Looking for an old movie to watch

StrugglingSoul

I've realised that modern movies don't do it for me any more. And I like the slow paced older movies more so from the 60s and 70s. I've recently watched "The Conversation", "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" "Rope" and "Alfie" Does anyone know of any good recommendations?

For Forks Sake

Dog Day Afternoon

wp_rathead

-A Night to Remember

brilliant film about the Titanic

-12 Angry Men

prob my fav film

Skid X

Fatal Deviation

Chancer3001

Citizen kane

Artful_Badger

Watched 12 Angry Men recently. Very good movie.

Ihatecuddles-old

12 Angry Men or Empire of the Sun, Last 2 movies I watched. Both made my boyfriend cry. D'aww.

KyussBishop

12 Angry Men is a great one alright; some others (not necessarily all slow moving, but all good):
Bad Day at Black Rock
In the Heat of the Night
To Kill a Mockingbird
Hell in the Pacific
Kes
A Clockwork Orange
Badlands
The Wicker Man

5uspect

A few classics
2001
Vertigo
Rear Window
Stalker
The Caine Mutiny

Don't give up on more contemporary stuff either.
Brick
Children of Men
Moon
Upstream Color
Biutiful

Also anything by David Lynch.

ElvisChrist6

StrugglingSoul wrote: »

I've realised that modern movies don't do it for me any more. And I like the slow paced older movies more so from the 60s and 70s. I've recently watched "The Conversation", "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" "Rope" and "Alfie" Does anyone know of any good recommendations?

If you like Hitchcock, try The Trouble With Harry - my favourite of his. Fantastic farce, like a Beckett play in many ways.

DoozerT6

+1 on 12 Angry Men, the original 1950's version.

tommyboy2222

On the Waterfront.

lahalane

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Certainly slow anyway.

Ice Storm

Some Like it Hot

I watched it a while ago because it's so critically acclaimed but didn't really have high hopes. But I loved it; it is genuinely very funny and enjoyable.

Lightbulb Sun

Double Indemnity.

c_man

StrugglingSoul wrote: »

I've realised that modern movies don't do it for me any more. And I like the slow paced older movies more so from the 60s and 70s. I've recently watched "The Conversation", "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" "Rope" and "Alfie" Does anyone know of any good recommendations?

The Alfie remake with Jude Law :pac:

biddybops

'Being there' with Peter sellers.
'Jacobs ladder' with tim Robbins.

Two great films.

StrugglingSoul

Skid X wrote: »

Fatal Deviation

This does not fit the description

clairek6

Riding in cars with boys...

Clandestine

Harakiri
The Lost Weekend
Persona
Paths of Glory
The Human Condition
If.....

token101

tommyboy2222 wrote: »

On the Waterfront.

Coulda been a contender, but Dog Day Afternoon is an unbelievable watch. Attica! Attica!

DublinWriter

Two neglected 90's classics for me are Citizen X, starring Donald Sutherland and our very own Stephen Rea about the first Soviet serial killer ever brought to justice and the Channel 4 movie of Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy of books.

OU812

Sunset boulevard
The apartment

Rho b

The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Both are classic films if not slightly depressing in content.

I got a blu-ray of "Lawrence of Arabia" last year and must say it looks great, highly recommend it.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I see you mentioned you watched "Rope", "Dial M for Murder" is another great Hitchcock suspense thriller.

I'd also recommend stuff by John Huston, "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" are worth looking at, both starring Humphrey Bogart.

fermanagh_man

Cool hand luke

Gannicus

The Third Man
The Maltese Falcon
Somebody Up There Likes Me
The Usual Suspects
The Place Beyond the Pines
The Man From Earth
The Sunset Limited
12 Angry Men (the original from 1957)

I agree with the poster who recommends Fatal Deviation.



However you've not lived until you've watched:

The Last Dragon

wil

Apocalypse now, Full Metal Jacket, The DeerHunter, Patton (miltary theme)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
The French Connection, The long Good Friday
Marathon Man, Chinatown, Deliverance, Midnight Express
The Godfather
The Sting
Serpico
Kramer vs Kramer
Sleuth
Brazil
The hitcher
The Quiet Man
The Shining, Ferris Buellers Day Off, The Untouchables, BladeRunner, Gandhi, The Breakfast Club, The Abyss, Excalibur and Trading Places...

Thats the good thing about the past, its got a much better choice than the current.

razorgil

although a bit older than you mentioned, (1942), Casablanca is still timeless, with some classic lines

Joe10000

Mentioned already but +1 for 12 angry men, also one of my favourite movies.

Once upon a time in America is also in my top 10.

wendell borton

Birdman of Alcatraz.

j@utis

+1 to The Trouble With Harry
also Harold and Maude

Gannicus

Pirates 2: Stagnetti's Revenge

Cosmicfox

I don't watch many old movies but I really liked the German anti-war film Die Bruecke (The bridge in English). It's slow paced until the last 40 minutes when the action starts. There's an English dub I think but I've only managed to find a subtitled version.

canadianwoman

I just recently watched The Quiet Man....for the 10th time.

fangee

Harold and Maude

Chinatown

The Long Goodbye

The City of Lost Children

Rho b

Cosmicfox wrote: »

I don't watch many old movies but I really liked the German anti-war film Die Bruecke (The bridge in English). It's slow paced until the last 40 minutes when the action starts. There's an English dub I think but I've only managed to find a subtitled version.

Your post reminded me of Das Boot. I remember as a teenager watching it as a series on RTE? Scary as hell.

Links234

Yojimbo

Clandestine

Links234 wrote: »

Yojimbo

So many good samurai films to recommend..
Seven Samurai
Throne of Blood
Samurai Rebellion
Chushingura
Etc.

Links234

Clandestine wrote: »

So many good samurai films to recommend..
Seven Samurai
Throne of Blood
Samurai Rebellion
Chushingura
Etc.

and then they went and became westerns Fistful of Dollars, Magnificent Seven. even Star Wars was a samurai movie to begin with!

lucretiaborgia

Darby o gill and the Little People ??

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Allyall

StrugglingSoul wrote: »

I've realised that modern movies don't do it for me any more. And I like the slow paced older movies more so from the 60s and 70s. I've recently watched "The Conversation", "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" "Rope" and "Alfie" Does anyone know of any good recommendations?

For the 100th time - 12 Angry Men
Also


Cool Hand Luke.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

donegal__road

watched this recently and its excellent.. one of the best short films I have seen in a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j4MAzQiTxE

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uch

Watch "The Gods Must Be Crazy" and you'll be enlightened

homeless student

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuVDrpl1tIY

efb

Another for 12 Angry Men- I only saw it last year. Wasn't it Roger Egbert's best movie

greedygoblin

Bladerunner is on RTE1 now for anyone interested.

efb

12 angry men is on YouTube btw

HansHolzel

lucretiaborgia wrote: »

Darby o gill and the Little People ??

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Lucretia Borgia, great name.

I prefer Lucrezia, io preferisco la versione italiana but, whatever, something tells me we won't ever be having dinner ;-)

Lucifer31

The Apartment.