What are your favorite comfort movies?

drunkenwitch

What is your list of movies you watch over and over for a goid laugh, a good cry or just because you want something in the background while you do chores?

My current list (it changes from time to time)

1. Practical Magic
2. Galaxy Quest
3. Boondock Saints (1 and 2)
4. Smokey Mountain Christmas
5. A Knight's Tale
6. Sense and Sensibility
7. The Avengers

It's all over the place, just depends on my mood.

monkeysip

I have a few different lists here depending on the situation:

When I'm sick and just want to watch something that will pull my heart strings, I watch "Ever After" or "The Little Princess".  

If I just want to "veg" on something, or put it on in the background, I'll watch a Star Wars movie, or even sometimes a Twilight movie (I KNOW the Twilight movies are poorly written and laughable sometimes, but I still find them mildly entertaining, and they're the kind of movies you don't have to pay attention to).

If I just want a darn good movie to watch, something I KNOW will be really good even though I've seen it a million times, I put in one of the batman movies, die hard movies, or Jurassic Park.

CMGragain

1.  Pride and Prejudice, the mini-series, or the 1940 version.
2.  Now, Voyager
3.  Love, Actually
4.  Mr. Skeffington
5.  Green Dolphin Street
6.  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
7.  The Goodbye Girl
8.  Titanic
9.  Dances with Wolves
10.  The Producers, either version!  "Springtime for Hitler" gets stuck in my head for days!

What?  Only 10?

11. Doctor Zhivago
12. Gone With the Wind
13. Old Acquaintance
14. Mary Poppins
15. Gigi
16. Mrs. Parkington
17. Tootsie
18.  My DVDs of Downton Abbey
19.  My DVDs of I, Claudius
20.  My DVDs of Upstairs, Downstairs

These are all movies or shows that are impossible for me to watch if DH is lurking, and he ALWAYS IS!!!   He wants to watch (ugh!) "reality" TV.

thisismynickname2

Any Harry Potter
Mean Girls
Bend it Like Beckham
Love, Actually
Ocean's 11
Thomas Crown Affair

charlotte989875

Harry Potter
A League of their own
Love, actually

Since I'm more of a TV show woman, I can watch Gilmore Girls, The West Wing, NCIS (the original), and Greys Anatomy over and over (and over) again.

tigerlily6

Lord of the Rings
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Gladiator
My Fair Lady
Napoleon Dynamite
Strange Brew
Horatio Hornblower BBC series 
Jurassic Park

drunkenwitch

CMGragain said:

1.  Pride and Prejudice, the mini-series, or the 1940 version.
2.  Now, Voyager
3.  Love, Actually
4.  Mr. Skeffington
5.  Green Dolphin Street
6.  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
7.  The Goodbye Girl
8.  Titanic
9.  Dances with Wolves
10.  The Producers, either version!  "Springtime for Hitler" gets stuck in my head for days!

What?  Only 10?

11. Doctor Zhivago
12. Gone With the Wind
13. Old Acquaintance
14. Mary Poppins
15. Gigi
16. Mrs. Parkington
17. Tootsie
18.  My DVDs of Downton Abbey
19.  My DVDs of I, Claudius
20.  My DVDs of Upstairs, Downstairs

These are all movies or shows that are impossible for me to watch if DH is lurking, and he ALWAYS IS!!!   He wants to watch (ugh!) "reality" TV.

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sunflower0592

oh gosh, there are so many that I love to revisit over and over. this is not a complete list.
-Fried Green Tomatoes
-Ever After
-Steel Magnolias
-Little Women
-Pride and Prejudice (2005 version)
-Forrest Gump
-Super Troopers
-Legends of the Fall

Edit! I forgot another movie- The Help.

RomanceManaged

1. Harry Potter- Any.
2. Boondock Saints
3. The Virgin Suicides
4. Phantom of the Opera
5. A Knights Tale
6. The Color Purple
7. Horns (New Favorite)
8. Ever After
9. Tangled
10. Repo! The Genetic Opera

SP29

Depends on my mood, but...

1. Love, Actually
2. Pride and Prejudice (A&E/BBC version)
3. Harry Potter
4. Twilight (yep... I'll admit it. It's a guilty pleasure)
5. Shaun of the Dead
6. Napoleon Dynamite
7. 21 Jump Street
8. Shrek (the first, maybe the second one, only)
9. Up
10. The Notebook

Some of the above movies are my favourites (Love, Actually, P&P, HP, Up, The Notebook), while others are funny and easy to watch again and again. 

holyguacamole79

This topic is timely... I've been sick in bed all weekend thanks to bronchitis.  I've been binging on "Private Practice" on Netflix (medical dramas seem to make me feel better when I'm sick).  Also,

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Jurassic World
SWAT
Harry Potter (Sorcerers stone + Chamber of Secrets)

Other good comfort movies ...
Italian Job (newer one)
Die Hard (1 & 3)
National Treasure

kimmiinthemitten

I love all the P&P love on here!  

