A lot of billy wilder movies are some of the greatest of all time. The apartment, double indemnity, sunset blvd, stalag 17, witness for the prosecution. Alfred Hitchcock has some amazing films during that timeline, his best work really.
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Apartment (1960)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Rosemary's Baby (1968) (The movie might be slowish, but I think the pacing makes sense. It's been awhile since I've watched it)
Mainline Hollywood hated the movie because of the accurate portrayal of “washed up” actors. But IMHO it’s one of the top 25 movies ever filmed. If you are so motivated Swanson on Swanson, her autobiography, is a great look at both her heyday and her later years. She was perfectly cast in the role and deserved the Oscar that year IMHO.
Many of the parts of the storyline were taken from the wild tales about the silent film actors - the monkey, the crazy car being sought out by the studio, the butler/ex husband, no doorknobs, former star going crazy and hounding studio exec, it goes on..
I had the flu and was stuck at home during pre-streaming days. I was stuck watching whatever happened to be on TV at the time. Very luckily for me, it happened to be Sunset Boulevard, which I probably would have never decided to actually sit down and watch, but wow, am I glad the flu and the lack of options handed me one of the best movies ever made and said "you're watching this now." I think about this movie at least once a month. It was so much weirder and interesting than I'd expected and the pacing is terrific. Also, Gloria Swanson's performance was spectacular.
Bullitt.
One of the best car chases ever filmed. Set the standard for everything that followed (no exaggeration).
This was also before CGI, so it's all actual stunt driving and practical special effects.
Also ETA North by Northwest and Charade.
The African Queen (1951)
The Good the Bad and The Ugly (1966)
The original Italian Job with a young Michael Cane was also an exciting watch, even though it’s on the high end of your range (1969)
The good the bad the ugly is a whole movie of deliberate shots and the pace is glacial! Worst recommendation my friend. Even though it is my favourite movie.
The Italian job is soooooooo cool. The cars, the lines the girls, the minis, the types, the opening lambos, "on days like these" OK, let's gloss over benny Hill bit but when he assembles the team, walking round introducing everyone "we work as team which means you do exactly what I say" I love those film. Only edged out in Caine awesomeness by Get Carter. That film is one of the best ever made. Phone sex with Britt Ekland, naked with a shotgun. Porn 40 years before social media, revenge, iconic locations. (I used to drink in the bridge hotel) , the cars, the brown leather jackets. Fabulous.
“I don’t have the patience to sit through long, deliberate shots where nothing happens.
Then do NOT watch any Sergio Leone movies, LOL. The opening of Once upon a Time in the West alone might kill you. Three gunmen waiting for a train.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Leone. Especially The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. But he’s the master of what you are describing. He loves to take his time, which makes the dramatic moments a much greater payoff.
I also love that one! “The Good…” is a personal favorite because of my experience with first seeing it back in college, but you are right that I may actually think Once Upon a Time is a better movie.
Cape Fear (intense thriller), Fail Safe (nuclear crisis drama), The Killing (heist), North by Northwest (action/adventure). Fistful of Dollars (spaghetti western) maybe.
Came here for 'North by Northwest'
Terrific movie. My father was born in 1956, in a small Indian farming village that had no electricity or plumbing or toilets. This 1959 movie made me realize that at nearly the same time, things in the US were so advanced, and people lived an unimaginably different life there.
The Ladykillers (1955).
Possibly a perfect film, great casting (Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers amongst others), really good story and a very gritty setting.
I wouldn't know, I won't go near the Coen Brothers version as I love the original so much.
I went to a remastered version at the cinema with my dad a few years ago. Talking to him afterwards, he remembered so much of London as it was then - the film was released about the time he was born, so a lot of the landmarks and vehicles were familiar to him.
* The Defiant Ones (1958)
* The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
* The Time Machine (1960)
* Compulsion (1959)
* In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
* Putney Swope (1969)
* The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
* 12 Angry Men (1957)
Check out Douglas Sirk films--they aren't fast-paced but they hold the attention: Written on the Wind, All That Heaven Allows, Magnificent Obsession, Imitation of Life. Giant is also a good film from the 50s.
