Hey Pandas, What’s A Classic Movie That Everyone Needs To See At Least Once In Their Life?

Hey Pandas, What’s A Classic Movie That Everyone Needs To See At Least Once In Their Life?

What movies are considered classics? Which ones do you watch over and over?

#1

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

#2

The Shawshank Redemption.

#3

The Princess Bride

#4

Schindler's List

#5

Back to the Future

#6

Lord of the Rings trilogy

#7

To Kill a Mockingbird

#8

Aliens

Made in 1986 - would be all CGI now... to make it in 86 and still have it be brilliant in 2021 is an astounding feat.

#9

The Breakfast Club

#10

The Fifth Element

#11

Spaceballs!

#12

The Sound of Music - its a scary film, and so sad, so glad the family got out of Austria safely.

#13

The Wizard of Oz

#14

It's a Wonderful Life.

#15

Pulp fiction

#16

Raiders of the Lost Ark

#17

Airplane!

#18

Neverending story

#19

Dances With Wolves

#20

Labyrinth

#21

"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" A tour de force by Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in a bizarre thriller.

#22

The godfather

#23

Arsenic and Old Lace

Cary Grant did the best double take in the business

#24

The Harry Potter franchise. My favorite series ever (books and movies). Watching them for the fourth time.

#25

Dr. Strangelove or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

#26

The entire Star Wars saga.

#27

Toy story

#28

Idiocracy

#29

This Is Spinal Tap

#30

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

#31

Silence of the Lambs

#32

Breakfast at Tiffany's

#33

2001: Space Odyssey. It's like a manual of where humanity came from and where it's heading.

#34

OFFICE SPACE!

#35

Goonies

#36

Soylent Green

#37

Gone with the Wind

#38

Galaxy Quest. the best send up of all- a great spoof of the Star Trek
series!

#39

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Maybe Jack Nicholson’s best performance. Harsh & superb.

#40

The Shining!

#41

Stand by Me

#42

The Outsiders

#43

My Fair Lady

#44

My Cousin Vinnie

#45

Saving Private Ryan

#46

Goodfellas

#47

Casablanca.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf
The Maltese Falcon
All This and Heaven Too
Watch On The Rhine
Duck Soup
Key Largo
Captain Blood
Adventures of Robin Hood

If I could only watch one, before I died, it would be Casablanca.

#48

Dracula 1931 Bela Lugosi

#49

Big Lebowski

#50

The Blues Brothers. Hilarious mock epic with great music & a car chase in a mall!

#51

Das Boot

#52

The Princess Bride

#53

Young Frankenstein. Ties for Mel Brooks best.

#54

Laurence of Arabia

#55

Psycho (1966)

#56

Apocalypse Now

#57

Pink Floyds "The Wall"

#58

Harvey
Starring Jimmy Stewart

#59

Blade Runner

#60

Napoleon Dynamite.

#61

North by Northwest
A Summer Place
Murder on the Orient Express
Valley of the Dolls
Gaslight (1944)
Gone with the Wind
The World According to Garp
Forrest Gump
The Exorcist

#62

Doctor Zhivago

#63

Arsenic and Old Lace. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

#64

Jurassic park,

#65

The Color Purple

#66

Blazing Saddles. Ties for Mel Brooks best.

#67

The Green Mile

#68

Casablanca, Harold & Maude, The Producers (1967), The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974), The Third Man. These are some of the greatest classic films ever made, the originals, not the remakes.

#69

Murder by Death
Clue before Clue. Awesome cast Alec Guiness pre-Star Wars, Maggie Smith + more.

#70

Christmas Vacation

#71

Silent Running

#72

the original Gojira.

while most Godzilla films are quite goofy, this one is more of a horror/drama.

#73

The Killing Fields

#74

Eternal Sunshine For The Spotless Mind. Brilliant and very unique.

#75

Shrek

#76

Whatever happened to Baby Jane(1962)- I'm so old this was the first movie I ordered from Netflix in the mail

#77

Children of Men

#78

Sully
Tom Hanks is a brillant actor and Clint Eastwood did a great job as director

#79

Snatch

#80

The Secret of Nimh - An animated classic.

#81

Meet Me in St Louis

#82

batteries not included.

#83

The Princess Bride

#84

Cinema Paradiso.

#85

The fisher king (1991, by Terry Gilliam)

to learn that every word of you has an effect

#86

Rocky Horror Picture Show. Every Halloween. It's just so bad it's good. Always cringe laugh.

#87

The Exorcist. Scariest movie ever.

#88

Good Will Hunting

#89

Blood Diamond (2006). My geology teacher in high school actually had us watch it in class. It's a fairly accurate description of the dark side of the diamond industry.

#90

Strange Brew

#91

Screwball comedies of the 1930’s and 40’s are wonderful. Films like Bringing Up Baby, My Man Godfrey, The Awful Truth, Ninotchka, Ball Of Fire, The Lady Eve and more.

#92

The Music Man with Robert Preston. The characters are loads of fun, and I've never seen a more powerful and commanding leading man. Just be ready to look past the antiquated ideas of courtship.

