The Gold Rush
A prospector, hunger, and romance collide in Chaplin’s meticulously staged Klondike comedy.
Open film →A starter canon from silent comedy through the fading years of the studio system, connected directly to stars and years.
A prospector, hunger, and romance collide in Chaplin’s meticulously staged Klondike comedy.
Open film →Keaton turns a Civil War locomotive chase into an epic of machinery, movement, and deadpan courage.
Open film →A landmark early sound feature whose success accelerated Hollywood’s transition to synchronized dialogue and song.
Open film →An unusually unsentimental studio-era portrait of ordinary urban aspiration and disappointment.
Open film →A London nightclub melodrama remembered especially for Anna May Wong’s magnetic central performance.
Open film →Garbo’s celebrated first talking picture, adapted from Eugene O’Neill.
Open film →Chaplin kept the Tramp largely silent in the sound era for a tender romance built around mistaken identity.
Open film →MGM’s all-star ensemble intertwines guests and staff inside a luxurious Berlin hotel.
Open film →A visually extravagant train-bound drama with Wong and Dietrich as two women navigating danger and scrutiny.
Open film →Harlow plays an unabashed social climber in one of pre-Code Hollywood’s sauciest star vehicles.
Open film →Mae West adapts her stage persona to film in a compact showcase of innuendo and comic control.
Open film →An ensemble of wealthy New Yorkers converges on a dinner party while private crises multiply.
Open film →Garbo plays Sweden’s seventeenth-century monarch in a romanticized drama of duty and private desire.
Open film →A runaway heiress and a reporter share a road trip in the fast, intimate comedy that became a genre template.
Open film →A cocktail-dry murder mystery powered by the chemistry of married detectives Nick and Nora Charles.
Open film →An early Astaire-Rogers vehicle that established the pair’s elegant dance-comedy formula.
Open film →Astaire and Rogers glide through mistaken identities, Irving Berlin songs, and Art Deco fantasy.
Open film →A lavish seafaring drama about authority, rebellion, and the infamous voyage of the Bounty.
Open film →The Tramp battles assembly lines, unemployment, and modern industrial life in Chaplin’s last mostly silent feature.
Open film →A forgotten man becomes butler to a wealthy family in a screwball comedy with class satire underneath.
Open film →Gable headlines a romantic disaster drama culminating in MGM’s recreation of the 1906 earthquake.
Open film →A romantic musical built around some of the most celebrated dances in the Astaire-Rogers cycle.
Open film →Lombard and Fredric March skewer celebrity journalism in a fast Technicolor satire.
Open film →Stanwyck gives a fierce performance as a working-class mother navigating sacrifice and social judgment.
Open film →Wong leads a crime story about human trafficking and undercover investigation, rare in giving Asian American performers central roles.
Open film →A paleontologist, an heiress, a leopard, and a missing bone collide in screwball comedy at full speed.
Open film →Davis plays a headstrong Southern belle in the role that won her second Academy Award.
Open film →Dorothy follows the Yellow Brick Road in MGM’s Technicolor fantasy, one of Hollywood’s most enduring musicals.
Open film →Stewart plays an idealistic new senator confronting corruption in Washington.
Open film →A technically monumental Civil War-era epic whose enduring popularity is inseparable from criticism of its romanticized portrayal of slavery and the Confederacy.
Open film →Garbo plays a stern Soviet envoy disarmed by Paris in Lubitsch’s political romantic comedy.
Open film →A newspaper editor tries to lure his star reporter and ex-wife back into one last story.
Open film →Hepburn’s heiress faces an ex-husband, a reporter, and a wedding in a sharply written comedy of class and self-knowledge.
Open film →Chaplin directly attacks fascism in his first full talking feature.
Open film →Stanwyck plays a con artist who turns romance into an elaborate revenge plot.
Open film →Welles’s debut uses fractured chronology, deep-focus photography, and competing testimony to examine power and self-invention.
Open film →Bogart’s Sam Spade navigates murder, deception, and an elusive statuette in a foundational noir.
Open film →Welles’s follow-up to Citizen Kane traces the decline of a wealthy Midwestern family amid modernization.
Open film →A Polish theater troupe uses performance itself as a weapon against the Nazi occupation.
Open film →Past love and wartime duty collide in a Moroccan nightclub under Vichy rule.
Open film →An insurance salesman and a married woman plot murder in Wilder’s acid, fatalistic noir.
Open film →Bergman plays a woman methodically manipulated by her husband in a Victorian suspense drama.
Open film →A family prepares for the 1904 World’s Fair in Minnelli’s richly designed seasonal musical.
Open film →Crawford’s comeback role blends maternal melodrama, murder mystery, and postwar noir atmosphere.
Open film →Wilder’s stark drama follows a writer through a destructive alcoholic binge.
