Share your 5 movies that you enjoy watching again. and again. and after some time, again.

[NRaleighLiberal]

Let's stretch it a bit to include multi-episode TV series, just to make it interesting.

Here are my five choices (at the moment!). I will mix the genres a bit....

Out of Africa
Talking Heads - Stop making Sense
Remains of the Day
Lost in Translation
The Singing Detective (with Michael Gambon)

(almost made the list - and may on some days - The Mighty Wind, The English Patient, The Last Waltz, Babel, The Hours, Baraka, Koyaanisqatsi, Six Feet Under)

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Absolutely Out of Africa.

The Last of the Mohicans
In the Name of the Father
The English Patient
Gone With the Wind

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. ah, we would have a fun movie night together! Lots of popcorn for some of those on our lists!

[PoliticAverse]

6. The Last of the Mohicans is a great movie. n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

20. Aside from the fact I think that Daniel Day-Lewis is a hottie...

he's also an excellent actor.

[Duer 157099]

2. OK

The Shining
Pulp Fiction
The Wire (TV series)
Full Metal Jacket
Once Upon a Time in America

[rrneck]

3. Okay

Hellboy II
Unforgiven
The Lion in Winter
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
Gangs of New York

[barbtries]

5. okay,.

moonstruck
a few good men
goodfellas
legal eagles
an american dreamer

that's five - there are quite a few more though. these are all movies i own and i turn to them when i can't find anything on netflix.

[PoliticAverse]

7. What did you like about Lost in Translation ? n/t

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. absolutely everything - music, acting, minimal dialog, undertone of romance/longing,

feeling of isolation, chaos. Just love it.

[Punkingal]

8. Here goes...

All About Eve
One True Thing
JFK
Howard's End
A Few Good Men

[NRaleighLiberal]

15. Howard's End - another that could have made my list.

[Populist_Prole]

9. 5, let's see

Rear window ( 1954 )

The Station Agent

12 Angry Men ( original and HBO remake )

Clerks

Paper Moon

[fizzgig]

11. the station agent is an incredible movie

probably on my list, too

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. thanks for a reminder to watch Station Agent and Rear Window again!

Rear Window and North by Northwest are my fave two Hitchcocks.

[TorchTheWitch]

153. Just watched Paper Moon a few weeks ago for the first time

Loved it! I have no idea how I had missed this one before. I'd heard of it of course but never actually knew what it was about or watched it until very recently.

"I want my two hundred dollars!"

[sarge43]

10. My big five

Ben Hur
Bull Durham
The Lion in Winter
Lawrence of Arabia
Singing in the Rain

[fizzgig]

14. mine

the dark crystal
tombstone
the fifth element
the station agent (borrowed from someone upthread)
the princess bride


i would say the lord of the rings trilogy, but the first one was the only one that didn't epically piss me off.

[stuntcat]

112. yay Dark Crystal!

If we could pick 10 instead of 5 then that would be on my list too, I love watching it.

[fizzgig]

127. it's my favorite movie of all time

i can't even guess how many times i've watched it

[yonder]

239. here! here! for "The Fifth Element"

and that Monty Python one too. what was it? Time Bandits?

[HopeHoops]

16. Here you be...

"Galaxie Quest"
"Out of Towners" (Martin and Hawn)
"My Blue Heaven" (Martin)
"Bodyguard" (Houston)
"Fiddler On The Roof"

There are more on the list, but those are probably the top five.

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. yes, we do dust off Fiddler on the Roof every so often!

[HopeHoops]

22. I've got it on LaserDisc.

[JBoy]

18. My list is all comedies

1. Animal House
2. Airplane
3. Blazing Saddles
4. Napoleon Dynamite
5. Caddyshack.

[NRaleighLiberal]

19. I find great comedies are the hardest to come up with - certainly Airplane..

The Holy Grail - and we love all of Chris Guest's mockumentaries!

[The Blue Flower]

208. Young Frankenstein

Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman crack me up every time.

[Mr.Bill]

51. Under Comedies, I would add

It's a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World.

[DryHump]

59. Duck Soup

Marx Brothers!!!!

[jhrobbins]

64. Auntie Mame and Arthur

[Bibliovore]

159. Noises Off!

I first saw it as a play in LA years and years ago, before the movie came out. None of us had ever heard of it before, but by the end of the second act we were all laughing so hard we were having trouble breathing.

[TorchTheWitch]

155. and The Full Monty

Other than that I can't seem to come up with anymore great comodies except for the Monty Python films. Seems that most comodies are just too dopey for my taste to be worth watching more than once.

[MrMickeysMom]

197. We line up well, JBoy... Here's mine

1. Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World, Part I (never was a part II)
2. Zucker Brother movies (just any of them)
3. Animal House
4. Caddyshack
5. Idiocracy
6. Revenge of the Nerds (most Nerd movies, maybe redundant if Zuckers did this one)
7. Uncle Buck!

[TwilightGardener]

21. Driving Miss Daisy. I don't know why...

Dumb and Dumber. A Christmas Story. O Brother Where Art Thou.

[NRaleighLiberal]

32. Ah, Driving Miss Daisy - also, Trip to Bountiful

[PassingFair]

23. A Christmas Carol (1951 version)

Zoolander
Love Actually
Goodfellas
Casino

[pipi_k]

24. Don't know if the first two

would qualify as "movies", but whatever...

1. Woodstock
2. Led Zeppelin's 1973 concert at MSG in NYC.

Then there's...

3. Apollo 13
4. Jurassic Park (first movie)
5. Excalibur

I actually have about 15 or 20 movies I keep watching over and over again but these are the top ones.

[MiddleFingerMom]

255. My favorite "character" in Woodstock is the man who cleaned the Port-a-Potties.

.
.
.
What an absolutely wonderful DESTROYER of several stereotypes he embodied.
.
.
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All that AND Hendrix!!!
.
.
.

[lindysalsagal]

25. Newer Bond Casino Royale: Daniel Craig.

Just watched it again getting ready to go see skyfall tonight!
Also, The Davinci Code and Angels and Demons. Never get old.
Thomas Crowne Affair. Just like the bonds. fabulous.

[HereSince1628]

26. I don't have 5, but I love re-watching Sixth Sense

That movie REALLY caught me off guard and it's fun to watch how they took advantage of my assumptions.

[seabeyond]

165. two good ones, sixth sense and unbreakable. nt

[NICO9000]

27. My picks

Good Fellas
The Wizard of Oz
The Baader-Meinhof Complex
Napoleon Dynamite
The Fortune Cookie

[classof56]

28. Okay, I'll weigh in!

Casablanca
Vertigo
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Sleeping with the Enemy (my guilty pleasure)
Downton Abbey (since you included TV series)

I like this game!

[NRaleighLiberal]

33. casablanca certainly is a candidate for my list!

[classof56]

57. I know it by heart...

yet it never fails to bring the tears. Don't make 'em like that anymore!

[av8rdave]

211. Someday, I'm going to sit down with a huge pot of coffee and try to watch Casablanca again

If I can somehow stay awake through it, maybe I'll like it.

