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Citizen Kane
Anything by Alfred Hitchcock
Cinema Paradiso
many of the Woody Allen films: Hannah and her Sisters, Midnight in Paris, Purple Rose of Cairo, Play it Again Sam, in particular.
Pan's labyrinth
The Godfather 1 and 2 (skip three)
Goodfellas
City Lights Charlie Chaplin
The General Buster Keaton
If you do not mind watching movies that can offend, try David Lynch, specifically Lost Highway and Blue Velvet.
Paris Texas Wim Wenders
It's a Wonderful Life /Capra
To Be or Not to Be by Ernst Lubitsch (skip Mel Brookes version)
Try out Ingmar Bergman: Winter Light, Seventh Seal, Through a Glass Darkly
Try out Fellini's 8 1/2, Nights of Cabria, and Lastrada
many, many more.
I agree with the above posts that suggest that you look at this as a process and understand your taste will evolve. I applaud that you are looking for suggestions for a starting place. I am also a personal believer that one can be entertained by movies as an art form, and a good place to Start would be a review source that you find agrees with your taste. There are dozens. Check out some of your favorite movies in several of these and find one that agrees with your taste. I used to use Halliwell, but the publisher canned it because they were not making enough profit on it. Eventually you will be making the suggestions.
Last edited by Diehl40; 04-22-18 at 01:12 AM.