Worth seeing - Classics
I don't know where these movies belong. They wouldn't exactly be on my shortlist of favorites, but they are still movies I liked a lot when I saw them and would watch them again.
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The 39 Steps (1935, PG)
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The Thin Man (1934, Unrated)
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Trouble in Paradise (1932, Unrated)
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943, PG)
A lesser-known Hitchcock film that is definitely worth seeing. |
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House of Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) (1960, Unrated)
Great performance by Vincent Price. Not very true to the original Poe story, but entertaining in its own right. |
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My Man Godfrey (1936, Unrated)
Great 1930s screwball comedy. William Powell is terrific as usual. |
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One, Two, Three (1961, Unrated)
A 1961 movie set in West Berlin, James Cagney and the rest of the cast are at breakneck speed the whole time. Kind of screwball with a lot of dialogue. A lesser-known Billy Wilder movie that is fascinating and fun to watch. |
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Bonjour Tristesse (1958, Unrated)
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All About Eve (1950, Unrated)
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Hand in Hand (1960, Unrated)
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Make Mine Mink (1960, Unrated)
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The Misfits (1961, Unrated)
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The Lady Vanishes (1938, Unrated)
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Double Indemnity (1944, Unrated)
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The Blue Gardenia (1953, Unrated)
Obscure '50s movie starring Anne Baxter from All About Eve. Sort of a film noir/whodunit that is pretty engaging. Raymond Burr plays a total lech! |
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Strangers on a Train (1951, PG)
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The Trouble With Harry (1955, PG)
An unusual one for Hitchcock. This is kind of a dark comedy. It's set in New England in autumn. Shirley MacLaine is great in her first movie role. Full of small-town characters, it's different from the big-city or cross-country thrillers Hitchcock often made. |
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The Apartment (1960, Unrated)
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A Nous La Liberte (Liberty for Us) (1931, Unrated)
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The Eagle and the Hawk (1933, Unrated)
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The Bat Whispers (1930, Unrated)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945, Unrated)
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The Loved One (1965, Unrated)
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Now, Voyager (1942, Unrated)
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The Barefoot Contessa (1954, Unrated)
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Bedtime Story (1941, Unrated)
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The Group (1966, PG)
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I Walked With a Zombie (1943, Unrated)
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No Time for Comedy (1940, Unrated)
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The Millionairess (1960, Unrated)
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The Unsuspected (1947, G)
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The Gene Krupa Story (1959, Unrated)
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Music in My Heart (1940, Unrated)
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My Name is Julia Ross (1945, Unrated)
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Autumn Leaves (1956, Unrated)
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Tales of Manhattan (1942, Unrated)
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The Great Imposter (1961, Unrated)
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Harvey (1951, Unrated)
An absolute must for classic film fans. James Stewart gives one of his best performances and Josephine Hull is hilarious as his scheming aunt. It's hard not to see something a little ominous in Harvey after seeing Donnie Darko, but this is like the 1950s good-doppelganger version of that movie (did that make sense?). Touching, well-written, poignant, funny, well-acted, and a bit nutty. |
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Goodbye Charlie (1964, Unrated)
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Four's a Crowd (1938, Unrated)
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Foul Play (1978, PG)
A very '70s take on Hitchcock thrillers and old-fashioned screwball comedies. Worth seeing if you like thoses genres. |
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Night Must Fall (1937, Unrated)
Interesting character study/"thriller" with two of my favorite classic movie actors. More of a psychological drama, it really doesn't go anywhere; this in itself is kind of a surprise and a relief. At a certain point in the film, one kind of loses the expectation of cliched suspense and realize it's just about these two characters' psyches. Unusual and worth seeing, even with its faults. |
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Undercurrent (1946, Unrated)
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