Classic Films - Examples

CLASSIC FILMS

Classic Films

Classic Films are often distinguished or unique works of cinema that have transcended time and trends, with indefinable quality. Classic films are often universal favorites that hold up after repeated rescreenings.

Classics are renowned films of first rank, reference points in film mythology, or films that have become a part of American cultural folklore. Who can argue with these classic examples and others below?

Selection of Greatest Classic Films:

Greatest Classic Films:
Way Down East (1920)

The Gold Rush (1925)
The Jazz Singer (1927)

The Crowd (1928)

All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
Little Caesar (1930)

City Lights (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Grand Hotel (1932)
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)

Duck Soup (1933)

42nd Street (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

King Kong (1933)

It Happened One Night (1934)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

A Night at the Opera (1935)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

Top Hat (1935)

Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
The Awful Truth (1937)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Gone With The Wind (1939)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Ninotchka (1939)

Stagecoach (1939)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Women (1939)

Wuthering Heights (1939)
The Bank Dick (1940)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

His Girl Friday (1940)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Rebecca (1940)

Citizen Kane (1941)

The Lady Eve (1941)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Ball of Fire (1942)

Casablanca (1942)
To Be or Not To Be (1942)
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Double Indemnity (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Laura (1944)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

The Big Sleep (1946)
Gilda (1946)

It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

My Darling Clementine (1946)

Notorious (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Key Largo (1948)
The Lady From Shanghai (1948)

Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)

Red River (1948)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Adam's Rib (1949)
The Heiress (1949)

The African Queen (1951)

The Third Man (1949)
White Heat (1949)

All About Eve (1950)
Born Yesterday (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

An American In Paris (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

High Noon (1952)

Singin' In The Rain (1952)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Pick Up on South Street (1953)

Shane (1953)
Magnificent Obsession (1954)

On the Waterfront (1954)

A Star Is Born (1954)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Mister Roberts (1955)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

The Searchers (1956)
Written on the Wind (1956)

Paths of Glory (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Gigi (1958)

Touch Of Evil (1958)

Vertigo (1958)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Ben-Hur (1959)
Imitation of Life (1959)

North By Northwest (1959)

Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Apartment (1960)

Psycho (1960)
Hud (1963)

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

The Graduate (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Star Wars (1977)