MODERN TIMES
de Charles Chaplin / USA / Drama, Comedy, Romance /
1936 with Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Chester Conklin, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Best movie #12 (+67)
, Quality:99%, Popularity:65% |
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Chaplins last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital... When he gets out, he is [...] Similar movies, recommandations : The Great Dictator , The Gold Rush , City Lights , Limelight , The Kid , Potemkin , Singin' in the Rain , Mon oncle , The General , Têtes de pioche , War of the Buttons | |
GONE WITH THE WIND
de Victor Fleming / USA / Drama, History, Romance, War /
1939 with Thomas Mitchell, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Clark Gable, Barbara O'Neil, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford
Best movie #55 (-38)
, Quality:91%, Popularity:40% |
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The epic tale of a woman's life during one of the most tumultuous periods in America's history. From her young, innocent days on a feudalistic plantation to the war-torn streets of Atlanta; from her first love whom she has always desired to three husbands; from the utmost luxury to absolute starvation and poverty; from her innocence to her understanding and comprehension of life. Similar movies, recommandations : Casablanca , Amadeus , A Streetcar Named Desire , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Singin' in the Rain , Géant , Rio Bravo , Vertigo , The Wizard of Oz , North by Northwest | |
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
de Michael Curtiz, William Keighley / USA / Adventure, Romance, Action /
1938 with Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles
Best movie #230 (-123)
, Quality:91%, Popularity:38% |
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Based on the well-known English legend, Robin of Locksley is a noble who is forced to become an outlaw when Prince John the usurper tries to take the throne from his absent brother. He flees to Sherwood forest where he gathers together his Merry Men and is called Robin Hood. He begins to rob the rich and give back to the poor, the townsfolk that are heavily-taxed by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Meanwhile he still has to defend the throne, and woo Maid Marian. Similar movies, recommandations : Ivanhoé , Robin Hood Prince of Thieves , Capitaine Blood , The Sea Hawk , The Three Musketeers , Robin Hood , Knights of the Round Table , Robin and Marian | |
M
de Fritz Lang / Germany / Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir /
1931 with Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Gründgens, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Theodor Loos
Best movie #254 (+631)
, Quality:98%, Popularity:56% |
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In Germany, Hans Beckert is an unknown killer of girls. He whistles Edvard Grieg's 'In The Hall of the Mountain King', from the 'Peer Gynt' Suite I Op. 46 while attracting the little girls for death. The police force pressed by the Minister give its best effort trying unsuccessfully to arrest the serial killer. The organized crime has great losses due to the intense search and siege of the police and decides to chase the murderer, with the support of the beggars association. They catch Hans and Similar movies, recommandations : M , Nosferatu the Vampire , Vertigo , Edward Scissorhands , Some Like It Hot , The Big Sleep , Manhunter , North by Northwest , Psycho , Rear Window , The Departed | |
