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While most films are meant to be watched in one sitting, the greatest directors craft intricate tales, pack every frame with information, and subtly hint at future events in the first scenes, forcing viewers to rewatch their works several times in order to properly understand the concepts.

The 1994 film Forrest Gump

Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump, which gave Tom Hanks his second consecutive Oscar, is a wholesome, inspirational epic about the world’s sweetest guy living a simple life and unintentionally impacting people’s lives along the way.

The film functions as a kind of history lesson on popular culture. Forrest interacts with a number of well-known 20th-century personalities throughout the narrative, including John Lennon and a few US presidents. He also has a direct influence on a few historical occurrences, including the Watergate affair and the Vietnam War. Identifying every one of these historical Easter eggs at one sitting is unfeasible.

Blood Will Be Spilt (2007)

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, an iconic American epic about an oil tycoon who gradually loses his humanity as he grows wealthier, Daniel Day-Lewis delivered maybe the best performance of his career.

Packed with symbolism and intricately structured, Daniel Plainview’s story is worth reading twice or three times. For instance, Anderson illustrates Daniel’s soul’s degradation with thick, gummy, black oil.

The Arrival (2016)

Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve, is a very distinct kind of UFO film. In Arrival, the aliens desire to interact with mankind rather than annihilate all humans. Amy Adams, who is brought in to decode the aliens’ marks, plays a linguistics expert who appears to be mourning the death of her young daughter.

Tonally, Villeneuve’s film is a cerebral drama with a high concept backdrop that is surprisingly melancholic. It’s truly remarkable because of its shocking, heartbreaking conclusion. Knowing the twist ahead of time makes the film much more powerful since it gives all the dry linguistic analysis an emotional meaning.

1972’s The Godfather

Al Pacino plays the war veteran son who wishes to stay out of the gory family business, and Marlon Brando plays an old mob boss in Francis Ford Coppola’s gangster epic The Godfather, which was once the highest-grossing film ever made.

Prestige (2006)

The Prestige, starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as dueling magicians attempting to perform the same teleportation feat, is possibly Christopher Nolan’s most underappreciated film.

With a promise in the first act, a turn in the second, and a payout in the third, Nolan set up the film like a magic trick and subtly revealed all the major plot turns in the opening moments. Therefore, in order to completely understand this perplexing thriller, it must be seen multiple times.

The 2014 film Boyhood

In 2014, Richard Linklater’s masterful coming-of-age film Boyhood chronicled the whole childhood of its protagonist. Rather than assigning multiple actors to portray him at various ages, Linklater chose one actor and patiently awaited his aging.

Because of the real-time shooting technique, a completely original film was created that will never get old. Over the course of Boyhood’s twelve-year production, Linklater wrote the narrative, and the finished product functions as a collection of rewatchable vignettes or snippets of actual people’s lives.

In 1994, The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption, a prison drama starring Frank Darabont, was a box office flop when it first came out, yet IMDb users have since selected it as the best film ever made. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman play two prisoners with aspirations of escaping.

Via the lens of a close friendship, Darabont narrates an epic tale that spans a lengthy prison sentence. To make the film more watchable again, it has a ton of side stories and characters. Rewatching the scene will reveal more foreshadowing, such as when Freeman tells Robbins that breaking out of prison is a “shtty pipe dream.” Only recurring viewers who are aware that Robbins would ultimately escape through a genuine shtty pipe will understand this wink to the audience.