ever is Fight Club. Who doesn't love a film about civil disobedience? (OK and some demolition) Plus Brad Pitt & Edward Norton together were a great pair. Followed by Hot Fuzz & Shaun of the Dead. Then anything by Tim Burton, including Big Fish.
my all time number one movie is The Power of One following it in no particular order are Pay It Forward Powder Tristan & Isolde The Prestige The Illusionist To Kill a Mockingbird What Dreams May Come Wind Pearl Harbor The Lake House Practical Magic Hope Floats (yeah there's a theme here, I love Sandra Bullock) 300 Disturbia
independance day is awesome... just cause it has will smith in it and he punches the alien stuck in his parachute... that is my all-time favorite part of the movie!! i also love saving privat ryan, cause the scene at the beginning, D day, it so moving, and it makes me think every time of how much we lost to save the french... i also love the patriot (i know, i'm all about war movies, cause i support our tropps and am proud of them!!) cause he is such an honerable man in the movie... it's so sad though... those are some of my favorites, has anyone seen Joyeux Noel (merry christmas) ? it's an awesome movie where the french, english and german soldiers drop their arms and celebrate christmas evening together... it's also sad, but an amazing movie!!
The original Star Wars took my breath away when I first saw it, it was an astonishing piece of work. However, close runner-ups would have to include: Pirates of the Caribbean - love that Johnny Depp - sigh Indiana Jones - Harrison Ford isn't too shabby either! Lord of the Rings, and of course all the Harry Potters. Geesh, but it bothers me to not include: Moonstruck Don Juan deMarco ET When Harry Met Sally Pride and Prejudice Something's Gotta Give Under the Greenwood Tree A Knight's Tale Tootsie Sleepless in Seattle and In and Out
A Christmas Carol (with Alistair Sims) Moonstruck The Shawshank Redemption Ladyhawke Babe Billy Elliott The Whale Rider The Lord of the Rings (all three) and a whole bunch of others.
Most recent favorite, and best film of 2006: Pan's Labyrinth
Favorite movie? I don't have one. Movies I love? I have many. Don Juan de Marco with Marlin Brando and Johnny Depp is a treat every time I watch it. I love all the A &E Horatio Hornblower movies--especially the exceptional acting by Robert Lindsay. Fierce Creatures leaves me with my stomach hurting from laughing every time I see it. Chocolat is not only wonderful, but makes me crave chocolate when I watch it. Brannaghs' Much Ado is in my opinion the best movie version of Shakespeare ever, but Pacino's Merchant of Venice and Olivier's Lear would have my votes for second and third. I love watching Brando parody himself in The Freshman. A&E's Pride and Prejudice is still the best of the Jane Austen bunch in my opinion. The Thomas Crown Affair would have my vote for pure heart stopping steaminess. It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite Christmas movie. Favorite musical is still The Music Man with Shirley Jones, despite there being so many fun ones to choose from. (I would almost vote for Evita, not because I like the movie, but because I love to watch Antonio. ;) ) My favorite buddy film is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Broken Trail gets my vote for best western. Best make you think/change your life movie? To Kill a Mockingbird. None of those are new releases (Or I'd add Amazing Grace) and the ones that aren't considered classics yet, will be soon enough. Kelley
Like others here, my list is way too long, but I love "Highlander", "Arsenic and Old Lace", "Gone with the Wind", "African Queen"...and many others. Favorite Christmas movie is "The Christmas Story", and favorite for sentimental reasons would be "The Wizard of Oz" because my dad was a stickler for not allowing us to watch too much TV, but allowed me to watch that every year and "Something About Mary" because it was the first movie my husband and I saw together.
Not a movie that will ever fall into the all-time greats but my favorite movie is PCU, and I know how it gets called an Animal House ripoff and in a way it is but it is updated for the times and makes so many great points about society in such a funny way that I just love it. Also like National Treasure Batman Memento also for campiness Army of Darkness, Bruce Campbell can spout one-liners like nobody else
So many... but a few favorites (and I'm sure I'll kick myself later when I realize the ones I forgot): * Love Actually * Pride & Prejudice (almost any version but I love the latest one) * Amelie * You've Got Mail
And my most recent favorite: Stranger than Fiction... why did this get panned by the critics? It is brilliant in every respect!
The answer to this question is directly related to the time of day...meaning the answer will change 5 minutes from now. I have read some wonderful picks(or pix) from all of you though.
