Topic: Favourite movies by theme

[surfeur51]

Just out of curiosity, do stop-motion animation films like Coraline and ParaNorman not fit into this category, or do they just not make the top ten?

Yes, stop-motion animation films are in this category. But there are so many good animated movies that it was very hard to choose only 10.

Also note that I have not watched all existing movies   , and some that are really great may not be in my lists, just because I've not seen them. This is true for quite all the themes, except James Bond movies and movies with Nicole Kidman, that I've all watched.

[GSyren]

But there are so many good animated movies that it was very hard to choose only 10.

Oh, I totally understand that! I have a very hard time making any favorite lists at all.

I really appreciate your lists. There are some films on them that I haven't seen. Some that I haven't even heard of, especially among the French films. The problem, of course, is that I don't speak French (apart from the most basic tourist French) so I'd have to find them with English or Swedish subtitles (or possibly English dubbed, but that doesn't seem very common). But I'll be looking.

[GSyren]

I just made a list of interesting titles based on your top ten lists. I found 45 movies that I need to investigate. Well, 43, actually, because I found that I already owned Un long dimanche de fiançailles under its English title, and it's been in my unwatched pile for nine years  . And La Vie d'Adèle is on my DVR as it was shown on Swedish television just the other day. So that's two French movies that I can check off as watched within the near future.

By the way, I found several movies named Volver, but I assume it's the one by Pedro Almodóvar that you mean?

[surfeur51]

]... but I assume it's the one by Pedro Almodovar that you mean?

Yes, and I'm very excited since I'll receive in a few days a boxset with 17 blu-rays of Almodovar, quite all his filmography. For most of them it will be the first release in blu-ray.

[surfeur51]

I really appreciate your lists.

And I appreciate your comments. I think it would also be interesting if other users gave similar lists, so that everybody can get ideas for movies he doesn't know yet.

[surfeur51]

Movies with John Wayne

01 - Rio Bravo


02 - True Grit


03 - Alamo


04 - The Longest Day


05 - Hatari


06 - McLintock !


07 - The Searchers


08 - Fort Apache


09 - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon


10 - Donovan's Reef

[GSyren]

Glad to see The Alamo high on your list. That's a favorite of mine. I saw it on my 14th birthday, and it just captured my imagination. I went back and saw it again two more times, and I read all I could find about the real battle at the Alamo. Much later in life I came to work for a San Antonio based company, Datapoint Corporation, and I got the opportunity to visit the company headquarters. This also allowed me to visit the real Alamo, nowadays located smack dab in the middle of San Antonio.

I do regret that at the time I wasn't aware that the movie set was still standing and open to the public in Brackettville, Texas. It's about 2 1/2 hours from San Antonio by car, and it would have been totally worth it. But sadly...  

[surfeur51]

Sports movies

01- Million Dollar Baby
   
   
02- Rush
   
   
03- Invictus
   
   
04- Le Grand Bleu
   
   
05- Coup de tête
   
   
06- Point Break
   
   
07- Everest   
   
   
08- Any Given Sunday
   
   
09- Grand Prix
   
   
10- Michel Vaillant

[surfeur51]

Movies directed by Steven Spielberg

1 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
   

2 -Schindler's List

   
3 - Empire of the Sun

   
4 - Jaws   


5 - Jurassic Park

   
6 - Indiana Jones and the last Crusade   

   
7 - Duel   

   
8 - A.I. Artificial Intelligence

   
9 - The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

   
10 - Bridge of Spies

[surfeur51]

Coline's favourite movies from my collection


Coline is my older grand-daughter. She is 11 years old. When a little girl, she loved Disney's Cinderella and Miyasaki's Kiki, but now she prefer movies with real actors. It was quite impossible for her to choose only 10, so we have a top 12 here.




01- Titanic
   
   
02- Jeanne d'Arc
   
   
03- Un long dimanche de fiançailles
   
   
04- Ladyhawke
   
   
05- La Boum
   
   
06- The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
   
   
07- San Andreas
   
   
08- Poseidon
   
   
09- Kari-gurashi no Arrietti (The Secret World of Arrietty)
   
   
10- La Guerre du feu


11- Cinderella (2015)
   
   
12- Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes

[surfeur51]

Lilian's favourite movies from my collection


Lilian is my older grand-son. He is 9 years old. Though he is a Star Wars saga fan, he made other choices for individual movies, with many disaster movies.

01- His Dark Material: The Golden Compass
   
   
02- Turbulences
   
   
03- Dante's Peak
   
   
04- Un long dimanche de fiançailles
   
   
05- Titanic
   
   
06- Airport 75
   
   
07- Poseidon
   
   
08- Jaws
   
   
09- On a marché sur Bangkok
   
   
10- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


11- Taxi
   
   
12- Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

[surfeur51]

Marin's favourite movies from my collection


Marin is the little brother of Coline and Lilian. He will be 6 years old for Christmas. Animated movies are his favourites but he begins watching teenage movies as "Titanic" or "Pirates of the carribean"

01- Lady and the Tramp
   
   
02- Inside Out
   
   
03- Majo no takkyûbin (Kiki's Delivery Service)
   
   
04- Titanic
   
   
05- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
   
   
06- The Jungle Book (2016)
   
   
07- Bambi
   
   
08- The Little Mermaid
   
   
09- Beauty and the Beast (1991)
   
   
10- Peter Pan (1952)


11- One Hundred and One Dalmatians
   
   
12- Cinderella (1950)

[GSyren]

Going through the whole family, are you?
What's next? The innocent people of Tours? I can envision it...

Bonjour monsieur boulanger!
Bonjour Yves! Que voudriez-vous aujourd'hui? Une baguette?
Non, une liste de vos films préférés!
Que???
 

[surfeur51]

Going through the whole family, are you?

No...

Next are :
Asian
Musical
Medieval...

BTW Your French is quite perfect. Time to watch French movies without dubbing nor subtitles.... 

[GSyren]

Your French is quite perfect. Time to watch French movies without dubbing nor subtitles.... 

I wish! No, I can't take credit for that, it's Google Translate. So I guess I'll let Google watch those French movies. 

But I certainly wish my French was good enough to watch movies w/o subtitles. There are several French movies that I have been unable to find with subtitles. La Boum for example, just to see Sophie Marceau's first movie.
How come so many French movies are available with German dubbing or subtitles, but not with English? And why is my German as bad as my French? I wish I had studied both these more diligently in school.