My teen daughter spends lots of time in the sewing room with me. We watch lots of the old movies and I think she's better for it.
They seem tame when compared to movies made today but if you watch them again you will appreciate them. Most of them I bought on Amazon for ~ $5 and we watch them over and over.
Yours, Mine and Ours - Henry Fonda Lucille Ball
Man's Favorite Sport - Rock Hudson Paula Prentiss
Cary Grant movies - North by Northwest, Charade, To Catch a Thief, Father Goose, Operation Petticoat
Hellfighters - John Wayne Jim Hutton (oilwell fire fighters)
John Wayne westerns & war movies, Hatari
Alfred Hitchcock - The Birds, Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window (North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief)
Some that aren't as old
Freedom Writers
Hotel Rwanda (some very violent scenes but a true story)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Intouchables (French with subtitles so you can't watch while sewing but such a good movie)
A Good Year (one of my favorite movies)
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Under the Tuscan Sun
Holes