Movies that you've seen all the way through more than 5 times

The original Star Wars movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Temple of Doom
Blade Runner
Totoro
The Iron Giant
Dude, Where's My Car?
Delicatessen
It's a Wonderful Life
Akira
UHF

I think that's it.

Mad Max
Evildead II
Zardoz
Reflecting Skin
Wild At Heart
Blade Runner
A New Hope
Dunwich Horror
Spinal Tap
Fright Night
Flesh + Blood
others...

***

The kids who grew up with vcr's and watched certain Disney moviews 350 times are going to own this thread.

Duck Soup
Spinal Tap
Blade Runner (tho different versions)
Basically every Disney flick from The Little Mermaid to The Lion King, and every Don Bluth flick from An American Tail to All Dogs Go to Heaven
Almost Famous (every night for a year when I was in high school)
Clueless (ditto, but junior high)
Casablanca
To Have and Have Not
Chinatown
Other stuff not occurring to me at the moment.

Almost Famous (every night for a year when I was in high school)
Clueless (ditto, but junior high)

What, really?!

far too many to list, but my favourite movies to watch over and over are

Withnail & I
Tron
Wargames
Alien and Aliens
Predator
Dawn of the Dead

Yeah... first I had a crush on Alicia Silverstone (I was a young Jewish boy), and then I dreamt of being a famous rockNroll journalist. I am not embarrassed to admit this :P

Withnail & I (ha! snap, Ste!)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Moonraker
Diamonds Are Forever
You Only Live Twice
Thunderball
Dr. No
Casino Royale (David Niven version)
original SW trilogy
Carry On Camping
It's A Wonderful Life
The Abyss
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek II

Yeah... first I had a crush on Alicia Silverstone (I was a young Jewish boy), and then I dreamt of being a famous rockNroll journalist. I am not embarrassed to admit this :P

Still, every night for a year... Didn't you get bored with those movies?

Help
Psychomania
Chitty etc
Bedazzled
Hard Days Night
24 hour party people
Rock and Roll High School

Some of those are because of the kids requests.

I may have exaggerated a bit. Probably more like... 40-45 times over the year.

Altho maybe more often at times. It's hard to remember. There were weeks when I would turn Almost Famous on and watch it over and over.

Oh, also, I saw Sweeney Todd every night (literally now, without exaggeration) for about two weeks after it came out on DVD. Again, sorta playing on the television while I worked.

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version)

Back in 1994, I worked as an usher in a cinema for a few months so there's a batch of films from one moment in time that I've seen dozens and dozens and dozens of times:

Leon
Stargate
Pulp Fiction
Nightmare Before Christmas
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
La Reine Margot
Dumb & Dumber
Only You
The Lion King
Natural Born Killers
Muriel's Wedding
Heavenly Creatures
Shawshank Redemption
It Could Happen to You
Pret-a-Porter
Little Women
Madness of King George

Out of all those, the only one I'd willingly watch again is probably La Reine Margot.

Annie Hall
Big Lebowski
Gregory's Girl
Local Hero
Manhattan
Roadhouse
Simple Men
Spinal Tap
Tremors

I'd watch all those again.

Withnail & I

I ment to say I probably would watch Withnail & I again. Just seen it too many times.

Star Warses
Dazed & Confused
Annie Hall
The Sweet Hereafter
Rear Window
A Thousand Clowns
Clerks
Mallrats
Barton Fink
Big Lebowski
Fargo
Pulp Fiction
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Grosse Point Blank
All those Disney movies
Annie (as a kid I watched this so much the tape sort of disintegrated)

plenty more, I'm sure

Oh yeah. I've seen Annie Hall at least a dozen times over the years.

A lot

Mommie Dearest for sure. Also Poltergeist, Creepshow, Beetlejuice and Light is Calling.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Gregory's Girl
Muriel's Wedding
Grease
The Princess Bride
Withnail & I (I think everyone my age has seen this 100000 times)
Local Hero
Annie Hall
both the Bill & Ted films

There are probably way more than this, but these probably top the list.

Predator
Yentl

^^^ a bit of an odd combination...
And now I have Arnie shouting "run to da choppa!!!" playing on a loop in my head...

Yentl was a joke i confess

tommy boy

Off the top of my head (some of I don't even rate that highly but I keep watching them when they crop up on TV):

Pulp Fiction
Alien and Aliens
Predator
Alien vs Predator
Hellboy
Reservoir Dogs
Deep Cover
The Matrix
Rob Roy
Star Wars IV and V
Dogma
Roadhouse
The Karate Kid I and II
Fargo
Big Lebowski
The Man Who Wasn't There
Airplane
Evil Dead I and II
Blade Runner
Every Disney film my kids own
Die Hard I and III
Every Superhero film my kids own
Mad Max I and II
All of the Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns and probably a couple of the Dirty Harry films
Unforgiven
Braveheart
Raiders
Cool Hand Luke
Butch & Sundance
Top Gun
Ghost
Candyman
McVicar
Kentucky Fried Movie
Blazing Saddles
The Krays
The Champ
Rainman

I think I've managed to ween myself off of watching SW trilogy/any Bond movie whenever they are on TV.

I annoy myself by watching movies on TV that I already own on DVD. I sit and put up with adverts rather than getting off my arse and sticking a disk in the player.

I did this last week with Jackie Brown (which probably just misses the cut for this thread)--I don't think I would ever just, on a weeknight, pop in a dvd of a movie I've seen before. But if it's on tv, well, that's a different story.

Anyway the point is that any time life gives you the opportunity to watch Jackie Brown, you grab it with both hands.

