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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

Gillycats Sat 01-Apr-23 13:26:55

Brief Encounter
Rebecca (1940)
Jaws
1970’s Sinbad movies
Top Gun
Carve Her Name With Pride

RakshaMK Sat 01-Apr-23 13:34:14

Starman

schnackie Sat 01-Apr-23 13:37:36

On but slightly off, topic. My favourite film is a French film called The Big Picture starring Romain Duris. However, a month ago when I was desperately trying to move money around, one of the many, never-ending security questions I was being asked by my bank was 'What is your favourite film?'. Obviously I had set this question ages ago, but could I think of it?? No! Nearly drove me around the bend. Changed my security questions later, but whenever the subject of favourite film comes up, I react with abject horror!
PS My other favourite films are like many of you have mentioned - Goodnight Uncle Tom, Brief Encounter, The Railway Children.

Queenofhearts Sat 01-Apr-23 13:38:11

Chocolate.. All day everyday

grannydarkhair Sat 01-Apr-23 13:47:34

Ktsmum Much though I always enjoy RW films, I much prefer the original of this - La Cage Aux Folles.

homefarm Sat 01-Apr-23 13:53:27

Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Italian Job {original version}

sharon103 Sat 01-Apr-23 13:56:50

Most of the Carry on films
Whistle down the Wind with Hayley Mills
All of the Will Hay films
The Love Match with Arthur Askey.

Bazza Sat 01-Apr-23 13:57:30

Someone else has already said how many of these films are listed in the most hated a couple of days ago! For me
E.T.
Grease
Calamity Jane
Sureshank redemption
Love actually
Original Christmas Carol and Great Expectations.
Probably many more that I can’t remember.

Chaze58 Sat 01-Apr-23 13:57:49

The Rock
The Abyss
The Negotiator
My Cousin Vinny
Guardians of the Galaxy
Any and all of the Marvel films
Definitely no musicals or romance - yuck
I love watching films but find the older films really dated and realise now that the acting wasn’t that great then either. I know that’s not a popular opinion but they all seemed to be full of simpering women and men wearing hats and smoking 😹

Marji58 Sat 01-Apr-23 14:02:59

Grease
Bohemian Rhapsody
Ghost
Mamma Mia
The sound of music

harrysgran Sat 01-Apr-23 14:05:42

The Holiday
Goodnight Mr Tom
Home Alone
Sleepless in Seattle
Buster
Shirley Valentine
Bird on a wire

GreyhairedWarrior Sat 01-Apr-23 14:16:15

Yet another couple of votes for It’s a wonderful life and West Side Story.

I’ll add:

Parenthood

Stella14 Sat 01-Apr-23 14:37:41

Thelma and Louise
Love Actually
The Godfather 1 and 2
Bridget Jones 1 and 2

nexus63 Sat 01-Apr-23 14:46:01

Fahrenheit 451( 1966)
four wedding
green mile
miracle in 34th (attemborough)
nottinghill
an officer and a gentleman
brubaker
die hard movies

i have some of these on video, have about 500 vhs videos, don't any dvd's.

IrishDancing Sat 01-Apr-23 14:48:35

Goodnight Mr Tom
Howard’s End
Elf
White Christmas
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Holiday
Lord of the Rings

knspol Sat 01-Apr-23 14:59:40

Finding your Feet
Love Actually
White Christmas
Notting Hill
Four Weddings
Dirty Dancing
All great feel good films!

2507C0 Sat 01-Apr-23 15:15:52

Uncle Buck
Grease
Big
All of the Back to the Futures
All the Jumanjis
Harvey
Mrs Miniver
The Birdcage
Overboard
All the Brigit Jones films
All the Harry Potters
100 ft Journey
About a Boy
All the Paddintons
Drop Dead Fred
Wilson
The Help
Failure to Launch
The Legally Blondes
Some Like it Hot
Miss Congeniality
Bridesmaids
Both Top Guns
Both Avatars - so 🤩 brilliant!

JudyBloom Sat 01-Apr-23 15:28:49

The Turning Point
The Heroes of Telemark
Ghost
All Audrey Hepburn films
Elvis films
Cliff Richard films
84 Charing Cross Road
Doris Day films
Knight & Day
The Holiday
Alfie
Shirley Valentine
Robert Redford films
Mamma Mia
The Devil Wears Prada
... and more

Nanny123 Sat 01-Apr-23 15:38:31

Sound of Music
The Green Mile (sob)
Pretty Woman
Miracle on 34th Street (David Attenborough)

GrammaH Sat 01-Apr-23 16:08:18

Grease
It's a wonderful life
Cabaret
Love Actually
Bugsy Malone
Four Weddings
My Fair Lady

jangranx Sat 01-Apr-23 16:10:58

Movies I watch over are
Castaway
Shawshank Redemption
About a boy
Florence Foster Jenkins

BeneathTheHowlingStars Sat 01-Apr-23 16:23:36

Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Purge
Dracula 1979
Hellraiser
Silence Of The Lambs

I watch them over and over and never get bored.

madeleine45 Sat 01-Apr-23 16:27:58

Depends on my mood but some old but much loved ones are
Brief Encounter
Casablanca
African Queen ( love humpty gocart in both)
Railway children (original of course)
Pride and Predjudice (loved them all but alison Steadman is such a great Mrs Bennett)
My husband and I used to look out for Casablanca , Brief encounter at christmas time when it seemed to us to be so crazy that to celebrate christmas they put on endless war films!! now of course you can store films and record things but this was before that was possible.

2507C0 Sat 01-Apr-23 16:31:00

Oh! These too!
Sorry not sorry 😂😂😂Romancing the Stone
War of the Roses
Jewell of the Nile

2507C0 Sat 01-Apr-23 16:33:41

Yep! Women and men were so stereotyped. I can’t watch it either. Yuk!