The complete collection of Emily Blunt’s favourite movies of all time: “It is tough”
From The Devil Wears Prada to A Quiet Place and Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt has found no shortage of success since she began acting as a teenager, finding no genre too much of a challenge.
That’s probably because she has such varied taste in movies herself, citing everything from horror classics and romantic epics as some of her favourite movies, unable to box herself into any specific niche.
Over the years, Blunt has shared a variety of movies that she considers her all-time favourites, and there’s one that stands out, consistently mentioned by the actor whenever she gets the chance. Blunt loves Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, considering it a perfect movie, and she told Rotten Tomatoes that it is her “favourite film of all time.” She added, “I think it’s a film about people and relationships — and I just think the performances are fantastic.”
During that same interview, she highlighted her love for several movies that have completely enraptured her over the years, like the messy divorce drama Kramer vs Kramer, starring Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman, which she admitted “makes me weep.” Meanwhile, she’ll always have a place in her heart for Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride, revealing, “I’ve seen that many times as a child and it swept me away every time. I loved it.”
Echoing this sentiment, Blunt revealed that she was “swept away” by the 2006 film The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s directorial debut about moral conflict, set against the backdrop of ‘mid-80s East Berlin. The movie garnered plenty of acclaim upon its release, winning the award for ‘Best International Feature Film’ at the Oscars, and Blunt makes a good case for its success.
“You realise there’re these moments in movies that just stay with you forever; it’s wonderful. You get these imprinted moments: a line or a word, or a look, and they stay with you forever,” she said of the final scene of the film.
Asked by Elle about her top four favourite movies, she gave some more titles that she adores, finding it hard to pick just a few of the ones she loves the most. “Dirty Dancing is there—massive part of my teenage world. Jaws. Bloody hell, this is so hard. The Godfather. It is tough. I want Pretty Woman in there, I want Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in there. Can I do both of them?”
But that’s not all. Letterboxd asked her the same iconic question, to which she brought some new answers alongside Jaws, like the epic Lawrence of Arabia, the controversial classic Gone With the Wind, and Romancing the Stone. Speaking of the latter, the 1984 adventure comedy starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, Blunt said, “I must have seen it 50 times. I think, for me, my favourite love stories aren’t the ones that aren’t too serious, too earnest. They’re messy, they’re chaotic, they’re life.”
Emily Blunt’s favourite movies:
- Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
- Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979)
- The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Miloš Forman, 1975)
- The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
- Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987)
- The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
- Pretty Woman (Garry Marshall, 1990)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989)
- Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
- Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
- Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis, 1984)
