What are the most powerful films you have seen?

[Stuart G]

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By powerful, I mean unforgettable, affecting you greatly, sad, happy, fear, joy, love, inquisitive, wonder, or .. whatever. ..Those that you will never forget and always remember. A film of that is in your soul and mind forever.. So strong, that for whatever reason, (and that is up to you) that this film or films are often thought about. Any films like that for you?...Describe them if you desire,..not a requirement..

1. Star Wars (1977)
2. Romeo and Juliet. (1968)
3. Night and Fog
4. Some Like it Hot
5. Its a Wonderful Life.

I saw "Some Like it Hot" in the theater in the 50s. I saw it with a group of friends and just loved the experience, the story, the acting, sitting laughing myself silly, and the way the movie was made. Yes, there was something about Marilyn Monroe, but the film was just plain fun. So much fun, that it helped to define humor at the movies for me...or just plain fun in general. I won't describe this scene completely, but there is one short scene near the end, with Joe E. Brown,,that is truly terrific and to recall, even though it was made almost 60 years ago.

I remember hearing about "It's a Wonderful Life" as I was growing up, and in my 20s when I became fascinated with going to the movies. Our library had copies of 16 mm movies, and I had access to a 16mm projector. Sometime in the early 80s, I picked up a copy of Its a Wonderful Life and showed to myself. The film was in 3 big reels and weighed a lot... I remember at the end, I was so happy, that I cried for happiness. That had never happened before, and almost never happens since.

"Night and Fog" is a documentary. 32 minutes of horror and evil beyond description. A fellow teacher was showing it in a class a few rooms down from where I taught. He invited me in to see it. No warning other than it was very powerful. French with subtitles, made in 1955 by Alain Resnais, it is about the concentration camps that killed millions during WWII. Some of the film is at the time of the events , some are the abandoned camps in the 50s when it was made. You are warned, whenever I think of extreme hate and man's inhumanity to man, I think of this. Every time I imagine evil and vicious hate inspired death, I think of this.
How and Why something like this could happen is incredible. The thought that this has happened since WWII, over again, is stupefying and undefinable..(at least to me) That people could treat each other like that, and still do...in large examples like the film shows, and in small examples that often happen , you define those.... goes beyond reason. Humans have a capacity for evil that this film defines.. Again, you are warned. You will not forget parts of this film. Even the music is sad and forewarning...

I watched "Star Wars" in 1977 with a girlfriend of mine, and her 2 kids. I was so happy and full of joy that it felt great. I think it was the 2nd or 3rd week that the movie was out... What a wonderful experience watching a film that lifted me up. It was good vs bad..and the good guys win, and win in a big way. A wonderful crew of warriors on the "good side" evil, personified by Darth Vader, who I found out later, was to show up again, and again. But just experiencing that film was a powerful and wonderful experience. First time I had ever heard sound like that, but I loved the story, the acting and movie as much as any I have ever seen.

[Coventina]

1. The Long Walk Home

I saw that as a young adult and it changed my life.

West Side Story - I saw it on TV as a kid. First movie I saw that ends in sadness. I lost my innocence that day. I'll never forget it.

You Can't Take it With You - again, saw it as a young adult. Helped shape my attitude toward life....for the better.

[Binkie The Clown]

2. Fisher King. Saving Private Ryan. n/t

[Xipe Totec]

5. +1 for Fisher King

[underpants]

87. Agree on both. Fisher King is much overlooked as a great movie.

[Binkie The Clown]

93. I was going to say "Battlefield Earth", but I figured I'd NEVER live that one down. n/t

[Polly Hennessey]

3. Arrival

Stunning and thought-provoking.

[Orrex]

15. The Charlie Sheen movie?

[mainer]

95. YES! I sobbed at the end.

(No, not the Sheen movie. The one with Amy Adams.)

It's especially moving if you're a parent.


SPOILER:





It asks: if you could see the future and know in advance what tragedies lie ahead, would you try to change course -- and deny yourself the temporary joy of motherhood?

[Moostache]

4. Hotel Rwanda and Shooting Dogs

These films brought home the tragedy of the Rwandan genocide and the feckless international response that watched it happen with striking clarity and emotional punch. Either one by itself is a great film, but when taken in together, the impact is more visceral and gut punching.