I annoy myself by watching movies on TV that I already own on DVD. I sit and put up with adverts rather than getting off my arse and sticking a disk in the player.

it's the "live" experience ;)

only films I've seen 5 times or more are Disney movies I guess. Usually when I think a movie is really really awesome I dare not to watch it again.

In the theater, I saw "Raiders of the Lost Ark" eight times and "Pulp Fiction" right at five times.

I used to drink with a guy who every night would go home and watch "Apocolypse Now" in its entirety. Not sure what happened to him.

Not sure you want to know.

What snapped me out of the habit was watching Bond movies on ITV1, where they'd insert commercials and two thirds of the way through there'd be a 15 minute news break.

oh i forgot Natural Born Killers, which i watched half a dozen times at the flicks and then numerous times on dvd

Damn I missed Ferris Bueller and the Princess Bride off the list. Both of which I want to watch now. I could do with a laugh.

None since childhood (except possibly Life Of Brian), although my partner has seen Withnail & I around 12 to 15 times. I hardly ever watch a film twice, for that matter. Don't buy me DVDs for Christmas.

Dude, Where's My Car?

???

Pretty sure I've not seen any film more than five times. Maybe I've seen Mulholland Drive, Star Wars, 2001, Billy Liar, some Bond films as many as four or five times, but not more. There are too many other things to watch!

big lebowski
phantom of the opera (when i was younger!)
a lot of disney movies
the sandlot
the godfather

not many.

Quiz Show
The Wizard of Oz
The Draughtsman's Contract
Mrs Doubtfire

i'd watch the first two again.

Psychomania

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^kudos

The Wizard of Oz
Hitchcock: Vertigo, Psycho, Shadow of a Doubt etc
Planet of the Apes
Casablanca
all the 1929-37 Marx Bros films
Annie Hall, Sleeper, Manhattan
Chinatown
Nashville
several Preston Sturges comedies
Berlin Alexanderplatz (j/k)

2001: A Space Odyssey
Cool Hand Luke
Eraserhead
The Road Warrior
Magnolia

2001 and Strangelove too
Some Like It Hot

Psychomania

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^kudos

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It was on TV recently, and we watched it together for the 1st time, was suspecting the verdict "turn this shite off" was coming, but there's something that keeps you watching to the end.

Oh, and also recognising Langley (slough) shopping centre...

Anything that was on hbo in the mid 80s to early 90s.

First three Star Wars films.
First two Indiana Jones films.
Care Bears the Movie.
Transformers the Movie/
GI Joe the Movie.

Those kind of don't count as they were all childhood fixations. Or, in the case of the Care Bears movie, the childhood fixation of my friend Jonnie's little sister that we got lumped with quite often.

As an adolescent / adult...

Predator
Terminator 2
Aliens
Magnolia
Fight Club
Clueless
Children of Men
The Bourne Identity
Koyaanisqatsi
Waking Life
Spirited Away
The Incredibles
Napoleon Dynamite
Batman Begins

Various superhero films and recent comedies are probably at 3 to 4 full views, including the first 2 X-Men films, Superbad, The Dark Knight, 40 Year Old Virgin. Dark Knight's out on DVD on Monday so will go tearing into the 5+ list shortly.

Annie Hall, Sleeper, Manhattan

Holy crap how did I forget Sleeper? Def. seen that about 10 times.
Anyone keeping count?

Anything that was on hbo in the mid 80s to early 90s.

Yeah, I wouldn't be half-surprised to see something on this thread like;

2001, A Space Odyssey
Casablanca
The Grapes of Wrath
It's A Wonderful Life
High Noon
Beastmaster

oh Fight Club ditto

Annie
A Christmas Story
Don't Look Now
Mary Poppins
Time Bandits
Tommy
Velvet Goldmine
The Wicker Man

also probably Star Wars, A Clockwork Orange, The Manchurian Candidate

A Christmas Story
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
Dazed and Confused
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Trading Places
Mr. Mom
Breakin'
Airplane!
Top Secret
Naked Gun
Pulp Fiction
Back To the Future
Back To the Future Part II
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Predator
Total Recall
Vertigo
North by Northwest
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Sixteen Candles
WarGames
Grease
The Wizard of Oz

i used to have a habit of coming home plastered at the weekends and putting Tron on, I'd wake up at some crazy time in the morning with it on loop.

Tetsuo : The Iron Man
Dark Star
Animal House
Repo Man
Return Of The Jedi (saw it 4 times in 2 days when it came out)
Koyaanisqatsi
Kiki's Delivery Service
The Seventh Seal
The Wicker Man
The Blues Brothers
probably The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Psychomania - used to turn up on BBC1 at least once a year

Loads of childhood obsessions but in the pre-VHS era it wasn't so easy to watch films again and again. Btw we're not counting porn here are we?

all the good star Wars and indiana jones ones
wet hot american summer
kill bill pt 1
the ice storm
goodfellas
princess bride

more i'm sure

Berlin Alexanderplatz (j/k)

lolz

Annie Hall, Sleeper, Manhattan

oddly these are the three Allen movies I own on DVD and have also watched the most.

I've seen waaaaay too many movies more than 5 times, I don't even know where to start

Btw we're not counting porn here are we?

who watches a porn movie all the way through?

how do porn movies end? money shot then extensive credits sequence?

