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  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,439
    Excellent suggestions so far. Seems a little light on Jimmy Stewart, though....

    Harvey
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    The Philadelphia Story (Stewart with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn!)

    Love the classics. :plus_one:
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    How about some Bill Forsyth? Gregory's Girl, Local Hero, and Comfort and Joy.

    And Funny Bones, a weird, but very funny movie directed and written by Peter Chelsom. (Jerry Lewis is in it, but don't let that scare you.)
  • WhatYouTaughtMe
    WhatYouTaughtMe Posts: 4,957
    Did anybody suggest Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Oh man, I LOVED that film! And their home.
  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    Leezestarr313 said:

    Anything from the "New Hollywood" era is fantastic. My fave is The Deer Hunter. Others have been mentioned aleady too... Like the Graduate.

    I really enjoy the funny movies too. The Doris Day and Rock Hudson movies - aah! - I recommend Lover Come Back from these, it's hilarious!
    They live I'm not a fan of modern horror movies, and this is really not a horror movie, but a fantastic one.
    The Trial by Orson Welles is also pretty good, made after the novel Der Prozess by Kafka.
    12 Angry Men
    Johnny got his gun

    Oh, and The Party with Peter Sellers :smiley:

    Mmmh. I gotta think more.





    They Live is a horror movie in how prophetic it's become. Same for Idiocracy and The Dead Zone.
  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    edited January 2016
    If you want a good old school horror movie, I recommend The Legend of Hell House.

    As for 80s horror, The Sender is underrated psychological horror with Zeljo Ivanek in his film debut in the leading role.

    My favorite hidden gem of the 80s is Something Wild. Easily Melanie Griffith's best performance and a great psychotic breakthrough for Ray Liotta.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Speaking of Melanie, Body Double was a suspenseful watch.
  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    hedonist said:

    Speaking of Melanie, Body Double was a suspenseful watch.

    I saw that on The Movie Channel years ago. I freaking love that twist ending. It's my 2nd favorite DePalma movie behind Untouchables.

    Working Girl is good but hoooooooooooly sheit is it ever dated! That is an extreme late 80s time capsule especially with that high volume hairstyle of Griffith and Joan Cusack at the beginning. Kevin Spacey steals that movie in a supporting role.
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Enkidu has excellent taste, especially since it corresponds to my own. :wink:
    Enkidu said:

    Billy Wilder's movies, Some Like it Hot and Sunset Boulevard. Double Indemnity.

    One of my favorite directors. He also wrote many screenplays, often uncredited. I would add Stalag 17 (WWII POW drama; William Holden is terrific in an unlikeable role) and Ace in the Hole (Kirk Douglas as a cynical newspaper reporter who's willing to exploit a crisis to further his career).
    Enkidu said:

    The Third Man.

    One of my all time favorite movies, and the music is great too!
    Enkidu said:

    Hitchcock movies - Shadow of a Doubt is a great one. Notorious.

    Shadow of a Doubt was Hitchcock's favorite of the movies he directed. Notorious is great. I'd also suggest The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, and North by Northwest (it features a cropduster :giggle:).

    I'm a big fan of film noir; Out of the Past is one of the best. Also, The Big Sleep, Kiss of Death, Gaslight, Key Largo, Night of the Hunter, and Laura.

    Also suggest The Razor's Edge, the early version with Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter.

    And it's a little out of your time range but there's a great Nic Cage movie that nobody seems to have seen called Red Rock West. I'll just say that it's got more than the usual share of plot twists.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,306
    InHiding80 said:

    Leezestarr313 said:

    Anything from the "New Hollywood" era is fantastic. My fave is The Deer Hunter. Others have been mentioned aleady too... Like the Graduate.

    I really enjoy the funny movies too. The Doris Day and Rock Hudson movies - aah! - I recommend Lover Come Back from these, it's hilarious!
    They live I'm not a fan of modern horror movies, and this is really not a horror movie, but a fantastic one.
    The Trial by Orson Welles is also pretty good, made after the novel Der Prozess by Kafka.
    12 Angry Men
    Johnny got his gun

    Oh, and The Party with Peter Sellers :smiley:

    Mmmh. I gotta think more.





    They Live is a horror movie in how prophetic it's become. Same for Idiocracy and The Dead Zone.
    ''They live'' is NOT a horror movie..
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    23scidoo said:

    ''They live'' is NOT a horror movie..

    Sci fi more accurate?
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,457
    Or a dystopia? Anyway, fabulous movie!
    Please, Pearl Jam, consider a Benaroya Hall vinyl reissue! http://community.pearljam.com/discussion/148993/please-pearl-jam-consider-a-vinyl-benaroya-hall-re-issue


  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 42,205
    The Quiet Man is a wonderful movie that introduces Ireland into modern motion pictures and electricity, lol. Stars John Wayne, Maureen Ohara and a beautiful Ford directed movie!

    The Magnificent Seven This has McQueen, Yule Brenner and Charles Bronson!

    Bullitt The car chase scene in this movie is amazing. If anything just watch it for that!!!

  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,439
    Yes! Steve McQueen. Paul Newman, too.

    The Great Escape
    The Hustler
    Cool Hand Luke
  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    Hobbes said:

    Yes! Steve McQueen. Paul Newman, too.

    The Great Escape
    The Hustler
    Cool Hand Luke

    Butch Cassidy
    The Verdict
    Slap Shot
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,306
    Leezestarr313 said:

    Or a dystopia? Anyway, fabulous movie!

    This is closer..
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Omega Man and Logan's Run.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,457
    Oh, good call on Logan's run! These old sci-fi movies are some of my faves!

    Then also
    Soylent Green
    Phase IV
    Rollerball
    Please, Pearl Jam, consider a Benaroya Hall vinyl reissue! http://community.pearljam.com/discussion/148993/please-pearl-jam-consider-a-vinyl-benaroya-hall-re-issue


  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 13,124
    On the Waterfront
    The Wizard of Oz (still amazing this came out in 1939)
    Blazing Saddles

  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    Logan's Run.

    Part of this was filmed in my home town at the Fort Worth Water Gardens.

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    "The stars are all connected to the brain."

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