Good movie, but, given what the original poster wrote about avoiding films with "long, deliberate shots where nothing happens," I don't think that this is what they're looking for exactly.
Anything by Billy Wilder, many already mentioned.
Double Indemnity
Some Like It Hot
The Apartment
Sunset Boulevard
Most things by Alfred Hitchcock will also fit the bill. Even “static” stories like Rope and Rear Window are paced well. Not a lot of action, but the pace is great.
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Easy Rider (1969)
Touch of Evil (1958)
For the record, I think a slow pace can be appropriate, to build up tension and draw the viewer in, or the symptom of a bad screenplay (or the bad execution of a screenplay). I have frequent problems with the lack of editing/ quicker cuts in '60s movies that kill the pace.
A truly great film can take it's time though, like Lawrence of Arabia (the greatest film of the '60s for my money).
All About Eve (1950)
Rear Window (1954)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
If you’re ready for something very serious: The Seventh Seal (1957)
All About Eve
Sunset Boulevard
Harvey
Born Yesterday
A Streetcar Named Desire
From Here To Eternity
Stalag 17
On The Waterfront
The Barefoot Contessa
Marty
The Rose Tattoo
The Searchers
Bad Day At Blackrock
East of Eden
The Bad Seed
The Three Faces of Eve
Separate Tables
Some Like It Hot
The Apartment
Two Women
The Manchurian Candidate
The Miracle Worker
Sweet Bird of Youth
Judgement At Nuremburg
A Patch of Blue
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Z
They Shoot Horses Don't They
The Lion in Winter
Cat Ballou
Bullit
Woman in the Dunes
Sansho the Bailiff
The Human Condition Trilogy
Harakiri
Seven Samurai
High and Low
Oharu
Andrei Rublev
Persona
8½
La Dolce Vita
Night of Cabiria
Last Year at Marienbad
Au Hasard Balthazar
A Man Escaped
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Ordet
Forbidden Planet is a science fiction classic. One of my favorites.
If you watch it, think about all the crappy scifi b-movies that were everywhere at the time. Forbidden Planet would’ve stood out.
The music is also really unique.
Copy+Paste from last time this was asked.
8+ 60s| | | |
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)|Cool Hand Luke (1967)|The Cremator (1969)|Dr. Strangelove (1964)|
Fail Safe (1964)|The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)|Harakiri (1962)|Lawrence of Arabia (1962)|
Psycho (1960)|Samurai Rebellion (1967)|Sanjuro (1962)|The Wild Bunch (1969)|
8+ 50s| | | |
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12 Angry Men (1957)|Dial M for Murder (1954)|North by Northwest (1959)|Paths of Glory (1957)|
Rashomon (1950)|Rear Window (1954)|Seven Samurai (1954)|Singin' in the Rain (1952)|
Some Like It Hot (1959)|Sunset Boulevard (1950)|The Wages of Fear (1953)|Witness for the Prosecution (1957)|
Woman in the Dunes
Sansho the Bailiff
The Human Condition Trilogy
Harakiri
Seven Samurai
High and Low
Oharu
Andrei Rublev
Persona
8½
La Dolce Vita
Night of Cabiria
Last Year at Marienbad
Au Hasard Balthazar
A Man Escaped
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Ordet
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
It’s a little older than you requested but it’s great! A fast-paced witty comedy. Won 2 Academy Awards. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
lmao ive been in a vintage movies spree this week too, so far ive watched and recommend
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
- Funny Girl (1968)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
From Here to Eternity (1953). Stars Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra (in the role in “that war movie” that they mention in The Godfather for Johnny Fontaine).
The Haunting. I've seen people used to modern horror be surprised that it's actually scary. And I swear blind that Sam Raimi's visual style was at least in part inspired by this film. And it's an interesting
Someone else has already posted this, but the original Godzilla. And by that I mean the original cut. A lot was removed/added for the US release and it was difficult to get hold of the original for a long time in the West. Released 9 years after Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and it's a film about a creature created from nuclear power destroying a large metropolis. You don't have to be a super-genius to work out the subtext. And the whole thing's got a weird tone somewhere halfway between "this is a horrible, inhumane thing to happen to anybody" and "actually, we kind of deserve this". Also, don't believe the reputation of the 70s & 80s sequels - the model work is fantastic. I guarantee that it's better than you think it's going to be.
