Favourite Comfort Films

Calamity Jane
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (brilliant dance sequences)
The Jazz Singer (the Neil Diamond one)
White Christmas

Bridesmaids
The greatest showman
Les miserables
Ghost
Mamma Mia 1&2

Brief Encounter.
Went The Day Well.
The Ladykillers.
Kind Hearts and Coronets.
This Happy Breed.
Mildred Pierce.
Now Voyager.

Witness.
Dirty Dancing.
National Lampoon’s Christmas.

Prefer old ones to modern.

We watched A Room with a View on Saturday. It was lovely and gentle, and made me smile. Simon Callow in the nude!

I watched The Family Way which I taped from Talking Pictures a few days ago. What a fantastic film and so evocative of the 60’s when it was made. I’m still thinking about the film several days later. So touching and poignant.

Ditto to Ghost
Blithe Spirit (the old one with Rex Harrison)
The made for TV Persuasion with Amanda Root
Ditto the Emma with Kate Beckinsale (before she had plastic surgery in order to become a Hollywood clone)
So much better IMO than the cinema version with Gwyneth Paltrow
Truly Madly Deeply
Any of the old Joan Hickson Miss Marples.

The Tamarind Seed - early 70s Cold War thriller with Julie Andrews in her first ‘real’ role, and Omar Sharif as the dodgy Russian trying to recruit her - or is he? Partly set in Barbados, which is another reason I love it. :

Some Like It Hot, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Passport to Pimlico, Gone with the Wind and The Admirable Crichton. Newer ones include Dirty Dancing, Mama Mia (we were in Skiathos when they filmed the boat scene), Ghost and Love Actually

Singing in the Rain
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
My Fair Lady
Some Like it Hot

Groundhog Day- love that on the official Groundhog Day, one of the Sky film channels had it on continuous repeat!!
Sleepless in Seattle (preferably preceded by An Affair to Remember)
You’ve Got Mail (I’d love to be able to find Little Shop on the Corner too for comparison)
Miss Marple (BBC version)
Trading Places
Singing in the Rain
Upstart Crow

I know it’s a bit of a love it or hate it, but we have just watched ‘The Greatest Showman’ for the umpteenth time. Nothing like it for getting everyone singing, and the children dancing.
We love it

Bridges of Madison County (and any film starring or directed by Clint Eastwood)
Brief Encounter, Truly Madly, Deeply, and the Bridget Jones films.

The Sound of Music
Genevieve
Random Harvest - tissues at the ready!

Babyboom

Love Actually
Manhattan
Bridget Jones Diary
Mama Mia
I just realised that these films have great music in them too!

Dahlia
I bought ‘A beautiful day in the neighbourhood’ when it came out, but haven’t rotten round to watching it yet, I shall dig it out and watch it.

We watch "Groundhog Day", and by now we know most of the dialogue, but still wait for the lines that make us laugh out loud!
To cheer myself up, I recently bought "A Beautiful Afternoon in the Neighbourhood" with Tom Hanks, and found this so lovely, gentle yet with a message, too.
We also love "Some Like it Hot" - and "Charade".

nanna8

‘A night to remember’ 1958 film about the Titanic better than the Kate Winslett one. Another one is ‘ A Sound of Music’

I'd forgotten about A Night to Remember too - we only watched it on Monday!
I've got the audio book which the film is based on read by Martin Jarvis. That's one of my favourite comfort listens. The book is by Walter Lord, for anyone who is interested.

Love Actually
About a Boy
Forrest Gump
Pretty Woman
Sleepless in Seattle
You’ve got Mail
When Harry met Sally (especially the cut which includes Harry Connick at the end - yum).

Sara1954

WW010
We watched it just last week, my daughter and I crying at the concert part, I agree, what a lovely family they ended up with

We’re a very small family so my daughter and I keep looking for people to adopt ??. My OH of 8 years has had a hard job understanding that when we say ‘family’ we mean everyone in our close circle. He was brought up that ‘family’ had to be blood relatives. We’ve relaxed him now and he’s all for the extended/all welcome bit ❤️

The Sound of Music
4 Weddings and a Funeral
Bridget Jones
It's a Wonderful Life, The Ladykillers, The Lavender Hill Mob, Brief Encounter, Casablanca, Great Expectations - any of the black and white classics, I'm a slave to nostalgia!

WW010
We watched it just last week, my daughter and I crying at the concert part, I agree, what a lovely family they ended up with

Any Agatha Christie films. I love the era and find it nostalgic and comforting

Sara1954

Our family have a soft spot for About a Boy, so sweet

Oh we love that. I want to be like they are at the end. And the guitar bit at the school concert is wonderful

Oklahoma

‘A night to remember’ 1958 film about the Titanic better than the Kate Winslett one. Another one is ‘ A Sound of Music’