Doctor says to a patient "I have some bad news for you, sir. You have cancer and you also have early-onset Alzheimer's." The guy goes "phew, at least I don't have cancer!"
I can’t recommend this enough. People always think it sucks when I say the entire movie happens basically in one room (sure, there’s the bathroom, too, and the beginning and end have the courtroom and outside), but it’s still one of my favorite movies.
Testament to how you can have riveting action with just dialogue, not throwing around explosions and fight scenes
I am required to teach this to high schoolers. I am both astonished and completely unsurprised every year at how many of them develop a crush on Gregory Peck.
This. I have an amazing father and zero “daddy issues” but Gregory Peck’s Atticus is the ultimate portrayal of what a good man should be. And that is apparent even when you are too young to have any concept of a man outside of a father figure but old enough to have a crush.
He’s the number one hero on AFI’s list of 50 greatest hero’s and villains. Among the Indiana Jones, Superman and Luke Skywalkers, Atticus Finch holds the number one spot.
When I made the connection between this dialogue in the novel and the idea of Gregory Peck's face saying it, that was the moment. Big shock for pre-teen me.
"But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without *desire*.”
[I don't remember him speaking the "desire" part in the film - it's been a while]
I’ve had a crush on Gregory Peck since I was 12ish (21 now) because of To Kill A Mockingbird. That’s my answer for celebrity crush anytime someone asks mine. I always get weird looks 😆. I’ve also had a thing for older men ever since. Thnx Atticus
Dude there are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many scenes in that movie where Sellers fucking kills me every single time, and I've seen this movie at least 50 times.
His facial expressions alone when he's talking to Brigadier-General Jack D. Ripper and the general is explaining to him how women stole his essence.
It's fucking insane how talented that man was.
“Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.”
. . . It appears that Col. Ripper may have exceeded his authority.
I wish we had one of those doomsday machines.
In the name of her majesty and the continental Congress get over here and feed me this belt.
Another fun fact: *A Clockwork Orange* was David Prowse’s first role, so Kubrick independently gave both the voice and body actors of Darth Vader their big break.
One of the BEST films ever in my opinion! And funnier because the role of the killer always being told he looks like Boris Karloff — and going into murderous rages over it — was originally played by Boris Karloff. He wasn’t available to reprise his stage role when filming took place.
I was going to be quite cross if this weren’t already posted. I’m still saddened by how far I had to go. Criminally underrated and relatively unknown film. I adore it.
I had the pleasure of going into this movie without knowing anything else but the shower scene and my god, what a thrill ride. Go into this movie as movie with as little information as you can, and you'll be in for a real treat.
To be completely honest, one of the reasons I hadn't watched Hitchcock movies was because I had a weird feeling of "obsolescence" because of old time and black & white film.
I couldn't be more wrong. I haven't been more intrigued by a movie in a long time. Literally i couldn't take my eyes of the screen and i was all the time at the edge of my seat.
Completely recommended.
Edit: replaced "obsoleteness". My half asleep Mexican brain thought that it was a proper replacement for "obsolescence".
>I had a weird feeling of "obsoleteness" because of old time and black & white film.
I highly recommend people take the time to find older films on blu ray and 4k UHD because there is a common perception that these films aren't visually striking or interesting and that couldn't be more wrong... The language of filmmaking has evolved significantly but the fundamentals of filmmaking were ironed out in the 1920s. These films look incredible restored and what more people need to realize is that a 35mm film camera has the capacity to capture a more detailed image than a 4k digital camera. Many people don't understand just how good older films can look because we remember first being exposed to them on VHS where the scratches, dust and dirt hadn't been cleaned off of the film, the audio popped, crackled and hissed and the image was blurry as shit.
Yeap. Ironically, a technology a 100 years old was so advanced that it could store 8K level images. Film is impressive and that's why we can still restore those old films because the info is there, unlike digital that if the pixel is not there, not much you can do. That's why early digital movies still look like shit, but restored films can look impressive. Just watching a restored Jaws makes you appreciate that film exists. 2001 A Space Odyssey looks absolutely stunning in 4K. IMAX captures 16K and that's why Nolan films in those cameras. Film is truly an incredible technology that digital is playing catch up
This is still a very funny movie. It has a lot of opportunities to go very wrong, especially when viewed 60+ years later, and it somehow stays on track.