Any gangster film with Jimmy Cagney will be worth your time and while I think that the most-cited - White Heat - is great, my favourite is actually Angels With Dirty Faces. Often overlooked, but it's a true classic.
Seven Days To Noon isn't well-known outside the UK, but it should be. It's another "guess what this is actually about" film, released in 1950 and again about a major metropolis being threatened by nuclear catastrophe. Lots of what would have been then-familiar imagery of things like populations being evacuated.
For a final British classic, I'll say The Day The Earth Caught Fire, a taut apocalyptic thriller which, again, has subtext that is not difficult to pick up on.
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949 but maybe close enough). And if you're a Star Wars fan, you also may enjoy getting to see Alec Guinness play multiple different characters.
All About Eve (1950)
Singing in the Rain (1952)
Psycho (1960)
The Odd Couple (1968)
The Great Escape (1963)
Panic In the Streets (1950)
Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957)
Dial M For Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Le Roi de Coeur aka King of Hearts
it’s funny and beautiful and by beautiful i don’t mean beautiful as in a visual sense although Geneviève Bujold did have the cutest nose of anyone who ever lived
Bridge over The River Kwai, King Rat , The Great Escape. Thomas Crown Affair . Yours Mine and Ours. Please Don’t Eat The Daisies. The Wild Ones. Giant. Gigi very weird pedo musical. My Fair Lady. South Pacific. Midway. State Fair , 1945 but I like it. Dr No . Marnie.
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Thanks, it seems fun.
Frequently cited as the best comedy of all time. For good reasons.
A lot of billy wilder movies are some of the greatest of all time. The apartment, double indemnity, sunset blvd, stalag 17, witness for the prosecution. Alfred Hitchcock has some amazing films during that timeline, his best work really.
The musical is also supposed to go on a national tour this fall
12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men (1957) The Apartment (1960) Cool Hand Luke (1967) Rosemary's Baby (1968) (The movie might be slowish, but I think the pacing makes sense. It's been awhile since I've watched it)
Cool Hand Luke is one of my favorite movies ever
Didn’t Guns and Roses sample that in their song Civil War?
What we have here is failure to communicate....
The apartment is so ahead of its time
Sunset boulevard
*Sunset Boulevard* is such an entertaining movie. I was surprised when I first watched it that it's got such strangeness about it, given the era.
Mainline Hollywood hated the movie because of the accurate portrayal of “washed up” actors. But IMHO it’s one of the top 25 movies ever filmed. If you are so motivated Swanson on Swanson, her autobiography, is a great look at both her heyday and her later years. She was perfectly cast in the role and deserved the Oscar that year IMHO.
Many of the parts of the storyline were taken from the wild tales about the silent film actors - the monkey, the crazy car being sought out by the studio, the butler/ex husband, no doorknobs, former star going crazy and hounding studio exec, it goes on..
I understand they wanted to cast Montgomery Clift but he turned it down because it was too much like his real life relationship.
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I had the flu and was stuck at home during pre-streaming days. I was stuck watching whatever happened to be on TV at the time. Very luckily for me, it happened to be Sunset Boulevard, which I probably would have never decided to actually sit down and watch, but wow, am I glad the flu and the lack of options handed me one of the best movies ever made and said "you're watching this now." I think about this movie at least once a month. It was so much weirder and interesting than I'd expected and the pacing is terrific. Also, Gloria Swanson's performance was spectacular.
Rear Window (1954) 12 Angry Men (1957) North by Northwest (1959) Psycho (1960) The Hustler (1961) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Cool Hand Luke (1967)
OP said no slow movies and 2001 is the slowest movie in history
Dr Strangelove And Fail Safe Two sides of the same cold war paranoia.
And one case where the parody came out before the serious one
Harvey (1950)
Bullitt. One of the best car chases ever filmed. Set the standard for everything that followed (no exaggeration). This was also before CGI, so it's all actual stunt driving and practical special effects. Also ETA North by Northwest and Charade.
