The Fagan O'Dowd list of 100 favourite movies

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1 Some Like it Hot
2 Groundhog Day
3 Singing in the Rain
4 Big
5 Drugstore Cowboy
6 Ghostbusters
7 Fargo
8 Betty Blue
9 Un bout de Souffle
10 Wings of Desire
11 the Good the Bad and the Ugly
12 My Cousin Vinny
13 Enemy At The Gates
14 Patton Lust for Glory
15 The Producers
16 Broadway Danny Rose
17 The Searchers
18 Zelig
19 Short Cuts
20 All The Presidents Men
21 Sons of the Desert
22 Nashville
23 Blowout
24 The Rocky Road To Dublin
25 Mary Poppins
26 Sleepless in Seattle
27 Godfather Pt 2
28 Toy Story2
29 When Harry met Sally
30 Cinema Paradiso
31 Up
32 Argo
33 Blazing Saddles
34 Apocalypse Now
35 Sullivans Travels
36 Way out West
37 Godfather
38 Young Frankenstein
39 Jaws
40 The Conversation
41 The Parallax View
42 Calamity Jane
43 Gregory’s Girl
44 The Manchurian Candidate
45 Do the Right Thing
46 Blood Simple
47 Diva
48 Raising Arizona
49 Parenthood
50 Total Recall
51 Millers Crossing
52 Terminator 2
53 Barton Fink
54 Westside Story
55 Duck Soup
56 My Own Private Idaho
57 The Naked Gun
58 Raging Bull
59 Dial M for Murder
60 Bowfinger
61 Jackie Brown
62 Midnight Run
63 North by Northwest
64 Goodfellas
65 ET
66 Internal Affairs
67 The Sting
68 Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
69 One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
70 Barry Lyndon
71 The Outlaw Josey Wales
72 Being There
73 Dr Strangelove
74 Wall - E
75 Double Indemnity
76 Strangers on a Train
77 Young Einstein
78 Heaven’s Gate
79 Trainspotting
80 Muppets from Space
81 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
82 Wiilie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
83 Unforgiven
84 La Dolce Vita
85 The Shawshank Redemption
86 Les Miserables
87 The Untouchables
88 Carrie
89 National Lampoon’s Animal House
90 Trading Places
91 Cocoon
92 High Plains Drifter
93 The Dead
94 Back to the Future
95 American Graffiti
96 Saturday Night Fever
97 Deep Cover
98 Shall We Dance
99 Primal Fear
100 Brief Encounter

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That’s a good list. Not sure i could face compiling one though.

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I doubt I can remember 100 films.
Great nod to midnight run.
No Tremors?

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Good list…wait till you see mine.

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Midnight Run

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I hope there are no GAA stars in there.

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Fagan,
Have you seen Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska”??

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@Fagan ODowd 's post deserves a reply. Here is my 100 odd films. Criteria is to be entertaining or something I remember watching around Christmas when one of the highlights of the year in single/two channel land was the 2 week RTE guide and deciding what films to watch. In no particular order:

1.Twelve Angry Men
2Rear Window
3.Vertigo
4.The Magnificent Seven
5. The Good the bad and the ugly
6.Shane
7.High Society
8.Sound of Music
9.My fair Lady
10.Get Carter
11. The Deerhunter
12. Thelma & Louise
13. Reservoir Dogs
14. Pulp Fiction
15. Die Hard 1
16. Casino Royale
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark
18. ET
19. Nikita (original)
20. Jean de Florette
21. The Sweet smell of success
22. Some like it hot
23. Arsenic & Old Lace
24.It’s a wonderful life
25. The Matrix
26. Hamlet
27.The Adventures of Robin Hood
28. Willie Wonka
29. Ratatouille
30. Untouchables
31. Breaking Away
32. The Usual Suspects
33. Patton
34. Amadeus
35. Blazing Saddles
36. In Bruges
37. Naked Gun
38. Witness
39. Frantic
40. As good as it gets
41. The King of Comedy
42. Enter the Dragon
43. Night of the Hunter
44. Crying game
45. V is for Vendetta
46. Casablanca
47. White Heat
48. Millers Crossing
49. The Third Man
50. Godfather Part II
51. The Great Escape
52. Where Eagles Dare
53. Dr Strangelove
54. Rebecca
55. Pride & Prejudice
56. From Here to Eternity
57. Blue Velvet
58. Sunset Boulevard
59. The Apartment
60. Oliver!
61. Silence of the Lambs
62. Schindlers List
63. The Artist
64. The Hustler
65. Cool Hand Luke
66. The Towering inferno
67. Trading Places
68. Deliverance
69. Wall Street
70. Goodfellas
71. Spartacus
72. The Running Man
73. Grease
74. Roman Holliday
75. Saving Private Ryan (for the first ten minutes)
76. Around the world in eighty days
77. Madagascar.
78. Cyrano de Bergerac
79. The Lion in Winter
80. A Man for all seasons
81. Face off
82. The Lavender hill mob
83. The Right Stuff
84. Apocalypse Now
85. The wizard of Oz
86. The Bourne Identity
87. Up
88. When Harry Met Sally
89. Beverly Hills Cop
90. Delicatessen
91. Bridge on the River Kwai
92. The Wind that Shakes the Barley.
93. Forrest Gump
94. Doctor Zhivago
95. The Maltese Falcon
96. The Postman always rings twice
97. Don’t look now
98. The Pianist
99. Unforgiven
100. Escape to Victory

