What classic movies should everyone see?

[sanantoniosooner]

I have never seen Citizen Kane. I plan on getting it.

I got Schindler's List in the mail and will watch it soon.

Casablanca?

I can't recall watching To Kill a Mockingbird.

Maltese Falcon?

Give me some suggestions of classics there everyone should see at least once.

[Mongo]

spaceballs

[sanantoniosooner]

I'll tough out the idiot replies for the good ones ;)

[1stTimeCaller]

High Noon

[Scott D]

Hell In The Pacific

preferably the DVD with the different endings. (It was one of those films that had different endings for American and Japanese audiences)

Seven Samurai

and my joking response

Three The Hard Way

[royalfan5]

The 10 Commandments

Cool Hand Luke

The Magnificent Seven

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Dr. Strangelove

Bridge over the River Kwai

[Oldnslo]

Circle of Iron

Double Indemnity

The Cain Mutiny

Christmas Vacation

Behind the Green Door

[TMcGee86]

The Cain Munity

Papillion

Patton

12 Angry Men

[OU4LIFE]

Tombstone.

[SicEmBaylor]

The Longest Day

[Miko]

Inherit the Wind

[yermom]

The Great Escape

Gone With The Wind

The Wizard of Oz

[Miko]

Grapes of Wrath

[crawfish]

The best of Hitchcock: Rear Window/Vertigo/North By Northwest
A Touch of Evil
Seven Samurai
The Big Sleep
The Haunting

[yermom]

Caligula ;)

Joaquin Phoenix's Emperor is a wuss after Malcolm McDowell's in that flick :eek:

that's the main reason i don't like Badiator all that much...

[OKLA21FAN]

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

(where one of the all time great one liners originated)

[MamaMia]

My top 10:

Its a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
The Blues Brothers
Imitation Of Life
Remember the Titans
Invincible
On The Water Front
Some Like It Hot
Casablanca
Breakfast at Tiffanys

[Miko]

The best of Hitchcock: Rear Window/Vertigo/North By Northwest


All great. I particularly like Rope with it's long sequences without cuts.

[soonerinabilene]

Raging Bull
Ben Hur
Lawrence of Arabia

[Hamhock]

my wife and I started renting the academy award winner for each year. we started at 1975 and are working our way on either side.

even though Annie Hall is on the list, don't rent it.

[yermom]

i liked Annie Hall

i'm missing like 3 movies since around '87

they drop off a lot there though, some since '75 i've seen but don't remember much about

[Vaevictis]

Lawrence of Arabia
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
Bridge on the River Kwai
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
To Kill a Mockingbird
Casablanca
Maltese Falcon
Seven Samurai
The Searchers
It's a Wonderful Life

[Hamhock]

i liked Annie Hall

i'm missing like 3 movies since around '75


did you use any chemicals while watching it?

we use netflix. i didn't steal your movies.

[yermom]

not that i remember...

[Frozen Sooner]

Spartacus
Unforgiven
Giant
Rebel Without a Cause
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Gone with the Wind
Ben Hur
The Day the Earth Stood Still
A Clockwork Orange

[birddog]

sunset boulevard
grapes of wrath

[Hamhock]

outsiders

[Miko]

Of course, all of this is assuming you already own KISS Saves Christmas. :D

[StoopTroup]

You can always make a list of great actors and actresses you like or love and then make a list of their best movies to add to a list of Academy Award winning movies.

The you can make a list by catagory and eliminate the duplicates you had on your original list...

Eventually you'll have a list so long that you can't watch them all.

I like to watch some of the oldies they have redone on TCM.

AMC has really changed and gotten away from playing "Classics".

I miss the way they used to air movies.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

Freddie Got Fingered

[crawfish]

All great. I particularly like Rope with it's long sequences without cuts.

Can't forget "The Trouble with Harry", either - one of the best dark comedies of all time...

[yermom]

You can always make a list of great actors and actresses you like or love and then make a list of their best movies to add to a list of Academy Award winning movies.

The you can make a list by catagory and eliminate the duplicates you had on your original list...

Eventually you'll have a list so long that you can't watch them all.

I like to watch some of the oldies they have redone on TCM.

AMC has really changed and gotten away from playing "Classics".

I miss the way they used to air movies.

yeah, like Predator 2 ;)

[SanJoaquinSooner]

The only way to describe this film is "perfect." I wouldn't change anything about it:

http://www.listal.com/image/products/220/B00028HCE2/dvds/lilies-of-the-field-1963.jpg

[OCUDad]

Witness For the Prosecution - Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton. Not to be missed.

[85Sooner]

I have never seen Citizen Kane. I plan on getting it.

I got Schindler's List in the mail and will watch it soon.

Casablanca?

I can't recall watching To Kill a Mockingbird.

Maltese Falcon?

Give me some suggestions of classics there everyone should see at least once.
Schindler is a masterpiece not that the others are chopped liver.

[85Sooner]

Who Got Fingered?
:eek:

[stoops the eternal pimp]

http://www.qlod.org/weltfrieden/wp-content/freddie.jpg

[Tailwind]

I have owned Casablanca on DVD for a couple years now, but haven't got around to watching it. To those of you who have seen and recommend it, whta are your reasons? I recently read Ingrid Bergman's autobiography and that makes me want to see it more. Thoughts?

[Frozen Sooner]

I have owned Casablanca on DVD for a couple years now, but haven't got around to watching it. To those of you who have seen and recommend it, whta are your reasons? I recently read Ingrid Bergman's autobiography and that makes me want to see it more. Thoughts?

