The other day, my 17-year-old daughter texted a question on the family group chat. “Poll! What are your top three favorite movies?”
Naturally, when someone asks you a question that broad, you can’t think of a single movie you’ve ever seen in your life. One, for me, was obviously The Godfather, though, so I texted that first — followed by Annie Hall and a tie between Finding Nemo/The Incredibles. My husband texted The Godfather, Thin Red Line and Rushmore. Our other daughter, Abby, 15, had a hard time limiting herself to three and texted Get Out, Juno, Black Panther, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Up and Iron Man.
My daughter Phoebe (whose favorites included No Country for Old Men, Unforgiven and Little Miss Sunshine) then told us that her film teacher at school had predicted The Godfather would be on most if not all the Top Three lists of an older generation. And look at that, her teacher was right!
Two years ago, I queued up The Godfather and The Godfather Part II back to back, and beforehand actually worried that maybe they weren’t going to hold up. But it was the opposite: they were better than I’d remembered and now it’s my goal to convince my kids to make room in their top three for either.
What about you? What’s in your top three?
P.S. Actors’ movie accents rated, and the best TV show of all time.
(Photos from top: The Godfather, Get Out, Little Miss Sunshine, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Godfather.)
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I have *dreadful* taste in films and haven’t seen like ANY classics (I’ve never seen Dirty Dancing, for instance!!)- so my top three films aren’t exactly the ones I think are best in the world, but the ones I love most and can watch OVER AND OVER AND OVER-
1. Before Sunrise
2. You’ve Got Mail
3. 500 Days of Summer
Runners up include When Harry Met Sally, Love Actually, About Time, and It’s A Wonderful Life!!
The Mirror Has Two Faces
Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion
Begin Again
OMG Romy and Michell YESSSSS
THE PRINCESS BRIDE!!!
Good Will Hunting
Shawshank Redemption
Scrolling through the list means I keep adding movies to the list. I’ve narrowed it down to 5…
10 Things I Hate About You
Clueless
Splendor in the Grass
The Muppet Movie
Diner
Honorable Mentions: Roman Holiday, Some Kind of Wonderful, Charade, Dazed and Confused, Animal House, The Breakfast Club, Top Secret…. I’m sure there are more.
Shawshank Redemption
It’s Complicated
Little Miss Sunshine
This is 40
This is 40 is amazing
So glad to see many votes for You’ve Got Mail. My ABSOLUTE favorite movie of all time.
Had trouble thinking of two others. But I’ll go with Jurassic Park and Inside Out.
This is so fun! First three movies that came to mind:
Wall-E
Terminator 2
Crazy Stupid Love
Casablanca
Jurassic Park
When Harry Met Sally (my husband and I watch it on NYE when we don’t have other plans)
It was hard to choose! I was so happy to see so many votes for You’ve Got Mail, which is also a fave.
If everyone who loves You’ve Got Mail hasn’t seen The Shop Around the Corner with Jimmy Stewart, you must watch it. Perfection.
The first two make my list, too! And “Y Tu Mama Tambien”
Dirty Dancing
Circle of Friends
The Family Stone
I can’t narrow it down to three, I have FIVE:
Jaws
Ghostbusters
Casablanca
The Big Lebowski
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
In no particular order:
The Godfather (parts 1 and 2)
Brokeback Mountain
Gone with the Wind
The Royal Tennenbaums
The Straight Story
The Departed
Jurassic Park
Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo & Juliet
Disney’s The Lion King
STAR WARS (I’m surprised more people didn’t list this…)
Call Me By Your Name
Only Lovers Left Alive
Young Frankenstein
Ocean’s 11
The Bourne Supremacy
But also Marley & Me and the Holiday :)
Grease
Love me if you dare
Two days in Paris
I’m not sure about my top 3 but my favourite movie of all time is:
The Parent Trap (w Lindsay Lohan)
What a fun post!
Jaws
Along Came Polly
The Wizard of Oz
-about time (that dad!)
-sound of music (all the singing!)
-little giants (underdogs!)
-the breakfast club (awkward!)
-zoolander (Owen Wilson!)
-pride and prejudice (swoooon!)
Can’t pick just one!
Top three: The Lives of Others (German), The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (French), Love Actually (which I’ve watched more times than any other film, including at least once every Christmas).
