I'm talking pre-1980s. Think movies from the 70s, 60s, 50s, or even the 40s and 30s.
Star Wars, but that's too obvious, so One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Had to watch it in school, probably hard to rewatch now but I enjoyed it
I've literally only seen it once, but think about it constantly. I agree, I couldn't see myself rewatching it over and over, but I loved it like few other movies.
I've been watching older movies like The Godfather and Alien as they go free on YouTube. The biggest thing I've noticed is pacing. Older movies just seem to crawl compared to modern films.
I don't get that from Star Wars, but it's still only a rewatch every few years. The original trilogy definitely feels slower than all that came after.
For those of us from the reference area, we have the inverse complaint of today's movies.
Loved the first Alien movie. The ones after were ehhh.
I tried to watch the godfather the other day, but I missed the first 25 minutes so I stopped watching about an hour in. Should I continue?
Honestly, you could probably watch a synopsis and get the gist of the story. It's an interesting overall story. It's just super slow. I get why people enjoy it given the transformation the main character goes through, but you're not missing much by just watching a 5-10 min explanation on YouTube.
Had to watch it in school, probably hard to rewatch now but I enjoyed it
-OG Dracula -Some like it hot -House of Usher -Fistful of Dollars -Goldfinger -Theatre of Blood -To Catch a Thief -Witness for the Prosecution -House of Wax -The Thing -Laura -The man who came to dinner -One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest -Network (superrrr underrated) -Blazing Saddles -House on Haunted Hill
Surprising your film of your username isn’t listed
Goldfinger still my favorite Bond Movie, But as a child of the 80s, View to a Kill is a good one too. ( Great Villian, and Duran Duran)
View to a Kill has two giant flaws: Tanya Roberts isn’t very good and Roger Moore is old enough to be her grandfather.
If we're doing OG Dracula, we have to add Nosferatu as well.
The Thing 🥰
House of Wax and House on Haunted Hill will forever be up there for me. Oh and the original Fly. Vincent Price was on a different tier.
Citizen Kane
full metal jacket
the taxi driver
the godfather
monty python and the holy grail
I watched Holy Grail on VHS so much in middle/high school that the tape broke.
So we bought a replacement and continued to watch it way too much!
I haven't watched it in over a decade because I don't need to; I can play just about every scene in my head near word-for-word 😆
dog day afternoon, the exorcist, cabaret, clockwork orange, rosemary’s baby, 2001, dr strangelove, 12 angry men, autumn sonata, a woman is a woman
+1 for Dog Day Afternoon! My favorite Pacino role.
Good choices. Bergman. Kubrick. Polanski
American Graffiti. I've watched it probably dozens of times, it's my comfort movie I guess.
I was neighbors for a long time with the guy who owns John Milners 32’ ford coupe. Him and a bunch of replicas of it would always be around in San Francisco. Small world!
SHREK
oh nvm
The Apartment
12 Angry Men
The Godfather (and Part II)
Five Easy Pieces
The Asphalt Jungle
Psycho
The Hill
Papillon
The original Carrie (1976) is one of my favorite movies ever.
Fun fact - the bloody prom scene was filmed in my old high school (don mills collegiate institute - Toronto)
Omg cool! I lived in Toronto for 5 years. Lots of iconic movies filmed there!
THEY’RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!
Mrs. Doubtfire
YES!!
Yikes. I remember going to see that in the theater. You guys make me feel old.
The Godfather 1 and 2.
The Fly (1980s)
The Thing.
Citizen Kane.
seven samurai
I think this might be the only Akira Kurosawa mention in the entire thread. That makes me a little sad, but I'm glad at least one person remembers
Smokey and the Bandit, Dirty Harry, Bullitt, The Love Bug, American Graffiti, Airplane, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Singing In The Rain, Rebel Without A Cause, White Lighting, Gator, Duel, Jaws, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Castaway, Shawshank Redemption, Indiana Jones.
The Shining is probably my favorite, then the original Halloween movie and the The Good, the bad and the ugly.