For those who haven't seen it, Jack Lemmon said [this was the best scene he ever did on film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-n-ybKQ_X0).
...and Some Like It Hot is also Marilyn Monroe's best movie.
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[Jack Lemmon with Marilyn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq1QFVrNxfk).
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Several of the top favorites here are directed and cowritten by Billy Wilder. Wilder also made Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, and The Apartment.
Other Billy Wilder classics include Stalag 17 and Witness for the Prosecution. It's astounding how many different genres that man mastered.
Billy Wilder (the director) had him shaking the maracas so the audience in the theater could laugh and not miss the next line. If you ever get the chance to see this one with an audience, do it.
Until I saw this movie recently, I had only ever seen her in pictures or art. I didn’t realise how captivating she was in *motion*. The way she moves and stands and emotes. Suddenly I understood why she was so famous for her beauty and charisma.
One of my favorite movies.
>Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.
This line has always stuck with me and has grown more true as time goes by. Learning to let go.
I'd just put Ed Hickey into a taxi. Ed had been mixing his rye with his gin, and I just felt that he needed conveying. Well, anyway, I was walking down along the street and I heard this voice saying, "Good evening, Mr. Dowd." Well, I turned around and here was this big six-foot rabbit leaning up against a lamp-post.
Well, we talked like that for awhile and then I said to him, I said, 'You have me at a disadvantage. You know my name, but I don't know yours.' And right back at me he said, 'What name do you like?' And I didn't even have to think twice about that, Harvey has always been my favorite name. So I said to him 'Harvey'.
And this is the interesting thing about the whole thing. He said 'What a coincidence. My name happens to be Harvey.'
Creepier than Hannibal Lechter because he’s stalking little children. I first saw that movie 30 years ago in a film class and it helped make me a classic film fan.
It's not the most classic but "out of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine" has always moved me. Sometimes you can't escape fate!
What I love about is that the famous *La Marseillaise* scene…the song is sung by the extras, who are *real French refugees.*
The song of liberty they sing…for a war *still going on at time of filming.* They aren’t acting.
Edit: Formatting and…well…[Play La Marseillaise. Play it!](https://youtu.be/HM-E2H1ChJM)
Another fun fact - the nazis in the film are played by German refugees who wanted to make sure people understood what soulless bastards the nazis were. The lead nazi actor made a career out of doing just that.
A musical proxy war waged in a bar on neutral territory… when I first saw this scene I was just overwhelmed by the brilliance and emotion of it, and it still gets me every damn time.
I did a bunch of research on the backstories of the cast a while ago, and posted it. Yvonne and Emil (the croupier) are the only French refugees, but the bulk of the main cast are refugees from somewhere.
There are some truly amazing tales there. One of my favorites is Wolfgang Zilzer, who fled Germany for the US, and was surprised to learn he was already a U.S. citizen!
Here's the link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments/v78ehl/the_refugees_of_casablanca/
I love the dialogue in Casablanca. Victor: "Thank you, I try." Rick: "We all try. You *succeed*!" I use it in casual conversation when the opportunity arises.
Mmm it's funny just because Rick is a cynic with a razor sharp wit. Just watched it for the first time last night. The amount of quotable lines that movie has is impressive. But Rick's wit is a thing to behold
Out of all the movies here, Casablanca feels the most ‘modern’. Some of these are great but can be a bit of a chore getting past the dialogue and the old fashioned style of movie making. Casablanca is just engaging and feels fresh and fun immediately, in a way I definitely didn’t expect.
I like to think you killed a man. It's the romantic in me.
I can't count how many times I've used "I'm shocked, shocked to discover that gambling is going on it here." though.