Along with that I can't say no to:
Anything Sex and the City
The Holiday
The Bodyguard
Ghost
Blindside
Remember the Titans
Any terrible, no good J Lo movie
ETA:  Any remake of Cinderella

kvruns

I'm sure my list changes over time but a few good staples:

1. You've Got Mail

2. A League of their Own

3. Legally Blonde

4. Shall We Dance

5. Cinderella (any iteration)

6. Hope Floats, but only certain parts

7. Sex and the City

sparklepants41

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Any Harry Potter
Serendipity
The Rescuers (NOT The Rescuers Down Under)
Mary Poppins
Sleepless in Seattle
Eat Pray Love
Friends (I have all 10 seasons on DVD)
The Holiday
Valentine's Day
Planes Trains & Automobiles

princessleia22

Harry Potter (any of them)
Twilight movies
Labyrinth
Newsies
Alice in Wonderland (I prefer the original animated, but the Tim Burton one is okay too)
Neverending Story

Friends
Greys Anatomy
Law & Order
Criminal Minds

ETA:  Oh, I forgot to add 80's John Hughes Brat Pack films: Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, St. Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink... I love them all.

princessleia22

holyguacamole79 said:

This topic is timely... I've been sick in bed all weekend thanks to bronchitis.  I've been binging on "Private Practice" on Netflix (medical dramas seem to make me feel better when I'm sick).  Also,

I agree that medical dramas are great when sick.  I watched every episode of ER while stuck at home for 6 months after multiple surgeries several years ago.   

monkeysip

Since others are saying TV shows, mine are Friends or America's Next Top Model.  H will watch Friends with me, but he cringes every time he catches me watching ANTM.  It's a guilty pleasure...

SP29

This thread is making me remember awesome movies I had forgotten about!

SATC 1&2 are awesome (if I were home with a prolonged sickness, such as bronchitis, I'd binge watch the series too!).
Legally Blonde is delightful. Same with Mean Girls.

DH and I recently (well a few months ago now) started watching House on Netflix, we're on season 6 of 8. Man, it is a commitment. 

When I was in undergrad I used to watch all sorts of bad TV- I called myself the Queen of Trashy TV, because I seemed to know a lot of pop culture references and whatever was in the headlines because of it. I had a small TV in my room and would often have it on the background while doing homework, or just to kill a few brain cells after studying for so long . I watched all the "Housewives of..." shows, all the wedding shows on Slice and TLC, and Millionaire Matchmaker. Good stuff . 

jenna8984

OP I've never seen any on your list, except Avengers!

Will & Grace & Big Bang dvds

Anything Reese- Legally blonde, Election, Fear

Anything 90s- Jawbreaker, Bring it on, She's all that, Drive me crazy

Anything mafia- Goodfellas, Godfather, Departed

sparklepants41

princessleia22 said:

Harry Potter (any of them)
Twilight movies
Labyrinth
Newsies
Alice in Wonderland (I prefer the original animated, but the Tim Burton one is okay too)
Neverending Story

Friends
Greys Anatomy
Law & Order
Criminal Minds

ETA:  Oh, I forgot to add 80's John Hughes Brat Pack films: Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, St. Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink... I love them all.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

labro

@monkeysip I just want to love your post over and over again because of Ever After and A Little Princess....except then you HAD to bring up Twilight! ARGH!

My sisters and I definitely make a point to watch both Ever After and A Little Princess once a year. We love those movies!

ThxSugar

Office Space
Trailer Park Boys
Pulp Fiction
Dead Poet's Society
Archer
Party Monster
Domino
Gilmores Girls if it is on t.v
Breakfast Club
The Simpsons

I love a Little Princess though... I probably watched that a thousand times as a child.

kvruns

ThxSugar said:

Office Space Trailer Park Boys Pulp Fiction Dead Poet's Society Archer Party Monster Domino Gilmores Girls if it is on t.v Breakfast Club The Simpsons I love a Little Princess though... I probably watched that a thousand times as a child.

