Old film recommendations please.

[TiffanyIceberg]

I've just watched Gaslight, and started on A Night To Remember.

I was trying to remember ones my mother used to watch, I remember an old Hollywood music and dancing based one that had a swimming pool on the stage but can't really remember much about it, it was in colour not black and white.

But any other recommendations would be great. Trying to keep my mind occupied after a horrible break up.

Rebecca (the Laurence Olivier one)

A Matter of Life and Death

The Bishop's Wife

The Lady Vanishes

Some Like It Hot
Strangers On A Train
Kind Hearts & Coronets

All the old Ealing comedies too!

Brief encounter
Affair to remember

The Barclays of Broadway
North by Northwest
Calamity Jane
Dead of Night (very very creepy horror-thriller)

Mildred Pierce is my favourite old film

Half a sixpence
It's a wonderful life

Mrs Miniver

The 39 Steps (the Robert Donat one is in B&W and there is a Kenneth More one too)

Green for Danger

I second Brief Encounter too

All about eve

Just watched gaslight- really good

Vertigo

Mildred Pierce.
Random Harvest.
All this and Heaven Too.
Dark Victory. To name but a few.

Imitation of Life.

The Heiress (Olivia de Havilland version)

Now voyager with Bette Davis

If you have cable look on the channel Talking Pictures. Lots of old black and white films and old tv

Where are you watching these old films? I'd like to find that website.

Top Hat
Palm Beach Story
Philadelphia Story
Holiday
It Happened One Night
To Have and Have Not
Maltese Falcon
Duck Soup

for starters

Imitation of Life is fab!

Maybe not so old but 80s classics:
Time bandits
Willow
Withnail and I
Beetle juice
ET

Older family classics:
Chittychitty bangbang
Sound of music
The King and I
Bedknobs and broomsticks
Pete's dragon (original version)
Slipper and the Rose
Escape to witch mountain
Wolves of Wilaboughy (?sp) Chase

Gone with the wind all the way!

@Chicchicchicchiclana

Where are you watching these old films? I'd like to find that website.

@Chicchicchicchiclana as pp said Talking Pictures but also Sony Movies Classic on Freeview but also YouTube has some for free, amazon video and good old dvd.

Casablanca

as well as all the above I love comedies such as ...

arsenic and old lace
bringing up baby
batchelor mother
vivacious lady
monkey business

there are some great classics on iPlayer here

Definitely old Rebecca (though I'm looking forward to the new version out soon)
Great Expectations with John Mills

The old Rebecca is so much better than the new one.
And The Bishop's Wife is possibly the best Christmas film ever!

Whatever happened to baby Jane