Old Movies You Actually Like

[Katsumi Yamada]

spaghetti westerns

 

[BisexualMMA]

I agree that the 70s was also great, but the 60s also was re-birth for film as it was the decade when directors finally ditched the "stage feel" and innovated a lot of the stuff that the directors you listed would come to know as fundamentals a few years later, much in the way that the drug induced music of the 60s innovated what is now the fundamentals of rock n' roll. Many genres such as westerns (greatest decade no question), action/war, and horror took their next steps in the 60s. There were a lot of drug movies to be sure, just as there was a lot of psychedlic rock, but I would not say it is fair to use that to represent the decade as a whole.

List of my faves from the 60s (apologies if some are from 1970-71, I did it from memory):


Night Of The Living Dead
Dr. Strangelove
The Dollars Trilogy
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
True Grit
El Dorado
The Comancheros
Hombre
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Magnificent Seven
Hang 'Em High
The Hustler
Easy Rider
The Wild Bunch
2001: A Space Oddysey
Cape Fear
Cool Hand Luke
Planet of the Apes
Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heroes
The Longest Day
Rosemary's Baby
The Great Escape
Where Eagles Dare
Battle of Britain
Guns of Navarone
Mutiny of the Bounty
The Thomas Crown Affair
Bullitt
The Cincinnati Kid
Once Upon A Time In The West
Dr. No
Goldfinger
Dirty Harry
From Russia With Love
The Graduate
Lawrence of Arabia
In The Heat of the Night
Psycho
The Birds

But in the end, the discussion doesn't matter much because I also agree that the 70s were amazing too.

Good list. If you haven't seen them, it sounds like you'd appreciate Fail Safe and Seconds.

 

[EvilDDS]

1965 - The Sound of Music

It still gets played several times a year on TV

 

[Irenaeus]

Old movies can be a little hit and miss to me. A lot of them, even classics, feel dated to the point where I completely have to switch my mindset to appreciate them, but a occasionally, I meet a proper timeless gem where I don't need to put in any effort at all to be actively engaged.

I'd reccomend these two especially, as they are movies I in no way expected to belong in the second category, but both blew me away.

 

[the muntjac]

The Universal monster movies of the 40's and the Hammer Horror remakes of them in the 60's (I think).

 

[sleepwalk]

Are you kidding me?
Fuck yeah, I digs the old shit.

 

[raty tat tat]

King Kong and other stop-motion creature features
The Thing 50's version
Spartacus
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
The French Connection
The 7ups
Bruce Lee movies
The War of the Worlds
30's/40's Universal monster films
Japanese giant monster movies
The Seven Samurai
the Cat People

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

There are so many that i love.

I always tell dudes to transition into old cinema by watching something like The Killers (1946) because it has a modern coolness to it. White Heat would work similarly. Then you'd be ready for some other cool films Noir like The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, or The Third Man. Eventually the older sensibilities - like stagey acting, orchestral scores - get lost on you.

Or you can just watch one of the undeniably fantastic films like 12 Angry Men or On the Waterfront. There are so many.

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

Most of them.

I mean the cadence and delivery is a little weird at first but the stories and and cinematography is usually on point.

This is what sucked me into it.

Once upon a time you could make a movie called Alien about a horrific alien...because no one got to do it yet. Or a shark movie called Jaws...

These oldies are movies that were created because so many fresh story ideas were still available to them. They didn't need to lean on gimmicks to get your attention. Pure storytelling.

And then when you notice a now-cliche while watching then, it is a much cooler experience than seeing it in a movie made 40+ years later.

 

[Hoof Hearted]

Here's a few (up to early 70's).. haven't read other posts, sorry if some have already been mentioned.,

10 Rillington Place (1971)
Amazing film based on a true story about a serial killer in London.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The shitty remake didn't do it justice.

3 10 To Yuma (1957) and True Grit (1969)
The remakes were good, but the orginals were even better.

Don't Look Now (1973)
Very tense psychological thriller - don't read about the ending before watching it!

Badlands (1973)
Awesome Terrence Malick film about a couple that go on a killing spree.

Psycho (1960)
Classic film.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
One of the greatest western's ever made.

The Wicker Man (1973)
Ignore the remake, this is so much more creepy and tense and has Britt Ekland n it!

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

true grit, the searchers, wizard of oz, its a wonderful life... I like I love lucy and all in the family also

 

[CrimsonFan]

I don't dislike films based on when they came out.

I enjoy older films. Quite a bit actually.

I don't like silent films, that's where I draw the line. I'm sure just the picture was entertaining enough back then.. I need dialoge.

 

[punkmother]

there are a shitload of westerns all men would (should) enjoy. a lesser known one is 'winchester 73.'

 

[Agent Mulder's Hair]

 

[Daniel Fox]

What's the one they were watching in Juice where the guy says "Top of the world, Ma!" and Tupac keeps quoting it?

"White Heat", a great film!

 

[dc007]

I love old movies. There generally much better than the schlock hollywood has been putting out the few decades.

Citizen Kane
Touch of Evil
North By Northwest
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Psycho
Rear Window
Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mocking Bird
etc, etc, etc

 

[ReAnimator Reagan]

Now I should specify "old," because I know there are some young ones on this site for whom 90's is old. But I'm talking in the '60s or earlier.

Honestly, I've almost never enjoyed an old movie, other than some Hitchcock like Rearview Mirror and Psycho. I found Birds and Vertigo to be terribly boring (although, fun fact, I stayed at the hotel in the movie in Vertigo, which is now itself called Vertigo).

Any other good classic films you actually enjoy?

Vertigo is awesome

The Innocents (the black and white one) is good as well

Casablanca is pretty good

Oh, and Persona <--- that is a fucking movie

 

[chickenluver]

Frankenstein
Freaks
Baby Face

 

[Strychnine]

Sergeant York.

 

[chickenluver]

dat pre-60's top 10

The 400 Blows
Brief Encounter
Rififi
M
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Bob Le Flambeur
The Third Man
Nights of Cabiria
Ace in the Hole
Fires on the Plain

Pre-60s top 10 I like that idea, let's see

Citizen Kane
Frankenstein
Julius Caesar
The Lady Eve
Late Spring
Rashomon
Rear Window
Tokyo Story
Throne of Blood
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

From your list I've seen 400 Blows, M, Third Man, Nights of Cabiria, and Ace in the Hole, all good movies, especially The Third Man.