[savebigbird]

95. DARN!

I wish I would have included Downton Abbey!

[WinstonSmith4740]

120. Sleeping with the Enemy!

I was on my feet screaming "SHOOT HIM!!!" at the TV. Great movie. Really made me appreciate Julia Roberts as an actress.

[rsdsharp]

213. Nancy Price wrote the novel the movie was based on

At the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, I was a history major and took a class called Historians and the Philosophy of History from her ex-husband.

He was not quite as bad as the guy in the movie, but he was close! LOL.

[Stonepounder]

29. In no particular order:

The Princess Bride
Monty Python's Quest For The Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
The African Queen
Casablanca
Yankee Doodle Dandy

OK, so I can't count.

[judesedit]

30. Wuthering Heights, An Affair to Remember, 50 First Dates

[Baitball Blogger]

31. It varies.

Zombieland
Tremors
Sideways
The Client
Hitman

[LibinMo]

34. My five

Being There (my #1 favorite)
Excalibur
Beaches (my guilty pleasure)
Night of the Hunter -the original with Robert Mitchum
Bull Durham

[brewens]

99. I recently watched Being There with my girlfriend. She hadn't seen it before and loved it. n/t

[polly7]

35. Mine:

The Gods Must Be Crazy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Life of Brian
Forrest Gump
The Shawshank Redemption

Not again and again within a short time period, but these are movies I can't see myself getting tired of seeing.

[Texin]

36. Okay. Don't laugh.

Bram Stoker's Dracula (Gary Oldmann was absolutely a tour de force in this)
The Holiday (loved Jack Black and Kate Winslet)
Love, Actually (everything about it)
A Man for All Seasons (breathtaking courage and integrity of Sir Thomas More)
The Remains of the Day (the resigned dignity of Antony Hopkins)

[smackd]

37. every time

The Big Lebowski
LA Confidential
Alien
Fargo
The Big Chill



nothing highbrow, just some great old favorites

[NRaleighLiberal]

40. Ah, LA Confidential and Fargo. Yes!

[dixiegrrrrl]

81. Raising Arizona and the Big Lebowski...they go together so well, don't they?

[1620rock]

38. I'm surprised no one listed The Godfather

Mine Are:

1 The Graduate
2 Apollo 13
3 The Right Stuff
4 Mission To Mars
5 The Shawshank Redemption

[smackd]

39. no, but Goodfellas is on multiple lists

Godfather is magnificent, perhaps a bit too long for the category

[alphafemale]

41. To Kill A Mockingbird

also

The Color Purple
Stand by Me
National Lampoons Vacation
Monty Python's Holy Grail

Also
Christmas Story on Thanksgiving Day and Scrooged sometime during the holidays.

Halloween (original) on Halloween. But I can't imagine watching those any other time.

[NRaleighLiberal]

43. Mockingbird and Purple - two of our favorites.

[pokerfan]

42. That Thing You Do (1996)

whenever I come across it on cable, I can't help but watch the rest of it. Must have seen it twenty times.

Others:
The Great Escape (1963)
From Russia With Love (1963)
The Sting (1973)
Groundhog Day (1993)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. This Is Spinal Tap

The Year of Living Dangerously (yes, I know Mel Gibson is in it, but it's a terrific movie)
Body Heat
A Man For All Seasons
To Kill A Mockingbird

[Scuba]

45. Only five? OK ...

M*A*S*H
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Across the Universe
The Big Lebowski
Fargo

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

46. Forbidden Planet

Pi
Rope
The Maltese Falcon
The Ninth Configuration

[DryHump]

61. Would love to see

Forbidden Planet again!

[Mr.Bill]

47. My Five+

American Graffiti
North To Alaska
Cool Hand Luke
The Hustler
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
The Great Escape

I could probably think of more. One thing these movies have in common is that they are not only great movies, they are collections of great scenes.

[NRaleighLiberal]

49. cool hand luke...superb!

[susanwy]

48. No particular order

Movies I can't seem to click off of on a sat/sun when I'm lazy (can't list just 5):

My Cousin Vinny
The Station Agent
Fargo
Blade Runner (directors cut)
The Shawshank Redemption

The Usual Suspects
When Harry Met Sally
Gladiator
L.A. Confidential
Rocky Horror Picture Show

(I saw Argo last week, I suspect that will be on the list)

[emmadoggy]

50. Hard to narrow it to just five, but

here you go:

Field of Dreams
Dances with Wolves
Notting Hill
Harry Potter (all 8)
Legends of the Fall

(Also: Love Actually, The Color Purple, anything by Pixar...I could go on, but will leave it at that.)

[pangaia]

52. Seven Samurai..

Seven Samurai
Once Upon A Time in the West
Still Life (Chinese)
Koyaanisqatsi-not sure of the spelling

[NRaleighLiberal]

76. I got to see Koyaanisqatsi in Philly with Glass and orchestra playing the music live!

[eyewall]

156. That must have been incredible.

I would have loved to be there.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

53. My favorites:

The Shawshank Redemption
Henry V
Apollo 13
Lion In Winter
Dr. Strangelove
Young Frankenstein

Oops, I can't count!

[stuntcat]

114. ooooo I left off Young Frankenstein!

How did I forget that one!? Well thanks to edits I can go add it now LOL

[grntuscarora]

54. Gee, most of mine are really corny, now that I look at the list.

And, for a non-believer, strangely Christmas-themed. But corny or not, I love 'em!

Friendly Persuasion
Christmas Vacation
White Christmas
Last of the Mohicans
Holiday Inn

[d_r]

55. I can't explain this but

until the end of the world
brazil
the hunger
natural born killers
blade runner

[Pachamama]

232. We were meant to watch movies together....

These are my movies (Directors cut for Brazil and Bladerunner) - but "Until the end of the world"!!!! OMG! Call me crazy, but occasionally I listen to the soundtrack....saw that movie in Berlin when it came out....if I could only find it....William Hurt's least known role....amazing story...

Aahhh Tuttles.....DeNiro's best role ever...

I would only add to the list Young Frankenstein & Blazing Saddles as comedys, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill Films for action and Meet Joe Black (Directors Cut) for romance....

[d_r]

245. you are right

you have good taste in movies

[Lionel Mandrake]

56. Here's a few that seem to have been overlooked

(in no particular order):
Chinatown
El Norte
Dr. Strangelove
The Longest Day
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Lone Star
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original and 1st remake)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Rainmaker
Yojimbo

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

58. Casablanca, Cyrano de Bergerac (Depardieu), Entre Onze Heures Et Minuit, The Big Sleep, Shindler's

List.

[Godot51]

60. Five ...

In no particular order...

Dr. Strangelove
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Big Sleep
Mr. Roberts
Five

[Jakes Progress]

62. Right now what comes to mind:

The Commitments
Big Night
Raising Arizona
To Kill a Mockingbird
Monsters Inc.

Might be different if I spent time thinking harder. Or it might just get more pretentious. I'll go with these.

On edit: Because I don't like limits or math, add The Return of the King.

[NRaleighLiberal]

74. Ah....Big Night....indeed. A favorite (Babette's Feast as well, for foodie flix)

[DryHump]

63. Blade Runner

It's A Wonderful Life
Duck Soup
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
O Brother Where Art Thou

[NRaleighLiberal]

73. We watch It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story multiple times each winter1

[DryHump]

85. Director Frank Capra

captured crowd scenes and heart and America in his films. Brill.

[fiorello]

65. No Marx Brothers? or Charlot? or Woody?

And you call this a left-wing born-in-Kenya socialist site? Let not the Marxes go quietly down the dustbin of history!

So:

1. The Marx Brothers! Any of the 7 greats: Animal crackers... Coconuts... Horsefeathers... Monkey Business... Duck Soup... A Night at the Opera... A Day at the Races. Plus, for a 3-minute taste: Google-up "Lydia the tattooed Lady".

2. Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times. Arguably the best movie ever made. Plus, it's pro-Labor. And it's funny!!

3. Annie Hall... because it's on everyone's list.

4. Bananas... and/or Sleeper (they ard very similar... ).

Note: each of these are certified Democrats, or even worse. Harpo Marx worked for the FDR campaign. Charlie was blacklisted. Woody made a film tribute to blacklisted stars, "The Front", in which every actor (except Woody, who was too young) had been blacklisted in real life.

OK. One to go. So I'm indulging my sappy side...

5. Mary Poppins.

... which taught an entire generation to give to charity and to be suspicious of bankers.

[NRaleighLiberal]

72. Of the Woodies, Annie Hall - maybe Hannah and Her Sisters...or Manhattan.

[Joey Liberal]

66. Here's my list

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Heartbreak Kid
Couples Retreat
Hall Pass
Wedding Crashers
The Sopranos

[NRaleighLiberal]

71. Ah. The Sopranos. top five material - we've watched it twice now...

in a year or so will do it all again!

[Joey Liberal]

162. I never miss a Sopranos episode

I just love that show. Also love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

[pacalo]

228. Which "Heartbreak Kid" -- 1972 or 2007 version?

I just watched my dvd of the 1972 version the other night for the umpteenth time & what makes me love this version so much is the cast. Great comedy. "You're in my spot."

[merrily]

67. Well,

I own certain Christmas movies that I watch every year, if I can, especially while wrapping presents.


Miracle on 34th Street (Natalie Wood version) Unfortunately, I have only the colorized version.

Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim version)

It's A Wonderful Life (surprised no one mentioned it)

Christmas Story

And a really, really esoteric one,

We're No Angels. (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov--who is also in Christmas Carol--and Aldo Ray) very sweet without being cloying.

My Halloween movie, since I don't like really scary films, is Love At First Bite, or Ed Wood, or Beetlejuice, or maybe Bram Stoker's Dracula.

For the rest of the year, I could list maybe 200, especially comedies. ( I don't like paying to be made sad.)

I am surprised that I did not see anything by Lucas or Speilberg mentioned.

[NRaleighLiberal]

70. I'd probably put Close Encounters on my list as an alternate.

[merrily]

78. Yes, and ET and, despite what I said about not paying to be made sad, Schindler's List and Amistad.

But I was also surprised not to see any of the Star Wars series or the Indiana Jones series.

[glinda]

68. After seriously watching too many heavy and art movies I now enjoy

pure escapism and feelie good movies:

French Kiss
Moonstruck
Trading Places
Coming To America
Pride & Prejudice ALL VERSIONS!

And for the Holiday Season I am going to pop in:
Men With Brooms
Mixed Nuts
Anything TIM BURTON


Seriously.... life is too harsh... need to laugh.....

[NRaleighLiberal]

69. ah, you reminded me - Sense and Sensibility!

I confess that I like to work over my movies - love angst, unrequited love, etc!

[glinda]

191. Love that one also. Any Jane Austin.

[Danmel]

75. Here are mine (in no particular order)

To Kill A Mockingbird
Field of Dreams
Trading Places
Moonstruck
My Cousin Vinny

[NRaleighLiberal]

77. Folks...this thread is making me smile!

[Sedona]

80. Can't pick just five.....#1 Forest Gump

Godfather I & II
Young Frankenstein
Castaway
The Color Purple
Gladiator
Aliens
A Wonderful Life
Scarface



I'm going to bookmark this thread, so many great movies, most on Netflix streaming.



Edited for TV Stuff

Angels in America
Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Six Feet Under
Dexter
Carnivale
Deadwood
Mad Men
Big Love
Hell on Wheels

[dixiegrrrrl]

82. ohhh..you reminded me...thanks

The Color Purple

Fried Green Tomatoes

Steel Magnolias

The Godfather

Casino

plus many PBS series like Duchess of Duke Street and Upstairs Downstairs (being supplanted by Downton abbey now)

[bigwillq]

83. Goodfellas

Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
Dumb&Dumber
There's Something About Mary

[Yodaquoter]

84. I can't count the number of times I've watched

The Shawshank Redemption
12 Angry Men
Casablanca
The Natural
Primary Colors

[skeewee08]

86. Here's my five.....

LOTR Trilogy
Shawshank
Princess Bride
Grease
Coming to America

[stuntcat]

87. Casablanca, Jaws, Harold & Maude, Gaslight, and Star Wars episodes 4, 5 or 6

(edit to add To Kill A Mockingbird!)
(edit, AND ALSO YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN!!!!)

[argiel1234]

88. Superman the original movie

Pulp Fiction, 2001 a space oddysey, Silence of the lambs, Halloween(original)

[mythology]

89. Mine

Casablanca
It's a Wonderful Life
Veronica Mars
Gilmore Girls
Blazing Saddles

I had a really hard time leaving Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Lord of the Rings, Shawshank Redemption and The Dark Knight off of the list. Thankfully real life doesn't require such sacrifices.

[Major Nikon]

90. I can't say the first part of the name, but the last part is Volume 27, 29, 30, 41, and 44.

[Flaxbee]

91. The Station Agent, Sense & Sensibility (Emma Thompson's version), Ronin

The Bourne movies
Love, Actually
A&E's Pride and Prejudice
Harvey (old Jimmy Stewart)
Notorious (Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman)
Shawshank (though I hate the scene where Tommy is shot)
Knight and Day - actually kind of funny
The Barbarian Invasions
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
ANY of the Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery! series - Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, or Gaudy Night. Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter and Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane are just perfect.

More than 5, I know. And there would be many more, if my memory were actually functioning right now...

[Ahpook]

92. These are tough :)

Baraka

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Shining

Easy Rider

Maybe another Kubrick movie

[savebigbird]

93. It's too difficult to choose!

Harry Potter (all of them)
White Christmas
Corrina Corrina
New in Town
Leap Year

[peacefreak]

94. Let's see...

American President
Best in Show
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Shawshank Redemption
Off the Map (I know, no one's ever heard of it)
Home for the Holidays

[ColumbusLib]

96. Some more recent addictions

Crazy, Stupid Love, Bridesmaids, Superbad, and two oldies: the Pride & Prejudice 6?hr series with Colin Firth, and Airplane. And the Anne of Green Gables videos.

