Dangerous Beauty with Catherine McCormick...

Wow, indeed!

Dr. Strangelove.

“We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when...”

I can't tell you how many times I have watched 'Casablanca'. If Bogey is in it, I'll watch it!

I'm going to add my own list of movies you could classify as Historical Fiction or Historical Fantasy:
13th Warrior
Gladiator
Master & Commander (I like some seafaring movies)

Chinese Martial Art Historical Fiction Movies:
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Hero
House of Flying Daggers

Polish Historical Films-English sub-titles: (my heritage)
The Deluge
An Ancient Tale-When the Sun was God

Hmm, I put the trailer link in this but it must've been too late for the Edit limit - here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjawg...
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Whoa, freedomforall's list is fantastic! Thanks for posting.

I have a bunch that I'll need to add once I have time :rolls eyes: to dig through the cobwebby recesses of the Memory Room in my brain, but one that always sticks out in my mind despite its deterministic theme, is one if the best time-travel flicks I've ever seen: "Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time." It used to be on the Anime-heavy streaming service Crunchyroll before they axed most of their live-action drama, but it can be had on Amazon Prime for roughly the price of a latte, included if you already have Amazon Prime:
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Traveller...

If you love the time travel concept; if you love the '70s; if you love old, cheesy science fiction movies; if you've ever made your own Super 8 home movies; and if you love a buoyant sense-of-life, this is a must-see. The opening seconds of this movie alone are an homage to science that's positively electrifying and a simple indicator of contemporary Japan's shockingly O-friendly cultural attitudes.

Something else I should mention is that this movie is maybe The Mother Of All Tear-Jerkers. I've posted this description so many times on Facebrag and elsewhere that it's getting old even for me, but... I don't care if you're the biggest, baddest, WBO / PKKA / MMA dude on the planet, if you're not a sniffling, sobbing sap by the end of this thing you should just start checking for a pulse. It's not a "three-hanky" movie, it's a "Go straight to Costco and buy an industrial-mega-pack of toilet paper and stack the whole thing on your coffee table, because you are going to be blowing snot and tears by the gallon" type of thing.

And that's in a good way. Just unforgettable, and even after watching it better than a dozen times from start to finish I still get choked up just watching the trailer. Now please nobody tell my H.S. heavy metal buddies I said that, 'cause they'll disown me fer sure.

More suggestions to come, but as I said... gotta remember them.

Yes. Eastwood is an incredible artist in film. Incredible. I love his old westerns.

Anytime Heartbreak Ridge comes on tv I sit down and watch it...

Understanding that it's a lot of really left-wing BS, Lost Horizon is one of my two all-time favorite movies. Frank Capra did such a good job on that one, I can put it on and go to sleep watching it any night of the week. The book has a better ending than the movie (there was a spoiler here but I backtracked and deleted it). I would love to see them do a libertarian sequel, though, where the outside world and particularly the Commie Chinese find out about all that gold, and you find out what happens to Socialists when they run out of someone else's (or naturally occurring, non-renewable) money.
My other favorite is Bladerunner, arguably the best sci-fi movie ever made.

One of my favorites I haven't seen listed here (unless I missed it in the big lists) is Braveheart. Although, and as usual, liberties were taken with actual history, the themes are important. There is a lot in there on how freedom movements can get sold out.

In general, I like history dramas and there are a lot of them. Cromwell. El Cid. I never tire of the Shootist. I know right where John Wayne and Lauren Bacall pull their buggy beside Washoe Lake. You can see Slide Mt in the background.

One of the difficulties is overlooking when a Hollywood primadonna gets a starring role as a famous figure. The Aviator is a great topic and I have to bypass my opinion of public idiot #2 Reotardo as Howard Hughes. But he is a good actor, can't knock him on that. And in the latest Midway movie - one of my favorite topics - I am still swallowing Woody Harrelson as Admiral Nimitz. And then remember Alec Baldwin as Jimmy Doolittle? Agh.

Someone mentioned Dr. Zhivago. That is tops. As is Lawrence of Arabia.

This can be a huge topic and could go on all day! Thanks for posting.

Perhaps the greatest achievement in cinematic history. 2001 A Space Odyssey. For that matter anything by Stanley Kubrick. Paths of glory. The Shining. A Clockwork Orange. And so on.

Great list FFA. You missed this short story titled
Anti-fa meet combustion. You have to scroll down 1 tweet
https://mobile.twitter.com/HostoHarke...