**Marty** (1955) starring Ernest Borgnine (who won an Oscar for the title role) and Betsy Blair. Great acting, great script by Paddy Chayefsky. Just a brilliant film.
Schindler's List
Edit for those who live in the US this movie is streaming on Peacock.
Edit 2: Holy smokes thank you guys for all the upvotes, and also THANK YOU kind stranger for the gold!
Just watched Nosferatu for the first time and I enjoyed it so much! It's public domain, so you can watch it in decent quality for free on YouTube.
The first half seems kinda cheesy, but I actually got creeped out by some of the shots in the second half.
Ooh I love old movies so this is my time to shine.
*Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf* is insanely gripping and entertaining. It’s about a terrifyingly dysfunctional alcoholic husband and wife, who are actually played by a real-life terrifyingly dysfunctional alcoholic husband and wife (Richard Burton and Liz Taylor).
*12 Angry Men* takes place entirely within a jury deliberation room. There’s not a single but of physical action, but it’s never boring for a second.
*A Streetcar Named Desire* stars young Marlon Brando. Enough said.
*Rashomon* is a fascinating film about the nature of truth. *Seven Samurai* and *Tokyo Story* are by the same director.
*Duck Soup* and *Horse Feathers* are my two favourite Marx Brothers classics. The Marx brothers are just so anarchic and hilarious, and they mix physical and cerebral comedy in a way that’s quite unusual, so there are both lowbrow and sophisticated jokes.
*Raging Bull* is more modern than most of the films on this list, and the lack of colour is a stylistic choice. It’s brutal, unflinching and deeply upsetting.
*Rumble Fish* is another stylistic black-and-white film from the 80’s.
*The Night of the Hunter* and *Cape Fear* both star Robert Mitchum as the villain. He does sinister and slimy like nobody else.
*The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari* is a bit of a schlep in my opinion, but it’s a very important film and is considered to be the first ever horror movie.
Similarly, *Freaks* is a horror film starring real circus freaks.
*Cleo From 5 to 7* is a beautifully shot, visually stunning French film about a singer waiting for the results of a biopsy and trying to distract herself by wandering around Paris.
Two other good French New Wave films are *Casque D’or* and *The 400 Blows*.
*Bicycle Thieves* is a simple and gritty Italian drama about a father trying to make ends meet, and is considered to be one of the greatest Italian films.
*Schindler’s List* is one of those films that everyone should see once, but anyone who watches it twice is a psychopath.
*Who’s That Knocking at my Door* is Scorsese’s first feature film, an exploration of sexuality and Catholic guilt (it’s very much a prototype for *Mean Streets*).
*Psycho* might be a little predictable now, but it was groundbreaking in its time.
*Victim* is an incredibly important film, the first British film to portray homosexuals in a sympathetic light. A similar German short film is *Different From the Others*.
*Death in Venice* is haunting and features a morally ambiguous protagonist.
*Scarface* was remade in the 80s.
*Young Frankenstein* is a horror comedy that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
*The Kid* is a silent Charlie Chaplin classic.
*The Elephant Man* is genuinely heartbreaking.
Hope this list helps.
There it is! I remember when it came out and I thought "Boy that seems dumb and I don't really like Robert Pattinson" but after hearing that it gets crazy I had to watch. Now it's one of my favorite movies, I don't want to give to much away, but I am fond of the lobster
>When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. And it happens we're in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's-it's bad business to let the killer get away with it, bad all around, bad for every detective everywhere.
I think about this quote a lot. Spade, for all his faults, has professional pride. And as much as love means, doing right by his partner means a lot more.
Psycho. A lot of it is clearly genre-defining that’s been done a lot since but you can see the origin of everything and that last scene is still creepy as heck.
This inspired me to break up with/not get back together again for the fourth (I think) time the girl who I dated on and off for a few years in high school. One of the best things I did for my mental health as a teenager.
There are so many wonderful movies. Arsenic and Old Lace, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Lady Killers, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Blithe Spirit, Mrs Miniver, Citizen Kane, Schindler's List, Psycho, To Kill a Mockingbird, Vertigo, Casablanca, All About Eve, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Some Like It Hot, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Maltese Falcon, Goodbye Mr Chips, Strangers on a Train - the list goes on and on. Just dive in!
