My Favourite Films

Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian Owen (Nicole Kidman) have always known they are different. They are bound with a curse that any man who they fall in love with them, come to an untimely death so they set out to break the curse. Directed by Griffin Dunne.

2 girls meet at summer camp discover they are long lost sisters and decide to switch places in order to reunite their parents. Played by Lindsay Lohan and starring Natasha Richardson and Dennis Quaid. The Parent Trap is a film that will stick with families for years. Directed by Nancy Meyers based on original 'parent trap' made in 1961.

Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.

Wise guy Ferris Bueller decides its too nice of a day to go to school so takes the day off managing to excuse his girlfriend and best friend from class. Despite what his principal thinks.

Directed by John Hughes and starring Matthew Broderick and Jeffrey Jones.

A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.

Starring Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson and Jessica Tandy.

A middle-aged husband's life (Steve Carrell) changes dramatically when his wife (Julianne Moore) asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, (Ryan Gosling) learning to pick up girls at bars.

Comedy, Drama, Romance

A British woman (played by an American Renne'e Zellwegger) is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary. Starring Hugh Grant and Colin Firth and Directed by Sharon Maguire BJD will keep you laughing till the end.

The story of 2 people with different social backgrounds who meet and fall in love onboard ship Titanic to its untimely death. Directed by James Cameron and starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.

A modern take of Romeo and Juliet set in Miami. Directed by Baz Luhrman and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. This take using Shakespeare's dialogue remains true to the original.

A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources. Starring Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman and directed by Baz Luhrman.

Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance? A musical that you can't help but love.

The Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behaviour between men and woman. Great cast. Dir: Ken Kwapis.

When her brother decides to ditch for a couple weeks in London, Viola heads over to his elite boarding school, disguises herself as him, and proceeds to fall for one of her soccer teammates. Little does she realize she's not the only one with romantic troubles, as she, as he, gets in the middle of a series of intermingled love affairs. Directed by Andy Fickman.

The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world. Directed by Richard Curtis. Improbable and maybe too stereotypical but with its witty script i can't help rewatching it over and over.

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Dir. Michael Hoffman.

Four friends reunite when one friend is expecting a baby they reminisce over one summer in 1970 when they were 12. A girl take on Stand By Me it stars Christina Ricci and narrated by Demi Moore. Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter

After the death of an older brother, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy. Set in the 1980s stars River Phoenix and Will Wheaton.

A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade. Starring Zach Braff and Natalie Portman. Dir. ZB

George Bailey is taken on a journey to see what life would be like if he never existed by an angel trying to earn his wings. Heartwarming and set at christmas it is one of my favourite films. Dir. Frank Capra

When a man and woman flirt with each other at a wedding reception, the sexual tension seems spontaneous. As they break from the party to a hotel room, the flirtation turns into a night filled with passion and remorse. There are two sides to every love story. Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter and dir by Hans Canosa.