I watch many, many movies over and over again. But the most often watched, probably at least twice a year for as long as they’ve been out:
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Apollo 13
Love Actually
The Graduate
The 90s generated some decently watchable natural disaster movies. We own Twister and Dante’s Peak from that era. I guess The Abyss is not completely a “natural disaster” movie, but it involves some forces of nature. Oh, and Apollo 13. Great movie.
There are so many! Off the top of my head:
*Galaxy Quest
Outsourced
Six Degrees of Separation
Sense and Sensibility/i
Amadeus
Reversal of Fortune
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
House of Games
Lawrence of Arabia
Ex Machina
Breaking Away
Shattered Glass
Doubt
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Empire of the Sun
Zero Dark Thirty
The Hurt Locker
Missing
THX 1138
After Hours
The Bishop’s Wife
Children of a Lesser God
Parenthood
Basquiat
Mesrine
Il Postino
Miller’s Crossing
Children of Paradise
Starman
The Day of the Jackal
Read My Lips
The Best Years of Our Lives
I Know Where I’m Going
Black Narcissus
Rushmore
The Royal Tanenbaums
The Gangs All Here
Barry Lyndon
Raging Bull
The Age of Innocence
Jane Eyre (1943)
Some Like it Hot
Sunset BLVD
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Sullivans Travels
The Lady Eve
Rosemary’s Baby
Vertigo
The Godfather (I and II)
La Dolce Vita
Rag Time
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Now Voyager
Strangers on a Train
Day for Night
and ALL of Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel movies (I have the Criterion set)
oh so many more (I call it the H:“are we watching THIS again” list)
I re-watch comedies more than any other type of movie. The only one I can think of now:
What’s up Doc?
Don’t want to omit mention of these favorites that other posters reminded me of:
The Abyss
Apollo 13
The Great Escape
Me too! I have to add:
Apollo 13
Up!
Brave
Wall-E
Chicago
Field of Dreams
Moneyball
(I had to get in the space, animated, and baseball themes!!)
ETA: The Right Stuff, how could I have forgotten?? Love that movie.
Some that DH and I will watch over and over:
Moonstruck
Goodfellas
When Harry Met Sally,
Working Girl
Broadcast News
Defending Your Life
Mallrats
Groundhog Day
Hairspray (the original, not the musical)
Say Anything
A Room With A View
Strictly Ballroom
Scarface
Moonrise Kingdom
Bring It On
Clueless
Soapdish
PCU
That Thing you Do
Almost Famous
Baby Mama
Boogie Nights
O Brother Where Art Thou
Requiem for a Dream
Waitress
True Romance
The War of The Roses
Best in Show
This is Spinal Tap
The Day the Earth Stood Still - 1950’s version
Gigi
Sean of the Dead
Pulp Fiction
Oklahoma
Jaws
The Exorcist
@katliamom and @musicamusica - I love your lists!
This is mine (right now - I know there are others): Groundhog Day, Godfathers 1 and 2, Goodfellas, All about Eve, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, Swing Time/The Gay Divorce/Shall We Dance/Roberta, On the Town, Singing in the Rain, No Country for Old Men, Vertigo, Adam’s Rib, GWTW, The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown, Fail Safe, The Shining, Minority Report
Oh I forgot Double Indemnity!!
By the way. I am very thankful for TCM’s programming . It allows me to watch these movies over and over again. Netflix and Amazon really drop the ball when it come to making film classics available for streaming…
Wow, some great movies on this list. It also is interesting how times change and how we re-watch movies. There are movies I used to re-watch a lot, like “The Right Stuff” and “Apollo 13”, when I used to watch more movies on VHS and DVD. There were old favorites growing up, like the original “The Producers” and “Dr. Strangelove” that I don’t watch as often. These days, it is more likely I am channel surfing, and there are movies like “Gone in 60 seconds”, the various fast and furious movies, The Replacements (one of my favorite sports movies, can’t go wrong with Gene Hackman, and Madden and Summeral lol), Legally Blond, The Bourne Movies and quite a few others, that are on a lot, and I’ll watch them, no matter where I find the movie when I find it. It is funny, with streaming making watching movies so easy, I don’t go back to the old favorites, we usually are watching new things…
Moonstruck and Goodfellas, yes!
I rarely rewatch movies since there are so many new ones I’ve missed. I’ve watched all these more than once and would watch them again.
The Sci Fi Movies
Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
Star Trek movies (even the bad ones - or were they all bad?)
Just finished rewatching all the Star Wars movies, but in edited from except the original three.
Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit (we watched a seriously shrunk down fan edit and it was quite good)
The Comedies
It Happened One Night
Love, Actually
Bringing up Baby
The Romances
Casablanca
Brokeback Mountain
Dr. Zhivago
The Musicals
Cabaret
42nd Street
Any of the Broadway Melody movies
Singin’ in the Rain
The Westerns
The Searchers
The Man Who shot Liberty Valance
High Noon
The Rest
Les Enfants du Paradis
MASH
American Graffitti
These are the family favorites
My Cousin Vinny
Christmas Vacation
Jaws
Jurassic Park
I will watch Doris Day romantic comedies all day long. Yup. A real film scholar,here.
Oh, and August Rush. The music intertwined throughout the movie…much like an artists vision in experiencing the world
Movies I fast-forward to the key scenes, on a flight, when there’s not enough time before landing to watch an entire movie or when the other movie titles aren’t intereresting:
- Mamma Mia
- Shawshank Redemption
- Avatar
- Gladiator
TV series I rewatched the most times:
- The Pride and thr Prejudice Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle version, of course)
- Rome
I remember when the first videotape machines came out. We watched a lot of movies…including silent movies.
We watched a lot of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton movies. I guess most people don’t watch those anymore.
We also watched a lot of Humphrey Bogart, Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn movies.
Expanding my list…
Sunset Boulevard
The Apartment
Vertigo
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Strangers on a Train
Singin In the Rain
On the Town
Top Hat
City Lights
The General
Casablanca
The Big Sleep
Cabaret
Animal Crackers
Tootsie
It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Catch-22
My favs and some of the kiddos:
IQ
Overboard
Iron Eagle (love the soundtrack)
The Last Starfighter (best movie ever…so says the son who wants to go to Mars!)
Goonies
Star Wars…New Hope over and over and over
Serenity (I aim to misbehave!)
Bend in the River
Armagadeon (optional July 4th movie)
The Rocketeer (love the soundtrack)
The Back to the Future Trilogy
Star Trek Wrath of Khan
The Rock
Lilo and Stitch
Cars
How to Train your Dragon
The Mummy
National Treasure
ANY Marvel movie (my fav is GOTG)
Oceans 11, 12, 13
Gone in 60 seconds
Italian Job
Real Genius!!!
Red 1 and 2
Sahara (don’t take that job, don’t marry that harpie)
Willow!!!
Twister
17 Again
Princess Bride
PACIFIC RIM
Top Gun
Xmen movies
Wild, Wild West
Galaxy Quest
For the fourth (July) we always watch: Independence Day, The Patriot, and Live Free or Die Hard (Die hard 4)
CHristmas: Scroged, Christmas vacation, Miracle of 34th st, The Santa Clause
Kat
Godfather, My Cousin Vinny
I don’t think anyone has mentioned Princess Bride, a family favorite at our house.