classic movies (pre 1970)
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Watched
Casablanca
1955
This was the first attempt by Warner Brothers to make the movie classic into a series. It was part of a revolving group of shows that included Kings Row on a show called Warner Brothers Presents.
Some Like It Hot
Billy Wilder · 1959
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
Harvey
Henry Koster · 1950
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock · 1954
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Howard Hawks · 1953
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Blake Edwards · 1961
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Sabrina
Billy Wilder · 1954
Sabrina é a jovem filha do motorista da família Larrabee, que foi apaixonado por David Larrabee a vida toda. David é muito mimado e louco por mulheres, e ignorou a Sabrina durante anos. Sabrina vai para Paris por alguns anos e quando ela retorna é uma mulher muito atraente e sofisticada, e David fica rapidamente atraído por ela. Linus, o irmão de David, vê isso e teme que o casamento iminente de Davi com uma mulher muito rica pode estar ameaçado. Se o casamento for cancelado um grande negócio corporativo com a família da noiva também será cancelado. Então, Linus tenta manter Sabrina fora da vista de seu irmão, e a melhor maneira de fazer isso é ele mesmo cortejar Sabrina.
Charade
Stanley Donen · 1963
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.
Rope
Alfred Hitchcock · 1948
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
The Sound of Music
Robert Wise · 1965
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Fantasia
Bill Roberts · 1940
Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.
To Watch
The Valley of Decision
Tay Garnett · 1945
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock · 1960
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock · 1958
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
La Dolce Vita
Federico Fellini · 1960
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles · 1941
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Gone with the Wind
Victor Fleming · 1939
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
The Wizard of Oz
Victor Fleming · 1939
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
Singin' in the Rain
Stanley Donen · 1952
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
It's a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra · 1946
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder · 1950
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 1950
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Rebecca
Alfred Hitchcock · 1940
Uma jovem de origem humilde (Joan Fontaine) se casa com um riquíssimo nobre inglês (Laurence Olivier), que ainda vive atormentado por lembranças de sua falecida esposa. Após o casamento e já morando na mansão do marido, ela vai gradativamente descobrindo surpreendentes segredos sobre o passado dele.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick · 1968
Hace millones de años, en los albores del nacimiento del homo sapiens, unos simios descubren un monolito que les lleva a un estadio de inteligencia superior. Otro monolito vuelve a aparecer, millones de años después, enterrado en una luna, lo que provoca el interés de los científicos humanos. Por último, HAL 9000, una máquina de inteligencia artificial, es la encargada de todos los sistemas de una nave espacial tripulada durante una misión de la NASA.
Bonnie and Clyde
Arthur Penn · 1967
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder · 1944
A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.
North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock · 1959
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Elia Kazan · 1951
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.
The Philadelphia Story
George Cukor · 1940
Uma herdeira entediada, destinada a se casar com um executivo chato, vê seus planos de casamento frustrados com a chegada de seu ex-marido playboy. E família então gradualmente começa a perceber a importância da integridade e dos verdadeiros valores.
From Here to Eternity
Fred Zinnemann · 1953
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Lewis Milestone · 1930
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Rebel Without a Cause
Nicholas Ray · 1955
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
Ben-Hur
William Wyler · 1959
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Duck Soup
Leo McCarey · 1933
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
My Fair Lady
George Cukor · 1964
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Romeo and Juliet
Franco Zeffirelli · 1968
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
An American in Paris
Vincente Minnelli · 1951
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut · 1959
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
Metropolis
Fritz Lang · 1927
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
West Side Story
Robert Wise · 1961
Dues bandes juvenils, els Jets i els Sharks, es disputen l'hegemonia dels carrers del West Side, a l'illa de Manhattan. Totes dues provenen del món de la immigració, per bé que els Jets són d'origen europeu mentre que els Sharks procedeixen de Puerto-Rico. Entremig de les animadversions i els enfrontaments de tots dos bàndols, sorgirà l'amor entre en Tony, antic líder reformat dels Jets, i la Maria, germana de Bernardo, cap dels Sharks. Per més que tots dos tracten d'evitar-ho, aquesta rivalitat esdevindrà indefectiblement tràgica.
Laura
Otto Preminger · 1944
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
The Women
George Cukor · 1939
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler · 1946
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Vincente Minnelli · 1944
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Stagecoach
John Ford · 1939
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet · 1957
Un jeune homme d'origine modeste est accusé du meurtre de son père et risque la peine de mort. Le jury composé de douze hommes se retire pour délibérer et procède immédiatement à un vote : onze votent coupable, or la décision doit être prise à l'unanimité. Le juré qui a voté non-coupable, sommé de se justifier, explique qu'il a un doute et que la vie d'un homme mérite quelques heures de discussion. Il s'emploie alors à les convaincre un par un.
An American in Paris
Vincente Minnelli · 1951
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
The Lady Vanishes
Alfred Hitchcock · 1938
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan · 1954
Terry Malloy is a kindhearted dockworker, and former boxer, who is tricked by his corrupt bosses into leading his friend to death. After falling in love, he tries to leave the waterfront and expose his employers.
An Affair to Remember
Leo McCarey · 1957
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
The Apartment
Billy Wilder · 1960
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
How to Steal a Million
William Wyler · 1966
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
Lolita
Stanley Kubrick · 1962
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Notorious
Alfred Hitchcock · 1946
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
Gigi
Vincente Minnelli · 1958
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
unfinished
It Happened One Night
Frank Capra · 1934
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Wuthering Heights
William Wyler · 1939
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.
Love in the Afternoon
Billy Wilder · 1957
Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.
Viva Las Vegas
George Sidney · 1964
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
Roman Holiday
William Wyler · 1953
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.
