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And to the Parents, what Movies do your Aspies and Auties enjoy watching?

These are my Favourites:

All three Austin Powers movies.
Mary Poppins
My Fair Lady, especially the beginning.
Lady and the Tramp
Herbie: Fully Loaded
Star Wars: Episode III
Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang
Circle of Friends
Mona Lisa Smile
Room to Rent
101 Dalmations
102 Dalmations
Skin Deep
Grease
Saturday Night Fever

There seems to be a theme, here. Oh, Behave!

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Batman Begins
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Cinderella Man
The Lion King
The Fugitive
The Hunt for the Red October
The Princess Bride
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Pink Panther Strikes Again
Lord of the Rings
Karate Kid
Pirates of the Caribbean
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Finding Nemo
Napolean Dynamite
Fantasia and Fantasia 2000

Classics:
Bogart at his best...
Casablanca
To Have and Have not
The African Queen
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Prisoner of Zenda... (Coleman AND Granger versions)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (The Errol Flynn version!)
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Third Man
In Which We Serve
Dunkirk
Ice Cold in Alex
Rommel: The Desert Fox
The Cruel Sea
The Dambusters
The Longest Day (Not the colourised version)
Some Like It Hot.

A SF tendency:
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Forbidden Planet
Dr Strangelove
2001
Westworld
Bladerunner
Existenz
Star Wars
Total Recall
Highlander

Henry V (Branagh AND Olivier)
MASH
Catch-22
Apocalypse Now
For Whom THe Bell Tolls

Once upon a Time in the West
The Magnificent Seven
A Fistful of Dollars
The Good The Bad and the Ugly
High Plains Drifter
The Last of the Mohicans
Silverado
Where the River Bends
Winchester '73
The Far Country
Destry Rides Again
She wore a Yellow Ribbon
El Dorado and Rio Bravo
The Shootist

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Man Who Would Be King
Zulu
The Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1st and 3rd)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Producers
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Cabaret
The Wizard of OZ
Zardoz (! !!)
The Shawshank Redemption

OK, I'd better stop, though I'm in no way finished.

These are my favorites most favorite: Star Trek Generations, Star Trek Nemise, Star Gate, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Spirited Away, and Tomb Raider.

ok, well my absolute favorite is easy to guess from my forum name Baby, i really love watching Dirty Dancing, its brill

XXX is good as is tales of riddick ( like vin diesel)

Wizard of oz and return to oz
any cartoon by Disney

The american pie series, (all of them)

All the Star Wars films
All the Alien films
Dirty Dancing
Princess Bride
Willow
The Dark Crystal
Labrynth
Alien vs Predator
Strings
XXX
Road Trip
American Pie
Spirited Away
Anything with Harrison Ford in it

The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Shawshank Redemption
GoodFellas
the original Star Wars trilogy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Network
Duck Soup
Million Dollar Baby
the Back to the Future trilogy
King Kong (the Peter Jackson version, though I also love the original)
Alien/Aliens
It's a Wonderful Life
A Night at the Opera
The Incredibles
Fight Club
Xanadu (sue me, I love this movie)
Reefer Madness (the musical version)
The Silence of the Lambs
Clerks
The NeverEnding Story (the sequels sucked, though)
Sin City
anything by Quentin Tarantino
The Goodbye Girl
all Harry Potter movies
The Goonies
Chicago
anything by and/or involving Christopher Guest (esp. Waiting for Guffman)
The Right Stuff
The Godfather
The Chronicles of Narnia (either the animated version or the new live action one)
the Indiana Jones trilogy
Dragonheart (just for the dragon)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Napoleon (silent classic)
Grand Canyon
Finding Nemo
The Legend of Billie Jean (again, sue me)
Little Otik (very disturbing movie, saw it on Sundance)

...and there are dozens more, but these are my personal favorites.

Oh, I also forgot The Emperor's New Groove and Lilo & Stitch. The last great Disney movies, IMHO.

How could I have missed the Marx Brothers!
Then I need Buster Keaton's The General
and Harold Lloyd's Safety Last!

And Gregory Peck flms...
The Guns of Navarone (One of the really great gay love stories)
Moby Dick
Arabesque

Which reminds me I'd forgotten Hitchcock too,
North By NorthWest will serve as a place marker.

In alphabetical order:

Beetlejuice, The Dark Crystal, Edward Scissorhands, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Incredibles, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hellboy, Hulk, Kung Fu Hustle, The Lord of the Rings trillogy, The Matrix, Mirrormask, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Office Space, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Shrek, Shrek 2, Sleepy Hollow, Spaceballs, Spider-Man 2, Strings, The Tripplets of Belleville, Underworld, War of the Worlds (2005), X-Men.

Hero
Pulp Fiction
Dogville
The City of Lost Children
Major Pain
Million Dollar Baby
Fight Club
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

I'm a fan of most of these movies but no one has mentioned "What Dreams May Come."

I know it is sentimental but I love that movie.

Nightmare Before Christmas is also a HUGE favorite of mine.

Frailty is very good.

When I want to cry but I can't I watch Pay it Forward.

Does anyone else watch overly sentimental movies to get rid of emotion?

Top Three: Yentl, On Golden Pond, and Same Time, Next Year.

Others: Foul Play, Tootsie, The Omen, Roman Holiday, Some Like It Hot, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, What's Up, Doc?, Shakespeare In Love, Hotel Rwanda, Sometimes In April, The Day of the Jackal, One Flew Over The Cukoo's Next, The Court Jester, When A Man Loves A Woman, etc.

Love anything with Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Robert Redford, and/or Katharine Hepburn in it.

Oh Yes. "Charade", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" "The Lion in Winter"

Here are some classics:

Honey, I Blew Up Your Mother
Natural Young Cheerleaders IV: The Next Try Outs
The Man With Two Legs And Two Arms And Only One Brain
Outer Space Creatures From... Outer Space
He Was A Zombie! Gasp! Arggghhh!
She's Having An Abortion
Pol Pot: The Musical
Eat, Drink, Poo, Man, Woman, Donkey, Yuk
The Greatest Story Ever Yodelled
Curling's Greatest Injuries Volume Five
My Mother Wore Women's Clothing!
Dial R For Regicide
She Was A He

Secretary
Donnie Darko
Annie Hall
Edward Scissorhands
Walk The Line
Original Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
Kill Bill Vol 1+2
North By Northwest
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen