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List favourite films for various groups, Butchers, Bakers & Candlestick Makers.
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A Lifebelt Less Ordinary
Gorky Ark
Dinghy Dancing
Starboard Wars
My Brilliant Careen
Adam's Jib
Starboard Memories
Keelhaul the President's Men
Jolly Rogers in the 25th Century
Ice Station Zabra
The Longest Bay
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Dial "M" for Moor
The Whole Nine Yards
Judge Dreadnought
Ironclad Man
There's Something About The Mary Rose
Ahoy Story
BBlast from Avast
Hook, Liner and Sinker
The Last Lighthouse On The Left
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sextants* (But Were Afraid To Ask)
The Greatest Scow on Earth
Bonfire Of The Manatees
Shippin
The Strait Story
The French Lieutenant's Yeoman
I Capture The Forecastle [I don't care how it's pronounced, so there.]
Saving Privateer Ryan
WREN The Day Well?

THE TRAVEL AGENTS' FILM CLUB

Oh Brochure, Where Art Thou?
The Liner in Winter
High Rates of the Caribbean
Herbie Goes Bahamas
Fear and Loathing in Las Palmas
Thomas Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Sophie's First Choice
Easyjet Rider
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
War Of The DisneyWorlds
The Cheap Flight To Rio
Upgrade Pompeii
Cor Fu Panda
Planet Torremolinos
Ryanair's Daughter
A Eurostar Is Born
The Bucket Shop Of Horrors
Three Men and a BMIBaby
Jet Charter
Two Weeks For Sister Sara
They Flew to Bruges
The 40 Year-Old Virgin Airliner
Seven Nights For Seven Brothers
The Spa Who Loved Me
For A Few Dollars More You Can Have An Upgrade
Two Pieces of Identification For Sister Sarah
It's Much Cheaper If You Stay Over A Saturday Night And Sunday Morning
Sleepless in Seattle Airport
Bed and Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Charge of the Excess Baggage
I'd like to take a moment to applaud CdM's "Jet Charter", which is simply lovely (IMHO).
[Phil] Thank you. I was rather pleased with it myself. :-)
The Travel with Harry
Hostel Witness
Brother from Another Lonely Planet
Fortnight in Berlin
Room at the Top
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Break
Carry On Baggage
Yes, My Name Really Is Nobody, It Says So Right There On The Passport
The Good, The Bad, and Tajikistan Airlines
Check-in Run
The Man Who Flew Too Much
Waiting for Fodor
MOVIES FOR POETS, LYRICISTs AND POETRY AND LYRICS ENTHUSIASTS
The Odd Couplet
The Lear Hunter
Catch Me if You Scan
The Da Vinci Ode
Rhyme Bandits
The Odd Couplet
[cfm] - *bzzzzt!*
Wallace & Gromit: The Verse of the Were-Rabbit
The Englishman who Went up a Villanelle and Came Down a Quatrain
No Country for Ode Men
Haiku Noon

Iamb Legend
Gunfight at the Trochee Corral
Spondee, Bloody Spondee
Anapest and the King
and of course, the classic (thank you imdb)
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
e e cummings to America
The Good, the Bard and the Ugly
The Trochee Horror Picture Show
One Or Two Sonnets That I Wrote About Her
The Rhyme Machine
Quatrain Man
Investiture of a Laureate Above Suspicion
Batman and Catalexiswoman
Last Man Stanza
Ditty, Ditty, Bang, Bang!
Burns After Reading
Julius Caesura
Reservoir Doggerel
Bring Me The Head Rhyme Of Alfredo Garcia
ABBA: The Movie
Four Readings and a Funeral
[Phil] Nice one.
Grosse Pointe Blank Verse
Shall I Compare Thee to a Day Last Summer When I Know What You Did?
Homer Alone
[jim] Which can only really be followed by The 40 Year Old Virgil
[jim] Thanks - I was genuinely rather chuffed with that one :-)
Metre and the Wolf
Meet The Parents, Who Fuck You Up
The Wasteland That Time Forgot
Ode To A Big Fat Grecian Urn
Stanza By Me
The Jingle Book
A Tale Of Two Ditties
The Fifth Quartet
Bring Me The Head Of Onoma Topoeia
The Good, The Ballad And The Ugly
Ace Ventura: Petrarch Detective [Phil] What jim said
Oh, and this one comes totally from an imdb search, which always feels a bit like cheating -- especially since I doubt if anyone has ever heard of the (Oscar-nominated!) 1936 original:
Wintercet
A Rhyme for Clockwork Orange
[CdM] In return, I should mention your "Iamb Legend" - very hard to top.
[Kim] Nice (onoma topeia, that is)
Alexandrine
Clerihew Framed Roger Rabbit
Scansion Police Academy
An American Beowulf In London [Phil] Ta. You're right, the others were mediocre.
Singing in the Refrain
Black Bard's Ghost
[Kim] tish, tosh and piffle! The others were just fine and dandy, but "onoma" tickled me more than usual - as did American Beowulf, while we're on the subject.
Iamb Legend [Phil] No, please, don't, stop.
[Kim] That's a Bzzzzzzt! on behalf of CdM.
Apostrophe Now
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