Totally agree with some of the choices mentioned (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is my favourite movie of all time), and here are some others that I could watch over and over:
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Dr. Strangelove
Midnight Cowboy
Twelve Angry Men
Grapes of Wrath
Judgement at Nuremberg
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Inherit the Wind
They Call Me Trinity and Trinity is Still My Name
The Longest Day
Platoon
Magnificent Seven
Just a few that I liked anyways.
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There are so many i don't even know where to start...
Serpico (if you want to see why Pacino is known as one of the greatest actors of all time)
Chinatown
Malcolm X
Blue Velvet
Raising Arizona
True Romance
Deer Hunter (classic Walken) dammit flip already got this one, so I'll second it and "Once upon a time in America" and "Lawrence of Arabia" as well as many others on his list which are must sees.
Ben Hur (ignore some of the overly religious stuff and you have a great classic, unless you like religion. In which case pay full attention to that stuff)
National Lampoon's Vacation
Se7en
Five Easy Pieces (perhaps the best character study of all time)
Hardcore (great movie about the 70s porno scene, boogie nights but extremely dark)
The Big Chill
La Bamba
The Dark Crystal
The Breakfast Club
Tombstone (my favorite Val Kilmer performance ever)
Goodfellas
Casino
Office Space (not sure if this makes the late 90s cut, but even if it doesnt watch it now)
Anyway must stop before my head explodes, this topic really needs to be more specific.
Lots of love for Dr. Strangelove. It is one of the greatest of them all. Almost all Stanley Kubrick movies are brilliant. That last one with Tom Cruise wasn't so good though.
Martin Scorsese movies too. Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull...
John Hughes movies from the 80's.
The American Film Institute has a list of the 100 greatest American movies
Here are the movies I have seen and rated (first group = 10/10, and after that, 9/10), on imdb.com that are pre-1990:
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Birds
Casablanca*
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove*
The Godfather*
The Godfather Pt. II*
Ikiru
The Bicycle Thieves*
One Flew Over The ####oo's Nest*
Paths Of Glory*
Psycho*
Vertigo
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Apocalypse Now
Citizen Kane
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Monty Python And The Holy Grail*
North By Northwest*
Raging Bull
Raiders Of The Lost Ark*
Repulsion
The Seven Samurai
Taxi Driver
* = you don't have to be a cine-nerd to fully appreciate and enjoy
Not sure of dates but these would stand out in my collection:
Diner
Princess Bride
English Patient
Field Of Dreams
Schindlers List
The Eagle Has Landed
Ronin
A Bridge Too Far
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Say Anything
The Sure Thing
Last Of The Mohicans
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
13th Warrior
Willow
Strange Days
The Accidental Tourist
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Originally Posted by Ro
Here are the movies I have seen and rated (first group = 10/10, and after that, 9/10), on imdb.com that are pre-1990:
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Birds
Casablanca*
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove*
The Godfather*
The Godfather Pt. II*
Ikiru
The Bicycle Thieves*
One Flew Over The ####oo's Nest*
Paths Of Glory*
Psycho*
Vertigo
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Apocalypse Now
Citizen Kane
M
Monty Python And The Holy Grail*
North By Northwest*
Raging Bull
Raiders Of The Lost Ark*
Repulsion
The Seven Samurai
Taxi Driver
* = you don't have to be a cine-nerd to fully appreciate and enjoy
top gun.
die hards. bean.
predator.
alien 1 and 2.
terminator 1 and 2.
As in Mr.Bean? Cause I loved that movie. And the new one was great to. The hot actress didn't hurt either.
There's so many great ones that have already been mentioned...Raging Bull, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles...and when you mention Blazing Saddles, you of course have to say Spaceballs. I loved A Night at the Roxbury too, but there's a lot of haters on that one...
One that hasn't yet is Reservoir Dogs...great flick! And I can't remember if I saw Pulp Fiction on the list or not...that's a good one too
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Withnail and I
Hoosiers
The Party
Doctor Zhivago
The Graduate
The Sting
Chinatown
The Big Chill
A Man for All Seasons
The Exorcist
Rear Window was on yesterday on TMC. I stumbled onto it by accident. Great movie.
TCM is becoming one of my fav. channels, I have a lot of Hitchcock films PVR'd from there, and watch them one by one... They show just so many great movies, heres the list i have recorded
12 Angry Men
Mutiny on the Bounty
Raging Bull
The Birds
North By Northwest
The Man Who Knew too Much
Ben Hur
The African Queen
Bonnie and Clyde
Another great film that I watched the other day The Right Stuff.