[brewens]

97. Snatch, Saving Private Ryan, The Godfather II, Raging Bull and all

The Pink Panther movies plus A Shot in the Dark. Actually not really that first Pink Panther so much. The rest and A Shot in the Dark are my favories with that bunch.

[brewens]

100. Hopscotch, Dr Strangelove, China Town, Cross of Iron, Cool Hand Luke.

[bbigrob]

98. Whodathunk?

Seriously? No votes for the great Outlaw Josey Wales?


OJW
Bourne Identity
Braveheart
Shooter
Cooley High

All just fun to watch anytime. Listing five leaves so many greats.

[frogmarch]

101. Secret of Roan Inish

An Unfinished Life

Bridget Jones’s Diary

She Creature (Mermaid Chronicles Part I)

Waking Ned Devine

The Shipping News

These were just off the top of my head. Oops, that was six. Oh, well.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

266. The Secret of Roan Inish has always been in my Top 10...

but the older I get, it may just be #1. Exquisite.

[frogmarch]

269. Yes, exquisite describes it. Everything

about the movie was beautiful.

I think it's my #1 favorite movie too.

[brewens]

102. Christmas movies? Do we just make It's a Wonderful Life default and

go for the next four?

[WRH2]

103. so many

true grit (new one)
Cat people
Dances with wolves
Breaking Bad
Last of the Mohicans

[Initech]

104. My list:

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Hot Fuzz
3. The Avengers (2012)
4. The Dark Knight
5. Animal House

Honorable mentions:

Spaceballs
The Naked Gun
Scarface
Goldeneye
Men In Black
Dumb & Dumber
Airplane!
Casino Royale
Quantum Of Solace
Star Trek (2009)
This Is Spinal Tap
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
Thor
Falling Down
Blazing Saddles
Dodgeball
Old School
Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
LA Confidential
Ruthless People
My Cousin Vinnie

[savebigbird]

105. If TV series count...

...I'd have to include Dr. Who and Monarch of the Glen!!!

[SharonAnn]

107. I just started watching "The Monarch of the Glen" on DVDs (Netflix)

and am really enjoying it.

Also, the "Poldark" series on Netflix streaming

[savebigbird]

122. I love MOTG (Monarch of the Glen)!

If you are enjoying the show, I'd recommend checking out Ballykissangel and Doc Martin. They're also pretty great.

[Gman]

106. Episodes 1 - 6

Six. But what the hey!

[ThoughtCriminal]

108. Hayao Miyazaki's films always make my list

Porco Rosso
Whisper of the Heart
Castle in the Sky
My Neighbor Totoro
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

There are plenty of other films that I'll watch over again. I just happen to be in the mood.

[TheMightyFavog]

110. I will be Cosplaying Porco Rosso at an anime convention next week...

I cosplayed him last year, too.

[ThoughtCriminal]

115. A pig's gotta fly

Enjoy!

[savebigbird]

157. Oh! I love Spirited Away!

[TheMightyFavog]

109. My List:

The Great Escape
Cowboy Bebeop
The Dirty Dozen
The Magnificent Seven
Kelley's Heroes

[GoCubsGo]

111. Just five?

That's going to be tough, but...

The Blues Brothers
Dr. Strangelove
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Sandlot
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

[mrsadm]

113. Young Frankenstein!

[WinstonSmith4740]

125. That's Fronkinsteen.

[sheshe2]

116. Top 5

OK........
Shawshank Redemption
To Kill a Mockingbird
Stand By Me
Harold and Maude
Dirty Dancing

Watched every over and over!

[TM99]

117. This is fun!

I have to agree with Out of Africa as it is a fantastic movie.

Other American movies for me would be:

The Natural
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Blade Runner
The original unedited and unchanged Star Wars triology

I love foreign films, so I have to include these:

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Babettes Gaestebud
Il Postino
Ran
Chariot's of Fire
Autumn Sonata

And one of my favorite genres is the Italian Giallos.

As far as TV series, I could watch Six Feet Under, Queer as Folk, Rome, and Deadwood repeatedly.

[CTyankee]

244. At last, "Chariots of Fire" listed! I always watch it on TV...

Also:

Godfather I and II

The Bicycle Thieves

A Bridge Too Far

Lawrence of Arabia

[TM99]

252. I saw it in theaters

and was hooked ever since. Wonderful movie!

I love all of those you listed as well.

[CTyankee]

253. Oh I saw the original in the movie theatre (I'm old). But it is still a joy again and again. It has

everything: acting, script, cinematography, direction, music. The perfect movie, IMO.

[neeksgeek]

118. Here are my five

1) The Godfather (Parts 1 and 2)
2) Heat (De Niro and Pacino!)
3) Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense - in fact I have an original theatrical poster of this one framed and hanging on the wall
4) Ghostbusters
5) Raiders of the Lost Ark

[WinstonSmith4740]

119. I'm hopelessly old school

Casablanca
The Producers (the real one...Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder)
Seven Year Itch
Blazing Saddles
Hannah and Her Sisters

[adieu]

121. 5 movies

Casablanca
Godfather (I, II and III)
Three Musketeers (1977 Richard Lester version)
Groundhog Day
Shawshank Redemption

[historylovr]

123. Hmm...

Hard to choose just five, but here's my list.

His Girl Friday
The Best Years of Our Lives
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Lion in Winter
The Lord of the Rings

[IrishEyes]

124. Here are my five

The Princess Bride
The Philadelphia Story
Some Like it Hot
Robin Hood
The Mummy

I could go on and on. I like old black & white movies from the thirties and forties a lot. I'm enjoying reading everyone's lists. It gives me some ideas for my netflix queue.

[Harry Monroe]

126. Here ya go!

1) Almost Famous
2) Godfather
3) Godfather, Part II
4) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
5) Forrest Gump

[Taverner]

128. The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Field of Dreams (don't LAUGH!)...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the final episode of Six Feet Under

[JudyM]

273. that clip is intense -- i'd forgotten about that, thanks for the reminder. poignant. nt

[DearHeart]

129. I could pick 10 or more, but...

In no particular order:

Open Range
Tombstone
Shooter
Moonstruck
Murder by Death

[jrandom421]

130. Here's mine

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. We Were Soldiers
3. Apollo 13
4. Casablanca
5. The Great Santini

[sheshe2]

138. The great Santini.....excellent!

based on book by Pat Conroy....great books!
The Prince of Tides was a good movie too.Gotta say the books are usually better than the movies.
Wish they would make a movie on Beach Music....probably couldn't do it justice...great read!

[svpadgham]

131. In no particular order...

Star Wars
Wrath of Khan
Oliver
Conan the Barbarian
Coming to America

Nothing complex about them, just light-hearted fare.

