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Best Classic Movies 70+ Years Old by Title

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Rating

Rank

Title

Year

Director

Starring

Genre

Country

Language

2230

743

Why Worry?

1923

Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor

Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, John Aasen, Wallace Howe, Jim Mason, Leo White

Adventure / Comedy / Family / Romance

USA

English (Silent)

2809

938

The Wicked Lady

1945

Leslie Arliss

Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie

Adventure / Drama / Crime

English

2421

819

Wild and Wooly

1917

John Emerson

Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Monte Blue, Walter Bytell, Calvert Carter

Western / Adventure / Comedy

USA

English (Silent)

2692

903

Wild Bill Hickok

1923

Clifford Smith

William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, Jim Farley, Jack Gardner

History / Western / Biography

USA

English (Silent)

2329

776

Wild Boys of the Road

1933

William A. Wellman

Frankie Darro, Edwin Phillips, Rochelle Hudson, Dorothy Coonan Wellman

Drama / Adventure / Crime

USA

English

2692

903

Wild Geese

1953

Shirô Toyoda

Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Jukichi Uno, Eijirô Tono, Chouko Iida

Drama / Romance

Japan

Japanese

2809

938

Wild Horse Mesa

1925

George B. Seitz

Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., George Magrill

Western

USA

English (Silent)

1895

618

The Wild One

1953

László Benedek

Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C. Flippen

Drama / Gangster / Cult

USA

English

2556

861

Wild Oranges

1924

King Vidor

Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier, Charles A. Post

Drama / Romance / Adventure / Crime

USA

English (Silent)

2809

938

A Wild Roomer

1927

Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller

Charles R. Bowers

Short / Comedy

USA

English (Silent)

Rating

Rank

Title

Year

Director

Starring

Genre

Country

Language

2809

938

Wild Rose

1930

Yu Sun

Yan Jin, Jiqun Liu, Lingyu Ruan

Drama / Romance

China

Mandarin (Silent)

2692

903

Wild Torrent

1933

Bugao Cheng

Die Hu, Zhiyuan Tan, Jianong Gong, Xianzhai Wang

Drama

China

Mandarin

2556

861

The Wildcat

1921

Ernst Lubitsch

Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hermann Thimig

Comedy / Drama / Romance

Germany

German (Silent)

2692

903

The Wilderness Trail

1919

Edward LeSaint

Tom Mix, Colleen Moore, Frank Clark, Lule Warrenton, Sid Jordan, Pat Chrisman

Western

USA

English (Silent)

2692

903

Wildschützenrache

1909

unknown

Short

Germany

German (Silent)

1448

463

Wilson

1944

Henry King

Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox

Drama / History / Biography

USA

English

618

212

Winchester '73

1950

Anthony Mann

James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea

Western

USA

English

615

210

The Wind

1928

Victor Sjöström

Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson

Drama / Crime

USA

English (Silent)

2186

727

The Window

1949

Ted Tetzlaff

Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman

Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime

USA

English

1521

488

Wings

1927

William A. Wellman

Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper

Drama / Romance / War / Action / Adventure

USA

English (Semi-Silent)

2692

903

Wings of the Morning

1937

Harold D. Schuster

Annabella, Henry Fonda, Leslie Banks, Stewart Rome, Irene Vanbrugh, Harry Tate

Drama / Romance / Period Film / Sports

English

2692

903

Wings of the Navy

1939

Lloyd Bacon

George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, John Payne, Frank McHugh, John Litel

Drama / Romance / War

USA

English

2004

661

The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926

Henry King

Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Charles Lane, Paul McAllister, E.J. Ratcliffe

Drama / Romance / Western / Action

USA

English (Silent)

2809

938

The Winning Team

1952

Lewis Seiler

Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Miller, James Millican

Biography / Drama / Romance / Sports

USA

English

1920

627

The Winslow Boy

1948

Anthony Asquith

Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, Margaret Leighton

Drama

English

2382

808

Winterset

1936

Alfred Santell

Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, Maurice Moscovitch

Drama / Gangster

USA

English

2585

875

The Wishing Ring:
An Idyll of Old England

1914

Maurice Tourneur

Vivian Martin, Alec B. Francis, Chester Barnett, Gyp Williams

Comedy / Drama / Romance

USA

English (Silent)

2263

751

With a Song in My Heart

1952

Walter Lang

Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Thelma Ritter

Drama / Musical / Biography

USA

English

2811

939

With Byrd at the South Pole

1930

unknown

Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black

Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History

USA

English

2758

920

With Car and Camera Around the World

1929

Aloha Wanderwell

Aloha Wanderwell, Walter Wanderwell

Documentary

USA

English (Silent)

