Old Classics - please recommend

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I'm into Old Classics now, have seen some of the Italian, French and American ones. Can someone recommend? I prefer movies I missed in the 60s and 70s.

Big thanks in advance!

How about Kind Hearts and Coronets, it is a 1940s black and white film. Please everyone for goodness sake do not try to put the ideas of the film (murdering people so you get to the top) into actions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_Hearts_and_Coronets

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How about some of those old Clint Eastwood Westerns like -A Fistful of Spaghetti-.

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Have you seen "The Garden of the Fintzi-Continis?" I loved that film. While it was made in the 1970's, it is set in the 1930's. Directed by Vittorio De Sica.

I know you specifically said the 60s and 70s and I'll get to them in a minute...

but...

Have you watched some of the really old films;

It's a Wonderful Life (1946 - 130 Mins)
Great Dictator, The (1940 - 119 Mins)
Modern Times (1936 - 83 Mins)
Freaks (1932 - 59 Mins)
Vampyr: Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932 - 65 Mins)
M (1931 - 120 Mins)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 - 128 Mins)
College (1927 - 62 Mins)
Metropolis (1927 - 118 Mins)
Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies (1927)
General, The (1926 - 78 Mins)
Gold Rush, The (1925 - 68 Mins)
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror (1922 - 80 Mins)
Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The (Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Das) (1920 - 73 Mins)
Golem, Der (1920 - 64 Mins)

As promised, here are some 60s and 70s films...
Some are weird and I've included a wide variety of styles - not all will be to your tastes.

I've tried to avoid mainstream films but have had to include a couple of obvious classics like Mad Max and Taxi Driver.
I'd also have included a lot more Woody Allen and Mel Brooks - since this is their classic period, but I didn't want to go too mainstream.

The list is generally in year order and includes some Australian classics too.

Being There (1979 - 129 Mins)
Caligula (Caligola) (1979 - 101 Mins)
Castle of Cagliostro (Lupin the Third), The (Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro) (1979 - 95 Mins)
Frisco Kid, The (1979 - 122 Mins)
Mad Max (1979 - 88 Mins)
Manhattan (1979 - 92 Mins)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979 - 102 Mins)
Plumber, The (1979 - 78 Mins - Full Frame)
Time After Time (1979 - 111 Mins)
Tin Drum, The (Die Blechtrommel) (1979 - 136 Mins)
Woyzeck (1979 - 77 Mins)
Against the Wind (1978 - 620 Mins - Full Frame)
Capricorn One (1978 - 103 Mins - P&S)
Coma (1978 - 112 Mins)
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978 - 99 Mins)
Magic (1978 - 107 Mins - Full Frame)
Midnight Express (1978 - 116 Mins)
Newsfront (1978 - 106 Mins)
Patrick (1978 - 108 Mins - P&S)
Watership Down (1978 - 88 Mins)
Annie Hall (1977 - 89 Mins)
Deep, The (1977 - 119 Mins)
Suspiria (1977 - 94 Mins)
Silent Movie (1976 - 83 Mins)
Taxi Driver (1976 - 109 Mins)
Deep Red (Profondo rosso) (1975 - 126 Mins)
Sugarland Express, The (1974 - 105 Mins)
Zardoz (1974 - 101 Mins)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1973 - 94 Mins - Full Frame)
Don't Look Now (1973 - 105 Mins)
Sleeper (1973 - 88 Mins)
Wicker Man, The (1973 - 84 Mins)
Panda! Go Panda! (Panda kopanda) (1972 - 75 Mins - Full Frame)
Andromeda Strain, The (1971 - 125 Mins)
Bananas (1971 - 78 Mins)
Harold and Maude (1971 - 81 Mins)
Omega Man, The (1971 - 94 Mins)
THX 1138 (1971 - 84 Mins)
Witchfinder General (1968 - 82 Mins)
Alfie (1966 - 130 Mins)
Closely Observed Trains (Ostre sledované vlaky) (1966 - 88 Mins - Full Frame B/W )
Peeping Tom (1960 - 97 Mins)

Here is a list of my favorite movies not not necessarily in this order. Some are from the sixties and seventies but some are not, take your pick. If I had to name one thing they all have in common it would be that they all question accepted beliefs of people at the time and are fun to watch. If you want to be depressed then that would be another list entirely.


