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Looking for an old movie to watch

  • 21-09-2013 09:21PM
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 207 ✭✭


    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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,889 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Dog Day Afternoon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    -A Night to Remember

    brilliant film about the Titanic

    -12 Angry Men

    prob my fav film


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Fatal Deviation


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    Citizen kane


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Watched 12 Angry Men recently. Very good movie.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭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


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,583 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 595 ✭✭✭ElvisChrist6


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 914 ✭✭✭tommyboy2222


    On the Waterfront.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭Lightbulb Sun


    Double Indemnity.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭biddybops


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

    Two great films.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 207 ✭✭StrugglingSoul


    Skid X wrote: »
    Fatal Deviation

    This does not fit the description


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 662 ✭✭✭clairek6


    Riding in cars with boys... :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Clandestine


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    On the Waterfront.

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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,584 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,095 ✭✭✭OU812


    Sunset boulevard
    The apartment


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭Rho b


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


  • Posts: 951 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 810 ✭✭✭fermanagh_man


    Cool hand luke


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭razorgil


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭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.


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