What are your favorite movies?

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I haven't seen a ton of older movies - I joke that I never saw a movie before around 2000. There are tons of true classics and cult classic movies that "everyone" has seen that I haven't.

What are your favorites? I want ideas so I'm not always at a loss for movies to watch. 

[liveintheville]

Chung King Express is my favorite
Clue, Ghostbusters, and Galaxy Quest I can watch anytime
I like Wes Andersen a great deal

[vtdiamond]

When Harry Met Sally is one of my all time favorites!

[countthestars]

Well they don't all fit your criteria, but Casablanca, National Treasure, Independence Day, Armageddon

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@choco have you been around lately? I was randomly thinking about you recently and wondered if you were gone

No specific requirements! Just good movies, lol. I actually have seen most of your 90's movies! But they are good picks.

[h]

This is such a random, disordered list. Some of these are actually good movies, but a lot of them are just fun to watch.

80s and beyond:

When Harry Met Sally
The American President
Stand By Me
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Father of the Bride
Best in Show
Love Actually
Metropolitan
Everyone Says I Love You
Baby Boom
Working Girl
Pretty Woman
Mystic Pizza
Shag

Pre 1980s:

Annie Hall
Casablanca
The Apartment
Adam's Rib
Desk Set

[crashgizmo]

Mine are random too, but:

A Few Good Men
Playing by Heart
Clerks
American Beauty
Pretty Woman
Dazed and Confused
Wonder Boys

[cajunmom]

My favorite movie is Once.

[lb2006]

My Cousin Vinny
Wayne's World
Little Miss Sunshine

[magpie]

My favorite movie is The Big Lebowski!

[Susie]

Lots of dittos to the above. Also:

Capote
Inglorious Bastards
No Country for Old Men

[mlvmd]

The Philadelphia Story
Strictly Ballroom
About a Boy
Schindler's List
Life is Beautiful
Children of a Lesser God
Flashdance

[rachelgreen]

I love choco's list. So many good ones in there. Other ones I have to add:

The cutting edge
A league of their own
Back to school
Caddyshack
While you were sleeping
Pretty woman
Billy Madison
Breakfast club
Mighty ducks
Major league
Dogma
Twister

[stumpy]

Tons of dittos.
So many great old movies out there!

Here are a few more:
Waiting For Guffman
The original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
To Kill a Mockingbird (classic and one of my all time favorites!)

[alleinesein]

Field of Dreams
Rudy
Office Space
Dogma
Star Wars IV, V, VI
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
and a bunch more that have already been mentioned.

[qwerty]

Good Fellas is probably my favorite movie

Blade Runner, The Godfather, Citizen Kane, The Shining and Apocalypse Now are some of my classic favorites

For comedies I like Happy Gilmore, Idiocracy, Along Came Polly, The Hangover and Bridesmaids

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Casablanca

[Balki.Bartokomous]

Dumb & Dumber
The Goonies
Jurassic Park
Camp Nowhere
Meet the Parents
The Cure

[Nonny]

Movies based on re-watchability.  If it's on, I have to watch, I can't help myself:

Shawshank Redemption

Pulp Fiction

Full Metal Jacket

Jurassic Park

Groundhog Day

Bring it On

Romeo and Juliet (Baz Lerhman edition with Claire and Leo)

Robin Hood, Men in Tights

Fifth Element

Die Hard

The Lion King

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

The Little Princess (with Shirley Temple)

The Parent Trap (both the Haley Mills and Lindsey Lohan versions)

A Christmas Story

Movies I don't ten to re-watch as often, but think people should see because of the pop culture references you'll see in other movies and TV shows (it's good to know the backstory):

Schindler's List

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Reservoir Dogs

Grease

Sixth Sense

Breakfast Club

The Godfather

Citizen Cane

Fargo

The Matrix (first one only)

Alien

Psycho

[okla]

The only ones I would recommend that haven't already been said are Almost Famous (but I think this is slightly past your 2000 cutoff) and the BBC Pride and Prejudice. Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy is amazing.

[mrshandy]

The only ones that haven't been listed that I would add is Forrest Gump and Titanic (not the best, but you really should see it).

The Killing Fields is a really powerful movie from the 80s about the Cambodian genocide. Highly recommend, just make sure you have a kleenex box handy.

[magdala]

Pre 80s
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Key Largo
The Sting
The Godfather
Bringing up Baby
Funny Face
Roman Holiday
Arsenic and Old Lace
You Can't Take It with You
The Thin Man
The Women (1939 version only)

[schitzengiggles]

Mine are random...but...
Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman
The Green Mile
Bring it On
Save the Last Dance
Coyote Ugly
A Walk to Remember
Armageddon

[perkyderky]

Mar 21, 2014 7:47:04 GMT -5 magdala said:

Pre 80s
Casablanca**
The Maltese Falcon**
Key Largo
The Sting
The Godfather**
Bringing up Baby**
Funny Face 
Roman Holiday
Arsenic and Old Lace
You Can't Take It with You**
The Thin Man
The Women (1939 version only)

Yours is the list that I, personally like the most. I've starred the ones that I especially loved, and would add three more to your list:

Gone with the Wind
Some Like it Hot
All about Eve

And while we're at it, if she's never seen any, then swing by the dance studio and check out:
Top Hat, starring Fred and Ginger (but you can see any Fred and Ginger and know the general gist).

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I used to watch Gone with the wind, On Moonlight Bay, Young at Heart, and Drop Dead Gorgeous on a loop.

I LOVE Doris Day.

[qwerty]

Mar 21, 2014 9:01:31 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

A Room With A View
Mildred Pierce (the Joan Crawford original)
A Stolen Life (Bette Davis)
North and South (80s miniseries)
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Love that movie!

[Deleted]

I'm trying to watch more classic movies myself:)

Some of my favorites--Cool Hand Luke, Casablanca (it is my all time favorite movie), The Godfather, Jaws (really surprisingly good), Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, The Last Picture Show, Good Will Hunting, Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, The Graduate, West Side Story, Oklahoma, The Princess Bride, Trading Places, Big, The Indiana Jones trilogy

We're currently running through som Hitchcock movies and Rear Window is the only one I can really recommend. Psycho was really disappointing. Some films don't age well. I haven't seen Vertigo yet though.

[shortstax]

My hands down favorite is A League of their Own

[genet313]

Gone with the Wind
Pride and Prejudice (both BBC and the newer one)
North & South (not a movie, but whatever, I love it)
Bridget Jones's Diary
Silver Linings Playbook
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Old School
Volver
Flor de Mi Secreto
Office Space
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Big Lebowski

[krisandgrace]

The only one not mentioned so far I can think of that I love is Harold and Maude. My favorite movie ever.