What exactly makes a movie a classic varies wildly and with the viewer, as does the appropriate timescale.

(Even if I find it personally distressing to label movies younger than I am classics.)

Thats of course before the sheriff realizes that Mr. Tibbs is the only one who can solve a murder.

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

(It beat outNetworkandTaxi Driverfor Best Picture and its hard to be mad about it.

)you’re free to streamRockyon Pluto TV or rent it fromPrime Video.

If Bette Davis hadonlydoneAll About Eve, shed still be a legend.

Rocky (1976)

Pretty much every word is sung.

And that’s plenty.

812(1963)

If not Federico Fellini’s finest, it’s right up there.

All About Eve (1950)

Doesnt matter; she kills it.you might streamSunset Boulevardon Kanopy or rent it fromPrime Video.

Its all deeply serious.

M(1931)

Peter Lorre is chilling as a murderer of children in Fritz Langs thriller.

Sounder (1972)

Superman(1978)

In our highly dystopian present, every third movie is a superhero punch-‘em-up.

With death?you’re able to streamThe Seventh SealonMax, The Criterion Channel, and Kanopy.

is, as it happens, a genuinely great film.

Casablanca (1940)

It’s an appropriately dark and wildly innovative commentary on the corrupting powers of money and American-style capitalism.

In those regards, it hasn’t aged a day.you’re free to rentCitizen KanefromPrime Video.

Hulot’s HolidayonMaxand The Criterion Channel or rent it from Prime Video.

Jeanne Dielman, 32 Quai des Commerce (1975)

(The subsequent two films in what would eventually become known as the Apu Trilogy are just as great.

)you could streamPather PanchalionMax, The Criterion Collection, and Kanopy or rent it fromPrime Video.

Its like buttah.it’s possible for you to streamFunny GirlonPrime Video.

Black Girl (1966)

Metropolis (1927)

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

The French Connection (1971)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

The Last Picture Show (1971)

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

Stormy Weather (1943)

Stagecoach (1939)

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

The Muppet Movie (1979)

Night Nurse (1931)

8½ (1963)

Godzilla (1954)

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Sunrise (1927)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Psycho (1960)

It Happened One Night (1934)

Cooley High (1974)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Kwaidan (1964)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

The Godfather (1972)

M (1931)

Gilda (1946)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Superman (1978)

The Seventh Seal (1957)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

The Sound of Music (1965)

Pather Panchali (1955)

Sherlock Jr. (1924)

Funny Girl (1968)

His Girl Friday (1940)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Modern Times (1936)

Rashomon (1950)

Jaws (1975)

High Noon (1952)

Carrie (1976)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

A Raisin in the Sun (1961)