# What are your Top Five Tom Hanks Movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749 "2015-07-21T03:07:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/1 "2015-07-21T03:07:04Z")
Refer to [Highest Rated Feature Film Actor Titles With Tom Hanks](http://www.imdb.com/filmosearch?explore=title_type&role=nm0000158&ref_=filmo_ref_job_typ&sort=user_rating,desc&mode=detail&page=1&job_type=actor&title_type=movie) for a listing of some of Hanks’s movies. These are some of them: =========================== 1. Forrest Gump (1994) 2. Saving Private Ryan (1998) 3. The Green Mile (1999) 4. Toy Story 3 (2010) 5. Toy Story (1995) 6. Return with Honor (1998) 7. Catch Me If You Can (2002) 8. Captain Phillips (2013) 9. Toy Story 2 (1999) 10. Cast Away (2000) 11. Road to Perdition (2002) 12. Philadelphia (1993) 13. Apollo 13 (1995) 14. Cloud Atlas (2012) 15. Saving Mr. Banks (2013) 16. The Simpsons Movie (2007) 17. Big (1988) 18. The Terminal (2004) 19. Cars (2006) 20. A League of Their Own (1992) 21. Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) 22. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) 23. Radio Flyer (1992) 24. That Thing You Do! (1996) 25. Sleepless in Seattle (1993) 26. The 'Burbs (1989) 27. Angels & Demons (2009) 28. The Polar Express (2004) 29. The Da Vinci Code (2006) 30. You’ve Got Mail (1998) 31. The Great Buck Howard (2008) 32. Splash (1984) 33. The Ladykillers (2004) 34. Bachelor Party (1984) 35. The Money Pit (1986) 36. Larry Crowne (2011) 37. Turner & Hooch (1989) 38. Dragnet (1987) 39. Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986) 40. Nothing in Common (1986) 41. Punchline (1988) 42. Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) 43. The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) 44. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) 45. Volunteers (1985) 46. Elvis Has Left the Building (2004) 47. He Knows You’re Alone (1980) =========================== **Pick your own Top Five and post them here.** ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/2 "2015-07-21T03:13:19Z")
1. Toy Story 2. Toy Story 3 3. Splash 4. Saving Private Ryan 5. Road to Perdition ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/3 "2015-07-21T03:24:51Z")
Saving Private Ryan (1998) Captain Phillips (2013) Cast Away (2000) A League of Their Own (1992) Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) This was a tough one. I could have come up with at least a half-dozen more. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/4 "2015-07-21T06:17:51Z")
Cars??? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/5 "2015-07-21T06:27:02Z")
Tom Hanks’ taste in film and mine are widely divergent. On the other hand, his taste in film seems to work for the grand majority of everyone, so this might seem like a strange selection. Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) The Green Mile (1999) Dragnet (1987) Turner & Hooch (1989) The 'Burbs (1989) If you add in The Money Pit, that’s the entirety of his films that I like. (I’ve seen slightly greater than 50% of them.) ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/6 "2015-07-21T06:51:22Z")
Philadelphia Sleepless in Seattle Green Mile You’ve Got Mail Castaway Haven’t seen Perdition, Terminal or Captain Phillips though ---
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Tom Hanks - my favorite male actor. So versatile. Here are my top 10, in order: Apollo 13 (this one, I could watch every day for a week) Saving Private Ryan Forrest Gump A League of Their Own Big * * * Sleepless in Seattle Road to Perdition Saving Mr. Banks The Green Mile Toy Story ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/8 "2015-07-21T12:01:58Z")
Toy Story Toy Story 2 Saving Private Ryan Apollo 13 Joe Vs the Volcano ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/9 "2015-07-21T17:07:38Z")
Apollo 13 Big Cast Away The Green Mile The Road to Perdition Honorable Mention: The Toy Story series (terrific films, but they don’t really feel like ‘Tom Hanks movies’ to me, since they’re animated) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/10 "2015-07-21T20:52:54Z")
#1 by a mile: The Ladykillers (2004) followed by The Money Pit (1986) Big (1988) Philadelphia (1993) Apollo 13 (1995) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/11 "2015-07-21T20:57:08Z")
_**Apollo 13 Cast Away Saving Private Ryan You’ve Got Mail Toy Story 3**_ ---
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Forrest Gump (1994) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Apollo 13 (1995) The Polar Express (2004) The Money Pit (1986) The last two because TPE is a Christmas Tradition with my daughter, and TMP is the first film (of hundreds, thousands) that I saw with my wife. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/13 "2015-07-21T21:43:42Z")
1. Forrest Gump (1994) 2. The Terminal (2004) 3. A League of Their Own (1992) 4. The 'Burbs (1989) 5. The Da Vinci Code (2006) ---
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1. Forrest Gump (1994) 2. Saving Private Ryan (1998) 3. The Green Mile (1999) 4. Philadelphia (1993) 5. A League of Their Own (1992) ---
**Author:** ![Reads\_a\_Lot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9a28c/32.png) [@Reads\_a\_Lot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reads_a_Lot)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/15 "2015-07-21T23:20:59Z")
Wow…hard to choose Saving Private Ryan Big Forrest Gump Philadelphia Castaway ---
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Saving Private Ryan Polar Express And after that I have to take a pass ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/17 "2015-07-22T03:25:48Z")
Forrest Gump Toy Story 3 Catch Me if You Can A League of their Own Saving Private Ryan ---
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Big Charlie Wilson’s War That Thing You Do Splash Joe Versus the Volcano ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-tom-hanks-movies/725749/19 "2015-07-23T00:27:16Z")
Catch Me If You Can (2002) Captain Phillips (2013) Apollo 13 (1995) A League of Their Own (1992) That Thing You Do! (1996) ---
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