Have you gone through your Amazon and Netflix "suggested" movies to see if any of them appeal to you?

I have from time to time and being something of a tightwad I don't want to start paying for individual movies. Seems so many are rented for various amounts

I loved the old Alfred Hitchcock movies like Rear Window and North by Northwest. I also like some of the newer Historical fiction lately and watched Victoria and Abdul. I love the old thrillers like Die Hard with Bruce Willis but then I love the thriller movies. And Ghost (oh boy do I miss Patrick Swayze).

There are some other I could name, but maybe the ones I mentioned aren’t to your liking. I’m sure others might come up with more. It would help to know what you enjoy.

"A Street Cat Named Bob" was mentioned on the Netflix thread. I watched it. Based on a true story. Nice story. I don't blame you for not wanting to pay for individual movies.

The last movie I saw that I loved was Taking Chance with Kevin Bacon. It's about honor and respect when transporting a casualty of war back home. The premise seems sad but it truly isn't. No sex or gore. I loved Bacon's performance and I loved that it reminded me of the good and decent people that are among us. I cried through much of it but not in a bad way - like you'd cry at a wedding or when hearing the National Anthem. Now that I've said that, I'm going to watch it again. Here's a link so you can peruse https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Chance-Kevin-Bacon/dp/B009M8Q3O8

I'll be interested to see what others recommend. Let us know what you select Senior Gal.

"First They Killed My Father" about Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. True story, directed by Angelina Jolie. On Netflix. Powerful, sad, but I think it's an important film. May be some violence, I cannot remember. Remember, Seniorgal, you can go to the Rotten Tomatoes to get further information about a movie.

Also check out "Lion" on Netflix.

Sandra Bullock movies?

If you have a dvd player, check also your public library for dvd's to check out for movie night.

You can peruse the library catalog and find some that might appeal to you. I'm pretty much unaffected by "adult" content in movies, so can never remember if these have them, but being rated R probably indicates something...

But I loved Muriel's Wedding, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Moonstruck.

The Big Year was a great book, very funny and there is a PG movie made from it, but I haven't watched it.

Whale Rider might be available at the library and it was wonderful. Also PG

Have you seen UP? It's animated...no sex, but some scary (to me) realistic aggressive dog characters - but I'm scared of dogs!

Shaun the Sheep movie.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

The Princess Bride

Babe and Babe: Pig in the City

Here is a list of the top G rated movies. Many are animated and might be considered kid's movies, but I think most are made knowing adults will be watching, too, so there is a lot of references only adults understand:
Best g rated comedies

You will love Calendar Girls. I enjoyed The Dish as well, a true story about the first flight around the moon and a tiny town in Australia had the only dish that could receive their communications from space. I cannot remember the name of the movie up for an Oscar a couple of years ago about the older woman who could not sing, her agent who loved her, and her recitals she put on. Mrs???

Same Time Next Year starring Ellen Burstyn and Alan Alda.

'There's something about Henry' - I think one of them had an affair, but scenes are not shown in the movie that I remember. I took a chance on that one, knowing I could turn it off if I didn't like it - but I loved it! has some really sad parts tho.

If they like Churck Norris movies, Top Dog - love that one. He cracks me up - and I love dogs.

Air Bud - I usually watch that every yr or 2. love Air Bud.

I took my first gson to see Babe when he was about 5-6. I think I liked it more than he did. I've watched it numerous times since.

I have never had to pay for movies on Netflix? I look at the suggested list for me. It goes by my prior choices. We love the fun animated movies. We watched Coco and the secret life of pets Sunday and laughed out loud repeatedly! We had friends over and we had a great time watching them. Awesome animation and colorful.

Here's a few links with suggestions.

https://www.cmsschicago.org/news-blog/30-newer-movies-that-older-adults-can-enjoy/

https://www.google.com/amp/www.boomerplaces.com/movies/amp/

We just watched The Last Movie Star with Burt Reynolds. It just came out last year, when he was 80. No violence or exploding things, just a little language. We really enjoyed it. It's on Amazon.

Gravity, S Bullock

Secondhand Lions is great

The Martian. Good movie.

E R Hamilton Books have movies to at a discount. Books too. They publish a catalog. ERHBC.com

There are two great recent Shirley MacLaine movies I enjoyed very much on Netflix (one is a Netflix original) - 'Wild Oats 'and 'The Last Word'. In one, she receives an unexpected (and undeserved) windfall and makes hay with it....in the other she hires a journalist to write her obituary. Both are charming, quite funny and more than a little poignant. I'm sure you and your movie watching pals will enjoy them both!!

Another good one is 'Hello, My Name is Doris', with Sally Fields.

Fugitive is good too.

lots of action in White House Down.

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Thanks for so many suggestions. I think we'll have many nights of good watching.

If you go to Netflix - instantwatcher you can ask e.g. 'movies' rated 'G' sort by oldest release date and it will give you 201 titles starting with Midway and White Christmas and 199 others.

Movies PG gives you 179, movies PG-13 gets 209 etc.

There are other sort options. There are 1209 not rated. There is an Amazon option which I have never used

The King's Speech, Lincoln, (I think you can get them on Netflix but I'm not sure. On Amazon, Hidden Figures, Grand Torino, Taking Chance, Witness. I enjoyed Me Before You, but I had also read the book. If Netflix, Hulu, Amazon or your library has The Fault in Our Stars, I loved that movie. Also, if you ever see While You Were Sleeping on Amazon or your other freebies, that's one of my favorites.

