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When you think of HBO, you think of prestige TV, but that's not all there is to HBO Max. HBO's new streaming service is stuffed with grade-A classic movies transporting you through the milestones of cinema history. To get you started, I've picked some of the unmissable highlights of moviemaking magic to stream right away.
HBO's streamer comes with an intoxicating catalog of legendary movies from Warner Bros., Studio Ghibli and various other film studios, plus a lineup of groundbreaking classics from across the globe in the Criterion Collection. We're talking all-timers here, folks. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Apocalypse Now. Battleship Potemkin. Casablanca. Citizen frickin' Kane. And that's just going up to C! Of course, they're not all the sort of thing you have to pretend you've seen at film school -- Armageddon is in there too.
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If you're looking for comfort viewing, HBO Max comes with every Die Hard, Alien, Nightmare on Elm Street and Police Academy movie. You've got several recent James Bond movies, three different versions of A Star is Born -- including the 2018 Oscar winner -- and more Godzilla movies than you can shake a giant scaly tail at. And of course there's the DC Comics films from Warner Bros, which include Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Shazam and Batman flicks coming out of your pointy ears.
Here's a handful of electrifying classics to get you started.
The Wages of Fear
A convoy of trucks carrying ultra-delicate explosives drives through a ridiculously hostile jungle in The Wages of Fear, one of the most suspenseful movies ever made. Try and remember to breathe.
Cronos
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro's first feature film sees him firing on all cylinders in this delirious slice of neo-vampire weirdness. Cronos is gory, imaginative and just delightfully weird.
The Wild Bunch
Western classic The Wild Bunch.
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One of the best and certainly toughest westerns ever made, The Wild Bunch arrived at a pivotal moment for Hollywood. Exploding onto screens at the end of the sixties alongside Easy Rider and Bonnie and Clyde (the latter of which is also on HBO Max), Sam Peckinpah's opus was one of the touchstones in the coming of the "golden age of Hollywood," when American cinema told richer and often darker stories in a more natural and provocative style. Infamous for what was then startling violence, it's also a brutal interrogation of the male psyche and the myth of the Wild West -- with quotably hardboiled dialogue and astonishing shootouts.
If you're into westerns, HBO Max takes you a tour sapa of the age-old genre: start with John Wayne in Stagecoach, Rio Bravo and The Searchers, then progress through to Once Upon a Time in the West and then latter-day westerns like Giant, Dead Man and Blood Simple.
Paths of Glory
Stanley Kubrick pulls you deep into the madness of war in Paths of Glory, a World War I story with a twist. Kirk Douglas is magnificent as an officer battling to protect his men from both the enemy and their own commanders. Powerful and beautifully-shot, it's also way shorter than Apocalypse Now (which is also on HBO Max, as well as Kubrick's nightmarish anti-war satire Dr. Strangelove).
Set It Off
A heist with a difference in Set It Off.
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This still-dazzling 1996 crime movie puts an impassioned twist on the heist genre with a cast of black women pulling off a score. Smartly crafted and brilliantly acted, Set It Off is as relevant now as it was when it was made.
The Great Dictator
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Charlie Chaplin pulls no punches in The Great Dictator.
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Comedy legend Charlie Chaplin mixed the laughs with serious satire in this scathing attack on the Nazi regime, which was also his first movie with sound. Hilarious and important, The Great Dictator is a great way into Chaplin's oeuvre. Other comic pioneers on HBO Max include Harold Lloyd in Safety Last! and Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, both of which influence comedy to this day.
Withnail and I
One of the most quotable comedies ever made, this tale of a larger-than-life but perpetually out-of-work actor manages to be the funniest snapshot of alcoholic degradation you're ever likely to see. Richard E Grant burns a hole in the screen as Withnail, the kind of guy you love to watch but never want to meet.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Colorful, playful and utterly irresistible, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of several precipitation-themed musicals on HBO Max. Actually, it's just this and Singin' in the Rain.
Yojimbo
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Yojimbo, the samurai movie that inspired the man with no name.
