10 Movies That Are Still Great After Twenty Viewings

Because nineteen viewings just isn't enough.

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There are very few movies that actually warrant more than one viewing. That's not to say that most films are disposable; merely that, having spent two or more hours of your life in their company already, there's not always a good reason to go back in favour of watching something new - unless, of course, the motion picture in question has been designed to intentionally lure you back into its world, either as a result of its density, complex nature of relentless entertainment factor. There's no true criteria that one can use to denote a re-watchable movie; after all, everyone has different tastes, and one man's ceiling is another man's floor (or something to that effect).

And yet certain motion pictures do pull you back - you'll find yourself, perhaps on hearing the title uttered again at random, saying: "I must watch that again." Some movies, of course, fall into their own category completely: these are the pictures that lure you back time and time again, for reasons that can't always be explained. They have an inherent power that defies the rules; the quality of their construction feels worthwhile even after the twentieth viewing. Here, then, are 10 such movies - 40 plus hours with each and every one of these pictures and people still want more...

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Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.