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

[Dan from Michigan]

Ones to add

Caddyshack
Heat
Iron Eagle
Red Dawn
Slap Shot
The Longest Yard
Under Siege
Young Guns
Tango and Cash

[NormB]

Galaxy Quest

[Swordmaker]

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

How does the new Ford Model U strike you?

Read about it here.

[Swordmaker]

Also French car maker (taken over by Simca in 1952) Unic.

[CougarGA7]

Finally! Now I can finally finish the alphabet game with my kids when we are on road trips.

[weegee]

"X" (aka The Man with X-Ray Eyes).

[Jakarta ex-pat]

I missed out

The warriors, Galaxy Quest,

Romeo and Julie (Baz),Poseidon Adventure, War of the roses, Carry on Spying, Midnight Expess, It, Phantasm,

Whistle Down the Wind, Ducksoup, The Jungle Book,