Please recommend some great old films

[MidsomerBurgers]

I watched Pretty Woman last week. Have downloaded The Imitation Game, Groundhog Day and Erin Brokowich(?).

What other oldies but goodies do I need to watch?

Working Girl
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Big Lebowski
Donnie Brasco
Point Break

How old? You can't beat the 1940s for films. Casablanca, in fact anything with Humphrey Bogart, but Casablanca has a terrific supporting cast and some of the best known lines in the movies. 'Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world...'

Anything with Bette Davis; Now, Voyager usually the most recommended.

British films:
Brief Encounter
Great Expectations with John Mills

Cabaret from 1972, with Lisa Minnelli

And many more!

None of those are particularly old!

I was going to suggest Kind Hearts and Coroners, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Passport to Pimlico

What era are you actually after?

Goodfellas
Dead Poets Society
Jackie Brown
The Green Mile
The Producers
Barry Lyndon
Anne of the Thousand Days
The Godfather

Gone with the wind. Perfect for a wet weekend!

None of those are particularly old!

Exactly what I was thinking!

Old films are those starring Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Gable, Bogart, Jean Harliw, William Powell, Cary Grant.

Anything starring the above (especially if more than one of them) will be superb.

Harlow, not Harliw!

To Have and Have Not
Fabulous film first outing for Bogart and Bacall together....

The Imitation Game isn't old, it was made five years ago.

Any era. Used to love old black and white films on a Saturday afternoon as a kid (I'm in my 40's).

Mrs Miniver,

Bloody autocorrect! I know it's Liza with a zee!

Rear Window
Vertigo
The birds

Pretty much anything by Alfred Hitchcock

How could I forget The Third Man. Sometimes voted best British film of all time. Marvellously atmospheric post-war Vienna.

Ice cold in Alex is a great war fillm. Das Boot too if you don't mind subtitles.

Song for Bernadette
Rebecca
Gone with the wind
Imatation of life
It's a wonderful life
After the promise
Whatever happened to baby jane
Mildred Peirce

The Untouchables
Heat
Last of the Mohicans

and for even older:
The King & I
High Society
The Scarlett Pimpernel
Carve Her Name with Pride
The Day of the Jackal

I could go on all night..

Whatever happened to Baby Jane

Tess of the d'Uerbervilles
My Fair Lady
North and South

Calamity Jane
High Society
Wish You Were Here
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

The Truman Show
Scent of a Woman
Shawshank Redemption

some like it hot

More votes for Kind Hearts and Coronets (currently re-released for the 70th anniversary) and Passport to Pimlico. Though all of the Ealing comedies are great.

Maltese Falcon
North by Northwest
39 Steps

A Matter of Life or Death
Anything by Powell & Pressburger

I'm in my 40s and still can't help considering anything post 1990 contemporary

I'll second wonderwooman's "The Scarlet Pimpernel" though. Films on the older side that I love include:

To Kill a Mockingbird (a bit of a common suggestion, but I do)
Twelve Angry Men
Witness
The Breakfast Club (it has moments that are hugely corny and yet others that are incredibly powerful; it's baffling but it comes out of the mix as an amazing film)
Splash
The Sure Thing