Best Featured Classic Movies & Films Genre

Top 21 must-see best featured classic movies from featured classic movies, including ranked and rated by score.


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1). Frankenstein (1931) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 8.5/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 84,190 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.4/10 | Metascore: 9.1/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. Tagline: The Man Who Made A Monster!...

Director: James Whale
Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan


2). Nosferatu (1922) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 8.49/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 119,088 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.7/10 | MPAA Rating: R
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Plot / Synopsis: Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. Tagline: A thrilling mystery masterpiece - a chilling psycho-drama of blood-lust...

Director: F.W. Murnau
Stars: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Georg H. Schnell, Ruth Landshoff


3). Haxan (1922) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 8.45/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 18,272 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated
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Plot / Synopsis: Part history lesson followed by re-enactments with actors, this film takes depicts the history of witchcraft from its earliest days through to the present day (in this case,1922 or thereabouts). The result is a documentary-like film that must be among the first to use re-enactments as a visual and narrative tool. From pagan worship to satanic rites to hysteria,...

Director: Benjamin Christensen
Stars: Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio, Oscar Stribolt, Tora Teje


4). The Uninvited (1944) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 8.35/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 13,169 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.5/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past. Tagline: From the Most Popular Mystery Romance since "Rebecca"!...

Director: Lewis Allen
Stars: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dorothy Stickney


5). 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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Plot / 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


6). House of Wax (1953) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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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


7). 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
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Plot / 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


8). Werewolf of London (1935) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.45/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,893 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: The juice of a rare Tibetan flower is the only thing that keeps Dr. Glendon from turning into a werewolf during a full moon. Tagline: Beware! Terror strikes in the night!...

Director: Stuart Walker
Stars: Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, Lawrence Grant


9). The Masque of the Red Death (1964) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.3/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 17,389 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.3/10 | Metascore: 7.7/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Plot / Synopsis: A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.Tagline: LOOK INTO THIS FACE - SHUDDER... at the blood-stained dance of the Red Death! TREMBLE... to the hideous tortures of the catacombs of Kali! GASP... at the sacrifice of the innocent virgin to the vengeance of...

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Nigel Green


10). House on Haunted Hill (1959) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.23/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 32,965 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.0/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: A millionaire offers ten thousand dollars to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife. Tagline: See it with someone with warm hands!...

Director: William Castle
Stars: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig


11). The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Rotten Tomatoes: 8.8/10 | MPAA Rating: 0
Plot / Synopsis: A doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar, Anton Phibes, seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for his wife's death. Tagline: HE CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD FOR REVENGE with Nine Diabolical Curses ... BEES ... BATS ... BEASTS ... BLOOD ... FROGS ... HAIL ... LOCUSTS ... DARKNESS ... DEATH! THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES ... the...

Director: Robert Fuest
Stars: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North, Terry-Thomas, Sean Bury


12). It Came from Outer Space (1953) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.13/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 12,297 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.1/10 | Metascore: 6.8/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert, and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strange. Tagline: Terror In 3-D... Reaching From The Screen To Seize You In Its Grasp!...

Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson


14). The Last Man on Earth (1964) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Rotten Tomatoes: 7.9/10 | MPAA Rating: 0
Plot / Synopsis: When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter. Tagline: By night they leave their graves, crawling, shambling, through empty streets, whimpering, pleading, begging for his blood!...

Directors: Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow
Stars: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Umberto Raho


15). The Gorgon (1964) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 6.55/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 7,382 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.7/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: In the early 20th century, a Gorgon takes human form and terrorizes a small European village by turning its citizens to stone. Tagline: A Monster With the Power to Turn Living Screaming Flesh Into Stone!...

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley, Michael Goodliffe


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