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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 22m

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

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 42m

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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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 1h

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

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 13h

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

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 13h

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

A poster for The Winning of Barbara Worth.

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 13h

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

A poster for Seagulls Die in the Harbour.

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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 14h

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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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 14h

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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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 15h

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

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 15h

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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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 16h

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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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 16h

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

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 17h

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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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 17h

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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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 17h

93 years ago:
What Scoundrels Men Are! (IT)
Original title: Gli uomini, che mascalzoni...
Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s shop assistant...
1932-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/63182

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 18h

59 years ago:
Our Trip to Africa (AT)
Original title: Unsere Afrikareise
Originally commissioned by an Austrian couple in 1961 to photograph a travel diary documenting their wild game hunt, Kubelka shot three hours of film ...
1966-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/109398

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 18h

33 years ago:
Simple Men (IT,GB,US)
Two diametrically opposite brothers set off on a journey to reunite with their estranged father but when their motorcycle breaks down while passing th...
1992-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/47802

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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 19h

42 years ago:
The Osterman Weekend (US)
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy...
1983-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12239

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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 19h

96 years ago:
Woman in the Moon (DE)
Original title: Frau im Mond
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful...
1929-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3007

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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 19h

55 years ago:
Atlantic Wall (FR,IT)
Original title: Le Mur de l’Atlantique
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance ...
1970-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/61231

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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 20h

41 years ago:
Songwriter (US)
Doc Jenkins may be one of country music's most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He's split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck, ...
1984-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/69722

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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 20h

58 years ago:
The Stranger (DZ,FR,IT)
Original title: Lo straniero
Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of viole...
1967-10-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/31332

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