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Top 37 must-see best classic movies from classic movies, including ranked and rated by score.
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16). Cat People (1942) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 8.3/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 28,321 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.2/10 | Metascore: 8.5/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
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Plot / Synopsis: An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
Tagline: She knew strange, fierce pleasures that no other woman could ever feel!...
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt
17). Freaks (1932) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 8.28/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 53,119 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.5/10 | Metascore: 8.0/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated
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Freaks is Streaming on HBO MaxPlot / Synopsis: A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Tagline: Can a full grown woman truly love a MIDGET ?...
Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor
18). Island of Lost Souls (1932) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 8.05/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 11,830 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.8/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: After his ship goes down, Edward Parker is rescued at sea. Parker gets into a fight with Captain Davies of the Apia and the Captain tosses him overboard while making a delivery to the tiny tropical island of Dr. Moreau. Parker discovers that Moreau has good reason to be so secretive on his lonely island. The doctor is a...
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Stars: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke
19). Them! (1954) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 7.97/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 25,777 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | Metascore: 7.4/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: In the New Mexico desert, Police Sgt. Ben Peterson and his partner find a child wandering in the desert and sooner they discover that giant ants are attacking the locals. FBI agent Robert Graham teams up with Ben and with the support of Dr. Harold Medford and his daughter Dr. Patricia 'Pat' Medford, they destroy the colony of ants...
Director: Gordon Douglas
Stars: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens
20). The Black Cat (1934) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 7.9/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 13,810 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.9/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated
The Black Cat is Streaming on ShudderPlot / Synopsis: American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.Tagline: The most imaginative picture yet! (Newspaper ad cut)...
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop, Egon Brecher
21). Pit and the Pendulum (1961) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 7.9/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 17,582 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.9/10 | Metascore: 7.8/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
Tagline: Until now no one has dared to film this ...... the most diabolical classic of all time!...
Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Antony Carbone
22). The Haunting (1963) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 7.89/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 44,375 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.7/10 | Metascore: 7.4/10 | MPAA Rating: G
Plot / Synopsis: A scientist doing research on the paranormal invites two women to a haunted mansion. One of the participants soon starts losing her mind.Tagline: An evil old house, the kind some people call haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House had stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against...
Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Fay Compton
23). Tarantula (1955) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 7.85/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 11,420 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved | Gross: $1,100,000
Plot / Synopsis: In the Arizona desert, Professor Gerald Deemer is experimenting with growth hormones in the hopes of finding a way to increase the world's food supply. His partner in the project was recently found dead in the desert, suffering from a disease that normally takes years to advance but, in his case, seems to have afflicted him in only a...
Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott
24). Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 7.73/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 20,876 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.0/10 | Metascore: 6.9/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved | Gross: $4,796,000
Plot / Synopsis: The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey and Chick Young is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein's monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. Dracula awakens and escapes with the weakened monster, who he plans to re-energize with a new brain. Larry Talbot (the Wolfman) arrives from London in an...
Directors: Charles Barton, Walter Lantz
Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange
25). House of Wax (1953) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 7.7/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 21,502 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | Metascore: 6.8/10 | MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: $23,750,000
Plot / Synopsis: An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.Tagline: UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE! (original print ad - all caps)...
Director: André De Toth
Stars: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni
26). Dracula (1931) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 7.65/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 62,908 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.6/10 | Metascore: 7.1/10 | MPAA Rating: Passed
Dracula is Streaming on Netflix, PeacockPlot / Synopsis: The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina.
Tagline: Carl Laemmle Presents The VAMPIRE THRILLER! (original posters)...
Directors: Tod Browning, Karl Freund
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan
27). The Mummy (1932) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 7.62/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 32,120 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.9/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Plot / Synopsis: A living mummy stalks the beautiful woman he believes is the reincarnation of his lover.
Tagline: Stranger than "Dracula" ... More fantastic than "Frankenstein" ... More mysterious than "The Invisible Man"...
Director: Karl Freund
Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron, Edward Van Sloan
28). The Fly (1958) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 7.6/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 27,028 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.5/10 | Metascore: 6.2/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
The Fly is Streaming on PeacockPlot / Synopsis: A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.
Tagline: If she looked upon the horror her husband had become... she would scream for the rest of her life!...
Director: Kurt Neumann
Stars: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman
29). The Thing from Another World (1951) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Honest Review: The Thing from Another World (1951)
Score: 7.55/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 35,565 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.7/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
The Thing from Another World is Streaming on TubiPlot / Synopsis: Scientists at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out!
Tagline: Look Out...It's...
Directors: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks
Stars: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, James Young
30). The Wolf Man (1941) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 7.54/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 32,880 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.1/10 | Metascore: 7.2/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A practical man returns to his homeland, is attacked by a creature of folklore, and infected with a horrific disease his disciplined mind tells him can not possibly exist.
Tagline: In many a distant village, there exists the Legend of the Werewolf or Wolf Man, a legend of a strange mortal man with the hair and fangs of an...
Director: George Waggner
Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles
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