40 Best Classic Movies on HBO Max To Watch Right Now

Let’s have a look at the best classic movies on HBO Max. An ample number of series and films are coming up almost daily as per the audience’s taste with time, but some films remain immortal in film history. Classic films are such films that cinema history can never forget. They have come a long way, and it seems no one can ever erase them or the golden age when they were produced.

Classic films used to be silent films, films on world war, and sound films, but the most critical aspect of these earlier films is that they have made their own identity in such a way that they have been able to transcend both time and trend and loved by modern audiences as well.

It is impossible to tell which are the best classic movies, but we can be given you a list of classic movies on the HBO Max streaming service that you must stream. The films are as follows:

40. Adam’s Rib

Director: George Cukor
Writer: Garson Kanin
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Holliday, Hope Emerson, David Wayne.
IMDb Ratings: 7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

An iconic screen couple, their mutual attraction is at its peak. This, the third of nine films made by offscreen lovers Katharine Hepburn but also Spencer Tracy during a quarter-century, wants to cast the others as spouses on opposing sides of an attempted murder case encompassing a scorned woman shooting her cheating husband — unless Hepburn did turn the experiment into a three-ring circus regarding gender inequality.

39. The battle of Algiers

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Writer: Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast: Brahim braggiag, Samia Kerbash, Saadi Yacef, Fusia El Kader, Mario Serandrei.
IMDb Ratings: 8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 99%

There’s a reason why Gillo Pontecorvo’s you-are-there account of anti-colonial clashes in the streets of the Casbah was demonstrated to intelligence and military workers at the Pentagon in 2003. Its faux-documentary approach to insurgencies but also counter-insurgencies is an informative, gripping glance at modern guerilla warfare, regardless of whether you call the people who engage in it “freedom fighters” or “terrorists,” or the foreign powers who oppose them “liberators” as well as “oppressors.”

38. Belle Du Jour

Director: Luis Bunuel
Writer: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Pierre Climenti, Jean Sorel, Maria Latour.
IMDb Ratings: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 97%

Catherine Deneuve’s bored housewife makes the decision to fill her lunchtimes with light sex work, as one does. Provided that the great Spanish film director surrealist/canon-worthy fantasist Luis Bunuel is in charge, encounters will get a little kooky and reality will become hazy. Another of the maestro’s most approachable films, and still as gloriously, grandiloquently strange as fuck. With the best “what’s in the box?” scene since Seven.

37. The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Marget Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Katrin Schaake, Eva Mattes.
IMDb Ratings: 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

A great place to begin exploring German movie director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s absurdly prolific output (40 films, two dozen plays, much long television tv series, and a bunch of random acting gigs for friends and colleagues — all before he died at the age of 37). Margit Carstensen, a fashion designer, becomes obsessed with a vapid young woman (Hannah Schygulla), whom she turns into a model. Under the watchful eye of the designer’s assistant, a textbook unhealthy, an emotionally unstable relationship develops (Irm Hermann). Not for the faint of heart, or those who are sensitive to theatrical, prevailing romances that use mannequins as metaphors.

36. Black Girl

Director: Ossie Davis
Writer: J E Franklin
Cast: Leslie Uggams, Louise Stubbs, Brock Peters, Peggy Pettitt, Rhetta Greene.
IMDb Ratings: 6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 93%

The very first motion picture from Ousmane Sembene, the dad of African cinema, and a sad indictment of European perceptions towards African citizens. A young Senegalese woman (Mbissine Thérèse Diop) is decided to hire to care for three French children. Nevertheless, once in Antibes, she is essentially compelled to prepare food, clean, and perform any other menial work her employers deem appropriate. Her alienation as well as depression quickly turn to rage, which quickly spreads to you, the viewer.

35. The Brood

Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: David Cronenberg
Cast: Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, Cindy Hinds, Art Hindle, Nuala Fitzgerald.
IMDb Ratings: 6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 83%

“You were just about to journey further than fear…beyond the limits of your mind,” the preview for David Cronenberg’s scenes-from-a-disintegrating-marriage nightmare warned, “in a film so frightening it will completely devastate you.” Just this once, the ad copy may be an understatement. A couple is fighting for custody of their 5-year-old daughter. Somebody of them has been planning to attend seminars by a psychotherapist who ended up playing by Oliver Reed — not generally a good sign if consistency is your ultimate goal — who encourages his patients to let their suppressed emotions express themselves in a more physical way. Body horror at its most terrifying. Kramer vs. Kramer, eat your heart out.