[svpadgham]

132. I bet if people here got together, there would be a lot of this going on...

[flying_wahini]

133. Tough Choices

Cinema Paradiso
Moonstruck
Out of Africa
A Single Man
Room With a View

[RFKHumphreyObama]

134. Haven't watched any of my top 5 in ages

But nevertheless there are movies that I can and in some cases have watched over and over again and rank among my favorites

1. Mary Poppins
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Home Alone 1 and 2
4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
5. Gandhi

[Gumboot]

135. In no particular order....

Vanishing Point

The Usual Suspects

The Wicker Man

Dead Man

Three Colours Red

An eclectic selection here, but life is more fun with a bit of variety, dontcha think?

[Hestia]

136. You Can't Take It With You; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Life and Times

of Judge Roy Bean; The Commitments; V for Vendetta

[7wo7rees]

137. I like yours Raleigh!

Out of Africa - one of the faves
Stop Making Sense - possibly best concert film ever
Remains of the Day - beginning of Miramax's juggernaut
Lost in Translation - Coppola's daughter, who knew she could direct?
Singing Detective - never seen it, but want to because of Gambon

Props for Six Feet Under and Koyaanisqatsi and English and Waltz


Mine:
True Romance
Fatso
The Departed
Boogie Nights
There Will Be Blood

[Graybeard]

139. The Court Jester

.
The Court Jester/ really anything with Danny Kaye.
The pellet with the poison is in the Flagon with the Dragon.

Scaramouche/
Stewart Granger at his most dashing and great sword-play.

King Kong (1933)/
A concert with a movie attached (Max Steiner)

The Wizard Of Oz/
Great memories of the family watching every year.

The Ladykillers/ really anything with Alec Guinness
Great cast but old lady steals the picture.

Vertigo/ really anything Hitchcock
The Master's masterpiece.

[Pryderi]

212. The Court Jester is an overlooked gem of a movie. Here's 5 of mine

1. Godfather
2. Groundhog Day
3. Network
4. 1776
4.1 Inherit the Wind
5. Galaxy Quest

[busterbrown]

140. Man how could you disagree with these?

Best Years Of Our Lives
On The Waterfront
A Man For All Seasons
God Father 2
Fargo

Best List Of The Night!

[SeattleVet]

141. Had to think about this for a bit...

to limit it to the absolute top 5.


1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Koyaanisqatsi/Powaqqatsi/Naqoyqatsi
3. Blazing Saddles
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Blazing Saddles

[NRaleighLiberal]

181. You must watch Baraka - same genre as Koy/Pow/Naq

Spellbinding.

[SeattleVet]

189. And the one from this year...

'Samsara'. Looking forward to seeing it.

[LP2K12]

142. 5

Top Gun
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Saving Private Ryan
The Lion King
The Shawshank Redemption

[kath]

143. The African Queen

and I'll have to think about it real hard to limit my other choices to just four.
I'm going to have to sleep on it (literally).

[zwyziec]

144. Resevoir Dogs and Donny Darko

[NRaleighLiberal]

179. Donnie Darko is superb!

[mrmpa]

145. My 5 are 2 English love stories, 1 political thriller, 1 sports movie and 1 that is a long brawl

Hoosiers

Seven Days in May (Burt Lancaster)

I Know Where I'm Going

Brief Encounter

The Quiet Man

[Incitatus]

146. The 40 year old Virgin, The Hangover, Shawshank Redemption, V for Vendetta, The People vs. Larry Fly

The People vs. Larry Flynt.

[KT2000]

147. M. Butterfly, Shawshank, Color Purple

As Good as it Gets, Corrina Corrina, Usual Suspects and Family Man

[BobTheSubgenius]

237. DIdn't see Family Man on anyone else's list.

One of my favourites in the genre - leaning towards the noxiously-named "chick flick." Also on that list....Notting Hill. Dunno why; I just find it charming.

Miller's Crossing - FANTASTIC period piece, and I really like Gabriel B.

Fellini's Satyricon - a totally visceral experience.

Magic Christian - outrageous and hilarious.

And.....in the Believe It Or Not category...Silverado.

[KT2000]

240. Yes on Gabriel Byrne!

just saw him in a good but disturbing film called Spider.

[CarrieLynne]

148. rocky horror, The Wall, Clockwork orange, Song remains the same, cheech n chong movies

[WCGreen]

149. To Kill A Mockingbird...

The Dark Knight
Inherit The Wind
West Side Story...

[Art_from_Ark]

150. Top 5

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mary Poppins
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
S.O.S Titanic (based closely on "A Night to Remember&quot
Robert Kennedy and His Times

[trusty elf]

151. One I haven't seen on anyone's list is "Chicken Run",

which I've watched many, many times.

[IMG][/IMG]

[TorchTheWitch]

152. damn, I have a lot of those

The Way Back
Dances With Wolves
Hotel Rwanda
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Other Boleyn Girl

The things I watch the most though are tv series or miniseries that I love, like Robin Hood (BBC), Spooks (aka MI5), Bleak House, Pillars of the Earth, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, and Are You Being Served.

[eyewall]

154. It's hard to limit my choices to five, top ten would be easier

Wings of Desire
Koyaanisqatsi
The Pawnbroker
Moon
Yojimbo/Sanjuro

[DiverDave]

158. Just 5?

Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan ( to show my kids what honor and sacrifice look like)
The princess bride
Dr. Strangelove
It's a wonderful life

There are lots more, but just 5.

[longship]

160. Whoa! Okay. Here goes.

My #1, easy choice (the only easy one):
Dr. Strangelove.

Gotta have a Hitchcock, but which one? Okay, I'll go with:
Rear Window. Creativity is unbounded, plus you get to see Thelma Ritter chew the scenery.

Gotta have a sci-fi: tough choice here, but I have to give it to:
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Something for the family: another easy choice.
To Kill a Mockingbird.

And comedy: my personal favorite.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Others that I watch over and over.

Hopscotch (Matthau and Jackson!)
The Great Escape
Lord of the Rings
Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy (in Swedish)
Fargo
The Haunting (1963)
Any other 1950's Hitchcock.
You Can't Take it with You

So many others. Those are the ones That come to mind.

[aka-chmeee]

161. I think it would be easier to list those I wouldn't watch over and over, but...

Here goes:

1. The Right Stuff
2. Rollerball (the original)
3. Radio Days
4. Samurai (trilogy with Toshiro Mifune)
5. 2010

[NRaleighLiberal]

178. Radio Days - we've watched that many times....love it!

[rocktivity]

163. Movies:

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The Women
A Christmas Carol (Alistar Sim)
Night at the Opera
The Little Foxes
Interiors

TV Series:
Married With Children
Columbo
Hart to Hart
Keeping Up Appearances
The Mary Tyler Moore Show


rocktivity

[NRaleighLiberal]

177. Ah, Interiors...when Woody went serious. Great movie.

[Graybeard]

217. The Gospel According To Woody.

I always saw Woody Allen's Interiors as a religious
allegory.

E.G. Marshall as God of the Old Testament.

Maureen Stapleton as the Christ Figure.