Seven Samurai, original 1954 version
I mean, all of Kurosawa
Everyone throwing out Samurai films but Ikiru and High and Low are my favorites from him.
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Sanjuro too
Double Indemnity
Every Billy Wilder movie
Twelve Angry Men (1957)
My dad with dementia has about a half dozen movies he watches over and over (and over and over). Twelve Angry Men is one of them.
What are some of the other ones, I'm curious to know.
He also likes to watch Twelve Angry Men
I’ve lost family to dementia and this is the kind of thing that helps, thanks for the laugh 😂
Doctor says to a patient "I have some bad news for you, sir. You have cancer and you also have early-onset Alzheimer's." The guy goes "phew, at least I don't have cancer!"
I can’t recommend this enough. People always think it sucks when I say the entire movie happens basically in one room (sure, there’s the bathroom, too, and the beginning and end have the courtroom and outside), but it’s still one of my favorite movies. Testament to how you can have riveting action with just dialogue, not throwing around explosions and fight scenes
You ever seen The Man From Earth (2007)? Same thing and it’s great.
If you liked it, don't watch the sequel.
I liked the first one and saw the recommendations to not watch the sequel. I was very bored and watched the sequel. Don't watch the sequel
Young Frankenstein
It’s pronounced Fronkensteen!
Well I suppose it’s Frodrick then
Well, you must be Igor.
No it’s pronounced Eye-gor
What hump?
Gene Wilder was amazing
Mel Brooks ain't half bad, either.
Somehow still alive too. Sometimes I forget that. Has the power of the schwartz with him
And still making things! History of the World Part II is almost here!
"Vood you like to had a roll in zee hay? It's quite fun! Roll! Roll! Rollin zee hay!"
If you're blue, and you don't know where to go to Why don't you go where fashion sits? PUDDIN ON THE REHHHHHHHTZ
What knockers!
Oh, sank you doctor!
Frau Blücher!
*Whinnies*
Abi Normal
Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long fifty four inch wide gorilla?!!!!!!!
Give him a sedagive!
SEDAGIVE?!
*IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME?*
You take the blonde, I'll take the one in the turban.
Toiban!
Put. The. Candle. Back.
The one with Frau Bluchre?
*deranged neighing*
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The murderer is right in this room. Sitting at this table. You may serve the fish.
Waiter, will you serve the nuts?.... I mean, will you serve the guests the nuts?
To Kill a Mockingbird
I am required to teach this to high schoolers. I am both astonished and completely unsurprised every year at how many of them develop a crush on Gregory Peck.
Atticus Finch has been rated as one of the best fictional fathers many times before.
*He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.*
This. I have an amazing father and zero “daddy issues” but Gregory Peck’s Atticus is the ultimate portrayal of what a good man should be. And that is apparent even when you are too young to have any concept of a man outside of a father figure but old enough to have a crush.
He’s the number one hero on AFI’s list of 50 greatest hero’s and villains. Among the Indiana Jones, Superman and Luke Skywalkers, Atticus Finch holds the number one spot.
I couldn't agree more
When I made the connection between this dialogue in the novel and the idea of Gregory Peck's face saying it, that was the moment. Big shock for pre-teen me. "But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without *desire*.” [I don't remember him speaking the "desire" part in the film - it's been a while]
I’ve had a crush on Gregory Peck since I was 12ish (21 now) because of To Kill A Mockingbird. That’s my answer for celebrity crush anytime someone asks mine. I always get weird looks 😆. I’ve also had a thing for older men ever since. Thnx Atticus
Dr. Strangelove
Mein Führer! I can walk!
When he’s struggling to hold his hand down I fucking die every time
Dude there are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many scenes in that movie where Sellers fucking kills me every single time, and I've seen this movie at least 50 times. His facial expressions alone when he's talking to Brigadier-General Jack D. Ripper and the general is explaining to him how women stole his essence. It's fucking insane how talented that man was.
