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TV Series & Films you have watched more than once.

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NanKate Fri 16-Jan-26 20:18:12

Whitechapel
Cardinal
Luther

Some like it hot.
Deadly pursuit
Deliverance
The shining
Misery
Halloween

Albert1989 Thu 14-May-26 17:59:54

Mortal Kombat (1995)
Also last years i watch again series of my childhood (1990's) - Highlander, X-Files

Dickens Tue 20-Jan-26 01:11:20

fancyflowers

Also:
My 600 lb life
The Sound of Music
The Italian Job
Mommie Dearest
Airplane
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Any Agatha Christie with Joan Hickson as Miss Marple
A Dark Adapted Eye

Pride and Prejudice

Oh, flip! I forgot that one. I've watched it twice, and will again.

fancyflowers Mon 19-Jan-26 12:48:54

Also:
My 600 lb life
The Sound of Music
The Italian Job
Mommie Dearest
Airplane
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Any Agatha Christie with Joan Hickson as Miss Marple
A Dark Adapted Eye

petra Mon 19-Jan-26 12:15:47

ViceVersa

Do you ever wish you could erase a particular show from your mind, so you could have the joy of watching it afresh again?

Not really as I see/ hear parts that I missed the first time.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched Laurence of Arabia and The Life of Brain but still see/hear little snippets that I’ve missed.

seasider Mon 19-Jan-26 12:03:06

Shirley Valentine, Pretty Woman

Jane43 Mon 19-Jan-26 10:25:51

Basgetti

Oh Jane43, us too. The last episode was just sublime. John’s beautiful eyes in the mirror. Tears were shed her.

My son said he shed so many tears during Endeavour.

Belardo Mon 19-Jan-26 10:14:21

Outlaws, a 2004 TV series starring Phil Daniels and Ray Emmet Brown.

Witzend Mon 19-Jan-26 09:37:07

Real oldies, The Pallisers and Upstairs, Downstairs.

The Way We Live Now - another TV version of Trollope and IMO very well done, with a superb David Suchet in the villainous lead.

Blithe Spirit

All the Joan Hickson Miss Marples

I’d watch Last Tango In Halifax again.

Ditto The Detectorists
The original Rebus series

The Tamarind Seed is a 70s film I’ve watched many times - hardly anybody else ever seems to have heard of it. It featured Julie Andrews in her first ‘non sweet’ role, and Omar Sharif as the Russian who’s trying to recruit her as a spy - or is he? Some superb twists, and very menacing old Cold War/KGB vibes.

Esmay Mon 19-Jan-26 09:15:48

Greyduster - I laughed at that too .
I think that there was a Morse in which Morse says , " when did this adoration of the fishing rod take place ?"
He always had a pithy way of expressing himself.
And John Thaw could portray it .

fancyflowers Mon 19-Jan-26 01:59:26

Downton Abbey
Gone with the Wind
The Towering Inferno
Silence of the Lambs
Gregory's Girl
Clockwise

MayBee70 Mon 19-Jan-26 01:26:01

We watched it last week. I’d been wanting to see it for ages because it also has Johnny Flynn in it but he only has a minor role. My partner really enjoyed it. I wish they wouldn’t always have to add love stories to films that imo don’t really need them, though.What I would like to rewatch is Life After Life ( also about WWII) which was on the BBC a few years ago. I bought all of Kate Atkinsons books after seeing it. I’ve just remembered that the series about The Mitfords is on catchup somewhere ( I spotted it whilst channel hopping last week but then forgot about it).

grannydarkhair Mon 19-Jan-26 01:06:00

I’ve just watched a film new to me - Operation Mincemeat on iPlayer, it’s an updated version of The Man Who Never Was about the plot to make the Germans think an invasion would take place on Greece rather than Sicily.
Although it didn’t get the greatest reviews when it first came out, I really enjoyed it, mostly because of the stellar cast. I always enjoy Colin Firth, Jason Isaacs and Penelope Wilton and even small parts were played by well kent faces, e.g. Simon Russell Beale as Churchill. Yes, it’s a bit improbable in parts, e.g. no bomb damage in London and I admit it’s a bit slow at times but I definitely recommend it.
There’s actually a great choice of fairly old films on iPlayer just now, including one of my all time favourites The Searchers.