One of Allen's best films.

[rocktivity]

222. And Marshall's character was named Arthur?

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And the wife was named Eve?

I think you're on to something!


rocktivity

[seabeyond]

164. burbs, tremors, snatch, absolute power, bourne identity. not favorites, but movies i tend to

repeatedly watch.

there are kick ass movies that i can only watch once.

[Alleycat]

166. My 5!

Out of Africa
Fargo
Jaws
The Edge
Goodfellas

of course there are more but you just asked for 5.

[Bombero1956]

167. My 5

1. The Quiet Man
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Field of Dreams
4. The Green Mile
5. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

[ms liberty]

168. Great thread; here's some of mine:

The Ref: my preference in the Christmas movie category. lol - Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis, Denis Leary...and Christine Baranski just about steals the whole movie

Almost Famous: a great story and excellent acting - particularly by the luminously gorgeous Kate Hudson

Grosse Pointe Blanke: John Cusak and Dan Akroyd in a totally subversive black comedy

The Philadelphia Story: One of the Great American Films. Kate Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Henry Fonda - what's not to love?

M*A*S*H: Another of the Great American Films.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The touchstone of our generation

Henry V: Kenneth Branagh proves Shakespeare is still relevant and exciting

[historylovr]

169. Well, actually, it's Jimmy Stewart

in The Philadelphia Story, but yes, excellent movie.

[ms liberty]

188. You're right! eom

[blueamy66]

170. Can't do just 5....come on

Footloose
Animal House
Love Actually
Godfather
Christmas Vacation
The Hangover
Pride and Prejudice w/Colin Firth
Steel Magnolias
Dirty Dancing
Fargo
Field of Dreams
Say Anything
Pyscho


I know, not any deep movies, but hey, I just like to be entertained.

on edit: forgot Caddyshack!!!!

[unionthug777]

171. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........

pink floyd-pulse

LOTR trilogy

heartbreak ridge

armageddon

heavy metal

star trek 3

monty pythons holy grail

the bear

dances with wolves ( i am biased because i am native american !! lol )

i know that's more than 5 ......sorry lol

[KatyaR]

172. Here's my weird little list....

White Christmas
An American in Paris
The Year of Living Dangerously (HATE Mel Gibson, but I love this movie--I think because Linda Hunt is AMAZING)
Alphaville
The Court Jester

I admit, my movie taste is a bit strange....

[EverHopeful]

173. Wow, thanks! Got lots of suggestions for my Netflix Queue!

My 5:

Once Were Warriors
Casablanca
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Jewel in the Crown
Harold and Maude

Honorable Mentions (although I watch them as often as the 1st five)
Harvey
V for Vendetta
Jaws
Wings of Desire
It's A Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story

[NRaleighLiberal]

176. Jewel in the Crown - we've seen that several times - amazing. which reminded me of...

Gandhi, and A Passage to India, and A Room with a View!

[MerryBlooms]

174. Mine

Princess Bride
Shaun Of The Dead
Murder On The Orient Express
Fargo
Rear Window (original)

Holiday extra- The Ref

TV- Masterpiece Mystery and Masterpiece Classic

[NRaleighLiberal]

175. ah yes, Princess Bride!

[benld74]

180. In no particular order

Smoky and The Bandit
The Matrix
Jeremiah Johnson
ANY Bourne Movie
The Life of Brian

[NRaleighLiberal]

182. Wow - I am going to bookmark this thread to help my Netflix decisions! Great stuff!

[MerryBlooms]

183. I just did-- gmta

Awesome thread.

[kenziemom06]

184. In no particular order ...

Shawshank Redemption
Jaws
Brokeback Mountain
Some Kind of Wonderful
Almost Famous
Point Break (it was just on this weekend)
Glory
Meet Me in St Louis
Boogie Nights
The Killers (Burt Lancaster)

Oh, did someone say FIVE? LOL!!!

[scubadude]

185. Gee, I think these are some great movies, a couple of which have not been mentioned.

Sideways
Bottleshock
The Big Lebowski
The Fifth Element
Bladewars

[Bluzmann57]

186. I guess I'm sort of a lowbrow

And proud of it by the way...
Anyway here's a list of my 5 faves in no particular order.
The Outlaw Josie Wales
Blazing Saddles
Silence of the Lambs
It's a mad mad mad mad World
And in the Musical category (sort of), Woodstock. Lots of history not to mention GREAT music.

[ayak9]

207. Eastwood

The Outlaw Josie Wales and Unforgiven are two Eastwood movies that stand out, even if Clint has proven to be a jerk.

Fantasia would probably be on my list, as well.

[PADemD]

187. Only Five?

Top Five Movies out of Twenty-Seven
Dances With Wolves
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Inherit the Wind
An Affair to Remember - 1957
It's a Wonderful Life

Top Five TV Series
David Tutera's My Fair Wedding
Destination Truth
Ghost Hunters
River Monsters
The Twilight Zone Reruns

[applegrove]

190. I don't usually like watching movies a second time but the exception would

be "The Sound of Music", "My Brilliant Career", "Missing", "Pretty Women" and "All The President's Men".

[suninvited]

192. No way my list could be limited to five, so I will just give five from my list

Dirty Dancing
O Brother Where Art Thou
Juno
Once
Love Song for Bobby Long

[Tsiyu]

193. I love a lot of the above movies

To pick my top five repeats:

"Being Jon Malcovich"

"Fight Club"

"Hedwig and the Angry Inch"

"Shaun of the Dead"

"Burn After Reading" ( tied with "The War" with Kevin Costner )

And for the holidays, of course " A Christmas Story" and "It's a Wonderful Life."



Recent ones I liked: Winter's Bone and Second Hand Lions

[Quantess]

194. I haven't seen any good movies lately.

A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Pride and Prejudice the BBC version
Sixteen Candles
Six Feet Under (I love your suggestion)

[kalli007]

195. Movies:

Man on Fire
Titanic
Sex and the City ( I know, I KNOW, but I love that her and Big end up together )
Cold Mountain
Troy

[zonkers]

196. Lawrence of Arabia, Boogie Knights, Fargo, Meet me in S.L., Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, Bad Santa...

Okay, I shared six of them insstead of five!

on edit, let me add three more, Kiss Me Deadly, Il Postino and Out of the Past.

[Ecumenist]

198. Okay, 'tain't easy but here goes, fellas

Second Hand Lions
The Stand
The Fifth Element
Phliadelphia
Independence Day

I lean ALOT into Sci Fi. This is one girl who doesn't like smoochy movies and drama.

TV
Grimm
Dead Files
Deadly Women
Who the "Bleep"did I marry
Haunted

[blkmusclmachine]

199. The Shining, Evil Dead, Halloween, Airplane, Star Wars

[blkmusclmachine]

202. Guilty pleasures: Slumber Party Massacre, C.H.U.D., Charlie's Angels 2, Night Patrol, Killer Klowns

from Outer Space

[Ken Burch]

200. Here you go:

1)Casablanca
2)Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
3)Duck Soup
4)A Hard Day's Night
5)Belizaire The Cajun

[Trajan]

201. O'Brother Where Art Thou, The Shawshank Redemption, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ....

Dances with Wolves, and .... The Little Shop of Horrors - The Musical ....

