What is your favorite movie and why?

[FJCJ55]

I was torn between Mary and Max and Central Station. Mary and Max is a clay-motion movie about an eight-year-old child who lives in Australia and a Jewish man diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome in New York. The reason why I adore this movie is about how relatable the characters are in their innocence and their loneliness. Additionally, the aesthetic and storytelling are just phenomenal.

Central Station is a Brazilian movie that I discovered as a child while watching movies. At the time, I was fascinated by seeing breasts on the television. This movie was scheduled late and I sat down thinking I was going to see breasts. To my surprise, none were shown, but I kept watching the movie because I was captivated by the interaction between the two protagonists. I always get emotional when I watch Central Station. I think it was one of my first foreign movies that I discovered as well!

[Wesusa]

One of them is Citizen Kane. Definitely one of the most well-crafted stories ever made. It is truly a beautiful swan song of one's entire life that it feels truly like an epic. The other is 2001. What a beautiful film about AI, extraterrestrials, and space travel.

[review-specialist]

We all had a movie that made us watch it a hundred times, mine is Titanic.

Mine is titanic too, teary but definately worth the watch over and over again.

[Sarah Eliza]

Mine is Gunga Din (1939). I watched it constantly growing up and can just about quote it line for line. It's a fantastic adventure movie, with drama and comedy mixed in. The three main British soldiers are played by Victor McLaughlin, Carey Grant, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - some of the best actors of their time and some of my top favorites ever!

[Aashu Chaudhary]

My favourite movie is 13O8. It is horror-drama fiction. The actor has to spend a night in a haunted hotel room. You will love it. It's available on Youtube for free. And it's not 13 zero 8. It's 13 O(O for orange) 8. It's the name of the room actor has to stay.

[Ciska C]

Inception. One of the best movies of our time and really thought provoking

[Akshi Porwal]

I love watching light and fun movies. I love mean girls and have watched it many times.

[Asfiya Z]

Titanic, my all-time favorite movie. The ending really made me cry, and even now when I listen to the title song of that movie, I always end up in tears.

[T T 2]

The movie that I love watching is The Karate Kid. It's just so fun to watch.

[Donna Walker]

Without a doubt The Lord Of The Rings (LOTR) Trilogy! This is the ONLY book to screen adaptation that I actually love the movies just as much as the books! LOTR's Middle Earth is such a complex world and for Peter Jackson to actually portray this and all of the character complexities so perfectly on screen is just incredible. I only wish I had been a part of the making of those terrific, epic and unforgettable movies.

I'm also a huge Harry Potter fan but lets face it the books are so much better than the movies!

Interstellar and The Matrix are also in my favorite movies list.

[Kgomotso Maje]

Blue Velvet. It's a mixture of light and darkness, tragedy and beauty and it made me feel a thousand things all at once. Well directed and well acted, my all time favorite.

[Leonie Vermaak]

Burlesque!!!! I have watched that movie so many times already and still I can't get enough. My reason: Cher and Christina absolutely make this movie a hit, not only cause, to me they brilliant actors but their voices are past amazing!!! In some of the scenes I still get goose bumps when either of them sing. Then the story line is superb. It's the first time that I can actually say I felt like I was part of the story, in the same way as when you read a book.

[DATo]

I have to go through about 20 - 25 movies before I find one i can say I truly liked. Below I have listed the top two after a lifetime of movie watching. It is very difficult for me to choose between them. If I had to pick only one right now it would probably be the second one listed below. (On another day it might be the first.)

Cinema Paradiso (IMPORTANT: the original shorter version NOT the director's cut).
This is a coming-of-age story of a young boy growing up in Sicily right after WWII. He lives in a poor village where the only entertainment is a run down movie theatre. I know this doesn't sound like much, but as you begin to follow this boy's life into adulthood it soon becomes mesmerizing. The ending, which is without dialogue, is the most powerful effect I have ever experienced in cinema and almost everyone who has ever seen it would agree. The first time I watched it I literally and unconsciously rose from my seat laughing and crying at the same time. Don't bother looking up the ending because it will have no meaning unless you've watched the whole movie and it will ruin the movie in the event you decide to watch it. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

The Red Violin
I have recommended this little known movie often to others and have always been rewarded with comments of glowing praise of the movie and thanks for the recommendation. This is a movie which follows the life of a violin from the sixteenth century to the present. It is told in what might be called chapters or vignettes which move forward and back in the history of the violin. It also has an eerie element resulting from the predictions of a tarot card reader. The movie ends on a quiet note, but it will still leave you breathless. "Breathless", with regard to the ending, is something I have heard described by several people to whom I have recommended the movie.

I can strongly recommend both of these movies with the confidence that a true lover of the art of cinema and story telling will not be disappointed.

[Christin Randall]

Tombstone with Val Killer as Doc Holliday. The quotes are timeless, the acting is superb, the characters are fantastic, and it is not a slow western.

[Janelydia Mwangi]

All the series of fast and furious are so intruging that you keep watching them over and over again.