Great movies before the 90s?

Question

I am a great movie fan and I've watched a lot of movies. Problem is I find it very hard to find a good movie that I haven't watched and that's why I've set my eyes on older movies and I found great movie classic like Princess Bride, Karate Kid and Amadeus in the 80s. 
However, I am in my 20s and don't know any older movie fans.
So that's why I am asking you to recommend me movies from the 80s and maybe 70s which are dark area for me.
Thank you in advance!!!

Lily · Accepted Answer

70's Movies:
American Graffiti
Annie Hall 
Chinatown
Apocalypse Now 
The Clockwork Orange
Cabaret
The Deer Hunter
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Exorcist
The Godfather 1&2
The French Connection
Jaws
Network
M*A*S*H 
Rocky
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Star Wars
Taxi Driver
Young Frankenstein
Caged Heat
SCORE 
Foxy Brown
The Big Doll House: Roger Corman Classics
The Ritz
When a Stranger Calls
Women In Cages
 Polyester
Desperate Living 
Bone
Coffy
The Big Bird Cage 
Portnoy's Complaint
Big Bad Mama
Harold and Maude
Cleopatra Jones 
Cleopatra Jones & Casino of Gold
Where's Poppa
The Lickerish Quartet 
Switchblade Sisters
Friday Foster
Norman Is That You 
Sheba, Baby
Russ Meyer's Up!
The First Nudie Musical
The Sting
The Foster Brothers
Alien
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 
Scenes from a Marriage 
The Girl with the Red Scarf
Paper Moon
Saban, Son of Saban
The Crazy Class Wakes Up
Dersu Uzala 
Life Of Brian
Dog Day Afternoon
The Rascals' Class Misses its Grades
Stalker
The Last Picture Show
Sleuth
Autumn Sonata 
The Conformist 
Le cercle rouge 
Barry Lyndon
Manhattan
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Aguirre: The Wrath of God 
Day For Night
Cries And Whispers
A Woman Under the Influence 
Dawn Of The Dead
Patton
Sholay
Being There
The Conversation
Mean Mother
All the President's Men 
Bigfoot
Papillon
The Dirt Gang
Solaris 
Five Bloody Graves
Thumbelina
An Afternoon At Saint Hill
Man the Unfathomable
Zaat
Flesh Feast
 
80's Movies:
Better Off Dead
Say Anything
Pretty In Pink
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Some Kind Of Wonderful
Can't Buy Me Love
Weird Science
Mystic Pizza
She's Out of Control
Mask
Back To The Future
Desperately Seeking Susan
Stand By Me
Ferris Bueller's Day Off 
Dream A Little Dream
The Goonies 
The Lost Boys
Summer School
Revenge of the Nerds
Little Shop Of Horrors 
Ghostbusters 1-3
Planes Trains & Automobiles
National Lampoon's Vacation
Raiders of the Lost Ark 
The Shining 
Aliens
Das Boot 
Cinema Paradiso 
Once Upon a Time in America
Amadeus
Raging Bull 
Full Metal Jacket 
Grave of the Fireflies 
The Elephant Man 
Ran 
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 
Die Hard 
A Short Film About Love 
Blade Runner 
Come and See
The Marathon Family 
Fanny and Alexander
Scarface 
My Neighbor Totoro 
The Thing
The Terminator 
Gandhi 
A Short Film About Killing
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 
Castle in the Sky
Time of the Gypsies 
Jean de Florette
Fitzcarraldo 
Manon of the Spring 
Crimes and Misdemeanors 
A Christmas Story 
Paris, Texas
Rain Man
The Untouchables 
Wings of Desire 
Brazil 
Glory 
The Killing Fields 
The Killer 
This Is Spinal Tap 
Hannah and Her Sisters 
Venni vidi e m'arrapaoh 
Hollywood High Part II 
Ricky 1
Skinheads 
What Happened to These Civilizations? 
Boogeyman 1-3
Nukie
Frankenstein Island 
Hobgoblins 
Gor II
Brazil
Blue Velvet
Do The Right Thing
Bull Durham
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrail 
Tootsie
Sex, Lies and Videotape
When Harry Met Sally
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Top Gun
Dirty Dancing
Red Dawn
Risky Business
Teen Witch
Adventures in Babysitting
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Brat Pack
I hope this answer helps you I gave you a long list so you have lots to choose from and lots to watch. Good luck, have fun, and happy watching:)

tabbitha · Answer

Great Movies Of 90s

kmcryer · Answer

Oh, the '70s and '80s were decades of GREAT filmmaking, especially the '70s. Try some of these!

1970s
Alien
All the President's Men
American Graffiti
Animal House
Chinatown
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dog Day Afternoon
The Exorcist
The Godfather (Parts I and II)
Jaws
The Last Picture Show
Manhattan (Frankly, I liked this one better than Annie Hall.)
Mean Streets
Network ("I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!")
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 
Saturday Night Fever 
Star Wars
The Sting (A must-see!)
Taxi Driver 
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

1980s
Back to the Future
Beetlejuice (One of my all-time favorites!)
Big
Broadcast News 
Caddyshack
A Christmas Story 
Diner
Dead Poets Society
Die Hard
ET
Ferris Bueller's Day Off 
Field of Dreams
Ghostbusters
Glory
The Goonies
All of the Indiana Jones movies, but I liked Last Crusade the best.
Moonstruck 
Radio Days (First Woody Allen movie I ever saw!)
Raging Bull
Reds
The Right Stuff
Stand By Me 
Tootsie
The Untouchables
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Debra · Answer

I loved the remake of star Trek. but I think with this one movie,tey are trying to reimgine star treck so future genrations love it too. But I would like to point out one thing about Willy Wonka. I do not consider that a remake, but re-interpretaiton. This is becuase Tim Burton went burton went back to the Orginal book, which was nothing like the first movie. (the book waaaaaaaaay better then the movie. the oginal movie disgusted me it was so different.) However, stories like transformers, GI Joe, Get Smart. I hated. These were not re-imagined books, but bad remakes of decent shows. I guess it's doe to (a) orginal thoughts are hard to come by, and I do believe that this current generation was geared more toward 'peformance' then 'creativty' (b) the special effects are better now then were in the 80's or the 60's but that doesn't mean the movies need to be reshot with 'today's tech. BTW, the remake of psyco, was so close to the orginal, (even right down to the blood going down the drain,) that They should have just colorized the old version. every single word and shot was exactally the same. (and perkins was way better this new guy.)

elswicks5 · Answer

the planet of the apes movies from the 70's i believe there were five of them.. smoky and the bandit, freaky friday , benji ,  star wars , the empire strikes back . the apple dumpling gang , a clockwork orange , american graffiti, the rocky horror picture show , and more than i can mention. lots of great movies from the 70's

Anonymous · Answer

I've been surfing  more than three hours today seeking the answer to the same question, and I haven't found any interesting debate like this. It's pretty worth enough for me.

Angel · Answer

2001: A Space Odyssey
(best movie ever and I'm only 13)
But I think this movie is older than what you're looking for though, I'm not really sure.

Anonymous · Answer

I was searching for an answer on this too

Anonymous · Answer

Mr bean series!!!!!!!
I love it so much!!!!!!!

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