My secret weakness is the young Roger Moore in the black and white episodes of The Saint. I also have the colour episodes but he’s headed toward bad-pancake hell and not quite as pretty in those. Either way, if I’m at a loss for something pleasant to curl up with, that’s where I head. Hooray for DVD box sets.
I’m a teacher, so ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ is perfect for me. 
Especially the parade scenes… 
A few:
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**Primer ** - I love watching the twists and turns of this movie and it is very short, so easy to take in
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**The 40-Year-Old Virgin ** - I still end up crying with laughter at some scenes
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**Risky Business ** - it captures the both how I felt and how I wanted to feel when I was that age. Perfect fantasy/nostalgia
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**Buckaroo Bonsai ** - Laugh while you can, Monkey Boy.
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**Blade Runner ** - my wife is sick of watching it with me
If you hadn’t admitted to it, I would have. But since you already have I’ll say the Lord of the Rings trilogy. All three in order.
Last of the Mohicans (“I’m lookin’ at you, miss”)
Little Women (the one with Christian Bale)
Pride and Prejudice (the 80’s one with David Rintoul)
Mystic Pizza (love Lili Taylor)
Of course I can watch these with other people, but in my household it’s not likely.
:smack: Duh - the BBC Firth/Ehle version is the cold-weather standby in our house. Along with The Philadelphia Story, our two favorite movies to watch together…
So by the later Due South oeuvre, do you mean the RayK episodes instead of the RayV ones?
I’m at a bit of a crossroads here. I like the style of the RayV Due South episodes better, for their more serious and less-slapstick style, but I like RayK so much more than RayV. 
anything with humphrey bogart in it, but i usually start with ‘casablanca,’ shift to, ‘to have and have not,’ and end with ‘the big sleep.’ damn that’s some terrific movie-watching.
i just bought the trio of ‘blackbird movies,’ thanks to another thread in here about them. can’t wait to start watching them tomorrow night. hopefully ncis will be a repeat…
There are two movies I love to watch. The first is Call Me Madam starring Ethel Merman, George Saunders (who knew he could sing?), Donald O’Connor and Vera-Ellen. The cast are all wonderful as they sing, dance and clown to a superb Irving Berlin score. The other is Donovan’s Reef, John Ford’s lighthearted buddy flick set on a Polynesian island. Both movies brighten my day and make me feel happy.
American Beauty
Se7en
Point Break
Moonstruck
I know I am an outlier…
Not a movie per se, but my DVD collection of Sports Night. Out of all the series I really love, this is the only one that, for whatever reason, I can’t seem to get my friends to watch. 
Jane Austen. The Firth/Ehle version of P&P or Emma Thompson and Kate Winslett in Sense and Sensibility.
This weekend they were showing Pay It Forward on cable. it’s not even that great a movie, but I always cry at the end. Not just sniffles, either.
StG
Master and Commander. I won’t watch it unless I can turn up the home theater - the battle scenes are infinitely better that way. And I can’t turn up the home theater unless the kids are elsewhere. So in fact it’s not only my default home alone movie, it’s a movie I won’t watch unless I’m home alone.
The Color Purple
Steel Magnolias
(I boo-hoo every single time at those two.)
Dirty Dancing
(I only tear up when Jerry Orbach says “You looked wonderful up there.”)
There’s probably more, but I can’t think of them right now.
Tenchi Muyo! in Love 2, aka Tenchi Forever! Just a very low-key, warm, comfortable movie for me. One of my favorites, but I don’t pull it out very often because I’m the only person I know who likes it, even among other anime fans.
Lord of the Rings series or the Alien Quadrilogy. When I’ve got a whole day to kill and I want to watch a whole series, these go in.
Disaster spectacles! The Poseiden Adventure, The Towering Inferno, etc. I can never get my fill of these kinds of movies; the cheesier the better.
A Man for All Seasons
The Lion in Winter
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
All dialogue based movies that most people I know either don’t want to watch or at least don’t want to watch nearly as often as I do.
The part when she says “I could walk to Texas but my daughter is dead” (paraphrase) always gets me.
Any James Bond movie.
Hunt for Red October
In the Line of Fire
Independance Day
Men In Black.
Terminator 2
The Great Escape always is the first in the DVD player when the wife is out of town.
Totally!!! “I’m fine! I’m fine! I could walk to Texas but my daughter is dead!” Wah!!!