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?

Rosemarys baby and The Birds

I never get bored of The Searchers.

I Know Where I'm Going - a Powell & Pressburger film. Such a good, quirky film, and the ending is glorious, so romantic. The female lead is Wendy Hiller, who was also Eliza in a film version of Pygmalion, the original play that that was made into My Fair Lady.

@Chemenger, the captain's ghost is so dashing, Gene Tierney so beautiful, and the scene at the end where they walk off together...sniff

I love Powell and Presssburger, and Cavalcanti. They produce a yearning nostalgia for a time I never even knew.

Anything with Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart or James Stewart

Anything directed by Hitchcock, Frank Capra or Powell and Pressburger.

The Ealing Comedies

Mildred Pierce
Double Indemnity
The Night of the Hunter (original version)
Laura

2 slightly less well known ones:
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Bunny Lake is Missing

An Affair to Remember and the Ghost and Mrs Muir was wonderful. The actress was so beautiful. I have always wanted to live in Gull Cottage

You forget the Ghost and Mrs Muir was in black and white.

On moonlight bay
By the light of the silvery moon , both Doris Day .
Gone with the wind .
River of no return , Marilyn Monroe.
Bette Davis films.
Rebecca.
Its a wonderful life .

Imitation of Life and Madame X...Lana Turner ( true weepies)

Apart from those, I also like Arsenic and Old Lace, Hitchcock films and Gaslight.

High Society.

I come back to this movie again and again and love it so much.

I like:
All About Eve
Sunset Boulevard
The Red Shoes
Black Narcissus
Brighton Rock (the one with Richard Attenborough)

Some like it hot for sure.
SUGAAAAARRRR

@PurpleFlower1983

Sunset Boulevard From Here to Eternity Rope

Montgomery clift

Lots of those already mentioned, I will add 'Random Harvest'

Loving this thread, I adore old films - loads of oldies I want to rewatch have been suggested here!

Some of my favourites - Roman Holiday, A Taste of Honey, Midnight Cowboy and the original Thomas Crown Affair.

If you watch easter parade and like it then you definitely need to watch singing in the rain.

I love screwball comedies. Either cary grant or ginger rogers are great. Some on iplayer at the moment.

Swiss Family Robinson

I bloody love that movie!

@fallaciousreasoning

High Society.

I come back to this movie again and again and love it so much.

My daughter's middle name is Grace because of my love of this film!

Anything with Cary Grant in it but particularly Bringing up Baby

Mine is The Cranes Are Flying (Russian: Летят журавли), it's a 1957 Soviet film.

Gone with the Wind, Brief Encounter and Ice Cold in Alex.

The Ghost and Mrs Muir is my favourite too, I’ve never come across anyone else who remembers it.

My favorite too, it absolutely lovely and has my dream cottage in it. An old sea captains house up on a cliff. I'm going to look for it now!!

I forgot The Big Country, the soundtrack!

In which we serve - unsentimental WW2 film.

Lawrence of Arabia