Forgotten Movie Classics

Updated daily, Forgotten Movie Classics provides a comprehensive source for information about offbeat and hidden film treasures. If your idea of a fun-filled evening is catching Tod Browning’s Freaks, Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante, Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker, Michael Reeves’ The Conqueror Worm(AKA Witchfinder General) or Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb on TCM at 3 AM, then you’ve come to the right place. From long-lost silent films to cult classics to offbeat documentaries to overlooked independent films to Hollywood sleepers and everything in between, you’ll find it here at Forgotten Movie Classics!



A Boy and His Dog (1975)

A Flash of Green (1984)

A Patch of Blue (1965)

A Simple Plan (1998)

Abandon Ship! (1957)

About Schmidt (2002)

Ace in the Hole (1951)

Across 110th Street (1972)

Act of Violence (1948)

After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

After Midnight (1989)

All at Sea (1957)

American Splendor (2003)

Americana (1981)

Among the Living (1941)

And Soon the Darkness (1970)

And Soon the Darkness (1970)

Another Earth (2011)

At Close Range (1986)

Autumn Leaves (1956)

Back to School (1986)

Bad Lieutenant (1992)

Bananas (1971)

Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)

Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)

Barfly (1987)

Becket (1964)

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

Being There (1979)

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

Best in Show (2000)

Better Off Dead (1985)

Beware, My Lovely (1952)

Big Wednesday (1978)

Blood and Wine (1996)

Blood Guts Bullets & Octane (1998)

Blue Sunshine (1978)

Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)

Boiler Room (2000)

Born to Kill (1947)

Bottle Rocket (1996)

Bound for Glory (1976)

Boxcar Bertha (1972)

Breaking Away (1979)

Breath (2017)

Brief Encounter (1945)

Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

Buffalo '66 (1998)

Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)

Burn, Witch, Burn (1962)

Burn! (1969)

Burnt Offerings (1976)

Calibre (2017)

Can't Buy Me Love (1987)

Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Castaway (1986)

Cedar Rapids (2011)

Chad Hanna (1940)

Charly (1968)

Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)

Christmas Eve (1947)

Circle of Iron (1978)

Circus of Horrors (1960)

City for Conquest (1940)

Coffy (1973)

Colorado Territory (1949)

Continental Divide (1981)

Crazy Love (1987)

Creature from Black Lake (1976)

Crime and Punishment (1935)

Cry Danger (1951)

Cutter's Way (1981)

D.O.A. (1950)

David Copperfield (1935)

Days of Wine and Roses (1962)

Dead of Night (1945)

Deadly Blessing (1981)

Death Force (1978)

Death in Small Doses (1957)

Death Weekend (1976)

Deathdream (1972)

Deep Red (1975)

Dementia 13 (1963)

Deranged (1974)

Detour (1945)

Die Laughing (1980)

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)

Don't Go in the Woods (1982)

Don't Look Now

Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (2018)

Dragonwyck (1946)

Drive a Crooked Road (1954)

Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

Each Dawn I Die (1939)

Ed Wood (1994)

Electra Glide in Blue (1973)

Eyes in the Night (1942)

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

Fandango (1985)

Fat City (1972)

Fearless (1993)

Fire with Fire (1986)

Fishing With John (1991)

Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Five Fingers of Death (1972)

Five Minutes to Live (1961)

Full Circle (1977)

Full Grown Men (2006)

Gallipoli (1981)

Gator (1976)

Gator Bait (1974)

George Washington Slept Here (1942)

Ghost Story (1981)

Go (1999)

Golden Boy (1939)

Green for Danger (1946)

Gregory's Girl (1981)

Grizzly Man (2005)

Gun Crazy (1950)

Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1959)

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)

Happy Accidents (2000)

Hard Times (1975)

Haunted (1995)

Heaven Help Us (1985)

Hell's Highway (1932)

High Plains Drifter (1973)

High Sierra (1941)

Horror Hotel (1960)

House by the River (1950)

House of Usher (1960)

Hurry Up, Or I'll Be 30 (1973)

Husbands (1970)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

I Bury the Living (1958)

I Died a Thousand Times (1955)

I Don't Know Jack (2002)

I Walk the Line (1970)

Idaho Transfer (1973)

In a Lonely Place (1950)

In the Company of Men (1997)

Inside Moves (1980)

International House (1933)

It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)

It's a Gift (1934)

J.D.'s Revenge (1976)

Jacknife (1989)

Jacob's Ladder (1990)

Jane Eyre (1944)

Jesus' Son (1999)

Just Before Dawn (1981)

Just One of the Guys (1985)

Killer's Kiss (1955)

Last Woman on Earth (1960)

Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural (1973)

Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

Little Fugitive (1953)

Long Weekend (1978)

Lord of the Flies (1963)

Losin' It (1983)

Lost in America (1985)

Love and Death (1975)

Love Liza (2002)

Lust for Life (1956)

Mad Love (1935)

Magic Trip (2011)

Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)

Mark of the Vampire (1935)

Meatballs (1979)

Memento (2000)

Messiah of Evil (1973)

Metropolitan (1990)

Ministry of Fear (1944)

Miracle Mile (1988)

Miracles for Sale (1939)

Mountains of the Moon (1990)

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)

Ms. 45 (1981)

Murderball (2005)

My Best Fiend (1999)

My Bodyguard (1980)

My Breakfast with Blassie (1983)

Next of Kin (1982)

Night and the City (1950)

Night Moves (1975)

Night of the Comet (1984)

