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To ask what your comfort film is?

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hazdaz · 15/10/2024 20:57

I'm looking for film suggestions, want to watch something but I don't know what!

Please give me some ideas Smile

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FastFood · 16/10/2024 11:33

I love horror movies, so my top 3 comfort films would be

  • Jaws
  • The Amityville Horror (the 1979 version)
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street

Non horror, that'd be:

  • Home Alone
  • Airplane
  • Muriel's wedding
  • Almost Famous
  • And loads of french comedies that I watched many times when I was a kid (Les Bronzés, le père Noel est une ordure, La Crise, Cuisine & Dépendances etc...)
Biscofffan · 16/10/2024 11:27

Working Girl
Some Like It Hot
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Skyfall
Shakespeare in Love

DrizzleMySwizzle · 16/10/2024 11:01

The scene where Beth dies in the 90s version of Little Women is my go-to if I need a cry. Claire Danes breaaaaaaaks my heart in that scene. Can't even remember Beth snuffing it in the Greta Gerwig version.

HappyDane · 16/10/2024 10:34

I like Strictly Ballroom, and Muriel's Wedding; they're just not on my list of go-to comfort films. Same goes for quite a few others on the thread - lots of good films, they just don't necessarily feel like a warm blanket.

SunshineSky81 · 16/10/2024 10:32

Steel Magnolias
Little Women - The Winona Ryder one - The new one is shocking and annoys me as it feels rushed and misses / changes so much of the book - which is my comfort read

DilemmaDelilah · 16/10/2024 10:30

I can't believe nobody else likes Strictly Ballroom! It is our Christmas classic (not that it has anything to do with Christmas). We had it on video, then DVD, and now we just download it.

The13thFairy · 16/10/2024 10:04

Zulu.

BluebellsareBlue · 16/10/2024 09:48

The goonies and stand by me

ImaginativeUserName123 · 16/10/2024 09:38

Laserwho · 15/10/2024 21:13

My girl
The Goonies
Back to the future
It takes two

I came on to say the first two in particular!

Hattie1970abc · 16/10/2024 09:38

The Help
Sweet Home Alabama
Coyote Ugly
Bridesmaids
The Holiday

Fluffy40 · 16/10/2024 09:35

Forrest Gump

AgileGreenSeal · 16/10/2024 09:21

auroraborearlarse · 16/10/2024 07:06

Yes!! forgot about this. Once binged the whole boxed set with my DP while I was studying in London, started one day and just carried on watching them all through the night as we couldn't switch off. Fabulous.

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The whole cast is perfect. It’s a joy!

Newgolddream70 · 16/10/2024 07:18

Brief Encounter
An Inspector Calls (the black and white version)
The Prisoner of Azkhaban (or however you spell it)
Porridge (film)

Sausagenbacon · 16/10/2024 07:16

You do know that there is an area on the site for films? Why do posters just bung everything on AIBU?

(Groundhog Day and Mean Girls)

mamajong · 16/10/2024 07:11

Breakfast at Tiffany's, coyote ugly, dirty dancing, Notting Hill

auroraborearlarse · 16/10/2024 07:06

AgileGreenSeal · 15/10/2024 22:01

Pride & Prejudice.
the BBC Box Set with Colin Firth.
(not the awful film with Keira Knightley)

Yes!! forgot about this. Once binged the whole boxed set with my DP while I was studying in London, started one day and just carried on watching them all through the night as we couldn't switch off. Fabulous.

auroraborearlarse · 16/10/2024 07:02

Jackdog39 · 15/10/2024 23:55

I adore You’ve Got Mail, Meg Ryan is wonderful and Tom Hanks is just right.
When Harry met Sally, I could quote the script verbatim. “Oh but baby fish mouth is sweeping the nation.”
Jaws, just for the nostalgia, killer sharks aside it reminds me of 70s Summers.
Hot Fuzz, silly, very English, comforting and funny.
Railway children, just for the line “daddy, my daddy.”
Alpha Papa, very silly siege caper, sort of soporific, can “watch” with your eyes closed. Well it is set in a radio station.

Me too re When Harry Met Sally, one of my favourite lines - "You made a woman miaow??". Cracks me up every time. I love that film so much.

auroraborearlarse · 16/10/2024 06:57

Bridget Jones' Diary
On Golden Pond
When Harry Met Sally
About a Boy
An Affair to Remember

WhatHoJeeves · 16/10/2024 06:50

rubrikscube · 15/10/2024 21:17

Bill ( from the Horrible Histories/ Ghosts team)

I love this film!

DilemmaDelilah · 16/10/2024 06:48

Strictly Ballroom

NamelessNinja · 16/10/2024 06:47

Lord of the rings, not exactly a heartwarming watch but comforting as I've seen it so many times!

WhereAreWeNow · 16/10/2024 06:20

JamAndJuice · 15/10/2024 21:30

Room with a View and Howards End.

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about Room with a View. The scene where he kisses her in the field still gets me every time.

MrsToothyBitch · 16/10/2024 06:13

Moonstruck
ConAir
National Treasure 1 & 2 (also probably obvious by this point I'm a Nic Cage fan).
The Blues Brothers
The Full Monty
One Fine Day
Miss Congeniality
Pretty Woman
Little Women (the decently cast 90s one).
Northwest Frontier
My Neighbour Totoro
Spirited Away

curiousS · 16/10/2024 04:32

Oh and you've got Mail.

curiousS · 16/10/2024 04:31

The first two- when Harry met Sally and Notting Hill are mine to! I am so shocked you haven't seen Notting Hill 😱 I'm definitely getting gold 😆