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Kind of surprised no one mentioned the Great Escape yet, or Taken.

Otherwise most of the movies on my list have already been covered.
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A few that I consider worth watching if I find them on the program guide...in no particular order.

Sneakers ("I can't kill my friend. Please kill my friend.")
The Silence of the Lambs ("It puts the lotion on its skin...")
Heat (Pacino & DeNiro!)
Ronin (DeNiro and Jean Reno!)
Snatch (Never trust a man with a pig farm)
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (Crazy)
Bullit (the car chase and 60's jazz)
Hellfighters (John Wayne as Red Adair!)
Unbreakable (What good is a supervillian without a hero?)
Avatar (Oh. My. Gosh.)
Die Hard (The first was the best)
Back 2 the Future (All three, just because they are harmless fun)
Raiders of the Lost Ark & Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade (The best ones)
Duel (epic road rage)
Fargo ("That would be your partner in the wood chipper?")
Boondock Saints (Guns. Lots of guns.)
WALL-E ("EVE!")
Grand Prix (James Garner.)
The Sting (Redford & Newman)
Unforgiven (Eastwood at his best!)
The Abyss ("Raise your hand if you thought that was a Russian water tentacle?")
The various James Bond movies (Some better than others but all have their own unique entertainment value)
Space Cowboys (The cast alone)
No Country for Old Men (Anton Chigurgh. FCK!)
Fight Club (First rule of fight club...)
The Big Lebowski ("Dude!)
Star Wars Ep. IV (The original and first)
Blade Runner ("You see a wasp...")
Witness (Amish...)
The Dirty Dozen (Its the cast!)
Flesh & Blood ("Martin's Gettin' Raped!")
The Princess Bride ("They don't get eaten by the eels at this time.")
Marathon Man ("Is it safe?")
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You guys have covered most of my favorites, but I'll add the following:

The Right Stuff
The Three/Four Musketeers (the 1973/4 Richard Lester version)
Lawrence of Arabia
Robin Hood (the Errol Flynn version, complete with one of my favorite lines, "That target's a deal too close. Can we have it moved to a fit distance for men to shoot at?")
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staylor wrote:Kind of surprised no one mentioned the Great Escape yet, or Taken.

Otherwise most of the movies on my list have already been covered.
I did, look above.
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No love for The Untouchables? Such a great flick!
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Lokidude wrote:No love for The Untouchables? Such a great flick!
Not so much a favorite...
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Nobody mentioned "The Wild Bunch"?
"Das Boot"?
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From my video collection...

Gettysburg
Gods and Generals
The Enemy Below
The 300 Spartans (Richard Egan, Sir Ralph Richardson)
Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World
Spirit of St. Louis
Quigley Down Under
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh version)
The Hunt for Red October
Enemy at the Gates
The Patriot
Battle of Britain
Gladiator
Das Boot

Not owned, but I try to catch them whenever they are on TV...
The Lost Battalion
any of the even-numbered Star Trek movies

There are others, but they don't come to mind right now.
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It's hard to make a list, because so many have already been mentioned, but I'll add:

The Four Feathers (1939 with John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith and June Duprez), or even the 1977 version with Jane Seymour. The 2002 version was like the remake of the Italian Job. They took the title and made another movie entirely.

Sahara (1943 with Humphrey Bogart) Probably the best war movie made during the conflict it depicted.

They Were Expendable

From Here to Eternity

12 O'clock High

Heartbreak Ridge.
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Personally, I tend to distinguish between movies that I particularly enjoyed or felt strongly about but am in no hurry to see again, and movies that I could/would watch (and have!) over and over again.

All the movies I named are in the latter category.
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