34. Brute Force

Director: Jules Dassin
Writer: Richard Brooks
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines.
IMDb Ratings: 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

Burt Lancaster started playing a convict fresh out of a long stint in the hole before becoming the Birdman of Alcatraz. He is only concerned with three things: his wife’s operation (she continues to refuse medical help unless he is present); vengeance on the person who sentenced him to solitary confinement; and escape. Not even in that order. Jules Dassin’s (The Naked City, Rififi) perfectly flinty, tough-as-nails prison drama features a livewire achievement from a young-looking Burt and a cure for Cocoon fans who really only know Hume Cronyn as a friendly old codger. His performance as a devious guard is a masterclass in squeaking noises and sadism.

33. Carnival Of Souls

Director: Herk Harvey
Writer: John Clifford
Cast: Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Stan Levitt.
IMDb Ratings: 7/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 87%

What’s up with Mary Henry (Candace Hilligloss)? Who is the enigmatic figure who appears to be continuing to pursue her? What exactly is his plan? And why does she keep feeling drawn back to that old pavilion by the lake? Herk Hervey’s lo-fi horror film is a great example of milking a small budget for all it’s worth, full flexibility the chintzy into the truly terrifying. Its stark black-and-white cinematography influenced Evil dead, and even if you could see the end coming, it’s the journey that tends to make it a Twilight Zone-worthy creep-fest.

32. Daisies

Director: Vera Chytilova
Writer: Vera Chytilova
Cast: Jitka Cerhova, Ivana Karbanova, Marie Ceskova, Jaroslav Kucera, Ester Kurambachova.
IMDb Ratings: 7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 87%

Two women declare that they’re the antichrist, Food fights, frolicking, nightclub rioting, ideological sloganeering, and also much-undisguised silliness takes place. Any attempt to explain Vera Chytilová’s work of genius in a linear, logical manner simply does not do it justice. Consider a radical feminist Monty Python mooning multiple repressive Eastern European dictatorships at the same time. You’re nearly there.

31. Freaks

Director: Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein
Writer: Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Lexy Kolker, Amanda Crew, Grace Perk, Ava Telek.
IMDb Ratings: 6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

It’s the old chestnut about a two-timing lady marrying a rich member of a circus sideshow and also being threatened by outcast carnies. Todd Browning, an erstwhile circus hand himself, famously decided to use actual big-top “freaks” for this whodunit; the test audiences were so devastating and triggered such disturbed responses that the film was severely cut and then outright banned for years. The fact that Browning humanizes these disabled performers must have been lost on audiences who were too preoccupied with recoiling from the numerous horror elements. That final image still has the power to shock nearly 90 decades previously.

30. Gimme Shelter

Director: Ronald Krauss
Writer: Ronald Krauss
Cast: Vanessa Hudgens, Branden Fraser, Rosario Dawson, James Earl Jones, Kathy Difiore.
IMDb Ratings: 6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 28%

The Rolling Stones wanted to end their 1969 tour with a free show in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Instead, their “west coast Woodstock” ended up at Altamont Raceway, and the rest is history. The record concerning the event that ended the 1960s dream by Charlotte Zwerin as well as the Maysles brothers could represent an imperfect time capsule (the Stones’ set ran longer than the few numbers preceding Meredith Hunter’s murder). It is, however, an invaluable take a gander at how the different components surrounding the concept of tuning in, turning on, and dropping out became toxic.

29. Klute

Director: Alan J. Pakula
Writer: Andy Lewis
Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristen, Charles Cioffi.
IMDb Ratings: 7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 93%

Jane Fonda, a prostitute, may be linked to the sudden departure of a notable businessman. An investigator (Donald Sutherland) is investigating. A romance blossoms, a murderer is on the loose, and director Alan J. Pakula’s NYC noir offers one of the most paranoid looks at Horror City ever made into a movie. If you considered Godfather cinematographer Gordon Willis’ moniker “the Prince of Darkness” wasn’t well-deserved, take a look at his brilliantly murky work here.

28. Mildred Pierce

Director: Michael Curtiz
Writer: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jack Carson, Bruce Benett.
IMDb Ratings: 7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

What happens when you mix a noirish James M. Cain novel, Joan Crawford, the founder of Casablanca, the full strength of the Warner Brothers studio system, along with one of the biggest overly dramatic narratives about compromising mothers ever written? This. See it with someone you care about, preferably a friend or partner who will not interact with your Southern California restaurant empire, has serious social status envy, or is likely to kill you.

