No matter if you are a classic movie buff who wants to spend hours turning on classic movie marathons or perhaps a novice wanting to view some of the old classics- we have got you covered. Here in this blog, we have rounded up several timeless classic movies for you to sink your teeth into. Whether you want to watch a psychological thriller or a gripping drama about some organized crime syndicate, there is no better time to check into some of the world’s best cinemas. Every movie listed in this blog delivers entertaining and heavy dose nostalgia that can easily make you sound even more interesting at all cocktail parties.
- Singin’ In The Rain: The movie singing in the rain is a romantic musical comedy movie released in 1952. The movie was choreographed and directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly and it starred Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’ Conner, Millard Mitchell, and Jean Hagen. The movie is known to offer a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late ’20s. Also in the year 1989, Singin’ in the Rain was one of the very first twenty-five movies selected by the US Library of Congress especially for preservation in the National Film Registry. Again in the year 2005, the British Film Institute included this movie in the list of top fifty movies to be seen at the age of fourteen.
- Double Indemnity: The movie Double Indemnity is a 1944 classic American thriller, produced by Buddy DeSylva and directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay of the movie was based on a 1943 novel having the same name written by James M Cain which later appeared as an eight-part serial for the liberty magazine released in February 1936. Also, the movie was ranked 38th in the American film institute’s top hundred best American films of all time.
- La Dolce Vita: The movie La Dolce Vita is a comedy-drama movie released in 1960 and co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. The plot of the movie follows Marcello Roubini as a journalist who was writing for a gossip magazine over approximately seven days especially on his journey through Rome in search of happiness and love. Also, the screenplay and the plot of the movie can be further subdivided into a prologue. The movie La Dolce Vita won the Oscar for best costumes and the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960. The movie is known to be a worldwide box office success and is also regarded as one of the best films in world cinema.
- Man With A Movie Camera: The film man with a movie camera is a 1929 release experimental Soviet silent documentary movie directed by Dziga Vertov. It was Vertov’s first feature movie, produced by a movie studio called VUFKU. This movie presents before us the urban life of Moscow and some other Ukrainian cities like that of Odesa and Kyiv in the late ’20s. The silent movie shows Soviet citizens from dawn to dusk and at work and plays while interacting with the machinery of modern life. This particular movie is famous for its range of cinematic techniques that Vertov invented developed and employed such as fast motion, freeze frames, slow motions, split screens, etc.
- 8½: The movie 8½ is a 1963 Italian release surrealist comedy-drama movie directed by Federico Fellini. This movie is known to win the Academy Awards for best costume design and best foreign language film and it is also acknowledged as an avant-garde picture. It is also considered to be one among the 45 best films of the Vatican’s compilation released before 1995. It is also known to be one of the most influential and greatest movies of all time.
- Breathless: The movie Breathless is a 1960 release French crime drama movie, directed and written by Jean Luc Godard. The movie is known to star Jean-Paul Belmodo as a typical wandering criminal called Michel and also Jean Seberg as his American origin girlfriend Patricia. This movie was also Godard’s very first feature-length work that represented Belmondo’s breakthrough, especially as an actor.
- Ordet: The movie Ordet was released in English by the name of The Word, and it is a Danish drama movie directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. The entire movie is based on a play written by a Danish Lutheran priest named Kaj Munk, and it was first performed in the year 1932. Also, the movie won the Golden Lion award at the Venice International Film Festival and it was the only film of Carl Dreyer that was both a financial and critical success. Today the movie is regarded as a masterpiece, by different critics and is especially admired for its cinematography.
- Rashomon: This movie is known to bring Japanese cinema to worldwide audiences. Also, the film Kurosawa Akira’s breakthrough telling the story of a murder that happened in the woods from four different perspectives. The movie is known for its plot device that mainly involves several characters providing alternative, subjective, contradictory, and self-serving versions of the very same incident. Rashomon was also the first-ever made Japanese movie to win the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival.
- Taxi Driver: The movie Taxi Driver is a 1976 American release, directed by Martin Scorsese. The entire plot of the movie was set in a morally and decaying bankrupt New York City especially after the Vietnam war. The movie follows De Niro a veteran and a taxi driver about his deteriorating mental state while he works nights and nights in the city.
- The 400 Blows: The movie 400 blows is a 1951 release French new wave drama film. The movie was shot in DvaliScope, and it is known for casting stars like Albert Remy, Jean Pierre Leaud, and Claire Maurier. The movie was known to be one of the defining films in the French new wave as it displays several traits of the movement. This movie is all about Antonio Doinel an adolescent person based in Paris who struggles with his teachers and parents due to his rebellious behavior. The movie is entirely filmed in Paris and it is one of the first series of five different films where Leaud played the first semi-autobiographical character.
