What is your favorite older movie or movies?

[UnknownGunslinger]

Classics that I love in no particular order:

12 Angry Men (1957)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
On the Beach (1959)
The Time Machine (1960)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Rear Window (1954)
Rope (1948)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)

You know if you dig sci-fi, courtroom dramas and psychopaths

 

[The Serpent]

Wow, "Older movie" is treated pretty loosely in this thread. Mine is of course Star Wars. Wasn't born until long after it came out, but it changed my life (I'm not just saying that).

 

[xdom125x]

I'm guessing "older" is meaning anything pre-90's
Off the top of my head:

Star Wars Episodes 4 and 5
The Untouchables (the 1987 one)
The Back to the Future trilogy (okay, the last one came out in 1990, but I'll fudge my rule a little)
The first and third Indiana Jones
The Goonies
Gremlins

 

[Syphous]

Shit, now I feel old. First time for everything I guess.

 

[aba1]

Fantasia is the best movie ever.

I've watched it roughly 50 times and it is still entertaining.

I used to love that movie the end with satan and all the souls traveling after used to scare the snot outta me

 

[aba1]

Wow, "Older movie" is treated pretty loosely in this thread. Mine is of course Star Wars. Wasn't born until long after it came out, but it changed my life (I'm not just saying that).

at first I was about to disagree with you then I scrolled up a little and read more posts and man are you right half these movies are from the 90's or 80's which is a little old but its hardly a old movie I was thinking early 80's n back

 

[Carbonyl]

It Happened One Night. Truly excellent and hilarious.

Anything with Katharine Hepburn is generally excellent. Or Cary Grant doing back-flips.

 

[ronald1840]

My Top 10 Fav's

1) DOGTOOTH

2) The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
3) Blade Runner
4) Raiders of the lost ark
5) Videodrome
6) Metropolis
7) A Clockwork Orange
8) Paprika
9) Spirited Away
10) 28 Weeks Later

 

[Zorak the Mantis]

I love good film, they don't make good movies like they used to. Here's a quick list of favorites off the top of my head, I tried to keep it pre-2001. Not in any particular order.

Star Wars Trilogy
K-Pax
Little Big Man
Jeremiah Johnson
The Sting
The Ghost and the Darkness
Waterworld
Dances with Wolves
Mad Max
Indiana Jones
Casablanca
Gone With the Wind
James Bond
Lawrence of Arabia
Bridge Over the River Kwai
The Rocketeer
Predator
Judge Dredd
Full Metal Jacket
Top Gun
Pulp Fiction
Resevoir Dogs
Usual Suspects
Clerks
Mallrats
Dogma
The Eiger Sanction
Dirty Harry
Good, Bad, and the Ugly
As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me
The North Face
Bladerunner
Becket
A Man for All Seasons
The Lion in Winter

 

[Scarim Coral]

Let see (at the top of my head before the 90's or early 90's)-

Aliens
Predator
Die Hard
Back to the Future
Forrest Gump
Shawshank redemption
Aladdin
Top Gun
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars (4-6)
Naked Gun
Hot Shot 2
Indiana Jones
The Goonies
Cinema Paradisco
Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
James Bond: You only lived twice
Project A
Karated Kid 1
Transformers The Movie

 

[Susan Arendt]

I would probably go with Stand By Me, Tron, Psycho (The original), The Usual Suspects, and From Russia with Love

Aside from Psycho and From Russia With Love, how are any of those 'old'?! Tron isn't even thirty...

OT: Ben-Hur, Spartacus, the Longest Day, Tora! Tora! Tora!, the Odd Couple, Goodbye Mr Chips (now that's an old film).

Thanks, I thought it was just me who had that reaction.

Favorite? Hmmm...it's hard to beat The Great Escape, and I really enjoy The Ten Commandments. Those are probably the two oldest movies that I watch regularly. The African Queen is a fantastic movie, too, as is Gone With the Wind.

 

[slacker09]

Most of the Alfred Hitchcock films, the old Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films, and Tales of Manhattan.

 

[metal eslaved]

im going to go with a fistful of dollar, apocalypse now, fantasia(the original).

 

[Stir72]

Papillon
Cool Hand Luke
Bringing up Baby
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Great Escape

 

[SckizoBoy]

Thanks, I thought it was just me who had that reaction.

Favorite? Hmmm...it's hard to beat The Great Escape, and I really enjoy The Ten Commandments. Those are probably the two oldest movies that I watch regularly. The African Queen is a fantastic movie, too, as is Gone With the Wind.

The irony is that I'm barely older than 'Stand By Me'... =P

And yet I consider it a recent film... I've, oddly, always felt that anything made since 1980 isn't 'old'.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Patton without a doubt, fucking amazing movie.

 

[Wushu Panda]

12 Angry Men

We could be good friends, awesome movie. I also love The Dirty Dozen.

hehe, both have twelve in the name.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Since I don't consider movies from the 1980's and later to be old...

Yeah... too many to choose from... so I think I'll just go with the original Manchurian Candidate.

I love that movie.

 

[SlyFoxx]

Hard to go wrong with Bogart

Casablanca
The Big Sleep