old 1950's/1660's movies like breakfast at tiffaney

A V A

can any body tell me some movies that were made in the 50's or 60's like breakfast at tiffaneys , they can be that kind of story line like fashion and romance or just romance, real cool style and fashionable haha

cheers

Spiritoftheseventies

Audrey Hepburn who starred in Breakfast in Tiffanys made a film with Gregory Peck called Roman Holiday. Same kind of Romantic story which she was very good at.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046250/
One very famous scene it.

A V A

ye i know it very well i have all her films

just would love to know more films like tiffaneys

Spiritoftheseventies

If you keep it to those two decades its a bit restricting. Are you talking musical or comedy.
There are loads of films like that as such. It happened one night, the Philadelphia Story etc.

ztoical

Cleo from 5 to 7 - french film from 1962...follows a singer wandering around Paris, some really wonderful set pieces and shots of Paris plus great fashion. It was filmed in black and white which really adds to the contrast of the Paris and the clothes etc You can read into the story as part of the whole new wave french cinema movement of the 60's like Hiroshima Mon Amour, La Jetée etc but you can just watch for the wonderful shots of Paris [which looks alot like it still looks today cept for the cars] and early 60's french fashion.

A V A

cheers for that im going to see can i buy them and watch them

im not looking for real comedy kind of film and not so musical im not mad into the musicals i dont really like them

A V A

oh i like clark gable but it happened one night is kind of old really to what im looking for the style like the breakfast at tiffaneys was made or even any goog film that was made around the 60's in america i like the era

johnny_ultimate

The work of Billy Wilder is really your friend here. Check out the Apartment specifically - effortlessly stylish, a far more mature romance than the vast majority of romantic films.

I'd back up Ztoical with French New Wave stuff. It really was the coolest era of cinema. Breathless and Jules et Jim are good starting points. They aren't quite as accessible as the American counterparts, but they are far more effective at capturing the spirit of the era.

Not really fitting with the initial request (although I'm not sure how many 17th century films I'm aware of ) but Priceless with Audrey Tautou was made a few years ago and is a really good emulation of the stylish, elegant style of old. I wasn't the biggest fan of it - pretty shallow, and the leads aren't really likable - but along the same kind of lines.

A V A

ye cheers every single film and advice is being taken into account and checking them as we speak

i just watched nowhere boy the film of the early years of john lennon and i thought it was really kool with the fashion and music that was in it

also watched an education was good aswell i enjoyed that

modern day films that are made now that were set around the 50' and 60's cand also be good to watch

A V A

checked a few of those french films out im not really liking them ?? i dont know if im being picky i like the colour and the way the films wer made around the era of tiffaneys

ztoical

A V A wrote: »

checked a few of those french films out im not really liking them ?? i dont know if im being picky i like the colour and the way the films wer made around the era of tiffaneys

Really not sure what it is your looking for...you say the way films were made around that time but what exactly, it's hard to rec other similar films TBH without more insight into what it is your looking for...have you watched any other films by Blake Edwards? Is it the design of the film, the female lead, the acting, the music, the storytelling?

I second Bill Wilder if it's American films your looking for - the apartment and some like it hot.

LiamMc

8 femmes / 8 women (2002) - Francois Ozon
http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Huit_femmes_rev.html

Credits:

• Director: François Ozon
• Script: Marina de Van, François Ozon, Robert Thomas (play)
• Photo: Jeanne Lapoirie
• Music: Krishna Levy
• Cast: Danielle Darrieux (Mamy), Catherine Deneuve (Gaby), Isabelle Huppert (Augustine), Emmanuelle Béart (Louise), Fanny Ardant (Pierrette), Virginie Ledoyen (Suzon), Ludivine Sagnier (Catherine), Firmine Richard (Madame Chanel), Dominique Lamure (Marcel)
• Country: France
• Language: French
• Runtime: 103 min
• Aka: 8 Women; Huit femmes

Utterly stylised. You want fashion this is it.
I just went to my local IFI and had brought a roll, crisps and other stuff. Thinking I would see a film in an almost empty theatre. So bought a ticket for this as it was the soonest to start. It turned out it was the first night and the local Alliance Francaise were there in force. The place was packed and I'm there taking the first half of the film to finish my food.
(It may have an intermission).


