Anyone have really great movie suggestions?

[ProgressCity]

I'm looking for some movies that were really great. Not just good movies, but great movies, the kind you'd get excited about watching again.

I'd prefer suggestions that are already on DVD. I'm looking to expand my Netflix que and I'm in the mood for something that's more than just entertaining. Any genre is good, although if it's too scary I might not watch it .

 

[Kies99]

Shawshank Redemption

Can't tell you how many times I've watched the whole thing, let alone watched parts of it. If I'm flipping through the channels and this is on, I always end up watching it. It can only have 5 minutes left and I'll watch it.

 

[JohnsPrincess]

Mamma Mia is the newest one that I can think of. Watching it just makes me smile...I KNOW they must have had a BLAST making it.

The Strangers - know you said if it was too scary you might not watch it...but this is one of the best scary movies I've seen in a LONG time.

Singing in the Rain - LOVE that movie

The Princess Bride - Funny, Romantic, Action...my all time favorite - I can quote the whole thing along with it...

 

[happygirl]

I'm looking for some movies that were really great. Not just good movies, but great movies, the kind you'd get excited about watching again.

I'd prefer suggestions that are already on DVD. I'm looking to expand my Netflix que and I'm in the mood for something that's more than just entertaining. Any genre is good, although if it's too scary I might not watch it .

Forrest Gump
Green Mile
Fried Green Tomatoes
Big Fish
The Notebook
Steel Magnolis
Pretty Women
Penny Serenade
Wizard of Oz
Gone with Wind
12 angry men
Philidephia Story
Harvey
Arsenic and Lace

 

[ZephyrHawk]

I agree with a lot of those already listed, and may I add:

Schindler's List
The Godfather (Parts I and II)
Glory
Gettysburg
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

I generally try to watch these at least once a year.

 

[DisneyKing82]

Rocky 2
Back to the Future
The Last Samurai
Trading Places
Rounders
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

 

[clarabelle]

I really like "strictly ballroom" -it is kind of a chick flic though

 

[missypie]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Netflix has this in a 3 DVD set, but the original version is on the 1st DVD.

Dr. Zhivago

Parenthood (with Steve Martin)

Chicago

All that Jazz

 

[hulagirl87]

2 great recent ones are Terminator Salvation (I did not think I would like it at all and it was so good!) and Star Trek

I watched Corpse Bride last night. I love that movie.

 

[JessicaR]

Fight Club and Pulp Fiction would be on my list. The Usual Suspects, The Departed, Braveheart, Sin City, Fargo, Kill Bill, Twelve Monkeys are a few more!

I think I need to watch some of these again too.

 

[mill4023]

Fight Club and Pulp Fiction would be on my list. The Usual Suspects, The Departed, Braveheart, Sin City, Fargo, Kill Bill, Twelve Monkeys are a few more!

I think I need to watch some of these again too.

We share the same taste in movies. Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill are at the very top of my list.
I'll add a couple of my favorites.

Comedy:
The Hangover
Old School
Something About Mary

Drama:
Gran Torino

 

[barkley]

if you like longer historical ones-

patton
dr. zhivago
lawrence of arabia
cold mountain
trial at nuremburg

misc-

the matchmaker (with jeane garrafalo)-funny and sweet
waking ned devine-funny and sweet
raising arizona-wierd and funny
cider house rules-just a good movie
the women (the original not that mess of a remake)



if you like older movies, watch the originals that some of the recent remakes were based on (interesting to see how they've been changed/modernized)-

father of the bride
cheaper by the dozen.


the one movie i tend to watch any time it's on just because i think it's very funny and the individual performances are great is '28 days' with sandra bullock.

 

[7beasley]

"Return to Me" -- its about 10 years old - its with David Duchovany and Minnie Driver. My all time favorite "chick flick"

 

[merekc]

the matchmaker (with jeane garrafalo)-funny and sweet
waking ned devine-funny and sweet
raising arizona-wierd and funny

I was just about to get on and say the Matchmaker. I sit down and watch it every time it is on TV.
I like the next two as well.

Others, while they may not all be considered great, they are all ones I always enjoy watching.

