The Great Dictator (1940)

Comedy
1936
Movie

Modern Times

8.3
1936

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

Comedy
1931
Movie

City Lights

8.3
1931

In this sound-era silent film, a tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower seller.

8.2

Comedy
1921
Movie

The Kid

8.2
1921

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

Adventure
1925
Movie

The Gold Rush

8
1925

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

Genre : Adventure

Drama
1950
Movie

Sunset Boulevard

8.3
1950

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Comedy
1928
Movie

The Circus

8
1928

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

Mystery
1941
Movie

Citizen Kane

8
1941

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Genre : Mystery

7.8

Comedy
1947
Movie

Monsieur Verdoux

7.8
1947

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

7.9

Romance
1952
Movie

Limelight

7.9
1952

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Genre : Romance

War
1957
Movie

Paths of Glory

8.3
1957

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Genre : War

7.5

Crime
1989
Movie

Mary Forever

7.5
1989

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?

Genre : Crime

7.1

Adventure
1940
Movie

The Thief of Bagdad

7.1
1940

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.

Genre : Adventure

Action
1937
Movie

Way Out West

7
1937

Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.

Genre : Action

6.8

Science Fiction
1953
Movie

The War of the Worlds

6.8
1953

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.

Genre : Science Fiction

Comedy
1926
Movie

The General

8
1926

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

8.2

Drama
1948
Movie

Bicycle Thieves

8.2
1948

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

7.6

Drama
1951
Movie

A Streetcar Named Desire

7.6
1951

A fading southern belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.

Drama
1952
Movie

Ikiru

8.3
1952

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.