This sad chapter of human history fades ever deeper in the past and I can't recommend these films highly enough for people who do not wish to see human atrocities swept under the rug without reflection so that they may be avoided from repeat occurrences in the future...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. The Pawnbroker, A Man for All Seasons, Gallipoli,

The Year of Living Dangerously, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Amadeus, Body Heat, Don't Look Now, The Night of the Hunter.

[rurallib]

39. Pawnbroker is my tops; Pan's Labyrinth a close 2nd

[Squinch]

107. Some of my favorite Peter Weir movies in there! Did you see The Way Back?

Don't miss it.

Amadeus would be on my list too.

[Xipe Totec]

7. The Deer Hunter, Patton, The Mission,...

Restoration,

13 Conversations About One Thing,

My Life as a House

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. The Lion in Winter (1968).

It's about families and power.

[Zoonart]

31. +1

Best acting evah!

[Nay]

9. Fight Club. The Constant Gardener. Being There. A Clockwork Orange.

[SeattleVet]

10. Johnny Got His Gun, Joe, A Clockwork Orange

All three gave me a very strong visceral reaction. I saw 'A Clockwork Orange' in the theater the week it was released, and have seen it at least a dozen times since.

When I walked out of the theater after seeing 'Joe' (Peter Boyle; Susan Sarandon) I kept looking over my shoulder on the walk home.

'Johnny Got His Gun' is an amazingly powerful film with a message that resonates today.

On the comedy side, it's a big mix - 'Dark Star' wasn't supposed to be as funny as it turned out; 'Sleeper' remains pure genius; 'Kentucky Fried Movie' and 'The Groove Tube' were great, but haven't aged as well as some others; 'Blazing Saddles' could never be remade without pissing off pretty much everyone; 'What's Up Tiger Lily' took a concept and stretched it to the max.

[Stuart G]

17. Well....you did it...I forgot two..and I will add them here, instead of up there....

6. The Producers...
7. Blazing Saddles.....

Now...........those are absolutely wonderful powerful and totally enjoyable examples of "comedy tonight"

I didn't have a clue with "The Producers"..not a clue at all...They said it was..."funny"

But..when Zero Mostel,....Max Bialystock .... is interrupted in his money making scheme.(no, I will not tell) ..by the accountant named...Leo Bloom.. well...it all starts.. Zero was incredible...his scheme was incredible, and the accountant.Gene Wilder...(Leo Bloom) ....was also incredible..The middle of the film..is incredible..and the last few moments of the film..., no I will not tell you...are also very funny and memorable..
...The script...incredible
...Direction......incredible..
etc.etc....tec..etc..etc..etc..etc..

Now....."Blazing Saddles"...a very funny satire..on westerns. Gene Wilder is in this one along with Cleavon Little and a funny cast. Again wonderful and very powerful to enjoy. It too is fun. And like some of the others....
You will not forget it..But..it is funny and uplifting ...It is
..One clue about this one..It contains a scene that I had never seen before in a movie. And it was funny. Let's make short and simple.."A Fart Scene"
so that is enuf.......for powerful laughing and fun..(and having a fun, laughing time, qualifies as a powerful experience)......see either of these two...(hell, I can be the cop on this thread...I remember fun things too)....

....

[red dog 1]

18. + 1

Mel Brooks is incredible!

Woody Allen is incredible as well.
I loved "What's Up Tiger Lily" - where he took a Japanese spy film and changed the sound track to make it into a hilarious comedy
(The original title of the film was "International Secret Police: Key of Keys"

[red dog 1]

24. Re; the "fart scene" in Blazing Sadldes

"Are there any more beans, Mr Taggart?"

[Hoyt]

51. Johnny Got His Gun still haunts me, particularly the book.

[Alice11111]

105. Yes!

[chelsea0011]

108. Interesting list

[shraby]

11. The one about Hellen Keller.

[DFW]

12. The Miracle Worker

I saw that one when it came out.

[DFW]

13. Woodstock

Fame
The Seventh Seal
Ådalen '31
Das Leben Der Anderen
Les 400 Coups
The Witness
The Verdict
The Illusionist

[red dog 1]

19. I saw Woodstock with friends in 1970 in a theater shortly after it came out, and it was outstanding!

My favorite bands were "Sha Na Na" & Santana (Esp. Michael Shrieve's drum solo)

[DFW]

20. The film put Santana on the fast track to eternity

I will always regret that SPIRIT decided NOT to play Woodstock. It could have changed music history if they had.

