<p>I need to see several of these myself :)</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve seen these mentioned yet:</p>
<p>Tootsie
Chariots of Fire
Singing in the Rain</p>
<p>I don’t get the suggestion to not see movies before 1990? Why not? Good film transcends. One of our family’s go-to movies is West Side Story.</p>
<p>Like PG, I was thinking teen angsty movies, which is why I jumped on The Breakfast Club. Not a movie, but the miniseries we stayed up until 3 a.m. watching straight through – at the kids’ insistence – was Roots. They just loved it. I guess we see lots of movies and documentaries. This weekend, we watched Hoop Dreams and are excited to watch Seven Up.</p>
<p>I agree w Himom - I’ve never seen 90% of the movies mentioned here. We are just not movie people. They’re too long for my attention span. I maybe go to the movies once a year. And I’ve never even see Miracle on 34th St or those classic movies. I’m more of a music person than a movie person.</p>
<p>A Christmas Story
Psycho
E.T.
American Graffitti
Young Frsnkenstein
The Wizard of Oz
Alien
Avatar
Toy Story
Fantasia
Animal House
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Excalibur
Indiana Jones (the first and third)
The original Star Wars trilogy
Top Gun
Caddy Shack
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Halloween
The Silence of the Lambs
Scarface
The Matrix
Jurassic Park
All of the Harry Potter movies
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Big Chill
Stand By Me</p>
<p>In no particular order</p>
<p>Edited to add a few others:
Sixteen candles
Goodfellas
The Exorcist
Apocolypse Now
Pulp Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jaws</p>
<p>I’m making a list. This could be my winter homework. </p>
<p>Lilies of the Field
Pride and Prejudice
Von Ryan’s Express
The Great Escape
The Dirty Dozen
Schindler’s List</p>
<p>I think I’d want a college student to observe how acting is different for film than on stage. Instead of the camera just filming the acting, the actors show much less externally. They anticipate closeups of their faces, and the emotion is all there.</p>
<p>Two actors who pioneered that approach were James Dean and Marlon Brando. </p>
<p>So see: East of Eden or Rebel Without A Cause (Dean) and something young Brando: On The Waterfront.</p>
<p>Following up on that today, I think of Kevin Spacey, so go see American Beauty.</p>
<p>I thought of another coming of age. Dirty Dancing. Baby’s going to Mount Holyoke in the fall!</p>
<p>Rear Window</p>
<p>Wall-E</p>
<p>My kids have seen several movies mentioned in school. They saw Schindler’s List in a Holocaust-related elective. Saw To Kill a Mockingbird after reading it in seventh grade. I love American Beauty. I guess the kids are old enough to see it now. I know the older one has seen Pulp Fiction but don’t think the younger one has. We did Dirty Dancing this summer.</p>
<p>Better off Dead, Space Balls</p>
<p>Groundhog Day
Caddyshack
Stripes</p>
<p>We are a HUGE movie family and I like Lergnom’s suggestion on page 1. When my son was home at Thanksgiving, he said something about listening to Marlene Dietrich on a Pandora station. We started talking about her movie career and I thought about getting him dvds from throughout her career: Morocco (early, when she was Josef von Sternberg’s muse), Destry Rides Again(mid-career with James Stewart), and Touch of Evil (late, directed by Orson Welles) . . .but, of course, he’ll just stream everything. After all that, he can go back and watch Madeline Kahn in Blazing Saddles.</p>
<p>In no particular order. Obviously ;)</p>
<p>Dr. Strangelove
Lolita
Pulp Fiction
About a Boy
Casablanca
The Lady Eve
Palm Beach Story
LA Confidential</p>
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<p>It’s twue, it’s twue! ;)</p>
<p>We are also huge movie buffs, and made sure when our kids were in HS that they were exposed to lots and lots of them. We used to ask them to watch half an hour with us - if after that they were bored to death, they could leave. 75% of the time they stayed, and now love all sorts of movies from all time periods. S even took a film course in college, and found out his mother wasn’t crazy for loving Casablanca. :)</p>
<p>ETA: Lergnom, My Favorite Year is one of our favorites, too.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the film, summer of iguana, something like that? I forgot the exact title.</p>
<p>About not recommending old movies to kids these days. I actually thought the same and was unsure how my kid will take them. She is sassy and so contemporary. She did good with Hepburn and Hitchcock and Bogart movies that i showed her so far.</p>
<p>The Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Rocky
The Godfather trilogy
Rebel Without a Cause
A Streetcar Named Desire</p>
<p>My son got into watching Classic Movies when he was in IB in high school - had to do some reviews. Now he’s hooked and thank heavens for Netflix - it’s amazing to listen to how he talks about the differences in level of acting and directing and casting…how sometimes good movies are just entertaining and don’t need to be disected.</p>
<p>My son loved Shenandoah.</p>
<p>I always thought the book Film Club - David Gilmour sounded interesting:</p>
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<p>Nice to see The Godfather, Princess Bride, Exorcist, Schindlers List, The Matrix, Star Wars and Aliens mentioned.</p>
<p>I would like to add Love Actually, Before Sunrise, Donnie Darko, The Professional, Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, Sophies Choice, Sixth Sense and Titanic.</p>
<p>I saw the Broadway version of A Streetcar Named Desire. Since I was young then I was fainting every time Alec Baldwin was on stage. When I was not fainting, I wanted to go up on stage and be Blanche Dubois.</p>
<p>By the time they were HS sophomores, my Girl Scout troop rebelled on traditional meetings, so we held a movie night every 1-2 months. I showed them many of the 80s classes, including:</p>
<p>Breakfast Club
Adventures in Babysitting</p>
<p>We went to a few Broadway shows that were nearly 100% Girl Scouts, so we got a huge discount and later watched the movie to compare/contrast to the live show:</p>
<p>Chicago
Rent</p>
<p>Other movies we have watched as a family:</p>
<p>Animal House
Blues Brothers</p>
<p>Here’s the IMDB list of 100 top teen movies, frankly, there’s a few in the top 10 I’ve never heard of:</p>
<p>[IMDb:</a> 100 greatest teen movies ever - a list by NeonAngel_92](<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/list/vcRy9ocptZ0/]IMDb:”>http://www.imdb.com/list/vcRy9ocptZ0/)</p>