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

[andysandmikesmom]

And I would have to disagree with you, about hating 'Arsenic and Old Lace'...thats just one great movie, that I enjoy watching every time it comes on TV...tho I do think, Cary Grant once said, of all the movies he made, 'Arsenic', was his least favorite...

Well, I guess that is why there are so many movies...we all have our own tastes in what we like to watch...

For myself, I am bored by most musicals, and comedies...the comedies(with some exceptions), are just not funny at all to me...and musicals, simply put me to sleep...

When my dad died, he had a huge library of movies...I gave every single musical and most of the comedies to my aunt..

There really is a wealth of movies out there...

[andysandmikesmom]

I also loved 'Gettysburg'...and the music was also beautiful..

[Xenalyte]

I'm morally opposed to sequels, unless the producers back a dumptruck of money up to my house, so my next movie will be a Bettie Page biopic.

The only problem is that I'll have to cut my hair into bangs again.

[EllaMinnow]

I like Bettie. Can I be your stunt double for the short shots?

[Xenalyte]

Please! I'll need doubles for everything except legs. :)

[Dysart]

Dances With Wolves.

[Dysart]

Stripes... "Lee Harvey, You,You are a mad man!"

Well, I liked it. I've probably watched it a dozen time since the release during my senior yr in high school. The movie may not quite be Oscar material but it's still hilarious.

[Swordmaker]

The only movie I could think of starting with x...

X-Men

[StrictTime]

Yentl

[StrictTime]

Forgot the BARF alert... ( :

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Good and creepy choices.

I really liked "Ninth Gate." You never know what Polanski is thinking.

And Gary Oldham in "Dracula" is magnificent. But he was even better as Beethoven in "Immortal Beloved," one of the best movies ever made.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

"Yentl" was a very good movie. The scene where Mandy Patinkin finds out she's a woman is riveting.

[biblewonk]

Good and creepy choices.

I really liked "Ninth Gate." You never know what Polanski is thinking.

And Gary Oldham in "Dracula" is magnificent. But he was even better as Beethoven in "Immortal Beloved," one of the best movies ever made.

Those are definitely my 3 favorite movies. The transitions Dracula goes through from the strange guy in the castle to the young guy in London to the tall bat guy. I didn't like the way he quoted Jesus with the "It is finished" at the end but I did love the redemption at the end. Ninth gate always keeps you guessing. Obviously he is living the ritual and Boris's attempt at performing it was way off. But what kind of being is the girl? She's definitely not human, nor are the two twin bookshop keepers.

Devils advocate is an excellent examination of sin and temptation. Given that much temptation imagine how quickly we'd fall.

I've never seen Immortal Beloved.

[WhiteGuy]

No mention of the Police Academy movies?

Tragic

[GraceCoolidge]

Gotta add a couple: It Happened One Night; The Awful Truth; The Best Years of Our Lives.

[GraceCoolidge]

PS: I too loved "Brassed Off" and the soundtrack is fabulous! But I'm a sucker for brass music... my favorite holiday album is "Christmas with the Canadian Brass."

[CougarGA7]

You'd think I would have thought of that one.

Now name a car model that begins with the letter U.

[Tijeras_Slim]

UNNGGH

[Remole]

Lots of great movies missing, e.g., The Apartment; It Happened One Night; Big Night; Adam's Rib; Cinema Paradiso.

[housewife101]

Glad you enjoy it...that is the LAST movie I enjoy watching:-)