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All of these movies my family sits down and watches at least once a year:

Harry Potter series.. All of them.

LoTR/ Hobbit.. All of them.

Paul

Strictly Ballroom

Princess Bride

Music Man 1962 version

Court Jester 1955 with Danny Kaye

Lord of the Rings.

I have seen Kung Pow: Enter the Fist over a hundred times easily

The Princess Bride. It's such a fun adventure that still holds up really well today.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail or The Fifth Element.

The Matrix. No other movie is even close

The LotR Extended trilogy

Contact or Big Trouble In Little China. Love those movies.

Spaceballs, Ghostbusters (original), LotR, Labyrinth, The Holy Grail…

Another entry for me would be "Robin Hood (1973)". I haven't rewatched it in a long time, but as kids we (my brother and me) wanted to watch that movie over and over again. I've seen it more than ten times at least.

Monty Python's The Holy Grail

Kung Fury. It's a short film, so maybe that's cheating. Regardless, I love the writing. It's the perfect blend of absurdity and over the top action. It's a Swedish made film that's a satire of 80's cop and Kung fu movies. Free to watch on YouTube.

I have a few that will be very close as I decided a bit over a decade ago to limit myself to one rewatch a year of each to stop myself sucking all the joy out of them:

• Alien - my favorite survival horror

• Aliens - my favorite Nam movie

• Jaws - my favorite version of Moby Dick, although I really like Godzilla Minus One take on Jaws

• Jurassic Park - best big stompy monster film for me

• Lord of the Rings - this is always over Christmas. Its not faithful enough for me to the books but it still manages to be an outstanding Trilogy.

• Emperors New Groove - favorite body swap film

I think Lotr movies.

For a while, it was weirdly "Long Kiss Goodnight". It was getting heavy rotation on TV during my high-school exams, and improbaly watched it 15 times over the few weeks I was meant to be studying.

But now, probably LOTR extended edition, which I've seen every year since it came out, at my friend's annual birthday celebrations.

Airplane!

As a child: Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer

As a university student: Heat, Léon, 2001

As an adult, before kids: Sicario, Brick

As an adult, after kids: Cars

What I wish my answer was: Koyaanisqatsi

Spirited away... Something about the first opening notes of the piano when that movie starts always moves me and fills me with such warm feelings.

Honestly most studio Ghibli movies I've watched a lot... But man... Spirited away does something to me.

• Princess Bride
• Muppet Christmas Carol
• Lord of the Rings
• The Beauty and the Beast
• The Sword in the Stone
• Dumb and Dumber
• Young Frankenstein
• Nightmare Before Christmas

The Life Aquatic. I just absolutely adore the sad, disappointed and fragile characters. Fuckin hilarious!

The Star Wars OT. Probably ROTJ specifically. That was like an every weekend thing when I was a kid.

The Transformers: The Movie

It's been a while... but the most I have watched is The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Still know all the songs by heart :)

Strangely enough Shawshank Redemption

Probably Chevy Chase's Christmas Vacation since it has been tradition every holiday season.

As a kid, Rescuer's Down Under or The Paper Brigade was re-watched a lot.

Apart from that, it's a close tie for:

• The Matrix
• Sin City
• The Chronicles of Riddick
• Terminator 2
• The Sandlot
• I, Robot
• Joe Dirt

Just good replay value.

The Big Lebowski

Office Space. The Usual Suspects used to be on TV all the time back in the day and is probably a close second.

The Shawshank Redemption.

There's a dumb Italian Horror movie called Del Amore d'ella Muerte (Cemetary Man in English speaking territories) that I absolutely love. It was made in the 90s and stars Rupert Everrit as a graveyard keeper who fights a zombie invasion with his mute assistant.

Hard to explain but the universe they create is very comfy where he's drinking red wine and shooting zombies.

Firefly

Home Alone. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I don't really rewatch movies anymore. There is so much content out there that I haven't watched, I would rather see something new than just rewatch something that I've already seen.

Groundhog Day

• grammas boy
• back to the future (all of them)
• Ace ventura
• the mask
• good will hunting
• Beetlejuice
• hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

D0gma

Pump up the Volume

Groundhogs Day

Weird

Hackers

Joe Versus The Volcano (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0099892/) is my all time re-watch movie. So many themes, great cinematography, and very mythic.

If you've never seen it, your in for a treat!

The Matrix

FIRE WALK WITH ME

Heat.

Nobody has said Die Hard?!?

See it here on [email protected]:

• https://lemmy.world/post/18064570

Top Gun. With all combinations of subtitles and dubs available.

Don't ask.

The Other Guys. At first glance, it's a buddy cop comedy that harkens back to Lethal Weapon, but with humor typical to ~2010. But, the more you watch it, the more Zucker brothers esque, 1980s surrealist comedy influences you notice. One of the most subtly weird and funny movies to me, I've probably seen it, no lie, 10 or 15 times.

has to be old bud spencer and terrence hill movies, pretty popular in germany. I know there is a couple of them, but they are all pretty much the same anyway. ;-)