Classic, "Must See" movies?

[Kathleen04]

What are some good classic movies? Classic meaning both older films and movies that just have an awesome "I can't believe you haven't seen that movie, it's a classic!" type quality.

Help me fill up my Netflix queue! ;)

[Meshuga]

1. Dr.Strangelove

One of my all time favorites.

[Kathleen04]

3. Oo, I've actually got that one on the queue already

It'll probably come sometime next week. :)

[Jon8503]

2. Kathleen if Netflex has "Before Sunrise", get it, then go see the

one that is out now, "Before Sunset" still the same writer and the same cast 9 years later. Believe me great movie(s). Sunset is a continuation of Sunrise.

[Nightowl_2004]

4. To Kill a Mockibird

But, as always, the book is much better...

[sendero]

22. The first movie I ever saw...

... that really got to me. I saw it in San Antonio visiting an aunt when I was about 10. What an incredible movie.

[Jean Louise Finch]

70. Seconding

Oh, yes, it's just beautiful.

The book is my favorite thing ever written (hence my name here), but the movie is brilliant and, I think, one of the best adaptations to screen of all time. Probably not least of all because Harper Lee was pretty closely involved in the whole thing. I don't think it's possible to imagine someone other than Gregory Peck as Atticus. It's quite remarkable, in fact, that he filled that role so incredibly spot on. Made me a fan for life.

My great fear is that someone someday is going to think "hey we should make a remake" and get Vin Diesel or some such nonsense as Atticus. The horror would be too much to bear.

[DS1]

5. "classic"

Broken Blossoms
The Casket of Dr. Caligari
Breathless
City Lights

[Kathleen04]

Thanks for the suggestions!

There are actually 2 movies called Breathless, approx. what year is the one you're talking about?

[DS1]

21. this one

French New Wave movement in cineman - some would just call it another type of movement if you catch my drift - but you can see its influence in later movies here and there

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/

[Kathleen04]

24. Thanks

I will add it!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

26. Love Both "Breathless" & "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"

I really like Godard-"My Life to Live" is also a good movie

[eaprez]

6. Mr Smith Goes to Washington

my all time favorite!

[Kathleen04]

10. Love that movie!

I actually OWN that one. :)

[name not needed]

7. This is Spinal Tap

But these go to 11

[unblock]

8. the sting

probably the best all-around movie ever.

[pippin]

9. Casablanca

Rear Window
Citizen Kane
Rashamon
To Kill a Monkingbird
Roman Holiday
Ran
The African Queen
Streetcar Named Desire
High Noon
From Here to Eternity
etc., etc.,

[eaprez]

13. WOW! I own all those - I think we're a match!!!!!

[eaprez]

11. The Rope

[faithnotgreed]

12. double indemnity, harold & maude, jesus of nazareth, amargosa

gentlemans agreement, odd man out, gone with the wind, babe (not a classic because its only 10 yo but a fantastic movie), woodstock, pillow talk, captains courageous, the castle (australian), to kill a mockingbird


only a few of my most favorites!

[CatWoman]

14. My list

1. All About Eve (Betty Davis)

2. Mildred Pierce (Joan Crawford)

3. The Killers (Film Noir -- Ronald Reagan, Angie Dickinson, Lee Marvin, Klu Gallager)

4. Fail Safe (Walter Mattau, Henry Fonda)

5. From the Terrace (Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward)

[faithnotgreed]

oh yeah! how could i forget "all about eve" & "mildred pierce"

along with barbara stanwyck, those women pretty much set the standard

[Kathy in Cambridge]

33. I LOVE "All About Eve"

Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night"

[ropi]

57. eve and all about my mother

If you watch or know All about Eve..then you should watch or enjoy watching TODO SOBRE DE MI MADRE (ALMADOVAR).

[Kathy in Cambridge]

61. I own "all about my mother"

it's one of my favorites

[ibegurpard]

60. I never get tired of watching it.

It's great!

[pbg]

Highly touted classic movies that live up to their rep

Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Bringing up Baby
To Kill A Mockingbird
La Dolce Vita
Abel Gance's Napoleon
Duck Soup
Ingmar Bergman's Persona
The Grapes of Wrath

...all IMHO, of course

[no_hypocrisy]

15. "Saving Grace". Admittedly a sleeper but "must see".

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6300147967/categoricalgeome/ref%3Dnosim/002-6872801-8257605

Imagine the Pope wishing he could resign, he gets his wish, and he goes off to a poor village in Italy on a mission unknown to him. Stars Tom Conti in one of his best roles, and Giancarlo Giannini.

