Det Jim McLeod Posted June 19 Here's mine, what are yours? Arsenic And Old Lace (1944) Bride Of Frankenstein (1935) Clock, The (1945) Detective Story (1951) Ed Wood (1994) From Here To Eternity (1953) Gunga Din (1939) Hoosiers (1986) Imagine John Lennon (1988) Jaws (1975) King Of Comedy, The (1983) Little Mermaid, The (1989) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Night Of The Hunter, The (1955) On The Waterfront (1954) Patch Of Blue, A (1965) Quiz Show (1994) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) Taxi Driver (1976) Untouchables, The (1987) Vertigo (1958) What Ever Happened To Baby Jane (1962) X-The Man With The X ray Eyes (1963) Young Mr Lincoln (1939) Zodiac (2007) 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sepiatone Posted June 19 This is interesting. I'll be spending the day with paper and pen going through what I can recollect. Sepiatone 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sewhite2000 Posted June 19 Yeah, seems like too overwhelming a task for me to even consider, but you never know. Just don't expect a list from me by tomorrow. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Det Jim McLeod Posted June 19 13 minutes ago, Sepiatone said: This is interesting. I'll be spending the day with paper and pen going through what I can recollect. Sepiatone I'm looking forward to the "Q" and "X" choices. If you can't come up with ones you can leave those letters out. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted June 19 Apocalypse Now Blade Runner Chinatown Dr. Strangelove The Exorcist Frankenstein The Godfather Halloween Ikiru Jaws Kwaidan The Lord of the Rings Monty Python and the Holy Grail Night of the Living Dead One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Passion of Joan of Arc Quatermass and the Pit Raging Bull Sunset Boulevard Taxi Driver Unforgiven Videodrome The Wild Bunch X2: X-Men United Yojimbo Zelig 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TopBilled Posted June 19 ABOUT MRS. LESLIE (1954) BLACK NARCISSUS (1947) CROSSFIRE (1947) DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (1939) EVIL UNDER THE SUN (1982) FAT CITY (1972) THE GUNFIGHTER (1950) HELL'S HALF ACRE (1954) IF YOU COULD ONLY COOK (1935) JOHNNY GUITAR (1954) KIND LADY (1951) LADYBUG LADYBUG (1963) MR. AND MRS. BRIDGE (1990) NORA PRENTISS (1947) OF MICE AND MEN (1939) PARASITE (2019) THE QUIET MAN (1952) REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940) A SIMPLE PLAN (1998) THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955) UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE (1967) THE VIKINGS (1958) WHITE HEAT (1949) XIU XIU: THE SENT-DOWN GIRL (1998) YOUNG AT HEART (1954) ZODIAC (2007) 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TopBilled Posted June 19 I should note that these are not all my favorite films from A to Z. These are just favorite films that start with those specific letters. Also, I wanted to include 99 RIVER STREET, but wasn't sure if it should go under 'N' which I gave to NORA PRENTISS. So it can be an honorable mention. A lot of film titles start with numbers or symbols. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ampersand Posted June 19 Making a list and narrowing down each letter to a few noms. Some letters like D or M have all the licks and others like J, let alone Q, have so little for me. Very few clear cut winners, but it's fun. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SansFin Posted June 20 The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)The Bed Sitting Room (1969)A Clockwork Orange (1971)Daisies (1966)Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Formula of Love (1984)Grave of the Fireflies (1988)The Hidden Fortress (1958)Irma Vep (1996)Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) Kuroneko (1968)Life Tastes Good (1999)My Neighbor Totoro (1988)The Nude Vampire (1970)Onibaba (1964) The Pillow Book (1996)Queen Christina (1933)Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)The Sword in the Stone (1963)Tales of Manhattan (1942) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)Viy (1967)When the Cat Comes (1963)X the Unknown (1956)Yojimbo (1961)Zardoz (1974) 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bethluvsfilms Posted June 20 ALL ABOUT EVE BRINGING UP BABY CASABLANCA DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1941) THE ENTERTAINER FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950) GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT HOLIDAY IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD JEZEBEL KEY LARGO THE LITTLE FOXES MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE NATIONAL VELVET OUT OF THE PAST THE PUBLIC ENEMY THE QUIET MAN THE ROARING TWENTIES THE SEARCHERS TWELVE ANGRY MEN (1957) UNFORGIVEN VERTIGO WHITE HEAT YANKEE DOODLE DANDY Can't think of any with X or Z. