My favorite: "The Deer Hunter"- Robert De Niro is brilliant and captures the emotion and mood of America at the time.

Having been in Vietnam as a young soldier and watching it depicted in this movie is sometimes difficult to watch because it brings back memories that are difficult to deal with.

A close second: Apocalypse Now- how true it is- Best Line: " There was so much bullshit in Vietnam, the only way to get above it was to sprout wings."

Lonesome Dove, -(mini series).Incredible cast,incredible story,fantastic authenticity of the time,extremely close to the book..Duvall Tommy Lee Jones ,etc.

IMO the

best western ever made

Hombre- The dialogue! Newmans delivery.The dialogue!!

How Green Was My Valley-John Ford masterpiece

Between Heaven And Earth- Oliver Stones lesser known film..The film was based on the books When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace, which Le Ly Hayslip wrote about her experiences during and after the Vietnam War.

Spectacular cinematography. Hiep Thi Le is absolutely beautiful and endearing as Le Ly.

Angels With Dirty Faces- JAMES CAGNEY..

ZULU - for the time (1963) it treated Zulus realistically, and not as a bunch of wild savages, and told a very good story well.

Zulu, so long ago I forgot about it. Breaker Morant was worth a watch as well.

1)Wise Guy's,Deniro at his best.

2) The last Samurai,the best thing Tom Cruise ever did.

3) My left foot

4) Rounders,Edward Norton,brilliant.

5) Raging Bull,once again Deniro.

6) Dracula,A great interpretation of Stokers novel.Oldman Stole the film.Although the Harker character's English accent was piss poor.

7) last of the Mohicans,Wes Studie was magnificent as the Huron Magya.

8)Pulp Fiction,a flabby Tavolta come back(brilliant)

9) American Sniper.Sad ending though.

10) And Of course Zulu.Totally great and timeless,a movie of ultimate British courage against insurmountable odds.They should have all got the VC

11)The Billy Bob Thornton version.The Teneseeans were so laid back.American bravery against insurmountable odds.

Tttthhhatts Aall Ffolks.

Leaving las Vegas.

Im not a big fan of Mr Cage but he played this part well. good jazz soundtrack as well.

Apocalypto = excellent movie - I believe non speaking, letting the actors convey & carry the movie....

Which is outstandingly done....

Quadrophenia..... the soundtrack was the soundtrack to my teen angst.

Debbie does Dallas

Emanuelle

Good morning Vietnam

Saving private Ryan

And my all time best ever flick

The sound of music

Saving Private Ryan? Don't you mean Shaving Ryan's Privates? My pick for the funniest porn parody title of all time!

Foreskin Gump

The Exorcist. Brilliantly shot, acted, directed, produced and scripted. Untouchable in the modern era.

Carry On Up the Jungle, possibly the best of the series.

The Titfield Thunderbolt, School for Scoundrels, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Ladykillers, Passport to Pimlico, Whiskey Galore, The Ghost of St Michael's; all British Comedy classics, utterly inseparable, utterly untouchable. Peerless, timeless British comedies from a long gone Britain, full of post WWII optimism and hope. Truly things of beauty.

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Dr Strangelove - a dark subject and a film which both provokes serious reflection and delivers some of the most bizarre and humorous scenes -

and of course 3 incomparable performances from the late, great Peter Sellars. ('Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room')

Kes...

Life of Brian - loved the spoof on the BS that goes along with religion of any faith.

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very hard to name one film as so many over the years and within each generation.....following come to mind

The Terminator - at the time so far ahead of its genre in film making techniques and story line (that some believe is not far from the truth)

The Departed - star studded line up - Jack Nicholson at his snarling best, DiCaprio (rarely in a bad film), Baldwin, Ray Winston, Damon etc...