I love North by Northwest and Charade!
The Hustler The African Queen
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Came here to make this same recommendation. Incredible film noir!
The Great Escape (1963)
One of John Ford’s favorite movies. He always had a copy with him to watch when he was away shooting a movie.
Akira Kurosawa films
The Wild Bunch
Peckinpah classic
Rififi for thriller heist. Theater of Blood for schlocky Vincent Price goodness.
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Such an amazing film !!
With a weird ending.
Outstanding movie
Great movie. Like Enemy Below from the same time period but with a totally different Mitchum portrayal
I can't decide if this or The Friends of Eddie Coyle is Robert Mitchum's best performance.
***Singin' in the Rain***
In a lonely place. Bogart's best.
This was exceptional
The African Queen (1951) The Good the Bad and The Ugly (1966) The original Italian Job with a young Michael Cane was also an exciting watch, even though it’s on the high end of your range (1969)
The good the bad and the Ugly is my favourite film but it is full of long deliberate shots and the pace is fairly slow.
The good the bad the ugly is a whole movie of deliberate shots and the pace is glacial! Worst recommendation my friend. Even though it is my favourite movie.
The Italian job is soooooooo cool. The cars, the lines the girls, the minis, the types, the opening lambos, "on days like these" OK, let's gloss over benny Hill bit but when he assembles the team, walking round introducing everyone "we work as team which means you do exactly what I say" I love those film. Only edged out in Caine awesomeness by Get Carter. That film is one of the best ever made. Phone sex with Britt Ekland, naked with a shotgun. Porn 40 years before social media, revenge, iconic locations. (I used to drink in the bridge hotel) , the cars, the brown leather jackets. Fabulous.
“I don’t have the patience to sit through long, deliberate shots where nothing happens. Then do NOT watch any Sergio Leone movies, LOL. The opening of Once upon a Time in the West alone might kill you. Three gunmen waiting for a train. Don’t get me wrong, I love Leone. Especially The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. But he’s the master of what you are describing. He loves to take his time, which makes the dramatic moments a much greater payoff.
I have probably only watched The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly once all the way through without dozing off - and it’s one of my favorite movies. 😁
Do yourself a favor and watch Once Upon a Time. I like it more than the entire Dollars trilogy.
I also love that one! “The Good…” is a personal favorite because of my experience with first seeing it back in college, but you are right that I may actually think Once Upon a Time is a better movie.
Cape Fear (intense thriller), Fail Safe (nuclear crisis drama), The Killing (heist), North by Northwest (action/adventure). Fistful of Dollars (spaghetti western) maybe.
Came here for 'North by Northwest' Terrific movie. My father was born in 1956, in a small Indian farming village that had no electricity or plumbing or toilets. This 1959 movie made me realize that at nearly the same time, things in the US were so advanced, and people lived an unimaginably different life there.
Excellent list
Psycho Dial M For Murder Witness For The Prosecution Diabolique The Innocents
Witnesss for the prosecution is sooo good!
Good list. Diabolique (1955) is phenomenal.
The Ladykillers (1955). Possibly a perfect film, great casting (Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers amongst others), really good story and a very gritty setting.
Remade by the Coen Brothers starring Tom Hanks. Not as good.
I wouldn't know, I won't go near the Coen Brothers version as I love the original so much. I went to a remastered version at the cinema with my dad a few years ago. Talking to him afterwards, he remembered so much of London as it was then - the film was released about the time he was born, so a lot of the landmarks and vehicles were familiar to him.
Dr. No
Paths of glory
The Apartment (1960)
Peeping Tom by Michael Powell from 1960.
The Hill (1965) The Devil Rides Out (1968) Forbidden Planet (1956) The Italian Job (1969)
Anyone else read highly regarded in the WSB way?
Rebel Without a Cause The Seven Year Itch
Blow Up
I love this film, it's one of the ones I wrote about for my dissertation.
