comfort movies

National Velvet

^^^^ DING DING DING

god yes

love that one

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alfredson)

been comfort binging on some oldies on YouTube lately.

Bear Island (great Maclean adventure with Donald Sutherland)
Skyriders (James Coburn in a hostage type rescue adventure)
Puppet on a Chain (classic, and amazing boat chase scene)
Flashpoint (Kris Kristofferson in a compelling conspiracy type mystery)
Sleuth (Caine and Olivier face off)
Where have all the people gone (interesting end of the world stuff)
Stone Cold (ridiculous biker movie starring some quarterback guy)

ridiculous QB = brian bosworth
I’ve not seen the movie but havd heard tell of its ridiculousness

Withnail & I works for me, oddly enough

xp yeah that's him.

Withnail & I is a great Sunday morning hangover cure movie, for me.

haha brian bosworth forces me to mention

most if not all "30 for 30s", if they count

Slums of Beverly Hills

Hobson's Choice

Bow finger

Dude, Where's My Car?

Conan: The Barbarian

Bad Santa

star trek the motion picture

The Shop Around the Corner

Films I've returned to for solace, chronological:

8½
Time Bandits
Paris, Texas
Wings of Desire
Delicatessen
Orlando
Serial Mom
Underground
Ridicule
Black Cat, White Cat
The Girl on the Bridge
Herod's Law
Tuvalu
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Amélie
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... Spring
Mary and Max
Holy Motors
Wrong
Her

Only Jeunet & Kusturica have multiple entries, so far.

are we talking solace comfort or like, flu comfort?

terminator 2

xp flappy: I've put them on during lonely evenings, and they've cheered me.

Lost In Translation

otm

Heat
Rocky

There are certain movies which, if you stumble across them while channel surfing, you are powerless not to watch the rest of it.

One of mine is "All the President's Men," which would be su-u-u-uch a comfort movie right now.

I think Bill Simmons nicked this idea for his "Rewatchables" podcast.

2001

The most recent addition to my comfort canon: Giant Little Ones. I watched the last fifteen minutes again over lunch yesterday.

First Wives Club, My Best Friends Wedding and The Hours

― Surmounter, Monday, July 7, 2008 10:00 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

is the second post in this thread intentionally horrible

The Hours lulls you comfortably to sleep.

First Wives Club > Star Trek: The Motion Picture

White Sun of the Desert
The Emperor's New Groove

I haven't watched any of these in almost 20 years, but Evil Dead 2, Yojimbo, and Sanjuro used to be like this for me too

Rogue One.

Ace Attorney movie (by Takashi Miike!) and Closer. Have watched both tons of times. Ace Attorney because of the sheer absurdity and a pretty gorgeous cast, Closer for how nostalgic it makes me and how much I like the structure and how horrible everyone is.

Pretty much any Studio Ghibli apart from Grave of the Fireflies

Shane

Beautiful Girls

― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, September 12, 2011 7:05 PM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Said this eight years ago and saw it at least once every year since then.

Beautiful Girls is a good shout, might have to bring my DVD back from home next time I’m there. Haven’t seen it in years but still know tons of it by heart.

1996 was one of the first years I was seriously invested in the Oscar race, and I remember looking at the cast of Beautiful Girls and thinking it had a best picture nomination in the bag.

Portman, Thurman and Hutton are all fantastic.

Kiki's Delivery Service
Happy Go Lucky

Metropolitan

In Bruges

xp Good call!

doom (2005), dir: andrzej bartkowiak

xps Metropolitan otm

the Bill Murray version of The Razor's Edge was at one time. For some reason watched over and over on vhs, but haven't seen it in years.

Dr. Zhivago, first movie I can remember seeing, at the drive-in in the back seat of our VW Bug. Brother and I played the soundtrack endlessly as kids.

Mentioned before, but any Powell and Pressburger, especially I Know Where I'm Going.

Jules and Jim

Any of Jørgen Leth's cycling films: A Sunday in Hell, Stars and Water Carriers and The Impossible Hour.

I've only seen it once, but I bet Céline and Julie Go Boating would make a good comfort movie

any of the first eight friday the 13th movies
sleepy hollow (idk why)

Clue
Throw Mama from the Train
Amicus horror anthology movies
The Car
Dead of Night (1945)

Also some Universal and Hammer horror

Clue!!!

We should poll the endings of Clue one of these days.