Not pre 80s, but Who Killed Roger Rabbit
Edit: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who fucked Roger Rabbit? 💃
We all know exactly who fucked him 😏
Who framed Roger Rabbit
It's been so long haha thank you, this is the correct title.
It's awesome! I thought you might want to watch it again! I love that movie!
Great movie! And such a huge step forward in movie animation! I remember being blown away as a kid seeing Cartoons interacting with real people
Rabbit was better than Cool World imo
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Love this book and film. I often wear the same white tee, blue jeans, polo jacket, longshoreman beanie combo Jack Nicholson so famously wore in the movie. Timeless Mens fashion.
Swiss family Robinson.
The Sound of Music and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are some old classics
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, hands down
NOT THE JOHNNY DEPP ONE
There’s no earthly way of knowing just which way the rivers flowing. There’s no earthly way of showing, where the rowers hands are rowing
Is it raining?
Is it snowing?
Are the frigid northwinds blowing?
Oh they must,
But they MUST
For the winds of hell are blowing
And the ghastly reapers mowing
And the danger keeps on growing
And the rowers keep on rowing
And they certainly SHOW NO SIGNS THAT THEY ARE SLOWING!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
FF that part every damn time, why tf did they have to make it so scary!!!!!!
That is EXACTLY why I love that part. A whimsical bit of mystery and horror of the mind of a man locked away in a candy factory. The mystery and horror seems to underlay the entire thing. Like fizzy lifting drinks in a room with a fan, the dark TV room, the elevator, the half office. The mad genius that comes out on full display in this one scene. Plus, it is such a haunting melody
Alien (1979) is not only my favorite horror movie of all time but my favorite movie of all time in general. I had so many toys and video games from that series growing up it was a great part of my childhood.
I had to scroll way too far to find this!
It's such a solid Sci Fi & Horror.
And yes to all the toys and videogames that filled my childhood. One of my favorite ways to use my imagination as a child was pretending to be on some desolate world or space station and have to clear or escape an Alien Hive 🥰
-Nosferatu -any and every Abbott and Costello movie -Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, and other Samurai movies -Godzilla (original) -The Godfather -the Indiana Jones trilogy -Star Wars OT -2001 A Space Odyssey -The Seventh Seal and various other Bergman films -Stalker
Jackie Chan movies
The drunken master is a masterpiece
me a millennial smiling everytime I read a movie from before I was born
Don't make me feel old yet guys
Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Labyrinth, Never Ending Story (named my dog Falkor), Last man on earth, house on haunted hill (pretty much anything Vincent Price related), the reAnimator, Hackers.
Full metal jacket
Arsenic and Old Lace
Singing in the Rain
The Sound of Music
Roman Holiday
Fred Astaire is pretty awesome to watch.
I like the slasher films like Friday the 13th and nightmare on elm Street. Also some stuff like Alien or Predator. The old Rambo movies are great too.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
One of my favorite movies is 1931’s Jekyll and Hyde
Grease and Heathers. I was the kind of kid the grew up with old cassette tapes and old musical movies along with bring it on, mean girls, and old Disney movies and high school musical. That’s it. 👯♂️
Soylent Green. I've only seen it once, but I love it
Gen X here. Really impressed by these responses.
Anybody seen Amadeus? If you haven’t, please check it out. It’s one of my all-time favorite movies. Won best picture of 1984. I know my Gen Z kids love it.
I haven't watched many pre-80s movies bit I can say that I really liked the OG "All Quiet on the Western Front" from 1930 I think
Lawrence of Arabia. Unless you're a fan of history, it can be a brutal watch. Nearly 4 hour run time. But it's incredible for the time it was made. Revolutionary cinematography for the period, and some of the most amazing natural, on location, landscape shots in all of film.
Wizard of Oz
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Life of Brian still holds up as comedy gold.
- Back to the Future
- All Rocky before Rocky V
- Mrs. Doubtfire
- Mary Poppins
- The Sound of Music
Yessssss
Some golden oldies: ▪︎Quality Street (1937) Katherine Hepburn regency romance ▪︎How Green Was My Valley (1941) baby Roddy McDowell, Maureen OHara, Walter Pigeon and a box of hankies ▪︎The Corn is Green (1945) Bette Davis
My girlfriend loves 50's movies and she made me fall in love with singing in the rain.
