re: Random Classic Movie Suggestion Thread

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Kind Hearts and Coronets

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LINK

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Btw it's nice to finally see somebody here want classic movie recommendations.

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What are you talking about? People always praise the classics here. It's why I respect a lot of you.

One of my favorites as well. Very quick comedy that was way ahead of it's time.

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Kind Hearts and Coronets

shite! not on Netflix

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Dude, you're talking to Mr. Watch It Online

I got sidetracked yesterday and forgot about this thread.


Sorry if any of these have already been mentioned. Classics(I'll just say anything pre 80s as classic since I was born in 79) that I've seen and like to one degree or another that are on netflix instant


No particular order:


The Sound of Fury
Dillinger
Run for Cover
Woman of Straw
No Man of Her Own
Fahrenheit 451
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Black Narcissus
One, Two, Three
Scarlet Street
Kansas City Confidential
Becket
Killer's Kiss
Thieves Like Us
Union Station
Carnival of Souls
Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Chinese Connection
Caught
Paper Moon
Who'll Stop the Rain
Mafioso
The Naked City
One Eyed Jacks
Five Miles to Midnight
Champion
The Bullfighter and the Lady
The Man with the Golden Arm
Marathon Man
Topkapi
A Kiss Before Dying
The Stranger
The Masque of the Red Death
Moonrise
Caesar and Cleopatra
Lord Love a Duck
Cry Danger
I Walk Alone
99 River Street
The Long Good Friday
The Woman in the Window
Odds Against Tomorrow
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Producers
The Southerner
Impact
Smile
Pulp
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Invisible Man
Charley Varrick
Terror in a Texas Town
The Killer is Loose
The Scar
Boxcar Bertha
A Cold Wind in August
Johnny Cool
Detour
The Wolf Man
The Big Combo
Cleopatra
Scarface
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Warlock
Two Mules for Sister Sara
The Bicycle Thief
Assault on Precinct 13
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Nosferatu
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Seven-Ups
The Longest Yard
Duck Soup
The Lady Vanishes
The Big Boss
How to Murder Your Wife
Shane
Chinatown
Witness for the Prosecution
The Lady Eve
Bedazzled
Carmen Jones
The Conversation
The Beguiled
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Long Goodbye
The Eiger Sanction
Rocky
Apocalypse Now
Charade
House by the River
My Name Is Nobody
A Shot in the Dark
Planet of the Apes
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Nothing Sacred
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Jayhawkers!
His Girl Friday
Play Misty for Me
Joe Kidd
The Honey Pot
The Intruder
Don't Look Now
The African Queen
Days of Heaven
Network
Serpico
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Bonnie and Clyde
Arsenic and Old Lace
Sunset Boulevard
The Night of the Hunter
North Dallas Forty



Of course for anyone really wanting to watch classics on netflix DVDs are the way to go since the selection is like I don't know like a billion times the size of the classics that are on instant.

These are the ones off your list I would recommend to a classics newb to start with:

One, Two, Three
The Naked City
One Eyed Jacks
The Man with the Golden Arm
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Invisible Man
The Big Combo
The Bicycle Thief
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Longest Yard
Duck Soup
Shane
Chinatown
Witness for the Prosecution
The Lady Eve
Carmen Jones
The Conversation
Charade
Planet of the Apes
His Girl Friday
Bonnie and Clyde
Arsenic and Old Lace
Sunset Boulevard
The Night of the Hunter

Again these are my recommendations for a novice, not necessarily my choices for best or my personal favorites. Mostly they are well-made, professional entertainments.

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Again these are my recommendations for a novice, not necessarily my choices for best or my personal favorites. Mostly they are well-made, professional entertainments

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Good choices a lot of those are personal favorites of mine.

Ok I'll play the narrow the list down game. Somebody cut my list down and maybe we can get this man down to a few movies.

Give me...



One Eyed Jacks
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Invisible Man
The Bicycle Thief
Chinatown
Witness for the Prosecution
The Lady Eve
The Conversation
Charade
Planet of the Apes
Bonnie and Clyde
Arsenic and Old Lace
Sunset Boulevard