My Fair Lady
Director: George Cukor
Now this is a time-honoured classic if I've ever seen one. It's based on George Shaw's Pygmalion, but utterly magical on screen, and Audrey Hepburn is incomparable as Eliza Doolittle, as is Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins, the eccentric chauvinistic language professor who embarks on an experiment on Eliza to demonstrate that with elocution, any woman can become a lady. What is so marvellously compelling about My Fair Lady is that, at its core, it is a movie about love, without being hackneyed, saccharine or cliched in the least. See, Hollywood, IT IS POSSIBLE.
Populated by a fabulous, larger-than-life array of actors, and boasts some of the best music that has ever come out of Broadway, I must have watched this to excess of forty times in my life since a very tender age, and to date I have never been bored by it.