Oh yes, The King's Speech. Loved Hidden Figures too.

Don't know if it's available on Netflix but how about The King and I, the Yul Brynner version. No sex but he sure looked good. The last samurai with Tom Cruise was good as well.

Thought of another one. Our Souls at Night, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford as senior citizens. It was sweet.

Also check out "Lion" on Netflix.

We watched that last week. It was pretty good.

I'll second Our Souls at Night.

That was a great movie!

I'm a fan of old movies. TCM is running a film noir every Saturday night at midnight (technically Sunday a.m.) There's another channel that runs film noir on Sunday nights. DH and I love the detective/gritty/dark films of that era and have really been enjoying them. One of my old favorites is the original Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 with Matthau. And of course, Laura with Gene Tierney.

I haven't watched hallmark in years, but still fondly remember "To Dance with the White Dog" with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. If you haven't seen it, it's a real tear jerker. The other one that always got me was The Heart is a Lonely Hunter with Alan Arkin.

Also if you haven't seen A Man Called Ove, it's really good...I enjoyed it as much as the book which is rare for me.

I have not read through all of the suggestions yet but intend to. My DH reminded me of a movie he loved. Hachi: A dogs tale starring Richard Gere. A true story.

Have lately been taking a film "study" approach to watching movies by selecting 2 or 3 of a single director. Just finished Hitchcock with The Birds. Enjoyed Bogdonovich (Last Picture Show) and a couple others of his. Shyamalan's were interesting

A third vote for Second Hand Lion. The Full Monty, the male version of Calendar Girls, cute. Any Maggie Smith movie, just do a search, she has made lots of enjoyable mobies.

I also enjoyed A Man Called Ove and loved Hachi. A Man called Ove is in sub-titles in case that might be a problem, but it is showing on Amazon.

Another vote for Second Hand Lions.

Steel Magnolias (the original, from 1989. the 2012 remake was not good)

All Alien and Predator movies!! If you like them. AVP (Alien vs. Predator, the best one!! haha)

Shining Through (loved it)

Any John Wayne movies. The Quiet Man, Big Jake

The Hunt for Red October

Any of the Bruce Willis Die Hard movies

I prefer to avoid the graphic sex scenes also. And I don't really like chick flicks. I would rather watch action/adventure, thrillers (not slashers), syfy

Educating Rita, still one of my all time favorites (Michael Caine and Julie Walters).

Shall We Dance with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez -- loved it. Which brings to mind, any movie with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Or any movie with Ginger Rogers!

Back to the Future

Lots of kids movies I have enjoyed while watching them with my DD -- Aladdin, Milo & Otis, The Princess Bride, Honey I Shrunk the Kids

I tend to enjoy the comedies & musicals from the 1930s, and movies from the WW2 era, even though many would be thought of as "corny" today.

The King’s Speech was and is one of my favorites. And I just watched The Book if Henry for about the 5th time. And speaking of Henry’s, Regarding Henry, with Harrison Ford was pretty good too. I liked Harrison Ford in all the Tom Clancy movies (Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, etc), and the Fugitive. You know what is going to happen, but it still was intense.

This is a very good one "You Can Only Imagine."

Leap Year - filmed in beautiful Ireland.

About a Boy, Princess Diaries, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Help, The Intern, A Wrinkle in Time, The Post, Holograph for the King, Finding Neverland, (on Netflis right now), Wonder Woman any of the Star Treks

I know you said no series, but I've really liked the first two seasons of The Crown with Claire Foy on Netflix. It's very interesting and seems pretty accurate, as well. You can always search by actor, too. My list includes Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Harrison Ford, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp and lots more. Happy Hunting!

The Princess Diaries and the sequel.

The Princess Bride

Ever After

Enchanted April is one of my all-time favorite movies....have you seen it? It's a period, British romantic comedy from the 1920's which is charming and funny. The four female characters range in age from 20's to 70-ish, are single, not happily married and widowed (I think). It won the Golden Globe (for acting I believe).

Oops....I checked, and Netflix no longer has it to stream.....but my library has it so I assume others may also?

It's a gentle, visually luscious film.....not slapsticky comedy. I believe you'd love it.

To clarify, the movie Enchanted April is set in the 1920's, but is a film from the 1990's.

Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice (although the TV series with Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy is better).

All of the movies directed by Hitchcock or Orson Welles or Billy Wilder.

We loved Lion. As well as Streetcat Named Bob.

The Notebook is still my favourite movie of all time.

About Time (2014)

Elsa and Fred (Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer)

And So it Goes (Diane Keaton and Michael Douglas)

Door to Door (William H. Macy) a true story of a very successful door-to-door salesman.

Enough Said (2013) Julia Louis-Dreyfuss and James Gandolfini

Let us know what you finally decided on and wether or not everyone enjoyed it.

I like kids movies that are well done: The Jungle Book, How to Train Your Dragon, Frozen

The King's Speech, Mamma Mia (currently on Netflix), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Lincoln, 42 (about Jackie Robinson), Marshall. Anything with Dustin Hoffman, LOTR trilogy, Dallas Buyer's Club, any of the Mission Impossible movies are fun,.

Good movies I've seen lately that will be on Netflix et al in the next year: I Tonya, Black Panther.

I know you said you're not into series, but The Handmaid's Tale is very good and very compelling, but it's also dark. I recommend it highly, though.

Carolina, I started watching Handmaid's Tale last night. Two episodes so far. I don't think I can manage more than 2 at a time. Definitely makes you think about where we are as a country right now.