Which movies you never get tired about?

[CallumWK]

For me, it is Dirty Dancing.

I was involved in the video release of the movie in Europe in 1987, and what was actually a low budget movie, turned out to be a blockbuster.

Since, I have watched it at least 8 times, most recent just today, and still I shed a tear in the closing scene.

So share your movie of all times.

[G_Money]

Godfather 1 and 2.  Sand Pebbles.  Angels with Dirty Faces.  Goodfellas.  Casino.

[CallumWK]

5 minutes ago, G_Money said:

Godfather 1 and 2.  Sand Pebbles.  Angels with Dirty Faces.  Goodfellas.  Casino.

Yes those were quality movies, never heard about Sand Pebbles.  Angels with Dirty Faces.

I also appreciate those you mention, but the emotional factor with dirty dancing is what made me start this thread.

The movie Lion is another one that touches me emotionally.

[chickenslegs]

The Great Escape. I must have watched it at least 20 times. My kids could recite every line when they were teenagers.

If anyone has a link to it dubbed into Thai, I would really like my missus to see it.  

 

[Airalee]

Fight Club

Napoleon Dynamite

[Keeps]

Oliver! - Lionel Bart's musical version.

Pretty much any version of Dickens A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim 1951 version probably being the best)

To Kill a Mockingbird

300 (Gerard Butler)

Die Hard 1 and 2

Home Alone

Debbie Does Dallas (fond memories as a young lad)

 

I'm sure others will spring to mind......

[Patong2021]

Dunkirk, Goodfellas, Casino, Casablanca, Bride on the River Kwai, La battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algeria), D-Day

Seven Samurai (Original Japanese), Das Boot, Lawrence of Arabia, Full Metal Jacket, Downfall, Dirty Harry, Letters from Iwo Jima, Empire of The Sun,  Crouching Tiger -Hidden Dragon, Apollo 13, A Bridge Too Far, All the James Bond  films except the one with George Lazenby , Forrest Gump, Scarface (Original 1932), Gone with The Wind, All Quiet on the Western Front (Original 1930), The Four Feathers (Original 1939), Khartoum, Zulu, Maurice, White Heat, Yankee Doodle Dandy.

 

I like period pieces, action and the (Imagined) good old days of the British Empire,  when the USA  was a world leader and when good triumphed over evil.

[CallumWK]

2 minutes ago, Keeps said:

Oliver! - Lionel Bart's musical version.

Pretty much any version of Dickens A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim 1951 version probably being the best)

To Kill a Mockingbird

300 (Gerard Butler)

Die Hard 1 and 2

Home Alone

Debbie Does Dallas (fond memories as a young lad)

 

I'm sure others will spring to mind......

 

The topic isn't about which one you remember, but those you watch over and over again

[theshu25]

Let It Ride. best movie ever.

[Keeps]

11 minutes ago, Keeps said:

Oliver! - Lionel Bart's musical version.

Pretty much any version of Dickens A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim 1951 version probably being the best)

To Kill a Mockingbird

300 (Gerard Butler)

Die Hard 1 and 2

Home Alone

Debbie Does Dallas (fond memories as a young lad)

 

I'm sure others will spring to mind......

 

7 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

The topic isn't about which one you remember, but those you watch over and over again

I watch all of the movies I quoted on a fairly regular basis (other than DDD). A Christmas Carol is obviously seasonal but every version from the 1930's onwards will be on TV sometime over the Christmas period in the UK.

 

I have seen each of the movies mentioned well over a dozen times, more likely upwards of twenty times.

 

Does this satisfy your criteria?

[CallumWK]

6 minutes ago, theshu25 said:

Let It Ride. best movie ever.

 

Not what I had in mind with this thread.

I have almost 5Tb of movies stored on SSD's, and they are only high rated movies. By coincidence, there isn't one from the last decade.

I watched them, and enjoyed them, but only few I would watch a second or third time.

The point of this thread is movies that really touched you, and which you will watch over and over again.

[CallumWK]

10 minutes ago, Keeps said:

 

I watch all of the movies I quoted on a fairly regular basis (other than DDD). A Christmas Carol is obviously seasonal but every version from the 1930's onwards will be on TV sometime over the Christmas period in the UK.

 

I have seen each of the movies mentioned well over a dozen times, more likely upwards of twenty times.

 

Does this satisfy your criteria?

