My favourite comedies, including romcoms, include
The Ladykillers (the original)
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Arsenic and Old Lace
A Shot in the Dark
Pillow Talk
Lover Come Back
Send Me No Flowers
That Touch of Mink
My favourite horror/sci-fi horror movies include
Angel Heart
The Shining
The Omen
Ringu
The Craft
Alien
My favourite war movies include
Ice Cold in Alex
Lawrence of Arabia
Kelly's Heroes
Tobruk
My favourite westerns are
Mackenna's Gold
(It is rather stylised but critics would not mind that if it had been made by Italians. Another critic complained that Gregory Peck was miscast, as though that were possible in any role. He could have been good as one of the Seven Dwarves if he had wanted to. The movie has treasure, a sheriff, a Mexican outlaw, indians, cavalry and a supernatural element, as well as an amazing cast.)
They Call Me Trinity
The Searchers
(Partial Spoiler Alert!:
I like the movie but I have reservations. I think that John Wayne was miscast. Unlike his usual roles, his character is a robber and bully who kicks a harmless disabled man, as well as being a murderous racist who plans to kill his own niece. I believe that some John Wayne fans try to emulate the behaviour of their hero and I doubt that all of them would distinguish this role from his others. However, although it is dated, it is still a masterpiece and it is still the only movie that I know of that shows mortal enemies using the same awful tactics against each other without either side realising that they are doing it.)
Other favourite movies include
Chinatown
Black Narcissus
Out of Africa
Born Free
The Wild Heart (sometimes referred to as Gone to Earth)
The Richard Lester versions of The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers
Sammy Going South
Kill Bill
Quo Vadis
Cabaret
Gold
Rob Roy
The Blue Rose
Spoiler Alert!:
Not many would regard it as a great movie, I suppose but the most romantic and touching scene in any movie, I think, is at the end of the 1961 Steve Reeves film that is now usually called The Thief of Baghdad, although it was called The Blue Rose when I saw it as a child. To win the princess, Reeves' character must endure many adventures and hardships to find a blue rose and give it to her. At literally the last moment, he fails. But then he takes a white rose and says to her "If you love me, then this is a blue rose."
