# Five Perfect Movies
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** movies
**Created:** [September 1, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586 "2024-09-01T22:00:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/181 "2026-05-06T16:39:55Z")
The Maltese Falcon
Amadeus
Clue
All perfect due to the cast and dialogue.
The Green Knight - the perfect movie for me. The first time I saw it I wondered who got inside my head to see what I liked the most and put it on the screen.
I had a fifth one but I can’t remember it right now.
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### Author:  [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/182 "2026-05-06T17:31:20Z")
Blade Runner (Final Cut)
Fargo
The Grey Fox
Harvey
The Secret In Their Eyes (the original 2009 Argentine film)
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/183 "2026-05-06T20:21:12Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> The original title means “The Sky over Berlin”, so why didn’t they take this?
This sounds like a war flick to me, something I wouldn’t want to show a girlfriend to get her “in the mood.”
I once got laid after watching an Austin Powers movie on a first date. (Sadly, I don’t remember which one.) On another occasion, the British sitcom _ **The Thin Blue Line** _ did the trick (so to speak). 😉
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/184 "2026-05-06T20:24:42Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> This sounds like a war flick to me, something I wouldn’t want to show a girlfriend to get her “in the mood.”
Ahem, “Wings Of Desire” isn’t also exactly a “get laid to” movie. Yeah, love, human love is a main subject, but it’s not quite a romantic movie, but rather a sentimental one.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/185 "2026-05-06T20:27:05Z")
My five perfect movies:
_ **Casablanca** _
_ **American Graffiti** _
_ **Double Indemnity** _
_ **The Apartment** _
_ **Some Like It Hot** _
So many others, but these were the first that came to mind.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/186 "2026-05-06T20:29:27Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> “Wings Of Desire” isn’t also exactly a “get laid to” movie.
So long as it isn’t a war flick, I’d put it on the program.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/187 "2026-05-06T20:51:42Z")
If we’re talking about “feel-good” movies for creating a romantic mood, I’m going to substitute Emma Thompson’s _ **Sense and Sensibility** _ for _ **Double Indemnity** _. I used to show it to my EFL students every year around the March 8 holiday (International Womens’ Day).
I love _ **Double Indemnity** _, but a watching a brutal murder is hardly the way to start a close relationship.
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/188 "2026-05-06T21:03:42Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> > [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> > “Wings Of Desire” isn’t also exactly a “get laid to” movie.
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> So long as it isn’t a war flick, I’d put it on the program.
What’s funny is that although the film is not a war flick, it touches on WWII, as parts of it (and parts of the film within a film) were shot in a war ruin in which was West Berlin.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/189 "2026-05-06T21:20:19Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> What’s funny is that although the film is not a war flick, it touches on WWII, as parts of it (and parts of the film within a film) were shot in a war ruin in which was West Berlin.
I see it’s available on-line for free, _and_ Peter Falk is in it! I’ll definitely give it a shot when I have two hours to kill. 👍
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/190 "2026-05-08T19:03:37Z")
I remembered what my fifth movie is: _Dangerous Liasons_. John Malkovich was born to play Valmont.
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### Author:  [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2026, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-perfect-movies/1006586/191 "2026-05-09T00:27:52Z")
> [@rippingtons\_fan](#):
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> **Sahara** (Starring Humphrey Bogart)
This gets my vote for being the only film I know of that features a typesetter, and discusses his work.
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