What movies get better on a second—or third—viewing? Here are ten films whose images, performances, mysteries, and ideas reward watching again and again.
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The Seventh Seal
A knight returning from the Crusades plays a pivotal game of chess with Death.
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Citizen Kane
A journalist tries to uncover the truth about newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane.
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The 400 Blows
A misunderstood boy in Paris struggles against school, family expectations, and an unforgiving world.
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The Wizard of Oz
A girl from Kansas lands in a magical world and must find the Wizard if she wants to return home.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
A voyage toward Jupiter becomes a confrontation among human beings, artificial intelligence, and the unknown.
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Mulholland Drive
An aspiring actor arrives in Los Angeles, where dreams, identities, and disappointments begin to blur.
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Beauty and the Beast
In Jean Cocteau’s 1946 fairy tale, a young woman enters a mysterious bargain with a beast to save her father.
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Billy Elliot
A boy in an English coal-mining town takes up ballet against his father’s wishes.
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Cinema Paradiso
A movie-loving boy in Sicily befriends the projectionist at his small town’s cinema.
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Vertigo
A former San Francisco detective accepts a case that draws him into obsession and threatens to unhinge him.
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