Originally Posted by
webstar1000
60’s? Maybe half dozen. Nothing before
Here's a list of " '60s or before " films to get you started:
North By Northwest (1959)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Rear Window (1954)
Scaramouche (1952)
Vertigo (1958)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Them! (1954)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Notorious (1946)
Rebecca (1940)
Rope (1948)
Casablanca (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Fantasia (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Captain Blood (1935)
M (1931)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Phantom of the Opera (1925 and 1943)
The Thief of Baghdad (1940)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1943)
Freaks (1932)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Diabolique (1955)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Rashomon (1950)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
Birth of a Nation (1915)
Yojimbo (1961)
Dr. Strangelove; or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Red Beard (1965)
The Magnificent 7 (1960)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Psycho (1960)
The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
The Birds (1963)
Fail Safe (1964)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Metropolis (1927)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Lodger (1927)
The Great Escape (1963)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Touch of Evil (1958)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
That's just off the top of my head. There are literally hundreds of other great or really really good films from "the 1960s or before."