Old Movies – Free & Full

Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:25:01 +0000

1h 52min. // When Henry Van Cleeve dies, he is sure that due to the bad habits he has had during his life, he will never gain admission to heaven and so immediately goes in the other direction where he meets Satan, His Excellency. Satan asks Henry to tell him his life story not convinced he qualifies for eternity in the Underworld.

Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch

Writing Credits: Samson Raphaelson (screenplay), Leslie Bush-Fekete (play)

Starring: Gene Tierney (as Martha Strabel Van Cleve), Don Ameche (as Henry Van Cleve) and Charles Coburn (as Hugo Van Cleve)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Picture. Ernst Lubitsch.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Director. Ernst Lubitsch.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1944. Best Cinematography, Color. Edward Cronjager.

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Tiger Bay (1959)

Charlotte Movies — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:24:02 +0000

1h 45min. // A sailor murders his girlfriend and kidnaps a lonely boy who witnessed the crime.

Directed by: J. Lee Thompson

Writing Credits: John Hawkesworth (screenplay), Shelley Smith (screenplay)

Starring: John Mills (as Superintendent Graham), Horst Buchholz (as Bronislaw Korchinsky) and Hayley Mills (as Gillie)

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Awards:

WON. Berlin International Film Festival 1959. Special Prize. Hayley Mills.

NOMINATED. Berlin International Film Festival 1959. Golden Berlin Bear. J. Lee Thompson.

WON. BAFTA Awards 1960. Most Promising Newcomer to Film. Hayley Mills.

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1960. Best British Film. J. Lee Thompson.

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1960. Best British Screenplay. John Hawkesworth, Shelley Smith.

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1960. Best Film from any Source. J. Lee Thompson.

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Sherlock Jr. (1924) [Silent Movie]

Charlotte Movies — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:24:02 +0000

45min. // A young projectionist, who wants to be a detective, needs to clean up his name when an enemy blames him for stealing the pocketwatch of the father of his girlfriend.

Directed by: Buster Keaton

Writing Credits: Jean C. Havez (story), Joseph A. Mitchell (story), Clyde Bruckman (story)

Starring: Buster Keaton (as Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.), Kathryn McGuire (as The Girl), Joe Keaton (as The Girl’s Father / Man on Film Screen), Erwin Connelly (as The Hired Man / The Butler) and Ward Crane (as The Local Sheik / The Villain)

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Awards:

WON. National Film Preservation Board, USA 1991. National Film Registry.

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Till The Clouds Roll By (1946)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:24:01 +0000

2h. 12min. // Biography of songwriter, Broadway pioneer, Jerome Kern. Unable to find immediate success in the USA, Kern sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva.

Directed by: Richard Whorf

Writing Credits: Myles Connolly (screenplay), Jean Holloway (screenplay), Guy Bolton (story)

Starring: June Allyson (as Jane), Lucille Bremer (as Sally Hessler) and Judy Garland (as Marilyn Miller)

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The Vagabond (1916) [Silent Movie]

Charlotte Movies — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:24:01 +0000

24min. // An impoverished violinist falls for a beautiful gypsy girl. Together they meet an artist who paints the girl’s portrait. Charlie, the violinist, believes the girl loves the painter. Later, when a wealthy woman recognizes her long-ago- kidnapped daughter in the painting, she tracks down the girl with the artist’s help. The gypsy girl is taken back to her rightful heritage, leaving Charlie thinking she has gone off with the artist he thinks she loves. But has she? Does she?

Directed by: Charles Chaplin

Writing Credits: Charles Chaplin, Vincent Bryan

Starring: Charles Chaplin (as Street musician), Edna Purviance (as Gypsy drudge) and Eric Campbell (as Gypsy chieftain)

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Sunrise (1927) [Silent Movie]

Charlotte Movies — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:23:02 +0000

1h 34min. // A happily married farmer with a child starts an affair with a vacationing woman from the city. She wants him to return to the city with her but when he mentions his wife, she tries to convince him to murder her.

Directed by: F.W. Murnau

Writing Credits: Carl Mayer (scenario), Hermann Sudermann (original theme)

Starring: George O’Brien (as The Man), Janet Gaynor (as The Wife) and Margaret Livingston (as The Woman From the City)

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Awards:

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1929. Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1929. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Janet Gaynor.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1929. Best Cinematography. Charles Rosher and Karl Struss.

WON. Kinema Junpo Awards 1929. Best Foreign Language Film. F.W. Murnau.