CGI monkey chase scene

Not with a whimper but with a gangbang

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Delicatessen
Wise Blood
Withnail & I
It's a Wonderful Life
Songs from the Second Floor
1991: The Year Punk Broke (if that counts as a movie, heh)

Probably about 4 times and likely to watch again:
Festen
Repulsion
Nightmare Alley
Spinal Tap
The Breakfast Club
Rosemary's Baby
War Games

The only one I remember from being a kid and not having many videos:
Jumpin' Jack Flash. Yes, fucking Jumpin' Jack Flash. Christ.

For me, stuff already listed by others:

The original Star Wars movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Blade Runner
It's a Wonderful Life
Mad Max
Evildead II
Spinal Tap
Casablanca
Chinatown
Tron
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek II
Star Trek IV
Star Trek VI
Rock and Roll High School
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version)
Pulp Fiction
Nightmare Before Christmas
Natural Born Killers
Heavenly Creatures
Annie Hall
Big Lebowski
Manhattan
Dazed & Confused
Barton Fink
Fargo
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Reservoir Dogs
Both Kill Bill Volumes
The Wizard of Oz
2001: A Space Odyssey
Mary Poppins
Time Bandits
Velvet Goldmine
A Clockwork Orange
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Back To the Future
The Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
The Blues Brothers

not mentioned yet:

Shakes the Clown (<<<so awesome. is this even on DVD?)
Miller's Crossing
The Hudsucker Proxy
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Being John Malkovich
Bugsy Malone
Hana-bi
all the Lord of the Rings movies (not just Peter Jackson, also Bakshi version and Rankin/Bass the Hobbit which I was big on as a kid)
Office Space

also:

Taxi Driver
Casino
Goodfellas

Dude, Where's My Car?

???

I got this as a jokey birthday gift, but it turned out to be much better than what the title would suggest.

in addition to lots of the repeat offenders listed above...
yeah Clint Eastwood westerns
Rambo 1 & 2
Ghostbusters
Caddyshack
Groundhog Day
The Life Aquatic
Jeremiah Johnson
Jurassic Park
Jaws
Willow
Crocodile Dundee
Gangs of New York
The Hunt for Red October
Crimson Tide
Shaun of the Dead
Seven
Ocean's Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen

Bunch of these are due to having them on tape as a kid or on xbox now, also 5 times isn't that many i've probably seen most of these 10-15 times, some definitely more than that. Lots of drawing/painting with a familiar movie on... I'm not sitting down with popcorn all the time.

Lots of drawing/painting with a familiar movie on

yeah I do this too

Forgot about Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Breakfast Club, St Elmo's Fire, The Sound of Music, Some Like It Hot.

Am quite surprised I'm the only one fessing up to Bill & Ted thus far.

The Star Wars films.

I think that's it, I've seen Armageddon and Elf a few times. I tend not to watch movies again and again.

xp: how bout Harold & Kumar? i can do Harold & Kumar...

Field of Dreams
Waiting for Guffman

Pretty sure that's it. I don't really watch movies more than once or twice.

In vaguely chronological order, as to when I first watched them:

Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc.
The Princess Bride
The Breakfast Club
The Terminator
Spaceballs
Clue
Die Hard
Hunt for Red October
Pump up the Volume
Heathers
Pulp Fiction
Dazed & Confused
The Seventh Seal
Naked
Dr. Strangelove
Annie Hall
Princess Mononoke
Amelie
Love Actually

I'm becoming like Pauline Kael: I don't want to rewatch films.

The Wizard of Oz
Hitchcock: Vertigo, Psycho, Shadow of a Doubt etc
Every major Bogart film
Chinatown
The Player
several Preston Sturges comedies
All the major Buñuels, Allen, Ophuls
Dead Ringers
My Own Private Idaho

there've been so many mentioned that I could add to my list but I think it's best to just let things slide

hmm I forgot Cronenberg:
eXistenZ
the Fly
Videodrome

also Carpenter:
The Thing
Escape from New York
Big Trouble in Little China

My philosophy is that there's so many movies I haven't seen that I'd rather not waste time on something I have.

My philosophy is if a movie isn't worth watching 5 times it isn't worth watching.

my memory barely exists, so I can really watch movies over and over again with impunity.

Evil Dead II
Batman
Mulholland Drive (still getting better with every watch)
The Enforcer
Buffalo '66
Arlington Road
It's A Wonderful Life
Spirited Away
Festen
The Exorcist

+ also:

Last Night (by Don McKellar, insanely underrated film from 1999)

rushmore
dr strangelove
duck soup
willy wonka and the chocolate factory
ferris bueller's day off
a boy named charlie brown

tough one...i haven't really "rescreened" a lot of films in recent years, most of them were likely during my junior high/high school years, but let's see if i can guess:

raiders of the lost ark (20x or something)
star wars trilogy
chinatown
the thing
ghostbusters
repo man
the right stuff
war of the worlds ('50s version)
the third man
reservoir dogs
pulp fiction (9x in the theater, lol)
glengarry glen ross
homicide
light sleeper (a couple of weird picks but they both have this sort of hypnotic style for me for some reason? idk)
goodfellas
mean streets
lord of the rings
hard boiled
the killer
full contact
starship troopers
robocop
jfk
the wild bunch
once upon a time in the west
the good the bad and the ugly
ferris bueller's day off
die hard
rushmore
miller's crossing

The movie I have seen most is An American Tale (fievel) - I think this is my favorite movie as well.

You're all waiting for me to use "rescreened" in a sentence again.