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You're in for a treat if you like samurai movies: HBO Max has a bunch of classics sharper than a slashing katana blade. In addition to Throne of Blood and the Lone Wolf and Cub series, there's Seven Samurai -- which inspired The Magnificent Seven -- and The Hidden Fortress, from which George Lucas borrowed liberally for a little movie called Star Wars. Start with Yojimbo, an action-packed and massively influential flick that went on to inspire Clint Eastwood's entire career.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
If you liked the recent Uncut Gems, this is the sweaty street-level flick for you. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is one of the bold and uncompromising trawls through the throbbing streets of 1970s America from singular filmmaker John Cassavetes that you can find on HBO Max.
Destroy All Monsters
If you're not in the mood for a five hour examination of eighteenth-century Swedish family politics -- we're looking at you, Fanny and Alexander -- then grab a pizza and a brew and enjoy any of the Godzilla movies on HBO Max. This is the ninth in the series and is basically a nonstop scrap between eleven giant monsters.
Wattstax
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A bunch of concert films on HBO Max provide tuneful snapshots of the 20th century's iconic musical movements. Wattstax is a funky fresh film of a 1972 concert featuring the soul, funk and jazz artists of Stax records such as Isaac Hayes, interspersed with introductions by Richard Pryor. For more musical mayhem, check out the Rolling Stones' concert film Let's Spend the Night Together and Martin Scorsese's documentary The Last Waltz.
Her Smell
Not every movie on HBO Max is a black-and-white French arthouse film. You also get recent stunners like Her Smell, an abrasive 2018 drama powered by an audacious turn from Elisabeth Moss.
Breathless
It's not hard to see why this stylish crime flick was famously touted as one of Quentin Tarantino's favorites. Yes, it's in black and white, but it's also proof that classic cinema isn't all glacial arthouse impenetrability. If you don't want to throw on some shades and smoke cigarettes outside a coffee shop after watching this then I don't know what to tell you.
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Honestly, I could go on all day, but I've got movies to watch. So here's the full list:
Warner Bros. Classics
2001: A Space Odyssey
42nd Street
Adam's Rib
The Adventures of Robin Hood
An American in Paris
Ben-Hur
Body Heat
Bonnie and Clyde
Bringing Up Baby
Cannery Row
Casablanca
Cheyenne Autumn
Cimarron
Citizen Kane
City of Angels
Cool Hand Luke
Countdown
Dirty Harry
Doctor Zhivago
East of Eden
Elvis: That's the Way it is
Footlight Parade
Freaks
Giant
Girl Crazy
Gold Diggers of 1933
Gold Diggers of 1935
Gone with the Wind
How the West was Won
Keeper of the Flame
King Kong
Klute
The Little Drummer Girl
Lolita
The Maltese Falcon
Mildred Pierce
Million Dollar Mermaid
Mrs. Soffel
North by Northwest
Now, Voyager
The Nun's Story
Pat and Mike
A Patch of Blue
The Philadelphia Story
Point Blank
Polyester
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Pride and Prejudice
Rebel Without a Cause
Rhapsody in Blue
Rio Bravo
Romance on the High Seas
The Sea of Grass
The Searchers
Shall We Dance
Shoot the Moon
Singin' in the Rain
The Singing Nun
The Song Remains the Same
A Star is Born (1954)
A Star is Born (1976)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Strike Up the Band
Tortilla Flat
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Wattstax
The Wild Bunch
Without Love
The Wizard of Oz
Woman of the Year
Woodstock
Modern Warner Bros. Films and Favorites
Aquaman
Batman: Gotham Knight
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 2
Batman & Robin
Batman Forever
Batman vs. Robin
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Contact
Crazy Stupid Love
Crazy Rich Asians
Critters
The Dark Knight Rises
Deep Blue Sea
The Devil's Advocate
Drop Dead Fred
Empire of The Sun
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Friday the 13th (2009)
Glengarry Glen Ross
Green Lantern
Gremlins
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Hairspray (1988)
Hairspray (2007)
Harold & Kumar go to White Castle
Isn't It Romantic
IT: Chapter 2
Joker
The LEGO Batman Movie
The LEGO Movie
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Lethal Weapon 3
Lethal Weapon 4
Little Shop of Horrors
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
Police Academy
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
Police Academy 3: Back in Training
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
Practical Magic
Selena
Set It Off
Shazam!
