Can anyone recommend old films

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Last night, I watched the French lieutenants woman and before that the 1970s version of Wuthering heights. Really enjoyed them both.

Can anyone recommend similar older films

Some like it hot. Brilliant film, so funny

Some Like It Hot
Seven Samurai
Ice Cold In Alex
Picnic At Hanging Rock
The Red Shoes
Jaws
Once Upon A Time In America
High Noon
Tootsie
The Lavender Hill Mob
Black Narcissus

Oh gosh yes, Brief Encounter!

I watched Gaslight to see how the term had come about and it's a really good film.

Merchant Ivory films are good eg Room with a view

also Tess D’urberville by Polanski
The Last Emperor

Bridehead Revisited

in terms of black and white anything with Betty Gable

The second part of A Woman of Substance is “Hold the Dream”. I actually watched it for the first time in ages yesterday! Third part “To Be The Best” isn’t great…Can I add “Far from the Madding Crowd” (the original with Julie Christie) and The Thornbirds - a great series!

The Way We Were
The Philadelphia Story

Now Voyager.... All About Eve...both with Bette Davis.

Sticking with the 70s, I think Cabaret is one of the best films of all time (even if you don't like musicals).

Hi OP sounds like you enjoyed those 70s historical dramas. Other historical dramas from the 70s I like -

2 with Liza Minelli - Cabaret - a slick dark musical adaptation based on Isherwood's writings about louche hedonistic Berlin club life in the time of Hitler's rise to power; New York New York - tumultuous personal lives of post WWII USA club performers, includes the song that Sinatra made famous.

Death In Venice - mesmerising and heartbreaking with a Mahler soundtrack.

Tess - adaptation of Tess Of The D'urbervilles - tragic doomed love and Sergeant Troy swinging his sword around in the hayfield.

My own personal favourite vintage films at the moment are all the old noirs - Double Indemnity, The Big Heat, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, The Third Man. All very cynical, hard boiled, sharp dialogue, menace lurking in the shadows, beautiful clothes, beautiful people and beautiful camera angles.

How old are you thinking?
My favourite film is Throw Momma Off The Train. An early Billy Crystal one. Brilliant. It's over 30 yrs old now (where the hell did that go..) Also, Midnight Run, but not the edited version.

@ThisLife1996 I didn't know there was a third part. Just had a look and it's on prime. Will give it a watch and see what it's like.

Brief Encounter and Brideshead revisited are in my top ten favourite films ever. My favourite Brideshead is the one with Emma Thompson as mathew Goode is my secret crush Watched all about Eve for the first time over Christmas loved it, some brilliant one liners 🤣 fasten your seat belt it's going to be a bumpy night 🤣

Me and dh watch Jaws about two or three times a year and quote it all the time. Think it's aged really well.

Oh some like it hot not watched that for years. Agree so funny. I wish they still made films like these ones.

Will look out the others I've not heard off. Much appreciated 💐

i loved Cabaret.

Also 70s movies: Klute, Funny Girl, The Last Picture Show, MASH, Harold and Maude, The Way We Were, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Rosemary’s Baby, The Godfather, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Heartburn, Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver, The Shining, All the President’s Men, The French Connection, Chinatown.

The question is where to watch them as they are rarely on tv now.

Brief Encounter. It's so evocative and quite moving. I also love all the breathless wide eyed, dramatic - but brilliant - acting.

Lion
Her Alibi
The Birds
Mermaids
The Piano
Date Night
Dead Calm
Condor Man
Anna Karenina
The Go Between
Ricki and the Flash
Lassie Come Home
Bright Young Things
A Fish Called Wanda
Shakespeare in Love
Sense and Sensibility
The Age of Innocence
The Devil Wears Prada
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
The Man From Snowy River
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

And old American Westerns and Musicals by Rogers and Hammerstein.

I also love A night to remember (black and white) about the Titanic, and Anne of a Thousand days with Richard Burton.

If you liked Woman of Substance, then search out any of the Barbara Taylor Bradford films, all based on her books, often produced by her husband, and a number of the films are continuations of the WofS storyline.

Desperately Seeking Susan
Pretty Woman
The Green Mile (very long but good)
Papillion

My suggestions are very old and definitely not as hard hitting as some of the suggestions have been.
The Shop Around The Corner, which was remade many years later as You've Got Mail.
Random Harvest with Ronald Coleman and the gorgeous Greer Garson, a real two Kleenex job, but well worth it.
Agree with Dr Zhivago.
I'm also a fan of James Stewart, so anything with him is worth a look.

I recommend getting a bfiplayer subscription and working your way through their catalogue.

Or go onto internet archive and watch a lot of old movies for free.

Sophies choice
The green mile
Out of Africa
Cinema Paradiso
Goodbye Mr Chips (my all time favourite you need the black and white version)

I just looked up Internet archive, not sure about that site it's got a lot of porn on it.

Love James Stuart and also Carry Grant.

Surprised no one's mentioned Cleopatra. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are fantastic in that epic.

Porn? Gosh, I've literally never seen that.

Mind, I just Google "name of film" "internet archive" and it takes me to a page where I can watch it.