[red dog 1]

22. I was a Santana fan since before Woodstock

and I remember seeing them play at Mission Dolores Park several times, before & after they began playing the Fillmore Auditorium.
Bill Graham was the reason they performed at Woodstock.
Graham was asked to help with logistics & planning of Woodstock, but he agreed to help only if an unknown band called Santana was allowed to play.

[DFW]

23. Then he did the world a favor

Before 1968, I had never lived anywhere but the USA, and I had never heard of Santana when I left for Spain in September of that year.

And Spirit's manager did the world a disservice by NOT insisting they play Woodstock.

[Orrex]

14. Fun question

In no particular order...

Schindler's List
Pan's Labyrinth
Trainspotting
Fear and Loathing
Raiders of the Lost Ark

[hibbing]

16. Roadhouse n/t

[red dog 1]

21. The 1961 re-release (in color) of "Gone With The Wind"

I saw it when I was about 10, at the legendary Fox Theater in San Francisco and the best part of the experience was to be able to take the elevator up to one of the many "balconies" that the huge theater had. (capacity was 4,651 seats)
My friends & I had seen movies at the Fox theater before, many times, but the ground floor seated about 1,000 people, so there was a rope across the grand stairway preventing anyone from going upstairs (We sneaked up to the 2nd floor a couple of times)
But when the color remake of "Gone With the Wind" came out in "61, the entire theater was available...there were at least 8 or 9 balconies.

Other than that, the most memorable movie I ever saw in a theater was in 1973 when
American Graffiti came out.
I walked out feeling like I was floating on air, mostly due to the outstanding soundtrack of great "old time rock & roll" songs.

I only saw one movie on DVD that I consider "powerful" and that was Michael Moore's brilliant
"Fahrenheit 911" (2004) about the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.
It was chilling to see George W. Bush continuing to sit in that Florida classroom, reading "My Pet Goat" with the kids, even after he was told about the horrific attacks on the WTC in New York City.
"Shocking" is how I would describe that incredible film.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

37. Gone With the Wind was filmed in color in 1939. It was NOT remade in 1961.

That was simply one of the more or less regular releases of that movie. First time I saw it, also.

Several years ago it was again released, and this time the theaters showing it did not show any previews before, and preserved the original intermission time. Very nice.

[red dog 1]

65. I never said it was "remade in 1961"

I clearly stated that what I saw in 1961 was a "re-release"
(It was also re-released in 1942, 1947, 1954 & 1967)

(I erroneously assumed that the original 1939 version was in black & white)

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

69. Re-release in color. As if it was originally filmed in B&W.

I will humbly accept that I re-posted "re-release" as if you'd said "re-made", which you absolutely did not say.

However, trust me, if you've ever seen a colorized B&W film, you'd realize that GWTW could only have that gorgeous color if it had been made in color in the first place.

I've been wishing for several decades that that movie would be remade. Maybe as a mini-series. However, I recently re-read the book, and I was appalled at the racism in it that I'd somehow never managed to see. So these days I'm not sure I'd recommend either the book or the movie to anyone.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

25. My three (BTW a great OP, thanks)

I liked 4 of yours very much and I'll be looking for Night and Fog.

Silent Running
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1

Stand and Deliver
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094027/?ref_=nv_sr_6

Lord of War
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/?ref_=nv_sr_5

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

46. I need to add another

Breach
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401997/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[MyOwnPeace]

26. Somebody already posted one.....

1. Shindler's List
2. 12 Years a Slave
3. Easy Rider

[Motley13]

27. To Kill a Mockingbird

[OregonBlue]

84. Me too. That and Sophie's Choice. I walked out of the theater just devastated.

Need to edit to add One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[Skittles]

28. strange, how differently people will view the same thing

I saw Star Wars in the theater in 1977 and I thought it was stupid - I fell asleep before it ended

[iamateacher]

29. Great question!

Inception
Field of Dreams
The Wizard of Oz
Arrival
Cold Comfort Farm

[FM123]

30. Sophie's Choice

[Sancho]

73. One of my choices too...

[Alice11111]

106. the most hard to watch movie ever

[Zoonart]

32. Being There

Best movie ever made about politics and privilege.