My favorite movie is Beaches, where Bette Midler stays with and helps her friend who is ill and eventually dies. The reason is that I took care of my adopted mom when I was young and she passed over when I was 19. The movie really touches my heart, as does the title song: Wind Beneath My Wings. My mother was my inspiration and the true "wind beneath my wings," and I always cry when I see this movie or hear the song.
I like movies where I can really lose myself and feel something for the characters - which means that I don't really like alot of the so-called "modern classics" (like Memento and Quentin Tarrantino films). My sentimental films that I could watch over and over again and still cry/laugh as hard as the first time are Love Actually, Kramer vs Kramer, Annie Hall, Pretty Woman, Akeelah and the Bee, The Graduate, Stepmom and 13 Going on 30. Those aren't necessarily what I consider the "best" films, but I could watch them all day everyday :o)
High Noon, Wizard of Oz, The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Heart and Soul, Ghost, Madamn X, Beaches, Love Story, Con Air, Sweet Hostage, Lonesome Dove, Green Beret, The one with John Wayne(the spelling is off on this one)The Sands of Iwo Jima, so many more
You're probably gonna think me weird...but one of my all time favorites is "Singing In the Rain". I loved watching Gene Kelly, Donald O' Connor, and Debbie Reynolds dance. It was the first film that I noticed Debbie Reynolds in as a young lady. She looked so pretty and graceful, and she still does. They were amazing. Let's see...what else...oh yes, Shirley Temple movies, because she was a such a cute little actress for being so young. I loved watching her dance, she was soooo cute! White Christmas with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. Danny Kaye always made me laugh. Onto some of the more recent movies... Robin Hood, Men in Tights Blazing Saddles The Fifth Element I agree with Kenny S above - Army of Darkness, that was great! Bruce Campbell Rocks! A majority of the action/martial arts films with: Ernie Reyes Jr. (Surf Ninjas, The Last Electric Knight aka Sidekicks, he's an amazing martial artist) Bruce Lee (practically everyone knows who this is) Jackie Chan (practically everyone knows who this is) Jet Li (practically everyone knows who this is) Mark Dacascos (played a bad guy in Cradle to the Grave, The Crow tv series) James Statham (Crank, The One, The Transporter 1 and 2) Kelly Hu (The Scorpion King, Cradle to the Grave, Surf Ninjas) Russell Wong (he played the Monkey King, but also played a bad in Romeo Must Die)
okay, I'm gonna stop now... I could ramble on all day about martial arts films and actors.
It's fairly obscure, but it's one I can watch once a week and still not get tired of it: Hiroshi Inagaki's 1962 version of "Chushingura". It's the story of the 47 Ronin -- Japan's national epic. It's a (relatively) true story that took place around 1703, and I still cry all the way through the last fifteen minutes. Over 3 hours long, in color. When it opened in San Francisco in 1963, it ran for about nine months; four years later in Berkeley when I saw it, it had been running for six months. Next, "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension" (which I worked on) and "Start the Revolution Without Me".
My favorite is still "Legends of the Fall". I'm just a sucker for a real anti-hero story. My second favorite is "O Brother Where Art Thou", it's a brilliant rendition of "The Odessey"
I've always loved "Gone with the Wind". It's one of the great classics. I like it because it portrays an era and a way of life that is long gone. But I love it because even though Scarlett is a flirt and plays dumb to get what she wants she really is a strong woman and a survivor beneath all the fluff. She is a complex woman, as we all are, so in that regards this movie is timeless. Like so many women she obsesses over a guy she can't have and doesn't realize what a waste of time that was until it's too late. Every time I watch the movie I think that perhaps this time she'll snap too sooner and realize that Ashley is a wimp and that Rhett is the man for her.
My absolute favorite movie happens to be The Gold Rush with Charlie Chaplin. There was so much more animation in the facial expressions and they actually had to act!
I enjoy many movies, if I had to pick a favorite right now it would be "The Notebook" I'm a classic love story freak I guess. I love to watch and feel the emotions of great characters that come together after some of lifes letdowns... Then there are a few that are close to number one on my list, "You've Got Mail" is another one, I really like the Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks connection. I've written a book review on most of Nicholas Sparks books and "The Notebook" takes my number 1 spot for all time...
