To celebrate Classic Movies Day, we’ve put together a timeless list of a few of our favorite films, spanning from the 2020s all the way back to the 1960s.
2020s
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
Rated PG
“Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But when a documentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at finding his long-lost family. This is a hilarious and heartwarming story about finding connection in the smallest corners.”
Past Lives
Rated PG-13
“Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.”
2010s
Call Me by Your Name
Rated R
“It’s the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio, a precocious 17-year-old, spends his days in his family’s villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading and flirting with his friend Marzia. One day, Oliver, a charming American scholar arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father, an eminent professor. Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.”
Zootopia
Rated PG
“Zootopia is a city like no other that is comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together. But when optimistic Officer Judy Hopps arrives, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn’t so easy. Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a fast-talking, scam-artist fox, Nick Wilde.”
2000s
Lilo & Stitch
Rated PG
“An evil creator from a faraway planet has created a little creature by genetic experimentation. The creator and creature are sent to prison. The creature escapes and heads for Earth, where he tries to impersonate a dog. Bent on self-preservation, he plans to use a human shield to protect him from the aliens sent to recapture him. Earth girl, Lilo, adopts the ‘dog, ‘ gives him the name Stitch and develops an emotional attachment. Lilo’s dysfunctional family consists only of her sister Nani, but the two are about to be ripped apart by social worker Cobra Bubbles. Stitch, as the new family member, brings quite some action into all their lives, and after a while, not even the aliens can recognize their former target.”
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Rated PG
“Toula is a quiet, devoted daughter in a big, crazy Greek family. Working in her father’s restaurant, she hides behind her family and keeps the world at a distance. One day at the restaurant, she finds herself pouring coffee for a man who inspires her to change her life, and the way she sees the world … forever.”
1990s
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Not Rated
“The history’s most enduring fairy tale shimmers to life in the most spectacular production ever of the classic musical.”
The Parent Trap
Rated PG
“An updated version of the 1961 Disney classic about separated identical twins. Hallie and Annie meet accidentally at camp and decide to reunite their divorced parents.”
1980s
Uncle Buck
Rated PG
“Uncle Buck, an idle, good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.”
E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial
Rated PG
“A story of an alien stranded on Earth and his relationship with a young boy.”
1970s
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
Rated PG
“Science fiction tales of derring-do, heroism and romance. Set in the future, they relate the adventures of Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo as they battle the forces of the evil Imperial Army.”
The Wiz
Rated G
“Dorothy is a 24-year-old Manhattan kindergarten teacher who is whisked away from her inner-city neighborhood via a snowstorm to the mysterious land of Oz. Oz is a sprawling, decaying, nightmarish, and dangerous megalopolis that resembles the physical characteristics of New York City.”
1960s
Psycho
Rated R
“Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.”
Bye Bye Birdie
Rated G
“When rock star Conrad Birdie gets drafted, his manager organizes a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl wins a farewell kiss on The Ed Sullivan Show.”
By Abby Skinner