70% from 14 members

The ultimate girls film - I love it!
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Pretty Woman
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Garry Marshall
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The Cinderella story that made Julia Roberts a star. While driving back to his Beverly Hills hotel, millionaire corporate raider Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) takes a wrong turn and ends up on Hollywood Boulevard, where he meets prostitute Vivian Ward (Roberts). She steers him back to his hotel, ..read more »
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71%
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A suberb film on many levels. Made me cry at the end!
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The Last Samurai
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall
Director: Edward Zwick
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Captain Nathan Algren served in the American Civil War where he risked his life for his country. He served out his career in the West where the battle was with Indians and it was here that he became disillusioned and lost... In a far-off land a celebrated Samurai warrior, Katsumoto, is learning ..read more »
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70%
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An absolute classic - so clever!

The skull dropping thru the hole in the boat STILL makes me jump... and the music..... Leave the sequels alone this is the only one to watch.
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Jaws
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Steven Spielberg
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From the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley, Steven Spielberg directed this thrill ride of terror. During the height of beach season, the Massachusetts resort town of Amity Island is terrorized one summer by surprise attacks from a great white shark. Three unlikely partners team up to hunt down ..read more »
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Wonderful and inspring. Matt Damon and Robin Williams are both superb
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Good Will Hunting
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Director: Gus Van Sant
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A South Boston whiz kid elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations attracts the attention of a professor who won't let him quit, a beautiful Harvard student who wants to save ..read more »
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73%
from 19,256 members

Makes you think about life
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American Beauty
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Sam Roberts, Annette Bening
Director: Sam Mendes
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AMERICAN BEAUTY tells the story of Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a suburban father who snaps when he becomes disgusted with his stale, repetitive existence. Burnham lets us know in voice-over from the film's opening that this is the day he dies (using the SUNSET BOULEVARD flashback approach), a ..read more »
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74%
from 63,033 members

The ONLY film to watch at Christmas!
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The Wizard Of Oz
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Frank Morgan
Director: Victor Fleming, King Vidor
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Follow the yellow brick road again! Young Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas where a large tornado picks her house, and her dog up and deposits them in the land of Oz. Things in Oz are strange and beautiful, but Dorothy just wants to get back home. She's helped by the Good Fairy of the North, but ..read more »
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71%
from 19,531 members

Always high on the best film lists - and I agree!
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The Shawshank Redemption
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Robert Gunton
Director: Frank Darabont
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City Banker Andy Dufresne is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder. There he meets Red and also forms friendships with the warden and prison guards. Andy soon finds that you either get on with living or you get on with dying. The bonus features stretch over two ..read more »
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87%
from 98,799 members

My favourite book on film - A classic, one of the best.
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To Kill A Mockingbird
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford
Director: Robert Mulligan
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Robert Mulligan's classic adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in the racially charged atmosphere of Macon County, Alabama in the 1930s, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a poignant coming-of-age story. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay (written by Horton Foote),..read more »
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76%
from 11,557 members

Fab girls film. Very entertaining
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The Devil Wears Prada
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Adrian Grenier
Director: David Frankel
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Adding an extra dimension to Lauren Weisberger's bestselling novel, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA showcases Meryl Streep's knack for combining humour and sadness. While likely inspired by notorious VOGUE editor Anna Wintour, Streep's Miranda Priestly (head of Runway magazine) is entirely her own creation. ..read more »
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