Pre-1970 movies you haven't watched but probably should.

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Post elsewhere , but the wife loves the 2003 remake of the Italian Job. We watched it recently then watched the 1969 original. They do bad unspeakable things to a beautiful Lamborghini but it's a really good movie.

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The Italian Job

Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars, and a bus, he...
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Room Service

Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion

Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
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Babes in Toyland

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
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Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the...
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Dial M for Murder

An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to have his wealthy wife murdered after discovering she is having an affair, and assumes she will soon leave him for the other man anyway.
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Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the...
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Dial M for Murder

An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to have his wealthy wife murdered after discovering she is having an affair, and assumes she will soon leave him for the other man anyway.
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Yeah, those are good, almost made my original list.

I'm specifically looking to list movies that weren't simply good for their time, but are just good, timeless movies.

Oh I forgot to mention:

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The Little Shop of Horrors

Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
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the 1960 version, the original, is a short movie filled with a gazillion laughs.
 
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Bullitt

Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows...
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Midnight Cowboy

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico
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Where Eagles Dare

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
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The French Connection

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
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Bullitt

Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows...
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Midnight Cowboy

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico
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Where Eagles Dare

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
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The French Connection

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
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Midnight Cowboy is very clearly a 70s movie that came out in 1969.
 
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Mist said:
Midnight Cowboy is very clearly a 70s movie that came out in 1969.
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Spencer Tracy favorites:

Comedy with a bunch of well known comics of the day:​
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
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Historical court room drama about the Stokes Money Trial:​
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Inherit the Wind

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor...
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Social commentary on race relations in 60s (outside of the South):​
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
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70's movies are totally different. Tonally, stylistically, even the people themselves changed. That's why I cut it off at 1970.

Also, blockbusters were a thing in the era I mentioned. If Ben-Hur wasn't a blockbuster, what was?
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I totally agree with you on 70s movies being different. I tend to think in general they are more cynical.

The first Blockbuster is widely believed to be Jaws in 1975.
 
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If you are watching stuff on the TCM rotation, I would certainly keep an eye out for anything by Hitchcock. As others have also stated, it's hard to go wrong with his work. When I've looked at TCM, they almost always have at least one of his movies up at any given time. Even his comedy was ahead of it's time (although I would still rate it somewhere in the middle for his work):

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The Trouble with Harry

When a local man's corpse appears on a nearby hillside, no one is quite sure what happened to him. Many of the town's residents secretly wonder if they are responsible, including the man's ex-wife, Jennifer, and Capt. Albert Wiles, a retired seaman who was hunting in the woods where the body was...
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little off topic, but if you really like 12 angry men, the original live broadcast is on youtube, this restored version is pretty watchable, the raw copy isn't


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one of my all time favorites
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Sergeant York

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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even though maybe 2 people have ever gotten it (one being my dad), i will use "bottom land" when trying to get something better.
 
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Tons of great pre-70s foreign movies. Seijun Suzuki made some bangers in Japan.
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Tokyo Drifter

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya
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Branded to Kill

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
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Hammer horror movies were great in the UK.
Michael Powell movies are fantastic
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Peeping Tom

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his...
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Other sperg stream of classic older movies
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Cléo from 5 to 7

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by...
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Persona

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.
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M

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and...
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Back in high school, I had a girlfriend that was all about Gone With the Wind. She wanted to watch it all the time, and I did watch it once with her. Very boring movie for my high school mind.
 
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Chanur said:
Watched this in film class. Great movie.

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High Noon

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the...
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Chanur said:
I totally agree with you on 70s movies being different. I tend to think in general they are more cynical.

The first Blockbuster is widely believed to be Jaws in 1975.
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The entire concept of summer blockbusters started with Jaws. It didn't really exist before then. Obviously there were massive hits, but the commercial exploitation of a movie into the zeitgeist wasn't really a thing before then.
 
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Post elsewhere , but the wife loves the 2003 remake of the Italian Job. We watched it recently then watched the 1969 original. They do bad unspeakable things to a beautiful Lamborghini but it's a really good movie.

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The Italian Job

Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars, and a bus, he...
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Hmm any insight into why my link doesn't look like the others?
 
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