[Zen Democrat]

35. +1

[Sneederbunk]

33. Ordinary People

[TexasBushwhacker]

34. Off the top of my head

Schindler's List
Ordinary People
Million Dollar Baby
Room

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

36. Closet Land

The powers that be tried very hard to make this movie disappear, and they came close to succeeding. But then came YouTube and it is now in too many places to ever finish the job.

&ytbChannel=sonysloba

[lpbk2713]

38. The Misfits, Giant, Judgment at Nuremberg, Old Man and the Sea

Almost anything with Spencer Tracy in it for that matter.

[Zorro]

40. Koyaanisqatsi. The final sequence is incredibly thought-provoking.

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The Seventh Seal. Bergman's best, IMO.

A Clockwork Orange. I was cured, all right.

The Godfather Part II. Michael contemplating how things went awry at the end. A masterpiece in filmmaking.

The Conversation. Another outstanding Coppola work.

The Fisher King. As mentioned by others, quite a moving story.

Platoon. A microcosm of the Viet Nam War.

[LeftInTX]

41. The Towering Inferno

[panader0]

42. There are many---The Grapes of Wrath come to mind.....

[Basic LA]

101. Good call there!

Blade Runner I also found to be very powerful. And my all time favorite movie, The Third Man (Joseph Cotton & Orson Welles).

[Beringia]

43. I really like Zero Dark Thirty

Kind of recent film. Love Jaw's the first time.

[lastlib]

44. Bless the Beasts And Children

Billy Jack
2001: A Space Odyssey
On Golden Pond
Assault on Precinct 13 (the original)

[California_Republic]

52. Bless the Beast!

That was an emotional movie for me for personal reasons. Cotton was such a new type of character.

[Duppers]

45. Out of Africa

My others have already been mentioned.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

47. Bicycle Thieves, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Cool Hand Luke. n/t

[betsuni]

48. A film that's horrible but beautiful: "The Night of the Hunter"

[WinkyDink]

91. Oh, yes! "They will abide."

[KG]

49. recently: Winter's Bone. powerful statement on poverty in america.

[SQUEE]

50. The Stoning of Soraya M.

and Beaufort.

[Boomerproud]

61. I agree about "Night and Fog".

My class saw it in sophomore year in high school (right before lunch). You have never seen a quieter lunchroom in your life. Some people were just hanging their heads, staring down at their food, unable to eat. I think it should be shown (voluntarily) to all high school kids.

[California_Republic]

53. Das Boot

[BeyondGeography]

54. So many, but you could do worse than The Battle of Algiers

for understanding a key bit of history, past and present.

In the same vein, God's Country (1985) by Louis Malle.

I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang with Paul Muni (1932).

The Lives of Others.

The Sorrow and the Pity by Marcel Ophuls. A marathon at 4h25, but unsurpassed as a study of human nature.

[happy feet]

55. My top 5

Life is Beautiful
Rabbit Proof Fence
Hidden Figures
The Kite Runner
Waking Ned Devine
12 Years a Slave
Get Out!

[Hoyt]

56. In Cold Blood, Black Like Me, Bowling for Columbine, Death of a Salesman, Mississippi Burning.

Books were better, except for Columbine.

[Snackshack]

57. American History X

[a la izquierda]

71. That's a great one.

[Eko]

58. The last bullet.

[Hula Popper]

59. Life is Beautiful

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Roberto Benigni did a masterful job.

Not going to a theater much or watching TV , I had forgotten Deer Hunter and Godfather 1&2..

Hell isn't that newscaster fired by MSNBC, OJ's Bronco driver?

[mahina]

111. You may like Down by Law with Roberto Benigni.

I love him and think its his best!