See all of the comments above. So many good choices that I agree with. It is impossible to decide my favorite movie of all time. There are too many that are equal or simply too different. I have stood in line for tickets only twice in my life waiting for the first showing of a movie. The Exorcist and The Godfather. I like sad when I feel sad, happy when I feel happy, musicals when I'm in a singing and dancing mood. Etc. Lionel A. LaVergne
My all time favorite....go ahead and laugh.....GREASE. I used to sneak downstairs when it was on TV and watch it. Now that it is on DVD, I own it and it is guarded from the kids like gold. I do have 3 others that are very close to #1 the notebook- because my husband saw it at his mothers house and gave it to me on our 10th anniversary and said that it was about us...and it really almost is Just like heaven- because it shows how we can be spiritually attached to things and people and that love really does conquer all things. and 10 things I hate about you- because I was just like Kat Stratford in school. I will say no more because I would have to plead the 5th lol
I have a few all-time faves, depending on what mood I'm in. They are Goodfellas, Pretty Woman, and The Princess Bride. The ironic thing is that horror movies are my fave genre, but there are none in my top faves.
Of recent memory, one of my favorite movies is Stay. I like it because it's one of those movies that you spend the entire time trying to figure out what the heck is going on, and everything gets tied up into a neat little bow at the end. I love movies that make me think.
When you read it - you won't believe it. My all time favorite is "Practical Magic". I think in some ways I have always believed in magic. Maybe it's holding onto a little hope that I have a right to be happy. In the movie "Practical Magic" there is a scene where a little girl cast a spell of the person that she will fall in love with. She did not want to fall in love so she created the spell of a man that does not exist so she will never have to fall in love. I can't remember the exact details but I will do my best. The little girl says that the man that she will meet and fall in love with must be exceptionally kind, be able to ride a pony backwards, flip pancakes in the air, his favorite shape will be a star and he must have one blue eye and one green eye.
After a lot of years of physical abuse and mental abuse, I made the decision that the man that I fall in love with must have a bald head and a hairy back.
Now for the part that you won't believe.
I finally met the man that was created by the little girl in the movie casting a spell. The man that I met is now my husband. He is exceptionally kind, he can ride a pony backwards (I ask his mother and grandmother and they said yes), he can flip pancakes in the air (I have seen it). His favorite shape is a star (he wears one everyday) he is a Deputy. And believe it or not - he does have one blue eye and one green eye.
It gets even better. He is bald and has a hairy back.
Oh gosh I have so many favorite movies. I love anything with sean connery in it. One that hold special meaning is "The Day After Tomorrow" since this is the last movie that my daughter April and I saw together before her death a couple of months later.
I watch lots of movies and still my favorite is an old Harrison Ford movie called THE MOSQUITO COAST. - if you haven't seen this, it's worth finding. I've seen it many times and still love it just as much as I did the first time.
since i am deaf, i usually read books before i wnt to any showing. now all dvds are closed captioned. thank heavens! a short list of my favorites:
boys of brazil giant rebel without cause ( i loved james dean films) dead poets society(wow what a movie) cat on hot roof( i was so darn jealous of elizabeth taylor being with paul newman) i am a woman(i laughed so hard) fiddler on the roof
Wow...so many classic movies. Some of my all time Fav movies are: The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, The Good Earth (you've got to see that one!) The Good, The Bad & The Ugly ( I'm a major Clint E. fan too), Kelly's Heroes, O'Brother Where Art thou? and sooo many more.
I have to watch The Dirty Dozen every time it comes on TV...my dad and I use to watch it when I was a child.
The Abyss (minus the last 5 min) is wonderful. The underwater filming was groundbreaking, at the time. The tank they built for that movie I think was used later for The Titannic.
Genevieve, I thought Stranger Than Fiction got good reviews, but for some reason (too cerebral, maybe?) it failed at the box office. At least, that's my memory of it, and I could be wrong. I haven't seen the movie yet, but it's one of the ones I intend to see.
I can't believe I forgot The Princess Bride. (Anybody want a peanut?)
My other favorite Christmas movie is While You Were Sleeping.
For pure silliness, Shanghai Noon. (All the other cowboys laugh at me...)
Hm...I feel an unproductive afternoon coming upon me as I break out the DVDs.
