Half Baked
Cool Hand Luke
The Great Escape

5th Element gets honorable mention

1. Young guns...best movie ever (best dollar eighty I ever spent)
2. Tombstone (I'll be your huckleberry)
3. Fight club (The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.)

The Lion in Winter
Young Frankenstein
Singin' in the Rain

Off the cuff...

2010
Take the Money and Run
Life of Brian
The Jerk (hon mention)

Comedy: My Cousin Vinny

Romance: Trouble With The Curve

Classic: Casablanca

Gone With the Wind, Animal House, Young Frankenstein

Why only three mister?
My all-time favourites: (not necessarily in this order)

1. Richard Linklater: Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight
2. Alexander Payne: Sideways, Nebraska, The Descendants
3. Zhang Yimou: House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Raise the Red Lantern
4. Bicycle Thieves, Taxi Driver, Singin' in the Rain, Lost in Translation, Mad Max: Fury Road, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Casablanca, The Shawshank Redemption, The Artist, The Last Picture Show, Spotlight, The White Ribbon, My Week With Marilyn, Life of Brian, Toy Story 1-2-3, Contact, Religulous, Blade Runner 2049, Babel, 13 Tzameti, Bowling for Columbine, Billy Elliott, Le Havre, Sleepless in Seattle, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki, Jean de Florette, Kill Bill 1-2... I could go on and on and on but I'll stop now lol

Only three? Yikes! (He says, as if he's never considered the question before) I'd say...

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Toss-up between Cool Hand Luke, Ordinary People, Casablanca, Annie Hall, Inherit the Wind, Lion in Winter, The Godfather (Parts I & II, not necessarily in that order), Life of Brian, Singin' In the Rain, Another Woman (Woody Allen's unknown masterpiece), Hannah and Her Sisters, Take the Money and Run, Young Frankenstein, Manhattan, Bull Durham, The Verdict, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, The Hustler, Waiting for Guffman, The Princess Bride, American Beauty, Apollo 13, and Pulp Fiction, depending on the day.

Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo, The Decameron by Pier Paolo Pasolini & the australian classic The Tracker. many more, too many to count. i was tempted to cheat & list Roots, but that's a so-called mini series.

Comedy: Ishtar

Visual/Narrative: The Darjeeling Limited

Classic/Romance: Top Hat

Wow, there's too many to choose from but at this moment in time, I'd say:

To Kill a Mockingbird
Eat Drink Man Woman
Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal

Three movies not just three... I like many of the ones listed here so I am going to go for the slightly odd:
Willow
Lady Hawke
Revenger's Tragedy

Apollo 13

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Martian

Only Three? How am I going to do that? Three is not nearly enough! Ok let's see...

1. Shawshank Redemption
   There's a tie for second (my way of sneaking in another movie, lol) 2) Hunt for Red October & Dances with Wolves
   And 3) The Man from Snowy River

Spinal Tap, Godfather 2, (fluctuates).

1. Gandhi
2. Shawshank redemption
3. Elmer Gantry

1. Alien-Because it scared the shit out of me.
2. The Beast- The Soviet tank in Afghanistan, a character study.
3. The Great Dictator- His speech says it all.

Favorite movies change with the seasons in my life so I will pass. But I consider the "Dude" the greatest character created in Hollywood. Not a bad choice there. "Burn after reading" not bad in my book.

Local Hero
Sherlock, Jr.
Lord of the Rings Trilogy

This was really hard.

shining, fear and lothing, wizard of oz

'The Quiet Man'
'Dangerous Beauty' (Overlooked, fine 1997 drama based on true story)
Musical: 'Candide' (2004 Lincoln Center production with Kristin Chenoweth)
'Some Like It Hot' or 'The Producers' - 1968 version with Zero Mostel & Gene Wilder)

1- The night of counting the years (Egyptian - 1969)

2 - Forrest Gump

3 - American Beauty

The nightmare before Xmas, fight club, alien/s (all of them). With honourable mentions to groundhog day and blast from the past. Yeah, i cheated.

Apocalypse Now
Dr. Strangelove
Pulp Fiction
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Tip'o'th'hat to the Asphalt Jungle

Serenity, Boondock Saints, Fish Tank
Kids gets an honorable mention