What are some of your favorite pre-80's movies?

The Stunt Man. It was 1980 so technically it's not eligible, but it's good one that doesn't get enough credit.
 
The Kentucky Fried Movie
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70's: The Godfather, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, The Outlaw Josie Wales

60's: Lawrence of Arabia, Cool Hand Luke, Doctor Zhivago, Inherit the Wind

50"s: The African Queen, Ben-Hur, The Searchers, The Young Philadelphians

40's: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, The Pride of the Yankees, Sergeant York

30's: GWTW, Mutiny on the Bounty, Captains Courageous
 
The Sting - Redford, Newman
Star Wars
Apocolypse
Coocoo's Nest
007 movies


When was E.T.?
Olsen Banden - Danish
 
Patton, Force 10 from Navarrone, but ah yes...Star Wars!! being 12 yrs old at the time I had never seen anything like it--can see how Cameron and others were so mesmerized by it--speaking of Lucas, also American Graffiti
 
There are so many old millitary movies, but one of the best imo was 12 oclock high.

My dad clued me in on that one, said they used that movie help with management training somewhere can't remember where.

I loved watching Sargent York, but I dont' know if I would have ever seen the movie except I had an assignment to watch the movie for a history class.
 
I know I will be different but some of my favorites are movies that have been neglected by tv and dvd companies and are most difficult if not impossible to come by. You need to know that when I was young my father ran a drive in and I got to see most movies from the 50s and mid 60s and some of my favorites were what were Grade B movies which were usually presented as double features with a western and another movie and most didn't run long such as maybe 80 minutes. But you make a 100 Grade B movies you do make a few gems and I feel that these are included.
These movies were made in England but had American actors
They were actually well made and had surprise ended. They were made in Black and White. These are murder mystery movies.

"The Trunk" with Phil Carey made in 1960
"Do You Know This Voice" made in 1964 with Dan Duryea
"The Woman Who Wouldn't Die" with Gary Merrell

The last one here is another Dan Duryea made in 1965 called
"Walk a Tightpope" which also starred Patricia Owens. I will tell you a little about what happens during the first 15 minutes so this won't really be a spoiler. Patricia Owens came to England from America a few years ago and she and a very succussful wealther English businessman feel in love and they have a happy marriage. But the catch is that in America she got married young to a dead beat and left for English before getting a divorce. The American husband shows up and still thinks she has feelings for him and demands some money. Patricia Owens hires Dan Duryea to kill her American husband. She tells the blackmailer to meet her at her house a certain time in the afternoon and she and Duryea wait to kill him. The American husband is delayed in traffic and the English husband comes home early of all times. Duryea kills the wrong husband.

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I gotta bunch:
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Godfather, Part 2
The Odd Couple
The Apartment
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Three Days of the Condor
Star Wars
Saturday Night Fever
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Last of Sheila with James Coburn
Only the 007 films with Sean Connery
The Towering Inferno
The Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen
Bullit
The Alamo with John Wayne
Annie Hall
Jaws
Manhattan
Play Misty for Me
The Ten Commandments
Barefoot in the Park
 
Apocalypse Now and Alien (both already mentioned) are among my favorites but I'll add the more obscure Harold and Maude to that list.
 
Tora Tora Tora
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Sergeant York
The Love Bug

And a few movies that I feel are especially underappreciated by my generation:
The Great Race
The Sting
Captains Courageous
 
Bridge on the River Kwai
Charge of the Light Brigade
To Hell and Back
The Manchurian Candidate
Oceans 11
On the Waterfront
Lost Horizon
It Happened One Night
Anything Hitchcock
and, shamefully, Elvis flicks
 
Bullitt, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Three Days of the Condor,Alien, The French Connection, THX 1138, The Great Escape, Invasion of the Body Snatchers
 
I have more favorites prior to 1980 than after 1980. Of my ten favorite movies of all time only one is after 1980.

Chinatown
Sunset Boulevard
Philadelphia Story
To Live (Kurosawa movie)
Breaking Away
Breaker Morant (1980)
The Third Man
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Treasure of Sierra Madre
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
 
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