Blade Runner, The Matrix, Equlibrium, The Wizard of Oz, Metropolis, Brazil, Pleasantville, The Seven Samurai, Stardust Memories, Dark City, Silent Running, Idiocracy, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Rear Window, North By Northwest, Vertigo, The Maltese Falcon, Rashomon, Run Lola Run, Kill Bill, The Seventh Seal, Eraserhead, Sanjuro, THX 1138, Fargo, Annie Hall, Arsenic and Old Lace, Groundhog Day, Horse Feathers, Network, The Pink Panther, Shaun of the Dead, Sin City, Tremors, “Suna No Onna”, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Yojimbo, Terminator, Barbarella, His Girl Friday,

Thanks Coadunate, I got 13 out of your list I haven't seen yet... (Equlibrium, The Seven Samurai, Stardust Memories, Idiocracy, The Maltese Falcon, Rashomon, Sanjuro, Arsenic and Old Lace, Horse Feathers, Network, “Suna No Onna”, Yojimbo, His Girl Friday). Most were already on my other lists of things to watch but a couple, I'd not heard of at all.

OMG, I'm feasting here!! !!

And any decade is good, not necessarily sixties and seventies. It's just that in those decades I was too little to go to the movies my parents kept glorifying and I'm unusually curious about those.

Hartz, I'd love to see that movie. But t's one of the several wonderful movies I can't watch because I can't watch graphic Holocaust scenes without fainting. I'd even rent it to watch just the beginning... Where would you say in the movie I should stop watching?

Great, then! It was one of my first choices but I had passed on it, so I'll be sure to watch it, thanks!

Greentea,

Is it just Holocaust scenes or is it violence/gore in general?

We don't have a big Jewish population in Australia (or it's not obvious - I don't know which), so our sensitivities over here are probably all wrong.

In any case, there are some films in or about the holocaust that need to be watched - "Life is Beautiful" being a good example.

There are other films which have Swastikas in them (is that offensive - I really don't know) like "Twin Sisters" which are also very thought-provoking. I can't tell if that particular film would be offensive or not because I just don't have a frame of reference.

I just watched a couple clips on YouTube and I've changed my mind - it's extremely frightening to me, even from the very beginning. I can't watch any violence, especially Holocaust and torture. I don't mind Hollywood bang-bang with catchup, though.

Arsenic and Old Lace, and (I think) His Girl Friday are classics; non-stop good lines, humor, etc. Get the Cary Grant ones, they're the best.

Here are some movies I like...forgive me if I start to ramble.

I like Kurosawa's films...

The Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
(both of these movies were highly influential on the spaghetti westerns of the sixties)
Sanjuro (sequel to Yojimbo)
Rashomon (interesting movie about different perspectives)

These films can be pretty violent, so you may want to investigate them further before watching them.

I also like film noir...

The Big Sleep (one of my favorites...I love the witty banter)
The Maltese Falcon (another good one for the dialogue)
Double Indemnity (great movie...originated film noir as well as many dramatic devices used in later films)
Laura (up near the top of my list, if not at the top...very good movie)
Bad Day at Black Rock (really good movie, focuses on prejudice)

There's some violence in these movies, but it's more implied than explicit. There's some punching and hitting. If someone gets shot they usually just show him clutching his stomach and falling down.

Not exactly film noir, but the Thin Man series is excellent! I love watching these movies...very entertaining.

There's a really good spoof movie from the 70s (I think) that I like called "Murder By Death." It makes fun of the mystery movies from the 1930s-1940s, poking fun at Charlie Chan, the Thin Man series, Poirot, as well as the Sam Spade/Phillip Marlowe-type private detectives. If I'm not mistaken Paul Simon wrote it (not Paul Simon of Simon and Garfunkel fame...the playwright Paul Simon).

Edit: I was mistaken. Neil Simon wrote it.

Another good movie is "Around the World in 80 Days," the version with David Niven. Along similar lines I could also suggest the original version of "The Time Machine."

If you don't mind silent films, I could also suggest any movie featuring Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton (though I'd prefer Keaton).

That's about all I can think of for right now. If any come to mind later I'll post them.