Sherlock Holmes
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Snakes on a Plane
A Star Is Born (2018)
Sucker Punch
Suicide Squad
Supergirl
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Three Kings
A Time to Kill
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
The Witches of Eastwick
Wonder Woman
Criterion Collection
8½
…And God Created Woman
16 Days of Glory
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
The 3 Penny Opera
The 39 Steps
The 400 Blows
The 47 Ronin: Part 1
The 47 Ronin: Part 2
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Amarcord
An Angel at my Table
Ashes and Diamonds
Atlanta's Olympic Glory
Au Revior Les Enfants
Autumn Sonata
Babette's Feast
Battle of Algiers
Battleship Potemkin
The Beales of Grey Gardens
Beauty and the Beast
Belle De Jour
Bicycle Thieves
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Black Girl
Black Narcissus
Black Orpheus
Blithe Spirit
The Blob
Blood Simple
Breaking the Waves
Breathless
Brief Encounter
A Brief History of Time
The Brood
Brute Force
Buena Vista Social Club
Calgary '88: 16 Days of Glory
Carnival of Souls
Chimes at Midnight
La Ciénaga
The Circus
City Lights
Cleo from 5 to 7
Cranes are Flying
Cries and Whispers
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
Cronos
Daisies
A Day in the Country
A Day's Pleasure
The Daytrippers
Dead Man
Desert Hearts
Destroy All Monsters
Diabolique
Divorce Italian Style
A Dog's Life
Don't Look Back
Down by Law
The Earrings of Madame De
Eating Raoul
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Elevator to the Gallows
The Emperor Jones
The Entertainer
Equinox
Eraserhead
Europa
Europe '51
Eyes Without a Face
F is for Fake
Faces
Fanny and Alexander
Fantastic Planet
Fat Girl
First Man Into Space
For All Mankind
Foreign Correspondant
The Four Feathers
Fox and His Friends
The Front Page
Funny Games
George Stevens: A Filmmakers Journey
George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin
Germany Year Zero
Gidorah, The Three Headed Monster
Gimme Shelter
Godzilla
Godzilla Raids Again
Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla
Godzilla vs Megalon
Godzilla vs Gigan
Godzilla vs Hedorah
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
The Gold Rush
The Gold Rush: 1942 Version
The Grand Olympics
Gray's Anatomy
The Great Dictator
Great Expectations
Grey Gardens
Hamlet
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
A Hard Day's Night
Harlan County U.S.A
Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
Hearts and Minds
Henry V
The Hidden Fortress
Hobson's Choice
The Honeymoon Killers
Hoop Dreams
House
I Married a Witch
I Shot Jesse James
I Was a Teenage Zombie
The Idle Class
Ikiru
The Immigrant
In the Mood for Love
In Vanda's Room
Intermezzo
Invasion of Astro-Monster
Irma Vep
Ivan the Terrible Part 1
Ivan the Terrible Part 2
Jubilee
Jules and Jim
Juliet of the Spirits
The Jungle Book
The Kid
Kill!
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
A King in New York
The King of Kings
Knife in the Water
Kwaidan
Lady Snowblood
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
The Lady Vanishes
L'Amore
L'Argent
The Last Emperor
The Last Metro
The Last Wave
Late Autumn
Late Spring
L'Avventura
Lillehammer '94: Days of Glory
Limelight
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Lola
Lola Montes
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby in the Land of Demons
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengence
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
Loneliness of the Long Distance
The Long Voyage Home
Look Back in Anger
Lord of the Flies
The Lost Honor of Katarina Blum
Love in the Afternoon
Major Barbara
Man Bites Dog
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Marriage of Maria Braun
Masculin Feminin
Metropolitan
Mikey and Nicky
Modern Times
Mon Oncle
Mona Lisa
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
Monsieur Verdoux
Monterey Pop
The Most Dangerous Game
Mothra vs Godzilla
Mr. Arkadin
Multiple Maniacs
My Brilliant Career
My Dinner with Andre
My Life as a Dog
My Night at Maud's
Nagano '98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory
The Naked City
The Naked Kiss
Nanook of the North
Nice and Friendly
A Night in the Show
Night of the Living Dead
Of Mice and Men
Oliver Twist
Onibaba
Paris, Texas
Pather Panchali
Pay Day
Pepe Le Moko
Permanent Vacation
Persona
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Pilgrim
The Player
Police Story
Primary
The Private Life of Henry the VIII
Pygmalion
Quadrophenia
Querelle
Rashomon
The Red Balloon
Red Desert
The Red Shoes
Rembrandt
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Richard III
The Rink
The Rise of Catherine the Great
The Rite
The River
Rodan
Rome Open City
A Room with a View
The Ruling Class
The Runner
Sabotage
Safety Last!
