Your Favorite Classic Movies

[astroboy68]

Please post your favorite classic movies.

I guess "classic" will mean different things to different people but I'm talking about old black and white and early color era movies.

Some of my favorites........

My Man Godfrey
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
A Night At The Opera
The Searchers
Queen Christina
Now Voyager
Mildred Pierce
Dead End
The Magnificent Ambersons
You Can't Cheat and Honest Man
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
White Heat
The Thin Man
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Who Is Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Clash By Night
King Kong

and I'm sure I will think of hundreds more.

What are your favorites?

[astroboy68]

This place is quiet huh?

[2much2luv]

`Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory
The postmen only rings twice
Casablanka
Bad Taste
Dead Alive
Night of the Living dead
Donnie darko
The Deer Hunter
and
Pulp fiction just to name a few

[cocoaberryc_PREV (deleted)]

`Hello 2much2luv,

These may not be classics but I love Jurasic Park and Pitch Black---I'm sure I have many more but drawing a blank at the moment.

[midnightrider55_PREV (deleted)]

Hello

Some of mine:

The Old Man and the Sea

To Kill a Mockingbird

Twelve Angry Men

Forrest Gump

Rain Man

Apocalypse Now

Patton

Midway

Saving Private Ryan

City Of Angels

[girlkikinv (deleted)]

These aren't black and white movies (well the beginning of one is), but still wanted to list my faves:


Muriel's Wedding
Dream for an Insomniac
Never Been Kissed
Valley Girl
Circle of Friends

[sheevaa]

`okay, maybe I'll find an answer here, I've tried IMDB without much success. There's this classic movie I saw a part of but couldn't stick around to see the whole thing and it's driving me mental!

It's black and white, and mother & daughter live on a beach...or somewhere near the sea. And there's this ghost of a sea captain I believe, and they start falling in love!
It was so sweet and I really want to see the whole thing. Can anyone tell me what it's called?

Thanks guys!

BTW, I love Pan's Labyrinth..not a classic yet, but it will be! I'm sure:P and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is an great, and heartbreaking movie/play.

[andriek]

`How far back can we go? I like alot of silent films

Last Laugh (Das Letzt Lachen)

Nosferoto

The Advantures of Prince Ahmed (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed)

and the Charles Chaplin The Great Dictator

And Sheevaa I wish I could help you, I know which one you mean, the name escapes me now. I remember my mom and grandmother watching it one day. I caught the end of it too, it was nice and romantic actually (once I knew what was happening) I would guess it was something like Waitting for the Sea Captain or something. I can't comfirm it on IMDB

[cookinbubbles]

`oh jeez, i sent a blank post!!
sorry. Anyway, the movie is The Ghost ans Mrs. Muir.
It was a short lived tv series too.

[southernfinery]

`omgosh the classics huh well I liked alfred hitchc---- "the birds" and"rearview window".I loved"old yeller" and "the wizard of oz" and "davy crockett".I liked "the ten commandments" and "ben hur" and "king kong".The series(way to shortlived imo) "beauty and the beast" is one of my fav. series.It was from the 80's(t.v) and "star trek" the series(the first ones)and the original "night stalker".Oh and when sally field played "sybil" with joann woodard,I thought that was a good mini-series."night of the living dead"b&w is pretty good.The original"cape fear" is a good one.Well off the top of my head that would appear to about cover it.gbu

[sheevaa]

`Thank you so much, cookinbubbles! That was beautiful, and definitely worth the wait!

You guys have any other classics to suggest to a newbie to the genre?

[cookinbubbles]

`I my opinion, Rear Window is one of the best suspense films ever made. Watching Jimmy Stewart realize what is really going on in the apartment across the courtyard is classic.
Sheevaa, you gotta see this flick.
No blood, no guts, just pure suspense, as God intended. Thats my opinion and I'm stickin' to it. LOL
As for old movies, my favorites were many of John Waynes movies. My all time favorite of his were:
Angel and the Bad Man
The Quiet Man
The Cowboys.
And Cary Grants classic, Arsenic and Old Lace still cracks me up and I have seen it many times.

[mizcurious3 (deleted)]

`Cookinbubbles that is so true! I love suspense, minus the gore.

There are so many oldies that are good. I remember sitting with my grandpa and watching some. He would always tell me side notes about the actors. Casablanca.. And a lot of westerns... Oh how I miss those days.

my all time fav movies are classics to me, lol... Its the breakfast club and 16 candles. . And then growing up the little rascals and little giants.

[stonergurl420]

`Any Romero film ............pretty much any zombie movie
and the first Wickerman

[ssbbwloverinnv (deleted)]

` Some of mine in more or less chronological order, are:

Metropolis (silent sci-fi film from 1927)
Citizen Kane
Bridge on the River Kwai
Run Silent Run Deep
Dr. Strangelove
Goldfinger--the 1964 film with Sean Connery, not the similarly-titled more recent one with Mike Myers.
All Clint Eastwood "spaghetti Westerns" and "Dirty Harry" series.
The Blue Max
"Pink Panther" series with Peter Sellers
Patton
The Godfather
Planet of the Apes--the Charlton Heston one, not the one with Mark Wahlberg
Animal House
The Shining
The Terminator I and II
Alien I and II
Das Boot
Cross of Iron
Dragnet--the 1987 comedy version with Tom Hanks
Full Metal Jacket
Hunt for Red October
Silence of the Lambs
Taxi Driver
Apollo 13
Titanic