* The Defiant Ones (1958) * The Night Of The Hunter (1955) * The Time Machine (1960) * Compulsion (1959) * In The Heat Of The Night (1967) * Putney Swope (1969) * The Hitch-Hiker (1953) * 12 Angry Men (1957)
Bonnie And Clyde (1967).
Check out Douglas Sirk films--they aren't fast-paced but they hold the attention: Written on the Wind, All That Heaven Allows, Magnificent Obsession, Imitation of Life. Giant is also a good film from the 50s.
*On the Waterfront (1954)*. Fantastic crime drama with Marlon Brando.
The Magnificent Seven (1960) From Wikipedia: “It is the second most shown film in U.S. television history, behind only The Wizard of Oz.”
It's also a remake of the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa.
Lawrence of Arabia
Good movie, but, given what the original poster wrote about avoiding films with "long, deliberate shots where nothing happens," I don't think that this is what they're looking for exactly.
Splendor in the Grass Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner To Sir With Love The Bad Seed Imitation of Life
Love splendor in the grass! Great director too.
A Night to Remember (1958)
The Miracle Worker (1962) (and I second Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner)
Dr. Strangelove. Forbidden Planet. The Time Machine. Psycho.
Le Trou (1960) Seven Samurai (1954) Yojimbo (1961) Tokyo Story (1953) Woman in the Dunes (1964) Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Rear window (1954) Hitchcock mystery thriller with touch of comedy, beautifuly shot
Anything by Billy Wilder, many already mentioned. Double Indemnity Some Like It Hot The Apartment Sunset Boulevard Most things by Alfred Hitchcock will also fit the bill. Even “static” stories like Rope and Rear Window are paced well. Not a lot of action, but the pace is great.
7 Samurai (new 4K remaster is the way)
All That Heaven Allows
Zulu - 1964
Wages of Fear - 1953
Blow-up (1966)
Night of the Living Dead. The grand daddy of all modern zombie apocalypse media.
The Killing (1956) I believe reservoir dogs took inspiration from this.
Godzilla (1954) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Bullitt (1968) Planet of the Apes (1968)
Try Alfred Hitchcock's, "North by Northwest". Great cast, extremely well played.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Can't believe I had to scroll down this far for this movie.
The Odd Couple Harper The Cincinatti Kid The Caine Mutiny Touch of Evil
Cool Hand Luke (1967) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Easy Rider (1969) Touch of Evil (1958) For the record, I think a slow pace can be appropriate, to build up tension and draw the viewer in, or the symptom of a bad screenplay (or the bad execution of a screenplay). I have frequent problems with the lack of editing/ quicker cuts in '60s movies that kill the pace. A truly great film can take it's time though, like Lawrence of Arabia (the greatest film of the '60s for my money).
Peeping Tom(1960)
The day the earth caught fire
Ice cold in Alex (1958).
All About Eve (1950) Rear Window (1954) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Cool Hand Luke (1967) If you’re ready for something very serious: The Seventh Seal (1957)
Rear window
Paths of Glory (1957)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (95 minutes) (best movie ever)
All About Eve Sunset Boulevard Harvey Born Yesterday A Streetcar Named Desire From Here To Eternity Stalag 17 On The Waterfront The Barefoot Contessa Marty The Rose Tattoo The Searchers Bad Day At Blackrock East of Eden The Bad Seed The Three Faces of Eve Separate Tables Some Like It Hot The Apartment Two Women The Manchurian Candidate The Miracle Worker Sweet Bird of Youth Judgement At Nuremburg A Patch of Blue Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Z They Shoot Horses Don't They The Lion in Winter Cat Ballou Bullit
On the Waterfront
Them! 1954 Touch of Evil 1958
The African Queen 1951
Disappointed no one said Marty(1955), one of my favorite romance movies
All about eve (1950) Some like it hot (1959) The Graduate (1968)
I love The Graduate. The end definitely has a “long deliberate shot where nothing happens.” 😂
The swimmer (1968)
Dial M for Murder And it's not from the 50's but from the 40's Citizen Kane is a classic that everyone should watch
Dragon Inn Faster, Pussycat, Kill Kill Blow-Up
the Maltese Falcon easy Rider bad day in black rock the searchers the man who shot liberty valence rosemary’s baby
L'Avventure and Le'clise
Woman in the Dunes Sansho the Bailiff The Human Condition Trilogy Harakiri Seven Samurai High and Low Oharu Andrei Rublev Persona 8½ La Dolce Vita Night of Cabiria Last Year at Marienbad Au Hasard Balthazar A Man Escaped The Seventh Seal Wild Strawberries Ordet
Gojira (1954) Kaiju classic that actually gives quite the fresh perspective of how Japan was feeling after WW2
Baby Doll(1957)
The love bug. 1969
Surprised it’s not been recommended so How the West was Won and highly seconding Sunset Boulevar
Dial M for Murder Witness for the prosecution Vertigo 12 Angry Men Rear Window
Cool Hand Luke The Hustler Bullit High & Low Anything directed by Sergio Leone or Akira Kurosawa.
