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2 days ago · Welcome to Rotten Tomatoes’ 100 best-reviewed classic movies of all time ranked by Tomatometer, featuring only the highest-rated Certified Fresh films! We define ‘classic’ as everything released...
by bkekakis • Created 7 years ago • Modified 1 month ago. The Golden Age of Hollywood, sometimes referred to as the period of classical Hollywood cinema, started with the silent movie era and the first major feature-length silent movie called the 'Birth of a Nation' (1915). The Golden Age of Hollywood ended with the demise of the studio ...
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- Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari
- Norrtullsligan
- Prästänkan
- Mighty Like A Moose
- The Boat
- The Lodger: A Story of London Fog
- The Docks of New York
- Dans La Nuit
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ
- The Battleship Potemkin
Director:Robert Wiene The Cabinet of Dr. Caligaribrought German Expressionist film to full view with art direction that’s every bit as dark and twisted as the story it tells. Set in an environment full of askew streets, warped roofs and staircases that travel at impossible angles, no film has the same spooky feel as this tale of a mysterious doctor...
Director:Per Lindberg Whether in 1923 or today, it’s rare to see a film about a strong-willed, independent woman and her likeminded friends. There are no flappers or scandals, just discussion of what life is like for these Swedish women, including workplace harassment, judgmental family members and wage disputes. The film even gets away with some p...
Director:Carl Theodor Dreyer Lots of superlatives can be use to describe Carl Theodor Dreyer’s films, but “charming” doesn’t often end up on the top of the list. That changes when you watch this sweet folk comedy about a new priest who is obligated, by the rules of a small village, to marry his predecessor’s widow. There are two problems: 1. The pr...
Director:Leo McCarey In the wrong hands, Charley Chase’s schtick can get old pretty quick, but the short Mighty Like a Mooseshows just how funny the actor could be. Chase and Vivien Oakland play Mr. and Mrs. Moose, a married couple who were perhaps drawn together by mutual unattractiveness. She has a gigantic nose, and he has ridiculous teeth. But ...
Directors:Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline There’s a gag in The Boat in which the hero launches his boat, and it immediately sinks. It seems simple enough, but Buster Keaton actually went through several attempts and engineering adjustments before getting the shot right. If it had sank any other way, it wouldn’t have been funny, he said. That level of co...
Director:Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock’s films before The Lodgerhad plenty of his characteristic inventive camerawork and playfulness, but this is the one where he overtly hits the themes that he’d explore throughout his career: Suspicion of people close to you, public mania, fear of the police. Telling the story of a sexy-but-dangerous lodger,...
Director:Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg is best known for his seven sound films with Marlene Dietrich, but his visual prowess was most at home in the silent medium, allowing him to find warmth and humanity in his actors’ faces. The way he photographs Betty Compson’s suicidal prostitute in The Docks of New Yorkis remarkable. Each crack of h...
Director:Charles Vanel Starting with documentary-like realism at a coal mine before transforming into a noir-ish tale of murder and betrayal, Charles Vanel’s Dans La Nuituses those shifting forms to illustrate just how quickly our lives can change in spirit and meaning. Vanel cast himself as both a betrayed husband and the lover who cuckolds him, a...
Director:Fred Niblo We’re all now well familiar with stories of epic movies with prolonged productions and out-of-control spending, but Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christset a high bar early on. The movie brought in more money than any film before it, but still couldn’t recoup its expenses. Yet somehow, after going through multiple directors and lead ac...
Director:Sergei Eisenstein It’s hard to say what Sergei Eisenstein’s most famous film influenced more: The Soviet spirit or film course syllabi. While the novelty of the film’s montage may be a bit overstated (Abel Gance—and he’s not the only one—played gleefully with rapid editing in La rouéa couple years beforehand, and many U.S. films were cutti...
- Gone With The Wind (1939) Watch Now. The original "sweeping epic," this film stars Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara, the plucky Southern belle who romances Clark Gable's Rhett Butler against the backdrop of the Civil War.
- The Wizard of Oz (1939) Watch Now. There’s no place like home, and no classic movie as beloved as Dorothy’s adventures in Oz. The film left its imprint on the kinds of narratives and character types—wicked and good witches, scarecrows, tinmen, and cowardly lions, oh my—we see on film.
- Casablanca (1942) Watch Now. Casablanca is up there with the Godfather for most quoted screenplay of all time. This WWII classic, directed by Michael Curtiz, pairs Scandinavian beauty Ingrid Bergman with tough guy Humphrey Bogart for a story of lovers ripped apart by war and reunited in a far flung Moroccan piano bar—of all the gin joints in the world.
- Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961) Watch Now. A favorite of dorm-room posters and Halloween costumes, Blake Edwards’s comedy about girl-about-town Holly Golightly helped turn Audrey Hepburn into a fashion icon, thanks to her long black gown, elegant up-do, and signature black sunglasses.
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
- Within Our Gates (1920)
- The Kid (1921)
- Orphans of the Storm (1921)
Apr 14, 2018 · The Great Train Robbery. a.k.a. the one where the guy shoots a gun at your face. Dir. Edwin S. Porter, 12 min., 1903. In this hugely popular proto-Western, a group of bandits stop and rob a train ...
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Aug 24, 2022 · 30 Classic Movies That Are Truly Timeless. By Kelly Bryant. Updated: Feb. 21, 2024. Whether you’ve seen them a million times or somehow missed them until now, these classic movies deserve a spot...