To be politically incorrect,
Gone with the Wind
1984, Richard Burton
Any Jimmie Stewart, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, gotta love them .
Thin Man movies, Wm. Powell, Myrna Loy
Rope, Hitchock with James Stewart
If you like music, Fred Astaire. class act, movies
Helt and Hard Days Night, Beatles
Early Bond movies, Connery or Moore

In TV DVDs:
Avengers, 1965, Diana Rigg, Patrick McNee, so good and civilized
Honeymooners, Jackie Gleason, comedy

The Manchurian Candidate, Sinatra

Our daughter and I used to stya up late, watching all the above, which she revisits to this day and can quote dialogue from Rocky, Manchurian Candidate, and Godfather!
Bullitt, Steve McQueen
Godfather trilogy, and Rocky movies
Benny Goodman Story
Glenn Miller Story

Great Movies
This list is not meant to diminish the greatness of movies generally mentioned as being “great” – Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Godfather Parts 1 and 2, etc. These are certainly among the best movies ever made, particularly the last 5. However, the movies in the list below are great in all respects and equal or superior to these and others that usually are included in great lists. In chronological order:
• King Kong (1933) – The greatest monster movie.
• It’s a Gift (1934) – W. C. Fields – the best of the Fields movies, but another great one is The Bank Dick.
• A Plumbing We Will Go, Disorder in the Court, Violent is the Word for Curly, Three Little Curs, Three Little Beers, et. al. (1935-40) – These are among the best Three Stooges shorts and there are many others worthy of seeing. The Stooges were among the most popular film acts in their day and the satire in their best work is still current.
• A Night at the Opera (1935) – The best of the Marx Brothers movies, but several others come very close – A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, etc.
• Lost Horizons (1937) – A wonderful and meaningful fantasy staring Ronald Coleman and directed by Frank Capra. The movie realization of a story by James Hilton.
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) – Errol Flynn, Olivia De Haviland, Basil Rathbone, et. al.
• Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939) – Another James Hilton story brought to film.
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, et. al. and directed by John Huston. The greatest among many Bogart movie. Others include The Petrified Forrest, Casablanca, High Sierra, Key Largo and The Maltese Falcon.
• The Quiet Man (1952) – John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, directed by John Ford and with the rest of the usual players in many John Ford movies (Victor McLaughlin, Ward Bond, etc.) Other great John Wayne movies are Sands of Iwo Jima and True Grit. McLintock! is very entertaining and, in some respects, a western representation of the key theme and the main characters in the Quiet Man.
• Shane (1953) – The prototype of the mysterious avenger theme starring Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur and Jack Palance. Clint Eastwood starred in a later movie with the same themes, Pale Rider, which is also worthy of mention.
• Mon Oncle (1958) – A wonderful and endearing movie by the great French pantomimist, Jacque Tati, playing Mr. Hulot. Other Mr. Hulot movies worth seeing are Playtime, Traffic and Mr. Hulot’s Holiday.
• Laurence of Arabia (1962) – One of a trilogy of great and spectacular movies directed by David Lean and all featuring Alec Guinness in a major role. The others are Bridge Over the River Kwai and Doctor Zhivago.
• American Graffiti (1973) – An ensemble cast capturing perfectly the ‘60s rock and roll cruising culture.
• Lonestar (1996) – A John Sayles movie with an ensemble cast and script touching on major current issues. Watch carefully; many flashbacks.

Absence of Malice
Das Boot

Awesome list, FFA! Most are already in my library, but now I have to add the rest!

Wow, FFA! There are only a few I would add to that list: Charlton Heston movies
Ben Hur
The Omega Man
Planet of the Apes

Musicals
Man of La Mancha
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Brigadoon

Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People, which was Sean Connery's first big role.

All great choices!

Me dino saw The Magnificent Seven as a kid. Later just after I saw A Fistful Of Dollars I read that its release to the USA was held up a year due to the lawsuit.
That's the first I've heard of Kurosawa, who did not have to worry about being sued by Shakespeare when he made Throne Of Blood based on Macbeth. I liked watching both.
Sanjuro is a sequel of Yojimbo. Sanjuro is nothing like the sequel, For A Few Dollars More, which I consider the best of "The Man With No Name" trilogy.
Man with no name? Bah. He's called Joe in the first, Manco (Manko?) in the second and a brown-haired Blondie in the third.

Ah yes, anything directed by Kurosawa.
I saw The Magnificent Seven with Yul Brunner before the Seven Samurai, both are excellent. The tension is high and continuous. This is what movie making should be about. The word in Japanese is The Code, something like Galt's values.
I am also a fan of Fellini especially La dolce vita. A journalist is looking for something, he does not know what, he explores a range of Rome's cultures, the intellectuals, business class, aristocracy, the vulgar rich, he does not find anything of value, or with values, he sees a young girl on the beach and sees there is still hope.

If you like a good laugh then see Doctor in the House, only the Brits do comedy in that class.
Night Of The Living Dead, yes, great scary scifi genre. Good for a laugh as well, but only hours after to break the chills.

Victory at Sea, music by Richard Rogers, the commentary is fine by me but a bit too formal and patriotic by today's standards, great drama. I understand that it gives accurate accounts of the great WW2 sea battles. There is a UK parallel, Victory in the Air, music by Benjamin Britain, very good but not in the all time great class like Victory at Sea.

