classic films

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imn

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this is my year for watching old films on channels like tcm could anyone help with some pre 1990 films worth looking out for have decided its time to start
 
Don't narrow it down too much for us or anything ;) :D

What kind of genre are you looking for? Sci-fi, Horror, Drama, Action, War, etc, etc...
 
If your wanting some classic films to see then look out for

Midnight express, Papillon, Midnight cowboy. Ferris buellers day off, The breakfast club, The italian job , One flew over the cuckoos nest
 
a few suggestions:
Akira (1988); 2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968); Chinese Ghost Story, (1987); Abyss, The (2 Discs) (1989); Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; Airplane! (1980); Killer, The (1989; Lupin III - The Castle of Cagliostro (1979); Alien (1979); Aliens (1985); Mr. Vampire (1985); All the President's Men (1976) Back To The Future Trilogy (1985-1990); Better off Dead (1985); Beverly Hills Cop (1984) Seven Samurai; Blazing Saddles (1974); Blues Brothers, The (1980); Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983); Cannonball Run, The (1981) Cat Ballou (1965); Clockwise (1986); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1978); Convoy (1978); Crocodile Dundee II (1986); Dangerous Liaisons (1988);Day of the Jackal (1973); Dernier Metro, Le (1980) Desperado (1995) DiamonRAB Are Forever (1971) Die Another Die Hard (1988); Dirty Harry (1971); Escape from Athena (1979); Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986); Field of Dreams (1989); Get Carter (1971); The Good, The Bad and The Ugly; Le Grand Bleu; Grease; The Great Race (1965) Gremlins; Gremlins 2 - The New Batch; Grosse Point Blank; The Hallelujah Trail (1965); Highlander; Indiana Jones Trilogy (1981-1989; Into the Night (1985); The Italian Job (1968); It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Jaws (1975) Jaws 2 (1978); Lethal Weapon (Director's Cut); Local Hero (1983); The Long Good Friday, The (1980); M (1931) A Matter of Life and Death; Mean Streets; Midnight Run; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Moonraker; Murder by Decree (1979); My Name Is Nobody; The Name of the Rose (1986) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) North Sea Hijack; Octopussy (1983); Oliver! (1968); Once Upon A Time in the West (1968); Paris, Texas (1984); Patton (1970); The Poseidon Adventure (1972); Predator (1987); The Princess Brid; Rififi (1955); Rio Bravo (1959); Robocop (1987); The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975); Saturday Night Fever (1977); Singin' in the Rain (1952); The Spy Who Loved Me (1977); Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (1982) ;Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home (1986); Star Wars (1977); Return of the Jedi (1983) The Empire Strikes Back (1980); The Stunt Man (1980); Sunset Boulevard (1950); Superman (1978); Take The Money and Run; The Taking of Pelhalm 123; The Terminator; Time Bandits; Tremors; The Untouchables: Walkabout; Wall Street; Weird Science (1985); Without a Clue (1988); The Wiz (1978) The Wizard of Oz (1939); Young Frankenstein
 
here's a few :

apocalypse now
godfather trilogy
midnight cowboy
bonnie and clyde
the taking of pelham 123
don't look now
annie hall
manhattan
play it again sam
its a wonderful life
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
taxi driver
12 angry men
the man who would be king
the deer hunter
all the president's men
brazil
birdy
close encounters of the third kind
the big easy
heathers
life of brian
wings of desire
papillion
some like it hot

Iain
 
my fav actor but i have to say this film isn't that great.. if you read the book it is a very complex crime story.. watch the film and try and work out what is actually going on ?

i'd recomment watching The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep and White Heat
 
thanks for the suggestions shall be looking out for as many as many as i can find taped the original get carter the other night going to watch it soon
 
an update on my old movies seen sofar this year include apocalypse now
get carter
italianjob
flight of the phoenis
10
where eagles dare
gentlemen preferblondes

and tonight think ill watch diner
 
As well as all the obvious choices above (not knocking them, by the way), I've been watching old Italian movies recently.

"The Monsters" by Dino Risi should be up there somewhere. It features Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi - has there ever been a better comic duo since Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau? I've never seen "The Monsters" on the box, so it's down to the DVD shop for this one.

While you're there, look for "Ugly, Dirty and Bad" by Ettore Scola - a sort of "Steptoe and Son" set in a shantytown outside Rome. Vicious humour.

Michael
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the show loaRAB of Humphrey Bogart on TCM, Key Largo, the Maltese Falcon, treasure of Sierra Madre, try Night of the Hunter which is always on as well, All about Eve, loaRAB of Cagney films, etc...

there is loaRAB of classics on this channel, probably why it's called classic movies :cool:
 
some good classic movies are :

The Great Escape
The Italian Job
Scarface
Platoon
Zulu
Forrest Gump
The Shawshank Redemption (not sure how old that is tho)

:)
 
The Shining is indeed a classic.

However, I feel that Jack Nicholson's best role (personally) is 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' and if you haven't seen that yet you should make it your next film to watch on your classics list!

Whilst I found it dull as dishwater, people have also gone wild for Jack Nicholson's other '70s classic 'Chinatown' as well...
 
Nicholson has had so many good roles its really hard to choose the best. There's Randall McMurphy in Cuckoo's Nest and Jack Torrance in the Shining, sure, but who can forget Colonel Jessop from A Few Good Men, or the Joker in Batman, or Melvin in As Good As It Gets? There are few actors that have created so many brilliant characters in my opinion.
 
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