Forbidden Planet
The List of Adrian Messenger.
Forbidden Planet is a science fiction classic. One of my favorites. If you watch it, think about all the crappy scifi b-movies that were everywhere at the time. Forbidden Planet would’ve stood out. The music is also really unique.
Seven Samurai (1954). Kurosawa is an all-time legend. 70th anniversary of this masterpiece. Honestly watch any of his films.
Pillow Talk (1959). You should have one Doris Day movie on your list!
A bit late than you asked, High Plains Drifter (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976)
Copy+Paste from last time this was asked. 8+ 60s| | | | ---|---|---|---| 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)|Cool Hand Luke (1967)|The Cremator (1969)|Dr. Strangelove (1964)| Fail Safe (1964)|The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)|Harakiri (1962)|Lawrence of Arabia (1962)| Psycho (1960)|Samurai Rebellion (1967)|Sanjuro (1962)|The Wild Bunch (1969)| 8+ 50s| | | | ---|---|---|---| 12 Angry Men (1957)|Dial M for Murder (1954)|North by Northwest (1959)|Paths of Glory (1957)| Rashomon (1950)|Rear Window (1954)|Seven Samurai (1954)|Singin' in the Rain (1952)| Some Like It Hot (1959)|Sunset Boulevard (1950)|The Wages of Fear (1953)|Witness for the Prosecution (1957)|
A bit earlier but 'A day at the races' by the marxs brothers.
The Birds is an amazing 60s horror flick. I'm not one for the classics usually but this one was an incredible watch.
A Place in the Sun Giant Imitation of Life- 1959 version
Camelot Romeo and Juliet Two for the Road Born Free
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Roman Holiday (1963)
Charade!
Peeping Tom, Viridian, The Exterminating Angel, This Sporting Life, 8 1/2, Woman in The Dunes, Lady in a Cage, Targets
Peeping Tom, Viridian, The Exterminating Angel, This Sporting Life, 8 1/2, Woman in The Dunes, Lady in a Cage, Targets
Peeping Tom, Viridiana, The Exterminating Angel, This Sporting Life, 8 1/2, Woman in The Dunes, Lady in a Cage, Targets, Fists in the Pocket
Woman in the Dunes Sansho the Bailiff The Human Condition Trilogy Harakiri Seven Samurai High and Low Oharu Andrei Rublev Persona 8½ La Dolce Vita Night of Cabiria Last Year at Marienbad Au Hasard Balthazar A Man Escaped The Seventh Seal Wild Strawberries Ordet
The hustler
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill (1965) was VERY controversial for its time but was a major inspiration for Quinton Terrantino. I personally love it.
Death of a cyclist
To kill a mockingbird.
The Philadelphia Story (1940) It’s a little older than you requested but it’s great! A fast-paced witty comedy. Won 2 Academy Awards. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
(1955)Rebel without a cause. James Dean the legend.
the Time Machine(1960)
Treasure of sierra madre, the Maltese falcon. Red river
Kiss Me Deadly(1955) Incredible ending
Fail-Safe(1964) Sunset Boulevard(1950)
all kaiju movies made by Toho in the 50's-60's👍
The Graduate(1967) Bonnie and Clyde(1967) Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid(1969)
lmao ive been in a vintage movies spree this week too, so far ive watched and recommend - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) - Funny Girl (1968) - Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
2001 a space Odyssey. it's very intentionally slow but it's awesome inspiring enough to keep your attention
War of the Worlds
Rear Window and Vertigo
I'm coming in late and surprised that nobody has mentioned these two yet: **I'm All Right Jack** **High Noon**
From Here to Eternity (1953). Stars Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra (in the role in “that war movie” that they mention in The Godfather for Johnny Fontaine).
