These are the movies I could keep going back to no matter how many times I have seen them. Some represent my childhood while others are just a way for me to relax. Whether they are classics or just down right thrilling to see over and over, I am always fascinated that I still find new things every time I watch them.

1. Big Fish (2003): This movie is the first book to movie adaptation that I watched. The surrealist aspect to the plot as well as each of the characters makes me want to spend a whole day writing while this plays in the background. I still cannot decide what I like better the book or the movie since the director transformed the book's elusive storytelling aspect into an actual character.

2. Death of a Salesman (1985):

I read the play in high school and became obsessed with the character of Willy Loman. He was someone whose bouts of emotional as well as physical breakdowns are fully formed with Dustin Hoffman's portrayal. Hoffman bounces off the screen as someone who knows this rock bottom feeling very well and forces me to remember he is only an actor. A highly versatile actor.

3. Wizard of Oz (1939):

Well of course, this classic had to make it on the list! I have been watching this movie since I was very young (maybe four or five). One of my earliest childhood memories is laying on my great grandmother's hand-crocheted rug with my elbows pressing into the pattern. My great grandmother is behind me intently (and intensely) multi-tasking between watching her favorite movie, humming along with every song, stirring the homemade marinara sauce in the next room, and crocheting a new pot holder for the latest Italian family meal. I still watch this movie every year on her birthday and any time it comes on the television. And I still sit with my stomach and elbows on my most prized possession: a hand crocheted rug still smelling of marinara sauce and lavender.

4. The Truman Show (1998):

I am not sure why but this is a movie I keep coming back to. I love Jim Carrey but that can't be the only reason. Maybe its the messed up, underestimated, and philosophical idea that the human race might actually have someone looking down on us.

5. Silence of the Lambs (1991):

This is still the best horror and psychological thriller made during the 20th century. The portrayal of each of the characters' emotions are so realistic that most of the time their eyes are telling more than their actions themselves. I cannot get over how gruesome yet intriguing Hannibal is because he became a character I simply love to hate yet hate to love.

6. Jurassic Park (1993):

This is one of the first movies I watched as a kid that I could not stop watching. I vividly remember going over my grandmother's house every Sunday for the typical Italian dinner and enjoy watching (and re-watching) this movie while everyone else was in the next room preparing the meal or watching/screaming at the television over the latest bad call or touchdown. It was not until I was much older that I realized that my grandparents and parents actually let little four year old me watch this movie before I was thirteen. I continue to watch this movie for the cinematography and continues to be the reason I love the movie making process.

7. Up (2009):

It is one of the reasons, I still love watching animated movies to this day because I just love how detailed and meticulous the art of animation has become over the years from the earliest Disney movies to today. I also enjoy the dark and cynical humor that the main characters have with one another. I could watch this and still laugh at every line.

8. The Heat (2013):

Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy are two of my favorite actors so to have them in the same movie became one roaring laugh after another. Their teamwork to create the characters' chemistry worked so seamlessly that I think they need to just always work one another. Maybe even bring in Betty White and we will have a blockbuster hit.

9. Harry Potter 1-7 (2001-2011):

Ten years of my life was watching these movies. I still am a giant nerd and watch every single Harry Potter Marathon. I am still one to grab all the blankets in the house and cuddle up to watch these classics. Yes, I am calling them classics because they are now rich in history for my generation not only the books but the movies as well.

10. Room (2015):

The book is my all time favorite so to have a movie might as well have been the worst thing on the planet. However, the movie turned out to be not so bad once I got over that they are now and always will be two separate creative pieces. They are no longer the same in my opinion because the actors focused too much on the big picture of the movie rather than all the little things that make up Jack's world.