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    60s-80s movies recommendations

    After watching The Eiger Sanction, Three Days of Condor and couple of other flicks recently I am a bit hooked on the period cinematography, so what is out there worth watching?
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    Vanishing Point.
    Two Lane Blacktop.
    Ice Station Zebra.
    Puppet on a Chain.
    Plus loads of Michael Caine movies - Funeral in Berlin, The Ipcress File, The Italian Job, Get Carter, etc.

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    Get Carter (1971)

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    Where Eagles Dare is always worth a watch whenever it is trotted out again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SimonK View Post
    Vanishing Point.
    Two Lane Blacktop.
    Ice Station Zebra.
    Puppet on a Chain.
    Plus loads of Michael Caine movies - Funeral in Berlin, The Ipcress File, The Italian Job, Get Carter, etc.
    Beat me to the first 3

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    If you don't mind a French flick, Le Samourai starring Alain Delon. The director was Jean-Pierre Melville and directors from Scorsese to Tarantino have acknowledged him as a key influence.

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    The Parallax View
    Marathon Man
    All The President's Men
    Any of the early Dirty Harry movies

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    Fantastic, thanks for the suggestions gents! I am quite partial to French movies (Rabbi Jacob ;), so shall definitely have a look, cheers.. Anything off the piste, any region, any genre - all suggestions are welcome!
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    I find this quite evocative, even if there has been some splicing of footage and soundtrack.


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    Quote Originally Posted by VDG View Post
    I am quite partial to French movies
    Le Grand Chemin
    Week-end
    Jules et Jim
    Diva

    not French, and a bit before your 1960 cutoff, but...

    La Strada

    And a wild-card worth revisiting:

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Speilberg's most French "I've been watching a lot of the New Wave, look, here's Truffaut himself..." film)

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlphaOmega View Post
    I find this quite evocative, even if there has been some splicing of footage and soundtrack.

    It wasn’t a Ferrari but Lelouch’s own Mercedes 450 SEL 6.9
    He then dubbed the soundtrack.
    'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.

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    Quote Originally Posted by benny.c View Post
    Where Eagles Dare is always worth a watch whenever it is trotted out again.
    I was 11 when that came out and saw it at the pictures. Along with Goldfinger it’s one of my favourite films. “Broadsword calling Danny Boy......"

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    Quote Originally Posted by VDG View Post
    I am quite partial to French movies
    Un homme et une femme (fantastic soundtrack)
    Un ascenseur pour l'échafaud (even fantasticer soundtrack - Miles Davis)

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    Goldfinger along with the early Bond films.

    Nowdays, most people can jump on a plane and get almost anywhere in the world. One of the things that I liked about the early Bond films were seeing the exotic locations used where most people could only dream of visiting.

    Edit: Youngsters won’t understand that and it makes me sound like a right old fart! Lol.

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    I can heartily recommend The Long Good Friday. A proper gritty 1970s gangster film, better still that it’s British, with lots of footage of pre-smartened Docklands. And Francis Monkman’s cool soundtrack.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlphaOmega View Post
    I find this quite evocative, even if there has been some splicing of footage and soundtrack.

    Stunning, almost hypnotic.


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    The Heroes of Telemark (WWII - Kirk Douglas) - 1965
    Von Ryan's Express (WWII - a very good Sinatra) - 1965
    Robbery (Stanley Baker at his finest) - 1967
    Ring Of Bright Water - 1969
    Battle Of Britain - 1969
    Villain (Burton) - 1971
    Deliverance - 1972
    Callan: The Movie - 1973
    The Day Of The Jackal - 1973
    The Odessa File - 1974
    Sweeney! + Sweeney 2 - 1974/78

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    Mid-60s

    Fistful of $
    Few $ More
    Good, Bad & Ugly


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    I like my war films:
    Cross of Iron
    Where Eagles Dare
    Kelly's Heroes
    Tora! Tora! Tora!
    Das Boot
    Battle of Britain
    Battle of the Bulge
    Patton

    Plus a good Peckinpah western to boot - The Wild Bunch

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    Way too many great films from this period but a few that spring to mind are:

    Judgement at Nuremberg (Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Maximilian Schell (who won an Oscar for his role), Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Montgomery Cliff, and a very young William Shatner. One of the strongest movies ever made where pure, raw acting is concerned.