27. Shiva Baby

Director: Emma Seligman
Writer: Emma Seligman
Cast: Rachel Sennott, Dianna Agron, Molly Gordon, Danny Deferrari, Polly Draper.
IMDb Ratings: 7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

If you’re eager to re-engage with strangers in a crowded space after recovering from the pandemic, let Shiva Baby renounce you of any high ideals about these events. As a youngish slacker traverses a tricky afternoon with friends, family, and ex-lovers, Emma Seligman’s tight 77-minute showcase debut seamlessly switches between situational comedy and horror. It would be both extremely specialized to an urban Jewish environment and instantly recognizable that anyone who has ever felt strangled rather than backed by their closest society.

26. Fair Game

Director: Andrew Sipes
Writer: Garson Kanin
Cast: William Baldwin, Cindy Crawford, Salma Hayek, Steven Berkoff.
IMDbRatings: 4.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 12%

Valerie Plame, ended up playing by Naomi Watts in Fair Game and ended up getting one of the worst bargains in American history. After serving her country as a CIA field officer, the American government leaks her individuality to the press in retribution for her diplomat husband’s open criticism of the invasion of Iraq, shattering her life. Despite being ripped from the news stories, this political drama has spoken to the fundamental principles of being an American: standing up for the truth even if it means going up against the government.

25. Pygmalion (1938)

Run Time: 1 hr 35 min
Director: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Cast: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr

Pygmalion is a unique tale first performed by theater legend George Bernard Shaw. It is now considered a true classic and has been retold, reimagined, and redesigned

. In Pygmalion, adapted by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard with help from Shaw on the screenplay, Howard plays Professor Henry Higgins, a dictation specialist who is determined to elevate a low-class cockney girl (Wendy Hiller) to the status of a proper English lady.

24. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Run Time: 2 hrs 11 min
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal

The renowned play by Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is bravely directed by Mike Nichols. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Starring Dame Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as Martha and George, respectively, follows this middle-aged couple through their acrimonious verbal arguments, exposing a relentless emotional dependence on one another.

23. Citizen Kane

Director: Orson Welles
Writer: Herman J. Mankiewicz
Cast: Joseph Cotten as Jedediah Leland, Dorothy Comingore as Susan Alexander Kane, Agnes Moorehead as Mary Kane, Ruth Warrick as Emily Monroe, Ray Collins as Jim W. Gettys.
IMDb Ratings: 8.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 99%

This film is an intriguing film that revolves around a group of reporters trying to encode the last words of Charles Foster Kane. The film initially shows some facts about Kane. Then, the reporters investigate and come to know about all the vents that eventually led the man to rise high enough but also fall.

Charles’ last word was Rosebud, which is what the group is set to decipher. Stream the movie on HBO Max and find out whether they were successful.

22. Cool Hand Luke (1976)

Run Time: 2 hr 6 min
Genre: Prison Drama
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon, Robert Drivas

Paul Newman’s inclusion in the greats was solidified by the critical and financial success of Cool Hand Luke, which also brought George Kennedy an Oscar.

The movie is set in the 1950s and centers on World War II veteran Luke Jackson (Newman), who was arrested and given a two-year prison term in a remote facility. There, he defies the strict rules imposed on him and gains the respect of his fellow inmates while alienating the guards.

21. The Lady Vanishes

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Margaret Lockwood as Iris Henderson, Michael Redgrave as Gilbert, Paul Lukas as Dr. Hartz, May Whitty as Miss Froy, Ceceil Parker as Mr. Todhunter, Linden Travers as Mrs. Todhunter.
IMDb Ratings: 7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 98%

If you love classical mysteries, don’t wait. Just stream this film on the HBO Max streaming service. The story depicts how Iris Henderson gets acquainted with Miss Froy during a train journey that gets interrupted due to an avalanche. The two even shared an apartment but after a time, Iris fails to find Froy. She tries to ask people around her about her, but all of them tell her there is no such lady ever present.

With the help of Gilbert, she tries to seek out who she is and why she ran away.

20. Casablanca

Director: Michael Curtiz
Writer: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
Cast: Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund, Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo, Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault, Conrad Veidt as Major Heinrich Strasser.
IMDb Ratings: 8.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 99%

This is a famous World War II Romantic thriller depicting Rick Blaine as a nightclub owner in Casablanca during the early period of the Second World War. Several refugees had come to him to seek help and one day his former lover, Ilsa, and her husband shows up.