More than 5 times:

Bladerunner
(original) Star Wars Trilogy
Fellowship of the Ring
Goodfellas
The Fugitive
The Big Lebowski
Evil Dead 2
Die Hard
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Breakfast Club
Back to the Future
Rocky III (thanks HBO)
Magnum Force
The Enforcer
Reservoir Dogs
The Matrix
The Russians Are Coming
Rear Window
Casablanca
The African Queen

Movies I've definitely seen more than 5 times:

Dumbo
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Mickey's Christmas Carol (if it counts as a movie)
Flight of the Navigator
The Blues Brothers
It's a Wonderful Life

First off, the stuff I saw at school or camp:

The Sound of Music
Mary Poppins
Jurassic Park
The Lion King
Willy Wonka

As child of my own accord:

The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones (like everyday one summer) (yeah I know)

Grown-up:

Repo Man
Dazed & Confused
Rushmore
Breathless
Pierot le Fou
California Split
M*A*S*H
Mean Streets
Clerks

probably more

Sat though at least five times on TV:

The Dead Pool

Holiday Movies:

It's A Wonderful Life
Some stuff I've repressed

the only movie that's come out in the last few years that is going to be on this list soon is Children of Men.

Oh... and Oldboy.

Off top of head + reminders in thread:
The Abyss
Billy Liar
Billy Madison
Brick
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Clue
Clueless
Edward Scissorhands
Joe v the Volcano
Kicking and Screaming
The Princess Bride
Surviving Desire (the most-viewed is either this or Billy Madison)
Trust

oh billy madison, i watched that once per week in college with my consortium of skinhead and harlem bros

The Godfather, GF II, GF III
SW Triolgy
Raiders of the Lost Ark original trilogy
Layer Cake
Dr. No
Goldfinger
Casino Royale (Craig)
Glengarry Glen Ross
Half Baked
Animal House
The Princess Bride
National Lampoons VAcation
A Christmas Story
Its A Wonderful Life
Casablanca
Dracula (Legosi)
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Spaceballs
The Big Lebowski
Miller's Crossing
Fargo
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Batman Begins
Enter the Dragon
The Fugitive
The Hunt for Red October
Patriot Games
Clear and Present Danger
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
Halloween
Born on the Fourth of July (took a class on The Cinema of War, and this was my chosen topic - 5 times EASILY in one semester, and then never again since)
Friday
Run Lola Run
The Bourne Identity
Ocean's Eleven
O Brother Whereart Thou
Fight Club
Rounders
X-Men
Ferris Beuller
The Professional
The Good the Bad and The Ugly

I'm sure I'm missing several

time bandits

Diva
Amadeus
A New Kind of Love (cable FTW)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (i'm so ashamed)

Not sure if I've seen Rope that many times, but there was a period when I was following Turner Classic Movies, and would watch it whenever it came on.

oh yeah

Amadeus
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ah, fuck

Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill, Vols 1 & 2
Jackie Brown
Three Days of the Condor
All the President's Men
The Day of the Jackal

"The Abyss"

damn, i couldn't sit through this once

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Life of Brian

Animal House
The Princess Bride
Its A Wonderful Life
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Spaceballs
The Fugitive
The Hunt for Red October

^^^yeah these too. and A Christmas Carol, the alastair sim version. i saw this and it's a wonderful life back to back for 10+ consecutive christmas eves

hudsucker proxy
blazing saddles

Am quite surprised I'm the only one fessing up to Bill & Ted thus far.

Def seen this more than 5X's.
Also: Top Gun
To Kill A Mockingbird

oh duh add wizard of oz and star wars for me too

And Top Gun
A Few Good Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Silence of the Lambs

NightMare on Elm St.
Wizard of Oz
Mark Hamill Starwars movies
Godfather I
Breakfast Club
The Terminator
Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khaaaaaan
Bambi
Escape from N.Y.

reservoir dogs
pulp fiction
star wars IV - VI
waiting for guffman
the goonies
twin peaks: fwwm
blue velvet
mulholland drive
wild at heart
the texas chainsaw massacre
night of the living dead
rear window
psycho
psycho II
jaws
predator
commando
terminator
first blood
goodfellas
taxi driver
departed
slacker
dazed & confused
night of the living dead
big lebowski
raising arizona
fargo
the thin blue line
heathers
pump up the volume
evil dead
evil dead II
silence o' the lambs
thrashin'
bones brigade: the search for animal chin
santa cruz: streets of fire
the shining
does first half of full metal jacket count? guess not
the apartment
breakfast club
sixteen candles
better off dead
one crazy summer
bueller
the butcher boy
trainspotting
many, many others..

Last Night (by Don McKellar, insanely underrated film from 1999)

I've seen this once, at a film festival in 1999. I remember really liking it a lot, would definitely want to rewatch it.

Star Wars
Sweet Movie
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
The Exterminating Angel
Heavenly Creatures
Little Murders
Wall-E

Oh, though I doubt it actually was five times or more, it felt like we watched Danny the Champion of the World at primary school about a million times.

yeah, i've seen last night 2 or 3 times, and office space many times. and i totally saw spaceballs 1,000,000x as a kid.

Btw we're not counting porn here are we?

I think I may have watched Play Time (softcore classic not Jacques Tati classic) about five times. I'm not proud of it. I'm weak with regard to the work of Monique Parent and Jennifer Burton.

bloodsport - dozens of times as a child
grosse pointe blank - mostly in my early teens
the third man

Crime Wave (1985, dir. Sam Raimi)

I'm not sure how many times I've seen this, but probably at least 5 - a couple of times in high school, then it became kind of a running joke in college with a friend of mine, that we'd watch this way more often than any sane person would, usually whenever he was staying over at my house or vice versa.

Movies that I've only seen in a hotel room:

Quick Change (1990)

Seriously, I only see this movie while getting my bags packed, wiping the change off the counter into a plastic cup and waiting for someone to get out of the bathroom at 9:30 in the morning.

I'm sure there are a bunch... andrei rublev comes immediately to mind. and the road warrior. I saw raiders of the lost ark 7 times in the theaters, that shit was movie crack if you were a 10 year old boy.

I think I ended up seeing the rocky horror picture show 10+ times. yeah I was one of *those* people... except for me it was during 7th and 8th grade. I distinctly remember my 7th grade teacher getting freaked out when she found some RHPS glossy fanboy book in my backpack. weird kid + lol parenting = me.

Star Wars
Alien
Aliens
Terminator
Terminator 2
Blade Runner
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Tall Guy
Transformers: The Movie (the animated one from 1985, not the recent piece of shit)
Heathers
The Ice Storm
Wonder Boys
Hudsucker Proxy
Young Frankenstein
Heavenly Creatures
Dr Strangelove
Shallow Grave

Children of Men and Last Night are getting there, but only probably watched 3-4 times as yet

I saw raiders of the lost ark 7 times in the theaters, that shit was movie crack if you were a 10 year old boy.

I drew not one, but two Mad magazine comic parodies of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Oy. Lots of these....

Casablanca
Duck Soup
High Society
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Mary Poppins
Robin Hood (errol Flynn)
Robin Hood (disney animated)
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Desperately Seeking Susan
Grease
Sound of Music
The King And I
Calamity Jane
Big Business
The Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
The Lost Boys
Star Wars trilogy
Wizard of Oz
Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Meatballs
Dumb and Dumber
The Truth About Cats and Dogs
Little Women
Reality Bites
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Benny & Joon
Clueless
The Castle
Love Serenade
Malcolm
Proof
Withnail and I
Down By Law
Nightmare Before Christmas
The Crow
Interview With The Vampire
Trainspotting
Dazed and Confused
Singles
Pulp Fiction
Love Actually
Music & Lyrics
Sweeney Todd
The Proposition

The Thing (John Carpenter version, probably more than any other flick)
Dagon (except maybe Dagon)
Star Wars (or Star Wars)
The Empire Strikes Back
Repo Man
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Alien
The Road Warrior
Blade Runner
Night of the Hunter
Strangers On a Train
The Third Man
Taxi Driver
Bride of Frankenstein
The Philadelphia Story
Pink Flamingos
Sweet Movie
Rushmore
Raising Arizona
Time Bandits
Brazil
Blue Velvet
Lost Highway
Mulholland Dr.
Withnail and I
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Delicatessen
City of Lost Children
Santa Sangre
Branded to Kill
Local Hero
The Company of Wolves
Nightmare Before Christmas
The Night of the Living Dead (original)
Dawn of the Dead (ibid)
Bande a Part
Pulp Fiction
Spirited Away
From Beyond
Re-Animator
The Evil Dead
The Evil Dead 2
American Werewolf In London
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Down By Law
Switchblade Sisters
Spider Baby
Possession (crazy Polish one)
Dead/Alive (or Braindead or whatever)
Cemetery Man

there's a ton from the cable viewing in my youth, but the ones i can remember off the top of my head

the red shoes
the great escape
point break (lol)
heaven can wait
young frankenstein

I'm watching Sleepless in Seattle on TBS right now for what must be the 17th time at least.

animal house
the warriors

Oooh yeah, the Warriors. Seen tons of times. Also, Blood Feast.

And Daughters of Darkness. And and and...

I guess I'll be the first person to say Mannequin.

Additions:

South Park the Movie
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
Hard Boiled
Jaws (oh God, Jaws, I must've seen over a dozen times)
Seven
True Romance
Withnail & I
This Is Spinal Tap

The SW Trilogy
Indy trilogy
Alien / Aliens
Love & Death
Shaun of the Dead

Run Lola Run
Citizen Kane
Cannibal The Musical
Three Amigos
Big Lebowski

Office Space
both Bill & Ted movies
Ghostbusters
Repo Man
Big Trouble in Little China

Tombstone
several MST3k eps
Pulp Fiction
Snatch
Blue Brothers

Blazing Saddles
Spaceballs
Young Frankenstein
several Disney flicks
M*A*S*H

Star Trek II
Bill Cosby Himself
Popeye
Army of Darkness
Evil Dead II

Duck Soup
Pump Up the Volume
Drunken Master II
Hard-Boiled
Heathers

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Tron
The Electric Grandmother
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Any Which Way You Can / Every Which Way But Loose

CB4
Fear of a Black Hat
Raising Arizona
Princess Bride
Animal House

Top Secret!
Real Genius
Clerks
Airplane I/II
Spinal Tap

Countless Bond flicks
Slap Shot
Annie Hall
Rushmore
Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Goonies
National Lampoon's Vacation
The Muppet Movie
Caddyshack
Fletch

Akira
Blade Runner

I don't get the "I wouldn't wanna watch any film twice, there are too many other films" thing anymore than I would get "I wouldn't wanna listen to any song twice, there are too many songs".