Close runners up: Amelie, the Before Sunrise/Sunset films, Paris je t’aime, and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (a New Zealand film)
Oh, the Lives of Others, so good.
The African Queen has to be on it.
Call Me By Your Name
The Martian
Heaven (with Giovanni Ribisi)
Also:
Star Wars (the first one) and Empire Strikes Back
The Godfather
Chinatown
Stand By Me
Comfort food:
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Just watched this with my kids and they LOVED it!!)
Love Actually
1) The Sound of Music
2) Pretty Woman
3) Clueless and You’ve Got Mail
This list has me all worried. Seems I’m a closet romantic.
The Godfather series and Out of Africa.
The Godfather
Jaws
The Shining
(I have seen these 3 so so so many times)
(PLUS: Les demoiselles de Rochefort and Call me by your name)
Fried Green Tomatoes
Whiplash
Amélie
Im stumped too! But these are the movies I dont mind repeating: Love Actually, Definitely Maybe, Mission Impossible series, Love Affair, An Affair To Remember.. many many more!
Mine would be The English Patient, Juno and Forrest Gump.
I am SO glad someone already mentioned Forrest Gump – I find it really tender & moving in places, and this line has always stuck out for me- “But at nighttime when there was nothing to do and the house was all empty, I’d always think of Jenny”
I meant to include it in your previous post about memorable words! There’s something about that sentence that implies such deep longing on his part, which always gets me.
Dead Poet’s Society
Casablanca
The Before trilogy
Runners-up: Away We Go, Almost Famous, When Harry Met Sally
La La Land
Crazy Stupid Love
Sound of Music
I love that I can (pretty much) tell the age bracket of the commenters by their movie choice!
I’m a total cliche:
Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman
Top Gun
… and Breakfast at Tiffany’s for good measure ;-)
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Oh yes Top Gun! <3 <3 <3
Paris, Texas
American Beauty
Magnolia
I cannot believe that NOONE wrote
Reality Bites
other than that, hm…
Tillsammans!
Benny & Joon
Star Wars Rogue One
I will basically watch *anything* including young Winona Ryder! Little Women is my number one, but Reality Bites, Mermaids, Heathers, How to Make an American Quilt, Edward Scissorhands? COUNT ME IN.
Oh Cece, yes to How to Make An American quilt!! So visceral and evocative. And Winona Ryder Little women forever…My sister and I can work quotes from this into many a conversation.
1. a Good Year
2. Three days later (OMG, my heart was racing first time I saw this! So good!)
3. Dodgeball / Blades of Glory / Burn after Reading – Just because they make me laugh and are great to watch if I don’t want to think about anything.
Footloose (original with Kevin Bacon)
The Princess Bride
So I Married an Axe Murderer
I can’t believe no one mentioned Footloose! I have watched it dozens and dozens of times, and it never fails to make me happy. The Princess Bride and So I Married an Axe Murderer are the most quotable movies ever. EVER.
We ALMOST named our daughter Harriet. Sweet Harriet.
I haven’t seen So I Married an Axe Murderer in years, but my family still quotes it often- mostly when talking about large heads ;) “it has its own weather system!”
The movies that I watch over and over again are: 1. Dirty dancing, 2. Grease, 3. Titanic.
I can also re-watch all the earlier Disney movies, like Pocahontas/lion king/Aladdin but they are just nice and comforting as they remind me of my childhood.
Moonstruck
Baby Boon
Airplane!
Spotlight
Pride and Prejudice
Going Clear (the Scientology documentary)
Random list I think but these three movies are some that I am always down to watch!
Ohh this is a hard one! My top 3 would be:
1: The Boondock Saints
2: Lilo and Stitch
3: The Virgin Suicides
But my runners up would include La Vita è Bella, Marie Antoinette, Pulp Fiction, Death Proof, Forest Gump, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, The River Wild, The Goonies, Se7en, Girl Interrupted, and all those other wonderful atmospheric and conceptually solid movies!
My sister and I have played this game forever (only ours is a Top 5)…we also do “Filmstars we fancy” & many others (we are both in our fifties now but who cares!!