WON. National Film Preservation Board, USA 1989. National Film Registry.

WON. Online Film & Television Association 2001. Motion Picture.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1929. Best Art Direction. Rochus Gliese.

NOMINATED. Village Voice Film Poll 1999. Best Film of the Century. 6th place.

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Cimarron (1931)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:44:29 +0000

2h 11min. // The story opens on the raw edge of the American frontier as settlers surge into the Oklahoma land rush, a churning mass of wagons, horses, and human ambition. In the chaos charges Yancey Cravat, a flamboyant lawyer, newspaperman, and dreamer who thrives on danger and new beginnings. At his side is his more cautious wife Sabra, whose genteel upbringing clashes with the dust, noise, and lawlessness of their new surroundings. Together they stake a claim and help raise a town out of prairie mud, with Yancey’s booming voice and fearless idealism setting the moral and political tone of the fledgling community.

As the settlement grows into a bustling frontier city, the film follows the couple through decades of change, prosperity, and heartbreak. Yancey repeatedly abandons the safety of home to chase fresh horizons and lost causes, leaving Sabra to shoulder the burdens of family, business, and civic life. She evolves from reluctant pioneer wife into a formidable community leader, her prejudices and assumptions challenged by the diverse people who share the town, including Native Americans, immigrants, and outcasts.

Across forty years of booms and busts, the narrative charts the transformation of the West from lawless opportunity to entrenched power, and the personal cost of that transformation. The marriage at the center of the story becomes a lens on the nation’s growing pains: Yancey’s restless idealism collides with Sabra’s drive for stability and respectability, even as both are swept along by progress they can neither fully control nor fully understand. By the time the frontier is a memory and skyscrapers pierce the skyline, the film has traced not just the rise of a town, but the complicated legacy of those who carved a civilization out of open land and unfinished dreams.

Directed by: Wesley Ruggles

Writing Credits: Howard Estabrook

Starring: Irene Dunne, Edna May Oliver, Judith Barrett, Estelle Taylor, George E. Stone

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Awards:

WON. Academy Award for Best Picture 1931. Category. RKO Radio Pictures.
WON. Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay 1931. Category. Howard Estabrook.
WON. Academy Award for Best Production Design 1931. Category. Max Rée.
WON. National Board of Review: Top Ten Films. Category. Cimarron.

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Junior Bonner (1972)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:23:01 +0000

1h 40min. // A rodeo expert returns to his hometown for a contest and discovers how the place and his family have changed: his parents are splitting up and his brother is making a fortune by selling the family ranch for real-estate developments.

Directed by: Sam Peckinpah

Writing Credits: Jeb Rosebrook (screenplay)

Starring: Steve McQueen (as Junior Bonner), Robert Preston (as Ace Bonner) and Ida Lupino (as Elvira Bonner)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA 1972. Best Supporting Actress. Ida Lupino.

NOMINATED. New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1973. Best Supporting Actress. Ida Lupino.

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Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

Charlotte Movies — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:23:01 +0000

2h 3min. // Roman conqueror Julius Caesar takes the Egyptian city of Alexandria. The beautiful princess Cleopatra and her younger brother Ptolemy have married and reign the country together, despite each one wants to do it on their own. Caesar takes Cleopatra under his protection and advises her on how to gain control of her country.

Directed by: Gabriel Pascal

Writing Credits: George Bernard Shaw (screenplay and play)

Starring: Claude Rains (as Caesar), Vivien Leigh (as Cleopatra), Stewart Granger (as Apollodorus) and Flora Robson (as Ftatateeta)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Cannes Film Festival 1946. Feature Film. Gabriel Pascal.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color. John Bryan.

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Bad Girl (1931)

Charlotte Movies — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:23:01 +0000

1h 30min. // A skeptical about romance couple meets, falls in love and then gets married. However, their lack of confidence in the opposite sex will jeopardize their marriage.

Directed by: Frank Borzage

Writing Credits: Viña Delmar (novel), Brian Marlow (play)

Starring: James Dunn (as Eddie Collins), Sally Eilers (as Dorothy Haley), Minna Gombell (as Edna Driggs), Frank Darien (as Lathrop), William Pawley (as Jim Haley) and Paul Fix (as Nervous Expectant Father)

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Awards:

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1932. Best Director. Frank Borzage.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1932. Best Writing, Adaptation. Edwin J. Burke.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1932. Best Picture.