So I recently found out that my girlfriend never saw The Dark Crystal or The Labyrinth.

Jim Henson, George Lucas, Fizgig, Gelflings, David Bowie...

These movies just feel good. What do you all think, and what are some old movies you think I should see.

You might have to define "old". Anything pre 2000 could be considered "old" by today's standards. Disregarding that, I'd have to recommend What's Up Tiger Lily and Everything You Wanted to Know About six But Were Too Afraid to Ask, both by none other than Woody Allen. Both hilarious, and a tad weird but that's to be expected coming from Woody Allen.

I also want to recommend The Labyrinth to anyone that hasn't seen it, great movie. Watched it with my friend and I was skeptical at first, but this movie completely took me away. I wish I had seen it as a kid.

EDIT: Also, If...(1968) had an interesting plot with a tad bit of British 1960's beat culture thrown in for good measure. Risque ending by today's standards, but ends up making a good social commentary of school life. The ending to this movie really blew me away, though I'm not sure what the reaction to it was in it's time.

And One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest if you haven't seen it already.

TV showed 10,000BC last night, it reminded me of a prehistoric movie that is actually good: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082146/

American Graffiti
The Third Man
Bladerunner
Barry Lyndon

actually I'd recommend that people stay the [censored] away from these so called 'classics'. Most of them are crap. Old Classics != Good movies

Just take the Godfather trilogy for example, it was brilliant back when it was released. Not today, it doesn't live up to the reputation, not by a long shot. Year of so called reviews and discussions about the trilogy have completely ruined it by shoving the words "IT'S THE BEST TRILOGY EVER" down our throats.

Parts one and two are exellent.. part three not so..

One of the reasons I like watching the classics is to see how something was done for the first time, ever. And in that regard a lot of the old movies are quite good. Or just funny

Death race 2000 for instance

Casablanca

Little Ceasar

Key Largo

Maltese Falcon

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Once apon a time in the West

Once apon a time in America

A Fistful of dollars

For a Few Dollars More

The Good, Bad and the Ugly

All's quiet on the western front

Rock and Rule

Fritz the Cat

:hehe:

"Some Like it Hot" is still good fun

And "The Graduate" - only saw it a couple of years ago and I was amazed at how much I already knew, it's in popular culture so often. Also, that last shot blew me away; one of the best endings I've seen in a while

I'm unclear by the OP's definition of Retro, but these three should satisfy the classification.
Personally, I consider these to be must-haves in anyone's collection. No matter your age or genre interest, these are empirically classics.

Roman Holiday: (1953)
Eddie Albert's performance can be campy at times, but Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn are outstanding.

To Kill A Mockingbird: (1962)
Gregory Peck, again, turns in a stellar performance. Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book, every character is well fleshed out.

The Honeymoon Killers: (1969)
One of the first documentary-style films. It is disturbing, dark, creepy, and based on true events. Shirley Stoler's performance is riveting.

Lawrence of Arabia. An epic movie.

Chariots of Fire.

Cinema Paradiso.

Strictly Ballroom.

Videodrome (1983)
Naked Lunch (1991)
Alien (1979)
Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Stalker (1979)

-Ben Hur
-Papillon
-Spartacus

I <3 them.

The Goonies

Willow

The Mask(Is this old enough?)

Young Frankenstein.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

Bladerunner. Then again, it's my favourite film regardless of "old" or "new".
Great Expectations ('46)
Hobsons Choice ('54)
Blazing Saddles ('74)
MP's Life of Brian ('79)
MP & Holy Grail ('75)


And although it's not one of my favourites, I watched Doctor Zhivago yesterday and I did enjoy it.

I've seen it twice, and i still don't get it :blush:

Star Wars. The original version from 1977 not that "re-polished" crap
Screamers was good
The Day the Earth Stood Still is a must. The original from 51, not the one with that Matrix asshat!
Kelly's Heroes was fun. An old WW2 "western" with Clinty himself trying to steal fourteen thousand bars of Nazi gold.
Inglorious Basterds. As fun as the Tarantino re-make was I think the original from 77 might be better

The Third Man (1949)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Now THAT'S old!

Thank you for mentioning this. A classic, and Mel Brooks' best movie IMO.

all of the Spaghetti westerns.

Fistful of dollars
The good the bad and the ugly
For a few more dollars.

There all really good.

Neither do I (fully). But that makes it such an interesting flick - kinda like David Lynch's movies.
And if you think Videodrome is hard to get, try Naked Lunch.

and if you think naked lunch is hard, try eraser head, I dont even think its physically possible to understand that movie.

Have to dig it up from somewhere. I've only seen some clips from it.

Just watched this one randomly last night.

From the director of the Exorcist and Blue Chips. ( just thought it was funny that it is the same director. )

Is http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076740/!

Not an occult film as the title implies, but a thriller about 4 anti-hero-ish guys running nitroglycerin across Venezuela to put out an oil rig fire. Staring Roy Scheider of Sea Quest fame.

Surprisingly compelling.

Bladerunner (1982)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) - Always look on the bright side of life!