Aibu to ask what your favourite old film is?

[Funkyslippers]

Just saw Easter Parade is on today. Would love to try watching some old films but not sure I'd like them. Which ones are good for novices like me?

Meet me in St Louis. Simply glorious.

Oh and The Amazing Mr Blunden, if you consider the early 70s old.

Footsteps in the Fog with Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons.

Casablanca
Some Like It Hot
Heat of the Night
To Kill a Mockingbird

Oh and as a PP mentioned the original The Lady Vanishes is really good

The Ladykillers is hilarious; Singin' in the Rain is a really feel-good film, as is Meet Me in St Louis. Anything with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in - especially Top Hat and Swing Time...

All of these! I've found my people!

Some of my favourite films have been mentioned already - I'll add High Society.

@Gerla
Which is the best version of Gaslight?

Definitely Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer- chilling!

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers!

The Wizard of Oz
Gone with The Wind

I love old films, and I have shelves full of old films DVD's. I was 10 when I first saw Rebecca on television and that started my long lasting love with old classics.

To somebody who doesn't usually watch old movies I would reccommend:

1. Charade (1963), Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant
2. North by Northwest (1959), Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint
3. Rear Window (1954), James Stewart, Grace Kelly
4. Midnight (1939), Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche

This last one is a little known comedy with Billy Wilder's excellent script. A month ago I watched it with a friend who grew up on a diet of Avengers movies and she laughed so hard all through the movie and said she can't remember the last time she watched something so good. Try it.

If you like comedies, I would recommend:

1. Billy Wilder (Arise my Love, Ball of Fire, Ninotchka, The Major and the Minor, The Foreign Affair) - he directed some of these and wrote screenplay for some of these

1. George Stevens (The More the Merrier)

1. Ernst Lubitsch (To Be or Not To be, The Shop Around the Corner)

1. Preston Sturges (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Palm Beach Story, Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels)
2. Everything by George Cukor - especially The Women and The Philadelphia Story

All of these comedies are amazing and I'm always sorry they don't make them like they used to.

If you like musicals Easter is perfect to watch Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, My Fair Lady, American in Paris.

Btw, if there is a mumsnetter who likes old movies like I do, please feel free to PM me - it is hard to find somebody I can share my love for old movies.

It's a wonderful life - the most perfect film ever!

Any Hitchcock film - North by Northwest is my favourite, and the Birds

Anything with Bette Davis in - Jezebel and Now Voyager are brilliant

Old dance films such as 42nd Street, Top Hat

Old gangster films like White Heat and Angels with Dirty Faces

British films - Brief Encounter, Kind hearts and Coronets, plus the 60s 'kitchen sink' dramas like Look back in anger, Saturday night Sunday morning.

Films like The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Dog Day Afternoon, The Red Balloon (love that, sadly most of that area of Paris where it was filmed was demolished.)

I love old films, far better than most of the dross produced today.

Oh and
The Big Country- absolute classic and a great soundtrack- Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Burl Ives, Charlton Heston
As @kavalkada says- they don’t make ‘em like they used to!

Sweet Charity, thoroughly modern millie and arsenic and old lace are my favourites

I am getting my lunch ready in a bit so I can have it in front of the telly while watching Easter Parade.

OMG, somebody has mentioned The Searchers - I love this film, it's a thing of beauty.

I love all old films tbh - Singin' in the Rain is another perfect one. Breakfast at Tiffany's. Rear Window. Vertigo.

I bloody love The Great Escape too, I won't apologise.

Pretty much all Cary Grant films - in addition to those above Mr Blandings builds his dream house, Arsenic and Old Lace and my favourite Indiscreet

Musicals not mentioned yet - Paint Your Wagon, Calamity Jane

Thrillers- Dial M for Murder, Suspicion (another Cary Grant film)

The Third Man

Gone With The Wind
A Night To Remember
Jamaica Inn
The Vikings
Lady Jane
Anne of The Thousand Days

His Girl Friday, Les enfants du paradis, Key Largo.

Breakfast at Tiffany's.

MrsorMiss The Ghost and Mrs Muir is my favourite too, I’ve never come across anyone else who remembers it. So many other greats in this list. I would never turn down the chance to watch Casablanca, Some like it Hot, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Bringing Up Baby or The Philadelphia Story.

The Ladykillers
The Italian Job
Ladies Who Do
Smashing Time (Rita Tushingham)
Most Hitchcocks

Carry on-especially Don't lose your head
Dambusters
HMS Defiant
The Littlest Rebel
Swallows and Amazons (70s version)

Another vote for...
Kind Hearts and Coronets & The Ladykillers.
And how about the brilliant 1955 French thriller Les Diaboliques.