favourite films or dramas you can watch over and over

Alan Bennett's "A Question of Attribution".
The Lion in Winter (Hepburn/O'Toole);
Dinner Ladies;
The Forsyte Saga;
The original Star Trek series and the films;
A Bridge Too Far;
Out of Africa;
Dead Poets Society;
All John Wayne's cavalry films!
Musicals? South Pacific and My Fair Lady.

ps I'm not sure what you mean by dramas, but I really loved the TV series Our Friends in the North.

The Blues Brothers
West Side Story
Dr. Zhivago

Anything starring Bette Davis or Gregory Peck.

It's a mad mad mad mad world ( US comedy film from the sixties)
Groundhog day,
Some like it hot,
All the Pirates of the Carib. Films
Midnight Run
All the Road To...films (Bob Hope)
Oliver (musical)
South Pacific ( musical)

Any John Wayne film and Muppet Christmas carol

Many old films such as Notorious and Now Voyager but I just love Daniel day Lewis in Last of the Mohicans.

For me - Local Hero

For DH - Hunt for Red October (we have got the book, video, DVD, CD, Blu-ray and T shirt)

If I could only have one it would have to be Laurence of Arabia.
Then: Out of Africa
The way we were
Now voyager
The life of Brian
Shawshank Redemption.

I'm with you, SueDonim, on BBC's Pride & Prejudice. No other version will do!

The BBC Pride & Prejudice. My girls know it all off by heart, they love it!

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

The Secret Life of Bees.

Madagascar.

Mamma Mia.

Now Voyager.
Casablanca
Carousel.
The Graduate.
Titanic.
The way we Were.
Anything with Cary Grant.
Most Hitchcock films.

Titanic
Dr Zhivago
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake

Some Like it Hot
Local Hero
Guys and Dolls

Love Actually, Calendar Girls.
Box sets? The West Wing (all of it!) As Time Goes By, To the Manor Born

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

White Christmas

Dirty Dancing

Grease

The Way We Were
The Graduate
Singing in the Rain
Boys from the black stuff
Cracker

Casablanca - we will always have Paris, awwww

Fiddler on The Roof

Larkrise to Candleford

P.S I Love You

When Harry met Sally

Four Weddings

Goodnight Mr.Tom

To Kill A Mockingbird

The Waltons - well !

My all time favourite films are Godfather 1 and 2, Dr Zhivago and Barry Lyndon which was quite niche but exquisite all have wonderful soundtracks and I always feel I could watch them again. I got given "Brief Encounter" a few years ago and whilst this was an acclaimed film of it's time I find the English stilted, cut glass accents highly amusing as well as some of the terminology. I watched it with my late mum once to take her back down memory lane and she said "I'd forgotten how awful the acting was then". Having said that I love "Gone with the Wind". I quite like the Bridget Jones feel good factor films with their romanticised version of England produced no doubt for the American market.

I could watch:
Field of Dreams
Mamma Mia
It happened one night (Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert)
Monkey business (a very young Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Curse of the Black Pearl)

Those lists are all great - I always watch Goodnight Mr Tom - and The Railway Children when it is on. I also love Al Pacino in The Scent of aWoman.

The Glen Miller Story and On Golden Pond. Oh and The African Queen, The Lady in the Van, Saving Private Ryan and The Best Marigold Hotel. That'll do for now

Out of Africa
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Dr Zhivago
The Nun's Story
Bridget Jones Diary
The Boat that Rocked
The Fog
Rhapsody in Blue
The Court Jester
I could go on and on - we are really into repeats!!

For feel good escapism, Mamma Mia! Always makes me smile and I can't help singing along. Sunshine on Leith has the same effect, but possibly more so if you know Edinburgh and don't mind music from The Proclaimers!

Pretty Woman and West Side Story