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Recommend me an older film (before 1980) that you consider to be an absolute classic

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jack_package_200

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Currently going through the filmographies of Oscar Winning directors David Lean (Laurence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai) and Akira Kurosawa and I have been on a bit of a classic film kick. Bless the Criterion Channel.

What films from before 1980 do you consider to be a classic that needs to be experienced? All genres are fair game.
 
ClivePwned

ClivePwned

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Australia
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
The Third Man
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Magnificent Seven
North By Northwest
The Great Escape
The Dirty Dozen
Bonnie and Clyde
Planet of the Apes
Patton
MASH
The French Connection
The Excorcist
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Omen
Rocky
Chinatown
Network
Taxi Driver
Animal House

That's a start
 
Sacco e Vanzetti

Sacco e Vanzetti

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Double Indemnity (1944)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Letter Never Sent (1960)
Le Trou (1960)
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Conformist (1970)
Deep End (1970)
Paper Moon (1973)
 
JeTmAn

JeTmAn

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The 70's are a little too easy, lots of still-appealing films today. The Godfather, Jaws, Star Wars, etc.
 
Darkwing-Buck

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Director: YasujirĹŤ Ozu

Tokyo Story (1953)

Late Spring (1949)

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Wrexis

Wrexis

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The Andromeda Strain
Where Eagles Dare
Assault On Precinct 13
The first couple of Bond movies.
 
GCX

GCX

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Some Like It Hot holds up so well, and so do other Billy Wilder movies too.
 
Vulcano's Assistant

Vulcano's Assistant

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The Apartment (1960)
400 Blows (1959)
Pinocchio (1940)
The Grand Illusion (1937)
The Man with the Movie Camera (1929) (I suggest the soundtrack from 1995)
 
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BuddyJones

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The most recent film I've seen that came out before 1980 was Marathon Man and it was incredible.
I always thought the "is it safe" scene was the best part of the movie, but the white angel walking down the diamond district and Doc getting attacked in his hotel is some brilliant filmmaking.
 
Metalmucil

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I was gonna say David Lean (my fav director of all time), but you got that!
Streetcar Named Desire (Brando rules!)
Apocalypse now (original cut)
Faust (1926) - still impressive to watch even now
Guns of Navarone (epic war movie, but kinda more mass audience appeal?)
Jaws - classic
Godfather - classic
Saturday Night Fever (trust me, its actually a really poignant drama and not what you think!)
High Plains Drifter (like the anti-western. Its awesome)
The Wild Bunch (Epic Western)
 
rycisko

rycisko

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No Vertigo mentions yet? Watch Vertigo! 1958, and one of Hitchcocks best (my personal fav)
 
Man with Knife

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Like, 80% of all classic movies are before 1980? I mean for example, Hollywoods best decade was just before that. The list would be endless.
 
Kurtikeya

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- Masaki Kobayashi (Kwaidan, Harakiri, Samurai Rebellion)
- Lino Brocka (Insiang, Manila in the Claws of Night)
- Powell and Pressburger (Black Narcissus, Red Shoes, A Matter of Life and Death)
- The Philadelphia Story
- Tarkovsky (Stalker, Solaris, Andrei Rublev)
- Bergman (Persona, Winter Light)
- Kubrick (Barry Lyndon, 2001, Dr. Strangelove)
- Meshes of the Afternoon (short film)
- Jeanne Dielman
- Fantasia
 
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