Greatest Movies Through 1960

Best Movies Compiled From Many Sources

Year of Movie Release
- April 2015 (1)
- January 1960 (4)
- January 1959 (4)
- January 1958 (4)
- January 1957 (3)
- January 1956 (3)
- January 1955 (1)
- January 1954 (3)
- January 1953 (1)
- January 1952 (3)
- January 1951 (4)
- January 1950 (3)
- January 1949 (2)
- January 1948 (1)
- January 1947 (3)
- January 1946 (3)
- January 1944 (2)
- January 1943 (1)
- January 1942 (1)
- January 1941 (4)
- January 1940 (5)
- January 1939 (4)
- January 1938 (3)
- January 1937 (3)
- January 1936 (1)
- January 1935 (2)
- January 1934 (3)
- January 1933 (2)
- January 1932 (1)
- January 1931 (1)
- January 1928 (1)
- January 1927 (2)
- January 1926 (1)
- January 1925 (2)
- January 1879 (1)
- January 1878 (1)
- January 1877 (1)
Movie Lists
- 50 Films Every Christian Should See You may be surprised what movies are included in Chuck Colson’s list, such as Casablanca and North by Northwest
- A List – 100 Essential Films unranked – by National Society of Film Critics
- About.com 10 Great Films
- Academy Awards Best of Best Pictures Best of 20th Century
- Academy Awards Best Picture for each year Full List of Best Picture award winning movies thru 1959
- Academy Awards FULL LIST All the awards given for each year
- AFI 100 Greatest Movies per 1,500 film artists, critics and historians
- AMC Film Critic 100 Greatest Movies of the 20th Century
- Best Box Office Inflation Adjusted
- Best Old Movies for Families List of movies in the book
- Decent Films – Top Rated, Top Artistic-Entertainment List Over 50 movies that Decent Films rated the highest
- Empire 500 Greatest Movies of All Time
- Entertainment Weekly 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
- Film Crave Malware Warning? Top 100 Movies
- Film Four 100 Greatest Films
- Films101 100 Best
- FilmSite.org 100 Greatest Films – unranked
- Flick Chart Best Can change how it filters them
- Great Movies (William Bayer) List of movies in the book
- IMDB Top 250 Rated
- Jeffrey Lyons' 101 Great Movies for Kids List of movies in the book
- Listal Links to Movie Lists Dozens of popular Greatest Movies lists are linked here
- Los Angeles Readers Poll Greatest American Films
- Most Academy Award Nominations Plus Other Oscar Summaries
- Mr Showbiz (Critic) 100 Critics Best
- Mr Showbiz (Readers) 100 Readers Best
- MRQE 100 Best Ranked Films movies that got the most good reviews from their database of over 100,000 movies
- New York Times 1000 Best Movies
- Ranker Best Movies of All Time
- Roger Ebert-Great Movies Full List with links to each essay
- Rolling Stone – Best 1,000 Movies on DVD Peter Travers, movie reviewer for Rolling Stone, compiled a list of 1,000 Best Movies on DVD
- Rotten Tomatoes Best Movies of All Time
- Sight and Sound 10 Greatest Movies per Critics and Directors polled each decade since 1952
- Taschen – 100 All-Time Favorite Movies the list of all time favorite movies in the two volume book
- They Shoot Pictures 1000 Greatest Films
- Time Magazine All Time 100 Movies
- Time Out (Critics) Top 100 per Directors, producers, actors, programmers and critics poll
- Time Out (Readers) Top 100 per Readers
- Top Films of All Time many small but significant lists
- Total Film 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
- TV Guide 50 Greatest Movies
- Vanity Fair 50 Greatest Films
- Village Voice 100 Best Films of the 20th Century
- Zagat – The World's Best Movies Over 20,000 moviegoers voted for the best movies of all time (different than their annual Movie Guide)
Movie Review Sites
- BeliefNet Movie Mom includes age recommendation and content advisory for Profanity, Nudity/Sex, Alcohol/Drugs, Violence/Scariness and Diversity Issues
- Beyond the Trailer – YouTube Reviews
- Catholic News Movie Reviews
- Christian Spotlight on Entertainment
- Common Sense Media *many rating categories
- Decent Films several ratings * create your own lists!
- Kids In Mind Sex*Violence*Profanity score
- MetaCritic
- Movie Guide Language*Violence*Sex*Nudity
- Movie Review Query Engine
- Movie Reviews
- Parent Previews *
- Parental Guide
- Plugged In Sections for Positive, Spiritual, Sexual, Violent, Language, Alcohol/Drugs, Negative
- Preview Online *many rating categories
- Rotten Tomatoes
- Total Film
My Other Sites
- My Beyond Earth Civilization site
Resources
- Amazon Movies Thru 1960 DVDs Rated 4 or better
- Big Screen Check the current movies playing at Star Cinema
- Doctor Who 0ver 240 shows in 50 years
- IMDB movie database
- Time Travel Movies Len’s Time Travel Movies

Posts Tagged ‘Frank Capra’

It’s A Wonderful Life (1947)

Posted by Technoheaven on January 1, 1947

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130 min – view video trailer

Director: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

Genres: Drama, Family, Fantasy

IMDB 8.7 / Amazon 4.7 / MRQE 89 / Decent Films A+

Oscars: 5 nominations, 0 wins (Best Picture, Actor, Director, Sound, Editing)

Ranked #4 Greatest Movies Through 1960, in 30 of 41 best movies lists, a Zagat Top Movie

An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed. IMDB 8.7 rating from over 143,048 users

Heartwarming and reaffirming, It’s A Wonderful Life is on many lists of the greatest films ever made. Amazon 4.7 stars from over 757 users

“No one is born to be a failure. No one is poor who has friends.” These platitudes, plastered across the packaging of home-video editions of Frank Capra’s evergreen Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life, embody the film’s popular but misleading image as sentimental, schmaltzy “Capra-corn.” Yet the film itself is leavened by darker themes and more rigorous morals about self-sacrifice, disappointment, and the fragility of happiness and the American dream. Read full Decent Films review (rated A+, Superior artistic-entertainment for Kids & Up)

MRQE 89% rating with links to over 105 reviews

Madison Public Library

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It Happened One Night (1934)

Posted by Technoheaven on January 1, 1934

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105 min – view video trailer

Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly

IMDB 8.3 / Amazon 4.8 / MRQE 89% / Decent Films A-

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Oscars: nominated for 5, won 5 (Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, Writing)

Ranked #26 Greatest Movies Through 1960, a Zagat Top Movie

A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who’s actually a reporter looking for a story. IMDB 8.3 rating from over 34,760 users

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic… a spirited entertainment and an uplifting experience. Amazon 4.8 stars from over 153 users

One of the most enduring romantic comedies of Hollywood’s golden age, Capra’s It Happened One Nightis an unassuming road picture starring Clark Gable as an out-of-work newspaperman and Claudette Colbert as a spoiled heiress who travel together from Miami to New York. Decent Films A-

MRQE 89% from over 34 reviews

Madison Public Library

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Posts Tagged ‘Frank Capra’

It’s A Wonderful Life (1947)

It Happened One Night (1934)