To ask what your comfort film is?

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

Please give me some ideas

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

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.

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.

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

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...)

You've got Mail. I love it so much

The lovely man in my life's is Twilight... (sometimes I wonder...)

Bridget Jones, the Holiday, Notting Hill, love Actually, Bridesmaids

The Grand Budapest Hotel (fun, quirky, love Wes Anderson)
Magic Mike XXL (if I need a mood lift, this does it every time!)
Bridesmaids & Deadpool 1 or 2 (all good for a laugh)

While You Were Sleeping
Hallmark Christmas films
Guys & Dolls

Er, please don't take this the wrong way, but why do you prefer the second version of the Italian Job?

Until you mentioned that, I hadn't realised that the Italian Job (V1) was a top comfort film for me. Caine! Benny Hill! Noel Coward! Scenery! Cars! Soundtrack! Plot! Ending! etc.

Dr.Zhivago --'Julie Christy , Omar Sharif

I do love the Grand Budapest Hotel. If I watch it a few more times it's likely to make it onto the comfort list.

Dr. Zhivago is brilliant.

@GnomeDePlume I completely agree with you about Gosford Park. Adore that film and despite the subject matter, the setting, the location and the time of year make it so cozy.

Any Jane Austen adaptation (except P&P 2005 which just annoys me).

And YES to When Harry Met Sally. I too can quote it verbatim too.
Sally (talking about her days of the week underpants): "They don't make Sunday."
Harry: "Why not?"
Sally (solemnly): "Because of God."

Rocketman
The Holiday
The Proposal
Love Actually
Notting Hill

And all of the Bridget Jones!

Mr Nobody
Only Lovers Left Alive
Frequently asked questions about time travel

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Still Crazy (Bill Nighy, Billy Connelly)
The Replacements (Keanu)
Some Like It Hot
The Philadelphia Story (the original and better version of High Society)

Return to me

'Music and Lyrics' with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore.

Jaws.
Close Encounters.
Rosemary's Baby.

Field of Dreams

9 1/2 weeks.
Beaches.
Kate and Leopold.

Very dated now, but strictly ballroom was a good film back in the 90s when I wanted to watch something light as a teen.

Haven't watched in years, so may have not aged well, but old Brit/Irish comedies like The Full Monty, Waking Ned or The Commitments might also be good.