2758

920

With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain (1937-1938)

1938

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herbert Kline

Documentary / War

USA

English

1834

596

Within Our Gates

1920

Oscar Micheaux

Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin

Drama

USA

English (Silent)

2809

938

Within the Law

1923

Frank Lloyd

Norma Talmadge, Lew Cody, DeWitt Jennings, Lionel Belmore, Ward Crane

Drama / Crime

USA

English (Silent)

2809

938

Without Love

1945

Harold S. Bucquet

Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Carl Esmond

Comedy / Romance

USA

English

2692

903

Without Pity

1948

Alberto Lattuada

Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Pierre Claudé, Giulietta Masina

Drama / Romance / War

Italy

Italian

The Wizard of Oz

1939

Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy

Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley

Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Musical / Cult

USA

English

1351

430

The Wolf Man

1941

George Waggner

Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers

Drama / Fantasy / Horror

USA

English

2692

903

A Woman

1915

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charles Inslee, Marta Golden, Margie Reiger

Short / Comedy / Romance / Family

USA

English (Silent)

2809

938

Woman

1918

Maurice Tourneur

Warren Cook, Florence Billings, Ethel Hallor, Henry West, Flora Revalles

Drama / War

USA

English (Silent)

2809

938

The Woman Disputed

1928

Henry King, Sam Taylor

Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Arnold Kent, Boris de Fast, Michael Vavitch

Drama / War

USA

English (Semi-Silent)

2692

903

Woman Haters

1934

Archie Gottler

Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Marjorie White, Walter Brennan

Comedy / Musical / Short

USA

English

1110

350

Woman in the Window

1944

Fritz Lang

Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea

Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama

USA

English

2692

903

A Woman of Affairs

1928

Clarence Brown

Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Drama / Romance

USA

English (Semi-Silent)

2139

710

A Woman of Paris

1923

Charles Chaplin

Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles K. French

Drama / Romance

USA

English (Silent)

2809

938

Woman of the Sea

1926

Josef von Sternberg

Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Charles K. French, Eve Southern, Gayne Whitman

Drama

USA

English (Silent)

2809

938

A Woman of the World

1925

Malcolm St. Clair

Pola Negri, Charles Emmett Mack, Holmes Herbert, Blanche Mehaffey, Chester Conklin

Comedy / Drama

USA

English (Silent)

645

220

Woman of the Year

1942

George Stevens

Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports

USA

English

2794

931

The Woman on the Beach

1947

Jean Renoir

Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie

Drama / Film-Noir / Romance

USA

English

2809

938

Woman on the Run

1950

Norman Foster

Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen, Frank Jenks

Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Thriller

USA

English

2809

938

The Woman One Longs For

1929

Curtis Bernhardt

Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, Uno Henning

Drama / Romance / Thriller

Germany

German (Silent)

2692

903

Woman to Woman

1923

Graham Cutts

Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Josephine Earle, Marie Ault, Myrtle Peter

Drama / Romance / War

English (Silent)

2809

938

Womanhandled

1925

Gregory La Cava

Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edmund Breese, Cora Williams, Olive Tell

Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Western

USA

English (Silent)

2608

884

Woman's Vengeance

1948

Zoltan Korda

Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick

Drama / Crime

USA

English

490

176

The Women

1939

George Cukor

Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland

Comedy / Drama

USA

English

2323

774

Wonder Man

1945

H. Bruce Humberstone

Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods, S.Z. Sakall, Allen Jenkins

Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Gangster

USA

English

2805

936

The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna

1929

Hanns Schwarz

Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward, Lya Jan, Harry Hardt

Drama / Romance

Germany

German (Silent)

2809

938

Woody Woodpecker and Friends

1952

Walter Lantz, various

Mel Blanc, Grace Stafford

Animation / Family / Comedy / Short

USA

English

2692

903

The World's Champion

1922

Phil Rosen

Wallace Reid, Lois Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Henry Miller Jr., Helen Dunbar

Drama / Romance / Comedy / Sports

USA

English (Silent)

2809

938

The Wrath of the Gods

1914

Reginald Barker

Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Kisaburo Kurihara, Henry Kotani

Drama / Adventure

USA

English (Silent)

355

132

Wuthering Heights

1939

William Wyler

Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier

Drama / Romance / Period Film

USA

English

2694

904

Wuthering Heights

1954

Luis Buñuel

Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado, Ernesto Alonso

Drama / Romance

Mexico

Spanish

2692

903

A Yank at Oxford

1938

Jack Conway

Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh, Edmund Gwenn

Drama / Comedy / Sports

English

2692

903

A Yank in the R.A.F.