Pulp Fiction
Blade Runner
Purple Rain
most of Almodovar oldies

oh hell yeah Warriors and Jaws are high on my list too

I had men put on Amelie on during wannagohometomyplaceandwatchmovies dates, so I've seen it more times than I'm willing to admit

I think one summer my brother and I watched Evil Dead II at least 3 nights a week. It was a good summer.

reservoir dogs
annie hall
le samourai
high fidelity
adaptation
memento
dumbo
the fifth element

oh and waking life which i'm not sure if i should be embarassed about now

ah man this is gonna be embarrassing probably but fuck it

- billy madison
- happy gilmore
- ace ventura : pet detective
- independence day
- the departed
- bourne ultimatum (<--- fuck yeah)
- casino royale
- finding nemo
- american psycho
- kill bill vol. 1/2

oh yeah, kill bill

Intentionally or not:

Billy Madison hell yes!
Blade Runner
Wayne's World
Lost in Translation
Most Star Wars probably
Terminator 2
Dead Heat (Joe Piscopo)
Pulp Fiction
Die Hard 3
Trading Places
Starship Troopers

Pulp Fiction is a clear favorite here

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Die Hard, only because ITV went through a phase of showing it every day for a month

I already listed Waking Life, Big Hoos, no shame in that; sod the philosophy, the visuals are amazing, and worth seeing again and again. I find it much more visually satisfying than A Scanner Darkly.

i once watched it with "textual commentary" where there were bibliographic notes as each speaker did their bit and constructed a reading list

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^^this guy must be a super-bro

Randomly, 10 off top of my head:

Mary Poppins
Heathers
A Clockwork Orange
A Matter of Life and Death
Blithe Spirit
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (these three on TV constantly when I was teenager)
Lawrence of Arabia
Beetlejuice
The Ruling Class
West Side Story

There is your several types of bro's

peasent bro
standard bro
general bro
super bro

peasent bro's will follow the other lebs
standard bro's have some respect
general bro's are your standard lebs except a 3 word vocab
super bro, they are to be feared, their vocab consists of WTF BRO!, YULLAH, GOT THE STASH and THE FUCK!, they are more intelligent than your standard bro, with an amazing 4 word vocab
they also make people panic
peasent bro -- "hi guys! .. i mean BRO!"
standard bro -- "sup bro"
general bro -- "WTF BRO, ECCY, BRO!"
super bro -- "WTF BRO!"

Original Star Wars trilogy
First three Indiana Jones
Back to the Future trilogy
Ghostbusters
Lord of the Rings
Casablanca
The Third Man
The Big Lebowski
The Great Escape
Fargo
Some Like it Hot
Election
A bunch of Bond films
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
The Iron Giant
Toy Story
The Jungle Book
Pulp Fiction
Being John Malkovich
First two Terminators
Blade Runner
Aliens
Spinal Tap
Shaun of the Dead
All Monty Python films
Children of Men
Spirited Away
Barton Fink

Probably more.

I don't get the "I wouldn't wanna watch any film twice, there are too many other films" thing anymore than I would get "I wouldn't wanna listen to any song twice, there are too many songs".

I'll feebly attempt to answer this, realizing that it's very much an idiosyncrasy. From my perspective, songs a) are much less of a time investment, b) don't require as much attention and thus can be experienced as ambiance, to be listened to while I'm reading, cooking, driving, etc., and c) have an viscerally insistent quality (or at least many songs do) that make me want to hear them again; there are definitely movies about which I've said, "You know, I wouldn't mind seeing that again" but it doesn't have the same force as "OMG, I really need to hear that song RIGHT NOW."

I drew not one, but two Mad magazine comic parodies of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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Additional Additions, often based on other people's Additions:

EXCALIBUR (watched about 20 times when I was a kid)
Zardoz
This Is Spinal Tap
Big Trouble In Little China
Ghostbusters
Tron
Amelie (became insufferable somewhere around the 4th viewing, but I think I saw it again)
The Fifth Element
Waking Life (more as background noise, but still)
Beetlejuice
The Ruling Class (watched recently, did not enjoy)

There seems to be a lot of common consensus here - Alien(s), LotR, Star Wars, Big Lebowski, Indiana Jones, Fight Club, Blade Runner, Spinal Tap etc.

Is that down to the demographic of ILX? Are these movies and others that crop up a lot "classics"?

would say that a few of those listed are classic in more circles than not

yeah, circles of internet boyz

a couple of movies I developed oddball obsessions with and spent a week/month watching them repeatedly:
aguirre, the wrath of god
carnival of souls
polanski's macbeth
audition

teen obssesions:
repo man
apocalypse now
eraserhead
re-animator
forbidden zone

special mention:
kieslowski's blue (it was me and my wife's first date movie, we've watched it a bunch of times on anniversaries. I was selling a vhs copy at a yard sale and told a neighbor that, she turned to my wife and dryly quipped "you must love him very much" lol)

Withnail & I (I think everyone my age has seen this 100000 times)

Born around what year? I'd never heard of this movie until reading about it in an ILX thread.. rented it last year and thought it was crap.. i'll probably never watch it again.

Although I thought it was cool they used "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

The Big Lebowski
Trainspotting
Requiem for a Dream
Old School
the 40 Year Old Virgin
Anchorman
Knocked Up (I own it.. it's one of those ones anyone who comes over to watch a movie seems to want to see)
Natural Born Killers
The Wizard of Oz
Pulp Fiction
Lord of the Rings
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I'm sure there are more as well, as I rarely buy new DVDs.. Anchorman and Old School rotate as being my go-to movies when I am bored.

Empire Records
Mulholland Drive
Fanny and Alexander
probably The Matrix

Best in Show

Anyone mention River's Edge yet? I watched that thing over and over when I was a teen >>> "Get your nunchuks and your dad's car. I know where we can get a gun."

Belle du Jour
If....

Happiness of the Katakuris is another semi-recent one I've watched a bunch of times.

M
Mishima
Hawk the Slayer

are ones I can think of that haven't been listed already.

