Director: George Cukor Writers: Zoe Akins (screen play), Frances Marion (screen play) Stars: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
An attractive woman going by the name Marguerite lives in Paris and is a courtesan, kept by the rich aristocrat Baron de Varville. When the handsome young Armand sees her for the first time, he immediately falls in love. Camille is not so easy as to fall for his charms immediately. She lives a comfortable life, after all. As she comes to have feelings for him, Armand's father intervenes asking her not to cast a shadow on his son's future prospects and she agrees. In her greatest time of need however, the loving Armand returns to her.
Director: Tod Browning
Writers: Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins (suggested by story: "Spurs") (as Tod Robbins), Willis Goldbeck (screenplay)
Stars: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
A circus trapeze artist, Cleopatra, takes an interest in Hans, a midget who works in the circus sideshow. Her interest however is in the money Hans will be inheriting and she is actually carrying on an affair with another circus performer, Hercules. