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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Black Orpheus
Winner of both the Academy Award® for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d'Or, Marcel Camus' BLACK ORPHEUS brings the ancient Greek myth of "Orpheus and Eurydice" to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and...Watch Movie
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Seven Wonders of the World
Of the seven sites the ancient Greeks named the "wonders of the world," only one remains. SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD is a round-the-world adventure that picks up where the Greeks of antiquity left off. Released in 1956, this Cinerama spectacle follows 20th century adventurer...Watch Movie
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Creature with the Blue Hand
The inimitable Klaus Kinski plays twin brothers (one of whom is found guilty of murder and sent to an insane asylum in the prologue) and he is not even the creepiest part of this colorful murder mystery. Based on a novel by British author Edgar Wallace, this is from the...Watch Movie
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Search for Paradise
"Join Lowell Thomas and follow in the footsteps of Marco Polo" in this new, digital restoration of SEARCH FOR PARADISE, the fourth of the original, three-panel Cinerama travelogues. Released in 1957, the motion picture takes you to the "Roof of the World," the Himalayas and...Watch Movie
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Blind Corner
Paul Gregory is an accomplished composer despite his blindness, and his beautiful wife Anne seems to be the perfect supporting wife. But unknown to Paul, she is having a passionate affair with Ricky, a struggling artist. Keen to support her artist lover and give them more time to make love, she...Watch Movie
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Charade
Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant return to work with director Stanley Donen in the stylish and serpentine CHARADE, a blend of espionage thriller and romantic comedy that is today frequently described as the best movie Alfred Hitchcock never made. Bored and rich Reggie Lampert (Audrey Hepburn)...Watch Movie
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Rudolph Valentino
This Astor Pictures newsreel covers the brief career (but mostly the sudden death) of silent film star Rudolph Valentino. Footage from Valentino classics THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE SHEIK and A SAINTED DEVIL are featured, as well as film taken during Valentino's...Watch Movie
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Blackout
A down-on-his-luck American in London emerges from a drunken haze knee-deep in murder in Terence Fisher’s atmospheric Hammer noir, one of several made by the studio in collaboration with American producer Robert Lippert. The Hammer studio provided the behind-the-camera talent and Lippert provided...Watch Movie
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Round About Hollywood
ROUND ABOUT HOLLYWOOD provides a rare peek at Los Angeles in general and Hollywood in particular as the ordinary citizen might have seen it in 1931. We see typical bungalows and apartment buildings as well as luxury homes (which still look pretty modest by subsequent...Watch Movie
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The Man from Cairo
Hollywood icon George Raft's final starring role finds the gangster icon swept-up in espionage and intrigue in the mean streets of Algiers as an American tourist mistaken for a spy. Rome supplied an atmospheric stand-in for Algiers, with the film shot almost entirely in Italy,...Watch Movie
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Home to Danger
This trim Brit noir casts prim "English rose" type Rona Anderson as the estranged daughter of a reprobate Colonel who dies under circumstances that ought to bring more suspicion than they do. Left to distribute a small fortune to charity after his death, she's protected by an upper-class suitor...Watch Movie
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Money Madness
Rolling off the bus into a new town, Steve (Hugh Beaumont) gets work as a cabbie but has bigger things in mind. He meets waitress Julie (Frances Rafferty) and she jumps at his marriage proposal; anything to get away from the insufferable hypochondriac aunt (Cecil Weston) she's living with. Once...Watch Movie
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Heat Wave
An American hack writer in England finds himself tempted by the lure of the idle rich (and by a wealthy man's wife in particular) in this hardscrabble British noir, one of many collaborations between the independent U.S. producer Robert Lippert and Britain's Hammer Studios. Hoping to find...Watch Movie
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Something to Sing About
Though one of Warner Brothers' most popular stars, James Cagney was often at odds with his studio, complaining that they worked him harder and paid him less than many smaller box-office names. Walking out during one contract dispute in 1938, he made two independent features,...Watch Movie
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Hell is Sold Out
Believed dead, French resistance fighter and author Dominic Danges returns home from a POW camp to find his house occupied by an alleged wife who's published a best-selling novel under his name. He has to curb his fury, however, when it proves best for all concerned (including...Watch Movie
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Bimbo's Initiation
One of the all-time-great commercial cartoon mixes of the surreal and the silly, this Fleischer Studios short featuring Betty Boop's canine friend Bimbo has been a longtime favorite amongst animators, cinephiles and lovers of the simply strange. Minding his own business while...Watch Movie
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And Then There Were None
The great French director Rene Clair worked in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, creating such classics as the Veronica Lake comic fantasy I MARRIED A WITCH. His final American film was this adaptation of Agatha Christie's popular mystery thriller "Ten Little Indians," aka...Watch Movie
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Stolen Face
Hollywood A-listers Paul Henreid and Lizabeth Scott crossed the pond for this bizarre English noir melodrama involving a lovestruck plastic surgeon, the beautiful pianist he loves but cannot have and the disfigured female convict whose face he crafts into hers. Famed and conscientious surgeon Dr....Watch Movie
