What are 10 of your go to films?

Clueless

Back to the Future

Ferris Becker

Groundhog Day

Training Day

Beetlejuice

Catch me if you can

When Harry met Sally

He Got Game

Goodfellas

Mildred Pierce

Body Double

Chinatown

Aliens

Splendor in the Grass

Persona

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Interiors

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Boom!

I have a sneaking suspicion that if you looked at the last few films that OP watched, it wouldn't be overstuffed with Criterion Collection staples, but you'd find at least one Adam Sandler comedy.

And it wouldn't one of the respectable ones like Punch-Drunk Love. I'm thinking along the lines of a Little Nicky or You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

I’ve been meaning to watch Boom! I love Joseph Losey r2

R3 no. More like Ben Stiller and Zoolander or Flirting with Disaster

Dawson's 50-load Weekend

Dawson's 25-Load Weekend

The Pizza Boy--He Delivers

Dangling Chad

Guess Who's Cumming to Dinner

The Twink Whisperer

Das Butt

The Price is Tight

Penis from Heaven

Schlong Day's Journey into Night

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

All The President's Men

Apocalypse Now

Goodfellas

Heat

Barry Lyndon

2001

The Leopard

The Lives Of Others

All Of Us Strangers

R4 !

Smile (Michael Ritchie film)

Goodfellas

Goonies

Stand By Me

Inglorious Basterds

Blazing Saddles

Coal Miner’s Daughter

Waiting For Guffman

Wizard of Oz

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Define “go to” films.

R7 love you!!!

Rear Window

Texas Chain Saw Massacre

3 Women

Atlantic City

Nashville

The Shining

Network

Mommie Dearest

Female Trouble

Sorry, Wrong Number

R10 films you can just watch on a whim. A rainy Sunday movie.

Funny Girl

The Way We Were

Bullets Over Broadway

Best In Show

r12, are you married?

Metropolitan Hard Day’s Night Devil Wears Prada Cabaret Jaws Godfather 1 & 2 Rosemary’s Baby The Apartment Three Days of the Condor All About Eve

Metropolitan

Hard Day’s Night

Devil Wears Prada

Cabaret

Jaws

Godfather 1 & 2

Rosemary’s Baby

The Apartment

Three Days of the Condor

All About Eve

Good definition, OP!

Barry Lyndon LOR Trilogy Evil under the Sun Mad Max Fury Road Ran Quo Vadis Ben Hur Remains of the Day Spartacus Rogue ONE Kagemusha

According to OP's definition:

Barry Lyndon

LOR Trilogy

Evil under the Sun

Ran Quo Vadis

Ben Hur

Remains of the Day

Spartacus

Rogue ONE

Kagemusha

R15 No.

If I am feeling down, I order a pizza, open a bottle of wine and watch any of the following:

The Birdcage

The Brady Bunch Movie

Serial Mom

Addams Family Values

The First Wives Club

Clue

Drop Dead Gorgeous

For Your Consideration

Noises Off

Heathers

What the fuck is a "go to" film?

OP by go to you meant highly rewatchable value not ones favorite films right. I mean some of those I listed are amongst my faves but that’s not my top 10 greatest films list.

State and Main is also a go-to when feeling down

films in which characters go to the bathroom on camera, R23.

What are 10 of your deal breaker films?

What are 10 of your bucket list films?

R27 what is a woman? Am I racist? To start.

What are 10 of your go to films if you need to get to sleep?

fixed for OP

So "go to" just means favorite? Right?

What are 10 of your Schattenparker films?

R24 you got it!

Grease

Thief

Flight

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

All About Eve

Psycho

Another Woman

Autumn Sonata

Suddenly Last Summer

Notes on a Scandal

The Awful Truth

The Philadelphia Story

A Song at Twlight (filmed play with Deborah Kerr

This gorgeous, perverted, quiet, and boring film is my go to film to put me to sleep in the winter.

this equally gorgeous, perverted, quiet, and boring film is my go to film to put me to sleep in the summer.

[quote] films in which characters go to the bathroom on camera, [R23].

Those are my faves! I have to make them myself.

Under the Volcano

Muriel's Wedding

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Airplane!