Mine are:
Amadeus
Schindler’s List &
Brief Encounter
1. The Intouchables (not to be confused with The Untouchables)
2. The Holiday
3. He’s just not that into you
What a great question. I actually keep a list on my phone of my favorite books and movies since I find I get this question a lot as a performing arts teacher. Like others I couldn’t narrow it down to three but here is my top ten:
1. Rear Window
2. Funny Face
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Jaws
5. Atonement
6. Pearl Harbor
7. Memphis Belle
8. Inglorious Bastards
9. You’ve Got Mail
10. Finding Neverland
It’s a bit eclectic but I can’t help loving a well written script that makes me feel like I am part of the film.
Funny face! Have to watch that again soon!
I love Finding Neverland!
Life is Beautiful. Nothing can touch that powerful and beautiful story. To this day it evokes so
many emotions.
The Before Sunrise Triology
The Blue/White/Red Trilogy
The Tango Lesson (Sally Potter)
Runner’s Up: Lives of Others, Manhattan, The Pianist, Into the Wild, and Un Homme et Une Femme (lays me flat every time).
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
A Night in the Museum
Shrek
I did struggle choosing these three, other contenders were Mary Poppins, Toy Story, and Men in Black. x
Rear Window
Cactus Flower
Amelie
While You Were Sleeping
The Importance of Being Ernest
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
McFarland USA
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
While You Were Sleeping
To Kill a Mockingbird
Hoosiers
Dan in Real Life
The Lives of Others (my husband was one of the co-producers)
Amelie
Movies by Tom Tykwer (like Run Lola Run)
About a boy
You’ve got mail
V for Vendetta
did anyone mention SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION yet ? (and PRINCESS BRIDE)
Clue
Julie and Julia
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
1. Amélie (forever and ever The favorite)
2. The Goonies & Adventures in Babysitting (childhood favorites)
3. The Lives of Others
4. Life is Beautiful
Runner ups: Slumdog Millionaire, Juno, Little Miss Sunshine and anything from Wes Anderson & Hayao Miyazaki.
1. It’s Complicated
2. Something’s Gotta Give
3. Jaws two
4. Only You (with Marisa Tomei). Have you ever seen Marisa’s vacation wardrobe in this movie?!!!!! The movie is definitely 20 years old and the clothes totally hold up.
Note: I love happy, uplifting movies but no movie left more of an impact on me as a child than, Jaws!
1. Labyrinth
2. Spirited Away
3. Kabhi Khushi Khabi Gham
I am apparently v. easily impressed by an over-the-top set and/or big dance number?
The Shop Around the Corner
You Can Count on Me
Election
Feel kinda bummed my instinctive top three are all by men but it was the 3 that came to mind. .
– Halloween (1978)
– Psycho (1960)
– Titanic
I love horror with a side of Leo DiCaprio, ha.
The Bridges of Madison County
About Time
The Sheltering Sky
The Lovely Bones
Frozen
Elf
Aladin the old animated one
50 First Dates*
Sabrina (90s remake)
*I watched this EVERY DAY (well most days) when I was pregnant with my first baby. I laughed EVERY TIME when Drew Barrymore chased Rob Schneider with a bat. Ahhhhh. I want to watch it now.
GoodFellas
The Sound of Music
And it’s a tie between
The Princess Bride and
Bridget Jones Diary for 3rd
Gah.. I could have BJD on in the background always. It’s like a nice, cozy old pair of sweat pants ❤️
Raising Arizona
Moonstruck
Stand by Me
Annie Hall
As it is heaven – swedish, wonderful music
Monsoiur Cloude and his daughters – French, a catholic family with three son in laws, Muslim, Jews and Chinese, so funny
Chocolat – the pleasure of chocolate
Billy Elliot
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Heathers
Love. Love. Love this!
Ship of Fools
Raise the Red Lantern
Persuasion
Sabrina (the 90’s version)
Ratatouille
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Badlands
Fried Green Tomatoes
Last Picture Show
My Cousin Vinny
A Little Princess
Mrs. Doubtfire
Rosemary’s Baby
The Birds
Cape Fear (60’s and 90’s versions equally loved)
Extras:
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Godfather 1 and 2
Interstellar (That movie Score!)
Houseboat
It’s A Wonderful Life
Great discussion! I also think I have movies that I watch again-and-again that are separate from favorite movies of all time.