[longship]

60. Okay, here goes.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey -- no competition here. None whatsoever.
2. Gotta be Hitchcock, who never won a directing Oscar, the bastards. Take your pick of one of three big 1950's color films. I cannot decide on any random day. "Rear Window" with an Oscar worthy supporting actress performance by Thelma Ritter (the bastards, she wasn't even nominated), "Vertigo". The reveal scene alone deserves an Oscar, to say nothing of Kim Novack, the bastards. "North by Northwest" which long pre-empted Seinfeld by being a film about nothing. (Google "MacGuffin&quot Nevertheless, it is an extraordinary escapade on how to make yet another film that has a bad guy falling off a national landmark. (See also "Sabateur&quot Take your pick. Any one of the three could belong here. Any one of them do belong here.
3. The Third Man -- OMFG! What an incredible film. Joseph Cotton, long from Orson Welles' stable, turns in a helluva performance along with everybody else in this wonderful cast. Iconic noir. As always, it's the script.
4. Dr. Strangelove -- Yup! It's all about the script. "Jet exhaust frying chickens in the barnyard!" "I'm going to get those doors open if it hare lips everyone on Bear Creek!" Etc. What? Two Kubricks in the top four? Get over it. He was simply the best.
5. My Man Godfrey. A perfect script and cast. I often sarcastically call this film "Carlo's Defenestration" which happens in the last act. William Powell and Carole Lombard at their absolute best. A stellar supporting cast helps a lot. The script crackles! Cook Molly is a supporting actress cynic and standout.

After five, things get a bit fuzzy.

The absolutely extraordinary To Kill a Mockingbird belongs in the top ten. The only other one that comes to mind.

[Doreen]

62. A few of them.

Creator
The Shawshank redemption
The Green Mile
Better Off Dead
Gran Torino
Powder

[Doc_Technical]

63. Shoah (1985 documentary)

Grave of the Fireflies

[kwassa]

64. The Seven Samurai

and other masterful Kurosawa films.

High Noon, Destry Rides Again.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Groundhog Day, which aside from being hilarious is a profound little movie.

Shoah, Night and Fog.

I actually don't like any of the Star Wars franchise.

[NNadir]

66. Chinatown, Nowhere in Africa, Groundhog Day, The Thin Red Line, Das Boot, Three Idiots.

[Major Nikon]

67. Reefer madness

[applegirl]

68. Norma Rae

Along with Contact, When Haryy Met Sally, Being There & Airplane.

[a la izquierda]

70. Nostalgia for the Light

Has moved me more than anything I've ever seen. It is about Chile, 1970s and today. It looks at astronomers in Chile searching for our past in the universe, juxtaposed by women searching the Atacama for the remains of their loved ones, murdered by the Pinochet regime.

[Sancho]

72. Hmm....

Just what comes to mind:

Sophie's Choice
Doctor Zhivago
2001 A Space Odyssey
Jaws
Platoon

I almost said MASH, but that's partially because my father was an Army MD in the 50s, and I identified with some of the characters.

[raccoon]

74. They shoot horses, don't they? And in cold blood. NT

[NeoGreen]

75. In no considared hierarchical order (except #1)...

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1) The Life of Brian
2) The Road
3) The Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven
4) Fight Club
5) The Mission
6) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
7) District 9
8) Gattaca
9) God On Trial (BBC)
10) The Lord of the Rings (Entire Extended Trilogy)
11) The Bridge Over the River Kwai
12) Closet Land
13) Silence of the Lambs

(I reserve the right to edit or amend this list upon further contemplation)

[democrank]

76. Sling Blade, Deerhunter

[GP6971]

77. Seven Days in May. n/t

[lapucelle]

78. Schindler's List

The Life of Pi
Metropolis

[wryter2000]

83. Metropolis

Amazing

I agree about Schindler's List

[lapucelle]

89. Did you know that the actor

who played Grot (the foreman) in Metropolis died of starvation in a Soviet concentration camp where he was interned for collaboration after WW II?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_George

[wryter2000]

110. No, I didn't

Interesting

[shenmue]

79. Gallipoli, Breaker Morant

[WinkyDink]

92. Breaker Morant! I was trying to think of that title! What a hit to the solar plexus at the end.

[mahina]

80. First, these two:

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The Lives of Others
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Encendies
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/videoplayer/vi722049561?ref_=tt_ov_vi

On the lighter side I'd have to say Down by Law, I heart Huckabees and The Life Aquatic.

Thanks for the great thread!

[tavernier]

81. Apollo 13 gives me chills every time.

And tears.

[OregonBlue]

85. Some of the scenes from The Right Stuff actually made me feel "Patriotic". Not something I feel too

often. Not because I don't love America but I'm just not a big America firster type.

