50 Timeless Movies You Can Watch Again and Again

Out of ideas on what to watch for movie night?

We compiled a list of 50 great movies we loved — the types of movies that will get watched again and again and again.

They never get old. They soothe us when we are feeling low, and are great to show the kids.

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1. The Blind Side (2009)

• IMDB Rating: 7.7 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.1 / 10

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatised boy who became an All-American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

2. Dirty Dancing

• IMDB Rating: 6.9 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.1 / 10

Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances “Baby” Houseman falls in love with the camp’s dance instructor Johnny Castle.

3. Pretty Woman (1990)

• IMDB rating:  6.9 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 5.7 / 10

A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets… only to fall in love.

4. Ghostbusters (1984)

• IMDB rating: 7.8 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 8.2 / 10

Three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.

5. Elf (2003)

• IMDB rating: 6.9 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7 / 10

After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity.

6. Divergent (2014)

• IMDB rating:
• Rotten Tomatoes: 5.4 / 10

In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she’s Divergent and won’t fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it’s too late.

7. Edward Scissorhands (1990)

• IMDB rating: 8.0 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7.7 / 10

A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.

8. Marley & Me (2008)

• IMDB rating: 7.1 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6 / 10

A family learns important life lessons from their adorable, but naughty and neurotic dog.

9. The Help (2011)

• IMDB rating: 8.1 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7 / 10

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maids’ point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

10. The Hunger Games (2012)

• IMDB rating:  7.3 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7.2 / 10

Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to compete.

11. 13 Going on 30 (2004)

• IMDB rating: 6.1 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.2 / 10

A 13-year-old girl plays a game on her13th birthday and wakes up the next day as a 30-year-old woman.

12. Grease (1978)

• IMDB rating: 7.2 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.6 / 10

Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they’re now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

13. Legally Blonde (2001)

• IMDB rating: 6.2 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.2 / 10

When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined.

14.  Titanic (1997)

• IMDB rating: 7.7 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 8 / 10

A 17-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind, but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

15. Forrest Gump (1994)

• IMDB rating: 8.8 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7.2 / 10

Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him.

16. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

• IMDB rating: 9.3 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 8.2 / 10

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.

17. The Green Mile (1999)

• IMDB rating: 8.5 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.8 / 10

The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.

18. Wall E (2008)

• IMDB rating: 8.4 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 8.5 / 10

In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

19. Beetlejuice (1988)

• IMDB rating: 7.4 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7 / 10

A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a “bio-exorcist” in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.

20. Clueless (1995)

• IMDB rating: 6.8 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.9 / 10

A rich high school student tries to boost a new pupil’s popularity, but reckons without affairs of the heart getting in the way.

21. Twilight (2008)

• IMDB rating: 5.2 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 5.4 / 10

A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.

22. We’re The Millers (2013)

• IMDB rating: 7.1 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 5.4 / 10

A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.

23. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

• IMDB rating: 6.6 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.7 / 10

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek man and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

24. Enchanted (2007)

• IMDB rating: 7.1 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7.3 / 10

A princess, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York by an evil queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer.

25. The Notebook (2004)

• IMDB rating: 7.9 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 5.7 / 10

A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences.

26. Father of the Bride (1991)

• IMDB rating: 6.4 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6 / 10

With his oldest daughter’s wedding approaching, a father finds himself reluctant to let go.

27. Mrs Doubtfire (1993)

• IMDB rating: 6.9 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 5.8 / 10

After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.

28. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)

• IMDB rating: 6.3 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 5 / 10

Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies’ man who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Andie Anderson covers the “How To” beat for Composure magazine and is assigned to write an article on “How to Lose a Guy in 10 days.” They meet in a bar shortly after the bet is made.

29. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

• IMDB rating: 8.6 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 8.6 / 10

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

30. Gran Torino (2008)

• IMDB rating: 8.2 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7.1 / 10

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbour, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

31. My Girl (1991)

• IMDB rating: 6.8 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 5.5 / 10

A young girl, on the threshold of her teen years, finds her life turning upside down, when she is accompanied by an unlikely friend.

32. My Sister’s Keeper (2009)

• IMDB rating: 7.4 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 5.6 / 10

Anna Fitzgerald looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who until now have relied on their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter, Kate remain alive.

33. Bridesmaids (2011)

• IMDB rating: 6.8 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7.6 / 10

Competition between the maid of honour and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride’s best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

34. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

• IMDB rating: 7.8 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.2 / 10

Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

35. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

• IMDB rating: 8 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7.4 / 10

An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.

36. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

• IMDB rating: 7.5 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7.1 / 10

Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

37. Ever After (1998)

• IMDB rating: 7 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7.5 / 10

The “real” story of Cinderella. A refreshing new take on the classic fairy tale.

38. 21 Jump Street (2012)

• IMDB rating: 7.2 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7.2 / 10

A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.

39. The Goonies (1985)

• IMDB rating: 7.8 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.1 / 10

In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits set out to find a pirate’s ancient treasure.

40. Holes (2003)

• IMDB rating: 7.1 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7 / 10

A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.

41. The Sound of Music (1965)

• IMDB rating: 8 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7.9 / 10

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

42. Braveheart (1995)

• IMDB rating: 8.4 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 7.2 / 10

When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace begins a revolt and leads Scottish warriors against the cruel English tyrant who rules Scotland with an iron fist.

43. The Princess Bride (1987)

• IMDB rating: 8.2 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 8.3 / 10

While home sick in bed, a young boy’s grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride.

44. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

• IMDB rating: 6.8 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.7 / 10

A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.

45. Footloose (1984)

• IMDB rating: 6.5 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 5.7 / 10

A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.

46. Twister (1996)

• IMDB rating: 6.3 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6 / 10

Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.

47. The Lost Boys (1987)

• IMDB rating: 7.2 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.3 / 10

After moving to a new town, two brothers are convinced that the area is frequented by vampires.

48. Julie & Julia (2009)

• IMDB rating: 7 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.7 / 10

Julia Child’s story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell’s 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child’s first book.

49. Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

• IMDB rating: 6.1 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 5.2 / 10

A young woman with a Southern background runs away from her husband in Alabama and reinvents herself as a New York socialite.

50. Romeo & Juliet (1996)

• IMDB rating: 6.8 / 10
• Rotten Tomatoes: 6.6 / 10

Shakespeare’s famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.

 Which of these movies have you already watched?