OMG!

I only watch previously seen movies now.

Casablanca

Titanic

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

It's a Wonderful Life

Mama mia!

Birdcage

Ten Commandments

Steel Magnolias

Gone With the Wind

A Good Year

My Cousin Vinny

anything Hitchcock

Wizard of Oz

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Miracle on 34th Street

Pocketful of Miracles

Christmas in Connecticut

Gladiator

Apollo 13

LaLa Land

Forest Gump

Mystic Pizza

Bohemian Rapsody

The Producers

Muriel's Wedding

The Martian

2001, A Space Odyssey

Rosemary's Baby

Halloween

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original only)

The Blob (original only)

Under the Tuscan Sun!

Arsenic and Old Lace

Fried Green Tomatoes

Hemingway & Gellhorn

Beaches

Havana

Sophie's Choice

Out of Africa

Auntie Mame

Moon Struck

Fiddler on a Roof

Dances With Wolves

Devil Wears Prada

HOCUS POCUS

Yentl

Jurassic Park

Beautiful Mind

The Bad Seed (original only)

Driving Miss Daisy

Greenbook

The Help

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

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

lots others

Margaritaville - I absolutely love your list! Many of my favorites are on it!!

Cindy, I keep on adding more.

I mostly watch the classics over and over and over again!

The movies I repeat must have a strong comic element and not contain boring bits such as endless battle scenes. Anything Mel Brooks or Monty Python or related to them (such as Time Bandits). The Blues Brothers was good too, funny and good music. And the first Indiana Jones movie.

eta: I was a teenager when Star Wars came out. It was so much more exciting than any science fiction movie ever that my sister and I stayed in the theater and watched it twice in a row -- twice!

Way back when we used to get 16mm films from the library and invite folks over for movie night - with movie candy and popcorn, of course. One night we were showing The Scarlet Pimpernel. Everyone was soooo quiet that I though, wow, this must be boring everyone to sleep. Then, as 16mm film strips would do, the film broke. Everyone let out a collective gasp, then we all laughed as we realized that everyone had been so engrossed in the movie, but each of us thought that we were the only one. Schmaltzy, but fun.

Nobody has Fried Green Tomatoes on their list? Love this movie! It’s probably a good portrayal of Juliette, GA way back in time.

I have little patience to watch a movie anymore. However, there are a few:

Sleeping Beauty

The Man who Invented Christmas

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Scrooge, The Musical

A Charlie Brown Christmas

The Grinch

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

Secondhand Lions

Anything with Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's, Wait Until Dark, Two for the Road

Early Clint Eastwood movies

Alfie

Hidden Figures

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Dances With Wolves

The Fox

The Monuments Men

Monuments Men is based on a true account of a small but important effort by the Allies as part of the invasions and subsequent fighting to free Europe mostly starting in 1944. It was little known until Edsel, the author, sniffed out the story and explored it for some years comprehensively and conscientiously until he had a pretty good picture of what was done and how.

Sorry for backgrounder but here's why - I thought the two main books of his years of work were most interesting and very worth reading - especially the MM main volume. I thought the movie didn't do justice to the "story".

I have to add Barry Levinson's movies: Diner, Tin Men, Avalon, and Liberty Heights. I also watch Pieces of April nearly every Thanksgiving. So many of the movies already listed are just great!

ETA:I've watched A River Runs Through It with my kids several times and never tired of it.

I thought of another movie I've seen more than once...Sideways.
Saw it originally in an art house theater with friends. We went to dinner afterwards at a small but well reviewed restaurant. We decided we must try some Pinot Noir and they had only one on the menu, which we ordered. Our very sweet, very young server brought us a Pinot Grigio instead (which I also enjoy). We explained to her that we ordered the Pinot Noir which is a red wine, because we had just seen this movie...blah, blah, blah. She said she hadn't heard of the movie, where was it playing? We told her and she said, "Oh, I know that place. I went there once. That's where all the old people go to movies!" OMG, she was SO clueless. But she brought us a very nice bottle of Pinot Noir; we teased her unmercifully and still tipped her. So, I have very fond memories of the movie that I recall whenever I drink Pinot Noir and bypass the Merlot in the wine aisle.

jinx, regarding Sam Elliott-is he in town and around for shooting the 1883 series on Paramount+?

Some of these movies I wouldn't mind watching again but just aren't touchstone enough for me to actually chose myself to watch them again. I have to add that "Two for the Road" is another one of the kinds of movies I like because scenery plays a big part in the movie. It is also one of the best movies about aging and marriage, IMHO, covering both the drama, pathos but also humor of the passing of time. I saw it once when I was much younger, (and in a Hepburn complete oeuvre mode after she died) and I'm not sure I could stomach it again, the sadness of moments lost forever part would be too much for me. I didn't really "get" that at the time, to me it was much more about the relationship between the two characters, but now I see more the symbolism of how the scenery and modes of travel around them changed as well . . .

