Your Five Favourite Films?

**OC Richard** · 14th December 15, 08:00 PM

Wow... so many great ones!

Interesting to see how often Quiet Man, Princess Bride, and various Monty Python films come up.

For now, I'll go with

The Dead
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Rope
The Queen
Flags Of Our Fathers

It's hard to do... I really want The 100 Foot Journey there too...

There's a different category for me, those movies that if I'm channel-flipping and I hit upon I have to stop and watch to the end:

Princess Bride
Absolute Power
The Wizard Of Oz

**MacKenzie** · 15th December 15, 06:21 AM

Originally Posted by California Highlander

Godfather I & II
It's inconceivable that anyone can come up with only five films!

Indeed.

My "top five" we're just the first that came to mind.

**Mike_Oettle** · 21st December 15, 10:51 AM

A lot of the movies listed are ones that I have never seen, so I cannot rate them. Others were all too familiar.
My list is:

The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Murder on the Orient Express.
A Christmas Carol.
The Longest Day.
Rob Roy (with Liam Neeson).

I was tempted to include Saving Private Ryan, because in many ways it is more graphic than The Longest Day, but I like the way the earlier movie tries to paint the Normandy landings on a broad canvas – not to mention including the characters of Lord Lovat and piper Millin.
Whisky Galore nearly made the list for several reasons.
Once upon a Time in the West came close, also for painting a broad canvas.
Comedies and satires I have enjoyed include Blazing Saddles, Ghostbusters, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (I laughed myself silly at this one as a teenager), but you can keep Monty Python and the Holy Grail – I would rather watch Excalibur.
I enjoyed The Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music in bygone days, but I feel they are now overplayed.

**Peter Crowe** · 21st December 15, 07:31 PM

The Maggie (Ealing Comedy of 1954)
Gregory's Girl (1980)
Yangtze Incident, Escape of the Amethyst (1956)
Tunes of Glory (1960)
The Dambusters (1955)

If I had to pick only five it would be these, as I have consistently enjoyed them over many years and will always watch them when I can. That is not to say there aren't a great many terrific movies out there, I could add dozens more to a list of great films but these five have been consistently up there in my estimation for 30-40 years and I am now pushing 50. Another observation I would make is that as I have become older I generally watch less war, military themed, and action films than I did when I was younger, although my top five listed above do not reflect that gradual change in my taste over the years.

**Mike M.** · 21st December 15, 07:53 PM

Patton
Lawrence of Arabia...specifically, the first half. The greatest cinematography ever.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
The Adventures of Robin Hood

**Jack Daw** · 6th January 16, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Wow... so many great ones!

Interesting to see how often Quiet Man, Princess Bride, and various Monty Python films come up.

For now, I'll go with

The Dead
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Rope
The Queen
Flags Of Our Fathers

It's hard to do... I really want The 100 Foot Journey there too...

There's a different category for me, those movies that if I'm channel-flipping and I hit upon I have to stop and watch to the end:

Princess Bride
Absolute Power
The Wizard Of Oz

"I don't hold with the extremists who feel that there should be open season for murder all year round. No, personally, I would prefer to have..."Cut-a-Throat Week"... or, uh, "Strangulation Day"..."

**AFS1970** · 8th January 16, 05:14 PM

The Rulling Class
Bridge over the River Kwai
Princess Bride
The Shawshank Redemption
One Good Cop

**ThistleDown** · 9th January 16, 10:23 PM

Late to the party, but:

Tunes of Glory
Lord of the Ring Trilogy
A Man and a Woman
Lawrence of Arabia
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

**Cmcdonald** · 10th January 16, 05:50 PM

I think, for me, it would be:

1.) Das Boot
2.) The Last of the Mohicans
3.) The Green Berets ( I know it isn't PC)
4.) Casablanca ( Can't beat Bogie)
5.) Braveheart

Those are not really in order. It is a five way tie for first place.

**Jack Daw** · 11th January 16, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by Cmcdonald

I think, for me, it would be:

1.) Das Boot
2.) The Last of the Mohicans
3.) The Green Berets ( I know it isn't PC)
4.) Casablanca ( Can't beat Bogie)
5.) Braveheart

Those are not really in order. It is a five way tie for first place.

"Das Boot" is excellent! (Most, not all, sub films seem to be good)