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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 10m

33 years ago:
The Penknife (NL)
Original title: Het Zakmes
Accidentally still in possession of his best friend's pocket knife after they move all the way to a different city, a young boy sets out to return it.
1992-10-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/48449

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79 years ago:
The Murderers Are Among Us (XG,DE)
Original title: Die Mörder sind unter uns
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try t...
1946-10-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/932

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58 years ago:
Bandidos (IT,ES)
Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooti...
1967-10-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/90015

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38 years ago:
The Year My Voice Broke (AU)
Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a t...
1987-10-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/19958

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108 years ago:
'49–'17 (US)
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make...
1917-10-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/344339

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89 years ago:
Sisters of the Gion (JP)
Original title: 祇園の姉妹
Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and l...
1936-10-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/74581

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76 years ago:
Reign of Terror (GB,US)
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who,...
1949-10-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/27635

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40 years ago:
Miranda (IT)
In 1950s Ferrara, a lonely innkeeper explores a series of relationships while awaiting her missing husband’s return from war.
1985-10-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/52212

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42 years ago:
Eddie Murphy: Delirious (US)
Taped live and in concert at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. in August, 1983, Eddie Murphy: Delirious captures Eddie Murphy's wild and outrageou...
1983-10-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/15251

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37 years ago:
Dogra Magra (JP)
Original title: ドグラ・マグラ
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious d...
1988-10-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/91229

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62 years ago:
The Fire Within (FR)
Original title: Le Feu follet
Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he can leave the detoxification clinic once and for ...
1963-10-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2593

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55 years ago:
Deadlock (DE)
After pulling off a bank robbery two bandits meet in a deserted mining town to divide their loot but an old miner tries to steal it from them.
1970-10-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/79830

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95 years ago:
The Pay-Off (US)
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes...
1930-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/166500

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99 years ago:
The Winning of Barbara Worth (US)
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daught...
1926-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/96395

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70 years ago:
Seagulls Die in the Harbour (BE)
Original title: Meeuwen sterven in de haven
A pessimistic urban drama, with a musical score by Jack Sels and Max Damasse, charts in strongly expressionistically lit black-and-white images the wa...
1955-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/64355

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94 years ago:
The Range Feud (US)
Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father, and his best friend, Sher...
1931-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/98413

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44 years ago:
Just Before Dawn (US)
In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some ...
1981-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/39982

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89 years ago:
The Garden of Allah (US)
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
1936-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/151848

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56 years ago:
The Structure of Crystal (PL)
Original title: Struktura kryształu
Two friends who used to study physics together are forced to make tough decisions as their lives take different paths.
1969-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/167267

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72 years ago:
The Big Heat (US)
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicio...
1953-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14580

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43 years ago:
Cane River (US)
A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity—the light-s...
1982-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/495199

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61 years ago:
Send Me No Flowers (US)
At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two ...
1964-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4939

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83 years ago:
Midnight in Paris (FR)
Original title: Monsieur La Souris
On a rainy night, eccentric tramp Mr. La Souris finds a corpse. But the body soon vanishes in his car leaving only his wallet. While the police start ...
1942-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/297171

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57 years ago:
Paper Lion (US)
Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.
1968-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/86284

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53 years ago:
What the Peeper Saw (IT,GB)
Original title: La tua presenza nuda!
A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub acciden...
1972-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/112355

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