classic films

[Black Rider]

This upcoming school year, my friend and I are starting a film club at our school. We want to show the students classic films, and films with historical and pop culture significance that they would normally not be able to, say, rent at Blockbuster. we've already compiled a short list that includes movies such as North by Northwest, and also various Twilight Zone episides.

Anyway, my point is that if anyone knows of a really great, unsung movie, then i'd love to hear about it! it can be anything, from any year. It doesnt have to be old, or with famous actors, or whatever. And if it has a moral, or is the epitome of a certain time period, or just "the coolest murder mystery ever made" then that's perfect. But all i'm doing is trying to prepare the list.

thank you :grin:

~Black Rider

[Illuvatar]

Okay....

There's quite a few that would do you well.....

Shawshank Redemption (good movie about hope, justice, etc.) for one...and along the same lines if The Green Mile.

lol...both Tom hanks films but very well done.

[Ilmarë]

"Some Like It Hot" directed by Billy Wilder... with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe. Wasn't it voted the best movie of all time recently? Anyways, it's a must!:thumbs:
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[Black Rider]

ok thanks. i'm just trying to get ideas since most people here are movie fans (of a *certain* film trilogy 1/3 released lol)

[Sindarin]

I've always enjoyed watching the Orson Wells classic "The Third Man". "Citizen Kane" also.

Other excellent classic films include "Roman Holiday", "All Quiet on the Western Front", and "The Passion of Joan of Arc".

Those films are all good, at least to name a few anyway. :thumbs:

If you would like anymore movie suggestions, please feel free to ask. :)

[Goldilocks]

"Witness for the Prosecution" is an excellent 1952 courtroom drama.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" you won't believe it! It's so good!

An excellent foreign film is "Europa, Europa". It's a Polish/German/Russian film that's a true story during WWII about a jewish boy who gets sent to the Hitler Youth school in Berlin. Brilliant!

Another great film is "The Miracle Worker." The B&W one. It's a true story of Helen Keller. She was born blind and deaf. It's wonderful!

[Catz]

this might be a problem to get hold of, but the original B&W Nosferatu.....very creepy movie and the forerunner of the Vampire flick....so very important to the development of modern cinema
:catz:

[Sindarin]

Any of Akira Kurosawa's films. :thumbs:

Especially "Rashomon" and "The Seven Samurai".

[Elendur]

.. were great. I preferred Yojimbo and Sanjiro... both with Toshiro Mifune in the role which Spawned Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name"

Also love Casablanca with Bogart and Ingrid (yum Yum!) Bergman.
Key Largo... again Bogart this time with a young Lauren Bacall

Quo Vadis.. is also good.

How Green Is My Valley... a little heavy, a little broody.. but good story all the same.

Anything with James Stewart in it.... with a name like that he can't be bad!!..even though he spells his surname wrong!....
Like A Wonderful Life, or Mr Deeds Goes to Washington.

If you like musicals... High Society with Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra...... or the original version (not a musical) called The Phillidelphia Story.. with James Stewart, Cary Grant and Catherine Hepburn... both are excellent in their own way....
there are many many more.. but won't bore you any longer ... yet!!!!;)