If you had to choose, which classic film would you want to see on the big screen?

Metropolis.

Any country is good? Or does it have to be America?

Urotsukidoji.

@Mimishu1995 English language would be best for this event.

The Grapes of Wrath, with Henry Fonda as Tom Joad.

Treasure Island from 1950

Ok. I think there should be a mixture of well-known classics and more obscure gems. I’ll let other people get the classics. I want to show some lesser-known films that deserve better.

Detective Story the least known on this list. Every action occurs in a small police station but it manages to flesh out the characters nicely. Also there is a deep message about self-righteousness.
On Dangerous Ground it starts off as a normal crime story but then turns into a humane story about trust.
They Live by Night a tragic love story of a couple trying to redeem themselves. It poses a question whether evil is what it seems.
Sorry, Wrong Number it has a much smaller setting than Detective Story: in a woman’s bedroom. The only plot device is a phone. But everything happening is from the woman’s past and it only gets darker from there.
Ace in the Hole well this one is well-known, but it has a message that is still relevant today. Apart from a criticism to crookes journalism, it’s also a warning about the tribal culture and indifference of the mass.

The Wizard of Oz.

DOA from 1949.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Unfortunately, Disney makes it difficult to get prints to show it on the big screen

Citizen Kane or Forbidden Planet please.

Here are some movies I was extremely fortunate to see for the first time and in theaters:

Citizen Kane
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Hustler
Mary Poppins
Singin’ in the Rain
An American In Paris
A Hard Day’s Night
Cabaret
The Godfather
The Manchurian Canditate
American Graffiti
Ghostbusters
Life of Brian
The Princess Bride
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Terminator

This year I’m planning to see South Pacific, Laura, and Duck Soup

How about The Lion in Winter?

Or Secondhand Lions?

I assume you want a feelgood picture for this event, or anyway at least not something tragic or gruesome.

I see a lot of movies on Netflix DVD, many of them old or foreign or old and foreign. I just scrolled through the most recent couple hundred, looking for things I’ve given five stars to lately, and those two popped out. Many pictures that were great when they came out don’t age so well. If your group is into nostalgia, though, maybe Rodgers and Hammerstein would sell tickets.

Personally, I’d love to see GWTW on the big screen, but that might be a poor choice for your purposes.

I saw Singing in the Rain, for the first time (and also on the big screen) 3 years ago. It knocked my socks off. The colors, and the dancing, and Gene Kelly. What a thrill.

I would also vote for Rear Window, or North by Northwest (which I also saw on the big screen last year).

Another good movie (which I have seen a million times, but saw on the big screen 2 years ago, because one of our theaters has been generously showing classics for the last few years) is The Sound of Music. I first saw that movie at the drive-in with my parents when that movie first came out.

The sound of music. A street car named desire.

Murder My Sweet (Farewell My Lovely) or The Third Man.

Murder on the Orient Express

84 Charing Cross Road (with Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft)
The Lady Killers (with Alec Guinness)

The King And I.
I love love that movie.
If it played at theaters now I would go see it.
Rita Moreno, so young and beautiful, and still kicking up a storm, that super saucy lady! Yul Brenner, probably never more sexy than in that film.
It is a lovely story. The color and music are fun and refreshing.
I always get a giggle about Yul making a big deal about Moses.
lol, he was going to send Abe Lincoln elephants to help him win the war. Imagine if such had happened, and elephant care had become a division in the Army!
There are lots of fun old movies, but definitely, I would love to see that one on the big screen.

Harold and Maude (1971)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – unfortunately you need a really good screen to do it justice
The Ladykillers (1955)
Charade (1963)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Apartment (1960)

Just for silly fun, and to showcase some fabulous talent, The Pirate and On the Town are two of my faves.

Bringing Up Baby is hysterically funny.

Harold Lloyd films are funny and sweet, some of them are pretty spectacular and amazing, and they’re short and enjoyable by most people who aren’t put off by black & white silent films.

My Fair Lady (1964), with Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. Or, even better, Pygmalion (1938), with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller (Shaw’s play; no singing).

Fiddler on the Roof (1971).

Man of La Mancha (1972).

In general, I’m not crazy about musicals, but those are some that I liked and that I think worked well on the big screen. The best movie I’ve seen lately is Ozu’s final film, a masterpiece entitled An Autumn Afternoon (1962). But I don’t think that would attract your audience like one of the well-known features.

Harold Lloyd is a great idea too. He did most of his own stunts—did you know that?

@Jeruba Yes, I did.

Thanks for all the great suggestions!

Felidae

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958), with Ingrid Bergman. A much-romanticized but still basically true story of an Englishwoman in China who finds herself in charge of a hundred orphans when the Japanese invade.

I would pick something very visual that greatly benefits from being shown on a large screen.

All I can think of off the top of my head is Dances With Wolves.

Les Mis? Phantom?

So many options…

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@Cupcake Road to Perdition is a work of art when it comes to visual and music. At the very least, the last scene is the most stunning scene I’ve seen in a movie

- Corrina Corrina (with Whoopi Goldberg’s, I love this movie, I don’t think a lot of people have seen it).
– The World According to Garp
– Patch Adams
– Forrest Gump
– American Beauty
– Mary Poppins
– Cannonball Run
– The Shawshank Redemption
– Star Trek IV
– 2010 Space Odyssey
– Valentino: The Last Emperor
– Independence Day
– Evita (Madonna)
– Tuskegee Airmen (Cuba Gooding, Jr.)

Some aren’t classics, but I just like them.

If it’s all women in attendance Beaches is a great movie. Men like it also, but I guess it’s a chick flick.

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The original Star Wars.

Eh.
Go with Star Trek II instead.
Or Star Trek VI.
Or the Star Trek: Deep Space 9 episodes “Duet”, “In the pale Moonlight”, “The Wire”, “Improbable Cause”, “The Die is Cast”, “Homefront”, “Paradise Lost”, “Trials and Tribble-ations”, “For the Uniform”, “Rocks and Shoals”, “Favor the Bold”, “Sacrifice of Angels”, “Far Beyond the Stars”, “Honor among Thieves”, “Valiant”, “The Siege of AR-558”, “It’s only a Paper Moon”, and the 3 final episodes “Extreme Measures”, “The Dogs of War”, and “What you Leave Behind”.

Or do a marathon of the entirety of “Stargate SG1”.

Sunset Boulevard. Not really my type of movie, but it grabbed me any way. If you want widescreen rock em sock em spectacle with great vistas, you can’t go wrong with Lawrence of Arabia.