So many I could add .... Amadeus, The Big Lebowski, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Doctor Strangelove, A Streetcar named Desire, On The Waterfront, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Gone With The Wind, etc etc ...

Isn't Cinema an amazingly huge, complex world of art ? .... So many great works ....

[fizzgig]

262. i completely forgot the shawshank redemption

love that movie

[GTurck]

203. I am older and so are...

the movies I watch;
1. Casablanca
2. Now Voyager
3. All About Eve
4. Singing in the Rain
5. On The Town
And for good measure the Bosnian film "No Man's Land" because it is such a good example of the horror and insanity of war.

[sigmasix]

204. brain food

1-Shuan of the dead
2-Young Frankenstien
3-Evil Alien Conquerers
4-Anything The Monty Python group ever did
5-Lord of the Rings trilogy (i know it's 3 movies, but we always watch them back-to-back)

[GrantDem]

205. Here you go...

The War of the Worlds (original)
The Big Lebowski
Full Metal Jacket
Norma Rae
Silkwood

[yesphan]

206. First to mind. There are others.

2001
Blazing Saddles
Holy Grail
The Searchers
Aliens

[Ilsa]

209. Oh yeah, good ones!

Love Actually is my favorite Christmas movie.
Pride & Prejudice, any recent version
Sense & Sensibility with Emma T and Alan Rickman
Dickens' A Christmas Carole ( my second favorite Christmas movie) with Patrick Stewart
All the Harry Potter movies ( my kids love them)

[av8rdave]

210. Shawshank Redemption

A River Runs Through It

The Holy Grail

The Big Lebowski

Jacob's Ladder

[Sissyk]

214. The Stand

The Postman
Men In Black
Star Trek (all movies and tv series)
LONESOME DOVE - mini series I've watched over and over and over and over and Gus still dies.

[dorkzilla]

215. Why am I always late to every party?

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Anne of the Thousand Days
Master and Commander
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou
Philadelphia Story

With special mentions to The Gay Divorcee, Shaun of the Dead and Trains, Planes and Automobiles.

[geardaddy]

216. Here are mine

A Clockwork Orange
Young Frankenstein
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Amadeus

[ismnotwasm]

218. Kill Bill vol. 1&2

The first three 'Blades'
Constantine
The first 'Matrix'
"The Chronicles of Riddick" (including "Pitch Black"--I have the three pack movie series)
The first three "XMan" movies

More than three but in not a big movie fan so I tend to watch 'series' movies.

[txrose]

219. Here's mine...

Terms of Endearment
American President
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steel Magnolias
You’ve Got Mail

[driver8]

220. The Commitments!!

Diner
Bull Durham
Shawshank Redemption
Moonstruck

[Yavapai]

221. The movies that we have watched over and over are:

The money pit
Dances with wolves
Patton
Avatar
Mars attacks

Another that we have watched over and over is a really old one called "30 seconds over Tokyo", Because we knew two of the characters portrayed in the film. (My uncle, Col. Travis Hoover and Ellen Lawson, his close friend.)

[Katashi_itto]

223. Aguirre: The Wrath Of God, Sunshine (The Sci-Fi Movie), Seven Samurai, Brazil, EraserHead

[alfredo]

224. "Pulp Fiction", "The Third Man", Kurosawa's Dreams, "Fahrenheit 451", "Dead Again"

"Remains of The Day" would have been on the list, but I didn't think of it.

Fellini's "Romeo and Juliet."

[hotrod0808]

225. My five:

Bull Durham
Godfather
Godfather II
Star Trek II
Idiocracy

[bench scientist]

226. Hedwig and The Angry Inch is a great movie.

Hedwig and The Angry Inch ( my fav of all time)
The Empire Strikes Back
The Princess Bride
Silence of the Lambs
Alien

[Tsiyu]

249. "It's a carwash, ladies and gentlemen!"

Friends and I have watched Hedwig dozens of times, seriously.

The opening Origin of Love is worth it alone.

It's really a fantastic, soul-searching, gut-wrenching, hilarious, completely entertaining movie.

Glad I'm not the only one who loves it!

Also loved Alien and watched it many times as well.

[adigal]

227. Ok, these are embarrassing

Airplane
Monty python and the Holy Grail
Jaws
The Tudors
The perfect storm

Oh, and any of the Pink Panthers movies

[Richard D]

229. I don't watch many movies more than once . . .

Casablanca - probably have watched it 6 times. Will do so a couple more times.
Koyanisquatsi
Spirited Away
Tokyo Godfathers
7 Samurai

[boomerbust]

230. Andy Griffith

Blazing Saddles
Caddyshack
We Were Soldiers
Dirty Harry
The Yearling

[OnyxCollie]

231. Full Metal Jacket

Reservoir Dogs
28 Days Later
The Shining
Aliens (I've seen this at least 40 times.)

[Tikki]

233. James Jarmusch's "Stranger Than Paradise" and "Mystery Train"...

Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", Stephen King's "IT",
Penelope Spheeris' "The Decline of Western Civilization".


Tikki

[Kennah]

234. Terminator 2, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ...

... Shawshank Redemption, and Blazing Saddles

[pacalo]

235. There are too many good ones to choose only 5

These are the movies I could watch every night of the week:

Annie Hall
When Harry Met Sally
My Cousin Vinny
Philadelphia
The Shawshank Redemption
Camelot (1967
The Remains of the Day
Babe: A Pig In the City
Vacation
The Godfather
Almost Famous
Honeymoon In Vegas


I've always loved old movies & these are the ones I could watch over & over:

The Farmer's Daughter
Picnic
Stalag 17
It's a Wonderful Life
Adam's Rib
Cape Fear
The Big Country
Sabrina
Some Like It Hot
Westward the Women

[montana_hazeleyes]

236. Hard to pick five

Blazing Saddles

Blues Brothers

Car Wash

Cool Hand Luke

Elmer Gantry ( and every thing Burt Lancaster)

[shanti]

238. this is tough!

but here goes: somewhere in time, pulp fiction, avatar, memoirs of a geisha, the matrix.

[krakfiend]

241. 5!?! that's like saying pick 5 digits (fingers/ toes) you have to cut the others off.

I don't know, 5 is kinda small. Quick list.
1. Forrest gump
2. Armageddon
3. 5Th element
4. Kill bill both movies
5. Blade runner

[Egalitarian Thug]

242. Five huh? OK here's what pops into my head right now...

The Usual Suspects
Pulp Fiction
Star Trek IV The Voyage Home
Casablanca
Fried Green Tomatoes

All film selections are subject to change at any time by whim of the moment.

[tomm2thumbs]

243. again and again for sure

Terms of Endearment
Bull Durham
LA Story
Alien 1 & 2
It's A Wonderful Life

[deutsey]

246. Mine

Godfather I
Godfather II
The Big Lebowski
Dazed and Confused
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

This is Spinal Tap gets an honorary mention.

