Marika 38

No. 1 for me is Forrest gump, such a beautiful gentle film, and Tom Hanks

others are
Shawshank Redemption, love the Happy ending
Green Mile, Again Tom Hanks, but the other actors, just brilliant
Gone with the Wind, A real long classic
Castaway,
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Steel Magnolias
Gladiator
LOTR Trilogy

So many more, but got to get back to me Cornish Pasties, they are just out of the oven !!!!

UKNZAUS

Oh yeah I forgot some!

Gladiator
Braveheart

wimpy

Alternative 5 for me


Casino
LA Confidential
Donnie Brasco
Mystic River
Stand By Me

Billy_NoMates

Life of Brian
Italian Job (original version)
Blues Brothers
Night at the Museum

ummm, can't think of another one...

Woodlea

The Man who would be King

karonious

Ahhh, forgot about that one.
Yup, with you on that

irnbru14

Right, mind dump of fav films, hmmm:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Run Lola Run
Serenity
V for Vendetta
Walk the Line
Third Man
Shaun of the Dead
Desperado
Fargo
Last Supper (lovely lil movie!)
Being John Malkovic
High Fidelity
Wrath of Khan (yes this is sad!)
Quatermass and the Pit (lovely bit of 60's British Hammer Horror...)
Blade
Pans Labyrinth
Escape to Victory
Last King of Scotland

lardyl

OK then, off the top of my head (with some cheating) and taking from a variety of genres, if I was on a planet with only NZ TV and a DVD player and not allowed any TV series, only my DVDs, (and hence I had to watch them over and over again) I'd keep:

Pulp Fiction
Delicatessen
The Lord of the Rings
Star Wars (in the following order of decreasing quality- pts. V, VI, IV, II, III, I......)
O Brother Where Art Thou?

Persephone

The Top 12!

Withnail and I
Brazil
Rebecca
Pulp Fiction
O Brother Where Art thou
Life of Brian
Reservoir Dogs
The Truman Show
Casino
The Wizard of Oz
Seven
Donnie Darko

Just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are some I've missed..

Kiwiprincess

Couldn’t rank them in order, and no doubt I would forget some, and yes, my tastes are truly and unashamedly commercial:

1. Oh Brother where art thou
2. Princess Bride (“my name is inigo Montoya, you killed my father: prepare to die" is quite possibly one of my favourite lines)
3. Worlds Fastest Indian (actually, that is just because Sir AH sounded EXACTLY like my deceased grandfather who was from the same area at the same time).
4. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (I love all the references to cat for some reason)
5. Shawshank Redemption
6. Forrest Gump (even though Jenny is a complete COW)
7. Braveheart
8. Bridget Jones’ Diary (I don’t care if it is cr*p or the fact that the first 5 minutes had my MOTHER snickering about how they wrote a movie about me…rude woman she is)
9. Casino Royale (I like Blonde Bond…)
10. Finding Nemo


Actually, those are the movies I would watch again and again. I quite like the ‘classics’ but find that I just don’t want to watch them again. Weird.

Margaret Parkinson

Some of mine have been mentioned already

Gone with the wind
The Quiet Man (John Wayne)
The Sound of Music
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
An Affair to Remember
Titanic
Ben Hur
African Queen
Casablanca
Psycho
Singing in the rain

happynz

Excellent choice!

simonmarkellis

Ice Cold in Alex! - Great War movie...

lardyl

yeah, I'm the same with some movies - commercial ones even, some are just one trick ponies - take The Usual Suspects, watch it once and then that's it over for you - unless you are like me and forget the plot within a week and then you can watch it again - MrsL is forever saying, "don't you remember what happens next?" and very often I don't - DOH
but if we were looking for the most aesthetically/cinematically pleasing then there'd be another list suppose, more like the 1001 from Steven Jay Schneider (As of 2004):
http://www.artandpopularculture.com/...Before_You_Die
lo and behold "The Usual Suspects" is there...........
or on Wikipedia it is less detailed???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Mo...Before_You_Die

Dustybin

dinna be silly man.. a film to be watched again and again.. well i have, and i know how it ends.. but spot something new everytime. Or i might just be sad... i just throw it in there as an option!