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.
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.
Get Carter (1971)
Where Eagles Dare is always worth a watch whenever it is trotted out again.
Sound of music
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Zulu.
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.
Network
The Parallax View
Marathon Man
All The President's Men
Any of the early Dirty Harry movies
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.
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)
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.
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.
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
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
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
The Conversation
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!
The Long Good Friday
Scum
Papillon
Something from Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai (although 1950s), Ran, Kagemusha
Marathon Man
The Graduate
Doc Savage
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Jagged Edge
No Way Out
The Great Escape
Animal House
Cannonball Run
Oh! and Cheech and Chong
No one has mentioned the deer hunter yet. Or taxi driver. Ffs.
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Forgot, The Killing Fields
Apocalypse now. Ffs
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
An American Werewolf In London
Blade Runner
Star Wars
Jaws
Piranha
An Officer And A Gentleman
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
The Producers.
McCabe & Mrs Miller..... Blue Velvet...... Blood Simple.... Dr Zhivago.
Anything by Zemeckis, Spielberg, Lucas, Hughes, Coppola, Stone, Scott (Ridley) - should be enough to keep you entertained.
Midnight Run.
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.
Another vote for The Day Of The Jackal. Also "Harold and Maude" is well worth a watch.
F.T.F.A.
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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Jim.
Midnight Express
The Thing
Bladerunner
Robocop
Once upon a time in the west
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
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
Dawn of the Dead (1978 version)
Susperia
Once Upon a Time in America
Evil under the sun and death on the nile.
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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Fabulous Baker Boys (I think that just sneaks in)
Blow Up
Deliverance
Heaven's Gate
The Swimmer