Top 100 Classic Movies List

#100 Classic Movie

The Crowd (1928)

The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles and downfalls.

Director:

King Vidor

Writers:

King Vidor, John V.A. Weaver

Stars:

Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach

#99 Classic Movie

Nashville (1975) R

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.

Director:

Robert Altman

Writers:

Joan Tewkesbury

Stars:

Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley

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#98 Classic Movie

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1946)

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.

Director:

Max Ophüls

Writers:

Howard Koch, Stefan Zweig

Stars:

Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians

#97 Classic Movie

Trouble in Paradise (1932)

A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.

Director:

Ernst Lubitsch

Writers:

Samson Raphaelson, Grover Jones

Stars:

Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall

#96 Classic Movie

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Director:

D.W. Griffith

Writers:

D.W. Griffith (scenario), Anita Loos

Stars:

Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mae Marsh

#95 Classic Movie

Greed (1924)

The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.

Director:

Erich von Stroheim

Writers:

June Mathis, Erich von Stroheim

Stars:

Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt

#94 Classic Movie

42nd Street (1933)

A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show and, at the last moment, a chorus girl has to replace the star.

Director:

Lloyd Bacon

Writers:

Rian James, James Seymour

Stars:

Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent

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#93 Classic Movie

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.

Director:

Mike Nichols

Writers:

Ernest Lehman

Stars:

Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal

#92 Classic Movie

Top Hat (1935)

An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.

Director:

Mark Sandrich

Writers:

Dwight Taylor, Allan Scott

Stars:

Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton

#91 Classic Movie

Sunrise (1927)

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Director:

F.W. Murnau

Writers:

Carl Mayer, Hermann Sudermann

Stars:

George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston

#90 Classic Movie

Easy Rider (1969) R

Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.

Director:

Dennis Hopper

Writers:

Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper

Stars:

Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson

#89 Classic Movie

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

The American Civil War divides friends and destroys families, but that's nothing compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after the war.

Director:

D.W. Griffith

Writers:

Thomas Dixon Jr.

Stars:

Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall

#88 Classic Movie

Out of the Past (1947)

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.

Director:

Jacques Tourneur

Writers:

Daniel Mainwaring

Stars:

Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas

#87 Classic Movie

The Lady Eve (1941)

A trio of classy card sharps targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, till one of them falls in love with him.

Director:

Preston Sturges

Writers:

Monckton Hoffe, Preston Sturges

Stars:

Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn

#86 Classic Movie

An American in Paris (1951)

Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.

Director:

Vincente Minnelli

Writers:

Alan Jay Lerner

Stars:

Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant

#85 Classic Movie

A Star Is Born (1954)

A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

Director:

George Cukor

Writers:

Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker

Stars:

Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson

#84 Classic Movie

My Darling Clementine (1946)

A Western retelling the tale of the Shoot-out at the OK Corral.

Director:

John Ford

Writers:

Samuel G. Engel, Winston Miller

Stars:

Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature

#83 Classic Movie

The Wild Bunch (1969) R

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

Director:

Sam Peckinpah

Writers:

Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah

Stars:

William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan

#82 Classic Movie

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Writers:

Robert Buckner, Edmund Joseph

Stars:

James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston

#81 Classic Movie

His Girl Friday (1940)

A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

Director:

Howard Hawks

Writers:

Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht

Stars:

Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy

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