I highly recommend The Thin Man series...all Nick Charles (played by William Powell) does is drink and smoke....and solve crimes.


You can't go wrong with any of the following

Arsenic and Old Lace - a comedy starring Cary Grant

Lawrence of Arabia - very informative about the Middle East and entertaining

Hitchcock movies: North By Northwest(GREAT movie), Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, and Rear Window.

The Best Years of Our Lives - about how 3 guys and their families cope post WWII...stars Harold Russle a REAL WWII hero who lost both his arms in battle and one of only 2 non-professional actors to win an Oscar.

The French Connection - The story of Popeye Doyle and Buddy Russo and their efforts to stop the heroin trafficing from France to the US.

The Deer Hunter - Another story of life before and after war, this time Vietnam and this time it's not a feel good story either.


And Hamburger Hill is an underrated war movie....and The Lost Battalion is a good World War I flick.