Dickens Mon 19-Jan-26 00:27:37

The Ladykillers
Brideshead Revisited
Jewel in The Crown
Sean the Sheep

Purplepixie Sun 18-Jan-26 23:30:17

Last Tango in Halifax! Love it

Basgetti Sun 18-Jan-26 23:03:23

Schindler’s List. Again, now. Rips my heart out.

Basgetti Sun 18-Jan-26 22:23:59

Oh Jane43, us too. The last episode was just sublime. John’s beautiful eyes in the mirror. Tears were shed her.

pinkprincess Sun 18-Jan-26 20:55:05

I am watching The Brothers on Talking Pictures TV.I saw it back in 1972 when I was pregnant with DS2, it brings me happy memories.
Another one I watched at that time was Budgie starring Adam Faith.The day DS2 was born there was an episode on.I had given birth to him by caesarean section under General Anaesthetic, and was just surfacing from it when I heard the theme tune playing on the Ward TV.I can remember shouting ''Can I get out of bed to watch Budgie?''a nurse shouted back ''No you cannot''.I went back to a whoozy sleep again, but still felt I wanted to watch it!

Jane43 Sun 18-Jan-26 15:06:39

Oreo

Greyduster

It occurred to me after I had posted that “Endeavour” contains the only line from a tv series that has ever stuck in my head, when his boss says: “You’d find something suspicious in a saint’s sock drawer”!

I bet it was Thursday that said that to Morse 😂

My son and I love Endeavour and hated it when it came to an end but we have both watched it again.

Jane43 Sun 18-Jan-26 15:04:51

Series:Downtown Abbey, This Is Us, Endeavour, Mind Hunter, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Sanditon, Gavin and Stacey
Films: The Railway Man, Primal Fear, American History X. The Light Between Oceans, Green Book

MartavTaurus Sun 18-Jan-26 13:40:12

Christmas films of course.

Schindlers List.

Esmay Sun 18-Jan-26 09:21:24

Having not had a TV for 30 years - I can watch it from dawn to dusk and beyond .

So several dress sizes up -

The Raj Quartet - all time favourite
Morse
Lewis
Endeavour
Frost
Every Agatha Christie - except those by Kenneth Brannaugh which I dislike intensely .
Every Sherlock Holmes even the Sheldon Reynolds series .
Heat and Dust
A Room With A View
Harry Potter

The Red Shoes - on yesterday made late going out!
All Hitchcock films - including North By Northwest and Dial M for Murder
Anything by Spielberg except The Gondoliers .
Far From The Madding Crowd
Dr Zhivago - incredible film
Brief Encounter
The Remains Of The Day
Little Women - Katherine Hepburn then Wynona Rider as Jo.
Any Bronte
Any Austen
Any Shakespeare
The Maltese Falcon
The Third Man
Countless black and white films including any by Charlie Chaplin and recently Jacques Tati .
The list is endless....

Guide to weight loss and super fitness-get rid of The Box .

MiniMoon Sat 17-Jan-26 23:35:36

Here are my favourites, watched many times.

TV:
Dad's Army
To the Manor Born
Pride and Prejudice
Dr Who
Star Trek The Next Generation
Bewitched

Films:

North by Northwest
Billy Elliott
Love Actually
Cold Brook
Field of Dreams
Moonstruck
The Sound of Music
The Thirty Nine Steps

grannydarkhair Sat 17-Jan-26 23:34:36

Countless films and countless times for some - including
All John Wayne Westerns (My late Mum’s influence)
All the Indiana Jones
Most of Hitchcock’s
Most of Spielberg’s
Most of Tarantino’s
The first three Star Wars
Spartacus
Zulu
Some Like It Hot
Goodfellas

Series - a great many and again countless times for some - including
The Sopranos
The West Wing
Vikings
Oz
Rome
Deadwood
ER
The Big Bang Theory
Frasier (but only up to when Daphne and Niles get together)
Dad’s Army
Two And A Half Men (but only the Charlie Sheen episodes)
Dinnerladies

LOUISA1523 Sat 17-Jan-26 23:16:13

Tenko

Gracesnan Sat 17-Jan-26 22:52:28

The hand that rocks the cradle.