And treat yourself to "A Face in the Crowd" with Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, and Walter Matthau, directed by Elia Kazan.

[salvorhardin]

30. There's another Saving Grace

that's quite good.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0195234

[Hardcore KY Dem]

16. I have a couple for this one

Ok, i tend to watch a lot of movies and being that im only 22 but have a DVD and VHS collection pushing 1200 movies......i guess i can chime in on this.

Number 1 movie everyone should be forced to watch at least once: Schindlers List

Number 2 movie everyone should be forced to watch at least once: Dr. Stangelove


The list goes on for a while but those two are the ones everyone should watch. If you wanna break it down into catagories.

Sci-fi - The Abyss
Horror - Alien
Comedy - the above mentioned Dr. Stranglove
Action - The Matrix (yeah its new but it broke a lot of ground)
Animated - Ghost in the Shell (out of Japan)


I really hate to break them up into groups like that. There are just too many to really put into different lists so everyone just watch what you like and Im sure that at some point you will find something you think is the best movie.

[baldguy]

17. "The Best Years of Our Lives"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/

Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews

Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

8½ stars

[miss_kitty]

23. "The Best Years of Our Lives" this is a fab movie

i cry when i see it, and i've seen it quite a few times...a masterpiece...

[MrSandman]

18. Seven Days in May...

or how to use national security to create a coup.

Burt Lancaster & Kirk Douglas

Also...Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck.

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. Try these

M

The Big Blue

Sanjuro

The Magnificent Seven

[miss_kitty]

20. Philadelphia Story

42nd Street (Birth of the musical and the seminal "sweet extra gains stardom" flick!)
Holiday (Hepburn and Grant do their own stunts!)
His Girl Friday (Fast talking Classic)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) (3 Words Hi-Larry-Us!)
Blonde Venus (Pre-Hayes risque! Dietrich as a prostitute w/ kid, Cary Grant as her bf)
None But the Lonely Heart (Cary Grant should've gotten an Oscar here)
Love Affair (1939) (the Original "An Affair to Remember"-the best IMHO, because i Hated the 50's and didn't bother w/ the 90's re-remake)
My Man Godfrey (comedy about class-as in upper and servant Lombard and Wm Powell)

[faithnotgreed]

29. holiday & philadelphia story. definitely

[dolo amber]

25. Raising Arizona

is the most perfect movie ever made...that's not to say it's the best, but from the casting to the set to the music to the dialogue...every aspect of it is perfection. :D

AND it's hysterically funny. :7

[baldguy]

32. Well, then I guess I am telling you what you want to hear.

"Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?"

Yes, sir.

"Okay, then."

[ropi]

27. my list

All About Eve

Annie Hall

Bullets over Broadway (still makes me laugh)

Psycho

Rear Window

The Apartment


Hope you like subtitles!

The Three Colors Trilogy (Blue, White, Red)

The Dreamlife of Angels

The Piano Teacher
Rashoman

Persona

Cries and Whispers

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The Battleship Potemkin

The Apu Trilogy

Belle du Jour

The Bicycle Thief

[short bus president]

28. Kurosawa's "Dreams"

It's a stunning visual work, and it features the single creepiest scene every put to video, unless you wanna count the furry guy in asthmaticeog's sig line.

[stavka]

34. yeah - that's a much see

The Post Restoration Japanese attempt at art is about in line with the German's attempt to post 1933 art...

"Form" is crap - if you have to explain to an audience why you should like any given media - it's crap!

That's not to say Kurosawa wasn't doing the best with what he could - hell, me wrote Star Wars, but please - these movies suck unless you are a serious flim/english student

PS: FLIM Springfield

[stavka]

36. If you really belive that...you don't watch enough film

"the single creepiest scene every put to video"

By current standards - who cares....

[Safi]

31. Just a few suggestions...

Not necessarily classics, but great movies that I've seen, off the top of my head...

1. The Devil's Advocate
2. Magnolia
3. Manchurian Candidate (old one, haven't seen the new one)
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
5. American Beauty
6. Requiem of a Dream

Just off the top of my head. Hafta point out that Magnolia was probably the best movie I've ever seen, with respect to the production and direction, Requiem of a Dream is a close second.

-Safi

[Kathy in Cambridge]

35. I just saw he new Manchurian Candidate last night

unfortunately, I kept comparing it to the original. It was a pretty good movie in its own right-Denzel was awesome-but the original is just spectacular.

[BensMom]

37. classics

I love Hitchcock and nominate Vertigo


Try Taming of the Shrew and The Graduate

[Kathleen04]

38. Wow everyone!

Thanks! This will probably keep me busy for a year!