This becomes the film’s climax, where Rick does not know what to do and ultimately takes a decision with utmost pain. This is one of the most famous classic movies on HBO max, which won several Academy Awards, so do stream it.

19. North by Northwest

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Ernest Lehman
Cast: Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall, James Mason as Philip Vandamm, Jessie Royce Landis as Clara Thornhill, and Leo G. Carroll as The Professor.
IMDb Ratings: 8.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 97%

This film is a classic evergreen movie now streaming on Netflix. It revolves around the adventures of Roger Thornhill, who gets mistaken for George Kaplan and is forced to be with a group of spies. This is purely a case of mistaken identity. He was on the verge of dying but was somehow let to be alive and held guilty of murder.

The police are after him, but he comes across Eve Kendall and is saved. But, now, the twist is not over yet. He comes to know that Eve Kendall is also not that innocent after all.

The drama goes on, making the film all more worth watching.

18. Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Run Time: 1 hr 15 min
Genre: Drama/Silent
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Cast: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy, Grigori Aleksandrov

Sergei Eisenstein’s blatantly socialist propaganda film, one of the most influential films ever made, invented methods that would forever alter cinema. The plot centers on a mutiny that breaks out on board the Battleship Potemkin after the crew is fed rotten food.

The rebellion spreads to the port of Odessa, resulting in a bloody confrontation between protesters and security forces on the Odessa Steps (a scene that has been famously cited in films like The Untouchables).

17. Apocalypse Now (1979)

Director: Francis Coppola
Writer: John Milius, Francis Coppola
Cast: Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter Kurtz, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin Willard, Frederic Forrest as Engineman, Albert Hall as George Phillips
IMDb Ratings: 8.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 98%

This film centers around Captain Benjamin and his mission to kill rogue Walter E. Kurtz. Along with a small group of soldiers, he goes on this mission by boat. But there is a twist. The closer Willard gets closer to Kurtz, the more there is self-development and realizing that both are somehow the same.

Will he be able to accomplish the mission, and will he be the same person he was before?

16. Seven Samurai

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
Cast: Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo, Takashi Shimura as Kambei Shimada, Daisuke Kato as Shichiroji, Isao Kimura as Katsushiro Okamoto, Minoru Chiaki as Heihachi Hayashida.
IMDb Ratings: 8.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 100%

Seven Samurai is an excellent choice if you love action, drama, thrill, and action. The film depicts how a samurai agrees to help a village in need and protect it from bandits. He gathers six other people to help make the count of 7, hence the name.

He helps teach the village people how to save themselves in need. A great fight occurs with 40 bandies in one hand and a group of this seven people.

15. A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Director: Richard Lester
Writer: Alun Owen
Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCarthy, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington, John Junkin as Shake, Anna Quayle as Millie
IMDb Ratings: 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 98%

This movie is about the Beatles who leave their home to go to London to perform on television. They should go there for rehearsals, press conferences, and much more before the program. But a problem arises, Sir Ringo Starr gets arrested and fails to be in the studio, but thankfully, Sir Paul McCartney’s grandfather comes and rescues the group from a significant issue.

14. Beauty and the Beast

Director: Jean Cocteau
Writer: Jean Cocteau
Cast: Jean Marais as La Bete, Josette Day as Belle, Marcel Andre as Belle’s Father, Mila Parely as Felice, Nane Germon as Adelaide, Michel Auclair as Ludovic, Paoul Marco as The Usurer.
IMDb Ratings: 7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 96%

The story focuses on Belle, who lives with her brothers and sisters and her father. All of her siblings are lazy and pay no heed to doing any household work, which Belle has to do by herself. Avenant proposes Belle marry him, but the latter is not ready to leave her father.

One day his father gets attacked by a beast in the forest, and the latter says that Belle’s father needs to send one of his daughters to the palace to die or let himself die in the Beast’s castle. After hearing the story, Belle goes to the court and gradually develops a sweet relationship between the Beast and Belle.

13. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Director: Nicholas Ray
Writer: Stewart Stern, Irving Shulman
Cast: James Dean as Jim Stark, Natalie Wood as Judy, Sal Mineo as John Plato Crawford, Jim Backus as Frank Stark, Ann Doran as Carol Stark, Corey Allen as Buzz Gunderson, and William Hopper as Judy’s father.
IMDb Ratings: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 93%

This film focuses on Jim Stark, who is famous for troubling people around him. He, along with his family, moved into a new town so that he could have a fresh start.

