List 30 movies you love that are probably on no one's all-time best list

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puzzleannie said:
I can see I am a bit older than you, but I’ll try

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How Green Was My Valley (should also be on anyone’s top films of all time list, the novel was also excellent) Dada! Dada! the boy crying for his father trapped in the coal mine still gives me chills.
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I thought I was the only one who remembered that movie! Love it.
 
I don’t think I can name 30 but here are mine

Captains Courageous (the 1937 one)
Slap Shot
Ratatouille
Chocolat
Dominic & Eugene
The Manchurian Candidate (the original one)
Dirty Dancing
The American President
Men with Brooms
Monty Python’s “Holy Grail”
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
Mary Poppins
My Fair Lady
Blazing Saddles
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
The Music Man
Kelly’s Heroes
Pete’s Dragon
Ferris Beuller’s Day Off (I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen this)
OK, I’ll admit, anything with Johnny Depp.
 
Don’t know if I will be able to list 30, but lets see what I can come up with!

I am David
The Count of Monte Cristo
Empire of the Sun
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Equilibrium
Reign of Fire
Highwaymen
Arsenic and the Old Lace
The New World
Days of Heaven
Ocean’s Eleven
Sky High
Newsies
The Mighty Ducks
The Rocketeer
A Patch of Blue
The Great Race
Long Hot Summer
Rescue Dawn
Little Women
Frequency
Deja Vu

There are more but I cannot think of them right now!🙂
 
puzzleannie said:
I can see I am a bit older than you, but I’ll try

the Quiet Man
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre (any version, Charlotte Gainsborough has been the best so far)
Little Women (any version, Winona Ryder has been the best so far)
How Green Was My Valley (should also be on anyone’s top films of all time list, the novel was also excellent) Dada! Dada! the boy crying for his father trapped in the coal mine still gives me chills.

Bridge on the River Kwai (madness! madness!)
The Longest Day, still one of my favorite war movies

this has been remade several times, but the version I have in mind is with Charlton Heston in the 50s, the major who is disciplined by being sent to run a boys military boarding school, Major Payne is the latest re-make but I can’t remember the title of this one.

They Were Expendable, another favorite war movie
Glory
Yankee Doodle Dandy, this fits the criteria of “I watch it every time they show it”

Dark Victory
Now Voyager
Bette Davis is not one of my favorites but those and
Guess Whose Coming For Dinner and
All About Eve are all pretty good

The Best Years of Our Lives
The Bishop’s Wife
Bringing up Baby - best Cary Grant comedy ever made
this is the movie to watch when you are depressed, laughter cures what ails you

There is one with Claudette Colbert as an army nurse who gets her group off Bataan and describes what they went through, which I forget the title, but I watch it whenever I see it.

The Thin Man (the original, the rest went downhill)
Topper
My Man Godfrey

I also have a secret addiction to Shirley Temple movies

vintage Hitchcock:
Spellbound
Rebecca
Vertigo
Rope
Strangers on a Train

Nine to Five - Lily Tomlin is superb
Barefoot in the Park (again, Jane Fonda is not a favorite, but light comedy is her forte)

a totally idiotic Goldie Hawn-Chevy Chase thriller, where she unwittingly holds the clues to a plot to kill the Pope, the scense with Dudley Moore as an orchestra conductor who keeps getting into trouble because of Goldie are priceless comedy. I had the name when I started typing but can’t remember now.

Trapped in Paradise, more recent comedy with Nicholas Cage, think it is now my favorite Christmas movie, surpassing
It’s A Wonderful Life
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WOW. We think alike, Puzzle Annie, The Quiet Man is my favorite all time film. Seen it 35 times or so.!! also like Bridge on the River Kwai, North by NorthWest- Mr. Roberst, ( still funny-sad after 50+ years,) and Patton, Casablanca, and Father Goose, and The Searchers are on my top 20 list. We shall have to discuss films at length when we have more time,. Seagirt, from NJ. ( St. Marks, Parish.)
 
I think part of the problem is that 30 movies is just way too many. My list is far shorter.
  • Ice Castles* The Slipper and the Rose* Dead Poets Society* The Shawshank Redemption* The Karate Kid (only the original)
 
Most of mine are old, but I don’t know that most of them are popular. Perhaps they are. Certainly they’re not on any of my friends’ favorite movie list. 😛

Old Movies
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944, Gregory Peck)
Fort Apache (1948, John Wayne/Henry Fonda)
Gaslight (1940, Diana Wynard/Anton Walbrook)
The Trouble with Angels (1966, Hayley Mills)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, James Cagey)
The Bad Seed (1956, Patty McCormack)
The Bishop’s Wife (1947, Cary Grant)
Mr. Skeffington (1944, Bette Davis)
The Wrong Man (1956, Henry Fonda)
Life with Father (1947, Elizabeth Taylor)
The Heiress (1949, Olivia de Havilland)
The Bank D*ck (1940, WC Fields) accent grave over the e! :rotfl:
Darby O’Gill & the Little People (1959)
Mr. Roberts (1955, Henry Fonda/Jack Lemmon)
Mildred Pierce (1945, Joan Crawford)

New Movies
She’s the Man
Howl’s Moving Castle
The Emperor’s New Groove
K19: The Widowmaker
The Secret of Kells
Avatar
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
The Rescuers Down Under
The Last Samuri
The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Runners Up (more popular, I think)
Arsenic and Old Lace
12 Angry Men
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Blazing Saddles
Gaslight (1944, Ingrid Bergman/Charles Boyer)
 
