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I could list about 100 movies that are all classic, but here, ...

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Alien
Aliens
Terminator
Terminator 2
American Beauty
Poltergeist
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Three Days of the Condor
A Night to Remember
Arsenic and Old Lace
An Affair to Remember
Poltergeist
ET
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
2001: A Space Odyssey
Spaceballs
Vertigo
The Birds
North by Northwest
Auntie Mame
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The African Queen
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
The Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather
Rear Window
Goodfellas
Lawrence of Arabia
Apocalypse Now
The Shining
The Manchurian Candidate (the original, with Frank Sinatra)
Gaslight
The Sixth Sense
The Princess Bride
The Sting
Harvey
The Thing (the 1982 version, with Kurt Russell)
Robocop
Escape from New York
The Blues Brothers...Show more

along with some of the movies that others have recommended (like Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur, Arsenic & Old Lace, and Grease), I would also recommend:

Metropolis
Phantom of the Opera (the original silent movie version)
Cool Hand Luke
Conan
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Brigadoon
It's a Wonderful Life
Mary Poppins
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang
the Magnificent Seven
the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Paint Your Wagons
the Dirty Dozen
Smokey & the Bandit
Dementia 13
The Last Man on Earth
The Omega Man (as a matter of fact, watch Last Man first, then Omega Man, then go to the movies to see I Am Legend)
Day of the Triffids
The War of the Worlds (original)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)
King Kong (original)
Mighty Joe Young (original)

And so many others. You really should see these at least once in your life....Show more

Burt Lancaster- The Flame and the Arrow / Jim Thorpe All-American / His Majesty O'Keefe / South Sea Woman / Executive Action

Barbara Stanwyck - Annie Oakley / East Side, West Side / My Reputation / Executive Suite / Jeopardy / To Please a Lady

The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection -Babes in Arms / Babes on Broadway / Girl Crazy / Strike Up the Band

Classic Musicals -The Pirate / Words and Music / That's Dancing / The Belle of New York & Royal Wedding / That Midnight Kiss & The Toast of New Orleans

Esther Williams- Bathing Beauty / Easy to Wed / On an Island with You / Neptune's Daughter / Dangerous When Wet

John Wayne Western -The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance / True Grit / Hondo / McLintock! / Big Jake / The Shootist / Rio Lobo / The Sons of Katie Elder / El Dorado/ The Quiet Man / The Sands of Iwo Jima / Flying Tigers / The Wake of the Red Witch/ Stagecoach / Fort Apache / She Wore a Yellow Ribbon / The Long Voyage Home / They Were Expendable / 3 Godfathers / The Wings of Eagles

Hollywood's Legends of Horror Collection (Doctor X / The Return of Doctor X / Mad Love / The Devil Doll / Mark of the Vampire / The Mask of Fu Manchu) (1939)

The Val Lewton Horror Collection (Cat People / The Curse of the Cat People / I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher / Isle of the Dead / Bedlam / The Leopard Man / The Ghost Ship / The Seventh Victim / Shadows in the Dark)

The Monster Legacy Collection (Frankenstein / Dracula / The Wolf Man)...Show more

Some of my classics are below. I like them because they (in my opinion) have a great story and/or were groundbreaking at the time (even controversial):

Rebecca (by Alfred Hitchcock)
The Birds
Psycho
African Queen
The Sound of Music
The King and I (with Yul Brynner)
Planet of the Apes
Gone with the Wind
It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
Jurassic Park
Ben Hur
Dracula (with Bela Lugosi)
Frankenstein (with Boris Karloff)
Blade Runner
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odessey
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wizard of Oz
Seven
Apollo 13
Platoon
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Godfather Trilogy (especially II)
Schindler's List
The Exorcist...Show more