Favorite Classic Movies

[Poker_Babe]

When I say "Classic", I don't necessarily mean something that you would find on TCM, but something that at least came out before the 1990s...

I love Charlton Heston movies, like Planet of the Aps, Ben Hur, and Soylent Green.
Marilyn Monroe, Some Like it Hot & Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Bette Davis, The Nanny, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, & The Virgin Queen.
And I love Stanley Kubrick movies, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange
And for the "not so old" but still consider them "classics"...
Predator, Terminator, The Color Purple, A Nightmare on Elm Street, just to name a few...

What say you?

 

[JerryBoBerry]

The Crimson Pirate.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044517/

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay.




I'll think of others later. That just happens to be my favorite movie of all time.

 

[glight116]

Well...I love classic movies and the ones that first come to mind for me are:

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Night of the Hunter
oooo....and Texas Chainsaw Massacre...love that one.

 

[JickyJuly]

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Also:
Little Women with June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor
Harvey

 

[Diana Blake]

How to Steal a Million
The Sting

 

[Chamaeleon]

The Longest Day
Made me first realize the great sacrifice and battle WW2 was.

 

[Sansa]

I love love love Audrey Hepburn movies! Especially Breakfast at Tiffany's!

Going to second Stanley Kubrick films as well, Lolita especially. And speaking of Lolita, pretty much anything with James Mason in it for that matter.

Classic science-fiction movies, The Terminator, original Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, etc.

 

[Mattcr]

When I say "Classic", I don't necessarily mean something that you would find on TCM, but something that at least came out before the 1990s...

I love Charlton Heston movies, like Planet of the Aps, Ben Hur, and Soylent Green.
Marilyn Monroe, Some Like it Hot & Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Bette Davis, The Nanny, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, & The Virgin Queen.
And I love Stanley Kubrick movies, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange
And for the "not so old" but still consider them "classics"...
Predator, Terminator, The Color Purple, A Nightmare on Elm Street, just to name a few...

What say you?

One of my favorites is a bit off the beaten path, but IMO a classic nonetheless. It's a old Martin Scorcese film called After Hours. It's a quirky black comedy from the mid 1980's that takes place in NYC. I lived in Manhattan in my younger days, and I relate to this movie because I've had nights like the main character experienced (unfortunately) when living there. Anyway if anybody else likes this movie, I'd love to know

 

[Mattcr]

I love love love Audrey Hepburn movies! Especially Breakfast at Tiffany's!

Going to second Stanley Kubrick films as well, Lolita especially. And speaking of Lolita, pretty much anything with James Mason in it for that matter.

Classic science-fiction movies, The Terminator, original Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, etc.

I'm not sure if this is a very "guy" thing to say, but I too love Breakfast At Tiffany's. I'm from the NYC area, and there was something about that time that is very captivating to me. And Audrey Hepburn was just amazing.

 

[WickedTouch]

Great choices by everyone so far in this thread, so here's a few that I will always watch out for when they are shown on TV.

Mean Streets. (1973)
Goodfellas. (1990)
The Conversation. (1974)
The Shining. (1980)
The Witches Of Eastwick. (1987)
Coma. (1978)
The Andromeda Strain. (1971)
Westworld. (1973)
The Omega Man (1971)
Near Dark. (1987)
Thunderbolt And Lightfoot. (1974)
The Outlaw Josey Wales. (1976)
The Professionals. (1965)
Niagara (1953)

 

[Wade W Wilson]

Grand Prix (1966), excellent movie that got James Garner into racing for real just like Steve McQueen, except Garner was a class act, not an egotistical asshat (scientific term) like McQeen was.

 

[BlairRayvin]

Splendor In the Grass (1961)
Anything with Audry Hepburn
The Witches Of Eastwick. (1987)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
The King and I (1956)
Annie (1982)
Anything with Shirley Temple
An Affair to Remember (1957)
Its a Wonderful Life (1946)
Rebecca (1940)

 

[mynameisbob84]

70s!

