I am a movie maniac. Independent films are what help me breath. What are some of your favorite movies. Any of them actually move you or change the way you think? Maybe they just give you a great chuckle. Share with everone, maybe we can all end up finding new films we love. some of mine are

Hedwig and the angry inch

Breakfast on Pluto

On the edge

velvet goldmine

party monster

intermission

I have so many movies that my nieces and nephew call me Aunt Blockbuster!

I have a hard time choosing only a few for a representative list:

A League Of Their Own

American Beauty

American Graffiti

Apollo 13

Big Fish

Bull Durham

Circle of Friends

Dangerous Liasons

Doctor Zhivago

Enter The Dragon

Frankenhooker

Gone With The Wind

OK, enough with the alphatetical order! lol

Lawrence of Arabia

A Night At The Opera

Pulp Fiction

Strictly Ballroom

The Breakfast Club

Forrest Gump

All Rogers and Hammerstein musicals - all of them

MOULIN ROUGE !!!!!!

Grease

OK, all musicals

Star Wars - the original three, even though only two of them were good!

Legends of the Fall

Shakespeare In Love

Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind

The Joy Luck Club

The Life of Brian

Parenthood

The Seven Year Itch

When Harry Met Sally

Sleepless In Seattle

Roger Rabbit

Erin Brockovich

I'll save mini-series for another post! I mean who can say they've appreciated an epic story until they've seen 'I Claudius' ?

OK, I'm done. Not really but . . .

One of my all-time favorites is The Usual Suspects with Kevin Spacey. If you like who-done-it type, this one keeps you guessing. I am a HUGE fan of M. Night Shyamalan....The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village.

I also enjoyed these to name a few:

Spy Game

Enemy of the State

Pay It Forward

Mystic River

Fools Rush In

Meet the Parents

Son-In-Law

I loved the usual suspect. Great film, he was great in it. M.night is a good director. I liked unbreakable, sixth sense and the village. I am slightly interested in his new movie.

What about Forrest Gump? I think that movie was probably the best in every way. It deals with so many issues and so many trials, all wrapped up in a package of simpleness and sincerity!!! Now, where's that DVD?

Man, I am a movie lover - I have seen sooo many and repeat the ones I like over and over...it drives my hubby MAD!!!

BTW, I have a bunch of movies to add to my ever-growning Netflix Queue...thanks bunches!

~cheri

I think my favorite Kevin Spacy movie ever is American Beauty. sigh. Something about that movie....I tried to watch it the other night when this thread started, and my old VHS copy was all messed up! Grrr!

I just watched a new movie called LolliLove the other night, it was made by the girl who plays Pam on the Office...Jenna something, anyway...it was quite funny. Well, if you like wierd mockumentries.

American beauty was a great film. I saw it in the theater. He truely pulled off that dirty daddy character. The ending was so intense. When you see a movie that starts out as one thing and everything comes together at the end just to throw u a kick like that ending can shake you. Great Film. How about Say Anything? I really loved that film when I was a kid and still do. The scene with the boom box. Wow! It always makes me love John Cusak more than I already do. Does anyone like Irish and British actors? Intermission is a great film. Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy are both in this film. I have to say, I love Independent films, and am a sucker for a great director.

Everything Kathy473 listed! I could go to the movies with you! I totally LOVE vampire movies. They are my all time fav. Blade is my hero. I really enjoyed Crash. I love Anthony Hopkins, he is one of my favorite actors, I loved him in The Edge. Johnny Depp is just total eye candy so I have to see whatever he does. Sling Blade is another I really like. I actaully really like Billybob Thorton, I think he is a great actor. Bad Santa is one of THE funniest off color movies I think I have ever watched....still cracks me up.

Has anyone seen Memento? That was an awesome film.

I loved American Beauty too, Kevin Spacey is a great actor.

The movies I can see over and over again:

Midnight Cowboy

Some Like It Hot

North by Northwest

The Big Lebowski

Biloxi Blues

La Cage Aux Folles

The Big Country

Those are the ones off the top of my head. I'm also a sucker for French cop movies.

Debra

I love Monroe. She is so beautiful and soft. Some like it hot is a trip. I also loved La Cage Aux Folles.