Secret of Roan Inish Brotherhood of the Wolf What Dreams May Come The Musketeer Underworld and Underworld Evolution Rockers Over The Hedge 12 Monkeys The Fifth Element Heart Like a Wheel (the Shirley Muldowney Story) King Arthur Jeckyl and Hyde Together Again Erin Brockovitch The New World The Robe Countryman The Count of Monte Cristo (1975) Cyrano De Bergerac (1950) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Independence Day (1996) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Dead of Night (1945) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Desperado (1995) The Last Boy Scout (1991) The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) (All Three) Harry Potter (All of them) The Bourne Identity (2002) The Bourne Supremacy (2004) Demon Seed (1977) Reign of Fire (2002) Quest for Fire (1982) 13 Going on 30 (Suddenly 30) (2004) Bruce Almighty (2003) The Mask (1994) High Noon (1952) Matrix (All of them) Braveheart (1995) Highlander (all of them) Zorba the Greek (1964) Ben-Hur (1959) The Ten Commandments (1956) Little Shop of Horrors (1986) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Pretty Woman (1990) The Terminator (all of them) E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Poltergeist (1982) The Witches of Eastwick (1987) Stand and Deliver (1988) The Company of Wolves (1984) The Wicker Man (1975)
Actually, this is only a very abbreviated list, since there are so very many more.
For a more complete list, please refer to my favorites list on "Flixter":
I can watch almost any movie. I have a lot of favorites, but the ones I will always stop and watch when they are on TV (although I have the Box sets) are the Star Wars, Back to the Future, and Indiana Jones trilogies. I can't watch them too many times. I love the adventure side of it, and they all have a little humor in them (R2D2 and C-3PO's anthics always make me laugh). I guess they remind me of my childhood, which really wasn't so long ago, but still. I love how they all have happy endings, and I'm waiting for Indy 4!
I also love coming of age stories like:
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood SecondHand Lions Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Other movies from my childhood (we all have a kid inside, so I still watch them all the time):
The Princess Bride Willow Legend Ferris Bueller's Day Off Disney classics
I can't keep mentioning movies, because I will keep thinking, and I will feel like I let out some great titles, so that's it for now!
Gone With The Wind Ferris Bueller's Day Off The Breakfast Club Amelie Forrest Gump Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil American Beauty Clueless Muriel's Wedding Mean Girls The Birds Psycho What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? West Side Story A Hard Day's Night So I Married an Axe Murderer The Virgin Suicides This Is Spinal Tap Best In Show Young Frankenstein Monty Python and the Holy Grail Monty Python's The Life of Brian Erin Brockovich The Others
Ah man... there are so many. LOL!! I love movies!!!
Hey, guys! Your picks for favorites are really excellent; there are so many great movies listed here. Two that were mentioned above just stuck out in my mind: 1) "Unforgiven," directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, is an all-time classic western. 2) "You've Got Mail!" is another one of those "I can't get it out of my system" movies. That being said, I have two absolute favorites before all others that I watch at least once or twice every year, and both are by Alfred Hitchcock, arguably our greatest director ever: 1) "North By Northwest" (Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason), the all-time best romantic thriller with breath-taking cinematography and very classy sets (voted the classiest movie of all time recently by one of the fashion mags). 2) "Vertigo" (James Stewart, Kim Novak), which will obsess you, I guarantee it. It's fun to tour San Francisco and visit the many places where Vertigo was filmed. Don't forget to visit Mission San Juan Bautista as the climax of your "Vertigo" tour.
Hard to narrow it down...I love movies, watch them all the time. Here are a few, but I know the minute I hit "Post" I will think, "What and idiot! How did I forget..."
In no particular order: Crash Memento The Hours The Usual Suspects Little Miss Sunshine Thelma & Louise The Prince of Tides It's a Wonderful Life American Beauty The Ice Storm The Man in the Moon What's Eating Gilbert Grape Out of Africa The English Patient Elizabeth I Something to Talk About Eve's Bayou What Dreams May Come Legends of the Fall
Field of Dreams has held the top spot with me for many years. When Freedom Writers came out in DVD last week, it caused me to reconsider. Maybe Field of Dreams is still #1, but Freedom Writers is a close second.
I really enjoyed 'Great Expectations' with Ethan Hawke / Gwynyth Paltrow. It was a unique, modern send-up of the classic Dickens theme -- and the soundtrack was excellent. I also like 'Dark City' with Jennifer Connelly -- a very cool, film noir sci-fi film. It's also very encouraging that there are so many excellent documentaries and family films coming out -- and if you have one, be sure to patronize your small local theatre. Take a chance on a more daring independent film, too. Or if you've got the equipment and ambition, make your own! Thanks for posting this.