You can ignore everything right until you hear "Play it again, Sam"

;)

[Harry Beanbag]

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

(where one of the all time great one liners originated)


"We don't need no stinkin' badges"

[Harry Beanbag]

All great. I particularly like Rope with it's long sequences without cuts.


I watched that one a couple months ago on AMC. I'd never heard of it before then, but it was entrancing. They don't make movies like that anymore.

[Vaevictis]

To those of you who have seen and recommend it, whta are your reasons?

1. It's a pretty good movie in its own right. (I mean, it's not Schindler's List, but it's still pretty danged good.)
2. Nazis are foiled.
3. It's got that Classic Hollywood Golden Age feel to it.

[Harry Beanbag]

1. It's a pretty good movie in its own right. (I mean, it's not Schindler's List, but it's still pretty danged good.)
2. Nazis are foiled.
3. It's got that Classic Hollywood Golden Age feel to it.

4. Humphrey Bogart
5. Smoking jackets
6. Whiskey drinkin'

[Vaevictis]

4. Humphrey Bogart
5. Smoking jackets
6. Whiskey drinkin'

All part of the "Classic Hollywood Golden Age" feel ;)

[SoonerBOI]

Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Graduate
Gone with the Wind

[TheHumanAlphabet]

3 Days in May

Fail Safe

The Galant Hours

In Harms Way

The Longest Day

[r5TPsooner]

Psycho
Carrie
Casablanca
King Creole (Maybe not a classic but my favorite Elvis flick)
The Birds
Wizard Of Oz
The Shining
The Hollywood Nights (One of the funniest movies I've ever seen)

[King Crimson]

Raging Bull
Marathon Man
Asphalt Jungle
Hidden Fortress
3 days of the Condor
the Conversation
5 Easy Pieces
Midnight Cowboy
Dog Day Afternoon
Network
Blowup

8 1/2
La Dolce Vita
La Strada
Breathless
Lola
the Grand Illusion
Manchurian Candidate
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Truffault's Antoine Doinel series beginning with the 400 Blows.

[John Kochtoston]

Godfather I
Godfather II
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
2001: A Space Odyssey (fast forward through the part with the monkeys. Just know that the monolith began their path to sentience).
Rocky

[KC//CRIMSON]

The Conversation

[Soonerus]

Caddyshack

[salth2o]

Blazin' Saddles
Rebel w/o a Cause
American Grafitti

I'll second...
Cool Hand Luke
Giant

[OKLA21FAN]

Caddyshack

'Porterhouse'...best character name evar!

so it tonight BTW, it never gets old

[Scott D]

The Conversation

very understated film. Despite them making a butchered version of Hackman's character in Enemy Of The State

[SanJoaquinSooner]

Sullivan's Travels

[OUbones]

In my quick scan I didn't see The Dirty Dozen or Patton.

[Fraggle145]

Swiss Family Robinson. Best movie for adventuresome kids ever.

[Fraggle145]

Sinbad the Sailor (1947)

[sanantoniosooner]

Don't feel bad "ditto"ing a movie.

I am looking for consensus on some of these.

[XingTheRubicon]

Easy Rider.


Any movie that starts out with it's main character taking off his watch, looking at it, ....realizes that riding a chopper, sleeping in the woods, and getting ripped doesn't really require a timepiece....pauses and throws the watch in the ditch...and then............Steppenwolf.



Home from the Hill

Robert Mitchum argues with his wife over the p*ssification of their son. (a 18 year old George Hamilton)

Wife- "Wade, I just don't agree with trying to make him like you, it's just not in him"

RMitchum- "You've done a good job raising our boy these last 18 years. He's a good kid, you should be proud."

Wife- "But you still want to....."

RMitchum- (interrupting) "You need to get yourself some outside interests, maybe join the Garden Club..........because from here on out that boy's mine."


Mitchum then proceeds to show him how to use a rifle....indoors....also takes him on wild boar hunt and bonds with his son while he cheats on his wife with almost every woman in the area and never recognizes his other illegitmate son.

[ChickSoonerFan]

Don't feel bad "ditto"ing a movie.

I am looking for consensus on some of these.

Wow..so many good ones here.

Papillon was great
Marathon Man was brutal


And this may not be considered a classic (yet) but you have to see Last of the Mohicans.

He says to her:

"No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you."

OK, I'm done for now. But seriously, watch it.

[sanantoniosooner]

I have seeen Papillon and own Last of the Mohicans, at least the Daniel Day Lewis version.

[ChickSoonerFan]

I have seeen Papillon and own Last of the Mohicans, at least the Daniel Day Lewis version.

oh. then I have nothing to add.

:)

[Viking Kitten]

Some really good pics already listed here. I loves me some courtroom drama. Inherit the Wind, The Caine Mutiny, To Kill a Mockingbird are all great choices.

Some Like it Hot is one of the best comedies ever. For a good foreign classic try Belle Du Jour.:hot:

[sanantoniosooner]

I didn't know if there was an older version you might have been speaking of.

[sanantoniosooner]

Some really good pics already listed here. I loves me some courtroom drama. Inherit the Wind, The Caine Mutiny, To Kill a Mockingbird are all great choices.

Some Like it Hot is one of the best comedies ever. For a good foreign classic try Belle Du Jour.:hot:


Exactly the kind of suggestions I'm looking for.

We get 3 movies at a time in the mail and I want to try and sneak one classic in each group.

[Curly Bill]

Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Patton
Raise the Red Lantern

[Sooner Born Sooner Bred]

Harvey
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Philadelphia Story
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Shop Around the Corner
On Golden Pond

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad etc. World
Song of the South(available on eBay from overseas sources)
The Loved One
Harrison Bergeron(maybe my fave movie)
Little Big Man

[sanantoniosooner]

Just finished Schindler's List

Incredible.