Open film →Romance, espionage, and distrust intertwine as Bergman infiltrates a Nazi circle in Rio.
Open film →Hayworth’s entrance and musical numbers made this tale of jealousy and control a defining star vehicle.
Open film →A doomed ex-boxer’s past is reconstructed after his murder in a shadowy adaptation inspired by Hemingway.
Open film →A desperate small-town banker is shown the value of a life he believes has failed.
Open film →A former private eye discovers that the past has followed him to a quiet California town.
Open film →Welles and Hayworth enter a maze of seduction, murder, and betrayal ending in a hall of mirrors.
Open film →A dancer is torn between art and love in a Technicolor film whose ballet sequence dissolves stage and cinema.
Open film →A hurricane traps Bogart and Bacall in a Florida hotel with a returning gangster.
Open film →Clift’s charm becomes dangerously ambiguous in Wyler’s adaptation of Washington Square.
Open film →Three sailors race through New York during a 24-hour shore leave in an unusually location-rich MGM musical.
Open film →A struggling screenwriter enters the decaying mansion and fantasy world of silent star Norma Desmond.
Open film →Theater ambition and celebrity hunger drive a razor-sharp backstage drama anchored by Davis’s Margo Channing.
Open film →Brando’s Stanley Kowalski brought a newly physical, conversational acting style to mass audiences.
Open film →Romance, class ambition, and moral catastrophe converge around Clift and Taylor.
Open film →Kelly dances through an MGM fantasy of Paris culminating in an extended ballet built from French painting styles.
Open film →Hollywood’s shift from silent pictures to talkies becomes the setup for one of the studio musical’s great self-portraits.
Open film →A marshal waits nearly alone for a returning outlaw as the clock advances toward noon.
Open film →Soldiers and civilians navigate desire and discipline in Hawaii on the eve of Pearl Harbor.
Open film →A princess escapes protocol for one day in Rome and meets an American reporter.
Open film →Monroe and Jane Russell turn friendship, performance, and gold-digging into candy-colored musical comedy.
Open film →Brando’s leather-jacketed biker became an instant emblem of postwar rebellion.
Open film →A photographer confined to his apartment suspects a neighbor of murder while watching the courtyard.
Open film →A carefully planned murder scheme unravels inside a London apartment.
Open film →Brando plays a dockworker caught between conscience, loyalty, and a corrupt waterfront power structure.
Open film →Bizet is reimagined in an all-Black American setting, with Dandridge in the role that brought her historic Oscar nomination.
Open film →Garland gives one of her defining performances as a singer whose rise is paired with her husband’s decline.
Open film →Hepburn returns from Paris transformed and unsettles two wealthy brothers on a Long Island estate.
Open film →Monroe’s neighbor becomes the focus of a married man’s fantasies during a sweltering Manhattan summer.
Open film →A retired jewel thief tries to clear his name along the French Riviera.
Open film →Dean’s troubled teenager searches for belonging amid volatile family and peer relationships.
Open film →Dean’s first major screen role channels sibling rivalry and paternal rejection through Steinbeck’s California family saga.
Open film →A sinister preacher pursues two children through an expressionistic American landscape.
Open film →A Civil War veteran conducts a years-long search whose obsession complicates the Western hero myth.
Open film →Texas wealth, oil, family conflict, and social change unfold across decades in Dean’s final film.
Open film →Rodgers and Hammerstein’s stage musical becomes a widescreen spectacle set in nineteenth-century Siam.
Open film →Prisoners of war build a bridge that becomes a test of pride, duty, and military logic.
Open film →Two escaped prisoners, one Black and one white, are chained together and forced into uneasy cooperation.
Open film →A border-town murder investigation becomes a feverish study of corruption and abuse of power.
Open film →Taylor and Paul Newman face desire, inheritance, and family denial in a Tennessee Williams adaptation.
Open film →Two musicians flee gangsters by joining an all-women band in Wilder’s escalating comedy of disguise and desire.
Open film →The Gershwin opera reached the screen in a large-scale production led by Poitier and Dandridge.
Open film →A case of mistaken identity sends Grant across America in one of Hitchcock’s sleekest chase films.
Open film →Hepburn’s Holly Golightly became an enduring style icon, even as the film’s racist caricature of Mr. Yunioshi is now widely criticized.
Open film →Monroe and Clift appear in a melancholy modern Western written by Arthur Miller.
Open film →Peck’s Atticus Finch defends a Black man falsely accused in Depression-era Alabama, seen partly through a child’s perspective.
Open film →Poitier plays a traveling handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel, earning a historic Best Actor Oscar.
Open film →Hepburn and Grant navigate murder, stolen money, and shifting identities in a Paris-set suspense comedy.
Open film →The stage musical becomes a lavish screen production centered on language, class, and transformation.
Open film →Poitier plays a compassionate man who befriends a blind young woman in a drama about racism and isolation.
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