The Rules of the Game (1939), The Blue Angel (1930), The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), The Blue Angel (1930), Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Throne of Blood (1957), Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), Drunken Angel (1948) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Classic Film movies.
Storyline: French aristocrats and their servants play hard during a hunting party at a landowner's estate (Marcel Dalio).
Plot Keywords: french film, classic film, satirical comedy, high society, social critique, ensemble cast, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Prim educator Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings) finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich) and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is driven mad with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry his beloved. However, married life with a woman whose job is to make men desire her proves more difficult than Rath imagined.
Plot Keywords: german cinema, classic film, film noir, drama, tragedy, downfall, erotic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a "Frankenstein" movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.
Plot Keywords: spanish cinema, child's perspective, symbolism, rural life, loneliness, classic film, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Prim educator Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings) finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich) and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is driven mad with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry his beloved. However, married life with a woman whose job is to make men desire her proves more difficult than Rath imagined.
Plot Keywords: classic film, german cinema, black and white, drama, tragedy, decadence, erotic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Communist commandant finds himself surrounded by the Polish resistance during the closing days of World War II.
Plot Keywords: war, polish cinema, world war ii, film noir, politics, moral dilemma, historical drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Japanese version of "Macbeth" features a samurai (Toshirô Mifune), his scheming wife (Isuzu Yamada) and a flurry-of-arrows finale.
Plot Keywords: tragedy, black and white film, 1950s, power struggle, betrayal, supernatural elements, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Preston Sturges' satire about a sickly soldier discharged from duty and mistaken for a war hero when he returns home.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, political, world war ii, heroism, mistaken identity, small town life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Akira Kurosawa's postwar allegory focusing on an alcoholic doctor's determination to cure a gangster of tuberculosis.
Plot Keywords: gangster, alcoholism, doctor, black market, moral dilemma, social criticism, humanity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A U.S. soldier (John Sweet), a British sergeant and a London girl (Sheila Sim) see minor miracles and catch a prude (Eric Portman).
Plot Keywords: english countryside, mystery, classic film, black and white, patriotism, cultural heritage, historical context ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A provincial fisherman (Yves Montand) angers other villagers by using dynamite illegally to expedite his catch.
Plot Keywords: drama, adventure, italian cinema, poverty, survival, family, sea ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ann (Lori March), a beautiful widow, lives in New York City with her 7-year-old daughter, Peggy (Cathy Dunn). When Larry (Gerald S. O'Loughlin), a kind engineer who has recently returned from South America, begins courting Ann, Peggy becomes jealous. Larry attempts to win over both mother and daughter, taking them on a trip to a series of New York City landmarks. However, as Ann and Larry begin to fall in love, Peggy's mischievous behavior gets in the way.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, new york, independent film, black and white, children, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker David Hinton traces the evolution of the classic 1939 film "Gone with the Wind," from its beginnings as a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to its landmark status in the canon of 20th-century American cinema. Focusing on the film's creative linchpin, producer David O. Selznick, and his power struggles with the project's three directors, Hinton provides compelling insights into the making of the film, using a mix of interview subjects and never-before-seen screen tests.
Plot Keywords: documentary, classic film, film history, hollywood, american civil war, color film, academy awards ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A pacifist doctor (William Holden) joins a Union colonel's (John Wayne) cavalry raid in Confederate territory.
Plot Keywords: war, american civil war, military operation, historical drama, action, adventure, strategy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Melvin G. Ashton (William Powell) is a crooked U.S. senator embarking on a campaign for the presidency. Ashton is a political buffoon, but he blackmails the party leaders to support his candidacy with his secret diary, which chronicles years of political corruption that, if made public, would destroy the success of his party and the careers of many. Enemies from a variety of sources attempt to steal the diary and prevent Ashton's rise to the nation's highest office.
Plot Keywords: political satire, comedy, black comedy, scandal, election, corruption, media ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ball, yet struggle tremendously to find enough pretty contestants. A lottery is planned for later in the evening, but the guests begin stealing the prizes. Then, inevitably, there is a fire in the town... It seems that whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, bureaucracy, collectivism, absurdity, political allegory, 1960s ...
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