User:JackofOz/Other well-loved films

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Apart from my 2 favourite films, the following are some others I never tire of:

• Modern Times (1936)
• Gone With the Wind (1939)
• Ninotchka (1939)
• The Philadelphia Story (1940; the 1956 musical re-make High Society was great fun, but not in the same class as the original play)
• Rebecca (1940)
• The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Now, Voyager (1942)
• Song of Bernadette (1943)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• Brief Encounter (1945 David Lean version)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (the 1945 Hurd Hatfield version - the only version!)
• The Seventh Veil (1945)
• Great Expectations (1946 David Lean version)
• The Razor's Edge (1946 Tyrone Power version)
• The Bishop's Wife (1947)
• Green Dolphin Street (1947)
• Hamlet (1948 Laurence Olivier version)
• The Red Shoes (1948)
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• All About Eve (1950)
• The Mudlark (1950)
• September Affair (1950)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• The African Queen (1951)
• The Browning Version (1951 Michael Redgrave version)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• Five Fingers (1952)
• High Noon (1952)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 Michael Redgrave version)
• Moulin Rouge (1952)
• Singin' in the Rain (1952)
• The Band Wagon (1953)
• Kiss Me Kate (1953)
• Stalag 17 (1953)
• Dial M for Murder (1954)
• The Egyptian (1954)
• Magnificent Obsession (1954)
• The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
• The Trouble With Harry (1955)
• The Man Who Never Was (1956)
• Zarak (1956)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Love in the Afternoon (1957)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• Witness for the Prosecution (1957 Tyrone Power version)
• The Big Country (1958)
• The Square Peg (1958)
• Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
• Midnight Lace (1960)
• Tunes of Glory (1960)
• One, Two, Three (1961)
• Romanoff and Juliet (1961)
• Advise and Consent (1962)
• The L-Shaped Room (1962)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
• The Music Man (1962)
• The Cardinal (1963)
• Lilies of the Field (1963)
• The Man from the Diner's Club (1963)
• Fail-Safe (1964)
• Goldfinger (1964)
• My Fair Lady (1964)
• Seven Days in May (1964)
• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
• Khartoum (1966)
• A Man For All Seasons (1966)
• In Cold Blood (1967)
• In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• War and Peace (Bondarchuk 1967 nine-hour version)
• Decline and Fall (1968)
• Funny Girl (1968)
• If... (1968)
• The Odd Couple (1968)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Hello, Dolly! (1969)
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
• Women in Love (1969)
• Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
• Brother John (1971)
• The Go-Between (1971)
• Little Murders (1971)
• The Star-Spangled Girl (1971)
• Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
• Avanti! (1972)
• Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
• Pink Flamingos (1972) - this rates a mention purely because it is absolutely the vilest movie ever made
• Sleuth (1972)
• What's Up, Doc? (1972)
• Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Chinatown (1974)
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• Dersu Uzala (1975)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
• Network (1976)
• Obsession (1976)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Equus (1977)
• High Anxiety (1977)
• The Boys from Brazil (1978)
• The Deerhunter (1978)
• 1941 (1979)
• ...And Justice for All (film) (1979)
• Breaking Away (1979)
• Manhattan (1979)
• Москва слезам не верит - Moscow Does not Believe in Tears (1979)
• My Brilliant Career (1979)
• The Blues Brothers (1980)
• Breaker Morant (1980)
• Gandhi (1982)
• The Money Pit (1986)
• Bagdad Cafe (1987)
• Cry Freedom (1987)
• Dead Poets Society (1989)
• The War of the Roses (1989)
• Awakenings (1990)
• Howards End (1992)
• My Cousin Vinny (1992)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
• Priest (1994)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• Fargo (1996)
• Secrets & Lies (1996)
• Shine (1996)
• The Spitfire Grill (1996)
• Mrs Brown (1997)
• The Wings of the Dove (1997)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (1998)
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
• The Pianist (2002)
• Sideways (2004)
• Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

[edit] Never-seen films - yet

Some celebrated films that I have still never seen:

• La Grande Illusion (1937)
• Night Must Fall (1937)
• Jezebel (1938)
• Stagecoach {1939)
• The Corsican Brothers (1941) [1]
• Kings Row (1942)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
• Cabin in the Sky (1943)
• Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
• Journey Into Fear (1943)
• Henry V (1944)
• Laura (1944)
• The Lost Weekend (1945)
• Brighton Rock (1947)
• Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
• All the King's Men (1949)
• La Ronde (1950)
• The Quiet Man (1952)
• Trent's Last Case (1952)
• The Beggar's Opera (1953)
• A Star is Born (1954)
• I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
• Lust For Life (1956)
• The Good Companions (1957)
• The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
• Ten North Frederick (1958) [2]
• BUtterfield 8 (1960)
• Jules et Jim (1962)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962; the 2004 remake wasn't bad, but not a classic film)
• The Trial (1962)
• Tom Jones (1963)
• Chimes at Midnight (1965)
• The Collector (1965)
• Ship of Fools (1965)
• I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
• The Bed-Sitting Room (1969)
• The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
• The Twelve Chairs (1970)
• The Last Picture Show (1971)
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
• Nashville (1975)
• Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
• The Magician of Lublin (1979)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Danton (1983)
• The Dresser (1983)
• Wagner (1983)
• Memed, My Hawk (1984)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• Under the Volcano (1984)
• Wings of Desire (1987)
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1988)
• Camille Claudel (1988)
• Glory (1989)
• Billy Bathgate (1991)
• Death in Brunswick (1991)
• The Crying Game (1992)
• Ed Wood (1994)
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)