Salesman
Le Samourai
Samurai Trilogy 1: Musashi Miyamoto
Samurai Trilogy 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Samurai Trilogy 3: Duel at Ganryu Island
Satan's Brew
Sawdust and Tinsel
Scanners
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Scenes From a Marriage
Schizopolis
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Secrets and Lies
Senso
Seoul 1988
Seven Samurai
Seventh Seal
The Seventh Veil
Shadows
Shock Corridor
Shoot the Piano Player
The Shooting
The Shop on Main Street
Shoulder Arms
Sisters
Smithereens
Solaris
Son of Godzilla
Speedy
Stagecoach
La Strada
Stranger Than Paradise
The Stranger
Stromboli
Summertime
Sunnyside
Sweetie
Taste of Cherry
A Taste of Honey
Terror of Mechagodzilla
The Testament of Dr Mabuse
That Hamilton Woman
The Thief of Bagdad
Three Colors: Blue
Three Colors: Red
Three Colors: White
Throne of Blood
Through a Glass Darkly
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Time Bandits
The Times of Harvey Milk
The Tin Drum
To Be or not To Be
Tokyo Olympiad
Tokyo Story
Tom Jones
The Trial of Joan of Arc
True Stories
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Two English Girls
Ugetsu
Umberto D.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Under the Volcano
Vampyr
Victim
Vivre Sa Vie
Voyage to Italy
The Wages of Fear
War and Peace
The War of the Gargantuas
The War Room
Watership Down
Weekend
Wild Strawberries
Wings of Desire
Wise Blood
Withnail and I
A Woman of Paris
A Woman Under the Influence
The X From Outer Space
Yojimbo
Young and Innocent
Young Girls
Z
Other Titles
Alien (Director's Cut)
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien Resurrection
American Pie
Analyze This
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Armageddon
The Awful Truth
Aya
Babe
Baby Boom
The Bells of St. Mary's
Big Top Pee Wee
Boys Don't Cry
Braveheart
Bridesmaids
Broken Arrow
Capricorn One
Casino Royale
Castle in the Sky
The Cat Returns
Cold Mountain
D2: The Mighty Ducks
D3: The Mighty Ducks
The Darjeeling Limited
Dick Tracy
Die Hard
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Downton Abbey
Dr. Strangelove
Eagle Eye
Ella Enchanted
The Family Stone
Fast Five
Fight Club
From Up on Poppy Hill
A Good Day to Die Hard
Good Will Hunting
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hackers
Half-Nelson
Happy Death Day
Harold and Maude
Hellboy (2019)
Her Smell
Hey Arnold! The Movie
Hobbs & Shaw
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Hope Floats
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Howl's Moving Castle
In Bruges
In Cold Blood
Jaws
Jaws 2
Jaws 3-D
Jaws: The Revenge
John Tucker Must Die
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
The Kids Are All Right
Kiki's Delivery Service
The Killing
Kung Fu Panda
The Land Before Time
Last Holiday
The Last Waltz
Let's Spend the Night Together
Lilies of the Field
Little Black Book
The Long Goodbye
Love Actually
Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again
Manhattan
The Mighty Ducks
Mona Lisa Smile
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Mrs. Doubtfire
My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbors the Yamadas
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Network
Notting Hill
One Fine Day
Ocean Waves
An Officer and a Gentleman
Once Upon a Time in the West
Only Angels Have Wings
Only Yesterday
Out of Africa
Paths of Glory
Pet Sematary
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Pom Poko
Ponyo
Porco Russo
Pretty in Pink
Princess Mononoke
Quantum of Solace
Raising Arizona
Ready or Not
Reds
Save the Last Dance
Scary Movie 3
The Secret World of Arrietty
Shall We Dance?
Shooter
Shutter Island
Slumdog Millionaire
Some Kind of Beautiful
Spirited Away
Stealing Harvard
Striptease
Swingers
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Tales from Earthsea
Teen Witch
That Thing You Do!
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
This Means War
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Tropic Thunder
True Lies
Twins
Unfriended
Us
Van Helsing
Varsity Blues
War of the Worlds (2005)
What About Bob?
