This features a selection of films from the golden age of movies. These selections should go over well with your parents or even grandparents. All the movies in the list were originally produced prior to 1965.
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Key Largo
Richard Brooks and John Huston's screenplay for Huston's Key Largo eschews the lofty blank verse of Maxwell Anderson's original play, concentrating instead on the simmering tensions among the many characters. Humphrey Bogart plays Frank McCloud, an...
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Spartacus [2 Discs]

Spartacus ( Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus ( Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus ( Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On...
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Rashomon

This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a peasant taking refuge from a downpour beneath a ruined gate in 12th-century Japan. The priest and the woodcutter, each looking stricken, discuss the trial of a notorious bandit for rape and murder....
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Metropolis [Restored Edition]

The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would have yielded upwards of 20 conventional features, more than half the studio's entire annual production budget. And if it didn't make a profit at the time...
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Lawrence of Arabia [Limited Edition] [2 Discs]

This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence ( Peter O'Toole, in the role that made him a star). After a prologue showing us Lawrence's ultimate fate, we flash...
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Day the Earth Stood Still

All of Washington, D.C., is thrown into a panic when an extraterrestrial spacecraft lands near the White House. Out steps Klaatu ( Michael Rennie, in a role intended for Claude Rains), a handsome and soft-spoken interplanetary traveler, whose "bodyguard" is Gort...
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [Special Edition]

In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening, Stanley Kubrick dared to make a film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and played the situation for laughs. Dr....
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [2 Discs]

This 1954 Disney version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea represented the studio's costliest and most elaborate American-filmed effort to date. Kirk Douglas plays a trouble-shooting 19th century seaman, trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been...
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8 1/2 [2 Discs]

Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as...
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Beauty and the Beast
Jean Cocteau's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (originally released in France as La Belle et la Bête) stars Josette Day as Beauty and Jean Marais as the Beast. When a merchant ( Marcel André) is told that he...
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Cape Fear

After an eight-year prison term for rape and assault, Max Cady ( Robert Mitchum) is set free. Immediately making a beeline to Sam Bowden ( Gregory Peck), the former prosecutor responsible for Cady's conviction, Cady laconically informs Sam that he intends to "pay back" the attorney for his...
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Hidden Fortress
Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (original Japanese title: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin) stars Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara as a pair of misfit soldiers. Running from the enemy after a disastrous defeat, the two soldiers fall in with general...
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Seventh Seal [Special Edition]

Endlessly imitated and parodied, Ingmar Bergman's landmark art movie The Seventh Seal ( Det Sjunde Inseglet) retains its ability to hold an audience spellbound. Bergman regular Max von Sydow stars as a 14th century knight named Antonius...
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Haxan - Witchcraft through the Ages [Subtitled]

Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen's obsession with bizarre lighting effects reached its apotheosis with his 1920 masterpiece Häxan. Beginning in a deceptively sedate fashion with a series of woodcuts and engravings (a technique later adopted by RKO producer Val...
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Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito ( Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson ( Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men...
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Rules of the Game [2 Discs]

Now often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Règle du jeu/ Rules of the Game was not warmly received on its original release in 1939: audiences at its opening engagements in Paris were openly hostile, responding to the film with shouts of derision,...
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39 Steps [Special Edition]

This classic British thriller was one of Alfred Hitchcock's first major international successes, and it introduced a number of the stylistic and thematic elements that became hallmarks of his later work. Richard Hannay ( Robert Donat), a Canadian rancher on vacation in England, attends a...
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Throne of Blood
Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy. Familiar with Orson Welles's more faithful adaptation, Kurosawa chose to place a more personal stamp on his version by translating the events and...
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Contempt [2 Discs]
Contempt is the story of the end of a marriage. Camille ( Brigitte Bardot) falls out of love with her husband Paul ( Michel Piccoli) while he is rewriting the screenplay Odyssey by American producer Jeremiah Prokosch ( Jack Palance). Just as the director of Prokosch's...
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Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film opens with master samurai Kambei ( Takashi Shimura) posing as a monk to save a kidnapped farmer's child. Impressed by his selflessness and bravery, a group of farmers...
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Fistful of Dollars

By the time Sergio Leone made this film, Italians had already produced about 20 films ironically labelled "spaghetti westerns." Leone approached the genre with great love and humor. Although the plot was admittedly borrowed from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961),...
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Mon Oncle