    Where Eagles Dare

    The Time Machine (Rod Taylor)

    Spartacus

    Logan's Run

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    Klute
    Death Wish
    The Warriors
    All The President's Men
    48 Hours
    Serpico
    Dog Day Afternoon
    Electra Glide In Blue

    That's just off the top of my head, and besides those already mentioned, there are so many more!

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    The Long Good Friday
    Scum
    Papillon
    Something from Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai (although 1950s), Ran, Kagemusha
    Marathon Man
    The Graduate

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    Jagged Edge
    No Way Out
    The Great Escape
    Animal House
    Cannonball Run

    Oh! and Cheech and Chong

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    No one has mentioned the deer hunter yet. Or taxi driver. Ffs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Riley View Post
    Jagged Edge
    No Way Out
    The Great Escape
    Animal House
    Cannonball Run

    Oh! and Cheech and Chong
    College flicks

    The Wanderers
    Porky's
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High - with the lovely Phoebe Cates
    Ferris Buellers Day Off
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    Forgot, The Killing Fields

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    Apocalypse now. Ffs
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    An American Werewolf In London
    Blade Runner
    Star Wars
    Jaws
    Piranha
    An Officer And A Gentleman

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    Romero’s original Dawn of the Dead.
    The Evil Dead

    The Blues Brothers, I watched this again a couple of nights ago, what a foot-stomping, hip-shaking, monster of a R’n’B film.

    Shaft

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    The Producers.

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    McCabe & Mrs Miller..... Blue Velvet...... Blood Simple.... Dr Zhivago.

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    Anything by Zemeckis, Spielberg, Lucas, Hughes, Coppola, Stone, Scott (Ridley) - should be enough to keep you entertained.

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    Midnight Run.

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    So many great movies to choose from! In addition to those already mentioned above I'll offer the following from the 60's to 1980:

    In the Heat of the Night (an absolute favourite of mine)
    Psycho
    Vertigo
    Easy Rider
    Barbarella (yes, really)
    Raging Bull
    The Godfather I and II (obviously)
    Some Like it Hot
    So clever my foot fell off.

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    Another vote for The Day Of The Jackal. Also "Harold and Maude" is well worth a watch.
    F.T.F.A.

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    Withnail and I
    The Exorcist
    The Omen
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    I don't think any of the following have been mentioned so far:

    Samuel Fuller - The Big Red One - 1980.

    Francis Ford Coppola - One From The Heart - 1982.

    Stephen Frears - Gumshoe - 1971.

    James William Guercio - Electra Glide In Blue - 1973.

    Sam Peckinpah - Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia - 1974.

    Sam Peckinpah - Cross Of Iron - 1977.

    Bob Raefelson - The Postman Always Rings Twice - 1981.

    J. Lee Thompson - Cape Fear - 1961




    Slightly outside your 60- to 80's limits, but well worth watching:

    Sidney Lumet - Q&A - 1990.

    Orson Welles -- Touch Of Evil - 1958.
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    Midnight Express
    The Thing
    Bladerunner
    Robocop

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    Way too many to think of, but in addition to those already mentioned definitely these also:

    Bonnie and Clyde
    The Wild Bunch
    Lawrence of Arabia
    The Verdict

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    Dawn of the Dead (1978 version)

    Susperia

    Once Upon a Time in America

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saint-Just View Post
    It wasn’t a Ferrari but Lelouch’s own Mercedes 450 SEL 6.9
    He then dubbed the soundtrack.
    Yes, it's amazing as the gear changes are spot on. Even the feathering of the throttle over small bumps. Someone must have driven a V12 Ferrari around that route at speed.

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    You missed a couple earlier ....

    Quote Originally Posted by SimonK View Post
    Vanishing Point.
    Two Lane Blacktop.
    The Italian Job .... etc.
    American Graffiti, Bullitt and Le Mans.
    Last edited by Seiko7A38; 22nd May 2018 at 13:18.

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    Godfather
    Outlaw Josey Wales
    The Good, the bad and the Ugly
    Pale Rider
    Where Eagles Dare
    High Plains Drifter
    The Sting
    Bullitt
    Thomas Crown Affair
    Oceans Eleven

    There's loads more - they don't make em like it nowadays!

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    Quote Originally Posted by seikopath View Post
    Sound of music

    I'll get your coat ....

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    52 Pick Up
    Fabulous Baker Boys (I think that just sneaks in)
    Blow Up
    Deliverance
    Heaven's Gate
    The Swimmer

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