Top 25 Movie Classic

Here's my list of Classical Movie which span from 1930's up to 1960's with some additional movie which was released in 1970's that I personally consider classic enough

1. Gone With The Wind (1939)

Genre : Drama

Director : Victor Flemming, George Cukor (Uncredited)

Starring : Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland

Runtime : 232 Minutes (3 Hours 52 Minutes ~ nearly 4 hours)

Synopsis : American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Rating : IMDb = 8.2

2. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Genre : Fantasy

Director : Victor Flemming

Starring : Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr

Runtime : 101 Minutes (1 Hour 41 Minutes)

Synopsis : Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.

Rating : IMDb = 8.2

3. Casablanca (1942)

Genre : Drama

Director : Michael Curtiz

Starring : Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henried

Runtime : 102 Minutes (1 Hour 42 Minutes)

Synposis : Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Rating : IMDb= 8.8

4. Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)

Genre : Comedy; Drama

Director : Blake Edwards

Starring : Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen

Runtime : 115 Minutes (1 Hour 55 MinutesO

Synopsis : A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building.

Rating : IMDb= 7.8

5. The Godfather (1972)

Genre : Crime; Drama

Director : Francis Ford Coppola

Starring : Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton

Runtime : 175 Minutes (2 Hours 55 Minutes)

Synposis : The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Rating : IMDb= 9.2

6. 2001: Space Odyssey

Genre : Sci Fi

Director : Stanley Kubrick

Starring : Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter

Runtime : 141 Minutes (2 Hours 21 Minutes)

Synopsis : Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest.

Rating : IMDb= 8.4

7. From Russia With Love (1963)

Genre : Action; Adventure; Thriller

Director : Terence Young

Starring : Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Daniela Bianchi

Runtime : 115 Minutes (1 Hour 55 Minutes)

Synopsis : James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE.

Rating : IMDb= 7.5

8. Goldfinger (1964)

Genre : Action; Adventure; Thriller

Director : Guy Hamilton

Starring : Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton

Runtime : 110 Minutes (1 Hour 50 Minutes)

Synopsis : Investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.

Rating : IMDb= 7.9

9. Mary Poppins (1964)

Genre : Musical

Director : Robert Stevenson

Starring : Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns

Runtime : 139 Minutes (2 Hours 19 Minutes)

Synopsis : A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family.

Rating : IMDb= 7.7

10. The Sound of Music (1965)

Genre : Musical

Director : Robert Wise

Starring : Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn

Runtime : 174 Minutes (2 Hours 54 Minutes)

Synopsis : A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

Rating : IMDb= 7.9

11. A Star Is Born (1937)

Genre : Drama

Director : William A. Wellman

Starring : Janet Gaynor, Fredric March and Adolphe Menjou

Runtime : 111 Minutes (1 Hour 51 Minutes)

Synopsis : A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, but achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.

Rating : IMDb= 7.7

12. The Great Dictator (1940)

Genre : Comedy; Drama

Director : Charles Chaplin

Starring : Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie

Runtime : 125 Minutes (2 Hours 5 Minutes)

Synopsis : In Chaplin's satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double... a poor Jewish barber... who one day is mistaken for Hynkel.

Rating : IMDb= 8.4

13. Citizen Kane (1941)

Genre : Drama; Mystery

Director : Orson Welles

Starring : Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten and Dorothy Comingore

Runtime : 119 Minutes (1 Hour 59 Minutes)

Synopsis : Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

Rating : IMDb= 8.6

14. Brief Encounter (1945)

Genre : Drama; Romance

Director : David Lean

Starring : Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard and Stanley Holloway

Runtime : 88 Minutes (1 Hour 28 Minutes)

Synopsis : Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

Rating : IMDb= 8.2

15. Dial M For Murder (1954)

Genre : Crime; Mystery; Thriller

Director : Alfred Hitchock

Starring : Ray Milland, Grace Kelly and Robert Cummings

Runtime : 105 Minutes (1 Hour 45 Minutes)

Synopsis : An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.

Rating : IMDb= 8.1

16. Vertigo (1958)

Genre : Crime; Mystery; Thriller

Director : Alfred Hitchock

Starring : James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes

Runtime : 128 Minutes (2 Hours 8 Minutes)

Synopsis : A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Rating : IMDb= 8.5

17. A Night To Remeber (1958)

Genre : Action; Drama; History

Director : Roy Ward Baker

Starring : Kenneth More, Ronald Allen and Robert Ayres

Runtime : 123 Minutes (2 Hours 3 Minutes)

Synopsis : The Titanic disaster is depicted in straightforward fashion without the addition of fictional subplots.

Rating : IMDb= 8.0

18. North By Northwest (1959)

Genre : Adventure; Drama; Mystery

Director : Alfred Hitchcock

Starring : Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason

Runtime : 131 Minutes (2 Hours 11 Minutes)

Synopsis : A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

Rating : IMDb= 8.6

19. West Side Story (1961)

Genre : Crime; Drama; Musical

Director : Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise

Starring : Natalie Wood, George Chakiris and Richard Beymer

Runtime : 152 Minutes (2 Hours 32 Minutes)

Synopsis : Musical about two youngsters from rival NYC gangs who fall in love.

Rating : IMDb= 7.7

20. My Fair Lady (1964)

Genre : Drama; Family; Musical

Director : George Cukor

Starring : Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway

Runtime : 170 Minutes (2 Hours 50 Minutes)

Synopsis : A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Rating : IMDb= 7.9

21. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Genre : Adventure; Biography; Drama

Director : David Lean

Starring : Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn

Runtime : 216 Minutes (3 Hours 26 Minutes)

Synopsis : Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service.

Rating : IMDb= 8.5

22. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

Genre : Crime; Drama; Mystery

Director : Robert Mulligan

Starring : Gregory Peck, John Megna and Frank Overton

Runtime : 129 Minutes (2 Hours 9 Minutes)

Synopsis : Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.

Rating : IMDb= 8.5

23. The Seven Year Itch (1955)

Genre : Comedy; Romance

Director : Billy Wilder

Starring : Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell and Evelyn Keyes

Runtime : 105 Minutes (1 Hour 45 Minutes)

Synopsis : When his family goes away for the summer, a so far faithful husband is tempted by a beautiful neighbor (Marilyn Monroe).

Rating : IMDb= 7.3

24. Taxi Driver (1976)

Genre : Drama; Thriller

Director : Martin Scorcese

Starring : Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Cybill Shepherd

Runtime : 113 Minutes (1 Hour 53 Minutes)

Synopsis : A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.

Rating : IMDb= 8.6

25. The Deer Hunter (1978)

Genre : Drama; War

Director : Michael Cimino

Starring : Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Cazale

Runtime : 181 Minutes (3 Hours 1 Minute)

Synopsis : An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.

Rating : IMDb= 8.2

Notes : Film Number 3. 12, 13. 14, 17, and 22 Are released in Black and White

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