Ones I’ve watched the most and own:
10 Things I Hate About You
Love Actually
Reality Bites
Holiday Tie: Home Alone/Christmas Vacation
Childhood faves: Goonies & Troop Beverly Hills
When Harry Met Sally
The Departed
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Fight Club
Inception
Guardians of the Galaxy.
My son and I have watched the last one together at least 20 times, know all the words and most of the song lyrics!
Under the Tuscan Sun
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
The Princess Bride
Back to the future series
Mean girls
Monsters Inc
Also:
Groundhog day
The shawshank redemption
Haven’t seen some of the suggested movies… Must get to it! Great post :)
Steel magnolias -laughing and crying at the same time is the best
When Harry met Sally
The Abyss
Not mentioned but loved these movies:
Leon: the professional (my heart broke during this movie starring a very young Natalie Portman. I prefer the non-director’s version..)
Ms congeniality (such a funny feel good movie. Could watch it a million times. And best date ever? Definitely April 25. :))
The wedding banquet (1993 Taiwanese movie directed by Ang Lee with English subtitles about a gay Taiwanese landlord pretending to marry his tenant to appease his parents. So correct wrt cultural and societal observations).
Honorable mention: My idiot brother (and anything Paul Rudd is in. Such a heartwarming film).
When Harry Met Sally
Steel Magnolias
aaaaand a tie between Away We Go, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Into the Wild!
Sense and Sensibility
Lord of the Rings
LA Story
Irresistible question, and super fun comments to browse!
I love this! I jotted down the ones that came to mind before I read the post or comments…
Back to the Future
Annie (original 80s AND with Quvenzhane Wallis)
Life is Beautiful
[honorable mention to Shawshank Redemption]
Amadeus
A Room With a View
The Graduate
The English Patient
(I cheated!)
Princess Bride
Die Hard
Elf
I just saw it this week, but Booksmart may crack the top 3 over time as well.
(I’m 40)
I am also 40 and just saw booksmart and loved it, but wondered if high school is truly a universal experience, or was it so funny and relatable because it was interpreted by a contemporary?
Hot Fuzz
Back to the Future Trilogy
Garden State
Goodfellas
Ferris Bueller
Troop Beverley Hills
The movies I will stop-whatever-I’m-doing-and-watch when they are on TV:
Shawshank Redemption
The Rock
Two Weeks Notice
But the movies that warm my heart that I pick time and again:
Sleepless in Seattle (although its kinda creepy through todays lens)
The Royal Tennenbaums (love all Wes Anderson truly)
Elf (doesn’t matter what time of year honestly)
Rocky
The Apartment
The Grand Budapest Hotel
1. Cinema Paradiso
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. Aliens
Sound of Music
The King and I
My Fair Lady
I know every lyric and every note, and I sing my heart out each and every time I watch these movies. Sing and cry, sing more and cry more. What can I say? I go back to the first time I saw these movies in big screen movie theaters with the most fabulous sound systems. It was pure magic.
Philadelphia Story
An American in Paris
Casablanca
I wondered if I’d be able to think of three whole movies to list…and then realized there are way more than three that I just LOVE. Some of them:
Moonlight (I kept thinking about and crying over this movie for days and days after I saw it!)
A Room With a View
Brokeback Mountain (more crying)
Desperately Seeking Susan
Dirty Dancing
Shakespeare in Love (after this movie, both my friend and I walked out of the theater muttering about how amazing it was…we were overwhelmed!)
And I can’t help it…I love me some Marvel movies. So fun!
I’m still thinking of this list…
Moonstruck
The Harry Potter Series
Elf, Last Holiday, The Holiday–all in December
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Like Water for Chocolate
Little Miss Sunshine
Elf
Bed Knobs and Broomsticks was a childhood fav
1. Mona Lisa Smile
2. Dead Poets Society
(Well those create a theme… moving on now)
3. Elizabethtown
Exit through the gift shop (such a ride!)
Bridesmaids (Never lets me down)
It’s a Wonderful Life (because no man is a failure who has friends)
Groundhog Day
Goodfellas
The Graduate
Jaws
Murder by Death
Home Alone
Royal Tenenbaums
Withnail and I
Pride and Prejudice (Keira Knightley version – controversial I know!)
Love Actually
About Time
Brooklyn
Sorry, had to do four!
