Pacific Heights w/Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, and Michael Keaton. Keaton was scary.

This is a little obscure and only indirectly about moving, and maybe a little dark: the film "Moonlighting", with Jeremy Irons. It's a 1980s British movie about Polish workers brought in to do an off-record remodel in London, for their Polish boss (a corrupt government official). Heavy with metaphor, but funny at the same time.

These workers have big plans about returning home, after the London job, to their famlies flush with money and consumer goods. They hope to buy bicycles, of all things. The project money -- insufficient to begin with -- is mismanaged by the head guy (Irons), issues come up with the remodel, and (only Irons learns of this and he keeps it from the others until the job is done) there is a military coup in Poland. When the job is done, Irons tells the other guys the truth -- about what is going on at home and about the money. It's been a long time since I saw the movie, but I remember a scene at the end where these guys -- who are broke and have no guarantee that they can get back to Poland because of the regime change -- pile up the odd belongings they've accrued (including useless gifts they hoped to bring back to Warsaw) in a grocery cart or on a bike, and they are pushing all this junk through London. Things fall off, they curse and wail and break down crying. The film is about bigger things, but that one scene stuck with me. All that stuff you accrue from move to move, that you work to pay for...to me it's like the odd bits falling off their improvised cart. You wonder why you have it or ever wanted it.

Or the brutal reality of moving into a widower's home with all the accumulated furniture and linens and kitchenware the former wife so painstakingly acquired over the course of their long marriage. I'm about to experience this and I'm a bit terrified. He's making it easier on me than I am.

Friends did some funny episodes about moving. To get Ugly Naked Guy's apartment, Ross has to bond with him by hanging out in the buff. And there's the one where the girls and the guys switch apartments -- it was funny to see all of Monica's cool, eclectic decor crammed into the ugly apartment while the guys filled the impossibly great apartment with ugly lounge chairs, Joey's dog sculpture, and a foosball table in place of a kitchen table. And when Monica and Chandler finally find the house of their dreams, it looks like Chandler's obnoxious, inescapable ex Janis is moving in next door.

@akay, You're forgetting the funniest Friends moving scene, I think it's when Ross is moving into Ugly Naked Guy's apartment and they can't get the sofa up the steps and Ross just keeps yelling PIV-OT, PIV-OT!!! LOL, cracks me up every time! And let's see, when Phoebe and Mike decide to move in together but end up breaking up as the gang stands there with the couch having hauled it all the way upstairs (except Rachel who was only pretending to hold it...haven't we all done that once?) And Monica and Rachel (first fighting) and then reminiscing about their time together as roommates when Chandler moves in. I know there are several more actually, they really did do a lot with moving!

I also love the moving scenes in the movie Mermaids. The mom (Cher) picks the next place they're moving by closing her eyes and going where her finger ends up on the map.

In A Home of Our Own, after days on the road, driving as far as their jalopy will take them, the Lacey tribe negotiates labor for a run down, unfinished house and rally to fix it up by bartering services for goods from the junk yard, taking old tools as tips and picking up trashed items (AT-ers should be able to appreciate that).

Speaking of movies spoiling moving (ie Amityville Horror, Poltergeist, etc). The Posession has "ruined" garage sales. :-)

Under the Tuscan Sun, This Boy's Life, Someone Like You (when she has to give up that weird studio in the Meat Packing District and move into a Soho loft with her coworker), The Guitar (when she shows up with nothing but her clothes, fills the place with expensive stuff, then hauls it all to a secondhand shop to resell for cash), The Perfect Man (Locklear & Co move into a great apartment in Queens), there are so many... Barefoot in the Park, Breakfast at Tiffany's (Paul moves in at the beginning).

To me, the better bit about moving in When Harry Met Sally is when he's telling Jess about how his wife told him she was leaving him... and then the movers show up. Jess asks, "You're saying Mr. Zero knew you were getting a divorce a week before you did?"

@HEYNOWTEX, I don't know how I forgot PIVOT! That's probably my favorite line from the show.

Okay, maybe it's my second favorite after MY FAJITAS!

Okay, pretty much anything where Ross yells.

The first thing I thought of is "Beetlejuice" where the ghost couple watches in horror as the new owners of their charming, rustic house move in their severe, hard-edged modern furniture and ugly abstract sculptures (then the remodeling begins...)

There's a great classic "Popeye" cartoon where he's annoyed to find Olive has hired Bluto to move her furniture to a new apartment. Inevitably the two get into a 'top this' competition that escalates into a brawl, and Popeye ends up carting a single flower vase, the one item of Olive's that escaped demolition.

I loved in 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' when Cate Blanchett and a tasty Brad Pitt move into their little bungalow. They sleep on a mattress in the living room and there is a montage that shows them painting the house, watching the Beatles on TV, etc. They're both so blissed out and in love that they don't actually "move in" but just lie together on that mattress. Swoon.