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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

Nan231 Sat 01-Apr-23 16:34:28

Most films that are true stories. Otherwise, Ghost Bridges of Maddison County Goodnight Mr Tom

Duvetdiva Sat 01-Apr-23 16:40:47

Shall we dance starring Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez and Susan Sarandon

songstress60 Sat 01-Apr-23 16:41:27

Devil
West Side Story
Grease
Christmas Carol (with Alistair Simms)
It's A Wonderful Life
Sixth Sense

Butterflygirl11 Sat 01-Apr-23 16:43:18

Pretty Women
An Officer and a Gentleman
Dirty Dancing
Mrs Doubtfire

Bijou Sat 01-Apr-23 16:54:16

Brief Encounter
Dr Zhivago
Rebecca
Gone with the Wind
Lawrence of Arabia
Jean de Florette
Manon des Sources
Life is Beautiful
Il Postamp
cinema Paradiso
Madame Bovary
Etc

effalump Sat 01-Apr-23 16:59:44

The Magnificent Seven (with Denzel)
The Monuments Men
Paul
Eat Pray Love
Under the Tuscan Sun
and several others

Shazmo24 Sat 01-Apr-23 17:06:38

Cool Runnings
Apollo 13

Grantanow Sat 01-Apr-23 17:08:44

Cinema Paradiso

Allsorts Sat 01-Apr-23 17:12:17

It’s aWonderful Life
Dirty Dancing
Goodnight Mr Tom

annifrance Sat 01-Apr-23 17:13:18

Saving Grave
What we did on our holidays
A good year
Quartet
Pretty Women
BBC series of Tinker Tailor

Shirls52000 Sat 01-Apr-23 17:25:43

Harris27. and B9exchange

Same here plus Ghost, First Wives Club, Sleepless in Seattle and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid oh and I love the animated films Moana and Coco

lefthanded Sat 01-Apr-23 17:28:31

The Longest Day
Casablanca
Airplane!
Blazing Saddles

tidyskatemum Sat 01-Apr-23 17:28:46

Local Hero
African Queen
Where Eagles Dare
Cabaret
The Fifth Element
I Know Where I’m Going
Christmas Carol - both the Alastair Sim one and the Muppets!

Ampersand Sat 01-Apr-23 17:44:06

Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Love is a Many Splendored Thing
An Affair to Remember
Ladies in Lavender
ET
Capernaum
The Bells of St Mary's
The Song of Bernadette
The Nun's story
Black Narcissus

Saetana Sat 01-Apr-23 17:58:54

The Godfather - my all time favourite movie
Goodfellas
The Matrix
Die Hard
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Mummy 1 and 2
Saw 1-3
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Harry Potter series

Saetana Sat 01-Apr-23 17:59:36

Oh and anything by Quentin Tarantino

Janetashbolt Sat 01-Apr-23 18:01:24

Wall-e, Monsters Inc, Monsters University. Yes I know so sad that they are all animations!!

Happygirl79 Sat 01-Apr-23 18:05:54

The Green Mile with Tom Hanks

gulligranny Sat 01-Apr-23 18:07:45

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Brief Encounter
Sliding Doors
Now Voyager - Bette Davis! Those eyes!
Notting Hill
Paddington 2
Local Hero
Field of Dreams
South Pacific
The Big Short

Quite a few more ..

krysiam Sat 01-Apr-23 18:13:51

The Shawshank Redemption
Indiana Jones and the last Crusade (the one with Sean Connery)
Goodnight Mr Tom
Three Billboards
Close Encounters

Jay21 Sat 01-Apr-23 18:50:15

The Holiday
Officer and a Gentleman
Meet the Parents
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

mousemac Sat 01-Apr-23 19:42:03

Life of Brian. Casablanca. Zazi Dans le Métro.
Just do not ask me to watch Marienbad again - it nearly bored me to death first time round.

jerseygirl Sat 01-Apr-23 20:02:57

Dream girls
Billy elliot
pretty woman
i was monty's double
the great escape
the guns of navarone
Saturday night fever

undines Sat 01-Apr-23 20:15:17

Dune (old and new)
Lord of the Rings
Bridget Jones (laughed so much)
Love Actually
Harry Potter (all of them)
Star Trek (love watching with my sons)
Chocolat
The Shape of Water
Avatar - best film ever I was so moved I cried but the follow-up isn't as good.

Jaxjacky Sat 01-Apr-23 20:18:02

The Full Monty
The Hunger
Highlander (original one)
Miracle on 34th St (original one)
Angel Heart
Any Bond film after 2000