- Mean Girls
- Inception
- Harry Potter series
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy extended edition
How to Train Your Dragon
used to fall asleep to it every night
My son really liked that one, and he would watch it over and over. I can't even guess how many times I've watched it at this point. Although that number pales in comparison to Wall-e. Before he moved on to How To Train Your Dragon, he would watch WALL-E literally on repeat. I used to whisper little prayers of thanks to whatever caused his little brain to fixate on Wall-e rather than some of the other movies he could have fixated on.
The Departed
Godfather 1 & 2
Rogue One
The Fifth Element
Dune 1 & 2
The Princess Bride
Star Wars 1-6
Anchorman
Big Fish
Just cause these haven't been called out by the top comments-
True Lies
The Hunt for Red October
Most of mine have already been mentioned, but the biggie that hasn't is: the Back to the Future trilogy.
Not only are there lots of little details you probably don't catch on the first viewing, I'm surprised they don't make more millennial-and-older users' lists just from them being often the best thing on TV, in the ancient times before streaming.
I watch Groundhog Day at least twice a year.
My go to comfort movies are:
Sneakers
Hackers
The Italian Job (2003)
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)\
Note: I didn’t say “Best” or “Favorite” but these are infinitely rewatchable for me with any level of attention paid to them.
Baby driver ! Love it.
Mulan, many times, same with toy story, all the pooh movies, up, over the hedge, soo many like that
Almost heroes is a must watch. About hurt myself laughing at it. Same with both ace Ventura's.
District b13, the transporter, fast and the furious 1, 2, and Tokyo drift, nation Lampoon's Christmas vacation, the big Lebowski, 28 days later, resident evil, probably others.
Evil Dead 2
Dr Strangelove
I watched Blade Runner many times, and I still think its crap. Although I like what it is trying to say.
Monty Python movies. All of them.
Spinal Tap
Fritz the Cat
Return of the Living Dead
So many more if I think about it.
Wow my list would be equally as large as some of the other people which have replied so I’m just going to list the ones I have seen the most -
- Blade Runner
- The Duelists
- Alien
…..and many many more :)
- The Goonies
- Romancing the Stone
- Star Wars
- Bloodsport
- Idiocracy
- Moving
- The Money Pit
- Forest Gump
Lucky Number Slevin is likely my most watched movie.
Too many to count, and more than I even remember.
I went without internet in an area not friendly to children being outside, so I watched movies in no particular order over and over. Just "yeah I haven't watched this in a few weeks" and re-watch.
Lord of The Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek, Monty Python (all), Princess Bride, MIB, Evolution, Terminator 1&2, Starship Trooper... Honestly most popular Sci fi movies from the 90s... The sound of music, fiddler on the roof, a bunch of musicals..
I'm sure I watched the classic disney movies many times.
I know people who buy watch a movie and then don't feel like watching any of them ever again.
- Office space
- Fight club
- Robocop
- Blues brothers
- Home alone
- Elf
- A Christmas Story
- Die Hard
- Willow
- Star wars (all of them)
- Star Trek (most of them)
- Tremors
- Terminator 2
- John Wick
- Predator
- The equalizer
- Cable Guy
Honorable mention: the countless movies with Paul rudd that played on Saturdays on comedy central
- Outlander (2008)
- The 13th Warrior (1999)
- Braveheart (1995)
- Gladiator (2000)
- Waterworld (1995)
- Escape from New York (1981)
These and a few other similar 'epic' movies were my go to lullaby movies for decades.
I'd put them on late and fall asleep to them, but I'd also watch them through sometimes too. And I still throw them on sometimes, just for kicks.
I watched my VHS copy of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon so much in just 1 year, that the following year my parents got me a copy on DVD because the tape in the cassette was worn out and warped.
Die hard. It's not a "treasure movie", but a "christmas tradition"
Dredd (2012). Excellent film, stellar performances from Karl Urban and Lena Headey. Alex Garland writing goodness before he started directing.
On the topic of Alex Garland, I've also researched Civil War (2024) three times. I love how both movies are so tight, not a scene or moment wasted.
Kung Fu Hustle I’ve seen countless times.
Midnight Run - it's just a perfect movie, not one frame is superfluous in this movie
The Thing - yearly re-watch
Spirited Away - yearly re-watch (always accompanied by other Miyazaki movies)
Smiley Face - one of the few movies that make me smile, Anna Faris is the cutest thing ever
Alien - I watched it secretly as a kid while everybody was asleep at home, and watched it who knows how many times since. It didn't scare me, it kindled my love for sci-fi.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Glen Close and John Malcovich. I used to be able to quote the entire script by heart.