1941

Henry King

Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart

Romance / War / Drama

USA

English

2809

938

Yankee Buccaneer

1952

Frederick De Cordova

Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Joseph Calleia, George Mathews

Adventure

USA

English

324

118

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942

Michael Curtiz

James Cagney, Joan Leslie

Drama / Music / Biography

USA

English

2302

763

Ye ban ge sheng

1937

Weibang Ma-Xu

Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jin, Chao Shi, Wenzhu Zhou

Horror

China

Mandarin

1334

424

The Yearling

1946

Clarence Brown

Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.

Drama / Family

USA

English

2742

914

Yellow Cruise

1936

Andre Sofame

M. O. Williams

Documentary

France

French

2694

904

Yellow Sky

1948

William A. Wellman

Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell

Western

USA

English

2608

884

Yidl Mitn Fidl

1936

Joseph Green, Jan Nowina-Przybylski

Molly Picon, Leon Liebgold, Simche Fostel, Max Bozyk, Dora Fakiel, A. Lewin

Comedy / Musical / Romance

Poland / USA

Yiddish

2794

931

You and Me

1938

Fritz Lang

Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey

Drama / Comedy / Crime / Romance

USA

English

2608

884

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

1939

George Marshall, Edward F. Cline, Edward Sedgwick

W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Constance Moore, John Arledge

Comedy / Romance

USA

English

1397

443

You Can't Take It with You

1938

Frank Capra

Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer

Comedy / Romance

USA

English

2809

938

You Gotta Stay Happy

1948

H.C. Potter

Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker

Comedy / Romance

USA

English

1475

470

You Only Live Once

1937

Fritz Lang

Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon

Pre-Noir / Crime / Drama

USA

English

2230

743

You Were Never Lovelier

1942

William A. Seiter

Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks

Comedy / Musical / Romance

USA

English

2809

938

Young and Innocent

1937

Alfred Hitchcock

Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare

Crime / Thriller / Romance

English

2799

933

Young Bess

1953

George Sidney

Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh

Drama / History / Biography

USA

English

2692

903

Young Dr. Kildare

1938

Harold S. Bucquet

Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, Jo Ann Sayers

Drama

USA

English

1917

626

The Young in Heart

1938

Richard Wallace

Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke

Comedy / Drama

USA

English

2694

904

Young Man with a Horn

1950

Michael Curtiz

Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez

Biography / Drama / Music / Romance

USA

English

568

197

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939

John Ford

Henry Fonda, Alice Brady

Drama / History / Biography

USA

English

2809

938

The Young Rajah

1922

Phil Rosen

Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, George Periolat, George Field

Romance / Drama

USA

English (Silent)

2809

938

Your Technocracy and Mine

1933

Robert Benchley

Comedy / Short

USA

English

2195

732

You're Darn Tootin'

1928

Edgar Kennedy

Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilson Benge, Chet Brandenburg, Christian J. Frank

Comedy / Short / Family

USA

English (Silent)

2608

884

You're Telling Me!

1934

Erle C. Kenton

W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Louise Carter

Comedy

USA

English

2692

903

Youth of Chopin

1952

Aleksander Ford

Czeslaw Wollejko, Zbigniew Lobodzinski, J. Nieweglowski, Jerzy Duszynski

Drama / Music

Poland

Polish

2742

914

The Youth of Maxim

1935

Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg

Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov

Drama / Period Film

Soviet Union

Russian

2692

903

Zalacaín el aventurero

1930

Francisco Camacho

Pio Baroja, Ricardo Baroja, Maria Luz Callejo, Andrés Carranque de los Rios

Action / Adventure

Spain

Spanish (Silent)

189

Zéro de conduite

1933

Jean Vigo

Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive

Comedy / Short / Drama

France

French

2093

693

Ziegfeld Follies

1946

Vincente Minnelli, Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Eugene Loring, George Sidney, Charles Walters, Norman Taurog

Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland

Comedy / Musical / Fantasy

USA

English

2308

766

Zoo in Budapest

1933

Rowland V. Lee

Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, Wally Albright

Romance / Drama

USA

English

2809

938

Zorro's Fighting Legion

1939

John English, William Witney

Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander De Cordova, Edmund Cobb

Western / Adventure / Action / Cult / Serial / Family

USA

English

2685

901

Zvenigora

1928

Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny

Drama / Experimental

Soviet Union

Russian (Silent)

2742

914

Zwei Menschen

1930

Erich Waschneck

Charlotte Susa, Gustav Fröhlich, Friedrich Kayßler

Drama / Religion

Germany

German

Rating

Rank

Title

Year

Director

Starring

Genre

Country

Language