420 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.

[paf]

Hey guys, this post is not about a great movie I've seen lately, but about a great collection of online movies. Mostly, they are not "big audiences" movies, but probably you can find there something of your liking:

Where to watch free movies online? Let’s get you started. We have listed here 300+ quality films that you can watch online. The collection is divided into the following categories: Comedy & Drama; Film Noir, Horror & Hitchcock; Westerns & John Wayne; Silent Films; Documentaries, and Animation.

Some of the movies you can find there:

Comedy and Drama
• Alice in Wonderland – Free – Theatrical version of Lewis Carroll’s classic features a combination of live characters and puppets, created by master puppeteer Louis Bunin. (1949)
• Andrei Rublev – Free – Andrei Tarkovsky’s film charting life of the great icon painter. Click CC for subtitles. Part 2 here. (1966)
• Charade – Free - Starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. Part romance, comedy and thriller, it has been called “the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made.” (1963) (US viewers only)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – Free – Stanley Kubrick’s classic. (1964)
• Escape from Sobibor - Free - Alan Arkin stars in film revisiting Jewish breakout from Nazi death camp. (1987)
• Fear and Desire – Free – An uncut print of Stanley Kubrick’s “lost” early film. Kubrick didn’t like how his first film came out, so removed it from circulation. (1953)
• In Cold Blood – Free – Basedon the great work by Truman Capote, the film stars Robert Blake. (US viewers only) (1967)
• It’s a Wonderful Life – Free – Directed by the great Frank Capra. Starring Jimmy Stewart. Another great classic! (1946)
• Le Voyage Dans La Lune – Free – French science fiction black and white film. Loosely based on two popular novels by Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. (1902)
• Moby Dick – Free – Melville’s classic brought to the silver screen. Starring Gregory Peck and Orson Welles. (1956)
• Monty Python’s And Now For Something Completely Different – Free - (1971)
• Night and Fog – Free – Alain Resnais’s film on the Holocaust. Truffaut called it the greatest film ever made. (1955)
• Nostalghia – Free – Soviet film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. (1983)
• Plan 9 from Outer Space – Free – An Ed Wood “classic.” Considered one of the worst films ever made. (1959)
• Rich and Strange - Free – Otherwise called East of Shanghai, the Hitchcock drama looks at a couple divided by an inheritance. (1931)
• Solaris – Free – Andrei Tarkovsky’s meditative psychodrama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the planet Solaris. (1972)
• Stalker – Web – Science fiction film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. (1979)
• Taxi Driver – Free – Directed by Martin Scorsese, with Robert DeNiro. (US viewers only) (1976)
• The Dead - Free – James Joyce’s brilliant short story adapted by John Huston, his last film. (1981)
• The Fast And The Furious – Free – A 1950s B-action film written by Roger Corman. (1955)
• The Great Saint Louis Bank Robbery - Free – Steve McQueen stars in a gritty, downbeat, and sometimes savage heist movie. YouTube version here. (1959)
• The Immortal Story – Free – Orson Welles’ film had a successful run in French theaters, but it remains perhaps his least known film. Stars Jeanne Moreau, and Roger Coggio. (1968)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg / Les Parapluies de Cherbourg – Free – A 1964 French musical film directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo. (1964)
• Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) – Free – Francois Truffaut’s film based on pulp fiction thriller by David Goodis. (1960)
• Utopia – Free – Laurel & Hardy’s last film. (1951)
• Virus – Free – Post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie directed by Kinji Fukasaku and based on a novel written by Sakyo Komatsu. (1980)
• Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women – Free – An early film by “New Hollywood” director Peter Bogdanovich (1968).
• War & Peace - Free - Soviet director Sergei Bondarchuk turns Tolstoy’s great novel into what Roger Ebert calls “the definitive epic of all time.” Won Academy Award – Best Foreign Language Film in 1969. (1965-1967)

Documentaries
• An Examination of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange - Free – Directed by John Musilli. A discussion with writer Anthony Burgess and actor Malcolm McDowell about Stanley Kubrick’s controversial film. (1972)
• Buena Vista Social Club - Free – Ry Cooder’s outstanding look at the traditional Cuban music scene in 1999. (Limited to US audiences.)
• Cream’s Farewell Concert - Free - Tony Palmer captured Cream’s final show (starring, of course, Eric Clapton) at the Royal Albert Hall in London, November 21, 1968.
• First Orbit - Free - A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. (2011)
• Inside Job – Free - Charles Ferguson’s Oscar-winning documentary exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. (2010)
• Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man – Free – Documentary on Argentina’s most famous and beloved literary figure. (2000)
• Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown – Free – 90 minute documentary on H.P. Lovecraft, the American horror, fantasy and sci-fi writer. (2008)
• Olympia - Part 1 and Part 2 – Leni Riefenstahl’s film of the Berlin Olympic Games (1936). Considered one of the greatest sports documentaries. (1938)
• Philip K. Dick: A Day in the Afterlife – Free – BBC documentary revisits the (sometimes troubled) life of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. (1994)
• Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man – Free -Documentary revisits Shakespeare and Company, the most famous bookstore in Paris. (2005)
• The Beatles at Shea Stadium - Free – Film documents The Beatles performing historic concert at Shea Stadium in NYC. (1965)
• The Last Waltz – Free - Martin Scorsese’s rockumentary on the farewell concert of The Band. Later called “the greatest rock concert movie ever made.”

