Mine are: Amadeus (film adaptation of the Peter Shaffer play on Mozart) Stealing Beauty (Another Bertulucci classic. Jeremy Iron plays the disillusioned English poet. Live Tyler is delectable. Some breathtaking Tuscan scenery) Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick at his best) Casablanca (The Bogart/Bergman duo - captivating, my best love story/war time film ever) Out of Africa Gandhi (The Richard Attenborough masterpiece) Il Postino (in Italian, based on the Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, one of my fav 'magic realist' poets) Schindler's List (Nobody could do it except Spielberg) Saving Pvt Ryan (ditto) The Color Purple (ditto) Forrest Gump A River Runs through it (quite a bit of Wordsworth's poety-reciting there) Remains of the day (adaptation of the Booker winning Ishiguro novel; Hopkins at his best) Surviving Picasso (Hopkins again!) Howards End (Hopkins again! And the delectable Helena Bonham Carter; adaptation of the EM Foster novel) A Room with a View (A superb adaptation of the EM Foster novel again. With Helena Bonham Carter again - no one could play the feisty Lucy Honeychurch better than she!) Total Eclipse (Based on the life of Arthur Rimbaud, the famous French poet. DiCaprio plays the poet, David Thewlis Paul Verlaine, also a French poet and Rimbaud's homosexual lover. Worth a try) Pride and Prejudice (BBC adaptation with Colin Firth) The Tin Drum and Death in Venice (Both film adaptation of novels by the German Nobel laureates, Gunter Grass and Thomas Mann. The latter is said to be based on Gustav Mahler, the Austrian composer; Visconti has included plenty of his (Mahler's) music in the film, especially his fifth symphony - hauntingly beautiful. His fifth has got to be my all time fav. No doubt) Films by Felini and Polanski Films by Satyajit Ray (Aagantuk tops my Ray list. Satranj ki khilaadi is also cracking) The Monsoon Wedding (Another Meera Nair - I had better not say anything about Kama Sutra! :))