Classic Movies on Netflix
Last updated April 18, 2025
1776
1972 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsPeter Stone's Pultizer Prize-winning musical (starring much of the original Broadway cast) about the internecine congressional squabbling that led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence makes a glorious transition to the big screen. William Daniels is John Adams, Ken Howard is a statuesque Thomas Jefferson, and Howard Da Silva is hilarious as wit-cracker Ben Franklin. A very funny -- and poignant -- history lesson with a great score.
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Julia
1977 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsA case of writer's block and a chance to reconnect with lifelong friend Julia prompt American dramatist Lillian Hellman to journey to 1930s Europe. Julia, once a young woman of privilege, recruits Lillian for a risky undertaking.
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The Desert Rats
1953 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsRichard Burton stars as a World War II British commando who takes charge of the Desert Rats, a defiant, outnumbered Australian garrison that takes a heroic stand against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's German troops in North Africa.
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The Paper Chase
1973 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsA hardworking first-year student at Harvard Law School struggles to win the respect of a brilliant but ruthless professor, but he finds himself under the microscope when he learns that the girl he's been dating is the professor's daughter.
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Anastasia
1956 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn 1928 Paris, a pair of Russian émigrés coaches a troubled girl to impersonate Anastasia, the presumed-dead daughter of Czar Nicholas II, in order to collect a reward. As the hoax unfolds, the conspirators suspect they've found the real Anastasia.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
1959 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsBased on the Jules Verne novel, this family-friendly fantasy film follows an expedition team en route to the center of the earth -- an adventure that is fraught with peril from careening boulders, falling stalactites and weird dinosaurs.
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Catch-22
1970 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsCapt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) tries to escape the travesties of World War II by convincing his Air Force commanders that he's crazy. Hilarity ensues -- but so does reality as he watches his close friends (Martin Sheen and Art Garfunkel) die in the ridiculousness of war. Mike Nichols directs this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy about a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944.
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThis classic World War II drama chronicles the life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (nicknamed the Desert Fox), focusing on his military career in North Africa, his connection to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and his lonely demise.
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The Last Picture Show
1971 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThere's not much to do in the windswept Texas hamlet of Anarene, where the town's only cinema is about to close forever. So high schoolers Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane (Jeff Bridges) lust after incorrigible flirt Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd) while trying to chart their uncertain futures. When Duane heads for Korea after joining the service and Jacy gets shipped off to college, Sonny is left behind in a veritable ghost town.
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Midnight Cowboy
1969 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTo earn cash as a freelance sex stud and work toward his dream of becoming a kept man, hayseed hustler Joe Buck heads to New York City, where an improbable friendship blossoms when he meets seedy con man Ratso Rizzo.
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsTragedy is in the offing when widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin falls for dashing American war correspondent Mark Elliot. Despite insurmountable obstacles, Han and Mark's love deepens till he's sent to cover the "police action" in Korea.
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Doctor Dolittle
1967 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsFed up with human patients, the dogged Doctor Dolittle switches specialties -- and species. After learning to speak hundreds of animal languages, he takes to the high seas as a world-famous veterinarian in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.
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Morituri
1965 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsA perilous game of cat and mouse ensues when a German defector -- employed by the British -- poses as a Nazi officer to gain entry onto a freighter to disarm explosives on the vessel, which is carrying a valuable load of crude rubber.
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Night Train to Munich
1940 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsGermans invading Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II capture top scientist Axel Bomasch and his beautiful daughter, Anna. But there's hope in the form of dashing British agent Gus Bennett, who poses as a German officer to effect a rescue.
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Nine to Five
1980 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsJudy (Jane Fonda), Violet (Lily Tomlin) and Doralee (Dolly Parton) -- fed up with their "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" of a boss (Dabney Coleman) -- entertain fantasies about revenge. But fantasy turns into reality when the women think they've inadvertently poisoned Mr. Hart's coffee. To cover their tracks, they concoct an intricate ploy that turns the tables on the chief and shreds the patriarchal old boys' network.
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Teacher's Pet
1958 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsHard-nosed newspaperman Jim Gannon cleverly pretends to be a night school student to woo beautiful journalism teacher Erica Stone in this classic romantic comedy. But now, after falling for her, he has to get her fiancé out of the picture.
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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this daring, slapstick farce that's become a classic, Betty Hutton plays a small-town girl who attends an all-night party and suddenly finds herself "in the family way." Trouble is, she can't remember who the father might be.
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The Naked Prey
1966 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter a group of hunters offends a local tribe in South Africa's bush country, the tribesmen torture and kill all but one of the men. They offer the lone survivor a chance to live -- but he'll have to outwit them as they hunt him like an animal.
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The House on Telegraph Hill
1951 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsRobert Wise's tense drama tells the story of a Nazi concentration camp survivor who assumes the identity of her dead best friend when the war ends. She moves to San Francisco, where she finds herself godmother to a young boy and heir to a fortune.
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Batman: The Movie
1966 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn director Leslie H. Martinson's campy action comedy based on the tongue-in-cheek 1960s TV series, Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) battle sharks, Catwoman (Lee Meriwether), The Joker (Cesar Romero), The Penguin (Burgess Meredith) and The Riddler (Frank Gorshin) on the big screen. Can they keep the bad guys from taking over the world? With a "wham!" and a "pow!" the heroes just might pull it off -- and maintain their secret identities.
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Monkey Business
1952 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsCary Grant and Ginger Rogers make a delicious screwball comedy team in this caper directed by Howard Hawks. Grant's a middle-aged fuddy-duddy who may have invented a fountain of youth serum in his laboratory. But when a rampaging chimp mixes it into the water cooler, Grant and wife Rogers regress to their childhood. Marilyn Monroe is also a scream as the dim-bulb secretary to Charles Coburn.
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The Desperate Hours
1955 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this classic William Wyler thriller, times get desperate indeed when three escaped convicts -- Glen, his brother Hal and Sam -- break into a home in a Midwestern suburb and take a family hostage.
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This Property Is Condemned
1966 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen railroad official Owen Legate visits a small Depression-era town to shut down its rail yard, he begins a passionate affair with a local girl. The romance angers her domineering mother and ignites the town's economic resentments.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsEvil-intentioned extraterrestrials capable of replicating humans and assuming their identities invade the sleepy California hamlet of Santa Mira. It's up to the local doctor to sound the alarm and almost single-handedly battle the alien forces.
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The Errand Boy
1961 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsHired to spy on the employees of a major movie studio, well-intentioned but disaster-prone Morty Tashman wreaks havoc on Hollywood as he wanders into a string of mishaps at the Paramutual Pictures lot, looking for infractions to add to his report.
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