Desert Island Films (11 titles)

Films that would keep me sane if I were alone on a desert island. With a DVD player. And a good T.V... And electricity.

...for obvious reasons.

Cast Away on DVD (2000)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Christopher Noth
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Tom Hanks is Chuck Noland, a man in a hurry. His job for Federal Express has him traveling the world on a moment's notice, exhorting the company's employees to speed things up--"never turn your back on the clock." When he's suddenly called away for business on Christmas night, his tolerant longtime ..read more »

Rate this: 68% from 22,752 members

The characters in this film are just fantastic.

The greatest British comedy of all time... in my opinion

Withnail And I on DVD (1986)
Starring: Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths
Director: Bruce Robinson
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WITHNAIL AND I is a quirky semiautobiographical account of filmmaker Bruce Robinson's early years as an actor. In 1969 London, two unemployed thespians--Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann)--take a holiday in the Lake District at the home of Withnail's uncle Monty (Richard ..read more »

Rate this: 70% from 27,260 members

Takes me back to my childhood...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off on DVD (1986)
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck
Director: John Hughes
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Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a tricky but harmless fast-talker. But he knows how to have fun, which is exactly what he sets out to do when he feigns illness and talks his parents into letting him stay home from school. The perpetually lucky Ferris enlists his hypochondriac best friend, ..read more »

Rate this: 72% from 22,891 members

Goodfellas on DVD (1990)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book "Wiseguy", Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS is a wry, violent, and exhilarating film about the life of Henry Hill, an aspiring criminal who ends up in the FBI's witness protection program after testifying against his former partners. As a poor Irish-Italian growing up ..read more »

Rate this: 80% from 63,053 members

Quite an odd little gem

Belleville Rendez-vous on DVD (2003)
Director: Sylvain Chomet
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In this animated French film, a boy named Champion trains relentlessly for the Tour de France, with the help of his loyal grandmother and overweight dog, Bruno (who loves to bark at passing trains). When the big race comes, Champion and a few of his fellow racers are kidnapped by some thugs who ..read more »

Rate this: 70% from 14,816 members

Simply can't live without it...

Star Wars Trilogy (4 discs) on DVD (1977)
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Director: George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Richard Marquand
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The complete original STAR WARS trilogy in one set, in their 1997 remastered Special Edition versions, with an extra disc containing a documentary and other amazing extras. STAR WARS - A NEW HOPE, George Lucas's stunning sci-fi masterpiece, is arguably one of the most inventive and entertaining ..read more »

Rate this: 80% from 73,241 members

Perfection

Brief Encounter on DVD (1945)
Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Director: David Lean
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David Lean adapts Noel Coward's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (Trevor Howard) at a London railway station, and so begins a chaste ..read more »

Rate this: 73% from 10,228 members

A wonderful film... look out for the worst "Scottish" accent ever (the farmer's wife!)

Pure escapism