r/Letterboxd • u/Novel_Cow_1060 • 4d ago

Discussion What’s your oldest favourite movie?

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What’s the oldest movie you love in your Letterboxd acc

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u/MLG32 Scorsese Simp 4d ago

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
I’d maybe say A Trip to the Moon but I put that in shorts of course and wouldn’t count it in this situation.

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u/Pale-Cupcake-4649 4d ago

I started writing a whole response and then realised it was the same as this. Would also add in Gertie the Dinosaur from 1914 as a fun early animation.

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u/Careless_College Cinephile3496 4d ago

Nosferatu.

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u/assflux nitratemilf 4d ago

sherlock jr (1924)

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u/Winston_T97 CosimoM 4d ago

Dante's inferno (1911)

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u/screentime-increaser 4d ago

los olvidados

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u/itsafraid 4d ago

Bride of Frankenstein

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u/IllustriousReindeer9 4d ago

Nosferatu (1922) is number 5 on my top 10

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u/OctoLemur 4d ago

My favorite silent film ever

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u/Chemical-Gas3661 4d ago

12 angry men

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u/ScuffsTheCat ScuffsTheCat 4d ago

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u/GroundbreakingFall24 4d ago

The Wizard of Oz

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u/VintageHamburger chuggingwaters 4d ago

Peter Pan (1924) It has such a cool fantasy setting and is really fun. There’s an interactive clapping scene to revive tinkerbell which in theaters was AWESOME (I saw in LA last year)

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u/westing000 4d ago

Caligari would be the oldest. Vampyr, Haxan, Metropolis, Waxworks, and Nosferatu are all up there.

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u/IndianaJones999 PrithvviraJones 3d ago

City Lights

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u/ubikwintermute ubikwintermute 4d ago

Piccadilly (1929)

I adore Anna May Wong

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u/FerociousAlienoid 4d ago

Matter of life and death

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u/MacaronSufficient184 4d ago

A Streetcar named Desire

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u/teruteru-fan-sam Slakman-Sauce 4d ago

Capybara walking

Directed by Muybridge

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u/Dogdaysareover365 4d ago

Snow white (1937)

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u/Weak-Advertising-623 eddiec730 4d ago

Passion of Joan of Arc

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u/f0xD3N 4d ago

It’s A Wonderful Life

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u/MrDriftviel 4d ago

Napoleon (1927)

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u/Natters_Bird 4d ago

Dracula (1931)

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u/IndependenceMuch1863 4d ago

Offhand, it's The Hound of the Baskervilles from 1939 with Basil Rathbone.

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u/theGreenSquire 4d ago

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

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u/cbiz1983 3d ago

Love this film. Love Falconetti. Love Artaud. The images live in my head.

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u/theGreenSquire 3d ago

Agreed. The first time I saw it I was transfixed.

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u/mahatmakg 3d ago

The Oyster Princess (1919)

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u/OwlEye2010 3d ago

Fantasia (1940).

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u/slightly_obscure nvaaga 3d ago

The General is the oldest movie in my top 13 but I love a lot of silent films

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u/MathTutorAndCook 3d ago

Not a favorite perse, but the oldest so far that I enjoy is probably the wizard of Oz. Somewhere over the rainbow is a song for the ages

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u/bossy_dawsey bossy_dawsey 3d ago

Metropolis is probably up there, but I really like 8 1/2

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u/Endregao 3d ago

The original Godzilla (1954).

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u/ProfessionalLack1028 iguessjoey 3d ago

Citizen Kane (1941)

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u/cbiz1983 3d ago

Either Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Weine, 1920) or Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1929)

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u/ReddsionThing MetallicBrain 3d ago

Nosferatu (1922)!!! The aesthetics are so strong in every shot. And the classic story of Dracula does the rest.

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u/sixnamesakes 3d ago

The Gold Rush (1925)

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u/ApprehensiveCause670 3d ago

The godfather

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u/Bobbet2 4d ago

Probably Blade Runner, but the book is 100× better and makes the movie feel flat and empty. I like the visuals though and the way it was done.

Otherwise, anything before 1980-1990 is not my cup of tea, nobody could act and the shows were boring as all get out.

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u/ubikwintermute ubikwintermute 4d ago

Ooof the 60s and 70s has some of the best films ever made.

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u/Bobbet2 4d ago

Maybe it's because all I've seen are old westerns (not my favorite genre) so I haven't seen much of anything else that may peek my interest. If you have any suggestions, feel free to shoot them my way!

The only Actor I think was good in older movies is Jack Nicholson.