Release Date: 1936-02-05

Overview: 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..

Rating: 8.28 (3844 votes)

Release Date: 1925-07-13

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

Rating: 7.985 (1683 votes)

Release Date: 1921-01-21

Overview: 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.

Rating: 8.2 (2207 votes)

Release Date: 1940-10-15

Overview: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Rating: 8.296 (3489 votes)

Release Date: 1928-01-06

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

Rating: 7.938 (828 votes)

Release Date: 1931-02-12

Overview: British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together and Dracula, a secret vampire, begins preying on London socialites.

Rating: 7.2 (1273 votes)

Release Date: 1952-10-16

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

Rating: 7.9 (552 votes)

Release Date: 1926-12-25

Overview: 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.

Rating: 7.943 (1317 votes)

Release Date: 1939-11-23

Overview: A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Rating: 7.503 (398 votes)

Release Date: 1941-11-30

Overview: Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.

Rating: 7.427 (480 votes)

Release Date: 1931-05-11

Overview: In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Rating: 8.074 (2298 votes)

Release Date: 1931-11-21

Overview: Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his creation's violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.

Rating: 7.469 (1657 votes)

Release Date: 1974-11-18

Overview: Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.

Rating: 7.8 (522 votes)

Release Date: 1954-08-01

Overview: A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Rating: 8.353 (6757 votes)

Release Date: 1942-03-06

Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Rating: 7.836 (775 votes)

Release Date: 1927-11-04

Overview: A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Rating: 7.838 (840 votes)

Release Date: 1969-03-14

Overview: In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

Rating: 7.8 (239 votes)

Release Date: 2014-08-15

Overview: The idea is simple / A married woman and a single man meet / They love, they argue, fists fly / A dog strays between town and country / The seasons pass / The man and woman meet again / The dog finds itself between them / The other is in one, / the one is in the other / and they are three / The former husband shatters everything / A second film begins: / the same as the first, / and yet not / From the human race we pass to metaphor / This ends in barking / and a baby's cries / In the meantime, we will have seen people talking of the demise of the dollar, of truth in mathematics and of the death of a robin." - JLG

Rating: 6.06 (182 votes)

Release Date: 2013-02-20

Overview: In a war-ridden country, a woman watches over her husband, comatose from a bullet in the neck and abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.

Rating: 7.1 (108 votes)

Release Date: 1976-04-30

Overview: Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.

Rating: 7.625 (164 votes)