Desert Island Discs.... (17 titles)
Supposing a solar powered generator and disc player !!!
80% from 3 members
Little Miss Sunshine
... Low key comedy and ascerbic look at all things American, with a delight of a cast. Makes us smile - a lot!
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Little Miss Sunshine
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
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Little Miss Sunshine is a brazenly satirical and yet deeply human American road comedy. The film introduces audiences to one of the most endearingly fractured families in recent cinema history: the Hoovers, whose trip to a pre-pubescent beauty pageant results not only in comic mayhem but in death, ..read more »
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from 100,183 members
Battle Of Britain
For the soundtrack alone this one will have to go to our desert island - but what a film and what a cast. Of its kind, one of the best descriptions of part of the second world war.
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Battle Of Britain
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw
Director: Guy Hamilton
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A powerful, colourful and star-studded re-creation of the epic 1940 battle that took place in the skies over England. Surprised and understaffed, the British forces used determination and guile to valiantly hold off the superior forces of the German Luftwaffe in the early days of World War II. If ..read more »
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from 4,639 members
La Cage Aux Folles
Don't like foreign films? Try this one. A delight and a half when a gay man has to "go straight" in order to fool his daughter's suitor.
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La Cage Aux Folles
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru
Director: Edouard Molinaro
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Chaos ensues when a gay man attempts to pose as straight for the benefit of his son's future in-laws. Renato owns a popular nightclub and his long-time lover Zaza, is a female impersonator and the club's star attraction. Unfortunately, Renato's son, Laurent has not told his future father-in-law, an ..read more »
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from 2,124 members
Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark
The first (and best) of these currently - number 4 not out yet). Big screen adventure - gasp and laugh in equal measure - with a fabulous hero in Indie Jones.
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Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Los...
on DVD
Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Renowned archaeologist and expert in the occult, Indiana Jones is hired by the American government to track down the fabled Ark of the Covenant. But it's a race against time as the Nazis are also after the relic for their own nefarious purposes. Indiana must reunite with old acquaintances and ..read more »
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from 36,505 members
Star Wars Trilogy
The first of the three is still the one that makes you stop and watch wherever you are! Features a young Harrison Ford, and perhaps the best John Williams soundtrack of all time. We saw this on a Sunday morning press showing in central London before release and were stunned! Although dated in the special effects department, its still a joy to watch.
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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 »
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from 73,551 members
Breaking Away
With a cast of unkowns or "what his name?"s when this was first released, this delightful film has nearly disappeared from the film viewers' radar. Blue collar family has a son who aspires to joining a professional bike racing team. Listening to opera and shaving his legs stuns his french-frys loving father!
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Breaking Away
(1979)
Starring: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid
Director: Peter Yates
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An epic cycling saga
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from 75 members
Amadeus
The part Tom Hulse was born to play. Bio-pic of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with a soundtrack to die for. Beautiful locations, costumes, music, and a handpicked cast. Give yourself 5 minutes to get over Tom Hulse's American accent and then - enjoy!
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Amadeus
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
Director: Milos Forman
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In a lavish 18th Century parlor in Austria, an elderly man is found, by his servant, with his throat slashed. The wound is self-inflicted, and the man is the little-known composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), contemporary and adversary of the now-famed, but once reviled, composer Wolfgang Amadeus ..read more »
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from 12,592 members
Brief Encounter
Black and White and all the better for it. Soulmates who meet at the wrong time of their lives. Social manners have moved so far since this film was made that most of us cannot imagine the pain caused by wanting each other without hurting anyone else.
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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 »
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from 10,301 members
Rarg
Not surprised if every reader of this list says "what?"...but if you like animation, search this one out. It came, it went - very quickly, but fortunately we got a video of it....beautiful animation, can watch with or without kids around, and we do recommend it/
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Rarg
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: nigel hawthorne (narr.), Nigel Hawthorne
Director: Tony Collingwood
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Rargians live in a dreamland called Rarg. These people discover that they only exist in the dream world of Edwin Barnes and as soon as he wakes up they'll disappear. Their fight for survival begins.
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from 15 members
It's A Wonderful Life
Just because its a wonderful life! Smalzy? we know. Black and white? we know. But its a must have. If you have never seen it - try it. Some wonderful performances.
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It's A Wonderful Life
(1946)
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Director: Frank Capra
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The legendary James Stewart (HARVEY, VERTIGO) stars as George Bailey. George is a noble man who has spent much of his life on a crusade to stop shady local businessman Henry Potter (Lionel Barrymore - TREASURE ISLAND, DUEL IN THE SUN) from taking over the picturesque town of Bedford Falls. However, ..read more »
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