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted June 20 Depending on what I'm in the mood to watch. I could list more for each letter and I've left out a lot of films that are also favorites LOL the list would go on and on if I listed them all All About Eve, The Apartment, Anthony Adverse, The Adventures of Robin Hood Baby Face, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, The Birds Casablanca Dark Passage Elmer Gantry, The Eddy Duchin Story From Here To Eternity, The French Connection The Godfather 1 and 2, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Goodfellas, The Good Earth, Green Dolphin Street Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1950's) The Joy Luck Club Kind Hearts and Coronets Laura , A Letter To Three Wives, The Long Gray Line, Lover Come Back Marty, The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956), Miracle on 34th Street ( 1940's), The Magnificent Seven ( 1960's), Marnie, The Mark of Zorro ( 1940) Nowhere To Go, Now and Then, Nightmare Alley On Dangerous Ground, Out of The Past Pillow Talk, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Parent Trap(1960's) The Quiet Man The Razor's Edge, Raw Deal, The Roaring Twenties, The Rose Tattoo, Random Harvest The Searchers, Sitting Pretty, Shadow of A Doubt, Some Like it Hot, Scaramouche The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Trouble With Angels, To Each His Own, There's No Business Like Show Business, Two for the Road, Talk of The Town, The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1960's) The Unsuspected Vertigo, Village of the Damned The World of Henry Orient, Witness For The Prosecution, White Heat 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Det Jim McLeod Posted June 20 8 hours ago, Bethluvsfilms said: ALL ABOUT EVE BRINGING UP BABY CASABLANCA DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1941) THE ENTERTAINER FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950) GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT HOLIDAY IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD JEZEBEL KEY LARGO THE LITTLE FOXES MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE NATIONAL VELVET OUT OF THE PAST THE PUBLIC ENEMY THE QUIET MAN THE ROARING TWENTIES THE SEARCHERS TWELVE ANGRY MEN (1957) UNFORGIVEN VERTIGO WHITE HEAT YANKEE DOODLE DANDY Can't think of any with X or Z. That's OK, I was very pleased that this is the first time I saw someone's list of favorites and I saw every one of them! I see we agree on Vertigo. Bringing Up Baby,The Roaring Twenties, The Searchers and White Heat are big favorites of mine as well. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spence Posted June 21 On 6/19/2020 at 4:58 PM, TopBilled said: I should note that these are not all my favorite films from A to Z. These are just favorite films that start with those specific letters. Also, I wanted to include 99 RIVER STREET, but wasn't sure if it should go under 'N' which I gave to NORA PRENTISS. So it can be an honorable mention. A lot of film titles start with numbers or symbols. LOTS OF WORK BY ALL HERE! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TopBilled Posted June 21 12 hours ago, spence said: LOTS OF WORK BY ALL HERE! Thanks Spence! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fxreyman Posted June 21 This is a list of 26 favorite films. There could be at least ten lists I could make for 26 films each. This is just one off the top of my head and all of these are in my private film library... The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 Chisum 1970 Defending Your Life 1991 The Enemy Below 1957 Fail-Safe 1964 Goldfinger 1964 Hatari! 