Leap of Faith - proper feelgood film, Steve Martin at his best, Liam Neeson, Debra Winger and Lolita Davidovich.... not a best seller and never really recognised at being up there

Deerhunter - F ing A

Unthinkable - Samuel L Jackson, Michael Sheen, Carrie-Anne Moss - this gets right to the heart of the matter and must have touched a nerve or two with people in the US Government as well as the population....released straight to video as I would imagine the subject matter would have caused riots in the US if released at the movie theatres

The Sting - nuff said

The Natural - had it all for a baseball movie

Eight Men Out - another baseball movie - based on fact - story of the scandal of the Chicago White Sox purposely losing the 1919 World

series

Blues Bros - original with John Belushi....

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Little Big Man - Dustin Hoffman - great movie....

Mr Holland's Opus - another great one....

The Babe (Babe Ruth) - the John Goodman portrayal of a sports figure of troubled greatness.....

Cobb (Ty Cobb) - along the same lines....But where The Babe was a sympathetic character Cobb was an arrogant toughened unsympathetic SOB until his dying day - portrayed brilliantly byTommy Lee Jones & Robert Wuhl as the hapless, helpless reporter held magnetically polarized by Cobb's persona....A man he both dispises, admires, and cares about at the same time....

To Hell and Back, Audie Murphy playing himself. Americas most decorated soldier in the 2nd world war.

Blade Runner.

The music and cinematography is outstanding.

one of someone's favourites clicked something in my brain about <deleted> was that film about.. so:-

Eraserhead was certainly one of those films.... after watching it several times I still scratch my head as to what it is about

Donnie Darko - ditto

I'm sure there are others but they are buried deep in the recesses of my mind (hopefully not to surface in the near future)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 film about a Chicago high school student who decides to take the day off from school with his girlfriend and his best friend, while creatively avoiding his school's dean of students, his resentful younger sister, and his parents.

Deuce Bigalow (Rob Schneider) is a less than attractive, down on his luck aquarium cleaner. One day he wrecks the house of a gigolo and needs quick money to repair it. The only way he can make it is to become a gigolo himself, taking on an unusual mix of female clients. He encounters a couple of problems, though. He falls in love with one of his unusual clients, and a sleazy police officer is hot on his trail.

You must be a teacher, your question looks like something

out of a school exam question, so the answer is, stuff you.

Almost all of the above, I have to agree with all the posters, their picks were certainly The Greats . But my most memorable was Burt Lancaster in "Go Tell the Spartans" a story about the first advisors in Vietnam in 1959.

The Dictator(2012)

Remind you of anyone?

Nights of the Nymphomania

Teenage Milkmaids

Beat Me Kick Me Rape Me Make Me Write Bad Checks

Other films are:
Young Frankenstein

Swept Away

Casablanca

Quakser Fortune has a Cousin Who Lives in the Bronx

1-2-3 (James Cagney)

The Russians are Coming

Magnificent Seven

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Rocky 1

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Dances With Wolves

Unforgiven

Field Of Dreams

The Great Escape

The Wizard Of Oz

M*A*S*H

Can't forget the king of cool Steve McQueen and "Bullitt", still the best car chase ever filmed In my opinion, all at actual speed and none of the new fangled CGI

The movies I consider to be the best: Tokyo Story (Ozu); Ali: Fear East the Soul (Fassbinder); Seven Samurai (Kurosawa); Fanny and Alexander (Bergman); The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo); The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer); Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata); Children of Paradise (Carne).

Two movies that do not belong in the above list, but are among my favourites: The Big Lebowski (Coen Bros.) and Travels With My Aunt (Cukor).

The most recent film that I scored at 4 stars out of 4: The Artist (Hazanavicius, 2011).

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I really enjoy watching Inception - the actors, the cinematogprahy and the music... but most of all the idea... its the idea itself which I find most imaginative and capturing.

One of the best scenes I've seen in a movie is the 'Quicksilver' scene in X-Men Days of Future Past - The creativity, the music and again the cinematography / special effects are incredible and combine to make an amazing and most memorable scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NnyVc8r2SM

Papillon - with Steve McQeen and Dustin Hoffman.

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Can't forget the king of cool Steve McQueen and "Bullitt", still the best car chase ever filmed In my opinion, all at actual speed and none of the new fangled CGI

Yeah Bullitt, one of the best car chase scenes evaaaaaa...

And the 1967 Mustang Fastback is sex on wheels