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?

Talking Pictures, Freeview 81 is an interesting toe dip IMHO ;)

Rebecca- the Hitchcock one.

Mrs Miniver

Lots of Audrey Hepburn or Katherine Heburn movies.
Rear Window or How to Catch a Thief with James Stewart, High Society (both versions but like the music one more).

Brief Encounter
Alfie (one of my very favourites, not especially uplifting though)
Summer Holiday

Any of the Laurel and Hardy films. I used to watch them as a little girl with my dad on a Saturday morning many years ago. Also, Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone. They used to be on BBC2 at 6pm on a Friday evening when I was little. Lovely memories with this thread. Thank you!

Mr Blanding Builds his Dream House
Calamity Jane

84 Charing Cross road. Dam busters, shadowlands.

Pollyanna, Moonlight Bay , By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Rear Window and a film just on TV today Guns of Naverone .

My favourite is Singin in the Rain - but I love Gene Kelly so most of his are great:
An American in Paris
On the Town
Anchors Aweigh
The Pirate
Me & My Gal

Also love Guys & Dolls with Marlon Brando & Frank Sinatra.

An affair to Remember is my all time favorite, so romantic and just so bitter sweet. Love Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant is my favorite leaving man
Bringing up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, Charade and North by Northwest are others i love revisiting.
I also love Casablanca, Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and West Side Story (my all time favorite musical)

Most of my favourites are already covered, but I'll add The Happiest Days of Your LIfe with Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford ... brilliant

A Man for all Seasons. Have to say I saw Brief Encounter recently and realise why it is so loved.

The Holly and the Ivy.
Celia Johnson stars and is well cast, as she was in Brief Encounter.

I love all of these

The Sound of Music
Grease
The Wizard of OZ
Meet me in St Louis
Rear Window
It's a Wonderful Life
Citizen Kane
The Great Escape
The Godfather
The bad seed (1956)

I love High Society

I way prefer High Society to The Philadelphia Story.

There are loads on here I've seen and loved and a few I've yet to watch

Back to the future

On the Town
Barefoot in the Park
Singing in the Rain

Remembered a few more really great ones:

The 1949 version of Little Women with June Allyson as Jo and Peter Lawford as Lawrie, breaks my heart every time.

Young at Heart with Doris Day (essentially an updated retelling of Little Women)

The Glenn Miller Story

Trapeze - Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis as trapeze artists trying to perfect the triple somersault

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Splendour in the Grass

@reluctantbrit

Lots of Audrey Hepburn or Katherine Heburn movies. Rear Window or How to Catch a Thief with James Stewart, High Society (both versions but like the music one more).

To Catch A Thief was Cary Grant...

Gone with the wind

I'm so pleased to see the love for the Ghost and Mrs Muir here Also Blithe Spirit and the Wicked Lady which are other faves of mine.

Two others I love which I don't think have been mentioned are The Importance of Being Earnest (with the wonderful Joan Greenwood who had the best voice!) and also Dr Zhivago (which I wept buckets over as a teenager).

It Happened One Night - 1934 rom-com with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. Won all the big oscars.