Most definitely Big Fish. Every time I swear I won't cry; every time I end up sobbing. With snot.
It just hits too close to home. I even had to trigger-warn my 55-year-old dad, to whose home it hits even closer.
My go to movies when I need to throw something on:
- The Martian
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Aliens
- Whiplash
- The Princess Bride
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Rogue One
- Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended editions) <— annual tradition for me
Ronin. Back when TV was a thing, if that shit came on, we did not change the channel until it was done. GOD what a fantastic film that is.
Catch Me If You Can
I am very old. Not sure if this will help or not. I will try to skip the obvious stuff.
Phantom of the Paradise
Devine (warning very weird and sexual)
Time Bandits
Weird Science
Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Bad Santa is my christmas movie. I regret watching Bad Santa 2 once.
the three lotr, its a wonderful life, miracle on 34th street all versions, the orginal star wars trilogy, star trek one and two and four, ladyhawke, up, princess bride, close encounters of the third kind, alien, aliens, forbidden planet, raiders of the lost ark, rocky horror picture show, charlie brown specials, grinch who stole chrismass cartoons, frosty cartoons, the blues brothers, original dune movie, all the monty pythons I know of (grail, brian, yellowbeard, meaning of life), time bandits, spaceballs, terminator 1 and 2, yellow submarine, airplane1+2, top secret. Maybe it should be limited to post 2000. Thing is when you go back there are things broadcast every year or when they were broadcast you made it a point to catch it then in the age of video cassetes if you did not find anything you felt like that week for the weekend you maybe picked up something you liked or you had a friend who had not seen it or something. Not as much came out every year and in addition as more comes out the total pool is way larger. so it is harder to rewatch things. Like I think I have only watch the harry potters twice but drop them into the 90's and im sure they would have been a regular pickup or i would have owned them. That being said there are some older movies that are just classics to and there is a reason you went out of your way to catch it broadcast.
Lost Highway VHS got pretty worn out back in the day
I'm old, so tons of them... mainly SF, fantasy, etc. all the LOTR (extended), Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, BTTF, etc. Dances With Wolves (the extended version)
a good trilogy too: Once upon a time in the West, Duck, You Sucker!, Once upon a time in America.
Seriously tons of movies from 2000 and less. Also dozens and dozens of French movies (native language) I have watched multiple times.
I never watched a MCU movie for instance. Since LOTR trilogy I basically stopped watching new movies, nothing beats them.
Three times that's it? There's so many I couldn't even begin to list them all.
The Matrix
Tremors 1, 2 or 3. Don't bother with 4+ its all straight to DVD nonsense.
Redline (2009) probably the best animated movie of all time (studio ghibli people i will fite u)
Idiocracy is very funny in a not very funny kind of way
Elemental was a fantastic Pixar IP that looks like its going to get some fascinating world building in a sequel
There’s plenty of movies that I like to rewatch, and most have been mentioned here already.
But the first movie I remember rewatching over and over again when I was little, was Labyrinth.
Funny enough I haven’t seen it in more than thirty years. It’s mostly nostalgia vibes by now, but I remember being in love with that movie back then.
Dredd
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Serenity
K-Pop Demon Hunters
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Star Wars Trilogy (unedited originals)
Pulp Fiction
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Kick-Heart
Le Maison en Petit Cubes (The House of Small Cubes)
Shaun of the Dead
Blade Runner
Cowboy Bepop: ~~Knocking on~~ Heavens Door
Neo Tokyo
The original non-Gameshopified Astartes series by Syama Pedersen, though technically like five episodes, I always watch all of them in one go. :3 The Emperor Protects :3
Waynes World.. its my guilty pleasure
Dumb and Dumber
I can't believe I didn't see anyone else post it. Mostly I've rewatched it because it was replayed on cable so much but I certainly love it.
Three Days of the Condor
Excellent 70's paranoid thriller.
I posted it to !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social a while back, if you want to watch it.
EDIT: Agh, it was taken down from Archive.org. It's available for free on Pluto though.
3 Idiots for sure
Fifth Element Serenity (Firefly) Goonies Dune Cabin in the Woods Megamind Tropical Thunder Super Troopers Transformers the Movie (1986) A Christmas Story
There was a time I’d watch V for Vendetta every November 5th, but that’s fallen off in recent years. Still a great movie; it’s one of those few films I think is better than the source material. I have also probably seen Billy Madison 500 times. There are a ton more I could list but those are jumping out in my head
- Judge Dred (the new one)
- Blade Runner 2049
- Ready Player One
- LOTR
I watch these films multiple times a year
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