#93

Gattaca

#94

Field of Dreams

#95

Dr. Strangelove

#96

All that Jazz. The intro alone is a masterclass in story telling and editing.

#97

The Mission starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons (1986)

#98

Auntie Mame

#99

The Titanic

#100

I see some truly classic movies that were remade under other titles. (Hollywood has been out of great ideas for a long time but here’s my submission)

Godfather (1)
Of Mice and Men
Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House
Inherit The Wind
Look Who’s Coming to Dinner (a movie that STILL holds up today and no one can compete with Hepburn and Tracy)
Gettysburg
To Kill A Mocking Bird (still controversial but an important movie)
Rear Window

And the ENTIRE Mel Brookes catalog …

#101

I know this isn't a movie, but the twilight zone.

#102

Inception and Interstellar

#103

The African Queen

#104

The Producers as well as History of the World Part 1

#105

Amarcord, by Federico Fellini
The third man.

#106

Brazil

#107

The Seventh Seal by Swedish director Ingemar Bergman. Or choose some other of his movies. There is a reason he was knownas a genious director.

#108

Jaws. It changed people’s beach habits for years. If I happen across it on TV, I have to stop & watch it whatever point the movie is in every time.

#109

Slumdog Millionaire

#110

The Breakfast Club

#111

The Crow - RIP Brandon Lee.

#112

Home Alone

#113

The Man from Snowy River

#114

The Godfather

#115

"Blob" there has not or will be any jelly in this house

#116

La vita è bella

#117

Whatever happened to Baby Jane(1962)- I'm so old this was the first movie I ordered from Netflix in the mail

#118

These Disney Classics:

Old Yeller.
Pollyanna.
The Parent Trap.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Lady and the Tramp.
The Swiss Family Robinson.
Big Red.
The Three Lives of Thomasina.

#119

Ocean's Eleven

#120

An Affair to Remember (grab your tissues), The Philadelphia Story (best opening sequence of a movie ever - no dialogue, but the acting tells you everything you need to know), The Thin Man (the writing and acting is superb, plus the gowns are to die for), Hud (Newman is brilliant), Metropolis. I could go on and on.

#121

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967). Eloquent acting, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy’s last movie, interracial marriage when it was still banned in 17 states. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

#122

Dr. Zhivago

#123

Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman.

#124

Roman Holiday

I watched it as a child and it forever changed how I saw love.

#125

Caddy Shack. No movie is more quoted, and with good reason.

#126

Judgement at Nuremberg

#127

All the Harry Potter Movies.

#128

being there- Peter Sellers

#129

The Sandlot

#130

Dial M for Murder

#131

Footloose

#132

Singin' in the Rain

#133

Guess who’s coming to dinner. Kathryn Hepburn and Spencer Tracy are gold and the story stands the test of time.
On Golden Pond too!

#134

Out of Africa
The Ghost and the Darkness

#135

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976 Jodie Foster)

Goodfellas

Imitation of Life

#136

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

#137

Into the wild

Chocolat

Forest gump

Wild

#138

October Sky

#139

Army of Darkness

#140

Somewhere in Time

#141

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

#142

Gone with the Wind.

#143

Dancer in the Dark

#144

Wag the Dog.

#145

The Deer Hunter. The cost of war.

#146

Now and then I like to watch again Duel by S. Spielberg

Boudu sauvé des eaux by Jean Renoir. The Shining, 2001 by S. Kubrick.
Jacques Tati's films. Dragonwyck, Leave her to heaven.. Gene Tierney. All Bette Davis films. The house by the river 1940's..with actor Louis Hayward.
Mc Kendrick 's Ladies killlers so funny with Alec Guiness. And so many;;)

#147

Mrs. Miniver

#148

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

#149

To Sir with Love

#150

Hair.

#151

Back to the future

#152

Blazing Saddles

#153

Fiddler on the roof

Jesus Christ Superstar

#154

Blazing Saddles - Mel Brooks was “Woke” before it was a thing. This movie has a unique style of comedy as it makes fun of the stereotypical racist. It’s intelligent yet childish jokes will keep your attention from beginning to end

#155

12 Angry Men

#156

Playtime. A french movie from 1967 from director Jacques Tati. A pure genius !!! A true masterpiece. technically revolutionary, visually amazing and extremely clever and funny at the same time. It is ranked 43rd in the British Film Institute's critics' list and 37th in their directors' list of "Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time." A Must See !!!

#157

Hamilton

#158

The Lake House.
Sandra Bullock and Keeanu Reeves

#159

The signalman.














(If you have time to spare you can watch Carmen Sandiego, not a classic ofc)

#160

Welcome to the Dollhouse

#161

Flawless.


Phillip Seymor Hoffman did such an absolutely amazing performance, truly amazing. Such a shame he died, he was a very, VERY talented man!

#162

Black cat, white cat.

#163

Cool Hand Luke. Gritty Paul Newman greatness.

#164

The Train (1964). The best movie you've never heard of.

#165

Where the Red Fern Grows

#166

M (1931)
Not only does this movie tell you a lot about the society, crime and police work at the time, it also conveys strong messages how two wrongs don't make a right and how legal punishment shouldn't be revenge - all while being a thrilling crime movie.