What Women Want
When Marnie was There
Whispers of the Heart
The Wind Rises
The Wood
X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Yesterday
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When you think of HBO, you think of prestige TV, but that's not all there is to HBO Max. HBO's new streaming service is stuffed with grade-A classic movies transporting you through the milestones of cinema history. To get you started, I've picked some of the unmissable highlights of moviemaking magic to stream right away.
HBO's streamer comes with an intoxicating catalog of legendary movies from Warner Bros., Studio Ghibli and various other film studios, plus a lineup of groundbreaking classics from across the globe in the Criterion Collection. We're talking all-timers here, folks. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Apocalypse Now. Battleship Potemkin. Casablanca. Citizen frickin' Kane. And that's just going up to C! Of course, they're not all the sort of thing you have to pretend you've seen at film school -- Armageddon is in there too.
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If you're looking for comfort viewing, HBO Max comes with every Die Hard, Alien, Nightmare on Elm Street and Police Academy movie. You've got several recent James Bond movies, three different versions of A Star is Born -- including the 2018 Oscar winner -- and more Godzilla movies than you can shake a giant scaly tail at. And of course there's the DC Comics films from Warner Bros, which include Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Shazam and Batman flicks coming out of your pointy ears.
Here's a handful of electrifying classics to get you started.
The Wages of Fear
A convoy of trucks carrying ultra-delicate explosives drives through a ridiculously hostile jungle in The Wages of Fear, one of the most suspenseful movies ever made. Try and remember to breathe.
Cronos
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro's first feature film sees him firing on all cylinders in this delirious slice of neo-vampire weirdness. Cronos is gory, imaginative and just delightfully weird.
The Wild Bunch
Western classic The Wild Bunch.
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One of the best and certainly toughest westerns ever made, The Wild Bunch arrived at a pivotal moment for Hollywood. Exploding onto screens at the end of the sixties alongside Easy Rider and Bonnie and Clyde (the latter of which is also on HBO Max), Sam Peckinpah's opus was one of the touchstones in the coming of the "golden age of Hollywood," when American cinema told richer and often darker stories in a more natural and provocative style. Infamous for what was then startling violence, it's also a brutal interrogation of the male psyche and the myth of the Wild West -- with quotably hardboiled dialogue and astonishing shootouts.
If you're into westerns, HBO Max takes you a tour sapa of the age-old genre: start with John Wayne in Stagecoach, Rio Bravo and The Searchers, then progress through to Once Upon a Time in the West and then latter-day westerns like Giant, Dead Man and Blood Simple.
Paths of Glory
Stanley Kubrick pulls you deep into the madness of war in Paths of Glory, a World War I story with a twist. Kirk Douglas is magnificent as an officer battling to protect his men from both the enemy and their own commanders. Powerful and beautifully-shot, it's also way shorter than Apocalypse Now (which is also on HBO Max, as well as Kubrick's nightmarish anti-war satire Dr. Strangelove).
Set It Off
A heist with a difference in Set It Off.
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This still-dazzling 1996 crime movie puts an impassioned twist on the heist genre with a cast of black women pulling off a score. Smartly crafted and brilliantly acted, Set It Off is as relevant now as it was when it was made.
The Great Dictator
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Charlie Chaplin pulls no punches in The Great Dictator.
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Comedy legend Charlie Chaplin mixed the laughs with serious satire in this scathing attack on the Nazi regime, which was also his first movie with sound. Hilarious and important, The Great Dictator is a great way into Chaplin's oeuvre. Other comic pioneers on HBO Max include Harold Lloyd in Safety Last! and Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, both of which influence comedy to this day.
Withnail and I
One of the most quotable comedies ever made, this tale of a larger-than-life but perpetually out-of-work actor manages to be the funniest snapshot of alcoholic degradation you're ever likely to see. Richard E Grant burns a hole in the screen as Withnail, the kind of guy you love to watch but never want to meet.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Colorful, playful and utterly irresistible, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of several precipitation-themed musicals on HBO Max. Actually, it's just this and Singin' in the Rain.
Yojimbo
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Yojimbo, the samurai movie that inspired the man with no name.
