A curated collection of pre-code movies that are cited as 'inspiring' the hayes code and/or just look like a good ol' time. Lots of badass lady stories.
Sources: pre-code.com, tasteofcinema.com, meandering around google
The A.V. Club has singled out 90 important, terrific, even canonical movies that weren’t nominated—one for every Best Picture lineup going back to the beginning. Hindsight is, of course, 20/20, but you’d have to be legally blind to ignore most of these films, especially given what often made the cut instead.
https://www.avclub.com/do-the-wrong-thing-90-years-90-movies-that-should-hav-1823328066
Movies of the 30's, Jürgen Müller (ed.) Taschen.
IMDB's 75 Most Popular Film Noir Feature Films as of 1/13/18, plus some that were previously in the top 50 (http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=film_noir&title_type=feature&sort=moviemeter,asc)
This is a list of all movies discussed by the Rusty Reels podcast.
www.rustyreels.de
Movies directed by Howard Hawks.
Movies parodied in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
I often criticise all these remakes of movies and the lack of originality of the studios, specially hollywood and the Hindi film industry. We jus have to many of them and rarely they have any substance. But there are some exceptions which are actually good or at least good enough imo. Some films are rather inspired by than full-on remakes, I'll put them on here aswell.
Also adding the originals and sorting them before the remakes.
I recommend watching mostly the originals first.
This list is still by far not finished..
Good ol' classic movies I have no expectations to be in the mood to watch in the foreseeable future.
Années 30
by Nicolas Dillies