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Truth is, there are so many good ones out there, it makes it hard to choose.
Nobody's Fool - Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy....great stuff
The Sting - Paul Newman, Robert Redford....fabulous
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid - Newman, Redford, and Katherine Ross...fun, fun, fun!
Family Man - Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni....excellent story on family values, check it out
Gilda - Rita Hayworth....need I say more?
Harvey - Jimmy Stewart...one of my favorite actors of all time
True Grit - John Wayne...my absolute favorite actor of all time
McClintock! - John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara....loved this pairing, and the movie is hilarious
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks...at his finest, IMO
Rear Window - Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly...not only does the screen fairly smolder with the heat of their chemistry, but you've got an excellent Hitchcock plot to keep you riveted.
I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of them right now.
African Queen and Citizen Kane have strong plots and strong character development and I came away in awe after seeing these movies.
Independence Day has a logical and believeable plot and I particularly liked the heroism of many of the characters.
I also like anything with Johnny Deep such a hottie!!!
And then further forward are The Birds with Tippi Hedron and Bell, Book and Candle with Kim Novak.
And in no particular order; Forest Gump, The Mission with Robert DeNiro, Beautiful Mind with Russell Crowe and the list could be endless.
Fun remembering these movies. Thanks for posing this.
First is "A Walk To Remember" With Mandy Moore
It hits home since I had a friend die of Leukemia when I was 15 and there were so many things that she never got to see or do in life but had the best attitude about being sick, she was never afraid or never showed it.
Second is "Sweet Home Alabama" With Reese Witherspoon
Just a good movie to sit and watch. Kind of reminds me of a life I once lived.
There are a few more movies that I truly enjoy watching which are "the notebook", The Lake House", City of Angels" and last but not least "The Secret Garden"
"Arsenic and Old Lace," Cary Grant. The reason is that my teenagers, who have never sat and watched an entire b&w movie, were glued to the set and laughing throughout the movie. Cary Grant's performance rivals that of Jim Carey in "Liar, Liar," and this classic proves timeless!
For emotion, "It's a Wonderful Life" still provides the most riveting and emotional messages, but "Blood Diamond" follows as a close second! Normally I am NOT a Leonardo fan, but he really outperformed himself in this movie, and its message should be heard loud and clear! Cubic Zirconia all the way baby!
A movie that surprised me was "Man of the Year." I expected it to do nothing but poke fun at the political process, but it actually made some incredibly wonderful points, and had a deeper plot than I expected.
My favorite scene is the chariot race. I could watch just that part over and over.
84 Charing Cross Road
A Fish Called Wanda
A Walk To Remember
All About my Mother
Arabian Nights
Billy Elliot
The Black Velvet Gown
Calendar Girls
Citizen X
Cold Comfort Farm
The Color Purple
Contact
Corrina, Corrina
Dances With Wolves
Dangerous Beauty
Dead Man Walking
Dead Poets Society
Don Juan de Marco
Fanny & Alexander
Fly Away Home
Gattaca
Gladiator
Goodbye, Mr Chips
Grabben i Graven Bredvid (The Guy in the Grave Next Door)
Grand Canyon
The Green Mile
Ha'Bu'ah (The Bubble)
Ha'Ushpizin
Hero
High Heels (Tacones Lejanos)
Howard's End
The Hurricane
Keeping Mum
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al Bordes de un Ataque de "nervios")
Legally Blonde
Leon
Love, Actually
Lucky Number Slevin
Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed (Romuald et Juliet)
Man on Fire
Matrix, The
Memoirs of a Geisha
Much Ado About Nothing
My Left Foot
The Name of the Rose
Outsider, The
Overboard
Patch Adams
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Remains of the Day
Remember the Titans
Saving Grace
Schindler's List
Secrets & Lies
Sense and Sensibility
Shadowlands
Shall We Dance? (the Japanese original)
The Shawshank Redemption
Spy Game
Strictly Ballroom
Talk of Angels
Trading Places
True Blue
Tuskegee Airmen X
Twelve Monekys
Under the Tuscan Sun
Walking on Water (Lalechet al Hamayim)
Groundhog Day
Inside Moves (Why is this one NOT on DVD yet?????)
The Hunt for Red October
Gladiator
Midnight Cowboy
(So many others: M, Citizen Kane, Ben-Hur, 61*, Apollo 13, Casablanca, Diner, Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and my "guilty pleasures"; The Star Trek and Star Wars series.)
