Only 5? That’s tough.
My list varies a bit from time to time but all of these remain at the top of the list:
Star Wars(ESB, ROTJ, ANH, AOTC, TPM, in that order)
LOTR
Wizard of Oz
American Beauty
The Sound of Music
Honorable mentions: E.T. , Jaws, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Beauty and the Beast(Disney), Spiderman, Batman, Ever After, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spaceballs, Planet of the Apes(the original), King Kong, and so many more that I’m forgetting.
The Shawshank Redemption
Requiem for a Dream
Full Metal Jacket
Bringing out the Dead
28 Days Later
Me, I have yet to see a film by them that I’ve liked. Anyway mine are:
My list varies wildly from day to day, but these are movies I could happily pop into my VCR right now:
The Best of Everything (1959)
Female Trouble (1974)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Three-Cornered Moon (1933)
Intolerance (1916)
Kind of, ummm, “eclectic,” now that I look at it . . .
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Amadeus
Full Metal Jackets
Big Lebowski
Honable Mention: The Empire Strikes Back
The Rocketeer
Cold Comfort Farm
Galaxy Quest
Lone Star
King Kong
Runners-up:
Ikiru
The Road Warrior
Rocketship X-M
The Three Musketeers/Four Musketeers (Richard Lester version)
Kiki’s Delivery service
I almost thought of submitting this list:
The Rocketeer
Rocketship X-M
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
Rocky
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
–but thought better of it… 
Heat
Goodfellas
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Heat
Goodfellas
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Stahl’s version. Is there another?
Eve
What a wonderful choice! :eek:
It was one of the films selected for my 50 most important Hollywood films list.
In no particular order:
The Oxbow Incident
Treasure of The Sierra Madre
Unforgiven
Lost In Translation
A Midnight Clear