OT: Movies you stop everything for to watch

MPs Holy Grail and History of the World.... I enjoy learning about the past.

Raiders 

Last Crusade

Shawshank

Usual Suspects

American Beauty

Animal House 

Dazed and Confused

The Game

Back to the Future I & II

most Jennifer Love Hewitt movies

Ferris

Sideways

Pulp fiction

Usual Suspects

Casablanca

Godfather I or Godfather II

First half of Saving Private Ryan

Breakfast Club

2001 A Space Odyssey

First half of Full Metal Jacket

Die Hard

Terminator 2

Good question, I'm heading to the tv now

Busty Cops

Blended 

Big

Rudy vs. Alien

Shawshank, wolf of Wall Street, braveheart, big Lebowski,   Groundhog Day, pursuit of happiness 

Lots of good ones already posted.  I'm only adding one I didn't see...Bull Durham.

I'm surprised there are no Star Wars comments - those are solid show stoppers but are so rarely on cable.

The Big Chill, Bridesmaids, Young Frankenstein, The Royal Tenenbaums

Trying to think of movies in heavy cable rotation.

• Goodfellas
• Godfather II DeNiro scenes
• Big Lebowski
• Major League

That's tough, because im usually only watching tv at my sister's house, so it'll end up being Bill Murray movies, more than likely. What about Bob, Ghostbusters, Groundhogs Day, Rushmore, etc. 

Usually iconic ones that draw you in and don’t let go like:  

The Godfather I and II,

Bridge on the River Kwai, 

Dr. Zhivago,

Lawrence of Arabia,

Harold and Maude, 

Princess Bride,

Shawshank,

Dead Poets,

To Kill a Mockingbird,

Apocolypse Now, 

Butch and Sundance,

Good, Bad, Ugly 

Unforgiven

PCU

Better Off Dead

Royal Tennenbaums

HfRO

I never get tired of watching Slapshot.

Fight Club.  "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make one a chicken."

A River Runs Through It

Aliens.  So many one liners in that one.  "I say we dust off and nuke it from orbit...only way to be sure."

Already said, but definitely Tombstone "Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave."

Dodgeball

If there is a good scifi movie on that will stop me in my tracks. T1-T2, Empire strikes back, total recall, a couple of the new star track movies, to many good ones, even from the 50s, like when the earth stood still and war of the worlds.

Back to the Future and Karate Kid. 

The Poseidon Adventure - the original one with Gene Hackman. 

So many great ones mentioned already.

Gladiator

Saving Private Ryan

Die Hard

Pulp Fiction

Gangs of New York

The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight Rises

Shooter

Step Brothers

Tombstone

Django Unchained

None

1. Karate Kid (obviously)

2. Back to the Future

3. The Warriors 

Karate Kid, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sara Marshall, This is the End, The Big Lebowski, LOTR, many more. I grew up on tv and can’t shake the addiction.

Most all of the above.  Plus a River Runs Through it.  
 

Zombieland I and II are both well written and entertain. 

1. Man on Fire

2. Raiders of the Lost Ark

3. Patriot Games

4. Vacation

5. Gladiator

6. Airplane

As of late - Step Brothers, Hangover, Shooter, The Other Guys

I dig movies

Edit after reading others : Inglorious Bastards, Django Unchained, Top gun, Back to the Future

Way Too Many (I’m sure there are more.) In alphabetical order:

A Few Good Men; A Hard Day’s Night; All the President’s Men; American Graffiti; Animal House; Annie Hall; Back to the Future (Part 1); Badlands; Bananas; Ben-Hur; Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure; Blazing Saddles; Bonnie and Clyde; Bridesmaids; Bridge of Spies; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Casablanca; Chinatown; Citizen Kane; Dead Poets Society; Django Unchained; Do the Right Thing; Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story; Don’t Look Now; Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Easy Rider; Echoes of the Canyon (documentary); E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Fargo; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Field of Dreams; Forrest Gump; Full Metal Jacket; Ghostbusters; Goldfinger; Goodfellas; Good Will Hunting; Green Book; Groundhog Day; Help!; Inglourious Basterds; It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; It’s A Wonderful Life; Jackie Brown; Little Miss Sunshine; Mad Max: Fury Road; Manhattan; M*A*S*H; Midnight Cowboy; Midnight Express; Miracle; Mississippi Burning; Molly’s Game; Monterey Pop (documentary); Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Murder on the Orient Express (original); My Cousin Vinny; Office Space; On the Waterfront; Once Upon A Time in Hollywood; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Psycho (original); Pulp Fiction; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Remember the Titans; Reservoir Dogs; Rocky; Saving Private Ryan; Schindler’s List; Serpico; Slap Shot; Spartacus; Spotlight; Stand By Me; Take the Money and Run; Taxi Driver; The Adventures of Robin Hood; The Big Chill; The Big Lebowski; The Bridge on the River Kwai; The Commitments; The Exorcist; The French Connection; The Godfather, Parts I and II; The Graduate; The Great Escape; The Green Mile; The Help; The Last Picture Show; The Last Waltz (documentary); The Longest Day; The Maltese Falcon; The Princess Bride; The Producers (original); The Right Stuff; The Shawshank Redemption; The Silence of the Lambs; The Sting; The Third Man; The Usual Suspects; The Wizard of Oz; They Shall Not Grow Old (documentary); Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; To Kill A Mockingbird; War Horse; West Side Story; Where’s Poppa; Witness for the Prosecution; Woodstock (documentary); Young Frankenstein

Big Trouble in Little China 

Forrest Gump and I cry when Jenny dies every time.