Classic films

Anything by the Coen Brothers.
The original Blues Brothers.
Anything with Gene Wilder in it.

Jaws and Planet of Apes 1968

Ice Cold in Alex

great film, but I’ll raise you The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.

It’s a Wonderful Life

As the festive season approaches, this film must be watched by everyone. And when I say “everyone”, I say it in exactly the same way Stansfield says it to Malky in Leon.

It’s a wonderful life is a just about as perfect a film as you can get, the premise hasn’t dated at all.

Heat
Seven
Trainspotting
Cool hand Luke
Top gun

PrinceJohn; Bubba ho tep?? Crazy film!

Convoy
Cannonball run
Aliens
Young Frankensteinp

Men of honour

Goodfellas
Groundhog Day
Rosemarys baby
The wicker man (1972)
The man who fell to earth
Performance
Casablanca
The shining
A matter of life or death

Groundhog Day

Kellys Heroes
Dirty Dozen
Where Eagles Dare
Convoy
Hannah
Shooter

Christmas themed?

Die Hard
Trading Places
Scrooged

Thank me later

P’tang Yang Kipperbang!

La Haine you dozy fools, La Haine!!

also The Conversation is a personal favourite.

and Arsenic and Old Lace, mainly for Peter Lorre’s brilliantly unhinged performance 😀

Not seen some of these, ta.
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Everything by Hitchcock, but North by Northwest just for Cary Grant’s suit.

Anything by Powell and Pressburger, but A Matter Of Life And Death is perfect.

All the Ealing stuff, all those WW2 propaganda films like Went The Day Well?, The Cruel Sea, In Which We Serve.

The Leone/Eastwood stuff.

Randomly,
Two Lane Blacktop.
The Conversation.
Halloween.
In Bruges.
Dead Letter Office.
La Cabina.
Das Boot.
Casablanca.
Get Carter.
Wings of Desire.
Alien.
Blazing Saddles.

And hundreds more.
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In Bruges.

One of the best recent films I’ve seen, absolutely a modern classic.

And “The Guard” by the same director (and also starring Brendan Gleeson) was even better IMO.

Groundhog Day

Debbie Does Dallas
Bad Wives 2
The Devil in Miss Jones

Which reminds me, An American Werewolf In London.

The Guard is fantastic.
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In Bruges gets the nod purely for the line ‘Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf..’.

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Not much in there post 2000

SBS used to have a Cary Grant season on friday night when I rolled in from the pub. A lot of very entertaining films those nights.
Subway with Christopher Lambert.
Brazil
Eating Raoul
Vanishing Point
Goodbye Pork Pie (1979) They’ve just remade it & it looks shit.
Quiet Earth
Rising Damp
Man Bites Dog
To Live & Die In LA.
Twin Town

Robin Hood with Errol Flynn (who didn’t know how to fence) and Basil Rathbone (who did – and it shows!)
Rio Bravo
Blazing Saddles
Seven Samurai

I’d like to rewatch Ghostbusters, Airplane and The Blues Brothers, but I’m a bit worried that they might not have aged well..

Oh, Show Me Love is a bit of a gem.
Classic teenage angst stuff, but really well done.

I’m surprised it’s not had the Hollywood remake treatment yet.

Classic: judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind

for me…
The Holy Mountain
Solaris (the original version)
Enter The Void

All staggering odd but great. And brilliantly re-watchable.

Bubba ho tep?? Crazy film!

Yup that’s the one.

Also add Robocop (original) to the list

Tampopo
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
Delicatessen

I’d like to rewatch Ghostbusters, Airplane and The Blues Brothers, but I’m a bit worried that they might not have aged well..

they’ve not done too badly, actually!

In fact I think Airplane in particular has aged brilliantly. Still hilarious, absurd and stupid 😀

also: Dog Day Afternoon. banger.

Quick PSA for one mentioned further up the thread … The Ipcress File is on BBC4 tonight at 9

Blue Ruin on Film4 tonight. Bit new to be a “classic” in the literal sense but it’s a great film.

Akira, Yojimbo and M*A*S*H.

Passport to Pimlico
Rumble Fish
Risky Business
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Silent Running
Apocalypse Now
LA Confidential
The Big Blue

And a lot that have already been mentioned

Young Frankenstein……on the tellybox now.

“..there wolf.”

Animal House
A Bridge Too Far
The Magnificent Seven

An eclectic selection

Downfall
2001
Rust and Bone
Blue Thunder
The Railway Man
South Park, the Movie
Vanishing Point
Ronin
Cars
The good, the bad and the ugly
The Last King of Scotland
The Constant Gardener

P’tang Yang Kipperbang!

Uh!
Thelma and Louise
Killing Zoe
They Live
Man with the x-ray eyes
The Graduate

Blue Thunder

*Stares in disbelief*

PSA – The Deer Hunter – ITV4 9pm tonight

Vanishing Point

+10! I can still hear the sound of that Dodge. Classic in every sense.

On another note I haven’t seen many supernatural/pschological thrillers in the list so here’s a few:

The Haunting (1963)

The Innocents (1961)

A Chinese Ghost Story

The Tenant

Repulsion

Suspiria