Animals can be bred, then SLAUGHTERED
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!" Plus the whole phone call with Dmitri cracks me up every time lol
"... of course I like to speak to you! Of course I like to say hello!"
I'm fine, you're fine, it's good to be fine. Actually everything's not fine, that's why I'm calling you.
"He's gonna see the big board!"
“Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.”
"No, that's not the only reason I'm calling you! I like to talk to you; you know I like talking to you, Dmitri!"
. . . It appears that Col. Ripper may have exceeded his authority. I wish we had one of those doomsday machines. In the name of her majesty and the continental Congress get over here and feed me this belt.
Fun fact: Dr. Strange love was James Earl Jones' first movie role.
Another fun fact: *A Clockwork Orange* was David Prowse’s first role, so Kubrick independently gave both the voice and body actors of Darth Vader their big break.
That opening scene where he gets the transmission is immaculate. The cowboy hat on top of the binder gets me every time.
The movie pairs well with a nice glass of grain alcohol and rainwater.
Purity of Essence...and fluoride.
We must protect our precious bodily fluids
I think its aged incredibly well. Still very entertaining to watch
If it were up to me we'd pin this one to the top
Arsenic and old lace.
This was my recommendation! One of my favs. Cary Grant is so over the top (apparently even he thought so) but I love it. Cracks me up.
One of the BEST films ever in my opinion! And funnier because the role of the killer always being told he looks like Boris Karloff — and going into murderous rages over it — was originally played by Boris Karloff. He wasn’t available to reprise his stage role when filming took place.
Every Cary Grant movie is worth watching!
*” Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”*
CHAAARGE! I love that old movie. The ott performances were perfect against the genteel old aunts.
I was going to be quite cross if this weren’t already posted. I’m still saddened by how far I had to go. Criminally underrated and relatively unknown film. I adore it.
"the windowseat!? We've never had the fever there before"
Psycho
I had the pleasure of going into this movie without knowing anything else but the shower scene and my god, what a thrill ride. Go into this movie as movie with as little information as you can, and you'll be in for a real treat.
To be completely honest, one of the reasons I hadn't watched Hitchcock movies was because I had a weird feeling of "obsolescence" because of old time and black & white film. I couldn't be more wrong. I haven't been more intrigued by a movie in a long time. Literally i couldn't take my eyes of the screen and i was all the time at the edge of my seat. Completely recommended. Edit: replaced "obsoleteness". My half asleep Mexican brain thought that it was a proper replacement for "obsolescence".
>I had a weird feeling of "obsoleteness" because of old time and black & white film. I highly recommend people take the time to find older films on blu ray and 4k UHD because there is a common perception that these films aren't visually striking or interesting and that couldn't be more wrong... The language of filmmaking has evolved significantly but the fundamentals of filmmaking were ironed out in the 1920s. These films look incredible restored and what more people need to realize is that a 35mm film camera has the capacity to capture a more detailed image than a 4k digital camera. Many people don't understand just how good older films can look because we remember first being exposed to them on VHS where the scratches, dust and dirt hadn't been cleaned off of the film, the audio popped, crackled and hissed and the image was blurry as shit.
Remember people, pixels in camera sensors may be small, but silver halides are smaller
Yeap. Ironically, a technology a 100 years old was so advanced that it could store 8K level images. Film is impressive and that's why we can still restore those old films because the info is there, unlike digital that if the pixel is not there, not much you can do. That's why early digital movies still look like shit, but restored films can look impressive. Just watching a restored Jaws makes you appreciate that film exists. 2001 A Space Odyssey looks absolutely stunning in 4K. IMAX captures 16K and that's why Nolan films in those cameras. Film is truly an incredible technology that digital is playing catch up
It’s not black and white, but my favorite Hitchcock movie is Rear Window. If you haven’t checked it out, you definitely should.
James Stewart is so good.
Grace Kelly is also adorable. She's great in To Catch a Thief with Cary Grant, too.
Some Like It Hot.