Dr Zhivago. Life under the Tsars was horrid. Life under the Bolsheviks was worse. Maybe, the cruel revolution was essential to make the breakout, is the theme. Life improved, slowly, got a bit better, there is hope, there is a long way to go. A classic love story set against the vast country and and epic history.
Battleship Potemkin, earlier but a similar theme. A classic movie of the time.

More modern, Lion. The true story of a 4 or 5-yo boy in India, who got lost, sent to an orphanage, adopted by an Australian couple, challenges and struggles, memories of the family and home now lost. Then as an adult, with vague memories he uses the internet and google maps, searches for years, finds what must be his town, the clue is the rail station and water tank. At 25, goes back to India, a beautiful portrayal of a western tourist who is Indian sort of but nothing like the people around even in body shape. He finds the house, then his mother, and bro and sis. His mother on seeing him after 20 years says 'my happiness is as deep as the ocean'. Yes, see this one.

Dino....Kurosawa? Awesome!
I was immersed in Seven Samurai well before seeing Mag 7.

Excellent, excellent list Freedomforall!

The Graduate
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf
The Mule

That reads a lot like my list of favorites.

The Fountainhead

Gone With The Wind, especially the parts after the war, to see what happens to America if Biden/Ho are elected.

The Wizard of Oz, especially for the allegory on corrupt politics and music

Bogart at his best:
Casablanca
The African Queen
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Caine Mutiny
The Maltese Falcon
Key Largo
The Big Sleep
and others worth seeing

The Manchurian Candidate - the original with Frank Sinatra, which was kept out of circulation for years so as not to insult China

Lost Horizon

Wait Until Dark
Sabrina (both versions)

Best of James Stewart
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - a political fable
It's a Wonderful Life
Harvey
No Highway In The Sky
Rear Window
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Spirit of St. Louis
Vertigo
Anatomy Of A Murder
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
How the West Was Won
and others

Best of Alfred Hitchcock
The Lady Vanishes
Spellbound
Notorious
Strangers On A Train
Dial M For Murder
Rear Window (also James Stewart)
To Catch A Thief (also Cary Grant)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (also James Stewart)
Vertigo (also James Stewart)
North by Northwest (also Cary Grant)
Psycho
The Birds
Marnie (also Sean Connery)
Torn Curtain (as in the iron curtain)

Best of Sean Connery
All his James Bond 007 films
The Man Who Would Be King
Time Bandits
The Name of the Rose
The Untouchables
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Hunt For Red October


Best of Cary Grant
Topper
Arsenic and Old Lace
To Catch A Thief
An Affair To Remember
North by Northwest
Charade

Musicals
Guys and Dolls
My Fair Lady
The Sound Of Music
South Pacific
Oklahoma
The Music Man (1962)
Oliver
Call Me Madam
Wizard of Oz
Singin' In The Rain
The King and I
Peter Pan (1950 tv movie)
"1776"
Carousel
Neptune's Daughter (just for the hilarious Baby It's Cold Outside sequences)

Great Science Fiction
Forbidden Planet (1956)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and lesser remake (1978)
Superman and Superman 2 Directed by Richard Donner
Serenity (but recommend you watch the tv series Firefly first)
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Star Wars Episodes 4,5,6 only
Logan's Run (1976)
Soylent Green (1973)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Time Machine (1960)
Galaxy Quest
Total Recall
Terminator
Star Trek Movies 2,4,6
Blade Runner (1982)

The Sting
It Happens Every Spring
From Here to Eternity
Elmer Gantry
Birdman of Alcatraz
Seven Days in May
Field of Dreams
Stalag 17
Executive Suite (1954)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Hustler
Giant
Cool Hand Luke
The Verdict
American Graffiti
Trading Places
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Working Girl
The Fugitive
Clear and Present Danger
Sabrina (1995)
Air Force One



Clint Eastwood
"Dirty Harry" series
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Hang 'Em High (1968)
Blood Work (2002)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Absolute Power (1997)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Space Cowboys (2000)
Trouble with the Curve (2012)
The Eiger Sanction (1975)

Westerns
Silverado
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
High Noon (1952)
Stagecoach (1939)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Rio Bravo (1959)
Winchester '73 (1950)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Open Range (2003)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Tombstone* (1993)



There are hundreds more.

I don't know if you like thrillers, suspense, heartwarming, war films or just plain good acting. Some of my favorites are The Fountainhead-suspense, (based off Ayn Rand's book), the Bourne movies-suspense, (Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne-all Matt Damon), The Color Purple-historical & heartwarming, Gone With The Wind-historical, It's a Wonderful Life-heartwarming, The Hunt for Red October-supense, U571-suspense, A few Good Men-very well acted, etc. I could go on forever!