Aside from the obvious (GF's,Scarface,Goodfellas) what are your "must have" movies? Please try and name some "oddballs" too, maybe you can turn someone else on too one of your lesser known favorites.

The Die Hard Trilogy.

Once Upon a Time n America, Donnie Brasco . . .

GoodFella

My must-have dramas (aside from what has already been mentioned) include Casino, Jaws, Silence of the Lambs, and Heat.

I love Donnie Brasco! I didn't understand the end to Once Upon A Time In America. Lanksy is a good movie.

All the sequences with DeNiro as an old man are just an opium dream. All of his friends died and after that, he went to the opium house and dreamed all of the od sequences up as it is said opium makes you dream of the future. That's why the garbage truck scene made no sense.

boondock saints, fight club, and snatch.

Sorry about this Ed, but I'm going to say Scarface, because I can't tell you how long I've been waiting to get this. And now that they are coming out with this 20th Ann. Edition, I think I'll finally add it to my collection.

The one film that I'd love to get but can't is an Alberto Sordi movie from the early '60's called "Mafioso," about a Sicilian guy who emigrates to Milan, gets an excellent job in the Alfa Romeo factory, marries a blond Northern Italian woman, has kids. He brings her and his kids back to see his family in Sicily and becomes enmeshed in a Mafia plot via the local Don. This film has that combination of pathos and humor that only the Italians can do right. I only saw it once--it was magnificent. Can't find it anywhere.

I'd love to see that film, Turnbull! Is it subtitled? There really are some great European films about, aren't there?

As for recommendations of my own: Donnie Brasco, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, and for a gritty tale of a real-life story of a Mafia narcotics smuggling ring look no further than my all time favourite: The French Connection!

Mick

It was subtitled when I saw it in NYC around 1965. Alas, imdb.com doesn't list a version in either VHS or DVD. And yes, there are many good European films--and many more from the Fifties and Sixties.
I watched it yet again just last week on DVD. A very great movie--one of the best.

Watch Chinatown!!!

Right behind The Godfather I/II in my favorites.

If I could borrow it I might, but I wouldnt buy it,I dont like Jack Nicholson all that much. I think that I'll get French Connection next time I go to Best Buy, I really like that movie, I dont Know why I havent got it yet i'ts been out on DVD for over a year.

Scarface, Goodfellas, A Hard Day's Night, Casablanca, Animal House, and a homemade collection of Three Stooges shorts.

The Right Stuff, Casablanca, GoodFellas 2 Disk Set, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Mr. SMith Goes to Washington, Bnad Of Brothers, JFK, Once Upon a Time In America (the only way the end made sense was the opium dream idea but it was never aknowledged by Segio Leone)

I watched it again this morning (got up early especially for it! ); love the way Popeye throws that chicken when they're waiting outside the Copa for Sal and his goons! I wish I could throw a chicken that cooly! !

Mick

THe Best Car Chase is in the French COnection.

The Movie itself is not one of the best but a good movie nevertheless

The chase scene in "Bullitt" is even better.

Seconded, Turnbull.

Bullitt sets the benchmark for great chases.

Shame on you, boy! To each his own I suppose.

I'd agree with the best car chase being that of "Bullitt," solely as it is a car-on-car chase, whereas TFC sees Popeye chasing a train.

Watched The French Connection last night again. Fantastic!

Mick

What about The GF's (I and II), Goodfellas, Casino, Once Opon a Time in America, Scarface, Donnie Brasco, JFK, Patton, Saving Private Ryan, One Flew over the Cucuous Nest, Casablanca, Lawrence Of Arabia, the list is just ENDLESS.

Platton and MORE!

The French Connection is a good movie but not one of the best.

Like I said, to each his own; I have seen most of the films you listed there, and all are at elast in my top 100. The Godfather Parts I and II are, in my personal preference, second to only one film: The French Connection. I'd say that The Godfathers Part I and II are better films, technically, but I am going by sheer enjoyability.

Mick

Yeap. To Each his own

West SIDE STORY?!

Your Nutts.

Id buy it to do 3 things

1. Put it on my DVD and Trash it

2. Use it as a Coster

3. Use it for target practice.

Are we talkin' gangster movies or any "must have" flicks? To the gangster genre, I'd add Mean Streets, Road to Perdition (yeah, I know it's not a "gangster" movie in the extreme sense of the term, but it's great), Gotti, Reservoir Dogs, and perhaps The Untouchables (although I still haven't had the forethought to pick up the latter one yet).

Other flicks? IMHO: Platoon, Patton, The Deer Hunter, Saving Pvt. Ryan, Tombstone, Excalibur, Braveheart, Schindler's List, Jesus of Nazareth (albeit I look eagerly forward to Mel Gibson's The Passion due out next Easter), LOTR I & II (please don't stone me for those! ), and, of course, The Matrix.

Besides from "Grease," West Side Story (and Oliver!) are, in my opinion, the best musicals ever made. I'd watch it anytime.

Mick

Any musical tends to have a week unsatifyin story line and I saw West side to be a cheap Modern Day rip off of Romeo and Juliet.

Gresse was Ok.

--> Once Upon a Time n America, Donnie Brasco . . .

add the Last Don to that, and you're complete

Singing in the Rain


Excellent movie with a great story line

The only help i can provide is in mafia related movies. I will try to post only the ones that wernt mentioned earlier but if i do, i apologize.

Dillinger and Capone
Analyze this (and analyze that)
Ronin
Oceans Eleven
Reservoir Dogs*
Wall Street*
Gangs of New York*
Hoodlum
Bugsy
Getting Gotti
The Last Don I and II
Pulp Fiction
Great Mafia Movies I and II (3 movie sets)
The Score*
State of Grace
The Devils Advocate**

* Denotes not Mafia but gangster related
** this was a gift and is my personal favorite non mafia film besides Forrest Gump,The Lion King, and Karate Kid II