I'm currently working my way through Gilmore Girls on Netflix and H says I'm obsessed. I watched it a bit back when it was on tv and remember catching reruns maybe 5 years ago or so when I would be on the treadmill or home from work or whatever. I feel like I'm invested and just want to keep watching until I'm done.

julieanne912

-Anne of Green Gables/Anne of Avonlea
-Little Women (any version really, but especially the Winona Ryder one)
-Pride & Prejudice
-You've Got Mail
-When Harry Met Sally
-Newsies
-Law & Order, any version
-Rodgers & Hammerstein Musicals
-My Fair Lady
-Oliver!
-Any Doris Day movie
-Older 50's/60's Disney movies, animated or not.
-Frank Sinatra movies

Probably tons more I am forgetting

MissKittyDanger

@sparklepants41  Ilu for Breakfast at Tiffany's

@princessleia22 you need to read the "splintered" series!

My list:

Breakfast at Tiffany's {always!!!}
Disney - depends on mood, usually Lion King, Alice in Wonderland {either version} or Little Mermaid
Iliza Shlesinger "Freezing Hot" {comedian}
Bo Burnham "what." {again .... comedian}
and currently working my way through Gilmore Girls

princessleia22

MissKittyDanger said:

@sparklepants41  Ilu for Breakfast at Tiffany's

@princessleia22 you need to read the "splintered" series!

My list:

Breakfast at Tiffany's {always!!!}
Disney - depends on mood, usually Lion King, Alice in Wonderland {either version} or Little Mermaid
Iliza Shlesinger "Freezing Hot" {comedian}
Bo Burnham "what." {again .... comedian}
and currently working my way through Gilmore Girls

Ooohhh... just looked them up and those sound awesome.  DH googled my name over the weekend and was flabbergasted that the first thing that came up was my Goodreads list, which has 257 "want to read" books on the list.  Looks like it's time to add a few more... and these may move to the top of the list. Thanks! 

MissKittyDanger

@princessleia22  keep in mind it's not a normal Alice series, it's years later - descendants of Alice basically. I fully feel that Tim Burton should have done this version!

holyguacamole79

princessleia22 said:

holyguacamole79 said:

This topic is timely... I've been sick in bed all weekend thanks to bronchitis.  I've been binging on "Private Practice" on Netflix (medical dramas seem to make me feel better when I'm sick).  Also,

I agree that medical dramas are great when sick.  I watched every episode of ER while stuck at home for 6 months after multiple surgeries several years ago.   


6 months? Yuck

After my surgery 2 years ago, I binged on HIMYM.

Now DH is sick, so I put on his comfort movie .... Bourne Identity.

monkeysip

labro said:

@monkeysip I just want to love your post over and over again because of Ever After and A Little Princess....except then you HAD to bring up Twilight! ARGH!

My sisters and I definitely make a point to watch both Ever After and A Little Princess once a year. We love those movies!

HAHA... fair enough.  Ever After and Little Princess ARE better movies, of course.  

princessleia22

holyguacamole79 said:

holyguacamole79 said:

This topic is timely... I've been sick in bed all weekend thanks to bronchitis.  I've been binging on "Private Practice" on Netflix (medical dramas seem to make me feel better when I'm sick).  Also,

I agree that medical dramas are great when sick.  I watched every episode of ER while stuck at home for 6 months after multiple surgeries several years ago.   

6 months? Yuck After my surgery 2 years ago, I binged on HIMYM. Now DH is sick, so I put on his comfort movie .... Bourne Identity.

Yeah, it sucked.  I had back surgery, then got a deep infection from surgery, resulting in another surgery.  Every time they thought it was gone and took me off antibiotics, the infection returned. It took 4 surgeries and a year of antibiotics to finally get it under control. 3 of the surgeries were spread out just enough to keep me home 6 months straight... then I was only down for a couple weeks with the last surgery. Luckily, I was early 20's and able to stay with my parents during it, had minimal responsibilities, and had a very understanding job, who luckily was having a slow year so it didn't hurt them too much to have me gone. Unfortunately, this was before Netflix or internet downloads existed.  But, TNT showed 4 hours of ER every day and Blockbuster helped keep me sane.

madamerwin

Oh man... I have a few.

1. Mrs. Doubtfire
2. 10 Things I Hate About You 
3. Mean Girls
4. Dirty Dancing
5. Any Twilight movie
6. Save the Last Dance
7. Any Lord of the Rings movie
8. Labyrinth
9. The Princess Bride

And the worst of them all...

10. New York Minute. Mary Kate and Ashley at their finest (most terrible?).