>Touch of Evil >Rashomon >Rear Window >North By Northwest >The Night of the Hunter >The Wages of Fear >Some Like It Hot >Nazarin >Sunset Boulevard >The Searchers >Strangers On A Train >A Man Escaped >The Seventh Seal >12 Angry Men >Paths of Glory >The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz >Dementia >War of the Worlds >A Bucket of Blood >The Killing >The Big Heat >Dial M for Murder >The Hound of Baskervilles >The Thing from Another World
A great list, but the lack of Double Indemnity is unforgivable.
The 39 Steps is another good one, but like North by Northwest, the plot makes no sense if you think about it.
I'd also recommend Crack Up if you can find it. A largely forgotten gem.
Oh, and Casablanca. It's probably overhyped, but it really is a great movie.
Didn't leave it out, just needed to post so thread wouldn't slide and get archived
Here are some from the early part of the 1960s (1965 and earlier) >The Trial >Last Year at Marienbad >Dr. Strangelove >A Fistful of Dollars >The Birds >The Exterminating Angels >Carnival of Souls >Psycho >La Ricotta >Simon of the Desert >Zorba the Greek >Letter Never Sent >The Apartment >Charade >The Great Escape >Lawrence of Arabia >To Kill a Mockingbird >The Possessed >The Innocents >Hercules In the Haunted World >Night Tide >At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul >Taste of Fear >Ivan's Childhood >The Magnificent Seven >Dr. No >Jason and the Argonauts >From Russia with Love >Goldfinger >America America >Sound of Music >Blood and Black Lace >La Jetee >City of the Dead >Witchfinder General
That was 1950s.
Here is from 1940s >Casablanca >Arsenic and Old Lace >Fantasia >Double Indemnity >The Wolf man >Detour >Shadow of a Doubt >It's a Wonderful Life >Mildred Pierce
1930s >L'Age de Or >Modern Times >King Kong >Mr. Smith Goes to Washington >Duck Soup >The Wizard of Oz
1920s >Man with a Movie Camera >Nosferatu >The Passion of Joan of Arc >Steamboat Bill, Jr. >The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari >Haxan >A Page of Madness
The older they get the more "boring" you might find them
Casablanca
Beyond Tomorrow
Rope
The phantom carriage
King Kong
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Invasion of the body snatchers
Gold Diggers of 1933
the seventh seal
wild strawberries
i vitelloni
Metropolis
paths of glory
the steel helmet
Passion of Joan d'arc
the old dark house
all quiet on the western front
rules of the game
song of bernadette
bells of st mary
miracle on 34th st
Gojira
Rear Window
12 angry men
forbidden planet
city of the dead
anatomy of a murder
I just rewatched The Lost Weekend. It's a fricking terrific movie. Honestly impressive how Billy Wilder drags you down the rabbit hole of alcoholism and makes it feel like you're witnessing a nightmare unfold. Ray Milland and Jane Wyman are wonderful too.
I also rewatched Rome, Open City. That's great too if you are looking for foreign cinema to watch.
I can't remember if its titled And then there Were None or Ten Little Indians, but the original adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name is one of my favorites.
> Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Good to Very Good (genuinely disturbing at times)
> The Beginning of the End (1957)
Ok / Meh to Decent
> The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)
Decent
> The Giant Claw (1957)
Poor to Weak
> The Monolith Monsters (1957)
Good
> The Crawling Eye (1958)
Good
> Giant Gila Monster (1959)
Decent
> The Killer Shrews (1959)
Good to Very Good (has the feel of & house under siege scenario close to night of the living dead)
> The Angry Red Planet (1959)
Decent
[...]
> The Quatermass Experiment
Decent to Good
> Quatermass 2
Very Good
> Quatermass & The Pit
Very Good
> X-The Unknown
Good
> Invasion of the Body Snatchers (50s)
Great
> Invasion of the Body Snatchers (70s)
Great to Strongly Great
> Body Snatchers (90s)
Decent
> Forbidden Planet
Good
> The Land Unknown
Good
> Night/Curse of the Demon
Very Good
> Fiend Without a Face
Good
> Jason & The Argonauts
Very Good (kept from being great because the end kinda forgets the whole point of the quest + the villain who raises the skeletons kinda has a legit grievance with them coming to steal the golden fleece which has provided prosperity to his peaceful kingdom & the immorality of taking it never occurs to our lead heroes)
> Clash of the Titans
Very Good (kept from being great by the weak lead actor)
> 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Very Good
> Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Good to Very Good
> Sinbad & The Eye of the Tiger
Good despite a mixed bag. It had some of Ray's best/most realistic creations (baboon, caveman, walrus), his worst (sabertooth) & most wasted (bronze mechanical minotaur)
Had the best female character of the trilogy in Jane Seymour (although not the sexiest, see Caroline Munroe in golden)
> Mysterious Island
Good
> Valley of Gwangi
Good
It's a travesty Ray never did a stop motion animated American Godzilla movie in the late 70s after Japan retired G.
>Touch of Evil
>Rashomon
>Rear Window
>North By Northwest
>The Night of the Hunter
>The Wages of Fear
>Some Like It Hot
>Nazarin
>Sunset Boulevard
>The Searchers
>Strangers On A Train
>A Man Escaped
>The Seventh Seal
>12 Angry Men
>Paths of Glory
>The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
>Dementia
>War of the Worlds
>A Bucket of Blood
>The Killing
>The Big Heat
>Dial M for Murder
>The Hound of Baskervilles
>The Thing from Another World
A great list, but the lack of Double Indemnity is unforgivable.
The 39 Steps is another good one, but like North by Northwest, the plot makes no sense if you think about it.
I'd also recommend Crack Up if you can find it. A largely forgotten gem.