I don't watch movies anymore, but as a kid it was Heidi.
A Night at the Opera
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World
The Sunshine Boys
Oh, God
Oh, God Book II
Back to the Future and Dead Poets Society
Watched DPS in HS English class, and I bawled my eyes out, so embarassing
The Sound of Music!!!
I’ve recently been watching the Planet of the Apes movies and they’re really good. I saw the first three from the 1968 run so far, taking a little break to watch the new series before getting back to them. But I’ve really enjoyed them so far.
I’m rewatching Beneath right now actually (I’ve watched all 5 before but it was years ago now). I’ve seen the original several times now because it’s so good, the soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith is divine. Shame that there were budget cuts from the sequels; you can definitely notice from the weird fading, fire and lightning effects.
😂 the effects in beneath cracked me up. Crazy how the budget decreased with each subsequent film
Logan's Run, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jason and the Argonauts, Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
Night of the Living Dead and all of Bruce Lee's movies (Enter the Dragon, Way of the Dragon, Game of Death and Fists of Fury, The Big Boss, etc.).
People really liked citizens cane??
Planet of the Apes (1968 version)
I know this is more 80s but any john carpenter movie are some of my favorites
It's not a movie, but I'm enjoying watching Star Trek. I started at TOS, and am currently approaching the end of Voyager.
I also enjoyed Pink Floyd - The Wall, but that's definitely not for everyone.
Fluidic space approved.
Apocalypse Now, hands down.
Cuckoos Nest
The Good the Bad the Ugly
The 400 Blows
The Graduate
Dog Day Afternoon
Taxi Driver
The Long Goodbye
Chinatown
Barry Lyndon
Before the 80s & 90s: Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, Breakfast at Tiffany’s & Grease!
80s & 90s: The Parent Trap (the Lindsay Lohan version reigns supreme), Matilda, A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Pretty Woman, Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Halloween(the franchise but not the ones with the little girl), The Shining, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the Goonies, The Brady Bunch Movies(the ones with Christine Taylor), The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, & Billy Madison
00s-Today: The Hunger Games franchise, Bring it On, Grown Ups, Mean Girls, Step Brothers, Dodgeball, Scary Movie 1&2, The Conjuring universe (besides the Conjuring 3), Silver Linings Playbook, Joy, all 3 High School Musical movies, Brother Bear, Wreck it Ralph, Tangled, Seeing Red, The Barbie Movie, Are You there God, it’s Me Margaret & No Hard Feelings
As a military history fan, I believe the film Zulu is remarkably ahead of its time in its handling of Imperialism, racism, and empire. It's not up to modern standards, but I think it's critical of empire, and the soldiers aren't fighting for some glorified notion of empire. They're the dregs of society dragged into conflict by desperation, fighting for the survival of themselves and the man next to them, while the Zulu warriors used advanced tactics and showed extreme bravery. They contacted actual Zulu tribespeople to use authentic costumes, tactics, weapons, ect.
-Gone with the Wind
-Star Is Born (Judy Garland version)
-Psycho
-Wizard of Oz (not the best story but I have feelings for this movie and think it does has an interesting production)
-The Shining
-Exterminator (made pre-80)
Besides first two, I really don’t think are genius movies but they are really fun to watch.
Planet of the apes
Was just talking abt this in university today (like fr, maybe 3 hours ago xD)
Gone with the Wind and Wuthering Heights are my favorites!!
Gone with the Wind
Gone With the Wind
Meet Me in St. Louis
Miracle on 34th Street
Now, Voyager
Double Indemnity
Mildred Pierce
Holiday Inn
Christmas in Connecticut
Pillow Talk
North by Northwest
ANTR 🔥🔥🔥
A Night To Remember?
The Ox-bow Incident. It’s a 40s western that I first watched in one of my law classes in college. Great movie about false accusations and the dangers of a mob mentality.