I guess I really didn't keep it down to 5 . . .
French Kiss- Meg Ryan & Kevin Kline
Gone With The Wind- Must be watched everytime it is on.
The Wizard of Oz- No brainer
Napolean Dynamite-
Shaun of The Dead
Steel Magnolias- I must watch it at least until the funeral scene...sad and funny at the same moment.
I'd like to think of myself as a musician, but somehow musical movies turn me off. The only exception to that rule is the unforgettable Jesus Christ: Superstar by (as I recall) Norman Jewison. That one comes in second only to 2001. Of course a monkey could have directed and it would still be great, thanks to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
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Jim Swan's "None-Too-Great Hits" now on iTunes.
Not the usual Top-40 stuff.
As for musicals, I loved "Singing in the Rain", "American in Paris", Fanny", "sound of Music" and all Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly films including the dramas like "Gilda".
And then there are so many Gregory Peck films like "Gentleman's Agreement".
As for animated features, "Bambi", "Pinocchio", and "Finding Nemo" stand out
Am thinking of many more and will have to finish the list later.
Most impact on me, growing up:
"Mame"....the old one with Rosalind Russell (1958) They say that Cher is re-doing it?
"Citizen Kane"
"Sunset Blvd"
"Lost Horizons"
"Wizard of Oz"
"Mash"
Movies I liked watching with my kids:
"The Never ending story", "Matilda", "SuperStar", "High School Musical", "Goonies", The one with Witches in it......"Sister's, I smell a child...."
"Star Wars"/"Star Trek" movies
OMG, there are too many to list.....kids r gr8 2 have around, u never have to grow up ;-) "The Adventures of Baron Muchhausen" is the absolute best though!!
Foreign:
"A very long Affair"
musical:
Yeah, "paint your wagon" is good; but "Oklahoma" is easy to sing to. As is "Carousel," "Fiddle on the Roof", "Sound of Music," "Man of LaMancha"....
"Tis I, Don Quiote; the man of La Mancha!" FYI, got my windmill chasing from him....
Drama:
Oh, so much drama.....who can pick?
"Dr. Zhivago", "Roots", "The color purple," are the older ones...."Shogun", "The Godfather"
Superheros:
"Spiderman", "Batman", "The Hulk", "X-Men"...."Fantastic Four"
Alternative:
"The Object of My Affection", "As Good as it Gets", "Latter Days," "The Broken Hearts Club"
Love story type things:
"you've got mail", "love Story", "gone with the wind", "City of Angels" is the best...
Comedy:
Yeah, Mel brooks is a side-splitting fart fest....and the knockers joke is funny; but I'd say that there are funnier ones:
"The Producers", "The Witches of Eastwick", really cheesy old SF flicks (do the "Mystery Science Theatre" thing with friends)
SF/Fantasy:
"Lord of the Rings", "Gattaca", ("Soylent Green", "The Omega Man,' and "Westworld" for oldies that said something) "Dune"....the Sf channel ones.
Mystery:
"Charlie Chan" movies.
Adventure:
"Indianna Jones" movies, "The Librarian", and that lot of movies....
Scary/suspense:
"Jurassic Park", "Hotel", the first "Posieden Adventure","journey to the center of the earth" for an oldie...
Well, there are tons more....these just jump to mind ;-)
To Kill a Mockingbird-book and movie
But there are many others I always try to catch.
Unforgiven
When Harry Met Sally
Bringing Up Baby
The English Patient
Shakespeare in Love
Old School
Casablanca
Pretty diverse list.
I am a Turner Classic Movies Addict so:
Kings Row- Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings- it's the only Reagan movie that I think he actually acted in and he was great!
Gilda-I can't say enough about this movie. I actually used to sing at a Jazz club and the song, Put the Blame on Mame, was one of my first numbers.
The Lost Weekend- I hate to say it, but there are somethings that I can really relate too in this movie.
A slightly weird more current one is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I always drop everything and watch this one. It is so fun to have all of those favorite characters in one movie and the sets are gorgeous!
following it in no particular order are
Pay It Forward
Powder
Tristan & Isolde
The Prestige
The Illusionist
To Kill a Mockingbird
What Dreams May Come
Wind
Pearl Harbor
The Lake House
Practical Magic
Hope Floats (yeah there's a theme here, I love Sandra Bullock)
300
Disturbia
However, close runner-ups would have to include:
Pirates of the Caribbean - love that Johnny Depp - sigh
Indiana Jones - Harrison Ford isn't too shabby either!
