Jeesus, now that I think about it this list is very, very long for me… off the top of my head I can think of
8 ½
La Dolce Vita
Un Chien Andalou
The Exterminating Angel
Rear Window
Eraserhead
Fire Walk With Me
Mulholland Drive
Lost Highway
Sunset Boulevard
Sabrina
Double Indemnity
Modern Times
The Great Dictator
The Gold Rush
City Lights
Winter Light
Seventh Seal
Hour of the Wolf
Annie Hall
Bullets Over Broadway
Deconstructing Harry
Stardust Memories
Maltese Falcon (Huston)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
There Will Be Blood
Magnolia
A Clockwork Orange
The Killing
Wily Wonka
The Phantom of the Opera
There are many more, but that’s all I can recall at the moment.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a film 10 times or more.
But I’ve seen
Groundhog Day (1993)
Batman (1989)
about 9 times. ;-)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Annie Hall
The Apartment
Dr. Strangelove
Eyes Wide Shut
GoodFellas
Persona
Vertigo
That’s all I can think of, but I’m sure there are a few more.
As far as I can remember right now…
La Jetee
Un Chien Andalou
Patriotism
Seven Samurai
Maborosi
Mean Streets
Citizen Kane
Sansho the Bailiff
Late Spring
Tokyo Story
There Was a Father
Psycho
Vertigo
Strangers on a Train
Women in Love
Juliet of the Spirits
8 1/2
I sometimes get obsessive with certain films…
Psycho
Heat
2001
Close Encounters
Unforgiven
Pinocchio (at least once a year for the last…hmm…25 years)
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
Barry Lyndon.
some >10 and others >5
- Pather Panchali Pierrot Le Fou
-- In the Mood for Love 2001:A Space Odyssey
-- 8 1/2 Seven Samurai
-- Chungking Express Pulp Fiction
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— The Godfather I and II
a couple of Indian films,- Company Karma
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Pulp Fiction
There Will Be Blood
Oldboy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Seven Samurai
Vanishing Point
For a Few Dollars More
The Great Escape
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Taxi Driver
The Thing
A Clockwork Orange
Jeez, 10 times?! Why would anyone want to watch a movie so many times?
I don’t even recall having ever seen a film more than 3 times, seriously. Should I be worried?
Adulthood:
Dr. Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
The Graduate
American Psycho
Rushmore
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Fight Club
American Beauty
The Darjeeling Limited
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Dazed and Confused
Tombstone
Smiley Face
The Godfather
Psycho
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Heart of the World
Pulp Fiction
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Big Lebowski
Childhood:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Dick Tracy
Robin Hood (Disney)
The Princess Bride
Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier
Soon added to the list: The Seventh Seal, 8 1/2, There Will Be Blood, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Nosferatu, Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Citizen Kane
Bringing Up Baby
Rear Window
The Hustler
The Apartment
The Godfather 1 and 2
Apocalypse Now
Mean Streets
Annie Hall
Easy Rider
Jaws
Blade Runner
Repo Man
Pulp Fiction
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Rio Bravo
The Dollars Trilogy
Once Upon A Time in The West
Once Upon A Time in America
The Wild Bunch
GoodFellas
Casino
Carrie
Blow Out
Dressed To Kill
Die Hard
First Blood 1-2
Rocky 1-5
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Rushmore
The Firm
Blazing Saddles
Coffy
The Mack
Switchblade Sisters
Master of The Flying Guillotine
Five Fingers of Death
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
8 1/2
La Dolce Vita
Breathless
Contempt
Vivre sa Vie
Playtime
Providence
Last Year at Marienbad
Muriel
The Red Shoes
The Night of the Hunter
Citizen Kane
Singin’ in the Rain
Good News
Blade Runner
Reds
Jaws
The Graduate
The Apartment
Eraserhead
Taxi Driver
Good Fellas
Guys & Dolls
The Bride Wore Black
Psycho
the umbrellas of cherbourg
Female Trouble
Divorce Italian Style
The Valley of the Dolls
Vertigo
A Clockwork Orange
Nights of Cabiria
Teorema
Most Kubricks namely:
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Barry Lyndon
Lolita
Rope
Andrei Rublev
Pierrot Le Fou
Persona
Streetcar Named Desire
Citizen Kane
and the 40 Year Old Virgin because of my brother.
Seven Samurai
The 400 Blows
Jules and Jim
Band of Outsiders
The Seventh Seal
The 39 Steps
Open City
Stagecoach
The General
…. there are probably a few more.
Grey Daises – I see it more as luck on your part that you’ve always had enough of a choice not to watch a film for the fifth, sixth, tenth, or eleventh time, etc… I’m not always so lucky, sometimes I get so bored all I can do is watch something I’ve seen seven or eight times before.
Seven Samurai
The Matrix
Raiders of the lost Ark
Clockwork Orange is probably close to ten, too…
I think I saw Jumanji around 15 or 16 times when I was 10-11 years old. And the two first Home Alone- films every christmas.
Also, the original Star Wars- trilogy I’ve propably watched about 10 times, mostly in my childhood
Eraserhead- 13
Blue Velvet- 11
We’re starting to see who the experts in certain films might be.
Blade Runner
Chungking Express
Five Easy Pieces
Tetsuo: Iron Man
I watched each probably not more than 10 times, but definitely more than 5 times.
The Breakfast Club – saw it as a kid and watched it at least once a year ever since – that’s like 25 times!!!
Although thats the eception to the rule – most I’ve seen of other movies is five or six and thats only cos of ‘holiday’ movies like star wars, wizard of Oz, Sound of Music…..
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – anytime I catch that movie on TV, I just get sucked in and end up watching the whole thing.
Probably not ten times, but…
Taxi Driver
Black Narcissus
Pulp Fiction (I got crazy with it in high school, not so much now)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Back to the Future (mostly as a kid)
Another way to ask the question might be, What films have you seen more than once in a movie theatre? Living in Ireland, I don’t have the choice most of ye have, but I have returned to see the following on the big screen:
Unforgiven (blew me away the first time I saw it, went back a further two times).
Heat (caught up in the glamour of De Niro and Pacino sitting down together – so that last scene literally made me cry…3 visits to see this one)
The Thin Red Line (no explanation necessary – again, 3 visits).
The Matrix
Kill Bill
Young Frankenstein
Dumb and Dumber
Jurassic Park (its always on TV)
as much as I love Blade Runner, There Will Be Blood and Strangelove I just dont have the itch to watch them more than once a year
The Little Match Girl (1928)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Hidden Fortress (1958)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Rio Bravo (1959)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Stripes (1981)
Chungking Express (1994)
Crash (1996)
The Departed (2006)
The Wire – Season Four – Final Grades (2006)
My Winnipeg (2008)
Several of these are because of my dual nature of not wanting to lend pretty looking DVDs out, but also wanting my friends to see them. Hence watching My Winnipeg ten times in a year.
The Producers (original)… and I think that’s it.
haha
Since I began teaching I see a lot of the same titles over and over. But because they’re usually all such great titles, they rarely get boring.
One year I taught Citizen Kane five times in one week!
Justin Vicari
Sometimes I think this is the greatest test of whether you really like something, and also whether you really understand it. For me, there haven’t been that many films I’ve watched ten times or more. Here’s an incomplete list of ones I recall off the top of my head —
In a Year with Thirteen Moons
Breathless
Drugstore Cowboy
Vixen
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
Pink Flamingos