Some of your favorite movies, especially from the 50s-60s era?

If you like ghosts stories - or should I say "ghost" stories? - start with The Innocents . . .

'Gypsy,' the film. I know DL snobs despise Ros Russell's, ahem, "vocals," but I love it.

Marty...an extraordinary film about the most ordinary of people. I just love it.

Some Like It Hot is one of my favourite comedies from the era. Along with Genevieve.

Another of the best horror films from that era is the original version of "The Haunting."

Ugetsu Monogatari and Tokyo Story. Many of the Kurosawa movies (Ikiru, the Seven Samurai and Yojimbo).

If you wonder why some of us are fans of Italian horror films, you can start with this one from director Mario Bava - Operation Fear (aka Kill, Baby Kill)

Two words:

Douglas Sirk

A summer place

War of the worlds

When Worlds Collide

I want to live !

Imitation of Life

The Long Long Trailer

One of my favorite movies, ever. We've had some really interesting chats about it here on DL.

I have always loved Stalag 17, The Great Escape, Some Like It Hot, and The Loved Ones. Great acting: To Kill a Mockingbird and Sunset Boulevard.

For camp enjoyment, some of my favorites are How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Imitation of Life.

Breakfast At Tiffany's, Splendor In The Grass, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, Bonnie and Clyde

There are a lot of really good films from abroad. (R6 mentioned Japanese films, and I mentioned Italian horror below that.)

There are three great trilogies from this era.

One is Samurai, which follows a young warrior who becomes a samurai (and was an influence on Tarantino's Kill Bill)

Another is The Human Condition, three 3-hour Japanese films that follow a pacifist/socialist during WWII.

My personal favorite is the Apu Trilogy, 3 heartbreaking Bengali-language Indian films the follow a guy from boyhood in a poor village to his marriage.

You're a cookie full of arsenic OP!

A brutal, but really good film is They Shoot Horses Don’t They. It about a Depression era dance contest and the desperate measures people will go to trying to win. There’s a devastating twist ending that killed me when I saw it the first time. Jane Fonda is heartbreaking in it, I think it’s her most sympathetic character.

The 400 Blows, The Manchurian Candidate, Hud

[quote]'Gypsy,' the film. I know DL snobs despise Ros Russell's, ahem, "vocals," but I love it.

Most of Roz's songs were dubbed by Broadway singer-actress Lisa Kirk, although Roz does do some of her own singing. But I love this movie also.

Other Hitchcock movies you might like: Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho.

A Place in the Sun, My Fair Lady, Bonnie and Clyde