Animation
• Animal Farm – Free – The animated film based on George Orwell’s classic novella. (1954)
• Der Fuehrer’s Face – Free – Disney’s anti-Nazi propaganda movie featuring Donald Duck. Won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. (1942)
• Destino - Free - Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí began working together in 1946 on a project that was tabled, then finally revived and finished in 2003.
• Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi - Free – Disney’s WW II propaganda film looks at how the Nazi machine corrupts youth. (1943)
• Every Child – Free – Eugene Fedorenko’s animated short about an unwanted baby cared for by homeless men. 1979 Oscar-winner for Best Animated Short Film.
• Fantasmagorie -Free – The first fully animated film ever made. 700 drawings in 2 minutes by Emile Cohl. (1908)
• Father and Daughter – Free – Michaël Dudok De Wit’s heartbreaking short won the 2000 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
• Franz Kafka – Free – Piotr Dumala’s wonderful 16 minute animated film based on Kafka’s diaries. (1992)
• Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty- Free – 6 minute animated black comedy. Shortlisted for the 2010 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. (2008)
• Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life – Free – Animated short film based on book by Maurice Sendak. Features voices of Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker and Spike Jonze. (2010)
• How a Mosquito Operates – Free - One of the surviving works by famed animator Winsor McCay. (1912)
• I Touch a Red Button Man – Free – A short film by David Lynch and Interpol. Originally shown at the Coachella 2011 Festival.
• Madame Tutli-Putli – Free – Academy Award nominated stop motion-animated short film by Montreal filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski. (2010)
• Neighbors – Free – Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. Oscar winner. (1952)
• Ryan – Free – Oscar-winning animated short from Chris Landreth based on the life of Ryan Larkin, the influential Canadian animator. (2004)
• Sita Sings the Blues - Free – New prize-winning animated film by Nina Paley. (2008)
• Special Delivery – Free – Hilarious story won 1978 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.
• Story Time – Free – An early hort animation by Monty Python great Terry Gilliam. (1968)
• Street Musique – Free – Influential animated film by Ryan Larkin. (1972)
• Superman – Free – Max Fleischer’s short animated movie. Nominated for the 1942 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. (1941)
• The Cave – Free – A short claymation film animating the famous cave allegory in Plato’s Republic. (2008)
• The Centaurs – Free – An incomplete work by Winsor McCay. (1921)
• The Giving Tree – Free – An animated adaptation of Shel Silverstein’s wonderful children’s book. (1973)
• The Miracle of Flight - Video - A cutout animation by Terry Gilliam. Made in the style of (but separately from) Monty Python. (1974)
• The Old Man and the Sea – Part 1 and Part 2 – Aleksandr Petrov won the Academy Award for Short Film for this film that follows the plot of Ernest Hemingway’s classic 1952 novella. (1999)
• The Sand Castle – Free – Short animated film about the sandman and the creatures he sculpts out of sand. 1977 Oscar-winner for Best Animated Short Film.
• The Tell-Tale Heart – Free – Animated version of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic from 1953. Narrated by James Mason.
• Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom – Free – Disney’s music education film. First cartoon released in widescreen CinemaScope. Wins 1954 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons). (1953)

[JayCub]

Thank you Paf spotted one or two i would like to take a look at... Cheers

[Bearcat]

Thanks for sharing this Paf! I did indeed spot some movies that I like.

[princeaniket]

Thanks for the info paf.. some of them are really gem of their time..

[Student26]

Found a couple that I may watch when I get the time. Cheers m8

[Kees]

I am going to download: Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man – Free -Documentary revisits Shakespeare and Company, the most famous bookstore in Paris. (2005) I spent a whole day nosing in that antiquarian bookshop decades ago

[paf]

I'm glad you liked it, guys. I just presented some of the movies, you will find plenty more at the site.

Kees, the most amazing bookstore I've seen was at Buenos Aires, El Ateneo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54j8y-yDFe0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrN3s6zgG_c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2BSTHkrUJw
I would like to find a documentary about it... Cheers.

[Kees]

Kees, the most amazing bookstore I've seen was at Buenos Aires

Thanks for the link. Must be a great place. I will certainly go there when in Argentinia, which may actually happen one day, since Borges is one of my favourite writers, so a little pelgrimage, who knows ... My own most treasured bookshop was Bókin in Reykjavik. At the back of it there was a little room, kind of hidden, for invited people only, which served as a literary center with coffee and all that went with it. All the penniless, exiled drop-outs of orderly life happened to drop in here, among them Bobby Fisher, the one-time Champion chess-player, unknown now, I guess, to most members of this forum. Sic transit gloria mundi. I went there regularly while living in Iceland, back in the eighties. A pearl of spiritual inspiration it was. Gone now, but what a remarkable bookshop.

[paf]

Thanks for the link. Must be a great place. I will certainly go there when in Argentinia, which may actually happen one day, since Borges is one of my favourite writers, so a little pelgrimage, who knows ... My own most treasured bookshop was Bókin in Reykjavik. At the back of it there was a little room, kind of hidden, for invited people only, which served as a literary center with coffee and all that went with it. All the penniless, exiled drop-outs of orderly life happened to drop in here, among them Bobby Fisher, the one-time Champion chess-player, unknown now, I guess, to most members of this forum. Sic transit gloria mundi. I went there regularly while living in Iceland, back in the eighties. A pearl of spiritual inspiration it was. Gone now, but what a remarkable bookshop.

I would love to have known that bookstore! And I'm sure everybody who loves chess knows Bobby Fischer . And Borges, of course, is one of the Greatest. All the best, my friend.