and Edmond O'Brien is brilliant. It's free on YouTube and elsewhere.

I agree about The Heiress.

I have so many favorites. I love Goodbye Mr. Chips and I Remember Mama....Many, many more.

Detour (1945)
The Third Man (1949)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)

the other day is Double Indemnity with Barbara Stanwick, Fred McMurray, and Edward G. Robinson. I have many others too but this one is fresh in my mind right now

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Though on a bit of a hiatus without a current TCM subscription, I've still seen and documented 122 films over the past five years.

If you're interested, this blog post from TCM host Eddie Mullers is a great place to start: https://www.eddiemuller.com/top25noir.html, I've seen them all.

To Muller's list I'd add 99 River Street (1953) with John Payne and Evelyn Keyes plus The Set-up (1949) with Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter. Martin Scorsese screened the boxing scenes from The Set-Up prior to filming Raging Bull.

Time period for classic film noir is generally given as from 1941 thru 1959, but there are exceptions. Stranger On The Third Floor (1940) with Peter Lorre can arguably fit the genre, just as Cape Fear (1962).

Outstanding!

To Kill a Mockingbird
Dr. Strangelove
Spartacus
The Third Man
How Green Was My Valley

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
(I love Jean Arthur, and Frank Capra movies)

My Man Godfrey
Arsenic and Old Lace
His Girl Friday
Holiday

Shawshank Redemption
Gladiator
Lord of the Rings Trilogy

... Casablanca, A Hard Day's Night, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, the Fleischer Brothers Superman cartoons and many pre-code movies, as I'm a big fan and collector of those. (Most of the ones in the Forbidden Hollywood series are wonderful. ("Red Headed Woman" with Jean Harlow is one of my top five favorites.)

You asked about favorite movies. I'm going to have to divide things up by era.

First come the various movies I caught either during my undergraduate years or on cable many years later:

1930s:
The Adventures of Robin Hood

Design for Living (pictured)



Stagecoach

The Wizard of Oz

1940s:
Arsenic and Old Lace

Ball of Fire (pictured)



It's a Wonderful Life

The More the Merrier

Pride and Prejudice

The Shop Around the Corner

The Talk of the Town (pictured)



1950s:

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

12 Angry Men

Westward the Women

1960s:
The Lion in Winter

And then there are a number of later movies that I consider modern classics, such as Enchanted April, A Room with a View, and Sense and Sensibility.

Enjoy!