Olliesmom, yes! A lot of the cast has been spotted in cafes, CVS (drugstore), and other places. It’s been fun seeing on social media, everyone getting pictures taken with them. :)

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are apparently regulars at a little catfish place west of Fort Worth. I saw one pic of them in sweats posing with the owner, I’ll try to find it again, brb …

jinx, so cool! I'll have to keep an eye out next time I'm in and around Ft. Worth! Are they ever going to make it to Montana? LOL

maddie260's comment reminded there's a Barry Levinson movie I love called Toys, with Robin Williams, Robin Wright and Joan Cusack, among other stellar actors. It's a quirky comic fantasy/morality tale, and another movie I like to watch during the holidays - so much so I had to get a copy for myself.

“Are they ever going to make it to Montana?”

😆

Sam at a drugstore with a fan (either in Ft Worth or a suburb):

Tim and Faith at the catfish cafe:

Tim with the owner:

Oh wow, thanks for posting Jinx! All Sam Elliott would have to do is speak and people would know who he was!

YW! I’m pretty sure if I was at the drugstore, and I looked up and saw Sam Elliot shopping, I’d pass right out. Or get arrested. One of those. 😁

jrb451 - Bob Dylan! nice! I kind of figured Love Actually didn't invent that.

I watched When Harry Met Sally when it first came out, and I saw it again last year. I enjoyed it much more last year than the first time.

The Notebook, I've seen a few times.

Mr and Mrs Smith. I like watching it a few times, there's always something that I missed.

When Willie Garson died last year, starred as "Mozzie" in White Collar, I watched the series again, just to see him once more. A terrific actor!

Only two movies I ever thought I might want to watch again. Taking Chance with Kevin Bacon and Pay it Forward. I bought copies of both. Still have not watched them again, though.

I do like watching When Harry Met Sally, but I wouldn't say I have it on a loop. Although, now that I'm thinking about it...

Also, apparently someone here uses one of my libraries, because Two for the Road was recently checked out! I've put in a request for it. I hadn't heard of it but am looking forward to seeing it soon!

This is an interesting thread. So many 'favorites' mentioned that I've never even heard of, the movies or the stars.

Seeing a movie once is enough for me. I rarely, if ever, watch one twice. Although I did watch 'Driving Miss Daisy' and 'Pretty Woman' twice and enjoyed them both the second time around. But I didn't seek them out, it just so happened there wasn't much to choose from to watch.

Books are another story, there are books I've read more than once because I loved them. 'Grapes of Wrath' and 'Gone with the Wind' are two I've read three or four times. But usually twice is my limit, even in really good books.

And I am laughing at the comments about Sam Elliot. I just don't understand it! I've seen him in a few movies, and I thought his acting was much like one would expect of a 12-year-old. Mostly he just looks like a homeless drunk, to me. Especially in the picture above.

Okay, you can tar and feather me now. . . . . . .

Rusty

Someone please hold Rusty down while I get the feathers ready.

Oh! I forgot to put Home Alone on my list! Thanks, Rusty! 😁

I love Sam Elliott! Especially the way he smiles with his moustache.

A few movies that I re-watch:

Moonstruck

The Wizard of Oz (the ultimate classic movie, IMHO)

Dr. Zhivago

Casablanca

Separate Tables (the only movie for which David Niven won an Academy Award)

O Brother Where Art Thou

A Christmas Carol (with Alistair Sims)

Gone with the Wind

Recently re-watched The Green Book and Knives Out.

Oh, and Tombstone!

And the last of the Mohicans!

I have memorized the dialogue from-

* Most of the STAR-TREK movies.

* Predator (with Ah-nold & Jesse V. of course!!), & ALIENS.

"Khan, I'm laughing at the superior intellect"!

"I ain't got time to bleed".

"Whatd'ya mean THEY cut the power"!?!?!???!

Faron...."Mr. Culture" ;-)

Faron, you’re in good company. My son memorized A New Hope when he was 3. Dh’s office building had an elevator. Every time we got on, DS said ”This is not going to work.” expected response: why didn’t you say so before? DS: ”I DID say so before.”

Oooh Dr. Zhivago, a complex movie with lots of interesting parallels to our time, would be worth a re-watch if I could find it. It's a stellar movie, another one with a major role of the scenery and cinematography. One could read the book a dozen times and still find something new, considering how complex the plot is of the actual book--all those name changes!! And the poetic interludes . . .

I forgot I have already watched Knives Out 3 times and it isn’t even that old.

And mention of Robin Williams brings to mind a few favorites I watch whenever I can, Mrs Doubtfire, The Birdcage, and Good Morning Vietnam just to name a few.

Jinx, I may move to Ft Worth and go eat catfish.

I pinkmountain, Zhivago is on TCM all the time, plus available on HBOMax and Prime.

OK, I saw Belfast tonight-- and it is one I definitely expect to watch again.