Paris Texas

"I don't get the "I wouldn't wanna watch any film twice, there are too many other films" thing anymore than I would get "I wouldn't wanna listen to any song twice, there are too many songs".

For me it's a ration where--->reading a book x2 = watching a movie x5 = listening to a song x25.

Something like that anyway. Certainly a song has more replay value than a movie to me simply because there's more room for your mind to wander. Also the time commitment of book vs song vs movie...

And by ration I mean ratio.

Ration works too, though.

I watched the John Milius classic Red Dawn about a dozen times when I was 9.

Thought there are exceptions, I notice that I'll rarely rewatch anything too seriously intended, slow-paced or grimly downbeat. The things I watch over and over are cartoonish horror flicks (i.e., NOT Audition), Sci-Fi and Fantasy stuff, "trippy" movies (as indefensible as that description may be), and a few eye-candy classics (The Third Man, Night of the Hunter).

Agree with Edward III that the movies getting the most love here are almost all canonical net list classics.

Anyone mention River's Edge yet? I watched that thing over and over when I was a teen >>> "Get your nunchuks and your dad's car. I know where we can get a gun."

oooh me too!!! many lines from this movie have made it into my circle of friends' lexicon.

"Motherfucker! FOOD EATER!"

"N-O spells nuh-uh".

"The THINGS I do for my FUCKING friends"

"Hurry your ass!"

"Wasting pigs is radical, man."

"Oh, man. I ate so much pussy in those days, my beard looked like a glazed doughnut."

cats got claws man!

"and I'm thinking to myself... I wonder if there's any beer left in that can"

Labyrinth
The Princess Bride
Grease
Stand By Me
This Boy’s Life
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Blade Runner
Once Were Warriors
Batman Begins
Running on Empty
A Few Good Men
Fight Club
The Matrix
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Pulp Fiction
Back to the Future Part I

I think I counted 8 people who mentioned evil dead 2 but only one of them mentioned army of darkness

OSS 117 (this is probably the one movie I've seen the most and would most gladly watch again from this list)
Matrix
Star Wars original trilogy
Casino Royale (Daniel Craig one)
2046 and In The Mood for Love
Rules of the Game
Terminator 2
Badlands
Fitzcarraldo
Indiana Jones first three
X Men 2
Children of men
loads of disney movies
Cité de la peur (french comedy)
Shaun of the dead
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance

I'm not sure there is a single movie that I've seen five times (I would think Star Wars or Empire is the most likely and even there I don't think I hit five.)

Forgot to mention Ed Wood - I love that film.

More than five times? Geez. I'm not entirely certain if any film meets that standard for me. If any do, they'd be:

It's A Wonderful Life
The Maltese Falcon

There are several I've seen about 4-5 times, but that list wouldn't be very long, either.

Animalympics
Beauty and the Beast
The Lion King
The Sound of Music
Mary Poppins
ET
The Princess Bride
Tween movies that I watched a lot between ages 7-12: stuff like The Sandlot, Camp Nowhere, Casper, House Arrest etc.
Teen movies that I watched a lot between ages 11-18: Empire Records, Can't Hardly Wait, Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, Cruel Intentions, The Breakfast Club etc.
Star Wars, BTTF, Indiana Jones trilogies
Batman, Batman Returns, and Batman Begins
both Bill & Ted
Beetlejuice
Edward Scissorhands
Seven
Mallrats
Mean Girls
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Fifth Element
Top Secret!
Top Gun
Zodiac (my brother and I watched this every day for a week a few months ago)
24 Hour Party People

before turning 12..

Beetlejuice
The Great Outdoors
Batman
Jurassic Park
The Little Mermaid
Cinderella
Lady And The Tramp
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Back To The Future
Weird Science
Spaceballs
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Woodstock

and after that point..

Gummo .. at least 15 times
Silence Of The Lambs .. at least 10 times
Trainspotting .. at least 5 times
Scream .. at least 7 times over the course of one week in summer 1997, and maybe 2-3 times since then
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls .. last year i watched this 5 times in a week
Wet Hot American Summer .. at least 5 times
Requiem For A Dream .. probably in the 4-6 range, it might have been 5 times
Rushmore .. 5-6 times
Bully .. 5-6 times
Nowhere .. 5-6 times
Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas .. 6-7 times
Pulp Fiction .. probably around 8 times
Ace Venture Pet Detective
The Mask
Dumb And Dumber
Wayne's World
Wayne's World 2
Austin Powers, i never saw the other 2

Born around what year? I'd never heard of this movie until reading about it in an ILX thread.. rented it last year and thought it was crap.. i'll probably never watch it again.

I'm 35. It was massively cult classic required viewing for lol students in the early 90s. Perhaps just a Britisher thing?

I keep adding flicks to my list when I see other people's lists. And I think that's because 5 flicks really that much. You could hit 5 just by watching the same flick with a few different groups of people. I'm pretty sure that's how I saw Airplane and Pulp Fiction 5 times apiece. I certainly didn't go back to them. They just always seem to be on in party-esque situations.

Maybe we need a Movies that you've seen all the way through more than 10 times. That will just leave a few obsessive loves of mine, and of course, most of the Disney output.

I'm 35. It was massively cult classic required viewing for lol students in the early 90s. Perhaps just a Britisher thing?

It's not just a Britisher thing.

