# Share Favorite Movies -- We'll Suggest Others **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852 "2004-03-28T03:21:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/1 "2004-03-28T03:21:38Z")
Tell us four of your favorite movies and any of us should feel free to make one or two suggestions for further viewing based on your list. If you make more than one list, please put it in a separate post. Some of my favorites are: _Doctor Zhivago Amelie Room with A View Frida_ Are there kindred spirits out there? ---
**Author:** ![JayElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@JayElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayElle)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/2 "2004-03-28T04:33:49Z")
I’m with you **Zoe** on _Amelie_. Also, _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ _Monty Python’s The Holy Grail_ _My Fair Lady_ ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/3 "2004-03-28T04:37:15Z")
The Big Lebowski The Usual Suspects Snatch Fight Club Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Lost in Translation Fargo Being John Malkovich Eraserhead Miller’s Crossing Pulp Fiction Memento ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/4 "2004-03-28T05:22:49Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > Tell us four of your favorite movies and any of us should feel free to make one or two suggestions for further viewing based on your list. If you make more than one list, please put it in a separate post. > > Some of my favorites are: > > _Doctor Zhivago > Amelie > Room with A View > Frida_ > > Are there kindred spirits out there? Zoe, I’ll recommend these, based on your list: _Doctor Zhivago_ suggests: [ul]_Lawrence of Arabia_ [li]_Return of the King_[/li][li]_Intolerance_[/ul]Hmm. _Amelie_:[/li][ul]_Truly, Madly, Deeply_ [li]_The Awful Truth_[/li][/ul] Room with a View: [ul]_House of Mirth_ [li]_Howard’s End_[/li][li]_Emma_[/li][/ul] Haven’t seen \*Frida \* yet, but I \*loved \* Basqiat, another painter biopic. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/5 "2004-03-28T05:54:21Z")
**Jayelle** , I was happy to discover that the restaurant where “Amelie” worked is not a movie set, but a real cafe in Montmarte – one block over and one block up for the Moulin Rouge. I hear busiess has improved! I’m going there for onion soup and a little daydreaming in April. I liked all of your recommendations. Since you like _Amelie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s_, and _My Fair Lady_, you might like _Charade, Funny Face, Two for the Road_, and the 1957 version of _Sabrina_. (I am such an Audrey Hepburn fan.) I think that you would like _Chocolat_ – the one with Juliette Binoche. Audrey Tautou (who played "Amelie) has a new movie on DVD called _Pretty Ugly Things_. It is quite different from her more famous role, but it shows that she is very, very good. And the movie is a good thriller. (The dress Audrey Heburn wore to the races in MFL is going to be up for sale. It is _smaller_ than a size zero. **Lessener** , you are right on target with _Lawrence, Howard’s End, Emma, House of Mirth, Truly Madly Deeply_. So I will check into _Intolerance_ and _The Awful Truth_. Thanks! If you liked these, you might also like _Wings of the Dove_, _Impromptu_ amd _Carrington_. **Gadfly** , Have you seen _The Zero Effect_? Perhaps _Dirty, Pretty Things_ too. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/6 "2004-03-28T06:20:51Z")
_Bringing up Baby Vertigo Nine to Five The Bridge on the River Kwai_ ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/7 "2004-03-28T06:42:14Z")
**Gadfly** , I loved all your movies except the two I haven’t seen (_Snatch_ and **Eraserhead** ). Some more of my favorites that may apply to you: Bottle Rocket Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas In America The Commitments State and Main High Fidelity I wouldn’t be surprised if you said you’ve already seen all these movies and hated them. 🙂 I think you’ve seen all the Coen brothers films, but see **Barton Fink** if you haven’t already. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/8 "2004-03-29T03:14:33Z")
> [@](#): > > **dalej42** : Bringing up Baby > Vertigo > Nine to Five > The Bridge on the River Kwai Versatile critter, aren’t you! I’ll have to take them individually. For _Bringing Up Baby_, I would recommend _Holiday_. (I think that’s the name of it. I will double check. Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant from about the same time period. Try Grant’s _Arsenic and Old Lace_ too. _Vertigo_ is on my husband’s top five list and there is just nothing like it. You’ve probably seen it already, but I think the other Hitchcock that vies for primo honors is _Rear Window_. It also stars James Stewart. (BTW, I have a photograph of my great-grandmother from the mid-Nineteenth Century wearing a pair of earrings – and I have the earrings. I’ve always wanted to do a sort of Carlotta/Madelyn/Kim Novak thing with a portrait.) _Nine to Five_ – So much depends of the reasons that you like that movie. I like movies about women and find _Strangers in Good Company_ fascinating. It’s not upbeat the same way that _9 to 5_ is however. Another hilarious office movie is _Office Space_. Be sure it is the one from four or five years ago. There is one older than that. _Bridge on the River Kwai_ – You might like another David Lean film called _A Passage to India_, but I’ll bet that you would like _Cool Hand Luke_ more. There is another about a women’s prison camp in the Phillipines during WWII that is excellent. Does anyone remember the title? I’m off to IMDB to see if I can find it. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/9 "2004-03-29T03:28:39Z")
I suppose a movie set in the Phillipines was in error. The one I was thinking of was a TV series _A Town Like Alice_. It may be out on tape or DVD. It is set in a Japanese prison camp for women in Malaya in 1941. There is another that I had forgotten about that is similar, but also good. _Paradise Road_ is set in Sumatra and is about a female prisoner-of-war choir. I miss knowing that Sir Alec is still making movies. ---
**Author:** ![Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phedre_no_Delaunay)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/10 "2004-03-29T15:01:47Z")
\*Sophie’s Choice Steel Magnolias GiGi My Fair Lady LoTR \*(all of them) _The Hunt for Red October Bram Stoker’s Dracula_ (shut up, I just like it.) _The Last of the Mohicans_ ---
**Author:** ![cichlidiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cichlidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cichlidiot)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/11 "2004-03-29T15:03:29Z")
Difficult to narrow it down to four, but these would be some of my favorites: _North By Northwest_ - classic & Cary Grant! _Little Man Tate_ - cathartic. _Nothing To Lose_ - funny, even if you don’t speak “jive”. _Awakenings_ or _The Shawshank Redemption_ - tear jerkers. Have you seen the more recent version of _Doctor Zhivago_, **Zoe**? It was on PBS not too long ago, I really enjoyed it. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/12 "2004-03-29T15:03:52Z")
Hmmm…four of my favorite movies… Casablanca Unforgiven The LOTR series (it’s really one movie, so…) Saving Private Ryan ---
**Author:** ![gyt\_fx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@gyt\_fx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gyt_fx)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/13 "2004-03-29T15:25:41Z")
My list is quite similar to **Gadfly’s** , except for the ones I havent seen: _Eraserhead_, _Fargo_, ans _Eternal Sunshine_(It’s JUST came out though…). In addition to those, I like: **12 Monkeys** **Reservoir Dogs** **The Way of the Gun** **Donnie Darko** ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/14 "2004-03-30T02:54:38Z")
> [@](#): > > **cichlidiot** : Have you seen the more recent version of Doctor Zhivago, Zoe? It was on PBS not too long ago… Just last week, in fact! Netflix has it on DVD. I was amazed to discovered that the woman playing Laura was 16-17 years old during the filming. It was well done considering the smaller budget. For your choices: _North By Northwest_ – _Notorious_, _To Catch a Thief_ and _“Suspicion”_ (All good Cary Grant films) There is also a fairly recent version of _Rebecca_ that was on PBS that you might like. I think it compares favorably with the original movie. It’s on DVD. _Little Man Tate_ – _Kramer vs. Kramer_ (And read _A Prayer for Owen Meany_!) _Nothing To Lose_ – I don’t know this one! (But some of my favorite “jive talking” movies are _Boys in the Hood_ and _Do the Right Thing_. I also confess to liking _Barbershop_. _Awakenings_ or _The Shawshank Redemption_ – These are tough. _Awakenings_ is a true story. The doctor’s real name is Oliver Sachs or Sacks. He did some documentaries for TV 2 or 3 years ago that were fascinating. There is another true story of a young woman who spent most of her life in a mental institution. It was a television movie called _Nobody’s Child_ with Marlo Thomas. Keep an eye out for it. I don’t think it’s out on tape or DVD. Good performance by Thomas. If you have never seen _One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest_, I think that it relates in some ways to both of these films. (My grandmother was a victim of encephalitis and was in a coma. I’m not certain how long. She died in the 1930’s. A day or so before she died, she sat up in bed and sang a hymn. So _Awakenings_ is also of particular interest to me.) ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/15 "2004-03-30T03:27:36Z")
