Movies You Enjoy Watching Over and Over and Over and Over Again

[Stuart G]

Not in any order...

High Noon
Some Like It Hot
Blazing Saddles
It's A Wonderful Life

[MOMFUDSKI]

1. Chicago

and Tootsie

[k8conant]

2. Fiddler on the Roof

[captain queeg]

3. I don't usually seek to watch a movie multiple times but I find myself rewatching when I stumble

Onto some:

Good, bad, and the ugly
I, robot
Avengers

There’s probably some other ones, and no I’ve only seen the Caine mutiny once, but I’d watch it again if I had a chance.

[niyad]

4. listing just a few:

Some Like It Hot
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Sabrina (both versions)
Casablanca
Notting Hill
My Fair Lady
Gone With the Wind
Young Frankenstein
1776
Music Man
Victor Victoria
Indiscreet
Any Katharine Hepburn movie

[Stuart G]

7. Well.....niyad..I forgot one of my favorites of all time ...thank you..niyad, "Casablanca"

[niyad]

10. And I forgot to list It's A Wonderful Life.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Where Eagles Dare

Love it when those Nazis get their ass kicked.

[First Speaker]

11. This is one of the most absurd movies ever made...

...and one of the most entertaining. Richard Burton's hairstyle alone would have got him arrested in the real Nazi Germany. And *why*, exactly, did the two surviving traitors want to go down in the cable car at all, when they were perfectly safe holding onto Clint Eastwood and waiting for the Nazis to come to their rescue? And if you look clearly at the "Nazis" in the car in the last scene at the airport, it's painfully obvious they're dummies. Who cares? I can watch this film forever...

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Yes it had many logical plot fallacies, there are websites devoted to it.

It was fascinating for me because of when it was released, just about at a peak in the Cold War, when USSR invaded Czechoslovakia.

They could never make that movie today. It would all be computer graphics. The stunt men would be too big a risk, they would never replicate the stars, even the small European towns no longer resemble the 1940s. They couldn't afford it, lengthwise or budgetwise.

The helicopter was post war era. They never ran out of bullets or explosives, and the Germans were such bad shots they only got nicked once.

Darren Nesbitt is the last surviving cast member, has a couple of entertaining interviews on YouTube.

[Peregrine Took]

6. 39 Steps, Wait until Dark, Harvey, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Body Heat, Double Indemnity.n/t

[YDogg]

31. What are the 39 steps?

[yellowdogintexas]

67. Hitchcock's first movie. Spy story in England

Very good and moody

If you get a chance, watch it and then find a production of the stage play - it is a riot. Five actors playing about 20 parts and make it up as we go along props.

Note to self, find out if it is on a streaming service somewhere

[Mister Ed]

8. Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet". n/t

[Stuart G]

13. I had never seen it when I saw Zefferelli's verson of "Romeo and Juliet"...and..when it was over...

I cried like I was supposed to....That movie was so sad...why? ...because Shakespeare was a great writer....

On a lighter note....

..A wonderful happy film is also by that guy...Shakespeare ...."Taming of the Shrew"..........

with Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Burton... And yes, the two were really in love in that movie, inside and outside of the movie.

[usonian]

38. Try "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf" with that same dynamic duo.

Wouldn't watch it over and over!

[FalloutShelter]

9. Very eclectic...

Some Like It Hot
Hudsucker Proxy
Local Hero
Goodfellas
All About Eve
The Lion In Winter

[yourout]

14. Airplane

[bottomofthehill]

15. My cousin Vinnie.

Makes me laugh every time I watch it or any part of it.

[thatcrowwoman]

16. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Fiddler on the Roof
My Fair Lady
Robin and Marian
Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet
The Hunger Games series
Hamilton
🕊thatcrowwoman

[LearnedHand]

53. O Brother is one of my oft repeats as well

A nearly perfect film with the BEST soundtrack

[thatcrowwoman]

58. Black Panther

Wizard of Oz
Princess Bride
Harold and Maude
🕊tcw

[Jrose]

17. West Side Story, orig. 1960s version,

The original 'A Star is Born' with Judy Garland,
'The Wizard of Oz' with Judy G.

Forrest Gump

Moonstruck

Live and Let Die

[Permanut]

18. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers..

A masterpiece of special effects for Ray Harryhausen.

1956 - he got no help from electronics or software.

[Beatlelvr]

19. Tombstone!

It's a Wonderful Life
Tootsie
Philadelphia Story
Bringing up Baby
Any Thin Man movie with William Powell
Any of the Bourne movies
You Can't Take it With You
Dave
A Fish called Wanda
Castaway

[cornball 24]

20. Dances with Wolves, Summer and Smoke.

[Mad_Dem_X]

21. A Hard Day's Night,

The Shawshank Redemption
Tootsie
Napoleon Dynamite
All About Eve
...and more I can't think of right now. LOL

[cloudbase]

22. Dr. Strangelove

Young Frankenstein

[Brother Buzz]

23. Get Shorty

I was bummed Elmore Leonard died and left us with just two Chili Palmer novels. The books, Get Shorty and Be Cool were great reads, but the movies were every bit as good.


