# Are there any movies you can watch over and over and never tire of them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 2, 2014, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690 "2014-01-02T07:42:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/81 "2014-01-24T16:47:01Z")
yesterday I watched Sense and Sensibility for the upteenth time. Really a perfect movie. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/82 "2014-01-24T17:58:01Z")
_School of Rock_ The first _Pirates of the Caribbean Pulp Fiction The Big Lebowski_ ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/83 "2014-01-24T19:38:31Z")
Some really good suggestions here! I love movies and am easily entertained but most of all I love WW2 docs and dramas. And also Tim Burton for his wacky style. Lately Ive been watching BBC’s Planet Earth and Blue Planet (series of docs, not technically a “movie” but I have them on DVD). A full length ep: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rnKywpwFxE) ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/84 "2014-01-24T21:00:49Z")
Apollo 13 Moonstruck ---
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2001: A Space Odyssey Dr. Strangelove Duck Soup Hellzapoppin’ And Star Wars before the sequels came out. ---
**Author:** ![SirGalahad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@SirGalahad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirGalahad)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/86 "2014-01-24T21:33:54Z")
Someone should start a thread: \*\* Are there any\* TV episodes\* you can watch over and over and never tire of them? \*\* I’d start with “Rockford Files” and “Barney Miller”. ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Matt\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matt_T)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/87 "2014-01-24T23:01:02Z")
The Breakfast Club The Harry Potter series The Fast and the Furious series The Dark Knight Trilogy The Lord of the Rings Trilogy The James Bond series The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/88 "2014-01-25T02:28:42Z")
There are dozens of movies I could list. I love movies, and many of those I love to rewatch are already mentioned. (Here’s a shout out to The Thirteenth Warrior!) But the first move that popped into my head, when I saw the title of the thread and had not read any posts yet, is a movie that hasn’t been mentioned yet. _The African Queen_, with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. It’s hard to beat a movie that has the line: _I now pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution._ ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/89 "2014-01-25T03:03:04Z")
I tend not to watch movies multiple times, but there a few films I’ve watched over and over again due to other circumstances: **LadyHawke** : for some reason, this movie was played constantly in my area when HBO first came around. **The Matrix** : first DVD I ever bought, so I had one and wore it out in my Mac G3. **Groundhog Day** : my wife watches this every time it comes on, so I do a lot too. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/90 "2014-03-02T02:35:20Z")
After watching a live performance of it last night (Saturday night) by an in-house cabaret troupe, I might add _Moulin Rouge_, the 2001 Baz Luhrmann musical. That made me want to see it again. We do have it on DVD and will have to dig it out again. I know the wife went and watched it twice went it first came out. ---
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I’ll try not to duplicate any of the wonderful films listed above; if mine are there, I missed them in my cursory scan. A partial list, off the top of my head: \*\*\*It Happened One Night Manhattan Melodrama Topper The Philadelphia Story The Adventures of Robin Hood The Sea Hawk This Is the Army Yankee Doodle Dandy Thirty Seconds over Tokyo The Purple Heart Destination: Tokyo Objective: Burma Run Silent, Run Deep 49th Parallel Perilous Journey One of Our Aircraft Is Missing The Dam Busters Twelve O’Clock High Gentleman’s Agreement The Snows of Kilimanjaro The Third Man The Heiress Lifeboat Rear Window Psycho Frenzy The Treasure of the Sierra Madre The Caine Mutiny Town without Pity Anatomy of a Murder Experiment in Terror Wait until Dark It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World The Great Race Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines True Grit\*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/92 "2014-03-02T04:11:42Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > yesterday I watched Sense and Sensibility for the upteenth time. Really a perfect movie. This. Also, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Persuaison (Amanda Root) Rebecca Jaws The Ghost & Mrs. Muir ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/93 "2014-03-02T19:13:25Z")
_Breaker Morant_ - Very powerful Australian court-martial drama. _Limitless_ - What if a pill could make you smart and successful? Clever and unpredictable technothriller. _Notorious_ - Still my favorite Hitchcock. _Casablanca_ - Deservedly a classic. _The Incredibles_ - Far and away my favorite Pixar movie. _Trading Places_ - Great cast and very funny. _True Lies_ - Ditto. _Pride & Prejudice_ - Heartwarming romance. Keira Knightley is just luminous. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/94 "2014-03-03T00:48:32Z")
Master and Commander Ladyhawke One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Star Trek Into Darkness The Bounty Psycho The Way Way Back Little Miss Sunshine Meatballs Caddyshack Sideways Many more. ---
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> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > Are there any movies you can watch over and over and never tire of them? No. There are some I can watch once every few years, but not too often. ---
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suprised no one has mentioned: Glenngarry Glenn Ross ---
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I don’t think there are any that I could watch more than, at a guess, a dozen times. There are a lot of great movies in this thread that I have seen multiple times. There are several that I haven’t seen for ages and if any of those were on TV I may well watch them. However recently both\* A Few Good Men\* and _The Shawshank Redemption_ were on TV and , despite never having passed them up before, I let both go unwatched and did something else. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/98 "2014-03-03T15:23:55Z")
North by Northwest Charade The Big Country Sahara The Best Years of Our Lives Dead Reckoning To Kill A Mockingbird Mr. Smith Goes To Washington It Happened One Night Blade Runner Raising Arizona Bonnie and Clyde Ghostbusters Bullitt Jaws Highnoon Roman Holiday Raiders of The Lost Ark Dances With Wolves Unforgiven Sharky’s Machine (Blatantly stolen from Zeldar, but I Love that movie!) Magnum Force The Package 3 Days of the Condor Forbidden Planet Halloween 2010 PS- Almost Any Bond movie; there are only maybe 2 bad ones and I won’t say which. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/99 "2014-03-03T16:32:25Z")
A Christmas Story Rashomon Polyester ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690/100 "2014-03-05T04:47:28Z")
Is it too late to add a blatant plug for “Hustle”, a Burt Reynolds film from 1975? I always liked it and its music when they ever showed it on TV (which was almost Never). (Also, if the name shows up here, maybe someone on a network will crack open a CD and play it on TV someday…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/677690.md?page=6)