#167

Star girl

#168

The Court Jester (1955). Danny Kaye is hysterical!

#169

How to Steal a Million. Although better known for Sabrina and Roman Holiday, Audrey Hepburn is utterly charming and funny in this classic comedic crime caper / romance. She and Peter O’Toole have more chemistry than she and Bogart ever did. This film is classy and clever in a way that’s rarely found in modern films.

#170

Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders
Seven Samurai by Kurosawa
Citizen Kane by Orsen Wells

#171

East Wind by Godard. Redefines what a movie *is*. And just joyous to watch.

#172

Marty. why? because it has ernest borgnine in his oscar performance as a person who learns, with difficulty, that physical beauty is shallow and the opinions of friends is nothing when it comes to realizing this. great film

#173

The Sandlot and a League of Their Own

#174

Ladyhawke

#175

Erin Brockovich.

#176

Blast from the Past. Weird movie, but I love it.

#177

A Town Like Allice

#178

The Princess Bride, Book and movie, you will not regret

#179

The 1939 version of The Women. Superb cast and amazing wardrobe.

#180

Tombstone

#181

Men in Black
The Matrix
Gladiator

#182

Smart House.

It's brilliant! Shot in 1999 it's the story of a boy, whose father is widower and can't handle the daily chores in the household. But in a lottery the first prize is a smart home, impersonated as a woman. (Katey Sagal) She makes a lot of trouble to her owners and yeah, pretty good film.

Watch it!

#183

Dead Zone starring Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen and Tom Skerritt. Shines a light on what some people might do to gain power and those who cover it up for them.

#184

The Legend of 1900
Amazing, unusual, and so much symbolism.

#185

Serenity

#186

The Outsiders. But read the book as well

#187

Heat

#188

Withnail & I.

#189

If you got dumped, 500 of Summer.

#190

Random Harvest

#191

Philips Joker

#192

Bugsy Malone - an Alan Parker movie...

#193

Philadelphia
Young Frankenstein
Pride & Prejudice (with Keira Knightly)
Gidget
Rear Window
Schindler’s Lost
Forest Gump
Jaws

#194

Not sure if this is a classic, but Stuart Little

#195

The BBC mini-documentary series The Future Is Wild.

#196

Into The West
Dirty Dancing
The Mask

#197

Actually a mini-series, but Lonesome Dove is wonderful.

#198

Little Foxes

#199

Always. Best story of love ever made.

#200

Field of Dreams. Refuels your belief in humanity.

#201

Jackie chan"s movies

#202

Attack the gas station. Should be a classic.

#203

The Quiet Man

#204

Fruitvale Station

#205

The Addams Family
The Addams Family Values

Splash
The Little Mermaid
A Goofy Movie
Home Alone 1 & 2 (That's where it should have stopped)
Parenthood (w/ Steve Martin)
The Black Stallion
Cast Away
Apollo 13
Beaches
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

#206

Forrest Gump ("Lieutenant Dan...!")

#207

The little mermaid

#208

"Gregory's Girl"

#209

Topper because of Cary Grant

#210

Somewhere in Time (1980)

#211

Elizabeth is Missing stars Glenda Jackson (it's a TV movie but so well done)

#212

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

#213

Willow

#214

Willow

#215

The great Gatsby.

#216

Withnail & I

#217

To add some diversity, here some German movies:

Metropolis
Die Feuerzangenbowle
Das Boot

And from Austria:
Sissi
Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin
Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin

#218

The Sleuth (1972) with Michael Caine and Sir Lawrence Olivier....for me it's a masterpiece.

#219

Grease & Saturday Night Fever ?

#220

Now, Voyager, and old Bette Davis film

#221

5th Element.

#222

Lemony snickets a series of unfourtunate events, either the movie or netflix show. Both are a charm!

#223

Bon Cop Bad Cop - it will teach you a lot about Canadian culture, French Canadian culture, and how to swear like an este québécois mon ciboire de tabarcrisse!

#224

Some like it hot + Bugsy Malone

#225

Train to Busan

#226

The Little Rascals

#227

Life is beautiful

#228

Home Alone

#229

One, two, three by Billy Wilder

#230

One, two, three by Billy Wilder

#231

Wonder, probably not a classic but jeez, I love that movie

#232

August Rush - The closing always brings tears to my eyes!

#233

Last Christmas

#234

Fletch

#235

Vacation

#236

Spies Like Us

#237

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

#238

Super Troopers

#239

The Great Escape

#240

Fantastic Voyage
True Grit
Africa Queen
Ben Hur

#241

national treasure

#242

Cinema Paradiso

#243

Cinema Paradiso

#244

When Harry met Sally

#245

Shrek or karate kid

#246

Cosmos (2019)
Low-budget, but beats ANY big Hollywood "first contact" film because of its realism

#247

Repo Man (1984) ...not to be confused with Repo Men.

#248

Altered States (1980)

#249

The Haunting (1963)
Heat (1995)
The In-Laws (1979)
Network (1976)
Seven (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)

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