3074326;1210906; said:
I need to see more classic films from pre-90s.
That would seem to be a recurring theme in this thread.
Here's some "classics" that you might want to check out - titles in bold are "must see". I have arranged them in categories:
Alfred Hitchcock - director
The 39 Steps (1935)
Sabotage (1936)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Rebecca (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Suspicion (1941)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)
Rope (1948)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Vertigo (1958)
North By Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
Frenzy (1972)
Stanley Kubrick - director
The Killing (1956)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2001: A Space Odessey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Billy Wilder - director
Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
One, Two, Three (1961)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Orson Welles - actor/director
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Stranger (1946)
The Third Man (1949)
Othello (1952)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Compulsion (1959)
Sir Laurence Olivier - actor/director
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Rebecca (1940) (Hitchcock)
Henry V (1944)
Hamlet (1948)
Richard III (1955)
Sleuth (1972)
Cary Grant - actor
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Gunga Din (1939)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Suspicion (1941)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Notorious (1946)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
North By Northwest (1959)
Charade (1963)
Humphrey Bogart - actor
High Sierra (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
The Big Sleep (1946) (with Lauren Bacall)
Key Largo (1948) (with Lauren Bacall)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
The African Queen (1951)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
War and Related
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Great Escape (1963)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Kelly's Heroes (1970) (Eastwood)
Breaker Morant (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979) (avoid the 2001 "Redux")
Gallipoli (1981) (Mel Gibson)
Full Metal Jacket (1987) (Kubrick)
Europa, Europa (1991)
Schindler's List (1993)
Historical
Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Henry V (1944) (Olivier)
Becket (1964)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Lady Jane (1986)
Henry V (1989) (Branagh)
Queen Margot (1994) (French)
Elizabeth (1998) (Cate Blanchett)
Heist Movies
White Heat (1949) (Cagney)
Ashphalt Jungle (1950)
Rififi (1954) (French)
Bob le Flambeur (1955) (French)
The Killing (1956) (Kubrick)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) (Italian)
Dead Heat on a Merry Go Round (1966)
The Italian Job (1969) (Michael Caine)
The Red Circle (1970) (French)
Dollars (1971) (Warren Beatty)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Comedies
Pygmalion (1938)
His Girl Friday (1940) (Cary Grant)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Ladykillers (1955) (Peter Sellers)
The Court Jester (1955)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Holy Grail (1975) (Monty Python)
Network (1976)
Slap Shot (1977)
Life of Brian (1979) (Monty Python)
Brimstone and Treacle (1982) (Sting)
Raising Arizona (1987) (Coen brothers)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Hairspray (1988) (avoid the re-make)
Without a Clue (1988) (Michael Caine)
My Blue Heaven (1990)
Barcelona (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Get Shorty (1995)
Lock, Stock and Two Smokin Barrels (1998)
Rushmore (1998) (Bill Murray)
The Zero Effect (1998)
Cult Movies
Carnival of Souls (1962)
A Hard Day's Night (1964) (The Beatles)
Help! (1965) (The Beatles)
The Incubus (1966) (William Shatner)
Shaft (1971)
Superfly (1972)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Death Race 2000 (1975) (Stallone)
Eraserhead (1978) (David Lynch)
Mad Max (1979) (Mel Gibson)
The Warriors (1979)
Rock 'n Roll High School (1979) (Ramones)
Great Rock and Roll Swindle (1980) (Sex Pistols)
Stunt Man (1980)
Polyester (1981)
Eating Raoul (1982)
Emerald Cities (1983)
Liquid Sky (1983)
Repo Man (1984)
Sid and Nancy (1986)
Dead Again (1991)
Shallow Grave (1994)
Twelve Monkeys (1995) (Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt)
Tromeo and Juliet (1996)
Dead Man (1996) (Depp)
In the Company of Men (1997)
Pi (1998)
Ghost Dog (1999)
Chick Flicks
Roman Holiday (1953) (Audrey Hepburn)
Anastasia (1956) (Ingrid Bergman)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (Audrey Hepburn)
Room With a View (1986)
Babette's Feast (1987) (Danish)
Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
A Merry War (1997)
Happenstance (2000) (French)
Amelie (2001) (French)
Miscellaneous
Queen Christina (1933) (Garbo)
The Thin Man (1934)
It Happened One Night (1934) (won all five major Oscars)
Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) (Errol Flynn)
Wizard of Oz (1939)
Laura (1944)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949) (early Kirk Douglas)
All About Eve (1950) (Bette Davis)
D.O.A. (1950) (avoid the re-make)
Singin' in the Rain (1952) (musical)
On the Waterfront (1954) (Brando)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) (musical)
The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Manchurian Candidate (1962) (Sinatra) (avoid the re-make)
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966) (Eastwood)
How to Steal a Million (1966) (Audrey Hepburn)
Blow Up (1966)
Bullitt (1968) (Steve McQueen)
The French Connection (1971)
Dirty Harry (1972) (Eastwood)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather II (1974)
The Parallax View (1974) (Warren Beatty)
Chinatown (1974) (Nicholson)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Elephant Man (1980) (David Lynch)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blood Simple (1984) (Coen brothers)
Bugsy (1991) (Warren Beatty)
Quiz Show (1994)
Invincible (2002)
Foreign Language
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) (German - silent)
Nosferatu (1922) (German - silent)
Metropolis (1926) (German - silent)
Pandora's Box (1928) (German - silent)
The Blue Angel (1930) (German)
M (1931) (German)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1932) (German)
Grand Illusion (1937) (French)
Day of Wrath (1943) (Danish)
Beauty and the Beast (1946) (French)
Stray Dog (1949) (Japanese)
Orpheus (1950) (French)
Rashomon (1950) (Japanese)
The Seven Samurai (1954) (Japanese)
Diabolique (1956) (French)
The Seventh Seal (1957) (Swedish)
Black Orpheus (1959) (Brazilian)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) (French)
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972) (German)
Kagemusha (1980) (Japanese)
Diva (1982) (French)
Jean de Floret (1986) (French)
Manon of the Spring (1986) (French)
Zentropa (1992) (Danish)
Run, Lola, Run (1998) (German)
Tuvalu (2000) (German)
Just a sample of the "great" movies that are out there - most should be available on Netflix.
If I had to pick just twelve films from the list that the casual moviegoer should see, they would be:
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
The Third Man (1949)
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Killing (1956)
North By Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
Bullitt (1968)
The French Connection (1971)
Dirty Harry (1972)
Chinatown (1974)