**Phèdre nó Delaunay** ’s movies: Sophie’s Choice Steel Magnolias GiGi My Fair Lady LoTR (all of them) The Hunt for Red October Bram Stoker’s Dracula (shut up, I just like it.) The Last of the Mohicans (I think that Meryl Streep’s performance in _Sophie’s Choice_ is the best on film, bar none.) _The Hunt for Red October_ – See the German film _Das Boot_ (The Boat). Believe me, you will forget that it has subtitles. Incredible suspense and also set on a submarine. _Gigi_ and _My Fair Lady_ – Nothing quite captures the elegance of these two musicals. But you might like _The Umbrellas of Cherbourg_ from the 1960’s. It is a French love story – and sung discreetly (no big productions) all the way through. Very tender. The ones that I recommended for MFL earlier in the thread should be considered. Another Leslie Caron musical set in France is the glorious _An American in Paris_. Try the original _Dracula_ with Bela Lugosi. It seems a little campy now, it’s still a classic. My favorite version of Dracula is the film from 1979 with Peter Langella in the title role. _The Last of the Mohicans_ – I can’t come up with a movie right off the bat, but I think you might like readying _The Tracker_ by Tom Brown, wilderness guide. Since you seem not to mind movies that could earn the description _saga_, be sure that you have seen _Dances with Wolves_ and _Doctor Zhivago_. If you like _Steel Magnolias_, try the previously mentioned _Nine to Five_. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/16 "2004-03-30T03:47:19Z")
**RikWriter** – Casablanca – There IS nothing to compare with it. But another Bogart movie with clever dialogue – and sometimes shown as a double feature with _Casablanca_ – is _The Maltese Falcon_ Unforgiven – Consider the original series _Lonesome Dove_. (Not the regular television series, but shown on television. It is one of the best tellings of a Western story that I can think of. _Tombstone_ is another. So much depends of why you like _Unforgiven_. If you are ever in the mood for a rather unusual Western, try _Silverado._ It is not as intense, however. But really entertaining. The LOTR series (it’s really one movie, so…) – And it is one of a kind – Or should I say “three of a kind”? I don’t think there’s ever been anything nearly like it as carefully done on such a grand scale – and with such meaning. (And I’m not even a fan!) Saving Private Ryan – In my opinion, the best war film ever made was _Apocalypse Now_. Others found _Platoon_ more moving. If it is World War II that particularly interests you, I highly recommend the television series _Band of Brothers._ It is based on true stories of the 101st Airborne who jumped behind enemy lines during the invasion of Normandy. Some of these men are still living. It’s available on DVD and the extras are also superb. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/17 "2004-03-30T03:51:40Z")
**gyt\_fx** : 12 Monkeys Reservoir Dogs The Way of the Gun Donnie Darko I have seen _12 Monkeys_ and _Reservoir Dogs_, but it has been so long that I can’t remember much about them. Generally, they were not my cup of tea. But if you haven’t seen _Fight Club_, I think you might want to. The other two I am unfamiliar with. Sorry that I can’t be of more help! Maybe someone else can make suggestions! ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/18 "2004-03-30T03:55:39Z")
**Lisa-go-blind** , I am at such a loss with your list! I have seen only _The Committments_. But oh, was it goo! (I have the soundtrack.) I was told that the male lead singer was only fourteen when he made the film. How can that be so? I hope that someone has suggestions for you. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/19 "2004-03-30T03:57:36Z")
At this point I will have to admit that this task is more difficult than I thought it would be. If others want to contribute suggestions, please do. But I’ve run out of steam… Thanks, all! ---
**Author:** ![Parkerz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Parkerz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parkerz)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852/20 "2004-03-30T04:16:09Z")
Some recent ones… I love Sam and Beautiful Mind [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-favorite-movies-well-suggest-others/236852.md?page=2)