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List favourite films for various groups, Butchers, Bakers & Candlestick Makers.
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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
or ... Apocellipsis Now
Movies for Politicians and Diplomats
Thatcher in the Rye
A Mandleson for All Seasons
Grosse Pointe Blunkett
The Spy Who Cameron From The Cold
Investigation of an Expenses Claim Above Suspicion which is giving me some déjà vu.
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Bring me the Head of State of Antigua and Barbuda
Hansard
Star Trek: The Early-Day Motion Picture
Gove Actually
The Referendum Story
Watergate Down
Brotherhood of the Travelling Sycophants
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Harry Potter And The Star Chamber Of Secrets
I Spy Strangers On A Train
A Man for All Sessions
Black Rod Down That walking backwards down steps isn't easy, you know
The Thief of Baghdad Fill in the starring role according to your political convictions
Seven Years of Tebbit
Dial M for Merkel
M. Hollande's Opus
The Good, The Bad, and The Unacceptable Faces of Capitalism
Raising Funds
The House That Roared
Blunkett & Maclean
Dead Man Voting
The Right Ballot Stuff
Toy Tory
Alien Personation
The Mancunian Candidate
All The President's Interns
The Never-Ending Tory
Tory! Tory! Tory!
Devolution
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Cymru
Fun with Nick and Dave
Dave and Nick's Excellent Adventure
For A Few Votes More
I Know How You Voted Last Summer
Tango And Cash For Questions
Or, alternatively, Quango and Cash for Questions
The Mitt and the Pendulum
I Married A Monster Raving Loony From Outer Space
Tax Driver
Negotiated Settlement at the OK Corral
Octembassy
UN Observers Saw What You Did Last Summer
Treaty-Treaty-Bang-Bang
Philabuster
Two Jags for Sister Sara
For Whom The Division Bell Tolls
Labour Isn't Working Girl
Voting For Mr Goodbar
The Good, The Bad, And The Axis Of Evil
Das Vote
Last Quango in Paris
All Quiet On The West Wing
The Dukes of Hansard
Orda! Orda! Orda!
The Third Manifesto
A Returning Officer And A Gentleman
Referendum And Dumber
White Paper Moon
The Hills Have Ayes To The Left
The Peacekeepers of Navarone
In The Heat Of The All Night Sitting
The Diplomatic Bunch
Throw Momma From The Gravy Train
Attaché The Block
Mornington Crescent
Audience
shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Grim Reaper
I thank you...
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