Nosferatu, I saw that movie in philosophy class in high school and it has fascinated me ever since.
the thing, planet of the apes, caroline, the blob, tarantula, all the main universal monster movie, casablanca, the graduate, annie hall, broadway danny rose. and probably others i can't think of rn
Haven't seen a lot of old movies but I really liked Strangers On A Train
The End Of Suburbia
smokey and the bandit, friday, 8mile, boyz n the hood, who killed roger rabbit, monty python and the holy grail, Indiana jones series
Clockwork orange, it's a wonderful life.
Jurassic Park
Angels with Dirty Faces, Public Enemy 1931, White Heat, The Lost Weekend.
Kelly’s Heroes
As far as really old movies, It Happened One Night is such a fun movie
Johnny Guitar is a great movie.
There’s a few, but one that quickly comes to mind is the Creature From the Black Lagoon
Blazing Saddles, Airplane
But if we're talking old then stuff like Johnny Got His Gun, To Hell and Back, and I also enjoy Charlie Chaplin's movies and westerns
Animal House, the Monty Python movies, and Blazing Saddles
The Talented Mr. Ripley, mostly because of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Two Lane Blacktop, Dirty Marry Crazy Larry, Vanishing Point, Smokey and the Bandit. Pretty much all old car movies. Hollywood Knights, American Graffiti, Mad Max. They just don’t do car movies as good as these anymore.
texas chainsaw massacre
eraserhead
black orpheus
They're chickens, you just cuttum up, just like regular chickens.
chicken ooze
Forbidden Planet should be in any self-respecting sci-fi dork's next level starter pack.
Hocus Pocus
Twister can't wait for the new one to come out in July
Some like it hot (awesome)
Little shop of horrors
Kiss me Stupid (hilarious)
Nutty Professor (1963,and 1996)
Marty
Mickey
Boys Night Out
The Opposite Sex 1955
Born Yesterday
Valley of Dolls (super sad film)
Manchurian Candidate. Even though its pretty much red scare gobbledygook, it had me on the edge of my seat the whole time, and the story was great
How old? Treasure of the sierra madre, it’s a wonderful life, metropolis
The good, the bad, and the ugly.
Aliens
Wizard of Oz
The Goonies!!!
Back to the future 1 will be my GOAT till the day I die.
Part 2 and 3 are good, but the first one stands on its own very well.
I love some older ww2 movies like “bridge on the river kwai”, “Casablanca”, “the dirty dozen”, and recently I enjoyed “planet of the apes”.
Suspiria (1977). Italian horror film. One of my film major friends showed me it when I was getting into horror.
The Godfather (1972)
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - Story of the title character by the great director David Lean with one of the first films for Peter O'Toole in of a British soldier/outcast who helps lead the arab army during WWI.
CITY LIGHTS - The most romantic and saddest film by Charlie Chaplin
THE THIRD MAN - My favorite ending of all time. An American comes to Marshal Plan Europe to find his best friend, only to find he is dead....or is he? In searching for the truth falls in love with his the girl friend of his buddy. Great Orson Wells film with amazing song attached.
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES - The best film on veterans returning home from war. It is a drama, a love story, an indictment to the struggles our returning vets endure.
THE CONVERSATION - Underated film by Francis Ford Coppola about a paranoid surveilance expert who is asked to track a rich businessman's girl friend. But nothing is as it seems.
THE PARALLAX VIEW - Warren Beatty stars as a reporter who years earlier was at the scene of the assasination of a political canidate. Years later, people at that event are systematically being murdered and he investigates before he too may be on the list. Great conspiracy thriller.
THE SEARCHERS; SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON; FORT APPACHE - I would argue that John Ford better envisioned the american spirit than any other director. His westerns have become cliche, but are actually incredibly nuanced filled with diverse characters and much more complete leading part by Wayne than the general populace gives him credit for. The cinematography of Monument Valley is worth the view on its own merits.
I once got a chance to see The Absent Minded Professor in a theater and I really liked it.
