This could include anything from silent films to a early-mid 1970's film.

Chinatown is such a good movie, one of those movies I can watch over and over. A Polanski film which could bother some but its such a well made movie. Everything about it, the acting, the music, cinematography, etc. It came out the same year as the Godfather II so it didn't win the Oscar but I think it was the better film.

There are others. I like some of David Lean's movies. I like the Godfather movies but at the same time don't get all the fuss about them.