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brody
2. Easy Rider
3. Imitation of Life
1) Local Hero
2) The Thin Man (my children are actually named Nick and Nora)
3) The Palm Beach Story/ To Be or Not to Be (Jack Benny version)
My son and I did what we called “Sunday classic movie night” throughout his middleschool and high school years (my daughter sadly has not continued the tradition with me after he left for college although she did join us a couple of times, including when we introduced her to Star Wars). We roughly did the AFI top 100 combined with comedy movies that I had to rewatch for work (I am a comedy professor) but we also allowed ourselves to go on tangents if there was a star or director that we enjoyed. We watched both of his grandfathers’ favorite movies, went on a bit of a Tom Hanks bender, discovered a number of “classic” comedies that did NOT hold up (Trading Places is really uncomfortable and interestingly he did not enjoy Annie Hall – he felt Woody Allen was an egotist pretending to be low status). Still to this day, one of my favorite things I did as a mom. And all the Godfathers of which I had previously only seen the first.
I love this idea, there was a time when I would visit my grandma on a weekly basis and we would have lunch and watch a movie. It was such a lovely way to get to know her as a woman, to see what she identified with, and what elicited her memories.
Also <3 Local Hero
I love this.
My top three:
My Girl
The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills!)
The Notebook!
I love a lot of movies so I personally define my favorite films by what I can rewatch literally over and over again without ever being bored and that give me genuine joy:
The King’s Speech (I had a stutter growing up so this really hits home)
The Mummy (I was once so obsessed with Egyptology that I watched this film so much I knew all the words, even the ancient Egyptian dialogue)
Last Holiday (This is my go-to feel good movie. The food! The travel! The clothes! A grown woman learning to love life on her own terms!)
Almost Famous
When Harry Met Sally
Breakfast at Tiffanys
You’ve Got Mail
Chef
Enchanted April
If I am solely listing my favorite comfort movies, then I would have to say:
You’ve Got Mail
Pride & Prejudice
The Guernsey & Literary Potato Peel Pie Society
Princess Diaries
As I’ve gotten older I’ve learned not to care so much about fluffing up my list with critical darlings and to be more honest with myself…. yes, my favorite movies might not all be award winners and may often fall into the category of “romance” but who really cares? I’d rather list movies that are on my happy list, that bring me joy, then to pretend every arthouse film is what I turn too when I’m in need of a comfort movie. Because the ones I can always watch on repeat are the ones listed above, they bring me such joy.
Honestly, I will stop whatever I’m doing to watch Princes Diaries 2 (because I love Chris Pine…) I really enjoy the original Princess Diaries, but the sequel has a special place in my heart.
Not in order:
1. The Godfather
2. The Sound of Music
3. Dead Poets Society
4. Garden State
5. Goodfellas
sorry there are too many…
Pride & Prejudice (2005), A Man Called Ove, The Big Sick,
What We Do in the Shadows, Big Fish, Amelie, Little Women,
Arrival, Interstellar, Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
My Neighbor Totoro, Winnie the Pooh (1977), and Summer Wars.
Susan, how delightful to share so many of the same favorites in this combination – Little Women, Big Fish (love seeing this get a shout out!), Amelie, and Pride and Prejudice are *all-time pantheon* for me. And a Eternal Sunshine is incredible and poignant. I feel like your whole list is movies that are what film is for: deeply visual, epic, well-written, evocative, storytelling that stays with you forever.
Oh! And how could I forget The Big Sick. So. Good. The minute it was over my mom and I said we wish we could see it again for the first time. I hope Kumail and Emily write lots more things together.
Dead Poets Society
While You Were Sleeping
Much Ado About Nothing
So hard! If I could only watch three movies from now until the end of time I would choose Working Girl (omg Malanie!), When Harry Met Sally and Money Train. I know people think I’m crazy when I mention that last one as a favorite but it’s so damn good! I mean I love The Godfather too but Money Train! A heist! On the subway! J. Lo! What more do you need!?
Her
Raging Bull
The Shape of Water
Great Expectations
Rumble Fish
(couldn’t pick just 3 haha)
To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, tie between Dirty Dancing and Pretty Woman.
