The Wizard of Oz
Inherit the Wind
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Dark Victory
All About Eve
Wings
Rain
Mildred Pierce
Now, Voyager
Some Like It Hot
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Corn is Green
12 Angry Men
Meet Me in St. Louis
My Fair Lady
Oklahoma!
Any silents with Chaplin, Keaton or Lillian Gish
The Incredibles
What’s Opera, Doc?
One Froggy Evening
Trinopus, I definitely agree about Murder By Death. Love the ensemble cast. My kind of humor.
Also…
Muriel’s Wedding
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Uncle Buck
O’ Brother Where Art Thou
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Seven Faces of Dr. Lao
Bad New Bear’s (original)
Runaway Train
Taking of Pelham 123 (original)
Billy Elliott
Spinal Tap
Sid & Nancy
Cinema Paradiso
Ode to Billy Joe
and many many more
Other ones I thought of are Being There and almost anything by the Coen Brothers but particularly The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Miller’s Crossing, Blood simple and Barton Fink.
Blade Runner
Ronin
Silverado
all three Bourne movies
Outlaw Josie Wales
The Professional
The American
and of course Despicable Me !!
Casablanca
Harvey
His Girl Friday (Rosalind Russell Cary Grant version)
Singin’ in the Rain
Groundhog Day
Maybes:
Labyrinth
The Matrix
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Dangerosa, I’ll bring another bottle of wine and some chocolates and join you on the couch for Darcy Day.
After 45 posts I’m astounded not to see “The Third Man” on this list. I know I’ve watched it at least 25 times, and never tire of it!
I forgot to ask, but we’re not talking porn here, right?
I didn’t see where it was excluded. Have at!
listens
Anyway, until we hear back …
Mean Girls
Wall-E
My 10-star movies from IMDb, which I personally define as “infinitely re-watchable”:
Casablanca (1942)
The Godfather (1972)
The Conversation (1974)
Silver Streak (1976)
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Being There (1979)
Hopscotch (1980)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
'Round Midnight (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
American Beauty (1999)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
I’ll add Armageddon to the list.
I suspect Pacific Rim may go there, but it’s too early to say.
Speed Racer. The Wachowskis set out to make a live-action cartoon, and they succeeded beyond all expectations.
I was just gonna post it.
The Third Man
Back to the Future
Coraline
The Descendants
That’s about it.
Judging from your list, I would like to recommend to you a movie starring Walter Matthau - Charley Varrick (1973).
It is a crime caper movie but it is one of those very rare cases where every actor, the director and everyone else working on that movie were just running at full speed and the result was a very watchable and re-watchable movie.
If you’ve never seen it, I hope you will enjoy it. It is more than 40 years old. But it still holds up today as a most excellent movie.
I hope you will excuse me for saying this. But “Charley Varrick” is a much better movie than is Hopscotch.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Local Hero (1983)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Commitments (1991)
*Fargo *(1996)
Boogie Nights (1997)
All of these movies are, in my mind, as close to perfect as a movie can be: they have engaging plots, interesting characters, terrific story development, great cinematography and (importantly) they stick the landing – the ending resonates as much as any other point of the movie.
For instance, I absolutely love a bunch of the Coen brothers’ movies, but *Fargo *is the only one that I can watch at any given time without fast-forwarding through some scenes that don’t quite work for me.
I’ll put it on my watch list. Thanks!
Dr. No
Live and Let Die
Men in Black
The Hunt for Red October
Rope
Batman (1966)
Batman (1989)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
In The Line of Fire
The Ten Commandments
El Cid
Dracula (1931)
Wall Street
The one I’ve watched the most times is probably Primer. It’s an interesting case, because it’s not simply re-watchable, it’s actually entirely incomprehensible on the first viewing and only makes sense if you watch it multiple times. The first thing you do after watching *Primer *for the first time is to immediately watch it again, at least twice. Then you go away and make some Excel diagrams. Then you come back and watch it a few more times.
Just two:
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
2001 A Space Odyssey
I have prepared a more complete list so that anyone who is interested could come here to look for some good films to watch. Many other people have also listed excellent films and I want to thank everyone who has contributed to this thread.
28 Days 2000
Aliens 1986
American Hustle 2013
Bandolero 1968
Blow 2001
Boogie Nights 1997
Broadway Danny Rose 1984
Charlie Varrick 1973
Christmas in Conneticut 1945
Coming Home 1978
Crash 2004
Crossing Over 2009
Dances With Wolves
Das Boot 1981
Dawn of the Dead 2004
Deja Vu 2001
Despicable Me 2010
Despicable Me II 2013
Deterrence 1999
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988
Django Unchained 2012
Donny Brasco 1997
Double Jeopardy 1999
Due Date 2010
Dumb & Dumber 1994
Everyone Says I Love You 1996
Felon 2008
Flight 2012
Full Metal Jacket 1987
George Harrison Living in the Material World 2011
Ghostbusters 1984 ()
Good Will Hunting 1997
Goodfellas 1990
Groundhog Day 1993
Heat 1995
Heist 2001
In the Line of Fire 1993
Match Point 1989
Menace II Society 1993
One False Move 1992
Out of Sight 1998
Out of Time 2003
Remember the Titans 2000
Rio Bravo 1959
Rising Sun 1993
Robin Hood 1938
Sabrina 1954
Small Time Crooks 2000
Shanghai Triad 1995
Spartacus 1960
Stalag 17 1953
Straight Time 1978
Support Your Local Sheriff 1969
The Apartment 1960
The Big Steal 1949
The Boys From Brazil 1978
The Devil’s Advocate 1997
The Eagle Has Landed 1976
The Enemy Below 1957
The Family Stone 2005
The Fifth Element 1997
The Godfather 1972
The Godfather II 1974
The Guns of Navarone 1961
The Hangover 2009
The Hangover II 2011
The Killing 1956
The Last Samurai 2003
The Little Foxes 1941
The Major & the Minor 1942
The Patriot 2000
The Producers 2005
The Professional 1994
The Rainmaker 1997
The Shawshank Redemption 1994
The Sting 1973
The Ten Commandments 1956
The Treasure Of Sierra Madre 1948
The Usual Suspects 1995
There’s Something About Mary 1998
Thursday 1998
To Die For 1995
Tootsie 1982
Tremors 1990
Twelve Monkeys 1995
Under Siege 1996
Unstoppable 2010
What Doesn’t Kill You 2008
What’s Love Got to do With It 1993
Wild Things 1998
Young Frankenstein 1974
Zombieland 2009
NOIR
5 Fingers 1952
Ace in the Hole 1951
Across the Pacific 1942
Caged 1950
Double Indemnity 1944
Farewell My Lovely 1975
Impact 1949
Kansas City Confidential 1952
LA Confidential 1997
Lady in the Lake 1947
Murder My Sweet 1944
Mystery Street 1950
Psycho 1960
Saboteur 1942
The Maltese Falcon 1941
The Naked City 1948
The Unsuspected 1947
White Heat 1949