bulletandpima

The Philadelphia Story is my absolute favorite, but anything with Hepburn works for me.

Our DD is quirky she will snuggle up with me under the covers in my bed to watch what we call prehistorics (B&W).

Our favorite of all time is Holiday Inn with Bing and Fred.

SHe saw Topper with me this weekend and loved it (Cary Grant as a ghost)

I agree if you introduce when they are younger they get addicted.

DD also likes every Gidget, Sabrina and AN Affair to Remember. When she was about 12 she saw the b&w version of Beauty and the Beast and fell in love with it, but it is hard to find.

My favoriite no matter what, b&w, PBS or recent is Pride and Prejudice...I will watch each and every version. will say the PBS one is the best.

Oops forgot to add we love the Sound Of Music.

lonestarmom

Great recommendations -- and great memories!

A few small films I thought never received the attention they deserved, but always seem to please kids from late tweens/early teens up:

Ever After (you go, girl!)
Wild America (my 12 yr old son SO wishes he were living this kid's life!)
The Dish (math-y son loves the slide rules; we recently resurrected this one to
celebrate the Apollo anniversary)

bookmama22

We've always watched and enjoyed older classic movies with our girls. Now that they're older-one in grad school and one a senior, they've moved onto all of Hitchcock, Truffaut, Bergman and Fellini... we all love Dr. Zhivago and was pleased to introduce them to Reds when it was released two years ago for 25th anniversary. I just saw that Z is being released on DVD... other than all the Monty Python and Mel Brooks movies, Star Wars, ET, Gone with the Wind and the Indiana Jones series, we all love The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Disney films and perhaps most uniquely, The Ten Commandments which both have memorized.

UMDAD

bulletandpima:

The Philadelphia Story is my absolute favorite...

I think it is the best American comedy ever made.

pipmom

Harold and Maude
Saturday Night Fever
The Deerhunter
Apocalyse Now

Kathyc

I've gone through most of the posts and although we seem to have covered most of the classics, I don't see The Graduate--great movie for college kids.
And did I miss Citizen Kane?

bulletandpima

bookmama...when you said Monty Python, all I heard in my mind was;

Bring out your dead...but I am not dead yet..you will be soon!

That and ...Come back here I'll bite off your knee caps.

Our eldest loves Monty Python. He was the hit as a freshmen in the dorm because none of them ever saw it before and thought it was hysterical.

How many of us remember being in hs and going to the Rocky Horror Picture Show...of course no matter where you sat there was no safe seat!

xAAAx

well...i'm a teen,but I love Lassie, Where the Red Fern Grows, and Butch Cassiday & the Sundance Kid

As far as newer old movies(90s)- Homeward Bound, Far From Home(the Adventures of Yellow Dog), & the Amazing Panda Adventure

EDIT: How could I EVER leave out Star Wars?!?!?!

northeastmom

I have not read through those already listed, but:

The French Connection
The Graduate
The Sting
Chariots of Fire
An Officer and A Gentleman

UMDAD

I always recommend Blowup, the 1966 British-Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.

Great storyline, plus you get to see the Jeff Beck version of the Yardbirds play "Roll On."

bfraz

I always loved The Music Man. No one in my house liked it. Anyone remember The Idol Maker with Ray Sharkey and the dad from the OC (forgot his name). I loved that movie and bought it off ebay. Another one my girls did not like!

Wartsandall

The Goonies
The Breakfast Club
Greese
Also(yes, I know this is a recent movie), The Phantom of the Opera(I love this movie)

dadx

I like a lot of ucladads selections.

I like, but haven't seen in ages:
High Noon

Sergeant York

Both tough sells for kids in today's market where you need something exploding or burning in the film.

JustAMomOf4

You don't have to like either Notre Dame or football to like Rudy.

Katherine Heburn - any and all of her films. My all time favorite. The Philadelphia Story is delightful!
The original versions of Ocean's Eleven and The Thomas Crown Affair are both better than the remakes - imo.
My girls love The Pricess Bride as well - it is a classic. Reciting the dialogue along with the movies is part of the "experience".

nightchef

Speaking of The Philadelphia Story--our son for a long time wouldn't look at black and white movies. You just couldn't get him to sit down for one. I always assumed that when he overcame this prejudice, it would be for something like M or Stagecoach, something with a famously striking visual style. But the film that pulled him across the line was The Philadelphia Story, which we somehow finagled him into watching, and which he loved.

Since then I've been able to get him to watch most of my favorite B&W classics, like The Apartment, 12 Angry Men, The Palm Beach Story, Seven Days in May, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Arsenic and Old Lace, among others.