The Godfather

The Godfather Part 2

To Kill a Mockingbird

Young Frankenstein

A Christmas Story

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

R41 Under the Volcano is great and Jackie Bisset looked beautiful in it. That reminds me The Deep is also a good rainy Sunday film for me

Alien Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf World War Z Suddenly, Last Summer War of the Worlds (Cruise) Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Olympus Has Fallen Enchanted April Pride and Prejudice (Keira Knightly) Nemesis (Joan Hickson)

The Time Machine (1960)

House of Usher (1960)

The Birds (1963)

A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Let's Scare Jessica To Death (1971)

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

The Howling (1981)

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

(For the purposes of this list, "go-to films" are defined as films I'll change channels to watch if I happen to notice that they're on. Also, I have a lot more than ten of such films, so what I've listed here only reflects my current mood and what came to mind.)

R44 The Time Machine with Yvette and Rod - great call!

Wow, good list OP!

Any fans of the 2002 version of The Time Machine?

The Third Man

It Happened One Night

Umbrellas Of Cherbourg

The Apartment

Double Indemnity

Top Hat

Duck Soup

Rebecca

Notorious

Rosemary's Baby

Barry Lyndon

Jackie Brown

The Diescreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Goodfellas

North by Northwest

Godfather (I & II)

1900

Volver

Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Days of Heaven

R47. Me

The Servant 1963

The Naked Kiss 1964

Whiplash

Lolita 1962

Sunset Boulevard

Rosemary's Baby

North by Northwest

All About Eve

Goodfellas

Anatomy of a Murder

I define "go to" films as those I always stop and watch when I come across them while channel surfing, or those I think about finding when I just want to watch something. That being said, not in particular order:

The Great Escape Ghostbusters (the first original) Airplane! Jaws Monty Python & the Holy Grail Independence Day A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Young Frankenstein Help (which I actually like more than A Hard Day's Night) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (though I could say most any of the HP films)

Dang it, let's try that again:

The Great Escape

Ghostbusters (the first original)

Airplane!

Jaws

Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Independence Day

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Young Frankenstein

Help (which I actually like more than A Hard Day's Night)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (though I could say most any of the HP films)

Gloria

Shoot The Moon

Michael Clayton

Rosemary's Baby

Promising Young Woman

Don't Look Now

Goodfellas

Halloween 2

Jackie Brown

Another Woman

and Alien, Cries and Whispers, Working Girl, Bridesmaids are up there too!! (This is hard- there are really 40-50 go-to films)

Oh my god- I deliberately read none of the posts after the first one, it so cool to go and read after you post yours! R51 and I have 2!

We should redo this thread by decade. There are so many incredible films out there highly rewatchable.

Mafuckin!’

I wuz razed rite.

One would be hard-pressed to find a more pretentious and performative list as OP’s.

Meanwhile, he just turned on “Pretty Woman” for the fourth time this month.

Nashville

Girls Will Be Girls

Female Trouble

Pink Flamingoes

Polyester

Addams Family

Some Like It Hot

LOTR WITHOUT The Shitting Hobbit

What We Do in the Shadows

Shoah

[quote]What are 10 of your go to films?

Oh, dear.

Jackie Brown

The Heat

Precious

Goodfellas

Silence of The Lambs

Star Wars

Batman Returns

Mean Girls

Devil Wears Prada

Fargo

10 is too many. Five would be better. Lists suck.

North by Northwest

The Shining

GWTW

The Silence of the Lambs

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Roman Holiday

The Departed

The Godfather

The Godfather Part II

Cinderella

Airplane!

Lacombe, Lucien

Back to the Future

Goodbye Lenin

Casablanca

Chicken Run

La Princesse de Montpensier

Rope

The African Queen

Went the Day Well?

Marry me, R49.

Working Girl

Spirited Away

Black Narcissus

Ordinary People

Fried Green Tomatoes

In the Heat of the Night

Pretty Woman

Pan's Labyrinth

When Harry Met Sally

Clue

Tootsie The Heiress The Lady Eve Roman Holiday Casino Royale Nights of Cabiria Jaws Victor/Victoria Ferris Bueller’s Day Off The Fugitive Powertool

Mommie Dearest

Nine to Five

Ordinary People

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Being There

Boogie Nights

Infinitely Polar Bear

Hitchcock’s Rope

Fargo

Body Heat

L.A. Confidential

Glory

The Natural

The Rocketeer

Stop Making Sense

Field of Dreams

The Breakfast Club

A Christmas Story

The Brady Bunch Movie

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

There are lots of movies I will stop to watch while flipping through channels or that I would watch on DVD or streaming when I just want to sit back and enjoy the show. These are just the first 10 that popped into my mind.

The Conjuring The Conjuring 2 Lion Gladiator Out of Africa Slumdog Millionaire Ordinary People Hidden Figures Apollo 13 Interstellar

^ I didn’t want it to look like that.