I have never seen The Shawshank Redemption.

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I like the way you included the tipp lads with 68

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and the Killanena folk

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who?

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@balbec you need to add a few cohen brother selections…

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@Fagan ODowd, have you seen Spirited Away?

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Trainspotting is very low down too, top 10 for me

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Love that and all the others too

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Studio Ghibli films , I mean

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Gotcha. Spirited Away is my favourite film. Given some of his picks I think Fagan would like it.

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No.

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  1. The French Connection
  2. The Italian Job
  3. Von Ryan’s Express
  4. Hunger
  5. The French Connection II
  6. The Snapper
  7. Kings
  8. Four Lions
  9. Day Of The Jackal
  10. Adam and Paul
  11. This Sporting Life
  12. Duel
  13. The Secret In Their Eyes
  14. Back To The Future II
  15. The Towering Inferno
  16. The Firm
  17. All The Presidents Men
  18. Magnum Force
  19. Back To The Future
  20. In The Name Of The Father
  21. The China Syndrom
  22. ET
    23 . Nuns On The Run
  23. The Godfather
  24. Matewan
  25. Trainspotting
  26. The Black Stuff
  27. Hamburger Hill
  28. The Odessa File
  29. Serpico
  30. In The Loop
  31. Dr Strangelove
  32. Vanishing Point
  33. Red Road
  34. The Field
  35. My Left Foot
  36. Bloody Kids
  37. The Van
  38. Dirty Harry
  39. A Dry White Season
  40. The Club
  41. Rocky IV
  42. Jaws
  43. Apocalypse Now
  44. Escape To Victory
  45. The Edukators
  46. Kes
  47. Winter’s Bone
  48. Sunday
  49. Jean De Florette
  50. Defence of the Realm
  51. Easy Rider
  52. Zabriskie Point
  53. Wolf Creek
  54. Gregory’s Girl
  55. Get Carter
  56. Slumdog Millionaire
  57. This Is England
  58. A Clockwork Orange
  59. Full Metal Jacket
  60. Dr Zhivago
  61. Boyz N The Hood
  62. Poitin
  63. American History X
  64. The Breakfast Club
  65. Great Expectations
  66. Educating Rita
  67. From Russia With Love
  68. Comfort And Joy
  69. Filth
  70. The Bridge On The River Kwai
  71. Klute
  72. Quadrophenia
  73. Live And Let Die
  74. Little Miss Sunshine
  75. Rocky II
  76. Born On The Fourth Of July
  77. In Bruges
  78. The Last Picture Show
  79. Nil By Mouth
  80. The Shining
  81. Crocodile Dundee
  82. Goodfellas
  83. Eat The Peach
  84. Accelerator
  85. The Commitments
  86. The Long Good Friday
  87. You Only Live Twice
  88. Bloody Sunda
  89. Goodbye Lenn
  90. Manon Des Sources
  91. Scarface
  92. Taxi Driver
  93. 24 Hour Party People
  94. High Noon
  95. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  96. Die Hard With A Vengeance
  97. Bullit
  98. Mad Max
  99. Network

Forgot 'The Lives of Others" in that list which would be up around the 20 mark.