Vintage, a list by helcat_

7.5

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78

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72

/564/

3.7

/99756/

76

/46/

89

/3000/

56

/17/

age 7+

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

89

8.6

/549622/

84

/9344/

82

/4729/

4.4

/703880/

94

/97/

95

/14103/

89

/17/

4.0

age 9+

A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

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59

IMDb 81

6.2

/5521/

67

/137/

71

/155/

3.2

/4013/

73

/11/

60

/154/

A turn of the century wild west show struggling to make a living in Mexico comes into the possession of a tiny prehistoric horse. This leads to an expedition to the Forbidden Valley where they discover living dinosaurs. They capture one and take it back to be put on display, leading to inevitable mayhem.

82

7.8

/197001/

78

/9236/

75

/4899/

3.9

/389925/

97

/59/

86

/19476/

88

/13/

age 5+

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

80

8.0

/42111/

78

/3548/

73

/628/

3.6

/106218/

95

/21/

84

/3048/

age 3+

Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudolph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa's sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea...

93

9.0

/968478/

88

/16278/

85

/9643/

4.6

/1304036/

100

/63/

97

/6764/

97

/18/

4.0

age 12+

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

85

8.3

/65742/

80

/4195/

75

/1103/

3.9

/146937/

100

/28/

94

/91/

age 4+

Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.

86

8.1

/463066/

77

/11871/

75

/5956/

3.9

/851489/

98

/170/

89

/32046/

92

/30/

4.0

age 6+

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

79

8.1

/287686/

79

/7131/

77

/3517/

4.2

/588605/

83

/78/

91

/27238/

63

/11/

age 6+

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

73

70

7.0

/9835/

73

/260/

72

/223/

3.4

/4167/

80

/20/

78

/174/

Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.

90

8.5

/777687/

82

/14258/

84

/10710/

4.3

/1246057/

97

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95

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97

/18/

4.0

age 14+

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

91

8.5

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82

/9283/

81

/5864/

4.3

/730255/

99

/135/

95

/19580/

100

/18/

4.0

age 10+

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

89

8.3

/337904/

80

/5369/

79

/3299/

4.4

/311070/

93

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93

/5601/

100

/8/

4.0

age 13+

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.

87

8.2

/353612/

78

/5178/

79

/4273/

3.9

/234765/

90

/103/

92

/18576/

97

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4.0

age 10+

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

89

8.2

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80

/8221/

81

/6162/

4.2

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93

/98/

92

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100

/32/

4.0

age 13+

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

86

8.0

/43701/

78

/1147/

80

/803/

4.2

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99

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91

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96

/15/

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

90

8.3

/547685/

81

/9139/

81

/5987/

4.3

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98

/98/

94

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97

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4.0

age 14+

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

89

8.2

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79

/7470/

79

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4.2

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99

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90

/11624/

100

/19/

4.0

age 12+

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

89

8.3

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81

/3989/

81

/2537/

4.4

/329365/

93

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94

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94

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4.0

age 13+

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

84

8.0

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76

/5241/

76

/3576/

4.1

/459380/

87

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90

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83

/19/

4.0

age 15+

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

91

8.5

/564064/

82

/9351/

83

/6954/

4.4

/758503/

99

/134/

95

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100

/18/

4.0

age 10+

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

85

8.2

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80

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79

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4.2

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95

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86

/16/

age 8+

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

87

8.0

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77

/2189/

78

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4.3

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93

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90

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97

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4.0

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

82

8.3

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80

/1315/

80

/896/

4.3

/43260/

93

/28/

93

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60

/7/

age 13+

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

90

8.3

/279708/

82

/5495/

81

/3383/

4.3

/572196/

100

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95

/7922/

99

/17/

4.0

age 6+

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

86

8.4

/159517/

82

/2431/

82

/1595/

4.4

/112804/

100

/41/

95

/743/

76

/12/

age 11+

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.

90

8.4

/258598/

81

/3751/

82

/2832/

4.4

/329171/

98

/125/

95

/3486/

94

/32/

4.0

age 13+

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

82

7.6

/126785/

73

/3080/

72

/1989/

3.9

/245950/

92

/115/

84

/5796/

86

/17/

4.0

age 11+

In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans compete against a gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, but this doesn't stop two romantics from each gang falling in love.

74

73

7.3

/13671/

74

/474/

69

/167/

3.6

/23232/

89

/18/

76

/231/

64

/7/

While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.

89

8.2

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80

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80

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4.3

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95

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94

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98

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4.0

age 11+

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.

83

8.1

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78

/4645/

78

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4.1

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87

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89

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90

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age 13+

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.

87

8.3

/367147/

80

/6064/

79

/4374/

4.2

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97

/119/

94

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98

/16/

age 11+

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

82

8.3

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79

/5071/

79

/2767/

4.1

/242978/

93

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93

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88

/16/

2.5

age 12+

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.

76

7.2

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72

/7522/

69

/3904/

3.4

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95

/63/

82

/3600/

78

/8/

age 11+

Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.

81

7.9

/150848/

76

/3011/

75

/2304/

3.9

/118040/

93

/61/

87

/2365/

87

/17/

3.0

age 14+

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

77

7.5

/114951/

72

/2437/

73

/2193/

3.5

/231199/

89

/45/

84

/1861/

79

/14/

age 15+

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

89

8.4

/236288/

81

/3644/

82

/3165/

4.5

/277050/

96

/77/

95

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90

/18/

4.0

age 13+

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

79

7.5

/202763/

76

/5474/

76

/4395/

3.8

/465351/

88

/56/

91

/13609/

77

/13/

age 13+

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

66

7.0

/40605/

72

/1036/

70

/826/

3.5

/32759/

56

/43/

67

/772/

60

/14/

age 13+

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.

88

8.1

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78

/3060/

79

/2026/

4.2

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99

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93

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97

/30/

4.0

age 13+

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

89

8.3

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80

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81

/1955/

4.3

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97

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95

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95

/18/

4.0

age 12+

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

84

7.7

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75

/7402/

73

/3821/

3.8

/200829/

99

/75/

89

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87

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4.0

age 13+

Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.

88

8.1

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77

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78

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4.2

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99

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95

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91

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4.0

age 13+

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.

86

8.4

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82

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82

/3579/

4.3

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92

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95

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3.5

age 10+

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

87

8.1

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78

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78

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4.2

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96

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93

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88

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4.0

age 11+

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

77

7.9

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74

/1446/

75

/1233/

4.0

/57557/

82

/49/

88

/2060/

69

/14/

3.0

age 13+

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

74

71

7.2

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74

/268/

68

/145/

3.5

/7328/

85

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