Over the Christmas holidays, I like to watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation; Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; It's a Wonderful Life.

The only show I would like to watch from beginning to end is Six Feet Under (which I will not doubt do since buying the box set).

[Rabid_Rabbit]

247. Don't usually watch movies again

but I will watch these if they happen to be on

Good, bad and ugly
Tommyboy
Fletch
Goodfellas
Braveheart

[TPaine7]

248. Ok,

The Matrix (first Movie), Jurassic Park, Contact (with Jodie Foster), Farscape, Terminator (first two movies)

Honorable Mention: The Incredibles, The episode of SNL with "Sarah Palin" rapping and shooting a moose, Grey's Anatomy, Purple Rain.

[TeamPooka]

250. Casablanca, LA Confidential, The Godfather, When Harry Met Sally, Caddyshack

[ashling]

251. Not necessarily in this order

Grapes of Wrath (1940 version)

Grapes of Wrath (1940 version)

Grapes of Wrath (1940 version)

Grapes of Wrath (1940 version)

Grapes of Wrath (1940 version)

[KoKo]

254. Okay...Here it Goes:

MiniSeries:

"Winds of War/War nd Remembrance," The WHOLE SERIES based on Herman Wouk's Epic about WWII (hard to find) Incredible historical Footage of that time of WWII ...lead up and through. (Robert Mitchum and cast of thousands Germans, Russians, Nazi's and Jews.

"Dutchess of Duke Street" (It's long and we've almost worn through the VIDEO...it's available on Netflix...but, many don't like the soundtrack for the musical theme. Acting is superb..but you've got to like "older stuff and sentimentality along with grit...also Edwardian period)

"Lillie" (Lavish Period Piece about her hook up with Edward 8th)

"Pride and Prejudice" (all versions but BBC late 1970's is fave)
"Bleak House/Little Dorrit, David Copperfield" and other CURRENT Dickens Productions done by BBC in last 10 or so years.

"Inspector Poirot"....(All of it except the latest ones that seem cruel and lost the light touch of the earliest ones)

"Winged Migration" (for the Birds, Hopefulness and the Musical Score)

"Wild China" (for the visuals, birds, flora, fauna and just beauty..if it still exists there)
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"Out of Africa&quot Robert Redford/ Meryll Streep

"Jeremiah Johnson" (Robert Redford and Native Americans, wonderful)

"Year of Living Dangerously" (Mel Gibson...and incredible given it was ahead of it's time)

"Big Lubowski" (well...it's just worth the watch)

"Trading Places&quot wonderful about Wall Street)

"My House in Umbria" (Maggie Smith...incredible)

"What About Bob" (when we need a laugh about hipocracy & Media/Celebrity)

"Foul Play" (Goldie Hawn/Chevy Chase) (A huge Comedy Fave we watch over and over)

"Seems Like Old Times" (Goldie Hawn/Chevy Chase) A Hoot!

"Jumping Jack Flash" (Whoopie Goldberg/Spy Thriller) Can't tell you how many times we've watched this one!...too many)

"The Great Outdoors" (John Candi/Dan Akroyd... If you've ever been on vacation with family or friends...this is a movie you can appreciate for laughs..)

Ahhh...so many that we pull out and re-watch when the mood strikes us for something that refreshes us from whatever the latest trauma we are going through. Like old friends...to visit and feel good in their company.

I'd add: "Godfather I and II" that still resonates today...the James Bond Series, Bourne Series, "Harry Potter" and the "Star Treck" Movies. (We still pull those ones out and revisit because they seem relevant for something... or are just fun)


I've edited so many times ...but, many of the movies other DU'ers have posted are also ones we watch and would put on our list. I was just giving the ones we personally tend to watch over and over through the years that are a little different from what others picked.

[SEMOVoter]

256. Brazil, LOTR (all of them), Sean of the Dead, 7 Samurai, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

I think I just confessed I'm a weirdo.

[chuckie29]

257. A Thousand Clowns - my all time favorite

1. A Thousand Clowns
2. Dr. Stranglove
3. Three Days of the Condor
4. Breaking Away
5. Red Rock West

[misschicken]

258. I'm not big in to movies, but I think I've seen these at least 10 times each!

Bladerunner
Chinatown
Grey Gardens
Sweet Land
The Lives of Others

[WorseBeforeBetter]

268. The Lives of Others has to have...

one of the best endings of all time.

[olddad56]

259. here are mine.

stand by me
when harry met sally
what about mary
rounders
woodstock

hall of fame: 12 Angry Men.

[AsahinaKimi]

260. I can't believe I missed this..

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2. Always: Sunset on Third Street

3. Gojira
4. My Little Bride (Korean)

5. Ichi

[LWolf]

261. The first 5 to pop into my head:

Monty Python: Holy Grail or Life of Brian
Mary Poppins
Second Hand Lion
Pay it Forward
The Grass Harp

[closeupready]

263. Mommie Dearest, Koyannisqatsi, Diabolique, Alien, Querelle

I'm probably going to kick myself for forgetting other favorites, but here you go.

[LiberalElite]

264. In no particular order...

A Hard Day's Night
All This and Heaven Too
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Rear Window
Mildred Pierce

[LiberalElite]

265. Maybe next time 10 faves? I just remembered a bunch more

[WorseBeforeBetter]

267. The Wonder Boys, About a Boy, In the Name of the Father,

The Hangover, A River Runs Through It, and Shawshank Redemption. Oops, six.

Great, now I'm chanting Koyaaaaaanisqaaaatsi...

[malexand]

270. Slumdog Millionaire...

Cute idea, NRaleighLiberal.

I just hope this doesn't mean we have to stop celebrating (see video below my choices):

Slumdog Millionaire
The Last of the Mohicans
Gladiator
Anything with Fred Astaire
Anything with Audrey Hepburn
Anything with Keira Knightley
Anything with Penelope Cruz

[rppper]

271. My 5 selections......

1) the good, the bad and the ugly......sorry folks, Eastwood or not, it's still one of my favorites and the best of the trilogy...

2) Murphy's war.....if you haven't seen this Peter O'Toole gem, do yourself a favor...deals with the only survivor of a cargo ship torpedoed by a u-boat in the last days of WW2, and his grim determination to exact revenge when the chance presents itself...

3) goodfellas.....i never get tired of this movie...definatly one of the best mob movies ever made...

4) full metal jacket.....the first hour is unforgettable, the second half a gritty testimony....there is a line for every type of situation in this movie....

5)The lord of the rings....(the entire trilogy)....i can only hope "the hobbit" is as good as these were....

mentionable....the stand, casino, avatar, a bridge to far, bridge over the river kwai, band of brothers/pacific, a nightmare on elm street(original),

[Heron5]

272. Must decide which of these to watch tomorrow.

Strangers in Good Company
Rebecca
On Golden Pond
Steel Magnolias
High Anxiety