All right then
let's amend the rules of the question slightly- don't just list the titles, tell us about the film and WHY you liked it so much.

I'll start off with an extremely obscure one: John Huston's last film, The Dead. It's the final story in James Joyce's Dubliners.

If you've never read the story, it's about a family Christmas gathering. Nothing too terribly remarkable happens during the gathering, but you do get a good feel for each of the family members through the film.

After the party as everyone's leaving, the main character's wife hears someone singing a song as she's descending the stairs and stops, with an expression of pain and longing on her face. She recovers and continues home, and the husband asks her what that was all about.

The story she relates is a sad one, of course, but then the main character stands looking out the window and through voice-over has a soliloquy that brings the entire movie together with incredible impact. I won't give it away here, of course, but when I first saw that film it literally made me weep.

A fitting and masterful last film from an excellent director.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 17 Jul 2008, 15:05, Reply)