The original Star Wars movies
Indiana Jones, all except recent one.
Delicatessen
It's a Wonderful Life
Spinal Tap
Lord of the Rings, extended :(
Castaway
Leon
X-men all three
Sin City
Plane trains and automobiles
Kingpin
Alien & Aliens
The abyss
Pulp fiction
Big Lebowski
Die hardsss
Unforgiven + many other Eastwood ones
Enemy of the state
Saving private Ryan
It's a Wonderful Life
Back to the future 1
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Casino
Goodfellas
The thing
Big trouble in little china
Master and Commander
Kill Bills
The fugitive
Patriot games
Clear and present danger
Jaws, original, might watch that tonight now.
Goonies
Terminators, all
Children of men
Shawshank redemption
Poltergeist
Fifth element
Amalie
Oldboy
Best in show
Sideways
City of god
Most Coen brothers
War of the worlds
Devils backbone

Erm cough er Notting hill, it’s my guilty pleasure.

To all the ones i've missed off, soz!

I have insomnia to thank for the time to watch these.

Everything by Tarkovsky except Steamroller/Violin & Sacrifice
Death Powder, Tetsuo, Pinocchio 964
Vital
Wizards
Fantastic Planet
Akira
Metropolis
Der Golem
R&R High School
Sherlock Jr., Steamboat Bill Jr., other assorted Keaton
El Topo
Tommy
Satyricon
The Great Cake Adventure

Tombstone
Dazed and Confused
25th Hour
Wedding Crashers
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Trainspotting
High Fidelity
Wonder Boys
The 13th Warrior
crazy/beautiful
Kiss Me Deadly

And I think that's because 5 flicks really (isn't?) that much.

Generational difference at work.

VCRs didn't come in until I was in my 30s and I've never been that big on owning copies of movies in order to watch them incessantly. By the 4th time the film just doesn't hold many surprises any more, and I'd generally rather watch somehting new to me.

I suspect if you grew up with a VCR in the house, you took it for granted that you rewatched the movies you owned over and over.

It isn't really VCRs so much as growing up in the 80s and 90s, and all the various cable channels that seemed to play the same movies over and over again.

It's kind of bizarre to contemplate the times before home video and cable when if you wanted to see a movie and it was no longer in theaters you were pretty much SOL unless a rep house (if there even was one near enough to bother with) decided to run it. Of course, I lived in those times when I was just a kid. But I expect most of ILX finds that situation just incomprehensible.

All those cable channels didn't come until I was verging into middle age, too. By then I had too many responsibilities to be able to watch the same movie over and over just to keep boredom at bay.

In truth, I've never paid for more than the most basic bare bones cable, with just the broadcast channels, CSPAN and a few shopping channels tossed in as filler.

I'm sure there's a few movies I've watched this much: Dr. Strangelove, Duck Soup, Heathers, Dangerous Liaisons, The Big Lebowski, Bad Santa and The Wild Bunch come to mind, but I'll bet there's a few more of my beloved favorites that I'm forgetting. Now, though, my palette has expanded enough that I mostly want to find something new and different and exciting. There really aren't many movies that actually reward this kind of obsessive rewatching. Some criteria that might do it:

Spectacular production numbers/set pieces of some kind that never loses its excitement. There's a few kungfu and musical movies that might could go on my list for this reason.

Richness of plot, character, theme, performance. I'm thinking particularly of The Wild Bunch and Dangerous Liaisons here - I never get tired of the interactions among those characters.

A movie that's right for a particular occasion. Bad Santa is the ONLY Christmas movie as far as I'm concerned, so I've watched it on each Christmas eve ever since its release.

Funniness that doesn't erode: Big L, Duck Soup, Strangelove. Marijuana may help, but is not strictly needed.

Akira
Simpsons Movie
Trainspotting
Caddyshack
The Power of Salad (and Milkshakes)
Clerks
Mallrats
Peewee's Big Adventure
Finding Nemo

OH OH OH THE 80S FLASH GORDON! Must've watched that once every six months for about three years.

Jaws
Vertigo
Back to the Future
8 1/2

Oh yeah, probably Scrooged!

Add all three Back to the Future movies to my list, since I bought the blurays. Guardians of the Galaxy will make it too soon, I think, I've watched it 4 times already.

It's kinda interesting that almost all of the movies on my list are ones I first saw as a kid/teen, though I've watched many of them as an adult too. Dude, Where My Car? is pretty much the only one I saw first as an adult. I guess one just has more time and a bigger tolerance for rewatching movies as a kid?

Threads

I've never seen Threads, but isn't it supposed to be a horribly depressing flick or something?

I'm a horribly depressing person. It fits me well.

Children of Men
The Wicker Man

Don't think I've rewatched many films in my adult life, but there must be a bunch of kids films and cartoons - an animated version of Baron Von Munchausen, The Snowman, the Jungle Book, Hook that either I or my younger brothers and sisters watched continuously in early days.

Everyone should watch Threads at least once in their life.

Must have seen the first Star Wars a lot of times by now.

oh and Trainspotting, as a teen. It's p much unwatchable now IIRC

Oh oh, and Spirited Away I'm sure. Actually there are more than I thought..

Dozens of 'em.

Silence of the Lambs
Top Gun
Godfather I/II
Goodfellas
Heat

would probably be my top 5 by views

as a kid:
fifth element
jurassic park
star trek first contact
star wars original trilogy
back to the future
independence day
beetlejuice
tim burton batman
aladdin
beauty and the beast

now:
blade runner
stalker
2001 a space odyssey
chinatown
sans soleil
late spring
paris is burning
hausu
kwaidan
paprika
inland empire
sunrise

Honestly not sure I can think of one — maybe Lawrence of Arabia, but I'm not sure of five all-the-way-through screenings of that. A lot of the kids' films that our daughter watched repeatedly, I checked out mentally while they were on and read/listened to music instead.