I don't have any criteria, but from your second post, it seems you are stuck in history, especially since you mention Debbie in Dallas..

Take note, since I distributed that movie since its release date, I know what you are talking about.

[3NUMBAS]

 

 

 

[Confuscious]

Reservoir dogs, Pulp Fictions

I can watch the scene where a man is tied up on a chair and on the background a music is playing, "Stuck in the middle with you" 1000000 times..

[Confuscious]

The life of Brian, Monty Python.
Watch it over and over and tears are rolling from laughing.

[Jeff the Chef]

Jaws

Great Escape

Forest Gump

Usual Suspects

Smokey and the Bandit

Pulp Fiction

The Shawshank Redemption

[jerrymahoney]

I'll add these:

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Bullitt (1968)
The Verdict (1982 -- David Mamet screenplay)

[Evil Penevil]

Exodus  (the most inspiring movie ever)

Godfather 1 and 2

Zulu  (the best cinematic portrayal of what made the British Empire great)

Davey Crocket at the Alamo  (1955 Disney television movie).  The image of Davy Crockett swinging his rifle in the final scene has stayed with me all my life.

 

300

Scrooge  (1951 version with Alastair Sim).  Best Christmas film ever!

Miracle on 34th Street  ( 1947 version with Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle.  Another great Christmas film that harks back to simpler times)

Seven Samurai  (and its Americanized Western adaptation, The Magnificient Seven)

Deep Throat  (the first porn film I ever saw)

[quake]

Apollo 13.

Top gun Maverick.

All the Star Trek movies.

A fist full of dollars.

For a few dollars more.

All the Alien moves.

Superman 1.

Passengers.

Debbie does Dallas.

 

[JohnOFphon]

Caveman with Ringo Starr, anything with Tracy Lords..early years. 

[Hummin]

3 hours ago, Confuscious said:

The life of Brian, Monty Python.
Watch it over and over and tears are rolling from laughing.

Would be one of the movies I watched several times since the 80'ies, and it grows on me everytime, becsuse of general knownledge about psychology religion, politics, human social behavior and not to forget history then and now.

 

The most important movie ever I would say, and the funniest. 

 

 

[Martin71]

Apocalypto, Scarface, The Man Who Would Be King...

[Walker88]

The Third Man, The Man Who Would Be King, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Lawrence of Arabia, The Maltese Falcon, The Comedians....and if anything more modern, Body of Lies (especially Mark Short's performance), The Big Short, and Margin Call (most accurate depiction of a Wall Street firm and trading floor).

[3NUMBAS]

Dumb and dumber , to dumb for words

[riclag]

On 12/9/2024 at 11:06 PM, G_Money said:

Godfather 1 and 2.  Sand Pebbles.  Angels with Dirty Faces.  Goodfellas.  Casino.

I hate gf 3 ,First time i watched Gf 1 was

at the Drive In, I had a new Lady and found it difficult to divert my attention away from her! It wasnt till a year later 

I could appreciate the movie! Must’ve watched 1& 2, 20 x.

 

My whole family revolved around organized crime , growing up in a Italian household & neighborhood in between Boston and Providence!

Goodfellas  10x 

Casino 1x

 

I never watched sand pebbles or  angels with dirty faces, I’ll have to check it out!

[riclag]

Godfather 1 & 2

Schinlers list

 Roots first & second generation 

Ten Commandments 

Patriot

Braveheart

Equalizer

They died with their boots on

Ben Hur

Pride of the Yankees 

Babe Ruth Story(1948)

Carbine Williams

Sink the Bismark

Green Mile

Cast Away

Forest Gump

Apolo 13

Big

The family man

Gone with the Wind

Robin Hood

Enola Gay

My Cousin Vinny

Jerimiah Johnson

Dirty Dozen

From here to Eternity 

Green Beret 

We were Soldiers 

The old man & the Sea

Shawshank

Great Escape 

Stalag 13

 

 

[gamb00ler]

The Blues Brothers  5-6X

Shawshank Redemption 3-4X

Pulp Fiction 3-4X

Léon: The Professional 3X

Godfather 1&2  2-3X

V for Vendetta 2X

Dune (2021)  2X

Silver Linings Playbook 2X

[jvs]

A great movie partly filmed in the Uk and partly in Thailand,

"The Railway man"

True story and when you visit Kanchanaburi you can almost relive it.