Feel free to keep 'em comin'. :)

[bobbieinok]

39. Bringing Up Baby, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder

Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, Arsenic and Old Lace

Mutiny on the Bounty (first one with Franchet Tone)

National Velvet (first E Taylor movie...she was ca 14)

[Mr. Blonde]

40. Why has no one mentioned

The Godfather? The entire trilogy, although compared to the first two the third is only so so.

I'm not big into older films, but on the must see list is:

The Shawshank Redemeption
Patton
Once Upon a Time in the West
All Tarantino Films
Coen Brothers Films
Kevin Smith Films
And the Led Zeppelin DVD (excused if you saw them in concert) :)

[Kathleen04]

41. The Godfather..

Thanks for suggesting this one, I've actually never seen it.."you've never seen the Godfather!!!" ;) Yep, that's definately the type of movie I'm looking for.

[Nevernose]

44. Heretic! Blasphemer!

[Mr. Blonde]

45. You've Never Seen The Godfather!?!

I'm appalled :) It took me some time to warm up to the crime genre and this is what did it. The first scene from the first movie sucks me in and I can't leave until it is over.

[ghostsofgiants]

66. ...

I saw The Godfather for the first time a few days ago. Honestly, I was disappointed.

[MercutioATC]

42. "The Breakfast Club"

...sums up an entire decade.

[Nevernose]

43. N by NW, Treasure of Sierra Madre, Maltese Falcon, Lion in Winter

Anything by Hitchcock, especially North by Northwest, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, The Lion in Winter.

The Lion in Winter vies w/ North by Northwest as my all-time favorite film.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

46. Harold and Maude..Hal Ashby's best

[Renew Deal]

47. Saving Ryans Privates

[Kathleen04]

49. lol

:spank:

[AbbeyRoad]

48. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The Night of the Hunter
Jane Eyre with Orson Welles as Mr. Rochester
Rebecca
Notorious

[jpgray]

65. Don't talk about our son, Martha (nt)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

50. Ninotchka.

From the great movie year of 1939. Starring Greta Garbo and Melvin Douglas.
Have you seen it? It's a romantic comedy.

[Kathleen04]

52. Haven't seen it

and Netflix doesn't have it :(, I'll have to look for it.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

53. It's wonderful!

Check it out. The drunk scene is great. I also love the 3 comrades in supporting roles.

[Paul Hood]

51. Ordinary People and

"The Ice Storm" from whence I drew my name. If you like messed up families, which seem to be my favorites.

[Kenneth ken]

71. messed up families?

Long Day's Journey Into Night should be on your list.

[ReadTomPaine]

54. The Americanization of Emily - (1964)

Great antiwar film. I recommend everyone take a look at this one.

RTP

[barb162]

55. A Man For All Seasons

[ropi]

56. oh, excellent

and i forgot that one!

Ooh..and the Lion in Winter....

on Edit.. Sofia Coppola's THE VIRGIN SUICIDES

[alittlelark]

58. Armageddon - yeah, weird choice

but I watch it almost every time hubby leaves town.

[Ramsey]

59. Lawrence of Arabia

But get the new digitally remastered DVD version. it is stunning.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

63. Wow. It sure is.

Great film and gorgeous to view.

[sam sarrha]

62. 1937 the Good Earth

[sam sarrha]

64. U got to see 'Deep Throat' with your girlfriend..

[LosinIt]

67. Three Days of the Condor

Robert Redford

[ghostsofgiants]

68. ...

Some modern classics you should see (bear in mind that my taste in movies leans toward the strange):
- Fight Club
- Magnolia
- 28 Days Later
- Lost Highway
- Mulholland Drive
- Donnie Darko
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Not so modern classics:
- Dr. Strangelove, or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- A Clockwork Orange
- Rosemary's Baby
- Apocalypse Now Redux
- Eraserhead
- Brazil
- Blade Runner
- Rashômon

[jpgray]

69. I'll give you some with one of my dad's favorite actors

To Kill A Mockingbird
Guns of Navarone
Roman Holiday
The Big Country

[Kenneth ken]

72. things I haven't seen on this list yet:

Strangers On A Train - Hitchcok
On The Waterfront - Brando
Streetcar Named Desire - Brando
Key Largo - Bogart & Bacall
To Have and Have Not - Bogart & Bacall
Giant - Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Rock Hudson
A Night At The Opera - Marx Brothers

I'm a big fan of Hitchcock, also Bogart, and The Brothers Marx.