I haven't known what movies to watch lately. Does everyone have their own treasure movies that they've seen many times? 😀

• Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
• The Third Man (1949)
• The Ladykillers (1955)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Repo Man (1984)
• Stalker (1979)

Probably several others, but those are the first to come to mind.

I don't re-watch movies very often, and more than three times is rare as hens' teeth. Sometimes it's because it's an absolute classic, or sometimes it's because I'm weirdly fascinated by it. Let's see if I can remember those rare exceptions.

• Starship Troopers (good movie, and something about it charmed my socks off)
• Les Triplettes de Belleville (absolutely must-see, smashing masterpiece, no need to know French) (free to watch here!)
• Big Lebowski (words cannot describe)
• The Life of Brian (Monty Python's finest movie IMO, and a fascinating commentary on religion)
• Fire and Ice (good movie, and I found the rotoscoping utterly entrancing) (free to watch here and here!)

Dredd

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Serenity

K-Pop Demon Hunters

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Star Wars Trilogy (unedited originals)

Pulp Fiction

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Kick-Heart

Le Maison en Petit Cubes (The House of Small Cubes)

Shaun of the Dead

Blade Runner

Cowboy Bepop: Knocking on Heavens Door

Neo Tokyo

The original non-Gameshopified Astartes series by Syama Pedersen, though technically like five episodes, I always watch all of them in one go. :3 The Emperor Protects :3

I basically never rewatch movies. The only exception is Lord of the Rings basically. I think Sinners and Megalopolis will join it, but I haven't rewatched them yet

All LOTR and Harry Potter movies

Terminator, for the nostalgia.

I struggled to recall a movie I watched three times, I very rarely rewatch movies. Then I remembered, Wicked! I watched it once when it came out, then again when it released in better quality to piracy sites, then once again with my cousins :3

Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Glen Close and John Malcovich. I used to be able to quote the entire script by heart.

Very very few. I don't usually rewatch anything.
The few that stand out are: The Usual Suspects, Star Wars series (first 6), Die Hard (first 2), some others maybe.

I don't think I ever rewatched a series though. No patience for that.

In steam of consciousness order:

• Young Frankenstein
• Princess Bride
• Double Indemnity
• Nightmare Before Christmas
• The Breakfast Club
• The Fifth Element
• 12 Monkeys
• The Terminator
• Star Wars (first trilogy)
• Harvey
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
• Men In Black
• The Incredibles
• Inception
• E.T.
• The Sting
• Grease
• Ghostbusters
• West Side Story

Probably a number of others

Hot Shots! Both, btw

The Lord of the Rings - watched these many times now, and a couple of those have been back to back marathons. And yes, extended editions every time.

The Little Mermaid - The original Disney animated version. It’s possibly my favourite of what is known as the renaissance era.

The Muppet Christmas Carol - I watch this every year on Christmas Eve. I think I’m up to about 15 or more years now. It’s without a doubt the best version of A Christmas Carol ever.

Top three off the top of my head. I’m sure there’s more but the won’t match the number of times I’ve watched these.

• Month Python and the Holy Grail
• Young Frankenstein
• Seven Samurai
• LOTR Trilogy

I see a lot of LOTR fans here. Good crowd.

I revisit Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind every few years when I wanna get my guts all twisted into knots.

I think when Kaufman is left on his own he's too much of a bummer and Gondry on his own is just too far out. But somehow they come together in a perfect balance with Jim Carey in perhaps his best serious role, IMHO. The soundtrack really takes it the extra mile.

I appreciate it because Joel and Clementine come off as just two kinda fucked up people having a kinda fucked up relationship; very relatable. Neither is perfect or completely at fault and the film very much leaves it up to your interpretation if they can or should work together. I don't think it has a happy ending, do you? Compare that to something like 500 Days of Summer where you're really supposed to sympathize with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character but mostly I end up wanting to push him into the mud. Hard.