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You're in for a treat if you like samurai movies: HBO Max has a bunch of classics sharper than a slashing katana blade. In addition to Throne of Blood and the Lone Wolf and Cub series, there's Seven Samurai -- which inspired The Magnificent Seven -- and The Hidden Fortress, from which George Lucas borrowed liberally for a little movie called Star Wars. Start with Yojimbo, an action-packed and massively influential flick that went on to inspire Clint Eastwood's entire career.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
If you liked the recent Uncut Gems, this is the sweaty street-level flick for you. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is one of the bold and uncompromising trawls through the throbbing streets of 1970s America from singular filmmaker John Cassavetes that you can find on HBO Max.
Destroy All Monsters
If you're not in the mood for a five hour examination of eighteenth-century Swedish family politics -- we're looking at you, Fanny and Alexander -- then grab a pizza and a brew and enjoy any of the Godzilla movies on HBO Max. This is the ninth in the series and is basically a nonstop scrap between eleven giant monsters.
Wattstax
Enlarge Image
Get down with concert film Wattstax.
Getty
A bunch of concert films on HBO Max provide tuneful snapshots of the 20th century's iconic musical movements. Wattstax is a funky fresh film of a 1972 concert featuring the soul, funk and jazz artists of Stax records such as Isaac Hayes, interspersed with introductions by Richard Pryor. For more musical mayhem, check out the Rolling Stones' concert film Let's Spend the Night Together and Martin Scorsese's documentary The Last Waltz.
Her Smell
Not every movie on HBO Max is a black-and-white French arthouse film. You also get recent stunners like Her Smell, an abrasive 2018 drama powered by an audacious turn from Elisabeth Moss.
Breathless
It's not hard to see why this stylish crime flick was famously touted as one of Quentin Tarantino's favorites. Yes, it's in black and white, but it's also proof that classic cinema isn't all glacial arthouse impenetrability. If you don't want to throw on some shades and smoke cigarettes outside a coffee shop after watching this then I don't know what to tell you.
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Honestly, I could go on all day, but I've got movies to watch. So here's the full list:
Warner Bros. Classics
2001: A Space Odyssey
42nd Street
Adam's Rib
The Adventures of Robin Hood
An American in Paris
Ben-Hur
Body Heat
Bonnie and Clyde
Bringing Up Baby
Cannery Row
Casablanca
Cheyenne Autumn
Cimarron
Citizen Kane
City of Angels
Cool Hand Luke
Countdown
Dirty Harry
Doctor Zhivago
East of Eden
Elvis: That's the Way it is
Footlight Parade
Freaks
Giant
Girl Crazy
Gold Diggers of 1933
Gold Diggers of 1935
Gone with the Wind
How the West was Won
Keeper of the Flame
King Kong
Klute
The Little Drummer Girl
Lolita
The Maltese Falcon
Mildred Pierce
Million Dollar Mermaid
Mrs. Soffel
North by Northwest
Now, Voyager
The Nun's Story
Pat and Mike
A Patch of Blue
The Philadelphia Story
Point Blank
Polyester
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Pride and Prejudice
Rebel Without a Cause
Rhapsody in Blue
Rio Bravo
Romance on the High Seas
The Sea of Grass
The Searchers
Shall We Dance
Shoot the Moon
Singin' in the Rain
The Singing Nun
The Song Remains the Same
A Star is Born (1954)
A Star is Born (1976)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Strike Up the Band
Tortilla Flat
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Wattstax
The Wild Bunch
Without Love
The Wizard of Oz
Woman of the Year
Woodstock
Modern Warner Bros. Films and Favorites
Aquaman
Batman: Gotham Knight
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 2
Batman & Robin
Batman Forever
Batman vs. Robin
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Contact
Crazy Stupid Love
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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
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Glengarry Glen Ross
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Hairspray (1988)
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Harold & Kumar go to White Castle
Isn't It Romantic
IT: Chapter 2
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Little Shop of Horrors
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
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Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
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Snakes on a Plane
A Star Is Born (2018)
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Three Kings
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…And God Created Woman
16 Days of Glory
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Amarcord
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Ashes and Diamonds
Atlanta's Olympic Glory
Au Revior Les Enfants
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Destroy All Monsters
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For All Mankind
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Germany Year Zero
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Gimme Shelter
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That Thing You Do!
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
This Means War
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War of the Worlds (2005)
What About Bob?
What Women Want
When Marnie was There
Whispers of the Heart
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