Favorite movie before 80's?

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any movie in the past that was released before the 80's
1980< lol sorry just had to get that point across

Mine has to be Citizen Kane and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

reason I'm asking is because most of the disscussions I have with peers (16-19) seem to only enjoy movies made in my generation.. I dont blame them but there are some serious classics that seem to ignore or are too simple minded to get the context of the movie

m w · Accepted Answer

the longest day
a bridge too far
marathon man

MystMoonstruck · Answer

Here are some of my favorites, and most people consider them "must-see" classics. They're brilliant AND entertaining!
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Thing From Another World
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Miracle Worker (1962)
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Birdman of Alcatraz
Rebel Without a Cause
Inherit the Wind (1960)
The Magnificent Seven
Romeo & Juliet (1968)
An American in Paris
To Kill a Mockingbird
Children of Paradise
Gone With the Wind
The Haunting (1963)
Lawrence of Arabia 
The African Queen
The Great Ziegfeld
Singin' in the Rain
King Kong (1933)
The Wizard of Oz
Some Like It Hot
West Side Story
The Good Earth
Bonnie & Clyde
The 400 Blows
The Graduate
The Innocents
Little Big Man
My Fair Lady
Elmer Gantry
The King & I
Casablanca
Repulsion
La Strada
The Sting
Charade
Ben-Hur
Patton
Jaws
Gigi

James Bond~Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, Life and Let Die//I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Sean Connery fan!

Val Lewton films~Cat People, The Curse of the Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, Bedlam, The Seventh Victim, The Leopard Man, Isle of the Dead, The Body Snatcher (1945)

Alfred Hitchcock films~Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Marnie, Suspicion, Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train

I was born in 1951, so of course I love all of the films of the Fifties-Seventies. I also love films back to the beginning of moviemaking. "The Lost World" is wonderful! The effects hold up much better than you might expect, and they even have a feisty heroine in Bessie Love, a resilient actress who has appeared in such films as "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (sort of making her a Bond lady!) and "Ragtime". My father was a second-generation film buff who raised me to love movies and to know about actors and actresses, even the obscure ones. I am so happy to hear that younger people can appreciate all of those amazing films made before they were born. What a waste to ignore these films because then you might not "discover" Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Clark Gable, Fredric March, Gene Kelly and so many others. Most never reach back far enough to appreciate William Powell, Jean Harlowe, Myrna Loy, Paul Muni, John Garfield and the other myriad stars that gave us so much to enjoy.

Shawna B · Answer

Including everything that's been mentioned here...
The Godfather, Part II
A Clockwork Orange 
Dr. Strangelove Or:  How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
Singin' in the Rain
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Deer Hunter
High and Low 
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Terminator
The 39 Steps
American Graffitti
Bananas
Sleeper
Dial M for Murder
North by Northwest
Rear Window
Rope
A Fistful of Dollars 
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Sanjuro
Yojimbo
The Jerk
Jaws
King Kong
Mary Poppins 
Wizard of Oz
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
The Muppet Movie
Animal House

I don't know if I can think of anymore.... and I'm just 17 years old too!

Douglas E · Answer

Star Wars: A New Hope
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws
Rocky
2001: A Space Odyssey

These are just a few of my favorite "classics" from before 1980...but my favorite would be Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Lefty · Answer

The Graduate
French Connection
The Godfather
Battle Of The Bulge
Bad Day At Black Rock

mrs_d_tremor · Answer

The Godfather I and II
Cool Hand Luke
Long Hot Summer
On The Waterfront
Serpico
Streetcar Named Desire

...they don't make movies like they used to, huh?
these are some of the movies i suggest to people who say they don't like movies made before 1980, or that they're not into 'classics'.

Anonymous · Answer

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (the original)
To Sir With Love
The Graduate
Love Story
Midway
To Kill a Mockingbird
Spencers Mountain
Giant
....and many more...=)

? · Answer

From The Outsiders Matt Dillon as Dally @1983

Hαír Pεace Šmûrƒ Pεαce · Answer

A Hard Day's Night- starring... The BEATLES!!! yaaaayyy... 
yup, i overdid it. 

other than that... well... besides Help!... my two other favorite movies are Ferris Beuller's Day Off and My Cousin Vinny... which are both in the 80s and 90s...

edit: how could i forget The Wizard of Oz?

~Peace & Love~ ♥

Christi · Answer

Lilies of the Field
Psycho 
Arsenic and Old Lace 
Harvey

LilyRT · Answer

glad to see someone's openminded enough to consider a movie made before 2000.  I was beginning to wonder if I was becoming a dinosaur.

Anyway, some of my favorites...
Chinatown
The Lion in Winter
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Casablanca
Maltese Falcon

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