The Miracle Worker 1962

The Killing of Sister George

Forbidden Games

Le Samauri

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

The Devil Wears Prada

The Night of the Hunter

Valley of the Dolls

Pretty Poison 1968

Onibaba

Holiday (1938)

Rebecca (1940)

The Little Foxes

The Happiest Days of Your Life

A Place in the Sun

Sabrina (1954)

Wild River

Presque Rien

Y Tu Mamá También

Moonlight

I’m not sure I want to hang out with R72, but he has great taste. I never thought I’d see Forbidden Games and Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls on the same list! But in their way they’re both brilliant.

The Shining

Last Year at Marienbad

Dangerous Liaisons

All About Eve

The Seven Samurai

The Goonies

Gosford Park

Some Like it Hot

The African Queen

Babes in Toyland

Desert Hearts

Bound

TAR

Carol

Home Alone

The Devil Wears Prada

Dirty Dancing

Beeakfast Club

Boys Dont Cry

Ghost

Auntie Mame

Cactus Flower

Evil Under the Sun

The Lady Eve

The Last of Sheila

North By Northwest

Romance on the High Seas

Soap Dish

The Trouble With Angels

What's Up Doc?

Mulholland Drive Fire Walk with me Kill Bill 1 Fight Club Whore Showgirls Candyman Female Trouble Welcome to the Dollhouse St Elmo’s Fire

Barry Lyndon and The Leopard are “go to” films? 2001? Just on a whim, you’re going to watch 3 hours of Visconti where Burt Lancaster is dubbed in Italian?

Stop being so pretentious.

The Leopard is a great movie. You can have it on and just get lost in the story that the dubbing is not a big deal. I love the story.

And speaking of Lancaster two other great films I could sub in my list are Sweet Smell of Success and The Swimmer

R72 love The Killing of Sister George that’s another I could add to my own list.

“Go to movies” are movies that you could watch at any time in almost any mood. And Barry Lyndon is one of them for me. It’s not pretentious.

And I find 2001 boring and pretentious, btw.

I don't know how I could leave off Talented Mr Ripley or Ordinary People- You bitches are GOOD.

I should probably remove Halloween 2, but I don't care- its a perfect rewatch film for me.

Moving Violations

1. East of Eden

2. Running On Empty

3. Chinatown

4. While You Were Sleeping

5. North by Northwest

6. The Royal Tenenbaums

7. Terminator 2

8. My Own Private Idaho

9. My Best Friend's Wedding

10. Indiana Jones (first two)

Rock N Roll High School (love the Ramones) Dr. Strangelove All About Eve Last House on the Left (original 70s version) Metropolitan This is Spinal Tap The Shining Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Sunset Boulevard Virgin Suicides

Not necessarily always in that order

^sorry- totally lost the list format, such a mess- much like my taste.

Now, Voyager is my favorite movie for obvious reasons.

It is great there is such a diversity of taste here. I can find one from most lists I would add to mine but not more than three on any. I guess my dream movie binging date has not yet posted.

Dinner Rush

Scotland, PA

Withnail & I

Murder on the Orient Express

The Empire Strikes Back

Godard's Weekend

Less Than Zero

Day of the Locust

American Psycho

Blue Velvet

Victor Victoria

Blazing Saddles

Babe

Cabaret

Kill Bill

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Broadcast News

Trainspotting

Trading Places

The Maltese Falcon

Goodfellas

Raising Arizona

Some Like It Hot

North by Northwest

The Philadelphia Story

The Thin Man

Miller's Crossing

Working Girl

Michael Clayton

The Sorrow and the Pity

Shoah

The Decameron

Salo

Night and Fog

100 Years of Chrysostom

Schindler’s List

O.J.; Made in America

Satantango

The Complete Works of Theo Angelopoulos

The Lives of Others

Memories of Murder

Better Off Dead

Once Upon a Time in the West

Coming to America

Trainspotting

Jackie Brown

Ikiru

The Godfather

Goodfellas

Sixteen Candles

My fellow Jackie Brown brothers better sit their raggedy asses DOWN!

[quote]Under the Volcano

I just watched this the other night on TCM; entertaining, but god did Finney just act to the rafters!

Gosford Park Dracula - Prince of Darkness (before Dracula's love interests got fat & ugly) Lion in Winter Meet Me in St. Louis White Christmas Young Frankenstein The Royal. Tennenbaums The Grand Budapest Hotel Carrie (the original, not the remake) The Shining