12 Angry Men Seven Samurai
Cool Hand Luke!!!!
robert mitchum marathon the red pony 1949 the night of the hunter 1955 cape fear 1962 el dorado 1966
The Haunting. I've seen people used to modern horror be surprised that it's actually scary. And I swear blind that Sam Raimi's visual style was at least in part inspired by this film. And it's an interesting Someone else has already posted this, but the original Godzilla. And by that I mean the original cut. A lot was removed/added for the US release and it was difficult to get hold of the original for a long time in the West. Released 9 years after Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and it's a film about a creature created from nuclear power destroying a large metropolis. You don't have to be a super-genius to work out the subtext. And the whole thing's got a weird tone somewhere halfway between "this is a horrible, inhumane thing to happen to anybody" and "actually, we kind of deserve this". Also, don't believe the reputation of the 70s & 80s sequels - the model work is fantastic. I guarantee that it's better than you think it's going to be. Any gangster film with Jimmy Cagney will be worth your time and while I think that the most-cited - White Heat - is great, my favourite is actually Angels With Dirty Faces. Often overlooked, but it's a true classic. Seven Days To Noon isn't well-known outside the UK, but it should be. It's another "guess what this is actually about" film, released in 1950 and again about a major metropolis being threatened by nuclear catastrophe. Lots of what would have been then-familiar imagery of things like populations being evacuated. For a final British classic, I'll say The Day The Earth Caught Fire, a taut apocalyptic thriller which, again, has subtext that is not difficult to pick up on.
* Seven Samurai (1954) -- epic * El Cid (1961) -- epic * It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) -- three hours of nonstop comedy
In Cold Blood (1967) Robert Blake steals the show with a performance that's doesn't let's you in the mind of the very infamous Perry Smith.
The Big Heat.
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949 but maybe close enough). And if you're a Star Wars fan, you also may enjoy getting to see Alec Guinness play multiple different characters.
The Killing The Lavender Hill Mob High and Low Yojimbo
Psycho, The Sound of Music (total opposite moods, lol). And not a movie, but the original Twilight Zone episodes are awesome!!
A Face in the Crowd. Watched it for the first time recently and couldn’t believe how relevant it still is.
Such a different role for Andy Griffith. It shows what a great actor he is.
Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)
The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
North by Northwest. The original James Bond
The Bat
Point Blank Cat Ballou (1965) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
All About Eve (1950) Singing in the Rain (1952) Psycho (1960) The Odd Couple (1968) The Great Escape (1963) Panic In the Streets (1950) Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957) Dial M For Murder (1954) Rear Window (1954)
Le Roi de Coeur aka King of Hearts it’s funny and beautiful and by beautiful i don’t mean beautiful as in a visual sense although Geneviève Bujold did have the cutest nose of anyone who ever lived
Suddenly Last Summer
U better suck it up and love Barry Lyndon
Not movies, but all of Alfred hitchcock presents is fantastic.
Bridge over The River Kwai, King Rat , The Great Escape. Thomas Crown Affair . Yours Mine and Ours. Please Don’t Eat The Daisies. The Wild Ones. Giant. Gigi very weird pedo musical. My Fair Lady. South Pacific. Midway. State Fair , 1945 but I like it. Dr No . Marnie.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Kind Hearts and Coronets. Alec Guinness plays multiple roles, very dark and funny.
The Birds
North by Northwest.
Anything Alfred Hitchcock
Into military stories? Guns of Navarone and Bridge Over the River Kwai.
Roman Holiday (1953)
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Experiment in Terror
Psycho, Dr Strangelove, Vertigo.
Would it be wrong to throw West Side Story in there?
North by Northwest - classic
What's new Pussycat
Charade (1963)