The subplot between the doctor and his secretary is maybe a little unnecessary? But Kirsten Dunst is amazing so whatever.

I wish I had stayed.

Probably only Star Wars 1 - 6.

Just cause these haven't been called out by the top comments-

True Lies

The Hunt for Red October

I had a holy grail vhs which i watched more or less every day after school. I used to be able to recite it from start to finish.

Also had both terminator movies on a double vhs so I've seen my fair share of them as well.

Amelie for the feels.
Friday for the laughs.

9 To 5
Baraka
Baghdad Cafe

The Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. I know it's popular to hate on them and point out flaws, but most of them are perfect "junk food" comfort food flicks. And some of them are really good!

• Holy grail
• The only two terminator movies that have been made
• Akira
• Black cat white cat
• Underground
• Casablanca
• Cabaret
• Lotr
• Wall-e
• Totoro (and a bunch of other ghibli movies)
• Pulp fiction
• Life aquatic (because I always forget the story and whether I like it or not)
• Napoleon Dynamite (will never not recommend this to anyone, regardless of cultural snobery)

Probably a bunch more

Drop Dead Gorgeous
Best in Show

I don't think I've ever watched a movie more than 3 times... Maybe Howl's Moving Castle. Possibly A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation, as well.

Being There (1979)

True Stories (1986)

Waking Life (2001)

I re-watch movies and tv shows very often. Some movies I've seen over 20 times.

It's rare for me to only watch something once.

• Perfect days
• Fallen angels

Lucky Number Slevin is likely my most watched movie.

Hangover 1

I watched my VHS copy of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon so much in just 1 year, that the following year my parents got me a copy on DVD because the tape in the cassette was worn out and warped.

Off the top of my head / all-time popular:

• Avatar (the blue alien one)
• Interstellar
• The Dark Knight trilogy
• Lord of the Rings trilogy

To satisfy my inner little boy:

• Ip Man
• Transformers
• Pacific Rim

Animation:

• Frozen
• How to train your dragon trilogy

Yeah I'm a basic bitch

Idiocracy, numerous times.

As time passes, it gets worse (aka reality does. The movie is perfect)

Big Trouble in Little China

Princess Bride

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Tank Girl

Romancing the Stone

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Where the Buffalo Roam

Everything by Monty Python

Edit: everything by Mel Brooks

My go to comfort movies are:
Sneakers
Hackers
The Italian Job (2003)
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)\

Note: I didn’t say “Best” or “Favorite” but these are infinitely rewatchable for me with any level of attention paid to them.

I’ve probably seen Hot Fuzz more times than any other movie. It was a comfort movie for a while.

The Other Guys. That has to be funniest comedy I have ever seen.

Deep Impact is on rotation like an album along with The Core of all things.

• Judge Dred (the new one)
• Blade Runner 2049
• Ready Player One
• LOTR

I watch these films multiple times a year

I probably watched The Man from Earth (2007) over ten times.

• Star Wars trilogy
• Aliens
• Young Frankenstein
• A Christmas Story
• Die Hard
• Predator
• Terminator 2
• The Fifth Element
• Ghostbusters
• Spaceballs
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Last of the Mohicans
• Iron Man 1
• Cap America 1
• Shaun of the Dead
• The Matrix 1
• Wizard of Oz/Dark side of the rainbow

There are plenty (nearing my 60s, I've had plenty time to watch movies ;). So allow me to name just a few I always enjoy watching. They are in no order save the two first ones:

• '2001 A Space Odyssey'. There are movies, many are not that great, some are excellent and of those a few are true work of art, and then there is '2001'. I'm an admirer of most of Kubrick's work but this one is in a category of its own. I hated the first time I watched it, then I watched it again and was blown away, sequence after sequence. And I'm blown away every single time I re-watch it. It's one of the two movies I consider on par with the greatest books I've ever read.
• 'Les enfants du paradis' (Children of Paradise). Marcel Carné, 1945. A french movie and the second of the two movies I consider as good as the best books I've ever read. Maybe even more than 2001...
• '12 Angry Men'. Or what it means/should mean to live and to be a citizen in a democracy.
• Gone With the Wind.
• Ghost in the Shell (the original anime)
• The Dictator (Chaplin)
• 'The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean'. I love this movie despite all its flaws. I love every bits of it, even its flaws. And I love its ending even more.
• 'Dances with Wolves'. I'm a sucker for Westerns and this one, right with 'Open Range' and maybe 'True Grit' (the Cohen version), which is also a great novel, is my all time most... loved Western. Not my favorite, but the one I love the most. Every time I watch it makes me wonder what the USA (and the rest of the world) could have been if they had managed to get rid of their hate (of the natives, and of nature). I should also list the Newman/Redford 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'. But I feel bad for only listing so few as there are many more great Westerns and even a few truly amazing ones (there is also a lot of turds, I will admit it). This genre deserves a thread on its own as it so often overlooked or ignored because of its label. It's sad.
• 'Somewhere in Time'. next to Westerns, I'm a sucker for love stories. This one makes me cry every single time. I also like 'When Harry Met Sally', a lot.
• A History of Violence. I expected not much of it but it happened to be a great movie. With an amazing casting.
• The Birds (my favorite Hitchcock, so different from du Maurier's original short story which is also excellent, btw)
• North by Northwest (another Hitchcock, another of my favorites)
• Toy Story (the first 1, maybe the 2nd too), Ice Age (the 2 first ones)
• 'Singing in the Rain'. The movie I've watched the most, bar none?
• 'West Side Story'
• 'Scarface' (the one with Al Pacino).
• Kick Ass (the first one) made a huge impression on me. And gave me hope that all was not lost with contemporary US cinema that has grown afraid even of its own shadow and has started self-censoring, hard.
• A clockwork Orange.
• Full Metal Jacket (there is a lot I like less in it but it still is a great film)
• Barry Lyndon. God may have created light but Kubrick mastered it, in that movie.

There are so, so many more! Ozu is one of the directors I can endlessly watch and have a blast, I'm also a fan of Kurosawa. I have not even considered Italian (like, they were among the best) or the Russian cinema! Or even my own French movies: back in the days, French used to make a lot of great movies but that was before we too, like Hollywood, became so afraid of our own shadow that we started self-censoring... Sad times we're living in, bu that will pass.

A night at the Roxbury

i have never rewatched a movie, I didn't
know that was much of a thing.

Die hard. It's not a "treasure movie", but a "christmas tradition"

Unusual or less known movies I've watched a quite a few times:

• Leaves of Grass

• A Scanner Darkly

• Red Lights

• Where the Buffalo Roam

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

-2010: The Year We Make Contract

My mind is blanking on the others

A History of Violence was pretty underrated. Barry Lyndon bored the hell out of me, but the lighting was very impressive from a technical perspective (they actually used candles and a super low aperture lens for some scenes, no additional lighting).

Fifth Element
Serenity (Firefly)
Goonies
Dune
Cabin in the Woods
Megamind
Tropical Thunder
Super Troopers
Transformers the Movie (1986)
A Christmas Story

These are just movies I've probably seen more than 3 times in no particular order, they aren't all necessarily masterpieces (though some are):

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Princess Bride

Blade Runner / Bladerunner 2049

Idiocracy

Interstellar

Spaceballs

Clue

The Other Guys

Dr Strangelove

Airplane! / Airplane 2!

Terminator 2

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Home Alone

12 Monkeys

Inception

The Iron Giant

Trading Places

Star War: Backstroke of the West, The Third Gathering

I'm so glad they stopped at T2 and didn't ruin it by making a bunch of increasingly ridiculous sequels and TV shows.

Aside from the several good twists, what gets me about this story is thinking about the scale of time. If a normal person likely can't remember what meal they ate last year on this date, imagine that x1000 (and more). Such a great concept.