Movies You Believe That People Should View
 

Give me your top 5!

1. Sling Blade
2. Dogma
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. Gallipoli
5. Lorenzo's Oil

Philadelphia
It's A Wonderful Life
Wizard of Oz
Oh God
Stand By Me

American History X
Kids
Schindler's List
Pulp Fiction (THAT'S HOW YOU MAKE A F*CKING MOVIE)
Shallow Hal

All of mine are really recent (dayum short term memory, lol), and in no particular order:

- Requiem for a Dream

- Se7en

- American Beauty

- The Hours

- Bamboozled

The Birdcage

Schindler's List

Dogma

American History X

Gone With the Wind

* The Bad Seed (1956)
* Schindler's List
* Auntie Mame
* A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
* Finding Nemo
* To Kill a Mockingbird
* Torch Song Trilogy
* Never Been Kissed
* The Paper Chase
* Groundhog Day
* Little Women (any version)
* Charlotte's Web
* The Little Princess (1995)
* Mystic Pizza
* Run, Lola, Run
* The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
* Boys on the Side
* The Ten Commandments

When Harry Met Sally

Sense & Sensibility

A Few Good Men

The Rainmaker

Pirates of the Caribbean

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

To Sir with Love

Batman: Mask of the Phamtasm

Speed

Ace Ventura

Silence of the Lambs

School Daze

The Graduate

Bad Boys II

Spider-Man

Forrest Gump
Gone with the Wind
Wizard of Oz
Silence of the Lambs
When Harry Met Sally

--A Time to Kill
--Rudy
--Marvin's Room
--The Cure
--Moonlight Mile
--School Ties
--Mask
--Lean on Me
--White Squall
--Shallow Hal

NO FAIR!!!! She said FIVE and I had sooo many more!!! I agree with so many on y'alls list! :D

Office Space
Blair Witch 1
Bedazzled
Any movie from the naked gun series
Blazing Saddles

Modern Times

Casablanca

Life With Father

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (okay, it's a tossup between Grail and Brian)

Airplane


Honorable mention goes to: Sunset Boulevard, Grand Hotel, A Hard Days' Night, This Is Spinal Tap, Pretty In Pink and Live and Let Die.

ETA--Special consideration to be given to any and all Katharine Hepburn films, especially my favorite one, Desk Set.

Philadelphia
John Q
Dead Man Walking
REMEMBER THE TITANS
Girl, Interrupted
A Time To Kill

Honorable Mention: The Last of the Mohicans and the Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet (because everyone should be exposed to such beautiful films.)

Breakfast Club
Imitation of Life
Mildred Pierce
The Woman
Higher Learning

Life is Beautiful
Whale Rider
Once Were Warriors (this and the one above are Maori films)
Anne of Green Gables/Anne of Avonlea
Sixteen Candles

A mix of the new and the old in no certain order. :)

• Holes
• Pirates of the Carribean
• Bull Durham
• When Harry Met Sally
• Christmas Vacation

my list part 2
 

Life Is Beautiful
Monsoon Wedding
What Dreams May Come
The Diary of Anne Frank
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the original animated version)

- 25th hour
- emma
- ten things i hate about you
- narc
- seven

clockwork orange
swingers
vanilla sky
mulholland drive-strangest movie ever
kung pow

~ Bamboozled

~The Antwoine Fisher Story (have plenty of tissue on hand)

~Imitation of Life

~Sleepaway Camp

Old School
The Life of David Gale
The Count of Mote Cristo
Goonies
Chicago

In no particular order, here we go, now these are REALLY a must

BEST ALL AROUND -- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (the greatest story ever told. period. listed as one cuz it's ONE MOVIE, I highly suggest reading the books, read them like 3 times and see if it doesn't change your life!)
BEST "UNDERDOG" -- Donnie Darko
BEST COMEDY (for engineers...) -- Office Space
BEST COMEDY (for all college students) -- Van Wilder
BEST SCARY MOVIE -- The Ring
BEST MOVIE TO WATCH DRUNK -- Evil Dead 2 OR Army of Darkness
AND JUST FOR SHIT AND GIGGLES -- Airheads

Frailty

My one addition to this list of must sees. Why you ask. One reason the movie made me think. Check it out or else i will cry.

ROOTS
The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Imitation of Life
Fried Green Tomatoes
Remember the Titans
A Time to Kill
To Kill A Mockingbird

I agree, just saw it and it was an amazing film. The little girl is an amazing actress.

Great thread...I am a big John Cusack fan, so my list would include:

High Fidelity
The Grifters
Say Anything

as well as my other favorites:

Bowling for Columbine
The Shawshank Redemption
Longtime Companion
About a Boy
Jerry Maguire
The Color Purple
Dead Poets Society

and the list could go on and on...

AXPGoBot: You are absolutely right. The books are incredible. The more you read them, the more you get from them.

I can't wait to see how P. Jackson handles two key scenes in "Return of the King." The scene in the turret and another one I won't mention for fear of spoiling it for others who haven't read the books. (We should start a separate LotR thread!) ;)

My list would consist of...
 

here's mine...

~Ferris Bueller's Day Off
~Cruel Intentions
~Mothman Prophicies
~Abandoned
~Little Women

I had a hard time thinking those up i know as soon as i turn off this thing i'll think of like 100 movies...grrrrr:rolleyes:

CrimsonTide4 I SOOOOOOO love your list! GREAT MUST SEE MOVIES!

Thanks. The ones that are books as well, I've read too. Yes EVEN ROOTS!! :o

I must add
The Five Heartbeats
The Color Purple
Simon Birch -- SUCH A GOOD MOVIE
The Lion King -- NO REALLY!!!

i just saw Pride and Prejudice for the very first time today and i agree with all the other people who said it's a must-see, especially if you've read and liked the novel. it is the most faithful movie portrayal of a novel that i've ever seen. a MUST SEE

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Heavenly Creatures
Hurricane Streets
Anything Monty Python
Pecker
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Boys Don't Cry

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Off the top of my head...

-What's Eating Gilbert Grape
-With Honors
-Empire Records
-Finding Nemo
-The Sandlot

Black Hawk Down
Meet theParents
Gladiator
The Godfather Trilogy

I just saw another one:

The Tao of Steve

Ben Hur
E.T.
Shawshank Redemption
What Dreams May Come
Joy Luck Club

adding to my stack

'Yours Mines And Ours'

chessy movie with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda
it always brings tears having to think of combining step-families