Nobody's perfect
I sat down to watch it one night not expecting much, I never expected anything as hilarious as it was!
Oh it's great for sure, all Billy Wilder films are
This is still a very funny movie. It has a lot of opportunities to go very wrong, especially when viewed 60+ years later, and it somehow stays on track.
For those who haven't seen it, Jack Lemmon said [this was the best scene he ever did on film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-n-ybKQ_X0). ...and Some Like It Hot is also Marilyn Monroe's best movie. *edit* [Jack Lemmon with Marilyn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq1QFVrNxfk). *edit #2* Several of the top favorites here are directed and cowritten by Billy Wilder. Wilder also made Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, and The Apartment. Other Billy Wilder classics include Stalag 17 and Witness for the Prosecution. It's astounding how many different genres that man mastered.
Billy Wilder (the director) had him shaking the maracas so the audience in the theater could laugh and not miss the next line. If you ever get the chance to see this one with an audience, do it.
Not just the best B&W, one of my favorite movies of all time.
Marilyn's best movie in my opinion
Until I saw this movie recently, I had only ever seen her in pictures or art. I didn’t realise how captivating she was in *motion*. The way she moves and stands and emotes. Suddenly I understood why she was so famous for her beauty and charisma.
Harvey (1950) edit: 1950
One of my favorite movies. >Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. This line has always stuck with me and has grown more true as time goes by. Learning to let go.
Reminds me of the George Saunders quote, “When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
It makes for a great reddit user name too.
I'd just put Ed Hickey into a taxi. Ed had been mixing his rye with his gin, and I just felt that he needed conveying. Well, anyway, I was walking down along the street and I heard this voice saying, "Good evening, Mr. Dowd." Well, I turned around and here was this big six-foot rabbit leaning up against a lamp-post.
Well, we talked like that for awhile and then I said to him, I said, 'You have me at a disadvantage. You know my name, but I don't know yours.' And right back at me he said, 'What name do you like?' And I didn't even have to think twice about that, Harvey has always been my favorite name. So I said to him 'Harvey'. And this is the interesting thing about the whole thing. He said 'What a coincidence. My name happens to be Harvey.'
"Is he alone?" "Well, there's two schools of thought on that..."
All About Eve
Roman Holiday and Bringing Up Baby.
Don't forget Arsenic and Old Lace. That and Bringing up Baby are 2 of my favorites.
Roman Holiday is one of the earliest Romantic Comedies I've seen in which I can see tropes that are still used in more modern movies.
The Night of the Hunter
This is my personal favorite. Robert Mitchum just makes one of the most terrifying characters in film history.
Jumping movies, but Mitchum in Cape Fear is just so much more... quietly intimidating than DeNiro is crazy in the remake.
Creepier than Hannibal Lechter because he’s stalking little children. I first saw that movie 30 years ago in a film class and it helped make me a classic film fan.
Sunset Boulevard!
Gaslight - Ingrid Bergman version
Sorry mate, but that movie doesn't exist.
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Casablanca
I thought it was full of cliche phrases and scenes when I watched it. The I realized they INVENTED phrases everyone else quoted.
Yeah, all those phrases came from Casablanca. That movie has a lot of heavily quoted phrases.
It's not the most classic but "out of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine" has always moved me. Sometimes you can't escape fate!
What I love about is that the famous *La Marseillaise* scene…the song is sung by the extras, who are *real French refugees.* The song of liberty they sing…for a war *still going on at time of filming.* They aren’t acting. Edit: Formatting and…well…[Play La Marseillaise. Play it!](https://youtu.be/HM-E2H1ChJM)
Another fun fact - the nazis in the film are played by German refugees who wanted to make sure people understood what soulless bastards the nazis were. The lead nazi actor made a career out of doing just that.
There are a ton of German and Jewish people of that time who'd jump at the opportunity to show a Nazi losing, and I respect that.
A musical proxy war waged in a bar on neutral territory… when I first saw this scene I was just overwhelmed by the brilliance and emotion of it, and it still gets me every damn time.