Lawrence of Arabia
Star Wars Empire Strikes Back, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Dirty Harry, & Druken Master
Apocalypse Now Life of Brian Soylent Green The Godfather Deliverance Rear Window Planet of the Apes The Dollar Trilogy Harakiri The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance North By Northwest The Incredible Shrinking Man
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
The Towering Inferno, you have McQueen and Newman 1975
Dr Zhivago...cause it has everything 1965
An American in Paris ( 1951) cause Gene Kelly was the original triple threat
Best Years of our Lives ( 1946) if you haven't seen it yet, I would highly recommend
The Universal Monster movies, Ben-Hur, Wizard of Oz, and the original King Kong are among my favorites.
Kubrick films are held super highly and are still not overrated imo. 2001: A Space Odyssey is my favorite of all time, and The Shining and A Clockwork Orange are goats in their own right
Texas Chainsaw from 1974. I went through a slash/horror phase in middle school, but this one’s the only one that is actually still disturbing when I rewatch it. It’s campy, but damn is it scary as fuck.
12 Angry Men
Godzilla 1954, Star Trek (the whole series), American Graffiti, Top gun.
The Maltese Falcon
12 Angry Men
The Godfather, Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, 2001 Space Odyssey, Psycho
Dollars Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) starring Clint Eastwood.
Blood in blood out
Highlander
Court Jester !
12 Angry Men, it's a masterpiece
Young guns Life of Brian Who framed Roger rabbit
I don't watch movies or TV anymore this is all I can think of.
Edit: I just seen the pre 80s part!
The texas chain saw massacre
00s: No Country for Old Men and Inglorious Basterds
90s: The Shawshank Redemption and Forrest Gump
80s: Full Metal Jacket and Terminator
70s: The Godfather and Dirty Harry
Beetlejuice
Caddyshack!
The great escape
Some Like it Hot (the one with Marilyn Monroe) had some good jokes that wouldn't fly these days 😂
Batman forever (1995).. yes its not the best in terms of SFX and even the plot but the nostalgia I get from watching it is crazy
Anything with Humphrey Bogart in it.
the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Friday the 13th (Original), just to name some.
… grew-up in a family of horror lovers, so I started seeing those movies real young.
Trainspotting is one of my favorite movies. It only came out in 96... but that's almost 30 years ago now, so I guess it qualifies as old
Home Alone 2 Lost in NY, Matilda
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Once upon a time in America
Carnival of Souls is a fantastic psychological horror film from 1962 about paranoia, visions, and features fantastic organ music and an eerie foreboding atmosphere. I highly recommend checking it out.
Casablanca - 1942.
It snagged the top spot from my previous all-time favorite movie, the Shawshank Redemption (1994).
The Muppet Movie, it's such a warm, wholesome movie! The Wizard Of Oz is also such a lovely timeless movie :)
on the other end of the scale: Jaws and Sorcerer, both wonderfully tense (and starring Roy Scheider!)
i'm also a sucker for war movies like Battle Of Britain, A Bridge Too Far, Lawrence Of Arabia (or Zulu and Waterloo if the world wars get a little repetitive lol)
Vertigo
The oldest one that’s my favorite is the breakfast club. I have it on VHS and used to watch it all the time to fall asleep to
Spaceballs (1987) and Young Frankenstein (1974) are both great movies, both Mel Brooks and hilarious
The Flight of the Condor just barely breaks your rule being from 1982, but it's shot in a late 60s early 70s style.
It's an excellent film that covers a realistic CIA conspiracy and shows off a lot of 60s/70s era spy tech - mostly behind the scenes stuff like computers and switchboards.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers. (The remake is awesome but I still live the original as well.)
Great escape
City lights
The Great McGhinty
American Graffiti.
The cars, the soundtrack...
Kelly’s Heroes
Psycho and the Birds.
Snoopy Come Home
Carrie
Imitation of Life
Mommy Dearest
The Last Dragon
Weird Science
Homeward Bound
Iron Giant
Star Wars, Disney Hercules
The Great escape
Das Boot
clash of the Titans
Ben Hur
The land before time; loved that one!!
12 Angry Men. It’s an absolute masterpiece. Seven Samurai is another great one.
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