Recommend to me old films!

[Susu49]

Watching Casablanca for the first time...I love old films but don't feel I've seen that many of them.

Can you please give me your recommendations?

Off the top of my head, ones I've loved in the past include The Ladykillers and pretty much anything with Alistair Simm!

Green for Danger is a great Alastair Sim film

Rebecca
The Bishops Wife
A Matter of Life and Death
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Mrs Miniver
The Lady Vanishes
Arsenic and Old Lace

I love old films!
Whistle down the Wind is great - a young Hayley Mills
I love Houseboat with Cary Grant & Sophia Loren
Sabrina with Humphrey Bogart & Audrey Hepburn
The Rock Hudson & Doris Day - can't remember the names but great fun & lovely clothes!
Lots of great films suggested already,

Have just found Green for Danger on YouTube and watching it now instead of going to sleep

Didn't Alistair Simm have a marvellous voice??

Keep them coming please, I shall watch as many as I can this year!

Also does anyone watch silent films? Recommendations for them too would be amazing (I love Charlie Chaplain!)

Have you seen Murder on the Orient Express? Original and remake.
Death on the Nile - remake is in the cinema this week.
Strangers on a train.
Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor
Ben Hur - original and remake.
To kill a mockingbird.
Whistle down the wind.
El Cid
King and I
Oliver.
West Side story
Mrs Brown
How to marry a millionaire
Cat on a hot tin roof
Rebel without a cause
The Three Musketeers with Micheal York
Forever Amber
King Kong
The Dam Busters
Towering Inferno
Hell Drivers with Sean Connery
For light relief any Carry on Film
The original Gone in 60 Seconds
Anything with the Rat Pack

I used to spend every Sunday watching old films with my nan and gramp whilst learning how to knit.
As you can probably tell I've yet to kick the habit 🤣🤣🤣

@passionfruitpizza

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid

This. Some very funny dialogue.

Maybe not old enough, but The Big Chill. I have watched it probably 10 times.

Couple of Sidney Poitier ones:
Lilies of the field
In the heat of the night

Some random ones:
Born free
Tarka the otter
Tiger Bay

Lots of great choices already, I’d like to add three more:

The Court Jester (1955) musical comedy with Danny Kaye & Glynis Johns

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Grant Williams

The Wrong Box (1966) Comedy - Nanette Newman, Michael Caine & John Mills

Most Bette Davis movies made in the late 40s thirties/early 40s.

Virtually anything with Cary Grant. My one of my favourites is "Charade." It's unbelievable how attractive a man in his 60s can actually be.

Citizen Kane. Yes, it's hyped to the skies, but it truly is excellent. Actually Orson Wells is good in a lot of things. "The Third Man" is wonderful. And he didn't mind playing horrible characters like in "A Man for all Seasons" – some of the best acting I have ever seen – and "A touch of evil."

Alistair Sims is absolutely wonderful. Another actor who is also completely watchable is Claude Rains. He didn't have many leading roles, but any movie he was in was enriched by his presence. I have read his voice described as hot honey poured over gravel.

My all-time favourite Western is "The Big Country" starring Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston and Jean Simmons. One of the best credit sequences in any movie ever.

Love these.

Mildred Pierce - Joan Crawford in a nice bit if melodrama.
Most Hitchcock films, especially North by Northwest, To Catch a Their, Dial M for Murder, The Birds (although for some reason I was allowed to watch this as a child and was terrified of birds for years afterwards!).

Katharine Hepburn - Bringing up Baby, The Philadelphia Story. High Society is a musical remake of the Philadelphia Story.

High Noon

To Kill a Mockingbird

Forgot my favourite musical - Calamity Jane!

Love on the dole

The Third Man - a wonderful black and white film set in post war Vienna. Orson Wells is fantastic in it.

@lumpofcomfort

Forgot my favourite musical - Calamity Jane!

Hell, yes! Doris Day at her very best!

Singin' In The Rain is so insanely brilliant, and every song is a classic. I flogged my DVD to death and had to buy a new one.

If you like the silent era, Safety Last, starring Harold Lloyd, will make you laugh yourself sick. If you've ever seen the old B/W pic of a man hanging from the hand of a clock, that's Harold in Safety Last in 1923.

And if you decide you love slapstick comedy, the not-so-old The Party (1968) and The Return of the Pink Panther (1974) show Peter Sellers and director Blake Edwards at their most creative.

Love PPs' suggestions. Lots of "new" titles for me to see!

Arsenic & Old Lace.
A Canterbury Tale.
Bringing Up Baby.

@StopRightThereDavidCopperfield

for Alistair Simm, school for scoundrels and the green man are a must.

for romance try now, voyager and brief encounter.

also anything powell and pressburger - my faves are the red shoes and a matter of life and death.

high society or the philadelphia story are gorgeous (one is a remake of the other)

the apartment and desk set for quirky american

if you like audrey hepburn, Sabrina and Roman Holiday

Came on here to recommend The Apartment - bittersweet comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, one of my absolute favourites!

@Metheven

Oh, The Ghost and Mrs Muir is good, too.

Love this film!

I love Bringing Up Baby.

To Catch a Thief is good!

There's loads!

I hope you enjoyed Green for Danger, OP! An old favourite of mine.

I often record films that come up in the afternoons on Film4 and LondonLive. There are some absolute plonkers but also a few old favourites and every so often one I've managed not to see before which turns out to be good.

John Mills was an excellent and thoroughly reliable actor. Almost anything he was in is worth a look. Two rather obscure films of his I like are The October Man and The Long Memory.

These two films directed by David Lean are much better known, and deservedly so: Hobson's Choice and Great Expectations.

Already mentioned: This Happy Breed, Ice Cold in Alex. More in a similar vein: Waterloo Road, In Which We Serve, The Way to the Stars.

Oh has anyone mentioned North by Northwest? Another classic.

Blithe Spirit - with Rex Harrison
Kind Hearts and Coronets - Alec Guinness
Arsenic and Old Lace - Cary Grant
Some Like it hot
Love some of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Films - Top Hat, Shall we dance

Pillow Talk with Doris Day & Rock Hudson is a great film

The Servant, with the lovely Dirk Bogarde, also stars Sarah Miles, James Fox and Wendy Craig. Fantastic black and white thriller

@PiePieChickenPie Thank you for reminding me of the Court Jester, the flagon with the dragon and the chalice from the palace. Love Danny Kaye

From Here to Eternity

Auntie Mame
Blithe Spirit (the original)
Passport to Pimlico
This Happy Breed
Mrs Miniver
St Trinians
Happiest Days of your Life

Totally outed myself if any of my family are on here