Classic
see all genres ›A classic film has stood the test of time. How much time? Well, that’s a matter of opinion! But informal consensus takes us back forty years or so, from the end of the silent era to the last "golden age of cinema," the exhilarating mid-1970s.
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SUB-GENRES · Classic Action/Adventure · Classic Comedy · Classic Crime · Classic Documentary · Classic Drama · Classic Horror · Classic Science Fiction · Classic War · Classic Western · Pre-Code
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Crossroads
CROSSROADS follows four recent graduates: Zhao wants to be a writer but is stuck proofreading; Tang wants to be an artist but is hired to dress windows. Xu has given up hope, while Liu has "gone north" to fight the Japanese. Zhao lives in a crowded boardinghouse with an annoying female neighbor. Unbeknownst to each other, the...Start your free trial to watch -
Curtain at Eight
Handsome Broadway star Wylie Thornton is shot to death backstage at his own birthday party in front of a dozen witnesses. Unfortunately, the theater lights had been cut off, and no one saw a thing. Widely despised as a cad by those who knew him, Wylie had an ex-wife, girlfriend and assorted business...Start your free trial to watch
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Daguerréotypes
A classic documentary from Agnes Varda, DAGUERREOTYPES is a wonderfully intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers on a short stretch of the Rue Daguerre, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker's home for more than 50 years. As in her films THE BEACHES OF AGNES and THE GLEANERS AND I, Varda opens up a...Start your free trial to watch -
The Dalton Gang
Deputy Marshal West (Don Barry) arrives in Rincon to investigate the murders of several ranchers. Blackie Mullet (Robert Lowery), the leader of a gang working for the local land-and-water company, tries to convince Marshal West that Indians are responsible for the killings while West's old friend newspaper editor Amos Boling...Start your free trial to watch
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Death in the Garden
Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of ill-starred fugitives (a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner and his deaf-mute daughter) are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander...Start your free trial to watch -
Deputy Marshal
Wrongly suspected of murder, deputy marshal Jon Hall devises a plan to draw all the actual suspects (including Dick Foran and Russell Hayden) out into the open and prove which one of them committed murder in order to profit off of the coming railroad line. Hall's real-life wife, Frances Langford, provides a few songs.Start your free trial to watch
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Ditto
Leonard Maltin, whilst asserting that Buster Keaton's sound shorts are far from poor, cites DITTO as one of his worst mainly due to the last gag with the girls being done with their backs to us. Although the identical height and dress of each girl and Buster's reaction make the gag obvious, an added punch would have been to...Start your free trial to watch -
A double tour
Vintner Henri Marcoux (Jacques Dacqmine) brazenly carries on an affair with a beautiful young neighbor (Antonella Lualdi) right under the nose of his bitter wife Thérèse (Madeleine Robinson). Henri's gorgeous daughter has herself caught the eye of a Hungarian ne'er do well (Jean-Paul Belmondo), while Henri's voyeur son begins...Start your free trial to watch -
Double-Headed Eagle
Rather than offering a contemporary interpretation of history through narration and interviews, filmmaker Lutz Becker allows the disturbing saga of German fascism to unfold on its own terms. The rise of the National Socialist Party is depicted almost exclusively in newsreel footage and clips of features...Start your free trial to watch
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Down Among the Z Men
An absent minded professor loses a top secret formula in the grocery shop. When it is found by "Bats of the Yard," he proudly attempts to return it to the professor. Crazy comedy ensues. Starring the legendary Goons (Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine).Start your free trial to watch -
Dreaming Lips
Peter is about to perform a Ludwig Von Beethoven concert for the first time and he needs his wife Elisabeth "Liss" (Maria Schell) there for emotional support. He claims he always plays his best when she is there. To his surprise, his old friend Michael Sekretar is the solo violinist. Elisabeth is late for the performance, as...Start your free trial to watch -
The E-Flat Man
Not the most memorable short Buster Keaton ever did, THE E-FLAT MAN was instead a case of missed opportunities. The scene on the train is a total anti-climax. Once aboard, someone locks them in. The camera pans to reveal that their chosen boxcar is refrigerated. Several possible outcomes spring to mind but the rather weak one...Start your free trial to watch
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Edvard Munch
Famously described by Ingmar Bergman as a "work of genius," Peter Watkins' multi-faceted masterpiece is more than just a bio-pic of the iconic Norwegian Expressionist painter. Focusing initially on Munch's formative years in late 19th Century Kristiania (now Oslo), Watkins uses his trademark style to create a vivid picture of...Start your free trial to watch -
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
Richard Kaplan’s lively documentary reveals the human face behind the American icon, beginning with the emotional deprivation suffered by this plain, awkward little girl born into a socially prominent and powerful family. Though she would eventually marry a man who would look beyond her awkwardness,...Start your free trial to watch