Five years after his first appearance, Jacques Tati's M. Hulot returns with Mon Oncle, a film set along the dividing line between Paris' past and its future. Aligned (as is the film) with the former, Hulot lives in a colorful, overpopulated Parisian neighborhood and, lacking employment,...
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Touch of Evil

This baroque nightmare of a south-of-the-border mystery is considered to be one of the great movies of Orson Welles, who both directed and starred in it. On honeymoon with his new bride, Susan ( Janet Leigh), Mexican-born policeman Mike Vargas...
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M. Hulot's Holiday [Subtitled]

Already familiar to many, especially following his acclaimed directorial debut Jour De Fete, Jacques Tati came into his own and reached new levels of popularity with 1953's Les Vacances De Monsieur Hulot. The first film to introduce his much-loved alter ego Monsieur...
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Nosferatu

F. W. Murnau's landmark vampire film Nosferatu isn't merely a variation on Bram Stoker's Dracula: it's a direct steal, so much so that Stoker's widow went to court, demanding in vain that the Murnau film be suppressed and destroyed. The character names have been changed to protect the...
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Magnificent Seven [Special Edition]

Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954) is westernized as The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brynner plays Chris, a mercenary hired to protect a Mexican farming village from its annual invasion by bandit Calvera ( Eli Wallach). As...
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West Side Story [Special Edition Collector's Set] [2 Discs]
Romeo and Juliet is updated to the tenements of New York City in this Oscar-winning musical landmark. Adapted by Ernest Lehman from the Broadway production, the movie opens with an overhead shot of Manhattan, an effect that director Robert Wise would repeat over...
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Thing From Another World

The scene is a distant Arctic research station, where a UFO has crashed. The investigating scientists discover that the circular craft has melted its way into the ice, which has frozen up again. While attempting to recover the ship, Captain Patrick Hendry ( Kenneth Tobey) accidentally...
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Dr. Strangelove [40th Anniversary Special Edition]

In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening, Stanley Kubrick dared to make a film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and played the situation for laughs. Dr....
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Passion of Joan of Arc
The Passion of Joan of Arc ( La passion de Jeanne d'Arc) is widely regarded as Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's finest achievement and one of the greatest films of all time. Dreyer recreates the trial and execution of St. Joan with near-documentary...
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Haunting

One of the most highly regarded haunted house films ever produced, Robert Wise's The Haunting (based on Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House) weaves the dark tale of a questionably sane young woman and a sinister house which holds a...
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Onibaba

A landmark in fantasy cinema, this lyrical ghost story is set in medieval Japan amid a bloody conflict between rival fiefdoms. While the warrior Kichi's impoverished wife ( Jitsuko Yoshimura) and mother ( Nobuko Otowa) wait for his return from battle, they maintain a humble existence by...
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Mary Poppins [40th Anniversary Edition] [2 Discs]

Long resistant to film adaptations of her Mary Poppins books, P.L. Travers finally succumbed to the entreaties of Walt Disney, and the result is often considered the finest of Disney's personally supervised films. The Travers stories are bundled...
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Castle of Blood

In this eerie and effective early horror film from prolific genre director Antonio Margheriti, Alan Foster ( Georges Riviere), an American tourist visiting England, takes a bet from a Lord Blackwood and his guest, Edgar Allan Poe, to spend the night in a haunted mansion. The...
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Ikiru [2 Discs]
Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru details the existential struggle of one ordinary man in his desperate search for purpose. Upon learning he has terminal stomach cancer, a low-level government bureaucrat ( Takashi Shimura) leaves his job of thirty years without a word to find meaning in...
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Jason and the Argonauts

Greek mythology is done up brown by the special-effects expertise of Ray Harryhausen in Jason and the Argonauts. Jason ( Todd Armstrong), rightful heir to the throne of Thessaly, is spared from death through the intervention of the goddess Hera...
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Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto
Musashi Miyamoto was the first entry in Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Ingaki's Samurai trilogy. Toshiro Mifune is Takezo, a good-for-nothing from the farming village of Miyamoto, who dreams of becoming a samurai in 17th century Japan. Over the course of the first...
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300 Spartans

A colorful action film about the Battle Of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. in which th |