Today’s movies are just crap, help me delve into some golden oldies.

Tazium

Star Wars original trilogy

Rocky 1, 2, 4, and Balboa

The Fisher King

Warrior

Dead Poets Society

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Ferris Bueller’s day off

High Fidelity

Intermission

My cousin Vinny

Pulp Fiction

The end of the affair

The Goonies

The Sixth Sense

Hippodrome Song Owl

I know what you mean OP. I feel like the there's nothing for me in the cinema the majority of the year now. Superheroes seem to dominate and there's maybe two decent options a year outside that.

My favourite oldies are:

• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• The African Queen
• Heaven Knows, Mr Allison
• Kelly's Heroes
• The Blue Max
• The Night of the Hunter

These are the ones I can't resist any time they're on TV.

A couple of recent ones that have stood up to re-watching a few times for me are:

The Drop

Hell or High Water

Capt'n Midnight

Some vampire films

The Fearless Vampire Hunters

Mr Vampire 1985

¡Vampiros en la Habana! / Vampires in Havana 1985 (not politically correct)

Nosferatu 1922 AND Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979

What We Do in the Shadows (2014) and the series, obviously

Daywalkers 2009

Salem’s Lot (1979)

Let the Right One In (2008)

Blade (1998)

Byzantium (2012)

Innocent Blood (1992)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

Priest (2011)

Capt'n Midnight

Stop Motion if you like that stuff

King Kong 1933

Mighty Joe Young 1949

Lots of Ray Harryhausen movies , Valley of Gwangi is Cowboys vs Dinosaurs

Capt'n Midnight

Kung Fu Hustle - "like Jackie Chan and Buster Keaton meet Quentin Tarantino and Bugs Bunny."

I.am.Putins.raging.bile.duct

Under the skin - Unsettling sci-fi horror that went under the radar for a lot of people

mojesius

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

Schindler's List

Stand by me

Smokey and the bandit

bnt

The Ice Storm is an underappreciated classic to me at least.

brokenbad

Some of the best movies from the 90's worth checking out:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Ronin
3. The Rock
4. Patriot Games
5. The Shawshank Redemption
6. The Field
7. Saving Private Ryan
8. Heat
9. The Fugitive
10. In the Line of Fire

hoodie6029

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120839234#Comment_120839234

Love Office Space!

https://youtube.com/shorts/aWcztQ14zI4?feature=share

Jack Daw

North by Northwest, Vertigo, Rear Window , Psycho, Shadow of a Doubt , Spellbound, Notorious, Rebecca and Suspicion all Hitchcock classics.

Danny2580

Shampoo (1975) - Great script (Hal Ashby), this film is a cousin of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood if you read about their backgrounds but actually better IMHO.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

Bullitt (1968)

The Day Of The Jackal (1974)

Riddle101

Jaws is a movie I can watch time and time again and never get sick of it. Such a well made, well casted film.

https://youtu.be/xO60RohuARY

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120839727#Comment_120839727

I only watched that recently for the first time.

From the name and images I thought I was in for a cheap, cheese piece of nonsense.

it's actually very very good. Like surprisingly 'how have I never seen this before??' good.

Badly Drunk Boy

I don't think anyone has mentioned the great Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb).

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120839520#Comment_120839520

Any time someone says Empire of the Sun I think they mean Man Behind the Sun.

Also a war film but a very different type!

Speaking of war, had the Russian war film Come and See been mentioned? A must for any war film fan. Pioneered shakey camera / silence and temporary deafness from explosions through the soundtrack before saving private Ryan.

Really harrowing stuff though but worth a viewing.

NewbridgeIR

Straight Time (1978)

Dustin Hoffman as an ex-con trying to go er, straight

Here's the greatest scene - watch from 1:10 to the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kmdjx9kBho&t=70s

waywill1966

https://youtu.be/7aVpiGzsCBI

The Time Machine (1960) Rod Taylor

https://youtu.be/sdFUpPAApJQ

Dracula (1958) Christopher Lee

https://youtu.be/MXq-NuS24fg

The Wicker Man (1973) Edward Woodward

https://youtu.be/Zksp3h0sUro

Bad Day At Black Rock (1955) Spencer Tracy

https://youtu.be/58ylrJ0cH2w

Dead Mans Shoes (2004) Paddy Considine

https://youtu.be/UaVTIH8mujA

Godfather 1 & 2 (1972/74) Marlon Brando

Montage of Feck

Trying to think of something that hasn't got a mention. But anything from Terence Malik, his movies are more of a religious experience than actual movies. Don't think Bonnie and Clyde got mentioned.

The 1970's was the highpoint of Hollywood cinema, until the excellent Heavens Gate broke it's studio, but the decline in recent times is acute.

Montage of Feck

A Bridge Too Far is my favorite WWII movie but rarely gets shown. An Attenborough directed all star epic depicting the most daring action of the war.

toggle toes

I'm a big movie fan so I go to my local Omniplex cinema 🎥 on a regular basis. Before I signed up for the Omniex pass which I might add is excellent value I would stick to two or three genres of movies such as Action, horror and comedy.

Now I go to most genres. First of all I find CGI has totally ruined the movie sector. And second it's been dominated by Marvel and DC super hero movies. I know movies 🎬 studios have to move with the times a I don't have an issue with super hero movies and I know they are box office hits but I hope at some stage all major movie studious will revert back to using stunt men and women when it comes to action movies. Wishful thinking on my part.

PokeHerKing

Devils advocate

Scarface

Blow

Dazed and confused

Detroit rock city

Caddy shack

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My favorite war movie is The Wild Geese. Roger Moore was excellent. Also I would recommend The Guns of Navorne with Gregory Peck. Other movies I would personally recommend are as follows:

Halloween 1978 and the Excorcist 1973 both movies lead the the way for many slasher movies and supernatural movies of today.

Regarding comedies I like to go way back to the 1930s as there were some comedy geniuses such as the Marx Brothers and of course the hallirous duo Laurel and Hardy. Both are my all time favorite comedy actors. If you haven't seen either of these acts I would suggest checking out some of their clips on YouTube.

waywill1966

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120843294#Comment_120843294

Laurel and Hardy movies, absolute classics and the best comedy duo ever! The Music Box in my opinion was their best film!

https://youtu.be/PoMjiTrx9I8

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Brilliant 👏 We will never see their likes again. Pure comedy geniuses. As I mentioned in a previous post The Marx Brothers my favorite out of all comedy actors. My favorite movies are A Day At The Races and Duck Soup.

briany

Not being smart with the OP or anyone here, but there are filters on various film aggregator sites just for this kind of thing. Pretty much the way I'd find good films was to head over to IMDB and filter some film lists by year, score, genre etc. It's really not hard at all. It's actually far easier than posting this kind of thing on a forum, simply because here you end up getting more recommendations than you know what to do with.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120843493#Comment_120843493

Ah sure look, threads like this are really just an excuse to talk about old films, it's not really just a list per se.

Feisar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120831926#Comment_120831926

Made me think of Das Boot.

brokenbad

Some good movies from the 2000's worth checking out:

1. Gladiator
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Casino Royale
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Inglorious Basterds
6. Collateral
7. The Transporter
8. Contagion
9. The Bourne Identity
10. Arlington Road

Homelander

Honestly if you think Top Gun was the best movie in the last few years you're surely not even making much of an effort to look!

And I do like Top Gun, it was great for what it was, but an all time classic it was not.

There's no end of great movies being made all the time, whether on streaming or the cinema.