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1981:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Das Boot
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Possession
Time Bandits
Blow Out
Escape from New York
Thief
The Evil Dead
Excalibur

Honorable Mentions:
Cutter's Way, Prince of the City, Enter the Ninja, The Loveless

A fine year for movies if you ask me.



Rocky V



A couple of good ones...

Star Wars
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Eraserhead
That Obscure Object of Desire


...and after last week, I think I can add Sorcerer to this list.
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...Thunder Road

Vertigo
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Terror in a Texas Town
The Big Country
A Touch of Evil
The Magician

Looking at everyone else's lists in this thread just makes my arthritis flare up, out of sheer spitefulness.
I feel your pain! Wish I didn't. I haven't heard of Big Deal on Madonna Street, Terror in a Texas Townor The Magician. Rep for The Big Country

1. Magnolia
2. The Sixth Sense
3. Being John Malkovich
4. American Movie
5. The Wind Will Carry Us
6. The Blair Witch Project
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. Audition
9. Rosetta
10. Ratcatcher
Good movies for a youngster Rep for The Blair With Hunt.

1. Vertigo
2. Touch Of Evil
3. The Old Man and the Sea
4. The Blob
5. The Defiant Ones
6. The Fly
7. A Night to Remember
8.The Brothers Karamazov
9.Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
10. Corridors of Blood
More good movies, the 50s rule! Rep for Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.

Very interesting thread that's been going for over 20 years!

Phantom of the Paradise
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Chinatown
Blazing Saddles
The Conversation
A Woman Under the Influence
Young Frankenstein
California Split
Thieves Like Us
And what the hell Zardoz
And we're getting older all the time! Rep for Zardoz.

1981:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Das Boot
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Possession
Time Bandits
Blow Out
Escape from New York
Thief
The Evil Dead
Excalibur
A fine year for movies if you ask me.
Every year is a fine year for movies Rep for Excalibur.

1963
8 1/2
Winter Light
Pink Panther
We're just about the same age. No reps for those movies As I haven't seen them

A couple of good ones...
Star Wars
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Eraserhead
That Obscure Object of Desire

...and after last week, I think I can add Sorcerer to this list.
Star Wars, you over achiever Rep for Eraserhead.

(1973)
Charly Varrick
The Mack
Magnum Force
High Plains Drifter
Rep for High Plains Drifter.



Oh wow. Mine is probably one of my top 5 all-time-favorite movies.





Well Okay. This is going to really date me but here goes:

1948

This was a great year for film noir, a few classic westerns, and some really important films on the list of greatest films of all times:

The Big Clock - great noir with Ray Milland and Charles Laughton
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein - need I say more?
Call Northside 777 - one of my favorite Jimmy Stewart films also starring Richard Conte and Lee J. Cobb
The Fallen Idol - directed by Carol Reed, a must see film
Force of Evil - noir with John Garfield and directed by Abraham Polonsky
A Foreign Affair - comedy with a touch of post war commentary directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marlene Dietrich, both refugees from Hitler's Germany
Fort Apache - John Ford and John Wayne
Hamlet - Olivier's classic, Best Picture 1949
I Walk Alone - classic noir with Burt Lancaster
Joan of Arc - starring Ingrid Bergman
Key Largo - directed by John Huston starring Bogart, Bacall and Edward G.
Kidnapped - Stevenson's tale with a young Roddy McDowell
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands - again classic noir with Lancaster and Joan Fontaine
Letter from an Unknown Woman - a classic directed by Max Ophüls starring Joan Fontaine
Macbeth - one of Qrson Wells masterpieces
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House - screwball comedy with Cary Grant and Mryna Loy
The Naked City - classic noir by the great Jules Dassin
Oliver Twist - David Lean's moody take on Dickens wth Alec Guinness as Fagin
Red River - one of greatest westerns ever made, directed by Howard Hawks starring Wayne and Montgomery Clift
The Red Shoes - the classic fairy tale
Superman - yes there was a Superman before Christopher Reeves
They Live by Night - noir again, directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Farley Granger
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Huston and Bogart again, IMO one of the 5 greatest films ever made
Wake of the Red Witch - a classic for John Wayne fans

1948 - a great year for film (and birthdays).
Thank God, I thought I was the oldest person on this site.



Now that I know I'm not the oldest person on the site, I'm comfortable doing this now...my favorite films from the year 1958:

Auntie Mame
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
I Want to Live
Vertigo
Bell Book and Candle
The Big Country
The Long Hot Summer
King Creole
A Night to Remember
The Defiant Ones
Some Came Running
Damn Yankees
Teacher's Pet
God's Little Acre
Marjorie Morningstar
The Reluctant Debutante
Party Girl
Gigi
Rally Round the Flag, Boys
The Matchmaker



The lack of classic '50s Horror/sci-fi is disturbing.
I wasn't born in the 50s but it's my favorite decade for movies. So my favorite 50s Sci-fi flicks:

4D Man (1959)
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
Invaders from Mars (1953)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Monolith Monsters (1957)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Fly (1958)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
The Magnetic Monster (1953)
The Thing from Another World (1951)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
This Island Earth (1955)



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1994
pulp fiction
Forrest Gump
The Shawshank Redemption
the crow
the mask
speed
natural born killers
ed wood
clerks