He becomes friends with Plato and goes fond of Judy, but Judy is already in relation with Buzz. When Buzz gets to know all these, he invites Jim to compete with him in a drag race and new trouble begins.

12. The Philadelphia Story

Director: George Cukor
Writer: Donald Ogden Stewart
Cast: Cary Grant as C. K. Dexter Haven, Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Samantha Lord, James Stewart as Macaulay Mike Connor, Ruth Hussey as Elizabeth Liz Imbrie, and John Howard as George Kittredge.
IMDb Ratings: 7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 100%

This is an acclaimed film that is hard to find in modern times. The story focuses on Tracy Lord, who is a Philadelphia socialite here. She has just gotten rid of her husband, C. K. Dexter Haven, as the latter was too addicted to alcohol. Now Tracy is all set to marry the rich George Kittredge but crosses paths with Dexter again and with Macaulay Connor.

Now she does not know whom she wants to be with. She has three choices and has to select one. Who will she choose? Stream it and understand what happened in the end.

11. The Great Dictator

Director: Charlie Chaplin
Writer: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin as a Jewish Barber, Paulette Goddard as Hannah, Maurice Moscovich as Mr. Jaeckel, Emma Dunn as Mrs. Jaeckel, Bernard Gorcey as Mr. Mann, Paul Weigel as Mr. Agar.
IMDb Ratings: 8.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 93%

This film has to do a lot with politics. It revolves around Charlie Chaplin, who has just got wounded in the Great War and is now admitted to an army hospital to heal his wounds, unaware that the fascist dictator Adenoid Hynkel is growing all-powerful.

Charlie bears a remarkable resemblance with Hynkel as well. He returns to his neighborhood only to witness the drastic changes that have occurred and join hands with Hannah to protest against the rebellion.

10. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George
Cast: Peter Sellers as Group captain, George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson, Sterling Hayden as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, Keenan Wynn as Colonel Bat Guano, Jack Creley as Mr. Staines, Slim Pickens as Major T. J. King Kong.
IMDb Ratings: 8.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 98%

War can happen anytime, and no one knows what one can do. In this film, when a mad American general calls for bombing the Soviet Union, everyone in the world gets tense, as that can lead to a nuclear holocaust, and every politician and general try their best to stop it from happening.

You can stream this film on HBO Max, so why wait? Stream is one of the most famous classic movies ever made out of the Hollywood Studio System so watch it now.

9. The Searchers

Director: John Ford
Writer: Frank S. Nugent
Cast: John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, Jeffrey Hunter as Martin Pawley, Vera Miles as Laurie Jorgensen, Antonio Moreno as Emilio Gabriel Fernandez y Figueroa, and Hank Worden as Mose Harper.
IMDb Ratings: 7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 96%

This film is a classic revenge film that focuses upon Ethan Edward, who returns to his Texas home and learns that his brother’s family has been kidnapped or executed and goes on to find the rest and get them home.

He tries his best to find out who is alive and learns that his niece Natalie Wood, playing Debbie’s role, is active along with Martin Pawley. Ethan then goes on a dangerous mission into the Comanche territory to bring them back.

It is one of the best movies ever produced, so do not forget to stream it on HBO Max.

8. The Wizard of Oz, 1939

Director: Victor Fleming
Writer: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf
Cast: Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, Frank Morgan as The Wizard of Oz, Ray Bolger as Scarecrow, Jack Haley as Tin Woodman, Bert Lahr as Cowardly lion.
IMDb Ratings: 8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 98%

The film is full of adventure revolving around Dorothy and her pet Toto. During a tornado, they move away from the magical land of Oz and follow Yellow Brick Road to meet the Wizard.

On their journey, they come across a scarecrow, a Tin Man, and lastly, a cowardly lion and work together from then onwards.

7. AS The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

Director: John Cassavetes
Writer: John Cassavetes
Cast: Ben Gazzara as Cosmo Vittelli, Timothy Carey as Flo, Seymour Cassel as Mort Weil, Morgan Woodward as The Boss, Azizi Johari as Rachel, Robert Philips as Phil, Meade Roberts as Mr. Sophistication.
IMDb Ratings: 7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 79%

The story focuses on Cosmo Vitelli, who is the owner of Crazy Horse West, which is a strip joint located in Los Angeles. He is a gambler and once loses $23,000 playing poker.

The man on the opposite side isn’t simple and forces him to pay the money immediately. When Cosmo says he won’t be able to pay, they ask him to kill a Chinese bookie and need not pay any money further.

