What are some of your favorite non-horror/fantasy/sci-fi movies?

LundyAfterMidnight · June 17, 2009, 12:56:29 AM

I eat, sleep, live & breathe monsters & imagi-movies, but here are some of my favorite mundane titles. What are some of yours?

Jesus Christ Superstar
Fiddler On The Roof
The Godfather
The Good The Bad & The Ugly
Full Metal Jacket
Tommy
almost any "classic rock" concert film: The Song Remains The Same, Woodstock, Wattstax, The Last Waltz, etc.

hammerfan · June 17, 2009, 01:06:37 AM

THE Great Escape
THe dirty Dozen,
the Magnificent Seven
THe man with no name trilogy
Get Carter (the original)
The Third man
Goldfinger(best Bond ever)
Birdman of Alcatraz ( a great performance by Burt Lancaster)
Tombstone (gotta watch it whenever its on)
Farewell to the King (Nolte in a great performance with a great score by BAsil Polidouris)
Red Dawn
Clockwork Orange

Wicked Lester · June 17, 2009, 01:38:07 AM

There are a whole bunch of em. Too many to list. Let's just say that I greatly enjoy 30s to early 70s crime /gangster stuff. Film Noir. Cheesy B/W cowboy/westerns as well as Spaghetti Westerns. Also obscure comedy teams such as Wheeler and Woolsey but the older crime 30's-50s crime stuff is #2 after the monster/horror. Along with 50's 60s 70s crime TV shows. For the most part I DESPISE musicals tho Fred Astaire and Donald O'Conner always amazed me.

Gillman-Fan · June 17, 2009, 02:33:58 AM

Here's a few I couldn't do without:

Papillon
The Ipcress File
Chinatown
The Conversation
3 Days of the Condor
Bullitt
The French Connection
Charley Varrick
Leon: The Professional
Thief

typhooforme · June 17, 2009, 02:56:43 AM

All Buster Keaton
All W.C. Fields

And in no order, and subject to many additions:
THE GRAPES OF WRATH ('40--great Fonda)
THE OX-BOW INCIDENT ('43--greater Fonda)
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER ('55--Mitchum, Winters)
THE INFORMER ('35--McLaglan)
SUNSET BOULEVARD ('50--Holden, Swanson)
THE SHOOTIST ('76--Wayne's last)
RAGTIME ('81)
THE PUBLIC ENEMY ('31--Cagney's best)
THE JUNGLE BOOK ('42--Sabu)
DAVID COPPERFIELD ('35)
A TALE OF TWO CITIES ('35 AND '58)

Dr.Teufel Geist · June 17, 2009, 03:17:56 AM

THE GOONIES
THE SACKETTS
THE LONG RIDERS
TOMBSTONE
CITY SLICKERS
HOME ALONE
CHRISTMAS STORY
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
LONESOME DOVE
BRUCE LEE MOVIES
JET LI MOVIES
JACKIE CHAN MOVIES
KUNGFU HUSTLE
KUNGPOW
JOHN WAYNE MOVIES
SGT.YORK
THE GREAT ESCAPE
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
CLINT EASTWOOD WESTERNS
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF
THE MIGHTY QUINN
THE GAME PLAN
WALK THE LINE
FAST AND THE FURIOUS
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT
ROAD HOGS
CLUE

I could go on and on, but someone would say I was spamming. LOL

BaronLatos35 · June 17, 2009, 04:04:19 AM

A quick list:

- Slam
- Pinero
- City of God
- Scarface (1983)
- Dazed and Confused
- Any Richard Pryor stand up
- Platoon
- Last of the Mohicans (1992)
- Kings of Comedy
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- Point Break
- Training Day

MDG · June 17, 2009, 01:14:01 PM

Betond the Valley of the Dolls
Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill!
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Phantom of Liberty
Le Cercle Rouge
His Girl Friday
Notorious
Slap Shot
Lone Star
Truck Turner
White Dog
....I could go on all day

avenger · June 17, 2009, 08:27:19 PM

Darker Than Amber
Dirty Harry
On Golden Pond
Easy Rider
Carry On films
James Bond films

And the list goes on and on................

Unknown Primate · June 17, 2009, 08:50:37 PM

Besides many already mentioned by others, some off the top of my head are:
THE WARRIORS ('79)
HARD TIMES
BILLY JACK
DIRTY HARRY
DEATH WISH
THE QUIET MAN
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION (one of my favorite books, too)
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (again, good book)
HIGH NOON
MARTY (yep, the sentimental love story with Ernie Borgnine... Hey, I'm a sensitive guy!)

Street Worm · June 18, 2009, 11:48:33 AM

The Power (1968)
The Satan Bug (1965)
Mirage (1965)

Steelyard Blues
Down By Law
Chinatown
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Apocalypse Now

Most-
Film Noir
'60s 'Spy' films
'70s 'Cop' films (starts w/Bullit)
& 'B' Westerns (no singing cowboys, please)

Wich2 · June 18, 2009, 03:05:57 PM

(Well, most of Elder Robert's list, plus:)

- Sunrise (one of the very greatest Silents)
- North by Northwest (Hitchcock sample)
- Grand Illusion (maybe my favorite film of all)
- The King of Kings (DeMille)
- The Wind (the sublime Miss Gish)
- Ninotchka (Garbo sample)
- Sullivan's Travels (Sturges sample)
- Double Indemnity (THE noir romance)
- It Happened One Night (Capra sample)
- The Greatest Story Ever Told (slow, yes; but beautiful, in it's own way)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (both Hustons triumph)
- Grand Hotel (Lionel Barrymore deserved two Oscars for this)
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (very nice acting by Duke; gorgeous color)
- Laurel & Hardy shorts (esp. Silent); Three Stooges shorts (esp. Shemp)

-Craig

typhooforme · June 18, 2009, 03:18:55 PM

GRAND HOTEL, Craig. I shoulda put that one on my list, too. One day at this past Wonderfest I was sitting in the lobby watching an Alien and a Predator walking down the hall, actors, writers, artists going this way and that, and dozens of model-makers carrying incredible creations to the contest room, and I said to--maybe Frank Dietz was with me? Donnie Waddell?--"Grand Hotel--people come and go, nothing ever happens..." One of the cool things about favorite movies is the fun of quoting the best lines!

godwinshelley · June 18, 2009, 03:29:18 PM

Check out - NIGHTMARE ALLEY - with Tyrone Powers. It's amazing - carnival folks, electric girl, geeks, psychics, tarot cards.

GS

Unknown Primate · June 18, 2009, 08:05:18 PM

NIGHTMARE ALLEY is an awesome film.