My Favorite Movies
These are a few of my all time favorite movies. Some of these movies have won Oscars and some have not. Some I consider my 'cheesy' favorites but all in all may I say "they just dont make em like they used to!!!"
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Imitation of Life 1958, Unrated)
One of my cheesy favorites!! I love this movie - I know how it is going to end but when Sandra Kohner drapes herself over her mama's casket - well I lost it every time. |
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Now, Voyager 1942, Unrated)
Love the 'ugly duckling..gets pretty..falls in love' kind of movies. So romantic and sweet. I never get tired of seeing this movie!! |
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Gone With the Wind 1939, G)
What can I say - a classic in every way. Famous quotes: |
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Chinatown 1974, R)
This is such a good movie in every way. John Huston plays pure melevolent evil here. Nicholson is wonderful as the rakish Giddes - even Dunaway is beautiful and vulnerable.And the music that plays thruout the movie is so haunting that when I hear it today it puts me right back in the movie. Chinatown was made in the seventies but in my opinion could easily fall into the NOIR catagory. |
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Mystic River 2003, R)
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The African Queen 1952, Unrated)
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Klute 1971, R)
Not a great fan of Jane Fonda's but doggone it she can act. The scene where she is listening to a tape of her friend while her friend is being tortured by the perpetrator - well it is so powerful. One of her finest performances. |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969, PG)
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The Sting 1973, PG)
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| 10 |
Bonnie and Clyde 1967, R)
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Easy Rider 1969, R)
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Annie Hall 1977, PG)
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Auntie Mame 1958, Unrated)
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Braveheart 1995, R)
Magnificent cinema. Mel Gibson really a good actor - such a wonderful, sweet, tragic love story. Henry Wallace' speech at the battle was truly powerful. Mel with blue paint covering his face - it could have been laughable but it was great!!! |
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| 15 |
Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961, PG)
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Cabin in the Sky 1943, Unrated)
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Casablanca 1942, PG)
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Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) 1988, R)
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| 19 |
La Historia Oficial (The Official Story) 1985, R)
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| 20 |
Fiddler on the Roof 1971, G)
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| 21 |
Cool Hand Luke 1967, PG)
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| 22 |
Dazed and Confused 1993, R)
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Dead Again 1991, R)
This was a tour de force for Kenneth Brannagh. He starred in and directed and wrote. I am pretty good with mysteries but this had me fooled until the very end. Great acting, great cinematography and wonderful twists and turns - it will keep you on the edge of your seat. Oh yeah ---- its in black & white!!! |
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Double Indemnity 1944, Unrated)
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Humoresque 1946, Unrated)
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| 26 |
Fried Green Tomatoes 1991, PG-13)
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| 27 |
GoodFellas 1990, R)
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| 28 |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967, Unrated)
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North by Northwest 1959, Unrated)
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Suspicion 1941, Unrated)
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| 31 |
To Kill A Mockingbird 1962, Unrated)
Gregory Peck deserved the Oscar for this movie. Not a sound or dry eye in the house when the scene with Peck packing his briefcase after losing his case and the black spectators (up on the balcony - they werent allowed to sit downstairs!!) were all looking at him. Peck daughter was with them - still leaning on the rail. Her friend said as Peck walked out of the room - "stand up Scout - your father is passing." Well I have a lump in my throat just writing those powerful words. |
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The Conversation 1974, PG)
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| 33 |
The Quiet Man 1952, Unrated)
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The Searchers 1956, Unrated)
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The Sixth Sense 1999, PG-13)
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The Way We Were 1973, PG)
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The Green Mile 1999, R)
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The Greatest Show on Earth 1952, R)
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The Bad and the Beautiful 1953, Unrated)
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The Bad Seed 1956, Unrated)
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| 41 |
Ran 1985, R)
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| 42 |
The Seven Samurai 2011, Unrated)
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| 43 |
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) 1954, Unrated)
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Rashômon (Rashomon) (In the Woods) 1951, Unrated)
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| 45 |
Y Tu Mamá También 2001, R)
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Like Water for Chocolate (Como Agua para Chocolate) 1993, R)
What a lovely movie - so moving, tragic and romantic at the same time. Apparently at the turn of the century - Mexican tradition dictates the oldest daughter must stay home and take care of the mother until she dies. She can never marry. The protagonist of the movie is a wonderful cook and this is how she gets thru these harsh times. Very good!! |
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The Color Purple 1985, PG-13)
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Touch of Evil 1958, PG-13)
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| 49 |
Unforgiven 1992, R)
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| 50 |
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942, G)
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West Side Story 1961, PG)
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On the Town 1949, Unrated)
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| 53 |
Carousel 1956, Unrated)
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| 54 |
Funny Girl 1968, G)
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The Wizard of Oz 1939, G)
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| 56 |
The Godfather 1972, R)
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| 57 |
The Godfather, Part II 1974, R)
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| 58 |
Vertigo 1958, PG)
By now you probably have guessed that I am a Hitchcock fan. And this is one of his greatest achievements - in my opinion. Kim Novak was never lovlier. And James Stewart was great. I find it interesting that he was in his sixties when he made this movie. That is fascinating because the movie really revolves around his all consuming love for Madeline. |
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Memento 2000, R)
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| 60 |
Sixteen Candles 1984, PG)
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Pretty in Pink 1986, PG-13)
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The Breakfast Club 1985, R)
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I Remember Mama 1948, Unrated)
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963, G)
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Lady Sings the Blues 1972, R)
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947, Unrated)
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Somewhere in Time 1980, PG)
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Terms of Endearment 1983, PG)
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Spartacus 1960, PG-13)
Ah the scene in the movie when Caesar asks the group of men (Spartacus was among them) which one was Spartacus-well Spartacus starts to stand up and one by one each of them stand up and say "I am Spartacus." Pretty powerful stuff. |
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The Apartment 1960, Unrated)
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975, R)
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Some Like It Hot 1959, Unrated)
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Pulp Fiction 1994, R)
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Kill Bill: Volume 1 2003, R)
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Kill Bill, Volume 2 2004, R)
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Picnic 1956, PG)
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Reservoir Dogs 1992, R)
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Schindler's List 1993, R)
Wonderful movie but hard to watch!! Great performances from Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and so many more. Spielberg is a genius. The movie all in black & white except the little girl trying to escape the horrors of the camp in her red coat. Also a searing scene - where the Americans have come to resue the camp survivors and not knowing this - runs into a latrine to try to hide. Heartbreaking!!! But to me the most moving scene in the movie was when Spielberg used the surviving families of the survivors to pay their respects to Schindler by placing stones on his tombstone. An old Jewish tradition. Superb!!! |
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Saturday Night Fever 1977, R)
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Steel Magnolias 1989, PG)
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The Big Lebowski 1998, R)
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The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957, PG)
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The Shawshank Redemption 1994, R)
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Notorious 1946, Unrated)
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Notorious 2009, R)
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Rebecca 1940, Unrated)
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The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) 2003, R)
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