The Top Classic Movies From The Last Century

The 400 Blows (1959)

A young boy from Paris can't catch a break. He has horrible parents and every other adult in his life is unhelpful and inconsiderate. He and his best friend try to plan for a better life when he ends up in trouble with the law. The 400 Blows is considered a French New Wave drama film. 

Breathless (1960)

Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo star in this French crime drama from 1960. Belmondo plays a "suave" criminal who panics and ends up accidentally killing a cop. While on the run, he takes his journalist girlfriend to hide out with him in Paris without her even knowing. The film follows their relationship and how they navigate this bizarre encounter.

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The More You Know

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first American film to have a soundtrack.
  • In classic Hitchcock movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant was actually older than his on-screen mother, Jessie Royce Landis.
  • Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”
  • Peter Ostrum, Charlie from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, never acted in another movie after that and is now a veterinarian.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.