My dad used to watch that all the time! That’s a great movie and a great reminder to get your baby the dipTet. :)
This is such a great (and impossible) question! I love The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Megamind, and The Sandlot! But The Proposal, Incredibles, & Meet the Robinsons are also movies I can watch again and again!
This is so hard:
1. The age of innocence
2. Amelie
3. Gattaca
Close:
Rushmore, pride & prejudice, Hedwig & the angry itch, wings of desire!!!
I can’t play this game, too many good ones!!! Lol!
Gone with the Wind
Talented Mr. Ripley
Interiors
zoolander
love actually
now and then
no classics, nothing that makes me have to think or feel super serious real feelings :)
Moonstruck!!! ?
Holiday Inn ❤️
Firelight ?
Mine would be…
One day (the book is just as good!)
Speed
Hackers
Also, love watching Mrs Doubtfire and anything with Vince Vaughan whenever it’s on TV
Doesn’t anyone like “Beetlejuice”?
The English Patient
Field of Dreams
Doctor Zhivago
I’d have to say:
Contact – gets better every time I see it,
The Life Aquatic – because Bill Murray, and
Sleepless in Seattle – I wish Tom Hanks was my dad
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Gigi
About Time
It is really hard to narrow it down to 3!!
Mine:
The Royal Tennenbaums
The Big Lebowski
Annie Hall
1. the Before trilogy
2. Groundhog Day
3. When Harry Met Sally
1. Muriel’s Wedding
2. Harold + Maude
3. That Thing You Do
Dan in Real Life
The Family Stone
Sense and Sensibility
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman ( an early Ang Lee masterpiece!)
I’ve realised all my favourites have a very strong ‘family’ theme!
titanic
forrest gump
mean girls
I forgot Devil Wears Prada. Meryl Streep + Emily Blunt + Anne Hathaway + fashion (Chanel!). *Swoon*
Moonstruck
Seabiscuit
A Walk on the Moon
Shanghai Express (1932)
Dark Victory (1939)
The Women (1939)
The movies listed are fab: we rented Godfather tonight and it holds up!
1. Dirty dancing, cause ‘no one puts Baby in a corner.’
2. Bodyguard, Whitney Houston/Kevin Costner, cause ‘I’ll always love you’
3. Mhhh, you’ve got mail? No no, A River Runs Through It, cause 1st time I ever saw Brad Pitt
So hard to choose!
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (just such an excellent movie)
Coco (best animated film ever?)
Men in Black (unfailing mood-lifter)
Eternal Sunshine is my hands down all time favorite!!!
You’ve Got Mail
Remember the Titans
Crazy Stupid Love
LOVE Crazy, Stupid Love!
YES! Another vote for Remember the Titans. I am so on board with this list.
Rocky, Carol, My Best Friend’s Wedding
My Best Friend’s Wedding!! (insert wailing emoji; heart emoji)
Legends of the Fall
The American President
The Big Chill (this has the best movie soundtrack of all time)
Totally agree with you on The Big Chill!
Smoke Signals
The Sound of Music
Empire Strikes Back
Yas Empire Strikes Back!!!
Into the wild
Vicki Christina Barcelona
Million dollar baby
Zoolander
Please can we have a poll like this once a week?! My husband likes to joke that my resting state is Quiz Mistress because I am always like, “Name Your Top Three Of This!!” — he says he’s had to get used to it and I think he secretly loves it now. So obviously with this post — I am in my element!
Mine would be:
1. The Before Trilogy
2. Coming Home
3. Away We Go
Hahaha you sound really fun!
agree with Joanna :D
Away We Go <3
Good Will Hunting
Miracle
Love Actually
I was looking for someone with Love Actually!
Mine are:
Love Actually
The Lion King (1994, I haven’t seen the new one)
Mary Poppins
Dead Poets Society
Love Actually
Once
The Philadelphia Story
These are always my top 4 but there are many more that could swap in at any given point depending on what I’m needing from a movie in the moment. I was surprised that I didn’t see many of them in the comments already (though I did see many of my other faves, like the Before Sunrise trilogy)
I rarely comment on anything online, but this is fun! :) I’ll be coming back to this comments section for ideas next time I want to watch a movie at home.