Jaws
Star Wars
The Exorcist
The Godfather
Alien
Rocky
Chinatown
The Warriors
Dawn of the Dead
Halloween
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Eraserhead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Omen
Carrie
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Clockwork Orange

80s!

Aliens
Blade Runner
The Terminator
Tron
Back To The Future
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Mad Max 2
E.T
Brazil
Indiana Jones
Die Hard
Rambo
Predator
Commando
Robocop
Lethal Weapon
Blues Brothers
Platoon
Scarface
Ghostbusters
Goonies
Stand By Me
Big Trouble in Little China
Labyrinth
Beverly Hills Cop
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Lost Boys
Nightmare on Elm Street
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
Top Gun
Karate Kid
Batman
Airplane
Caddyshack
Sixteen Candles
Weird Science
Breakfast Club
Big
Spinal Tap
Trading Places
Gremlins
An American Werewolf in London
Uncle Buck
The Burbs
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Raging Bull
Amadeus
Do The Right Thing
My Neighbour Totoro
The Thing
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
The Fly
Poltergeist

(80s confirmed as the best, yo)

 

[MaddyLuxx]

Cool Hand Luke.

I worship at the altar of "shirtless young Paul Newman".

CHL is one of those movies that is part of the American film canon: it's referenced so frequently in pop culture that I'm always kinda shocked when someone my age hasn't seen it. Fuck, they did a whole family guy episode about it. It's "that movie where the guy eats all the raw eggs". And that guy is Paul Newman. And you should watch it!

 

[Doc_Mercy]

The quiet Man, with John Wayne
North by Northwest, a Hitchcock classic
Apocalypse Now
Wizard of Oz
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Breakfast at Tiffany's
My Fair Lady
Red Dawn
Cocktail
Top Gun
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Indiana Jones Films, all of them
Alien
The Lost Boys
The Princess Bride
Die Hard
Who Framed Rodger Rabbit
Mannequin
Stand By Me
Big
Ghostbusters
The Karate Kid

I'll stop there.

 

[gingerhobbit]

One of my favorites is a bit off the beaten path, but IMO a classic nonetheless. It's a old Martin Scorcese film called After Hours. It's a quirky black comedy from the mid 1980's that takes place in NYC. I lived in Manhattan in my younger days, and I relate to this movie because I've had nights like the main character experienced (unfortunately) when living there. Anyway if anybody else likes this movie, I'd love to know

Dude, you are so right. After Hours is a classic, and Griffin Dunne was awesome in it. Nice to see it get mentioned here.

I'd have to echo Bob and Doc on their lists. Plus, add 'Dog Day Afternoon.'

 

[zippypinhead]

I'm a big fan of silent movies. My favorites are probably pretty standard choices these days. Metropolis is seriously one of the greatest cinematic masterpieces ever created, and everybody should make time to watch it. A sweeping epic that utilizes the visual differences of the two predominant visual styles of the time -- Expressionism and Art Deco -- to symbolize the clashes of culture and class within the narrative. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is awesome. One of the first movies to ever employ so many of today's established horror tropes. The twist ending is especially wonderful. And, of course, Nosferatu. Count Orlok is still the scariest vampire ever. Makes me long for the days before Anne Rice ruined the monster by popularizing the notion that vampires aren't demonic night stalkers that seduce you to your doom, but instead are tragically moody Gothic wank fodder. Metropolis and Nosferatu can be found on Netflix. Archive.org has Dr. Caligari, located here.

A Trip to the Moon was recently added to a lot of the big streaming services.The turn of the century aesthetic is so awesome. Fun fact: the colorized version was actually hand-painted at the time! If you do watch it on Netflix or whatever, I recommend muting the sound, and maybe putting on your own music to go along with it. The contemporary soundtrack they applied to it is pretty awful, I think. I like to watch it while listening to M83 or Zero 7. Maybe watch it while listening to Smashing Pumpkins "Tonight, Tonight" given the video connection.