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10 Recommended Films that I Keep Watching Over and Over!

Mark Holburn
23 min readJan 10, 2022

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As a movie lover, I can watch the same film repeatedly, especially if it is really good and one of my favourites. My wife thinks I am crazy and often says to me “how many times have you seen this?”, when she catches me watching the same film over and over again especially at Christmas!

I view them in the same way as listening to a song. You certainly would want to listen to some of your favourite songs more than once!

Only the other day, The Great Escape was on TV and, as I started watching it, she had ago at me. Only in jest of course!

Below are a list of 10 films that I watch repeatedly and can highly recommend. As I have already done a full write up on The Third Man, you can take that one as a given, and is the only reason it is not on the list below. The list is in no particular order although the last one is probably my pick as my Number 1.

1. Doctor Zhivago (1965)

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David Lean’s epic sweeping and tear jerking drama based on Boris Pasternack novel is a pure masterpiece. Set around the backdrop of the First World War and Russian Civil War, it tells the story of Yuri Zhivago played by Omar Sharif, a physician who’s family and whole life is transformed by the uprising in Russia. It personalises the affect the civil war had on…

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Mark Holburn
Mark Holburn

Written by Mark Holburn

Lover of music, sport, animals, humour, movies and decency. A Level in Film Studies.

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