Mine are:
– Vanilla Sky
– The Fugitive
– Lost in Translation
You’ve got mail alllllll day
Came to say this!!! I especially love it now, something about seems like simpler times even that at the time an online romance seemed anything but. I’m 32 and I swear my generation was robbed of so many simple pleasures like bookstores and apartments made out of wood.
The movies I could watch repeatedly (but admittedly not the most cinematic or best acting):
Mrs. Doubtfire
The Family Stone
Hocus Pocus
Garden State
This is excellent. Happy somebody like you, with this list, is out there.
Movie twins! <3 all of those.
Yes, Hocus Pocus!
This is really hard, but the first three that come to mind:
The Commitments – the music! the Irish accents!
Beasts of the Southern Wild – this may be the most incredible movie I’ve ever seen – I love magic realism.
Frida (again – the magic realism…)
So glad someone else has seen The Commitments. That was a great movie. The guy who played Outspan Foster (Glen Hansard) is a real-life singer/musician still. :)
Thelma and Louise
The Fugitive
A Star is Born
I can’t think of my absolute top three right now, but Raising Arizona is definitely in there.
Raising Arizona is seriously one of the best movies ever.
My dad used to watch that all the time! That’s a great movie and a great reminder to get your baby the dipTet. :)
Blue Jasmine, Rachel Getting Married, and Rabbit Hole.
I didn’t realize it until writing this that all three movies center women who are dealing with something devastating, but they move through it, even if just barely, in a totally human way.
1. Silence of the Lambs (Jodie Foster is SO SO GOOD IN IT)
2. Sense and Sensibility
3. Baby Boom (made me want to live in a farmhouse in Vermont making baby food with a hot vet near me)
Also, runners up – love love Working Girl and Sliding Doors (I love a makeover movie)
Baby Boom makes my list too!
Baby Boom is my favourite film of all time! I watched it obsessively while growing up in England and then somehow ended up living in upstate NY with a lot of apple trees! No hot vet but a very nice hubbie ;-)
Yes sense & sensibility! I nearly forgot! It always reminded me of me and my sisters and our big age gap :)
Baby Boom “hot vet” forever ????!!
Is that Sam Shephard? He’s in my same crush category is Sam Elliot.
I loved Baby Boom?
DITTO!!! — Baby Boom (made me want to live in a farmhouse in Vermont making baby food with a hot vet near me)
That seen when they kiss and fall into the fridge. SWOON.
Rear Window
Zoolander
The Thin Man
Away We Go
Rear window! Such a good movie!
The Before Sunrise series. You either love them or don’t!
Love them.
Yess, love ’em
Pretty Woman
The American President
Airplane
LOVE this series!!!!
Pulp Fiction
Dirty Dancing
American Beauty
Mine too!!
Unable to narrow down to 3!
Tootsie
Jackie Brown & Pulp Fiction
Boogie Nights & Magnolia
Muholland Drive
Election
Color Purple
Ida
The Lives of Others
Rosemary’s Baby
The Omen
Fish Tank
The Lives of Others is SO GOOD
Alex and I watched the lives of others on our first date!
Mulholland Drive is amazing!!!!
Say Anything
Rushmore
High Fidelity
I think this is so indicative of my age (42) because for so long I would have had more cinematically beautiful movies on my list but to be honest- I’ve seen these 3 movies about a zillion times each and they make me laugh endlessly and warm my heart which is what I need these days!
Some runners up:
Amelie
When Harry Met Sally
Thelma and Louise
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Office Space
Goonies
Stand By Me
I’m also 42 and your list is amazing!
I’ve never posted anything here. But, your list is my list. Also, 42 years old. I would add Waiting for Guffman too! And, maybe Reality Bites. Just shared Stand By Me with my kids over a vacation in Maine, and they loved it.
43, and recognize!!
Yes! Another 42-year-old endorsing this list!
I’m 36 and this list is basically perfect!
When Harry Met Sally never, ever, ever gets old. Really anything with Meg Ryan (and i’m 33 here)
Say Anything!!! We watched it with my teenagers recently and I remembered every single line. Amazing. Totally held up and reminded me why I loved John Cusack so much when I was in high school.
Don’t be a guy, Lloyd. Be a man!
Also, John Cusack!! Love this list. All so good :)
Serendipity
Rudy
Grease
Groundhog Day
About Time
Lars and the Real Girl
About Time…definitely in my top 3