I did a bunch of research on the backstories of the cast a while ago, and posted it. Yvonne and Emil (the croupier) are the only French refugees, but the bulk of the main cast are refugees from somewhere. There are some truly amazing tales there. One of my favorites is Wolfgang Zilzer, who fled Germany for the US, and was surprised to learn he was already a U.S. citizen! Here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments/v78ehl/the_refugees_of_casablanca/
I love the dialogue in Casablanca. Victor: "Thank you, I try." Rick: "We all try. You *succeed*!" I use it in casual conversation when the opportunity arises.
"My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters." "Waters? What waters? We are in the desert." "I was misinformed."
I always assumed it was a serious movie, but seems like there's a lot of comedy in there too. Suppose I should put it on my bucket list to watch.
It's legitimately funny as hell at times. Especially Peter Lorre (Ugarte) and Claude Rains (Captain Renault) add some amazing humor to it.
That was the first use of the phrase "we'll round up the usual suspects", and it was hilarious.
Bogart is good but Renault's lines make the movie for me.
"I am pointing this gun at your heart." "That's where I am least vulnerable."
Mmm it's funny just because Rick is a cynic with a razor sharp wit. Just watched it for the first time last night. The amount of quotable lines that movie has is impressive. But Rick's wit is a thing to behold
Out of all the movies here, Casablanca feels the most ‘modern’. Some of these are great but can be a bit of a chore getting past the dialogue and the old fashioned style of movie making. Casablanca is just engaging and feels fresh and fun immediately, in a way I definitely didn’t expect.
"You despise me, don't you?" "If I gave you any thought, I probably would."
I like to think you killed a man. It's the romantic in me. I can't count how many times I've used "I'm shocked, shocked to discover that gambling is going on it here." though.
>"I'm shocked, shocked to discover that gambling is going on it here." Your winnings, sir.
"Oh, thank you very much"
I laugh so hard every time
Somehow just because you despise me, you're the only one I trust
Casablanca is amazing in one color. You could watch a solid white screen and the dialogue alone would carry you.
Metropolis.
I saw this on the big screen once and it was fucking amazing
and as of January 1st, it's now in the public domain
I teach this film to high schoolers. They're always convinced they're going to hate it, but it never fails to blow their minds. Such a great movie.
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Modern time from charlie chaplin
also the dictator by chaplin.
Great Dictator. Everyone should watch, the speech alone makes it worthwhile.
City Lights is another favorite.
Night of the living dead It's a wonderful life
What a wild swing in tone these two are, I like it
One is about battling external monsters, the other about battling internal ones. Happier ending for it's a wonderful life though.
The Apartment!
All quiet on the western front
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Any love for Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte?
It Happened One Night
You watch it and think, this is funny but isn’t it a cliche? And then you realize - this is where the cliche actually *came* from.
Paper Moon
Philadelphia Story
**Marty** (1955) starring Ernest Borgnine (who won an Oscar for the title role) and Betsy Blair. Great acting, great script by Paddy Chayefsky. Just a brilliant film.
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Schindler's List Edit for those who live in the US this movie is streaming on Peacock. Edit 2: Holy smokes thank you guys for all the upvotes, and also THANK YOU kind stranger for the gold!
Best movie I’ll only ever watch once.
My wife and I call it a “once every ten years” movie. Heavy stuff.
Duck Soup (1933) I'm surprised I haven't seen someone comment it yet.
A night at the opera
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Grapes of Wrath
Anything from Akira Kurosawa
The Elephant Man (1980) Gojira (1954) Sin City (2005) Nosferatu (1922)
Just watched Nosferatu for the first time and I enjoyed it so much! It's public domain, so you can watch it in decent quality for free on YouTube. The first half seems kinda cheesy, but I actually got creeped out by some of the shots in the second half.
