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What films could you watch again and again?

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HowVeryDareYou2 Wed 29-Mar-23 15:22:41

Mine are -

Snatch
Goodfellas
Big
Goodnight Uncle Tom
Ghost
Stella Dallas

MichStew Sat 01-Apr-23 11:09:35

Pretty Woman - I see something new and really clever each time, despite having seen it at least 10 times!
Apollo 13
Sully: Miracle on the Hudson
Notting Hill
Chocolat
The Pelican Brief

DeeDe Sat 01-Apr-23 11:10:00

Four Weddings and a Funeral
Notting Hill
Mad Mad World
Home Alone

CountryMouse22 Sat 01-Apr-23 11:13:55

Remains of the Day (perfect in every way)
Bridge on the River Kwai
Ice Cold in Alex
The Long Arm
Towering Inferno
Magnum Force

annodomini Sat 01-Apr-23 11:14:53

Some Like it Hot, Local Hero, Gregory's Girl, Shakespeare in Love.

AJgranma Sat 01-Apr-23 11:15:32

I watch films/dramas constantly now I live alone. So many to love! Thank goodness for streaming services!
Every year around Christmas I rewatch Babette’s Feast and Little Women (the Susan Sarandon/Winona Ryder/Gabriel Byrne version. Last year watched Dune 3 times.

Nyman1962 Sat 01-Apr-23 11:17:30

The Draughtsman's Contract.
I know it off by heart.

Edith81 Sat 01-Apr-23 11:17:45

Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman
The Sting
The Dirty Dozen
Shawshank Redemption

Sarah59 Sat 01-Apr-23 11:22:29

The Deerhunter, The Constant Gardener, Walkabout, Manchester by the Sea. All very cheerful 🥴

Nannan2 Sat 01-Apr-23 11:22:56

Dont really like to re-watch them much-but will leave a long time inbetween and re-watch Dirty dancing.& The Holiday with Jude Law in. I like different versions of A Christmas Carol. Thats the most really, but i do like to occasionally re-watch a whole series of shows if its been awhile like Poldark, waterloo rd, cutting it, bad girls etc.I like good dramas.

AJgranma Sat 01-Apr-23 11:26:45

Am currently having a Dickens Festival - didn’t like the new Great Expectations so watched the 2013 one with Gillian Anderson - then all of Little Dorrit and Bleak House.

4allweknow Sat 01-Apr-23 11:27:51

The Note
Out of Africa
Pretty Woman

Diplomat Sat 01-Apr-23 11:28:33

Anything with Pierce Brosnan especially Evelyn
A Fish Called Wanda
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Bridget Jones
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Sound of Music
Mary Poppins
Upbeat and funny, don't do sad, scary or violent.

GrannyBettie Sat 01-Apr-23 11:28:50

There are quite a few films I re-watch - sometimes without realising! But 3 I go out of my way to watch again and again are:
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Man With Two Brains
Love at First Bite

The second one I have watched that many times I know it almost verbatim.

sandymac Sat 01-Apr-23 11:33:47

Mandy - a story about a little girl born deaf (with Jack Hawkins)

Granny14 Sat 01-Apr-23 11:37:31

All Of Me
Trains, planes and automobiles.
Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels.
Nuns on the Run.

All comedies, still make me laugh.

InTheCove Sat 01-Apr-23 11:37:51

Something's Gotta Give
Sleeping with the Enemy
There Once was a Christmas that Almost Wasn't

She777 Sat 01-Apr-23 11:38:50

The English Patient
The Guns of Navarone
Priscilla Queen Of The Desert
Strictly Ballroom
Goodfellas
Rabbit Proof Fence
Godfather
The Great Escape
Bridge on The River Kwai

HurdyGurdy Sat 01-Apr-23 11:40:21

The King and I
Fiddler on the Roof
The Shawshank Redemption
The Pelican Brief
Erin Brokovich
Silkwood
The Green Mile
The Omen (original)
Sleeping With the Enemy

JackyB Sat 01-Apr-23 11:40:43

Love Actually
Back to the Future
The Commitments

Philippa111 Sat 01-Apr-23 11:41:58

Ken Russell’s Lady Chatterly
Love Actually
Dr Zhivago
As good as it gets

March1 Sat 01-Apr-23 11:42:53

Darby OGill and the Little People
Warcraft

Romola Sat 01-Apr-23 11:50:01

Some Like it Hot
The English Patient

Kartush Sat 01-Apr-23 11:50:20

All of the Lord of the Rings
All of the Hobbit
the big Easy
The shape of water
Dog Soldiers
And a hundred more I cant think of right now

Borrheid55 Sat 01-Apr-23 11:51:25

Twelve O’Clock High ( used for my leadership training courses, seen and analysed dozens of times!)
It’s aWonderful Life
Fantasia
Gone with the Wind

Bluecat Sat 01-Apr-23 11:51:48

Some Like It Hot
Bringing Up Baby
The Philadelphia Story
The Gospel According To Matthew
Withnail And I
The Big Lebowski
Young Frankenstein

All comedies except for the Gospel, which was made by Pasolini. I watch that one not for religious reasons but because it's a very powerful film.