Brief Encouter (1946)
http://www.filmsite.org/brie.html
Brief Encounter (locations)
http://home.clara.net/gw0hqd/brief/locations/locations.htm

Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard.
Terribly, terribly good film from David Lean. An Incredibly Polite Affair. I heard a reviewer on TV say, when he was discussing the film with another critic from France. The French critic presumed the role of the single bachelor (Stanley Holloway?) was the homosexual element in the film. The English critic never even considered that.

A V A

ztoical wrote: »

Really not sure what it is your looking for...you say the way films were made around that time but what exactly, it's hard to rec other similar films TBH without more insight into what it is your looking for...have you watched any other films by Blake Edwards? Is it the design of the film, the female lead, the acting, the music, the storytelling?

I second Bill Wilder if it's American films your looking for - the apartment and some like it hot.

havent checked anything else by blake edwards yet but will do

i like the female lead and the design of the film aswell as the music

A V A

@liammc what theatre did you go to see 8 femme??

LiamMc

A V A wrote: »

@liammc what theatre did you go to see 8 femme??

Á Temple Bar.

Skerries

i didn't tknow the film industry was around in 1660?

Valmont

Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Spiritoftheseventies

Although its not from the sixties, I think the Accidental Tourist has a similiar sort of theme to it.

Nolanger

The OP is asking for similar films to Breakfast at Tiffany's from the same era. Whoever suggested Cleo From 5 to 7 should wipe their arse with their film studies degree! The closest actress to Hepburn from that era was Judy Holliday. She played the classy girl-next-door type. Her best films were Born Yesterday and Bells are Ringing.

A V A

i didnt know i spelt it wrong sorry !!!!

ill check judy holiday out aswell

ztoical

Nolanger wrote: »

The OP is asking for similar films to Breakfast at Tiffany's from the same era. Whoever suggested Cleo From 5 to 7 should wipe their arse with their film studies degree! The closest actress to Hepburn from that era was Judy Holliday. She played the classy girl-next-door type. Her best films were Born Yesterday and Bells are Ringing.

I suggested Cleo From 5 to 7 and I think I made my reasoning pretty clear in my post as to why I was suggesting it. The OP in their opening post was very vague as to what exactly they were looking for and the suggestion was simply offered as a film that they perhaps would not have seen rather then suggesting every standard american film with a female lead made in the 1950's and 60's.

Nolanger

Who cares about that New Wave Frog crap! OP check out the Doris Day / Rock Hudson titles from that era
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGLVwnhktrc

ztoical

Nolanger wrote: »

Who cares about that New Wave Frog crap!

Just because you don't enjoy those films doesn't mean other people don't and there's no need to mock other posters suggestions. it was offered as just that a suggestion and nothing more.

Nolanger

It's not that I don't enjoy these French films but rather the OP wouldn't if she's looking for something similar to Breakfast at Tiffany's. It just showed that you couldn't think of similar American titles from that era. If you're such a know all on the French New Wave why didn't you suggest more accessible titles such as Umbrellas of Cherbourg or A Man and a Woman instead?

ztoical

Nolanger wrote: »

It's not that I don't enjoy these French films but rather the OP wouldn't if she's looking for something similar to Breakfast at Tiffany's. It just showed that you couldn't think of similar American titles from that era. If you're such a know all on the French New Wave why didn't you suggest more accessible titles such as Umbrellas of Cherbourg or A Man and a Woman instead?

First off I never claimed to be a know it all on french film or any other area of film. And it wasn't a case of not being able to think of an american title but rather how vague the OP's first post was taking about style and fashion. My thought for Cloe was based more on how well it moves around Paris and uses that city as backdrop much like New York is used in Breakfast at Tiffany's...why are you getting so worked up about it, it was just a suggestion...at no point did I put down american cinema of the time and/or push only french or anything of the like, I suggested a film that might not fit exactly what the OP was looking for but they might have enjoyed, they said they looked at it and didn't enjoy, big deal not the end of the world.

Wacker

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

The work of Billy Wilder is really your friend here. Check out the Apartment specifically - effortlessly stylish, a far more mature romance than the vast majority of romantic films.

That would be my pick too.