Lord of the Rings,
and of course all the Harry Potters.
Geesh, but it bothers me to not include:
Moonstruck
Don Juan deMarco
ET
When Harry Met Sally
Pride and Prejudice
Something's Gotta Give
Under the Greenwood Tree
A Knight's Tale
Tootsie
Sleepless in Seattle
and
In and Out
A Christmas Carol (with Alistair Sims)
Moonstruck
The Shawshank Redemption
Ladyhawke
Babe
Billy Elliott
The Whale Rider
The Lord of the Rings (all three)
and a whole bunch of others.
Most recent favorite, and best film of 2006: Pan's Labyrinth
Cathy
Don Juan de Marco with Marlin Brando and Johnny Depp is a treat every time I watch it. I love all the A &E Horatio Hornblower movies--especially the exceptional acting by Robert Lindsay. Fierce Creatures leaves me with my stomach hurting from laughing every time I see it. Chocolat is not only wonderful, but makes me crave chocolate when I watch it. Brannaghs' Much Ado is in my opinion the best movie version of Shakespeare ever, but Pacino's Merchant of Venice and Olivier's Lear would have my votes for second and third. I love watching Brando parody himself in The Freshman. A&E's Pride and Prejudice is still the best of the Jane Austen bunch in my opinion. The Thomas Crown Affair would have my vote for pure heart stopping steaminess. It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite Christmas movie. Favorite musical is still The Music Man with Shirley Jones, despite there being so many fun ones to choose from. (I would almost vote for Evita, not because I like the movie, but because I love to watch Antonio. ;) ) My favorite buddy film is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Broken Trail gets my vote for best western. Best make you think/change your life movie? To Kill a Mockingbird. None of those are new releases (Or I'd add Amazing Grace) and the ones that aren't considered classics yet, will be soon enough. Kelley
Also like
National Treasure
Batman
Memento
also for campiness Army of Darkness, Bruce Campbell can spout one-liners like nobody else
* Love Actually
* Pride & Prejudice (almost any version but I love the latest one)
* Amelie
* You've Got Mail
And my most recent favorite: Stranger than Fiction... why did this get panned by the critics? It is brilliant in every respect!
Let's see...what else...oh yes, Shirley Temple movies, because she was a such a cute little actress for being so young. I loved watching her dance, she was soooo cute! White Christmas with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. Danny Kaye always made me laugh.
Onto some of the more recent movies...
Robin Hood, Men in Tights
Blazing Saddles
The Fifth Element
I agree with Kenny S above - Army of Darkness, that was great! Bruce Campbell Rocks!
A majority of the action/martial arts films with:
Ernie Reyes Jr. (Surf Ninjas, The Last Electric Knight aka Sidekicks, he's an amazing martial artist)
Bruce Lee (practically everyone knows who this is)
Jackie Chan (practically everyone knows who this is)
Jet Li (practically everyone knows who this is)
Mark Dacascos (played a bad guy in Cradle to the Grave, The Crow tv series)
James Statham (Crank, The One, The Transporter 1 and 2)
Kelly Hu (The Scorpion King, Cradle to the Grave, Surf Ninjas)
Russell Wong (he played the Monkey King, but also played a bad in Romeo Must Die)
okay, I'm gonna stop now... I could ramble on all day about martial arts films and actors.
East Is East
Memento
The Namesake
Little Miss Sunshine
An Inconvenient Truth
Next Stop, Wonderland
others (on a smaller scale):
Jump Tomorrow
Spring Forward
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
The Science Of Sleep
Citizen Kane
Roman Holiday (1953)
Rebel Without A Cause
there are others...just cannot think of them at the moment.
Lionel A. LaVergne
I do have 3 others that are very close to #1
the notebook- because my husband saw it at his mothers house and gave it to me on our 10th anniversary and said that it was about us...and it really almost is
Just like heaven- because it shows how we can be spiritually attached to things and people and that love really does conquer all things.
and 10 things I hate about you- because I was just like Kat Stratford in school. I will say no more because I would have to plead the 5th lol
In the movie "Practical Magic" there is a scene where a little girl cast a spell of the person that she will fall in love with. She did not want to fall in love so she created the spell of a man that does not exist so she will never have to fall in love.
I can't remember the exact details but I will do my best.
