1. Dances with Wolves
2. Nightshift - alltime classic Michael Keaton (and Henry Winkler) - hillarious!
3. It's A Wonderful Life
4. To Kill A Mockingbird
5. Grease (yes, I know, but I was a young teen when it was popular, can't help it!)

Can't say I am a big movie buff, but my favorites in no order include:

Gone With The Wind
Gettysburg
Shindler's List
Grease
Jaws
Casablanca
Saving Private Ryan
The Wizard of Oz
The Last Emperor
A Christmas Story (the BB gun movie)
War of the Worlds
The first Star Wars
A Hard Day's Night

I know there are many I have left out.

1-Attack of the mole people
2-Frogs
3-The Swarm
4-The Blob
5-My dinner with Andre

#1 (tie) "The Philadelphia Story" and "Sullivan's Travels"
#2 "The Lady Eve"
#3 (tie) "Some Like It Hot" and "One Two Three"
#4 "Casablanca"
#5 "My Favorite Year"

P.S. : Lisa and Dan have excellent taste in movies. I second their choices as well.

The Man Who Knew Too Much (the 1950's version w/Jimmy Stewart)
North by Northwest
Rear Window
Dial M for Murder
To Catch a Thief
(Guess it shows that I am a fan of Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, and Grace Kelly)

1. The Godfather
2. 2001
3. The Outlaw Josey Wales
4. The Graduate
5. Platoon

Acutally, fan, it sounds more like you're a big Hitchcock lover.

All great choices. May I add a few more that may have been overlooked - I believe they include some actors who have influenced others:
Rebel Without A Cause
East Of Eden
On The Waterfront
African Queen
Vertigo
Apocalypse Now
Blackboard Jungle
The Magician & Virgin Spring
Alfie
Ted and Bill's Excellent Adventure (for fun) ... and one could go on and on. It's nice to post with other film lovers. Maybe sometime someone will create a site where people can swap tips about current movies - or perhaps there already is such a place and I just don't know. Would love to hear. Ciao

L -- there is a very good one, www.imdb.com (international movie database).

One Flew Over The Coocoo's Nest
Terms of Endearment
Forest Gump
Psycho
Philadelphia Story

1) Brazil
2) Gone with the Wind
3) The English Patient
4) It's a Wonderful Life
5) Jane Eyre (1930's Version with Orson Wells)

Flick do you mean travel movies since this is a travel site. Find a new site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To Psstoff:

O.K. then. Favorite movies that involve traveling to an area:

1. Death on the Nile
2. Where the Boys Are
3. Three Coins in the Fountain
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Crocodile Dundee

Otherwise, three favorite all-time movies:

1. Wuthering Heights (the old version with Sir Lawrence Olivier)
2. The Best Years of Our Lives
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. Giant
5. The Way We Were

PLEASE- what on earth is the connection between movies and FODOR'S TRAVEL SITE?

Joy, occasionally -- very occasionally -- there's a tenuous link between topics that otherwise seem unrelated. Rudy wrote of films that capture a place or, better yet, both a place and a time.

Have you ever seen "To Catch a Thief?" For a generation of Americans, it was an introduction to the glamorous Cote d'Azur. Today, it still is a fabulous film, though the Nice and Cap Ferrat through which Cary Grant and Grace Kelly cavort are changed almost beyond recognition.

One of my favorite films of all time is "What's Up Doc?", a screwball comedy with Barbra Streisand and Royan O'Neil. But it is also a travelogue of San Francisco; a city I first visited shortly after seeing the film. "Some Like It Hot" celebrates the Del Coronado hotel in San Diego (though the film improbably places the hotel in Florida). "Cinema Paradiso" is a paean to a small village in Sicily as much as it is a remembrance of a love of the cinema.

If you have ever been moved to go to the Italian Riviera after seeing "Enchanted April", or Paris after a viewing of "Charade" or Mount Rushmore after seeing "North By Northwest, then you know the power of film to inspire the traveler in all of us.

So, give us the films that have inspired you to travel. How long was it between the time you saw the film and you made the journey. Did the place you visited live up to exectation?

Odysseus:

Within weeks after seeing "Somewhere in Time", I went to Mackinac Island and stayed at the Grand Hotel, to experience the grandeur of that magnificent place. The hotel did not disappoint, but the island wasn't appealing to me. Cars are not allowed, only horses, part of the charm. However, the omnipresent odor of manure left me reeling. I smelled it for days after departing.

I also planned a trip to Italy very soon after viewing "Cinema Paradiso".

Casablanca
Gone with the Wind
The Godfather 1
The Godfather 2
Caddyshack
Young Frankenstein

Amarcord (Fellini)
Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
Les Enfants de Paradis
Clockwork Orange

To the posters who felt the need to come onto this thread and try to spoil the fun:

This is a community of people who love travel. Sometimes threads like this help us get to know each other a little more. That's the "community" part. People who have no interest should just avoid the thread.

If Fodors doesn't like it, they'll delete it.

Why are you such control freaks?

To L: Yes, you are right, my selections show I am a Hitchcok fan. I wasn't really thinking of directors. Other directors I admire: John Ford, John Huston, Geroge Cukor.

Some other favorite films:
An Affair to Remember
Double Indemnity
Lethal Weapon.

I do like films from the present and the 60's and 70's. I made my selections based on whether I can sit and watch a film over and over and still enjoy it, and even discover new things.