Can you recommend any old films?

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DSiRoxx

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I'll admit for most of my life I wasn't really a film person. I saw the odd few, the blockbusters, the ones everyone talks about and the ones I watched as a kid like Disney films etc.

But recently I have been raiding my mum's collection, and I've discovered so many amazing movies. They weren't even hidden gems either, some of them were big deals - West Side Story - Why did my mother not force me to watch this? I was captivated, and amazingly I knew most of the songs too!

Anyway, I reckon I've watched more films in the last month than I have in the last five years. I want to discover some more though, real classics. After watching all of James Dean's films I'm quite interested in the fifties style.

Are there any you'd definitely recommend?
 
some others

old marlon brando stuff

- a streetcar named desire
- one eyed jacks
- on the waterfront

paul newman
- cool hand luke (is that too well known)

the jolson story (is great)

yankee doodle dandy (cagney)

guess who's coming to dinner (tracy/hepburn)
and indeed any other tracy/hepburn film

in the heat of the night (poitier)

hellzapoppin
 
Just a few of my personal faves!

Brief Encounter
Duck Soup
Citizen Kane
Bringing Up Baby
Some Like It Hot
Black Narcissus
La Belle et la Bete
It's a Wonderful Like
The Hunchback of Notredame (1939)
All that Heaven Allows
Gone With the Wind
 
Reading through this fantastic list of golden oldies, Blimey!! you people certainly know your movies! Quite a few of my own favs are amongst them which isnt surprising cos many of them are classics!

Funny enough, whilst demolishing a bottle of cognac last Sunday evening, I watched a classic from 1958, Room At The Top, starring Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, and the incredibly sexy French actress Simone Signoret.

Still a great movie to watch despite its terribly dated look.
 
Revisiting this thread six months on I must thank you for letting me know what to look out for. I've seen quite a few of these now. I've fallen in love with some of them straight off, I watched An American In Paris last month, Gene Kelly is an incredible dancer.

One of my favourites so far is All About Eve, I adore Bette Davis and it made me check out several more of her films. Same thing when I watched An Affair To Remember, made me look out for anything Cary Grant - in fact I've bought quite a few of his now. Got Cat On A Hot Tin Roof coming from Amazon at the moment along with another few Marlon Brando classics. It was definitely worth it asking you guys! :)
 
Seven Samurai (was able to see it at the cinema that plays old releases - one of the greatest movies ever)
All about Eve
The Band Wagon
Gigi
+ the ones Omah mentioned
 
Some more that I like :

The Cruel Sea
Bad Day At Black Rock
The Man Who Never Was
The Seven Year Itch
Blue Murder At St Trinians
Ice Cold In Alex
Niagara
The Big Heat
Hell Drivers

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Scaries
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane
The BirRAB
Duel

Comedy/adventures
Monte Carlo Or Bust
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

Musicals
Finian's Rainbow
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

Weepies
Who Will Love My Children

Classics
The Four Feathers
The Wilmslow Boy
 
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Cool Hand Luke
Inn of the sixth Happiness
One flew over the Cuckoos nest
Rebecca
Hush, Hush sweet Charlotte
It's a wonderful life
Guess who's coming to dinner?
Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf?
The Maltese Falcon
The Railway children
Carve her name with Pride
 
Films with SPENCER TRACY and KATHERINE HEPBURN:
ADAM'S RIB
WOMAN OF THE YEAR
PAT AND MIKE
STATE OF THE UNION
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THE WOMEN - dir. George Cukor (1939)
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Anything directed by FRANK CAPRA and POWELL & PRESSBURGER
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Comedies with DORIS DAY
 
Pretty much anything by Hitchcock
- Strangers on a Train
- Rope
- Rebecca

The Prisoner of Zenda
Beau Brummel
(I'm a tiny bit of a Stewart Granger fan!)

The Searchers

Sunset Boulevard
Aunt Mame
 
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