1962 It’s a Wonderful Life 1946 Judgement at Nuremberg 1961 King Kong 1933 Local Hero 1983 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 The Natural 1984 Open Range 2003 The Professionals 1966 The Quiet Man 1952 Roman Holiday 1953 Seven Days in May 1964 They Were Expendable 1945 The Untouchables 1986 The Verdict 1982 Winchester ’73 1950 Xanadu 1980 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Zulu 1964 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fxreyman Posted June 26 My second list of 26 favorite films by first letter, actually 25 films, since I have no other films starting with the letter X. The Americanization of Emily 1964 Bite the Bullet 1975 Casablanca 1942 Destination Tokyo 1943 El Dorado 1967 Foreign Correspondent 1940 The Ghost Writer 2010 Hoosiers 1986 Ice Station Zebra 1968 Jaws 1975 Knute Rockne, All-American 1940 Lost Horizon 1937 The Martian 2015 North By Northwest 1959 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Patton 1970 Queen Christina 1933 Random Harvest 1942 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 The Thing From Another World 1951 Unknown 2011 Vertigo 1958 Will Penny 1968 X You’ve Got Mail 1998 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted June 26 Andrei Rublev Brazil The Confession Duck Soup The Earrings of Madame De A Fish Called Wanda The Godfather, Part II Help! Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 JFK Kiss Kiss, Bang Band The Leopard Murder on the Orient Express North by Northwest Ordet Pink Floyd; the Wall Quadrophenia The Rules of the Game Shoah 2001: A Space Odyssey The Usual Suspects Vertigo The Wizard of Oz Yellow Submarine Z I've seen movies beginning with X, but didn't like any enough to include here. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ampersand Posted June 26 A lot of deliberation, changed a few from what I had before but I'm pretty happy with the list. Some letters I could have gone any which way for (B, G, M, P, R) but others (L, N) were no contest. Q and X, so few choices. Almost went with xXx, the radical James Bond starring Vin Diesel. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) The Big Clock (1948) Captain Blood (1935) Dark Passage (1947) Expendables 2 (2012) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) The Great Escape (1963) Happy Gilmore (1996) In a Lonely Place (1950) John Wick (2014) Kingdom of Heaven - Director's Cut (2005) Larceny Inc (1942) The Matrix (1999) North by Northwest (1959) Ocean's Eleven (2001) The Public Enemy (1931) Quentin Durward (1955) Redline (2009) Some Like It Hot (1959) Tropic Thunder (2008) The Untouchables (1987) Vanilla Sky (2001) White Heat (1949) X2 (2003) Young Frankenstein (1974) Zoolander (2001) 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingrat Posted June 26 Ashes and Diamonds Black Narcissus Citizen Kane Duck Soup The Earrings of Madame de . . . Forbidden Games Gone With the Wind The Hunt for Red October In Which We Serve Jules & Jim King Rat Lawrence of Arabia The Manchurian Candidate (1962) The Nun's Story Out of the Past The Passionate Thief Quiz Show Rebecca Singin' in the Rain The Treasure of Sierra Madre The Uninvited Vertigo The Wages of Fear Yojimbo Zorba the Greek For some letters there were many great choices. Fun fact: Zorba the Greek and Zulu are my favorite films from 1964. As for X, I think the only two I've seen are one of the X-Men films--I remember only that Halle Berry had silver hair and that Ian McKellen was in it and nothing else about the film, not a good sign--and X, Y, and Zee, which might turn up in another thread as the worst film Michael Caine ever made, but maybe not, because he made so many. This is a fun topic, Det. Jim. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Swithin Posted June 27 This is a good exercise in discipline, to try not to list films that one loves but which don't fit the challenge of one film per letter, for example, many of my favorite films begin with the same letters. Anthony Adverse (1936) Black Orpheus (1959) Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) The Dead (1987) The Egyptian (1954) Frankenstein (1931) The Group (1966) Harold and Maude (1971) The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) King of the Zombies (1941) The Light that Failed (1939) Maurice (1987) Napoleon (1927) Out of Africa (1985) A Passage to India (1984) The Quiet Man (1952) Reds (1981) A Summer’s Tale (1996) Tom Jones (1963) Ugetsu (1953) Vampyr (1932) Wilson (1944) The Young Philadelphians (1959) A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