Oh, I just love John Lurie's composition, Stink

[303squadron]

24. A few

Casablanca
Paths of Glory
Shawshank Redemption
That Thing You Do
Master and Commander
Maltese Falcon
LA Confidential
Forbidden Planet
The Producers
A Hard Days Night
Dr. Strangelove
Chinatown
Squadron 303

[Lochloosa]

25. The Godfather. Including the book.

[Emile]

26. Back to School

[keithbvadu2]

27. Godfather series, Shaka Zulu, Horatio Hornblower series.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. List Is Too Long

I'm not kidding. It's got to be a hundred.
Here's a few:
Silverado, Wyatt Earp, Tombstone, the Bourne movies, the Die Hard movies (except for Vengeance), and so on.

[AltairIV]

29. A small sample

I own thousands of films in a variety of formats, vhs, laserdisc, vcd, DVD, streaming, etc. Film has taken me around the world and deep into space and deeper still into the minds of a great cross section of humanity. My library is filled with books that delve into the technical aspects on the creation of some classics, the directors who create these works and the criticism of some films of great stature and some horrific stinkers that still manage to entertain. I follow genre's, actors and actresses, directors and in the case of documentaries, subject matter. But some of the films I repeatedly come back to:
Once Upon a Time in the West
Roman Holiday
Red
Forbidden Planet
The East is Red (Bridgette Lin)
In the Mood for Love
Pandora's Box

[YDogg]

33. Looks like we're shy one horse.

You brought two too many.

[AltairIV]

36. Once upon a time......

A great opening scene all with no accompanying music, rare for opening credits. That was a great piece of dialogue between Jack Elam and Charles Bronson, but before that did you believe Elam was going to shoot that fly? I did.

[Tanuki]

30. Thanks for this thread...I'm bookmarking it because there are

quite a few on people's lists that I've never seen and will check out!

[vapor2]

32. Love this question

Blues Brothers

Lala Land

Moulin Rouge

[YDogg]

34. Vertigo.

Plus a couple already mentioned. 😀

[YDogg]

41. And Charade.

[niyad]

49. YES!!!!

[rurallib]

35. Doctor Zhivago

The Pawnbroker
Hard Day's Night
Miracle on 34th Street

[Aristus]

37. "The Princess Bride."

Never gets old.

[bahboo]

39. Sideways...saves us a trip to Santa Barbara Co. wine country...

[2naSalit]

43. That was an interesting one.

[quaint]

40. Caddy Shack, Airplane, Excalibur

Many others but, um...

[3catwoman3]

42. My Fair Lady.

The Sound of Music
Chicago
The Music Man
Fiddler On The Roof - the first half/ the second half is too sad
(I love musicals)

Philadelphia Story
Flight of the Phoenix
BIG

[usonian]

44. Groundhog Day, of course!

A movie that depicts a day that repeats over and over deserves to be seen over and over.

Until you "get" the deeper meaning.
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1270&pid=8352
Groundhog Day is a Buddhist parable for our times.

By finding the Buddhahood in others, Phil discovered it in himself. 𑁍

[Jeebo]

45. Movies that I can't NOT watch when they come on TV.

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Many of them are on TV often, so I've seen them all dozens of times.

The Martian
Forbidden Planet
A League of Their Own
The first two Alien movies
Taken
Dr. Strangelove
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 and 1978 versions)
Casablanca
My Fair Lady
A Night to Remember (the best Titanic movie ever made, in my humble opinion)
Schindler's List
Ben-Hur
The Ten Commandments
Samson and Delilah
Spartacus (the 1960 movie and the 2010-2013 TV series)
War of the Worlds (1953 version, the recent remake was AWFUL)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 version, the recent remake was PATHETIC)
Double Indemnity
The Parent Trap (the original Hayley Mills version, but I like the Lindsay Lohan version too)
The Heiress (Olivia de Havilland's best movie, IMHO)
Metropolis
Battleship Potemkin
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Kings Row (Ronald Reagan's favorite of all his movies)
Queen Christina (Greta Garbo's best movie, IMHO)
The Miracle Worker
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Bringing Up Baby
Beauty and the Beast (1946 French language version)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Wall (Austrian film, 2012)

Okay, now I'm getting into films that don't often show up on TV, but they still fit into the category of movies I can watch over and over and over. I could think of a couple dozen more, I'm sure, if I wanted to sit here thinking about this for a while longer.

-- Ron

[2naSalit]

46. Some of my favs are sets...

Like

Men in Black, all of them
Back to the Future
Lord of the Rings (read the books w/The Hobbit 3 times),
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
A Fish Called Wanda or any Monty Python movie.