Some Like it Hot
While you were sleeping
Romancing the Stone
Fish Called Wanda
Steal Big, Steal Little
The Mighty Quinn
Shaun of the Dead - I hate anything that even thinks about being a scary movie, but this one was pretty funny. I've actually watched it more than once...and I might have a little crush on Simon Pegg.
Galaxy Quest
Doris Day romances - Pillow Talk, Thrill of it All, Move over Darling, Touch of Mink
Red Dawn
Grosse Point Blank

 

[Jennasis]

Shawshank Redemption
Jaws
Aliens
12 Angry Men
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Iron Man
Star Trek

 

[Golf4food]

All things I'm sure you can get from Netflix, and trying to not duplicate too many of the others listed with a few exceptions:

Shawshank Redemption - epic

Glory - not entirely historically accurate, but still one of the best war movies ever made

Braveheart - see comments for Glory but subtract a few hundred years

Joyeaux Noel (Merry Christmas) - WWI movie but not really a war movie as much as a
human movie - about an unofficial cease fire between troops on the line for Christmas in 1914, very well done

Princess Bride - is a classic

Robin Hood: Men in Tights - best satire comedy ever made

O Brother Where Art Thou - gets funnier every time we watch it, a lot of subtle humor

Traitor - one of our favorite and best done pure action flicks

Band of Brothers - ok, so not a movie but a mini-series, but may be the single greatest and most well done telling of something like this - follows company "E" of the 506th parachute infantry regiment of the US Army from D-Day to the end of WWII and is just so incredibly well done in every possible way it is almost unbelievable. If you saw Saving Private Ryan and thought it was good, watch BOB and then SPR will seem like a second rate movie afterwards, it is that much better. Should be required viewing for all Americans.

The Green Mile - would never guess it is Stephen King

The Notebook - bring tissues

Firefly (the TV series) and Serenity (the movie) - curse you Fox and your sudden but inevitable betrayal! A Western set in space - no aliens, just humans (and horses!) that was so well done the people at Fox who decided to cancel it after four episodes should all be strung up on a tree at high noon. (I don't like Westerns and am not a huge Sci-Fi fan but Firefly is just amazing, and so is Serenity, but watch Firefly first)


Anaconda - just making sure you are still paying attention

 

[missypie]

Don't forget:

Animal House

Stripes

Ghostbusters

Great holiday favorite: Meet Me in St. Louis

 

[mill4023]

Band of Brothers - ok, so not a movie but a mini-series, but may be the single greatest and most well done telling of something like this - follows company "E" of the 506th parachute infantry regiment of the US Army from D-Day to the end of WWII and is just so incredibly well done in every possible way it is almost unbelievable. If you saw Saving Private Ryan and thought it was good, watch BOB and then SPR will seem like a second rate movie afterwards, it is that much better. Should be required viewing for all Americans.

This deserves being repeated. Band of Brothers is the best work that's ever been put on film.

Also,
If you're into action/spy movies, the whole Bourne series is outstanding.

Some other misc. great movies
Leaving Normal
American History X - very heavy
Requiem for a Dream - also very heavy and pretty depressing
Aliens
Blade Runner
Platoon
Terminator (only the first one)
Stand By Me
The Shining (probably too scary for you. )
Forrest Gump
Silence of the Lambs
Blood Diamond
Donnie Darko
Hotel Rwanda
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
American Beauty
Little Miss Sunshine
Goodfellas
Schindler's List

 

[krcit]

I agree with a lot of these.

I would add:

Mystic River

Crash

 

[donald...really]

I'm adding movies you might have missed. Most aren't main stream movies, but they're movies I loved.

The Orphanage (spanish with subtitles. my new FAVORITE movie. Even if you don't like scary movies (it's not that scary) SEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Kinky Boots

Downfall

You can count on me

The Station Agent

Pieces of April

Outsourced (LOVED LOVED LOVED this little movie)

Once

Lost in Austen (miniseries from brittain. LOVED it)

Flirting with Disaster

Little Manhattan (SWEET SWEET film)

The Secret Garden (from 1993)

The Staircase (AMAZING true crime mini series. SO MANY twists and turns)

The Darjeeling Limited

The Savages

Into the Wild

Paper Clips (amazing and touching documentary)

OT: Our Town (amazing and touching documentary)

The Closet

December Boys

Harold and Maude (all time favorite)

Loggerheads

Notes on a Scandal

Shirley Valentine

Happy, Texas

Garden State

The Player

Memento

Amelie

Searching for Bobby Fischer