Desert Island Films ......movies, not TV offerings.

[Globaltruth]

Eraserhead
If...
Rope
Chinatown
Nosferatu
M
Satyricon
7 Samurai

[Richard Tarleton]

I have to speak sternly to vinteiul. I did say eight (8) I think you now have 27 Still, you've posted a link to The Lady Vanishes so...........

Saly this is a great thread which is reminding me of all sorts of films I'd forgotten about and shall now order on DVD

[Petrushka]

I'm not much of a film fan as Hollywood and American films leave me cold with the odd exception. Mostly British, 1950s and war films, I'm afraid.

Brief Encounter
The Third Man
Carrington VC
The Way to the Stars
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Night of the Generals
The Longest Day

and for my eighth the greatest film ever made bar none: the epic Sergei Bondarchuk film of Tolstoy's War and Peace.

[antongould]

Butch Cassidy and.........
Chariots of Fire
39 Steps
As Good As It Gets
All The Presidents Men
The Magnificent 7
Doctor Zhivago
The Go Between

[salymap]

Saly this is a great thread which is reminding me of all sorts of films I'd forgotten about and shall now order on DVD

Richard, I have a lot of them on old videos.However, the ink on the title strips has faded and I have a job to find anything. It's very sad.

[Thropplenoggin]

Chinatown
In The Mood For Love
Barry Lyndon
The Big Lebowski
Still Walking

[teamsaint]

one more to add....Midnight Cowboy.
Still one choice left for me.

[Osborn]

The Leopard
The Mission
Ivan 1 & 2
Alexander Nevsky
...are enough

[umslopogaas]

I seem to be on common ground with other posters. My choice follows, and like other posters, if you ask me tomorrow, you wont get the same list:

101 Dalmatians (the cartoon version)
Seven Samurai
Repulsion
The Sundowners (the Australian one, apparently there is a US one as well which I havent seen)
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
The Wild Bunch (oh boy if you must have a shoot out, do it in style)
Doctor Strangelove
Duck Soup

I saw the film of Shostakovich's opera when I was an undergraduate. I even went to book a ticket to ensure a seat. The lady in the booking office looked at me a bit strangely and said "You do know its all in Russian, dont you? In the event, booking was hardly necessary, there were at most, three other people in the cinema and I'm sure one of them left shortly after the opening titles. But I stayed the course and it remains one of my favourite operas.

[AmpH]

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
West Side Story
The Deer Hunter
Highlander
Kes
Way Out West
Rollerball
Jungle Book

[Roehre]

My eight (today's choice, that is. Tomorrow's is different, I'm sure)

How to catch a thief
A Bridge too far
Rebecca
Gone with the wind
Heimat
The Soldier of Orange
The Day of the Jackal (the original)
Die Brücke (or Cabaret)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

For today:

Abel Gance: Napoleon
Fritz Lang: Metropolis
Billy Wilder: Some Like it Hot
Stanley Kubrick: Dr Strangelove
Woody Allen: Play it Again, Sam
Tim Burton: Sweeney Todd
The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup

and, in every list ...

Brian Forbes: Whistle Down the Wind

(filmed near my birth town, the year after I was born - it's a film that has broken my heart every time I've seen it since I was about five or six.)

[mangerton]

It's not easy, is it? Today's list, alphabetically:

2001 A Space Odyssey
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
If....
The Ladykillers
The Life of Brian
The Odd Couple
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Withnail and I

[EdgeleyRob]

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
The Pianist.
Schindler's List.
The Life of Brian.
Toy Story 2.
Terminator 2.
Vertigo.
The Dambusters.

[Serial_Apologist]

Passport to Pimlico
If
O Lucky Man
Alfie
Manhattan
Blow Up
Genevieve
Ghandi

If any of the above are unavailable :

The Man in a White Suit
The Go Between
Secrets and Lies
I'm All Right Jack
This Happy Breed
Victim
The Third Man
Don't Look Now