Your Favorite Movies

Last month I asked you on my Facebook page to list your favorite movies.  I requested that you tell me the titles and in return, I’d categorize those titles and present them as a future blog post; a neatly organized list of movies to watch.  As promised, for your viewing pleasure over the next few long, dark months of winter, your favorite movies:

Action/Adventure

The African Queen

Agnes of God

James Bond Films (with Daniel Craig)

Kill Bill (all volumes)

The Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day-Lewis)

Spy Game

Action Comedy

Bad Santa

Big Trouble in Little China

Little Miss Sunshine

Camp

Female Trouble

Jeffrey

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Comedy

Adventures of Priscilla

Airplane!

Auntie Mame

Blazing Saddles

Dazed & Confused

Death at a Funeral (British version)

Dinner for One

Friday

Ghostbusters

I Heart Huckabees

L.A. Story

Major Payne

Monty Python & the Holy Grail

My Cousin Vinny

Queen of the Desert

What About Bob?

Young Frankenstein

Crime Drama

Bandits

The Bourne trilogy

Goodfellas

The Italian Job

Jackie Brown

M

On the Waterfront

Pulp Fiction

Scarface

The Sting

Thelma and Louise

Drama

12 Angry Men

Amadeus

The Apostle

The Breakfast Club

Fearless

Getting Married in Buffalo Jump

Good Will Hunting

Grapes of Wrath

High Fidelity

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Lost in Translation

Mildred Pierce (with Joan Crawford)

Phenomenon

Pride & Prejudice (the 2005 version with Keira Knightley)

A River Runs Through It

Sling Blade

The Station Agent

Steel Magnolias

Tree of Life

Wit

Family

A Christmas Story

The Chronicles of Narnia series

Dennis the Menace

The King and I

The Lion King

Mr. Bean’s Holiday

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure

The Princess Bride

The Wizard of Oz

Feel Good

The Bells of St. Mary’s

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

The Cowboys

Dirty Dancing

Footloose

Gremlins

Groundhog Day

It’s a Wonderful Life

Little Women (the June Allyson version)

The Man from Snowy River

Moonstruck

An Officer and a Gentleman

True Grit (the John Wayne version)

Twister

When Harry Met Sally

White Christmas

Foreign Language (various genres)

Diva

Le Boucher (with Stephanie Audran)

C’est arrivé près de chez vous (Man Bites Dog)

Cinema Paradiso

Farewell My Concubine

Goodbye Lenin

I’ve Loved You So Long

Jule et Jim (French film about a ménage a trois)

The Lives of Others

Il Postino

Tampopo (Japanese w subtitles)

Fantasy

City Of Angels

Harry Potter series

Harvey

Lord of the Rings Trilogy

What Dreams May Come

Scrooged

History/ Biography

13 Days

All the President’s Men

Apollo 13

Grey Gardens (watch the Maysles 1975 documentary, then the remake with Drew Barrymore)

Lawrence of Arabia

Queen Christina

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Horror

John Carpenter’s The Thing

Night of the Creeps

Offscreen

Any and all Hitchcock

Musical

Chicago

Singin’ in the Rain

Romantic Comedy

Adam’s Rib

All of Me (Lily Tomlin)

As Good As It Gets

The American President

Bridget Jones’s Diary

Cocoon

The Devil Wears Prada

Home for the Holidays

It’s Complicated

Love, Actually

Modern Times

Murphy’s Romance

On the Town

The Philadelphia Story

When Harry Met Sally

Science Fiction

The Matrix

Serenity

V for Vendetta

Sport

Chariots of Fire

Saint Ralph

Seabiscuit

Tear Jerkers

Bridges of Madison County

Casablanca

The Color Purple

Dark Victory

Dead Poet’s Society

The Notebook

Now

Penny Serenade

Serendipity

Terms of Endearment

Voyager

A Walk to Remember

When a Man Loves a Woman

Western

Last of the Dogmen

Support Your Local Sheriff

Tombstone

The Unforgiven

Other…

All on Jane Austen’s books

Any adaptation of a Shakespeare play

Any Buster Keaton classics

Any Tennessee Williams play on film

Anything by Akira Kurosawa

If you’ve come up with other suggestions, please leave a comment in the section below.