[avebury]

86. I saw The Right Stuff with my Mother, Sister, Niece and Nephew.

The movie came out when John Glenn was running for President and so the media was treating it like this serious film. My Mother and I had both read the book and we knew that it is really not a serious story. It really poked fun at the way the Americans reacted to the space program and treated the astronauts like rock stars. My Mother and I snickered with laughter throughout the film because it was really funny. When the went back and forth between the monkeys and humans training it was funny. The attitude and behavior of the astronauts was funny. The portrayal of LBJ trying to throw his weight around. The movie was pretty over the top.

[OregonBlue]

113. I agree. I thought it was really very funny and they did a great job of tongue in cheek. However, I

think they totally captured the message when Chuck Yeagar says : Monkeys? You think a monkey knows he's sittin' on top of a rocket that might explode? These astronaut boys they know that, see? Well, I'll tell you something, it takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially one that's on TV. Ol' Gus, he did all right.

I loved the movie. It was fun, funny, refreshing, and I thought they hired just the right people to play those guys.

[tavernier]

96. Never saw it

or even know what it is about, but I'm guessing space program?

[AgadorSparticus]

100. Forgot about this movie. So good! One of my favorites!!

[bluedigger]

82. Midnight Express

I took drug mule off my list of career choices before I left the theater.

[underpants]

88. Wonderland (Val Kilmer) and Arlington Road

Watched Arlington Road with no idea what it was about. Chilling.

Wonderland - my wife is a huge fan of Kilmer so we watched it. When it ended I got up and took a shower. Seriously. I felt dirty just being near that entire lot of people.

[WinkyDink]

90. Judgment at Nuremberg--Old Yeller--The Heiress--A Hard Day's Night--Witness For the

Prosecution--

Breaker Morant--

Hoosiers--

Ocean's 11 (original)--

The Moonspinners--

Pollyanna--

The Boys in the Band--

The Rocky Horror Picture Show--

Jaws--

The French Connection--

Dial 'M' For Murder--

The Spirit of St. Louis--

Goldfinger--

Death in Venice--

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels--

The Day of the Jackal--

Alfie (original)--

and National Lampoon's European Vacation!

[bagelsforbreakfast]

94. Alphaville...

Alphaville
Children of Paradise (French)
Lady Vengeance (korean)
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The Kid (Chaplin)
City Lights (Chaplin -for the ending)
M
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
The Grand Illusion
La Belle et La Bete (Beauty and the Beast)
Funny Games
That Man from Rio
Red River
Stagecoach
The 39 Steps
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955)
The General (Keaton)
Ghost Breakers
and many more...

[Doug the Dem]

97. The Zapruder Film

[customerserviceguy]

98. Philomena

Being an infant adoptee, I had to be led out of the theater by my lady, I couldn't stop crying.

[AgadorSparticus]

99. Hmmmm... just 5? Just movies?

1. Contact
2. Ghandi
3. The Fisher King
4. 7 years in Tibet
5. Best In Show (along with the birdcage and Every which way But loose) are my favorites in comedy. I never laughed so much in my life.

[mucifer]

102. The Conversation, Schindler's List, Being There, Brazil, Night Nurse, Notorious

[Bluepinky]

103. Here are some of my favorites:

Shawshank Redemption
Arlington Road
Hillary and Jackie
Fifty First Dates
He's Just Not That Into You

[ProudMNDemocrat]

104. Films that move me still to this day are.....

1.GLADIATOR
2. TITANIC
3. Schindler's List
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. The Lord of The Rings Trilogy(in Extended Edition)
6. 12 Years A Slave
7. L.A.Confidential

[chelsea0011]

109. Two Kubrick films, 2001 and Clockwork Orange and I have to add

One Upon a Time in America, an epic crime story with one of the greatest music scores from a Leone movie.

[VOX]

112. Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, Annie Hall, O Lucky Man!, Chinatown, The Third Man...

Just a few, in random order:
My Dinner With Andre
M. Hulot's Holiday
Breaker Morant
It's a Gift
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Night of the Hunter
The General
Citizen Kane
There Will Be Blood
The Man in the White Suit
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Casablanca
A Day at the Races
Sleeper
The Red Badge of Courage
Blade Runner
The Life Aquatic
Dr. Strangelove
Ugetsu
Rashomon
To Catch a Thief
The Lavender Hill Mob
Metropolis
Breaker Morant
Local Hero
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

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114. Aliens, Fight Club, and Matrix Trilogy.