Raise your hand if you have a Gen Z sister who’s desperate for some movie education. (*Abi raises own hand*) You guys, I take my role as Sophie’s older sister very seriously, and when I realized just how many amazing movies this 18-year-old hasn’t seen yet, I wasn’t mad, I was just very, very disappointed. In both of us. Now I’m taking matters into my own hands and introducing her to the greats – a new movie every time she comes home from college! We’ll use this list – let us know if we’re missing one of your favorites and we’ll add it.
UPDATE: We've added all your suggestions to a printable list for you HERE.
- Ever After
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Jane Eyre
- Romeo and Juliet (1996 version)
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Rebecca
- Little Women (1994 version)
- Anna and the King
- Stepmom
- Jerry Maguire
- A Walk To Remember
- Good Will Hunting
- My Girl
- Titanic
- Forrest Gump
- Dirty Dancing
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Man in the Moon
- Sense and Sensibility
- About Time
- The Notebook
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Hope Floats
- Never Been Kissed
- (500) Days of Summer
- The Proposal
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- Fever Pitch
- Father of the Bride
- Pretty Woman
- While You Were Sleeping
- 13 Going on 30
- My Best Friend's Wedding
- The Wedding Planner
- Bridget Jones’s Diary
- The Wedding Singer
- Groundhog Day
- Sabrina
- It Could Happen to You
- She’s All that
- IQ
- The Mirror Has Two Faces
- Clueless
- Crazy, Stupid, Love
- Sweet Home Alabama
- 50 First Dates
- Sleepless in Seattle
- When Harry Met Sally
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- You’ve Got Mail
- Pretty in Pink
- So I Married an Axe Murderer
- Sixteen Candles
- What’s Up, Doc?
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Notting Hill
- Runaway Bride
- Dan in Real Life
- The Man who Knew Too Little
- Drop Dead Fred
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- What About Bob?
- Legally Blonde
- The Incredible Shrinking Woman
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- The Devil Wears Prada
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Catch Me If You Can
- Gangs of New York
- The Prestige
- Snow Falling on Cedars
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Ben-Hur
- 21
- Stand by Me
- 12 Angry Men
- The Green Mile
- Dead Poets Society
- The Breakfast Club
- Now and Then
- Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Steel Magnolias
- Ghost
- Beaches
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Schindler's List
- Braveheart
- Life is Beautiful
- Inglorious Basterds
- Last of the Mohicans
- Saving Private Ryan
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Die Hard
- The Dark Knight
- Baby Driver
- Count of Monte Cristo
- Ip Man
- Indiana Jones
- Top Gun
- A Knight's Tale
- Fight Club
- Shutter Island
- Parasite
- Sixth Sense
- John Wick
- No Country for Old Men
- V for Vendetta
- Gone Girl
- The Fugitive
- Double Jeopardy
- Misery
- The Usual Suspects
- Jaws
- The Others
- Seven
- Hide and Seek
- The Matrix
- Inception
- Interstellar
- Gattaca
- Terminator
- Predator
- Aliens
- Back to the Future
- The Thing
- Alien
- The Parent Trap
- A League of Their Own
- The Goonies
- Princess Bride
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Cool Runnings
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Spirited Away
- Funny Face
- Moulin Rouge
- Footloose
- Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
- West Side Story
- My Fair Lady
- The Sound of Music
- The Music Man
- Grease
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This one is SO GOOD but so overlooked, even I forget about it, yet I love it! DUPLEX with Ben Stiller & Drew Barrymore. It’s so funny!
Ghost in the Darkness – Val Kilmer
The Saint – Val Kilmer
Rocketman (comedy)
Highlander – Christopher Lambert
By the light of the silvery moon -Doris Day
On moonlight bay – Doris Day
Calamity Jane – Doris Day
Pillow talk – Doris Day
Move over darling – Doris Day
Send me no flowers -Doris Day
First Knight – Sean Connery
27 Dresses – Katherine Heigel
Long Riders – Western
Pale Riders – Western
McClintock – John Wayne
Maverick – Mel Gibson & James Garner
Lethal Weapons – Mel Gibson & Danny Glover
Funny Girl
Singing in the Rain
She’s the Man
Romantic Drama: Time Traveller’s Wife (NOT the series that sucks), Always, Bicentennial Man, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Step Up, Forever Young, Australia
Comedy: Oscar, Shanghai Noon
Dark Comedy: Death Becomes Her
Drama: Radio, Holes, Ocean’s Eleven (comedy/drama?)
Western: Conagher, The Quick and the Dead
War: The Last Samurai
Action/Adventure: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Hero, Tomb Raider
SciFi/ Action: John Carter, In Time, Impostor, Phenomenon
Fantasy: Underworld
Family: Ferngully, Swiss Family Robinson, Lizzie McGuire Movie, A Cinderella Story, Prince of Egypt, Hook
Musical: Fiddler on the Roof, Rigoletto
My favorite movie as a teen was “That Thing You Do!”