Posted on 05/10/2025 12:48:18 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Greatest movies of all time
“The Big Sleep”
Bogart. Bacall.
We are done here.
L
Funeral in Berlin
The Third Man
No matter how great the movie, real life is better.
La Dolce Vita
Beavis and Butthead Do America
The 39 Steps
Zardoz
The Seventh Seal
It Happened One Night
Catalina Caper
Sprited Away
Billy Jack
Dr. Stranglelove
.....in that order of greatness
Just for starters...
Breaker Morant
Bang the Drum Slowly
Kitchen Toto
Das Boat
I'd add Godfather and Godfather II as well Die Hard.
-PJ
I’d add “Bridge Over the River Kwai”.
Technically it's a documentary, but the producers skillfully wove it into the form of an action movie with a rising intensity to a gripping climax that is much more intense because you are watching life-and-death reality, not something pretend. As such it starts out "normal" but packs a huge emotional punch by the end.
“Tried too look up a comprehensive list and all movies were from the 90’s or later.”
That’s the way with all movie discussions on the internet, it seems.
I grew up as a kid in the 1970s, watching and enjoying all sorts of old, classic movies on the tv. From the silent era, the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and 60s.
But today, whenever a discussion about “old movies” pops up, everyone is naming and talking about movies from the 1990s or later. Most of which I never heard of, let alone watched. It’s like I am the only person on earth who ever heard of and watched movies from the 1910s-1960s.
Anyways, my incomplete list of greatest movies:
Seven Chances (starring Buster Keaton)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Wizard of Oz
The Godfather
The Apartment (1960)
Arthur (1981)
All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
The Seven Year Itch
Casablanca
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
White Christmas
Rear Window
For me, yes.......
For some reason my wife and I always seem to watch The Fifth Element whenever it comes on a station that doesn’t cut it up too badly. It’s really not an all-time great movie, but there’s something about it.
ZULU.
One movie I didn’t see mentioned (but maybe it was there) I thought was great in it’s time was “GIANT” made in ‘56. So many really good movies were mentioned that it would be hard to pick a favorite.
Ben Hur (Charlton Heston)
The tallywhacker scene from Porky’s gets me laughing until my sides hurt.
I must see that movie!
bmk
My own favorite Michael Caine movie is Sleuth, by a long way. I also like The Italian Job, but all they ever show now is the remake.
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