The little girl says that the man that she will meet and fall in love with must be exceptionally kind, be able to ride a pony backwards, flip pancakes in the air, his favorite shape will be a star and he must have one blue eye and one green eye.
After a lot of years of physical abuse and mental abuse, I made the decision that the man that I fall in love with must have a bald head and a hairy back.
Now for the part that you won't believe.
I finally met the man that was created by the little girl in the movie casting a spell. The man that I met is now my husband. He is exceptionally kind, he can ride a pony backwards (I ask his mother and grandmother and they said yes), he can flip pancakes in the air (I have seen it). His favorite shape is a star (he wears one everyday) he is a Deputy. And believe it or not - he does have one blue eye and one green eye.
It gets even better. He is bald and has a hairy back.
I love the movie "Practical Magic".
Muriel's Wedding
Strictly Ballroom
A Walk On The Moon
So I Married An Axe Murderer
One that hold special meaning is "The Day After Tomorrow" since this is the last movie that my daughter April and I saw together before her death a couple of months later.
THE MOSQUITO COAST. - if you haven't seen this, it's worth finding.
I've seen it many times and still love it just as much as I did the first time.
boys of brazil
giant rebel without cause ( i loved james dean films)
dead poets society(wow what a movie)
cat on hot roof( i was so darn jealous of elizabeth taylor being with paul newman)
i am a woman(i laughed so hard)
fiddler on the roof
Me, Myself, and Irene is second to Freddy Got Fingered. Its side splitting funny and unique. That's impressive to me.
The Abyss (minus the last 5 min) is wonderful. The underwater filming was groundbreaking, at the time. The tank they built for that movie I think was used later for The Titannic.
For a comedy, I love Ferris Buller's Day Off.
I can't believe I forgot The Princess Bride. (Anybody want a peanut?)
My other favorite Christmas movie is While You Were Sleeping.
For pure silliness, Shanghai Noon. (All the other cowboys laugh at me...)
Hm...I feel an unproductive afternoon coming upon me as I break out the DVDs.
Cathy
Brotherhood of the Wolf
What Dreams May Come
The Musketeer
Underworld and Underworld Evolution
Rockers
Over The Hedge
12 Monkeys
The Fifth Element
Heart Like a Wheel (the Shirley Muldowney Story)
King Arthur
Jeckyl and Hyde Together Again
Erin Brockovitch
The New World
The Robe
Countryman
The Count of Monte Cristo (1975)
Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Independence Day (1996)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Dead of Night (1945)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Desperado (1995)
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) (All Three)
Harry Potter (All of them)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
Demon Seed (1977)
Reign of Fire (2002)
Quest for Fire (1982)
13 Going on 30 (Suddenly 30) (2004)
Bruce Almighty (2003)
The Mask (1994)
High Noon (1952)
Matrix (All of them)
Braveheart (1995)
Highlander (all of them)
Zorba the Greek (1964)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Pretty Woman (1990)
The Terminator (all of them)
E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Stand and Deliver (1988)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
The Wicker Man (1975)
Actually, this is only a very abbreviated list, since there are so very many more.
For a more complete list, please refer to my favorites list on "Flixter":
http://www.flixster.com/lists.do?displayMovieList=&listId=638535390
Cathy
South Pacific.~amy
I also love coming of age stories like:
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
SecondHand Lions
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Other movies from my childhood (we all have a kid inside, so I still watch them all the time):
The Princess Bride
Willow
Legend
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Disney classics
I can't keep mentioning movies, because I will keep thinking, and I will feel like I let out some great titles, so that's it for now!
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Breakfast Club
Amelie
Forrest Gump
Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil
American Beauty
Clueless
Muriel's Wedding
Mean Girls
The Birds
Psycho
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
West Side Story
A Hard Day's Night
So I Married an Axe Murderer
The Virgin Suicides
This Is Spinal Tap
Best In Show
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's The Life of Brian
Erin Brockovich
The Others
Ah man... there are so many. LOL!! I love movies!!!
Here are a few, but I know the minute I hit "Post" I will think, "What and idiot! How did I forget..."
In no particular order:
Crash
Memento
The Hours
The Usual Suspects
Little Miss Sunshine
Thelma & Louise
The Prince of Tides
It's a Wonderful Life
American Beauty
The Ice Storm
The Man in the Moon
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Out of Africa
The English Patient
Elizabeth I
Something to Talk About
Eve's Bayou
What Dreams May Come
Legends of the Fall
The list goes on.