Following are Classic Movies recommended by release date:
One Way Passage (1932)
An ocean voyage leads to romance for a dying heiress and a condemned criminal.
Dir: Tay Garnett
Cast: William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline MacMahon.
BW- 68 mins, CC.
Berkeley Square (1933)
Leslie Howards, a young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors. He time-travels between 1784 and 1933 London in this fantasy romance.
Dir: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, Valerie Taylor.
BW-88 mins, CC
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Dir: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh.
2C-77 mins, Two-color by Technicolor
Imitation of Life (1934)
A widow and her housekeeper go into business together but almost lose their daughters.
Dir: John M. Stahl
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson.
BW-111 mins, CC
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
A woman's two lives as small-town innocent and author of torrid romances collide.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Irene Dunne , Melvyn Douglas , Thomas Mitchell.
BW-94 mins, CC
Awful Truth, The (1937)
A divorced couple keeps getting mixed up in each other's love lives.
Dir: William Wyler
Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent.
BW-93 mins
Jezebel (1938)
A tempestuous Southern belle's willfulness threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Dir: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh.
BW-104 mins
One Million B.C. (1940)
An exiled caveman finds love when he joins another tribe.
Dir: Hal Roach
Cast: Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr..
BW-80 mins
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
A prizefighter who died before his time is reincarnated as a tycoon with a murderous wife.
Dir: Alexander Hall
Cast: Robert Montgomery , Evelyn Keyes , Claude Rains.
BW-94 mins
Mortal Storm, The (1940)
The Third Reich's rise tears apart a German family.
Dir: Frank Borzage
Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young.
BW-100 mins
Letter, The (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson.
BW-95 mins, CC
Nazi Agent (1942)
An Allied sympathizer discovers his twin brother is a Nazi spy.
Dir: Jules Dassin
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher.
BW-84 mins
Now, Voyager (1942)
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.
Dir: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains.
BW-118 mins
I Walked With A Zombie (1943)
A nurse in the Caribbean resorts to voodoo to cure her patient, even though she's in love with the woman's husband.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway.
BW-69 mins, CC
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn.
C-112 mins, CC
Mrs. Parkington (1944)
A lady's maid marries a man whose prospects push her into high society.
Dir: Tay Garnett
Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold.
BW-124 mins, CC
Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten.
BW-114 mins, CC
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin
Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed.
BW-110 min, CC
Anna And The King Of Siam (1946)
A young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Dir: John Cromwell
Cast: Mikhail Rasumny, Tito Renaldo, Dorothy Chung.
BW-128 mins, CC
Courage Of Lassie (1946)
A young girl tries to rehabilitate the famous collie after his return from combat service in World War II.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, Tom Drake.
C-93 mins, Technicolor
Ideal Husband, An (1947)
An upstanding politician is haunted by his past when a blackmailer threatens to reveal a youthful indiscretion.
Dir: Alexander Korda
Cast: Paulette Goddard , Michael Wilding , Constance Collier.
C-93 mins, CC
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charlie Ruggles.
BW-115 mins, CC
Matter of Life and Death, A (1947)
An injured aviator argues in celestial court for the chance to go on living.
Dir: Michael Powell
Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote.
BW-101 mins, CC
Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin.
BW-87 mins, CC
Foreign Affair, A (1948)
A prim Congresswoman gets caught up in the romantic decadence of post-war Germany.
Dir: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund.
BW-116 mins, CC
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall.
C-103 mins, CC
Secret Garden, The (1949)
An orphaned girl changes the lives of those she encounters at a remote estate.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox
Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell.
C-92 mins, CC
Third Man, The (1949)
A man's investigation of a friend's death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Dir: Carol Reed
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles.
BW-104 mins, CC
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
An alien demands that Earth's leaders choose between peace and destruction.
Dir: Robert Wise
Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe.
BW-92 mins, CC
Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker.
BW-101 mins, CC
Desert Song, The (1953)
A French professor secretly leads a band of desert freedom fighters.
Dir: Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Steve Cochran.
C-111 mins, CC
All That Heaven Allows(1956)
A lonely widow defies small-town gossip when she falls for a younger man.
Dir: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead.
C-89 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
Happy Road, The (1956)
Two single parents join forces when their children run away from a French boarding school.
Dir: Gene Kelly
Cast: Gene Kelly, Barbara Laage, Bobby Clark.
BW-100 mins, CC.
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor's son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles.
BW-120 mins, CC.
House on Haunted Hill (1958)
A millionaire offers total strangers a fortune to spend the night in a haunted house.
Dir: William Castle
Cast: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long.
BW-75 mins
Night to Remember, A (1958)
The crew and passengers of the Titanic fight to survive when the legendary ship strikes an iceberg.
Dir: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, Anthony Bushell.
BW-123 mins
Time Machine, The (1960)
A turn-of-the-century inventor sends himself into the future to save humanity.
Dir: George Pal
Cast: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux.
C-103 mins
Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury.
BW-127 mins, CC
Charade (1963)
A beautiful widow tries to find her husband's lost fortune while eluding the killers who want it themselves.
Dir: Stanley Donen
Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau.
C-113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
Cleopatra (1963)
The legendary Egyptian queen tries to use her beauty to conquer the Roman Empire.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison.
C-251 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
Agony And The Ecstasy, The (1965)
Michelangelo fights censorship and an autocratic pope to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Dir: Carol Reed
Cast: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento.
C-139 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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