I like comedy, there are others but I can't think of them right now.

[yellowdogintexas]

63. we are big into the great series:

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Indiana Jones
All the Tolkien
Star Wars
Back to the Future
Spaghetti Westerns
Men In Black
Harry Potter

We refer to these as "Numb-Butticans" when we marathon them

[Nictuku]

47. The Princess Bride

[Glorfindel]

48. The Lion in Winter

Rat Race

[Maraya1969]

50. All three versions of Shrek and Despicable ME - I love the minions.

[area51]

51. Marx Brothers movies

and The Lost Boys vampire flick.

[LearnedHand]

52. Galaxy Quest

Smoke Signals
The Right Stuff
Hunger Games series
V for Vendetta
Apocalypse Now
Arrival
Amadeus
Most of the Avengers films
Interstellar
Rogue One
Battlestar Galáctica (the 2004 series; not a film but I've watched it all the way through about 6 times)

[Chipper Chat]

54. All the presidents men

And RECOUNT

[NowsTheTime]

55. Die Hard Crimson Tide Red October

[electric_blue68]

56. Non-SF/F: Shawshank, Mrs Doubtfire, Dave.

SF/F:
ST: TMP, TVH, TUC. Kelvin Timeline: Enterprise ST/NG: FC

SW: TESB, ROJ, TPM, ROTS, TLJ, TROS

Independence Day
The Jurassic Park Series
Contact
Close Encounters
Batteries Not Included


Lord Of The Rings: All three

[betsuni]

57. Best movie ever:

[nuxvomica]

59. Citizen Kane, The Lion in Winter, Casablanca, Jumanji

The Robin Williams version of Jumanji, that is.

[windje]

60. Pulp Fiction No Country for Old Men

[milestogo]

61. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[Paladin]

62. "Bridge On The River Kwai," "Kiss Me Kate," "Vertigo,"...

"Twelve O'clock High," "Blazing Saddles," "Victor Victoria," "Treasure Of The Sierra Madre," "In Which We Serve," "L.A. Confidential," "Red River," and dozens of others.

[yellowdogintexas]

64. That's "Victor, Victoria" second mention!

One of our top 2 movies - the other is Amadeus which we went to see the night our daughter was born.

We call it our last burst of freedom for the next 18 years, and for years we watched it on her birthday.

Victor, Victoria was out when we were dating. We loved it! The next week I took my mom to see it and I thought she was going to come unglued she laughed so hard.

[Paladin]

65. Watched "Victor Victoria" just the other night.

Everybody at the very top of their games---actors, director, screenplay, dance numbers, music. Everybody. A genuine pleasure to watch and re-watch, again and again.

[yellowdogintexas]

68. In our opinion it is Blake Edwards' masterpiece

although The Great Race is in a dead heat!

[yellowdogintexas]

66. Trying a list now: combo of stuff listed and stuff not listed

Not listed (at least that I did not see)

In the Heat of the Night. I will jump into that movie regardless of the scene. "They call me MISTER Tibbs" "I got the motive which is money and the body which is DEAD!" Two of the best movie lines ever.

A Christmas Story. "Kid, you'll shoot your eye out"

Babes in Toyland the Laurel and Hardy version hokey as heck and a much cherished part of my childhood/youth. It was broadcast more than once during The Holidays on Channel 5 in Nashville, randomly - often as time filler on Saturdays. In glorious black and white. I found the DVD with both B &W and colorized versions and of course sent them to my sisters. We wrapped many a package, decorated many a tree and baked many a cake with it running in the background

American Dreamer. Hilarious. Romantic. It's in Paris. Great cameo by Vincent Price's wife Coral Brown and definitely JoBeth Williams' best character.

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, if only for Charles Durning's spectacular song and dance number as the Gubn'r. Bad year for Best Supporting Actor: Robert Preston (Victor,Victoria), Durning, and Louis Gossett. Gossett won (Officer and a Gentleman) If these had been 3 separate years, they all would have won the Oscar.

Pocketful of Miracles.
We're No Angels (Humphrey Bogart version) A treasure.
The Great Race (if only for the pie fight and Jack Lemmon!


Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, and many other priceless Miyazaki works of art. Except the firefly one

Already mentioned:
Victor, Victoria
Amadeus
All Mel Brooks
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Princess Bride (we played it for my daughter's sisters in law; we could not believe they had never seen it.)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
All the Godfathers - Even #3 and the book. I have read that book several times
To KIll A Mockingbird
The Lion in Winter

I know there are others, but My Big Fat Tabby Kitty has his head on my keyboard now and things are getting difficult. I have my wrist propped on the top of his head

[Niagara]

69. I'm late for this party.

The Witches of Eastwick

Goodfellas

I Am Legend

Jaws

Death Becomes Her

Stand By Me

Public Enemies

Dances With Wolves

Hud

Tombstone