A-Z of must see movies!

14/04/05 | Phil.K

[Jakarta ex-pat]

I'm sure I've left a couple out, but here is my A-Z of must see movies!

A) Arsenic and old lace, Aliens , Assault on Precinct 13 (original), The African queen, Aliens, A clockwork Orange, Annie Get Your Gun, Adventures of Robin Hood, A fistful of Dollars, Apollo 13, Armageddon, Adventures in Babysitting,

B) Ben Hur, Being There, Beauty and the beast, Braveheart, Battle of Algiers, Brassed off, Breakdown, The Birds, Blazing Saddles, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Black robe,

C) Citizen Kane, The Crazies, Carousel, Carmen Jones, Catch me If you Can, Cruel intentions,

D) Das Boot, Dr.Strangelove, Die Hard, Dodgeball, The Dambusters, Duel, The Duelists, Deliverance, Dirty Dancing, Dawn of the dead (original),

E) Event Horizon, Enter The Dragon, Election,

F) Fiddler on the Roof, Freaks, From Here To Eternity, Falling Down, Fort Apache, Full Metal jacket,

G) Glory, Gandhi, The Great escape, The Gold Rush, The Godfather , Galaxy Quest, Groundhog Day, Genevieve, Gods and Generals, Goodfellas, Ghost,

H) High Noon, Hotel Rwanda, Heavenly Creatures, Halloween, Henry V (Olivier), The Hot Chick,

I) Inn of Sixth Happiness, It’s A wonderful Life, Ice Station Zebra, Ice Cold In alex, The Incredibles, In Which we Serve,

J) Jaws, Judgement at Nuremberg, Jerry Maguire, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joan of Arc, The Jungle Book,

K)Kind Hearts and Coronets, The kid (Chaplin),

L) The Long Good Friday, The Lord of the Rings (all), The Ladykillers (original), Lethal weapon, Leaving Las Vegas, Last Train From Gun Hill, Lagaan, The Last of the Mohicans (Michale Mann), Lawrence of Arabia, Life is Beautiful, The Lion King, The Last samurai,

M) Moulin Rouge (original), The Mission, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, My Father The Hero, Mad max II, The Mask of Zorro, (Hopkins), Maverick, Meet the parents, Mulan, Mutiny on the bounty (Laughton),

N) North By Northwest, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Natural, National Velvet,

O) Once Were Warriors, Once Upon A Time In America, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Onion Field, Oliver, On Her Majesty’s secret Service,

P) Psycho, Passport To Pimlico, Platoon, Predator 2, Planes Trains and automobiles, Paper Tiger, The Parent Trap (Dennis Quaid), Paper Moon, Pinocchio,

Q) Quiz Show,

R) Romper Stomper, Ran, Reservoir Dogs, The Return of The Jedi, The Red Badge of Courage, The Railway children, Rogue Trader, Rocky, Romeo and Juliet (Di Caprio),

S)Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Shining, Sergeant Rock, Shenandoah, The Sound of Music, Strictly Ballroom, Silence of the Lambs, Some Like it Hot, South Pacific, Straw Dogs, Shane, Start The Revolution Without Me, Spider Man, Serial Mom, Scrooge (Alistair Sim), Samson And Delilah, Saving Private Ryan, Scaramouche, Scarface (both), The School of Rock, Seabiscuit, Schiendler’s List, The seven samurai,

T) Tombstone, True Grit, The Thing, The Ten Commandments, Ten rillington Place, To Kill A Mockingbird, Tom Horn, The Treasure of Sierra madre, Tarus Bulba, Tora Tora Tora,

U) Unfogiven, The Usual Suspects,

V) The Vikings,

W) West Side Story, Westworld, White Heat, The war of the Roses, Weekend At Bernie’s, Where The red fern Grows, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Warlord, whale Rider, The Wizard of Oz,

Y) Young Frankenstein,

Z) Zulu

[TheOracleAtLilac]

& threre's always

Appocalypse Now
Blackboard Jungle
Bullet
The Good, Bad and the Ugly
Maltese Falcon
Tom Jones

[maine-iac7]

Oh yeaf ya left some out:

How about : Casablanca

and

Fountainhead

[maine-iac7]

Oh yeah, and

Greystoke

[maine-iac7]

and.....

the Gods Must be Crazy

[Cyber Ninja]

Blade Runner.

[muir_redwoods]

Princess Bride

[maine-iac7]

The Lion in Winter

Absolutely!

and Babette's Feast"

are we having fun ;o)

[maine-iac7]

and

Franco Zeffirelli's movies:

Romeo & Juliet

and

Jesus of Nazareth the best "Jesus" movie ever made

[Yardstick]

R) Romper Stomper, Ran, Reservoir Dogs, The Return of The Jedi, The Red Badge of Courage, The Railway children, Rogue Trader, Rocky, Romeo and Juliet (Di Caprio),

...and

Raiders of the Lost Ark

[Yardstick]

Apocalypse Now

Good call.

[landerwy]

Maybe the new "Xenalyte"? Coming to a theater near you soon! :^)

[CougarGA7]

The only movie I could think of starting with x was Vin Diesel's XXX. I did a google search on the movie and was amazed with how many web sites there are for that movie. It must be a good one.

[BJungNan]

Anne of Green Gables (the actual movie - all 5 hours of it)

[Cecily]

How could we forget?

CADDYSHACK!

[nmh]

I stopped here:

Jesus Christ Superstar

We obviously don't have the same taste in movies.

[Xenalyte]

The movie will be about how I go over to Egypt and kick the hell outa that little pretender on her Vespa.

BTW, I cannot believe The Warriors didn't make the list. One of my faves!

[k2blader]

Your list is pretty short, considering.. :-)

[landerwy]

Wow! I can't wait!!! Do you think there will be a sequal?? Can I get your autograph???

[nopardons]

GONE WITH THE WIND

THE WOMEN (both versions)

THE SECRET GARDEN ( the original )

THE WIND

THE GLASS SLIPPER

INTOLERANCE

THE SUNSHINE BOYS

THE LION IN WINTER

[andysandmikesmom]

Well, you forgot 4 of my favorite movies...firstly, my all time favorite movie, 'Gone With the Wind' did not make your list...quite an oversight....

Three of my other favorite movies did not make your list...what about the wonderful Jimmy Stewart in 'Harvey'?

And what about two movies that are especially good for the whole family to view...folks are always complaining about there not being enough 'children friendly' movies...well, two movies especially good for children are, 'My Dog Skip' a wonderful story, and of course, the seasonal favorite, 'A Christmas Story', is good to view year round...