I’m probably revealing my age with this list, but here goes. There are more than 30 because it was hard to whittle my DVD list down. They are in alphabetical order because it would take just too long to rate them:

ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, THE [1938]
AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY
BARON OF ARIZONA, THE
BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET
BLUE MAX, THE
BOOK OF NUMBERS, THE
BUGSY MALONE
DIRTY HARRY SERIES
DONOVAN’S REEF
DUDE GOES WEST, THE
EL CID
EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES, THE [CID CAESAR VERSION]
FATHER OF THE BRIDE
GALLANT HOURS, THE
GIRL MOST LIKELY TO …
GORDON’S WAR
GREAT RACE, THE
GUMBALL RALLY, THE
HALLELUJAH TRAIL, THE
HAND IN HAND
HATARI!
HIGH NOON
HONEYMOON MACHINE, THE
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
IVANHOE
JOHN GOLDFARB, PLEASE COME HOME
LAST TIME I SAW ARCHIE, THE
LET’S DO IT AGAIN
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, THE [1960]
LOVED ONE, THE
MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE [1963]
MARK OF ZORRO, THE [1940]
MUSIC BOX, THE [LAUREL & HARDY]
NEVER ENDING STORY, THE
O. HENRY’S FULL HOUSE
ON THE BEACH
PIGEON THAT TOOK ROME, THE
RUSSIANS ARE COMING; THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE
SAHARA [1943]
SEARCHERS, THE [1956]
SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA, THE
SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO
SMILE
TALL STORY
THREE AMIGOS
TRADING PLACES
TROUBLE WITH ANGELS, THE
TWELVE CHAIRS, THE
TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH
WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
WINCHESTER '73
ZERO HOUR!
Feel free to ask me about any of them. 🙂
 
amerrychase said:
Most of mine are old, but I don’t know that most of them are popular. Perhaps they are. Certainly they’re not on any of my friends’ favorite movie list. 😛

Old Movies
Gaslight (1940, Diana Wynard/Anton Walbrook)
The Bad Seed (1956, Patty McCormack)
Life with Father (1947, Elizabeth Taylor)

Runners Up (more popular, I think)
Gaslight (1944, Ingrid Bergman/Charles Boyer)
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Which of those two Gaslights had a young Angela Lansbury as a tarty maid?

I recently purchased The Bad Seed and Life with Father but I haven’t had a chance to watch them yet. Bad Seed because it was a favorite of mine as a teenager and Life with Father because I saw the play several years ago and was curious to see how they did the film.
 
sedonaman said:
JOHN GOLDFARB, PLEASE COME HOME
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That’s the Notre Dame football movie with Shirley MacLaine in it, right? I’ve still got my VHS copy. I hope it will some day get an “official” release. Funny movie.
 
Phemie said:
Which of those two Gaslights had a young Angela Lansbury as a tarty maid?

I recently purchased The Bad Seed and Life with Father but I haven’t had a chance to watch them yet. Bad Seed because it was a favorite of mine as a teenager and Life with Father because I saw the play several years ago and was curious to see how they did the film.
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The 1944 version had Angela Lansbury- it was her first movie. What a start! :rolleyes:

I knew there was a play that they based Life with Father on, but I’ve never seen it. The movie’s pretty good- Clare & Vinnie’s relationship is adorable. Elizabeth Taylor is just over the top, though. 😃 *Do you play…duets? flutterflutter *
 
havana1 said:
That’s the Notre Dame football movie with Shirley MacLaine in it, right? I’ve still got my VHS copy. I hope it will some day get an “official” release. Funny movie.
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That’s the one. There was also a good supporting cast including Henry Morgan. It was on TCM about two years ago; it’s not one they show often. An interesting bit of trivia is that at the time, Notre Dame sued the makers for unauthorized use of their name but lost, I think.
 
amerrychase said:
The 1944 version had Angela Lansbury- it was her first movie. …
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She was fantastic in The Manchurian Candidate in which she played the mother of Laurence Harvey’s character. In real life, she is only three years older than he is.
 
sedonaman said:
She was fantastic in The Manchurian Candidate in which she played the mother of Laurence Harvey’s character. In real life, she is only three years older than he is.
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One of my favorite movies. I was too young to remember when it first came out and then it was pulled from the theaters after JFK was assassinated. I read about it years later and was intrigued by this idea of banishing a movie because of a real event. Guess there was a precedent set because didn’t they refuse to release a movie after 9/11?

Anyway, I was delighted in the mid 80s, when I heard that it was going to be released on video after a re-release in theatres. Unfortunately, the re-release was limited and never made it to a local venue so I made it my mission to find it on video. It took me two years of blank stares and “Manchu what???” before I found a copy in a little independent video rental shop in a small Prince Edward Island community and I was sooo impressed by Angela’s performance! SO VERY EVIL & CREEPY! Such a great cast all around. I now have it on DVD but somehow have never been able to find anyone who was interested in watching it with me.
 
Phemie said:
One of my favorite movies. … SO VERY EVIL & CREEPY! Such a great cast all around. …
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If you like EVIL & CREEPY, a really good one is NOMADS with Pierce Brosnan and Lesley-Anne Down. You have to get by some hard language, but it is a really good plot. I don’t know how I missed including it in my original list.
 
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