I couldn't think of a movie that I have watched over and over....but then I remembered the documentary "Grey Gardens". I had the video and watched that a bunch of times. I also had the video of "Rocky Horror" and watched that several times. The first time I saw Rocky Horror, I had never heard of it, but a friend of ours who had terminal cancer was talking about it and said she would love to go. So, we went. Then another friend wanted to go (different time) a few years later and I went with her. Some years later, it was still the midnight movie at the Alabama Theater in Houston, and my daughter was in college, and she went several times. I bought the video for her, but watched it with her a couple of times. So those are two that I watched over and over. Another movie that I liked and watched a couple of times "The Last Picture Show" and "The Piano".

Sorry Bookwoman, I don't have nor can I afford those cable channels. We have cable only so hubs can watch mainstream sports. If I watch Dr. Zhivago again it would maybe be checked out from the library if they have it. Or perhaps from one of the online streaming services. We only have Amazon Prime and Netflix for that also, can barely afford that and even though we would love to upgrade, it's not in our budget. I'll have to check it out on Prime though, that would be great. My Dad also likes that movie so maybe a dinner and a show night featuring some Russian foods. His father was from Russia but he was Jewish and experienced pograms so no one in our family waxes poetic about "Mother Russia."

FWIW, we cut the cable a few years ago and the only thing I miss about having cable is Turner Classic Movies. There is no other way to access it here, and cable co. wants a ridiculous amount of money on top of poor service for channels we never watched. They also did not allow the TCM Watch feature.

The King’s Speech! Just thought about it and would love to see it again.

I hear ya Carol! I'm often scrolling through our limited channel selection and see a great movie I would love to watch on TCN. Years ago my parents had it at their summer cottage which was an hour from where I lived. I had zero TV at the time, not even a tv set. I would often go up to the cottage for the weekend and binge TCN! We even have limited Prime, just what I get for free with my shipping subscription, we don't have the full package on that either. I could probably find Dr. Zhivago to buy used somewhere for a small cost, but that is not a priority.

FWIW, we have 2 VCR/DVD combo players and when I really want a movie that's not streaming, behind a paywall, or unavailable on CD, I've gone on eBay and found VHS tapes for just a few bucks. I've also found many classic VHS tapes, & DVDs too, for less than a dollar at local thrift stores.

The picture may not be as great as DVDs or HD streaming, but it's not any worse than what we used to put up with before digital came along.

I don't see many movies, and have been pondering if there are any that I would watch again or have watched again.

A few came to mind:

Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney)

Miracle on 34th Street (1947 version)

A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott version)

Various other movies from the 1930s & 1940s, when I had access to TCM and AMC, and when both showed mostly movies (Cagney, Marx Brothers, Bob Hope, Crosby - if enough years have passed since the last time I saw them)

Battleground

Moonstruck

Out of Africa

Master and Commander (just recently)

When my DD was an early teen, she loved a movie called "Wish Upon a Star" with a young Katherine Heigl. She watched it multiple times so inadvertently I did also.

Should I count the things that she watched over and over as a toddler? The TV production of Peter Pan with Mary Martin was watched daily for over a month - she learned all the moves to the dance with Tiger Lily.

Oh, if we're gonna talk about childhood movies: I watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off approximately 3000X when I was young.

Also Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice -- I was a huge fan of Tim Burton's older stuff. Still am. Pee Wee was really fun to rewatch last year, and I got more out of it as an adult.

Animal House

RIP Ivan Reitman

all the Alien and Predator movies

Secondhand Lions

The Matrix

Battleship

Shining Through

Steel Magnolias (the original)

The Magnificent Seven (2016)

Armageddon

Die Hard (all o them)

I know there's more.

adding more....

Robin Hood (Kevin Costner version)

Dances With Wolves

Moon Struck

Olympus has Fallen

London has Fallen

Angel has Fallen

The Hunger Games series (four movies)

Guardians of the Galaxy

John Wick (all of them, and this type of movie is usually NOT on my radar)

Armageddon

Hancock

Pirates of the Caribbean

I'm sure there's more but that's all I can think of for now.

So many great movies mentioned, many of which I've seen multiple times. One of my fave rom-coms that hasn't been mentioned is Serendipity, with John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale. Just love that movie! Like Die Hard, it's not a Christmas movie, but set at Christmas time, so that's generally when I watch it. Bonus is that it has a great soundtrack, too!

My husband is away this week, so I'm taking advantage of free reign of the TV and watching all of the Jane Austen movies (none of which I've seen in years) in the order she wrote the books - Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion. I hate that he's away, so that (and junk food for dinner) is my treat to myself.

We just watched The Way We Were the other night - released in 1973 so can't remember how many times I've watched but oh my it still has the same effect over and over and over again.

Arapaho, we recorded it! Looking forward to seeing it again. :)

Jinx, I went back and watched the last scene twice!! Then went to read about the making of it. Little did I know the college scenes were filmed at Union College in Schenectady and then they moved on to Ballston Spa, NY. Also read Barbra wanted a sequel where the daughter would have become an activist like her mother but Robert said not interested.

Thanks, Arapaho! Interesting, I didn’t know any of that.