Having just posted my Desert Island playlist, I started thinking about my top films. I have nearly 400 DVDs, so picking just 8 was difficult. Even then there is one film missing from my collection.

Shakespeare in Love
Dirty Dancing
Avatar
The Hill
The Cruel Sea
Jungle Book
Ice Age
The Blues Brothers

Ok, mine would be........

( I change my mind alot and could do with far more than 8...though the top 4 never change)

Dangerous Liaisons clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7kwcIImGM8

The Lover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR7pdm5cuQE

Damage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPTSfuwzlTY

In Bruges
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE9edjEDCI

The Full Monty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_n7ugovApo

Something About Mary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzRuKnb2uuY

Shrek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yDF67SQyFs

Muppets Christmas Carol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJv7rNkkKtg



This post was edited by Deleted Member at March 1, 2013 5:52 PM GMT

My tastes change but I am still a sucker for a good plot and storyline where emotions are shown and you get involved as a viewer. I have tried to pick 8 movies that still linger in the mind, so most of my choices are from ages ago - but the quality in them all is still there in my view.

A Man and a Woman, with Anouk Aimee and Jean Louis Trintignant. An evocative love story (in French Un homme et une Femme) which tugs at the heart strings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_and_a_Woman

The Birds starring Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor. I first saw this Hitchcock movie in London in the early 1970s...and on leaving the cinema in Shepherds Bush we ran to the car.....there were rows of birds perched along the tops of the buildings....scary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)

Bullitt - Steve McQueen. Released early 70s, the first movie with a car chase. McQueen was the cool guy....and as well as the famous car chase in San Francisco there is a tight plot and Robert Vaughan, Jacqueline Bisser and other actors giving good performances
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullitt


A River runs through it, directed by Robert Redford and starring Brad Pitt...to me the mantle of screen heartthrob was passed from one to the other. Great acting also from Craig Sheffer, Tom Skerrit and Brenda Blethyn.....and a moving storyline about fishing...

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. Newman and Redford and Katherine Ross in a marvellous movie - with funny moments, pathos and action
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid

The Thomas Crown Affair - both versions though I prefer the original with McQueen and Dunaway - a movie of its time where lust is implied in teh cognac drinking scene

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thomas_Crown_Affair_(1968_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thomas_Crown_Affair_(1999_film)

The Star Wars Trilogy (Episodes IV - VI) George Lucas takes us into his Sci Fi world and influenced many of us wuth Darth Vader as teh ultimate baddie and makes a star out of Harrison Ford.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars

Get Carter - Best ever English gangster movie with Michael Caine in top form with an excellent cast including Ian Hendry and John Osbourne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Carter

I could have picked 8 from other decades - most of my choices are 1970s, though I saw Man and a Woman for the first time in the '70s, which I think was a golden age of movie making. It would be great to make 8 choices from different decades. I would add Blow Up from the 70s, or Midnight Cowboy if I could pick 2 more. And dont forget The Godfather Trilogy or the wonderful Russian made War & Peace which was 8 hours long...or La Cage aux Folles in French.

Pauline xxx

Thanks for creating this thread Josephine. Like you I have massive DID collection, even bigger than my shoe collection, so it is big. Narrowing it down to just eight will be difficult. Well done for including The Hill in your list. It's a sadly overlooked classic and in my opinion probably Sean Connery's best film x

great films i have over 400 films myself so it would be hard to pick 8 love juile xxxx

I have a couple of thousand films, if I was limited to just 8 then at the moment that would be:

The Big Chill
Local Hero
The Bad and The Beautiful
Moon
Josie & The Pussycats
An American Werewolf in London
Princess Bride
In Bruges

an Interesting idea. I dont have that many films, but my eight would be, in no particular order

Life of Brian
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Brazil
The Lord of the Rings (can I have that as one?)
Shrek
Back To The Future (I will stick to the first one)
The Commitments
The Time Bandits