# Comfort films. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-films/575549 "2011-03-22T01:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![wonder\_lust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@wonder\_lust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonder_lust)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-films/575549/61 "2011-04-03T13:43:32Z")
If I hadn’t read them first, I’d be listing at least one from almost everybody else’s: Here are a few I don’t remember seeing: French Lesson (this was a little independent flick that aired on HBO when I was a in high school (80s). I recorded it on VHS and have seen it a thousand times, but alas…it no longer exists in the world. It’s not even on IMDB.) Waking Ned Devine French Kiss Rear Window (original with Jimmy Stewart) Pillow Talk Lost in Translation Office Space Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Juno ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-films/575549/62 "2011-04-03T13:47:30Z")
Any of my favorite films are my comfort films, really. But the quintessential are: Back to the Future (all of them, but mostly the original) Close Encounters of the Third Kind 2001: A Space Odyssey Lord of the Rings (all of them) The Big Lebowski 127 Hours Turn any of those on, and I’ll just nestle right into the couch. ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-films/575549/63 "2011-04-03T13:54:23Z")
I throw in Lost in Translation and just mellow out to the rythms of that movie. It’s a great move to just shut your brain off and watch the pretty colors, especialy Tokyo at night ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-films/575549/64 "2011-04-03T14:06:15Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > And not TV, but any Simpsons episode from the Mirkin years (seasons 5-6). Television at its BEST. I’ve seen all those episodes 100 times and they still cheer me up. The Mirkin years? Everybody was wearing fake pubic hair? I had no idea! Seriously, what are “the Mirkin years”? To the OP: Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity Thor and the Amazon Women Deathstalker Amazon Queen always fun! ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-films/575549/65 "2011-04-03T15:01:35Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > _Sense and Sensibility_ and _Persuasion_ over and over and over and over and over and over. This… and _Trainspotting_. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-films/575549/66 "2011-04-03T19:15:11Z")
> [@TravisFromOR](#): > > Casablanca Ditto. Have it saved on my DVR and whenever I just want to “zone out”, will turn it on and relax. Also my choice to watch when feeling ill. Just pull the covers up while flat on the couch and concentrate on the movie - which helps take my mind off the flu or whatever.. Something about that film that each scene is almost like its own special moment, so don’t even need to watch the film from beginning to end anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-films/575549/67 "2011-04-03T23:40:43Z")
Most of mine have already been mentioned. In my family, we endlessly talk about the movies that you have to watch to the end when you randomly flip to them on TV. In my head, I have a category of comfort movies, which largely overlaps the previous category, but is elevated in that I will select the disc to watch when I’m home alone and needing some familiarity. I don’t think these have been mentioned yet: \*Foul Play Singing in the Rain \* Sorry if I missed previous cites. Good call on _Pillow Talk_, **wonder lust**. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-films/575549/68 "2011-04-04T01:19:56Z")
> [@Proudest\_Monkey](#): > > \*Foul Play \* Good one. Don’t forget _Seems Like Old Times_ ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-films/575549/69 "2011-04-04T02:39:39Z")
Back to the Future. All three. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-films/575549.md?page=3)