Oh, and Casablanca. It's probably overhyped, but it really is a great movie.
Didn't leave it out, just needed to post so thread wouldn't slide and get archived
Here are some from the early part of the 1960s (1965 and earlier)
>The Trial
>Last Year at Marienbad
>Dr. Strangelove
>A Fistful of Dollars
>The Birds
>The Exterminating Angels
>Carnival of Souls
>Psycho
>La Ricotta
>Simon of the Desert
>Zorba the Greek
>Letter Never Sent
>The Apartment
>Charade
>The Great Escape
>Lawrence of Arabia
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>The Possessed
>The Innocents
>Hercules In the Haunted World
>Night Tide
>At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
>Taste of Fear
>Ivan's Childhood
>The Magnificent Seven
>Dr. No
>Jason and the Argonauts
>From Russia with Love
>Goldfinger
>America America
>Sound of Music
>Blood and Black Lace
>La Jetee
>City of the Dead
>Witchfinder General
That was 1950s.
Here is from 1940s
>Casablanca
>Arsenic and Old Lace
>Fantasia
>Double Indemnity
>The Wolf man
>Detour
>Shadow of a Doubt
>It's a Wonderful Life
>Mildred Pierce
1930s
>L'Age de Or
>Modern Times
>King Kong
>Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
>Duck Soup
>The Wizard of Oz
1920s
>Man with a Movie Camera
>Nosferatu
>The Passion of Joan of Arc
>Steamboat Bill, Jr.
>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
>Haxan
>A Page of Madness
The older they get the more "boring" you might find them
I Married a Witch
The Set-up (1949)
His Girl Friday
The Big Sleep
Ben-Hur
Red River
The Invisible Man
Double Indemnity
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
Beyond Tomorrow
Rope
The phantom carriage
King Kong
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Invasion of the body snatchers
Gold Diggers of 1933
the seventh seal
wild strawberries
i vitelloni
Metropolis
paths of glory
the steel helmet
Passion of Joan d'arc
the old dark house
all quiet on the western front
rules of the game
song of bernadette
bells of st mary
miracle on 34th st
Gojira
Rear Window
12 angry men
forbidden planet
city of the dead
anatomy of a murder
Rope
pleb general
don't even bother with this zoomy pleb
Lifeboat
You Can't Take It With You
Out of the Past
I just rewatched The Lost Weekend. It's a fricking terrific movie. Honestly impressive how Billy Wilder drags you down the rabbit hole of alcoholism and makes it feel like you're witnessing a nightmare unfold. Ray Milland and Jane Wyman are wonderful too.
I also rewatched Rome, Open City. That's great too if you are looking for foreign cinema to watch.
All About Eve holds up well. A Letter to Three Wives was okay.
THE BOYS TRY TO PUT ONE UP ON FOXY GRANDPA
Frenchies have some good ones like Wages of Fear, Diaboliques, The Hole, Rififi, Grisbi, A Man Escaped etc
Double Indemnity
Sunset Blvd
Young Lions
Metropolis
The Searchers
Rebel Without a Cause
>Sunset Boulevard
>Double indemnity
Based fellow Billy Wilder enjoyer
I can't remember if its titled And then there Were None or Ten Little Indians, but the original adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name is one of my favorites.
> The Deadly Mantis
Very Good
> The Black Scorpion
Good to Very Good
> Them
Very Good
> Tarantula
Decent
> The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Near Great
> The Giant Behemoth
Very Good
> The Thing from Another World
Good
> It Came from Beneath the Sea
Decent
> 20 Million Miles to Earth
Good to Very Good
> Creature from the Black Lagoon
Great (tied with Gojira as the 2 best monster movies of the 50s)
> Revenge of the Creature
Decent
> The Creature Walks Among Us
Good
> The Monster of Piedras Blancas
Good
> Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Good to Very Good (genuinely disturbing at times)
> The Beginning of the End (1957)
Ok / Meh to Decent
> The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)
Decent
> The Giant Claw (1957)
Poor to Weak
> The Monolith Monsters (1957)
Good
> The Crawling Eye (1958)
Good
> Giant Gila Monster (1959)
Decent
> The Killer Shrews (1959)
Good to Very Good (has the feel of & house under siege scenario close to night of the living dead)
> The Angry Red Planet (1959)
Decent
> The Quatermass Experiment
Decent to Good
> Quatermass 2
Very Good
> Quatermass & The Pit
Very Good
> X-The Unknown
Good
> Invasion of the Body Snatchers (50s)
Great
> Invasion of the Body Snatchers (70s)
Great to Strongly Great
> Body Snatchers (90s)
Decent
> Forbidden Planet
Good
> The Land Unknown
Good
> Night/Curse of the Demon
Very Good
> Fiend Without a Face
Good
>> The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
>Near Great
> Jason & The Argonauts
Very Good (kept from being great because the end kinda forgets the whole point of the quest + the villain who raises the skeletons kinda has a legit grievance with them coming to steal the golden fleece which has provided prosperity to his peaceful kingdom & the immorality of taking it never occurs to our lead heroes)
> Clash of the Titans
Very Good (kept from being great by the weak lead actor)
> 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Very Good
> Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Good to Very Good
> Sinbad & The Eye of the Tiger
Good despite a mixed bag. It had some of Ray's best/most realistic creations (baboon, caveman, walrus), his worst (sabertooth) & most wasted (bronze mechanical minotaur)
Had the best female character of the trilogy in Jane Seymour (although not the sexiest, see Caroline Munroe in golden)
> Mysterious Island
Good
> Valley of Gwangi
Good
It's a travesty Ray never did a stop motion animated American Godzilla movie in the late 70s after Japan retired G.
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