A lot of trouble comes in, but will Cosmo do it? This is a backstage drama, a character study film, and a brilliant work. Stream the movie and know what happened in the end.

6. Superman (1978)

Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, Robert Benton
Cast: Marlon Brando as Jor-El, Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent, Ned Beatty as Otis, Jackie Cooper as Perry White, Glenn Ford, and Trevor Howard as the First Elder.
IMDb Ratings: 7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 94%

Superman is one of the greatest films ever made. Several films are fabricated with the same name, but this classic movie is still remembered. This was an expensive movie during that era that depicts how Jor-El sent his son Kal-El via a spaceship to earth just before the planet Krypton got destroyed. Infant Kal-El gets raised by Jonathan and Martha.

Soon Clark comes to know about some supernatural powers within him and decides to use them for good and fight against all evil forces, and therein begins the journey of this superhero.

5. Meet Me in St. Louis

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Writer: Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe
Cast: Judy Garland as Esther Smith, Margaret O’Brien as Tootie Smith, Mary Astor as Mrs. Anna Smith, Lucille Bremer as Rose Smith, Leon Ames as Mr. Alonzo Smith, Tom Drake as John Truett.
IMDb Ratings: 7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 100%

This is an MGM romantic film that centers around four sisters. It shows how the ladies grow up in society, receive education, and learn about love and courtesy. This is a brilliant masterpiece that is plain and simple yet teaches a lot of things. In the end, it is evident that love can conquer all and ends on a merry note with dance and song.

This film will be the best choice for spending quality time with oneself, especially for women.

4. Godzilla (1954)

Director: Ishiro Honda
Writer: Takeo Murata, Ishiro Honda
Cast: Akira Takarada as Hideto Ogata, Momoko Kochi as Emiko Yamane, Akihiko Hirata as Dr. Daisuke Serizawa, Fuyuki Murakami as Dr. Tanabe, Sachio Sakai as Hagiwara.
IMDb Ratings: 7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 93%

Godzilla is the best choice to stream on HBO Max if you are planning to watch a thrilling movie. The story is about a giant monster ready to havoc and on the verge of destroying Tokyo. The authorities initially think of the disaster as a natural cause but later visit Odo Island and learn about Gojira, the monster.

Several characters come in to stop the monster by any means, but will they be able to do it? You can witness various cinematic techniques, so stream the film and know what happened.

3. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

Director: Louis Malle
Writer: Louis Malle, Roger Nimier
Cast: Jeanne Moreau as Florence Carala, Maurice Ronet as Julien Travernier, Georges Poujouly as Louis, Yori Bertin as Veronique, Jean wall as Simon Carala, Lino Venturo as Cherrier.
IMDb Ratings: 7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 93%

The film focuses on Florence, the wife of an arms dealer named Simon Carala but is also in relation to her husband’s employee named Julien. One day a tragic incident occurs where Julien kills Simon and flees without getting caught or noticed. But he made a mistake. He forgets the rope on the murder spot and goes on to bring it back.

On his way, he realizes his game will be over as he faces critical situations.

2. An American in Paris

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner
Cast: Gene Kelly as Jerry Mulligan, Leslie Caron as Lise Bouvier, Oscar Levant as Adam Cook, Georges Guetary as Henri, Nina Foch as Milo Roberts, Eugene Borden as Georges Mattieu.
IMDb Ratings: 7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 96%

Gene Kelly is depicted as an American ex-GI who is now living in post-war Paris. She aspires to become a painter, and on her way to achieving this ambition, she grows fond of Lise Bouvier and eventually falls for him. But there ought to be some twist.

Milo Roberts, a wealthy heiress, comes into the story and grows fond of Lise’s art and things outside his art form.

1. The Naked City

Director: Jules Dassin
Writer: Albert Maltz, Malvin Maltz
Cast: Barry Fitzgerald as Detective Lt. Dan Muldoon, Howard Duff as Frank Niles, Dorothy Hart as Ruth Morrison, Don Taylor as Detective Jimmy Halloran, and Frank Conroy as Captain Donahue.
IMDb Ratings: 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 85%

This is a crime-action film that revolves around Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon when they come together to find out the mystery of the murder of a lady who is supposed to have got drowned in her bathtub, but there is more to it.

Few people find the acts of Frank Niles peculiar. However, it also comes to the limelight that the lady had many suitors, and the mission to find out what happened begins. Watch this film on HBO Max and comment with your thoughts about it.