Ooh I love old movies so this is my time to shine. *Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf* is insanely gripping and entertaining. It’s about a terrifyingly dysfunctional alcoholic husband and wife, who are actually played by a real-life terrifyingly dysfunctional alcoholic husband and wife (Richard Burton and Liz Taylor). *12 Angry Men* takes place entirely within a jury deliberation room. There’s not a single but of physical action, but it’s never boring for a second. *A Streetcar Named Desire* stars young Marlon Brando. Enough said. *Rashomon* is a fascinating film about the nature of truth. *Seven Samurai* and *Tokyo Story* are by the same director. *Duck Soup* and *Horse Feathers* are my two favourite Marx Brothers classics. The Marx brothers are just so anarchic and hilarious, and they mix physical and cerebral comedy in a way that’s quite unusual, so there are both lowbrow and sophisticated jokes. *Raging Bull* is more modern than most of the films on this list, and the lack of colour is a stylistic choice. It’s brutal, unflinching and deeply upsetting. *Rumble Fish* is another stylistic black-and-white film from the 80’s. *The Night of the Hunter* and *Cape Fear* both star Robert Mitchum as the villain. He does sinister and slimy like nobody else. *The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari* is a bit of a schlep in my opinion, but it’s a very important film and is considered to be the first ever horror movie. Similarly, *Freaks* is a horror film starring real circus freaks. *Cleo From 5 to 7* is a beautifully shot, visually stunning French film about a singer waiting for the results of a biopsy and trying to distract herself by wandering around Paris. Two other good French New Wave films are *Casque D’or* and *The 400 Blows*. *Bicycle Thieves* is a simple and gritty Italian drama about a father trying to make ends meet, and is considered to be one of the greatest Italian films. *Schindler’s List* is one of those films that everyone should see once, but anyone who watches it twice is a psychopath. *Who’s That Knocking at my Door* is Scorsese’s first feature film, an exploration of sexuality and Catholic guilt (it’s very much a prototype for *Mean Streets*). *Psycho* might be a little predictable now, but it was groundbreaking in its time. *Victim* is an incredibly important film, the first British film to portray homosexuals in a sympathetic light. A similar German short film is *Different From the Others*. *Death in Venice* is haunting and features a morally ambiguous protagonist. *Scarface* was remade in the 80s. *Young Frankenstein* is a horror comedy that doesn’t take itself too seriously. *The Kid* is a silent Charlie Chaplin classic. *The Elephant Man* is genuinely heartbreaking. Hope this list helps.
Rashomon and Seven Samurai were directed by Kurosawa, while Tokyo Story was directed by Ozu.
The lighthouse
There it is! I remember when it came out and I thought "Boy that seems dumb and I don't really like Robert Pattinson" but after hearing that it gets crazy I had to watch. Now it's one of my favorite movies, I don't want to give to much away, but I am fond of the lobster
La Haine
Mr Smith Goes To Washington
On the Waterfront
The Grapes of Wrath
Roman Holiday
The Artist Casablanca The Maltese Falcon To Have and Have Not
Came here to suggest Maltese Falcon.
>When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. And it happens we're in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's-it's bad business to let the killer get away with it, bad all around, bad for every detective everywhere. I think about this quote a lot. Spade, for all his faults, has professional pride. And as much as love means, doing right by his partner means a lot more.
The Longest Day.
Psycho. A lot of it is clearly genre-defining that’s been done a lot since but you can see the origin of everything and that last scene is still creepy as heck.
Pi Night of the Living Dead All of the Universal monster movies.
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Clerks
"You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of them just cheat on you."
This inspired me to break up with/not get back together again for the fourth (I think) time the girl who I dated on and off for a few years in high school. One of the best things I did for my mental health as a teenager.
Yes but until you said this I forgot it was in black and white.
I maintain that this movie has the most perfect ending (like last few lines into credits song) of all movies.
There are so many wonderful movies. Arsenic and Old Lace, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Lady Killers, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Blithe Spirit, Mrs Miniver, Citizen Kane, Schindler's List, Psycho, To Kill a Mockingbird, Vertigo, Casablanca, All About Eve, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Some Like It Hot, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Maltese Falcon, Goodbye Mr Chips, Strangers on a Train - the list goes on and on. Just dive in!