[7] The Upcoming Adult Presents: 18 Favourite Nostalgia Movies

How nostalgic you can become once the end of your days is in sight... Childhood days in my case, but it's tragic either way. Yes, nostalgia has entered my world and filled every single corner of it, dripping from the windows like rain after a stormy night and overshadowing my heart like death itself.

It is indeed a kind of death and no matter how hard I try to forget and to live in the now, my mind keeps wandering back to the days when I didn't have to saddle my lasagne before I could eat it, to the days when summer meant strawberries and winter meant snow. 

The days before everybody tweeted a movie instead of watching it, the days when Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicolson seemed in the least attractive to me and aging was a matter of dignity.

... Oh wait, all these things happened before I came to this planet? Who cares, I like nostalgia, once in a while. Here's my favourite movies to celebrate that melancholic feeling with, in no particular order:

Veer-Zaara

Probably 1970s, released 2004.

traditional clothing - rapeseed fields - coffee-table-book India

Don

1970s, released 1978

bow ties - crazy shirt patterns - retro house music - gangster

Midnight in Paris

1920s and 1910s, released 2011

avantgardism - gold - glamour - bridges - feathers

Forrest Gump

1945 to 1982, released 1994

laissez-faire - old school sports - San Francisco - countryside

Om Shanti Om

1970s, released 2007

retro Bollywood - dandy - hand-painted posters

Grease

1950s, released 1978

high school - milk shakes - petticoats - dance contest

Bonnie and Clyde

1960s, released 1967

gangster - hats - high way - robbing banks without masks

Badlands

1970s, released 1973

summer afternoons - hippie - teenage love

An Education

1960s, released 2009

cocktail parties - sunglasses - la France

Bright Star

1810s and 1820s, released 2009

poetry - frills - true love - tragedy - emancipation

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Probably the 1990s, released 2012

prom - wool - Bowie - hash brownies - Rocky Horror

Blast From the Past

1960s mixed with 1990s, released 1999

time travel - swing dance - Kennedy - black n white television

Titanic

1910s, released 1997

glamour - "lower class" parties - hand kissing - automobiles

Taking Woodstock

1969, released 2009

can food - ecstasy - long hair - green hills

Dirty Dancing

1960s, released 1987

mambo - vinyl - charade - animalism - watermelons

Stand by Me

1959, released 1986

best friends - adventure - Goofy

The Dreamers

1960s, released 2003

student revolts - film buff-ism - free thinkers - cigarets

Moulin Rouge!

1899, released 2001

bohemianism - can can - diamonds - sparkles - love at first sight

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