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okay, so seconding another anon that was asking you about eras. since you didn't specify, i'm going to try and give you at least one must-see (in my opinion) per decade from the '20's to the '70's. i didn't know what genres you were interested in either, so have a smorgasbord there as well.

"the unknown" --lon chaney silent, extremely disturbing horror film about an obsessed circus performer.

"the informer" --ira member rats out his friend to the british and suffers the consequences.

"johnny eager," "the glass key (1942, haven't seen the original)," "the locket," --okay, three pieces of film noir from the '40's, all of which will probably help you get a feel for what noir is about. "johnny eager" has a closeted gay guy in its supporting cast (with a crush on robert taylor, no less), so if you pick one from the list, i'd go with that.

"the sweet smell of success" --focuses on the seedy underbelly of journalism as a jealous newspaper mogul tries to destroy his sister's boyfriend.

"hud" --character study of an unprincipled man, his principled father, and his impressionable nephew.

"the godfather" --did i finally put a super-super popular movie here oh yes i did. there are so many pop culture references to this movie (and its sequel... we don't talk about the godfather part iii). you will not regret it at all.

i purposely avoided a lot of super bigtime classics, partially because you're probably already aware of them through cultural osmosis and sometimes just being aware of them lessens the impact of seeing them, even if it's for the first time. for every movie i put up there are about a dozen others that're just as deserving.

tl;dr i love movies and i hope you come to love them too.

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