Night Tide (1961)

Nightfall (1957)

Ninety-Nine River Street (1953)

No Looking Back (1998)

Obsession (1949)

On Dangerous Ground (1951)

On the Bowery (1956)

One Crazy Summer (1986)

One Eight Seven (1997)

One False Move (1992)

Outside Providence (1999)

Over the Edge (1979)

Overnight (2003)

Owning Mahowny (2003)

Paradise Alley (1978)

Paranoiac (1963)

Payday (1973)

Pitfall (1948)

Play Misty for Me (1971)

Point Blank (1967)

Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Powwow Highway (1989)

Private Hell 36 (1954)

Promised Land (1988)

Proof (1991)

Psychomania (1973)

Quicksand (1950)

Rancho Notorious (1952)

Reckless (1984)

Red Rock West (1992)

Return to Paradise (1953)

Rituals (1977)

River's Edge (1986)

Road Games (1981)

Rolling Thunder (1977)

Room Service (1938)

Rubin & Ed (1991)

Rush (1991)

Saint Jack (1979)

Scarecrow (1973)

Scarlet Street (1945)

School for Scoundrels (1960)

Seconds (1966)

Seven Grandmasters (1978)

Shadows in the Storm (1988)

She's the One (1996)

Shoot (1976)

Silent Running (1972)

Skins (2002)

Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Sling Blade (1996)

So Long at the Fair (1950)

Son of Frankenstein (1939)

Southbounders (2005)

Spider Baby (1964)

Spring Forward (1999)

Stardust Memories (1980)

State of Grace (1990)

Stone (1974)

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Strangler of the Swamp (1946)

Sugar Hill (1974)

Summer Rental (1985)

Sweet Sugar (1972)

Take the Money and Run (1969)

Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)

Tall Story (1960)

Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)

Taxi! (1932)

Ten Benny (1995)

The Apostle (1997)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

The Asphyx (1972)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

The Basketball Diaries (1995)

The Beast Must Die (1974)

The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)

The Big Combo (1955)

The Big House (1930)

The Big Year (2011)

The Black Room (1935)

The Blackbird (1926)

The Breaking Point (1950)

The Browning Version (1951)

The Burning (1981)

The Changeling (1980)

The Collector (1965)

The Conqueror Worm (1968)

The Corndog Man (1999)

The Crowd (1928)

The Crowd Roars (1932)

The Delinquents (1957)

The Enchanted Cottage (1945)

The Evictors (1979)

The Face Behind the Mask (1941)

The Fallen Sparrow (1943)

The Folks at Red Wolf Inn (1972)

The Foot Fist Way (2006)

The Four Feathers (1939)

The Freshman (1925)

The Front (1976)

The Gangster (1947)

The Ghost Goes West (1935)

The Ghost Ship (1943)

The Ghost Train (1941)

The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

The Grey Fox (1982)

The Gun Runners (1958)

The Happy Years (1950)

The Harder They Fall (1956)

The Haunting (1963)

The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

The Hollywood Knights (1980)

The Hoodlum (1951)

The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

The Human Comedy (1943)

The Immigrant (2013)

The In-Laws

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964)

The Innocents (1961)

The Iron Rose (1973)

The Killer is Loose (1956)

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

The Last American Hero (1973)

The Last Detail (1973)

The Last Gangster (1937)

The Last Man on Earth (1964)

The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966)

The Last Wave (1977)

The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

The Lords of Flatbush (1974)

The Lost Patrol (1934)

The Machinist (2004)

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

The Masque of Red Death (1964)

The Maze (1953)

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

The Moon and Sixpence (1942)

The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)

The Mutations (1974)

The Nightcomers (1972)

The Other (1972)

The Outlaw (1943)

The Party (1968)

The Passenger (1975)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

The Projectionist (1971)

The Prowler (1951)

The Rain People (1969)

The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

The Red House (1947)

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

The Sadist (1963)

The Screaming Skull (1958)

The Secret Six (1931)

The Seventh Victim (1943)

The Snake Pit (1948)

The Station Agent (2003)

The Steel Trap (1952)

The Stunt Man (1980)

The Sure Thing (1985)

The Swimmer (1968)

The Thing With Two Heads (1972)

The Wanderers (1979)

The War Zone (1999)

The Whistler (1944)

The Whole Wide World (1996)

The Wicker Man (1973)

The Wild Life (1984)

The Woman in the Window (1944)

The Woman on the Beach (1947)

The World of Henry Orient (1964)

These are the Damned (1963)

They Drive by Night (1940)

They Live (1988)

They Live by Night (1949)

Three O'Clock High (1987)

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

Tillie and Gus (1933)

Tin Men (1987)

Tormented (1960)

Tourist Trap (1979)

Tracks (1977)

Trans (1998)

Trash (1999)

Traveller (1997)

Trees Lounge (1996)

Twenty Dates (1998)

Twin Falls Idaho (1999)

Twister (1989)

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

Under the Volcano (1984)

Valley Girl (1983)

Vampire Circus (1972)

Vampire's Kiss (1989)

Vanishing Point (1971)

Vision Quest (1985)

Wait Until Dark (1967)

Waiting for Guffman (1996)

Wake in Fright (1971)

Walkabout (1971)

Wendigo (2001)

Westworld (1973)

White Zombie (1932)

Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)

Wild Boys of the Road (1933)

Winter's Bone (2010)

Wise Blood (1979)

Wonder Boys (2000)

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

You Only Live Once (1937)

Zandalee (1991)

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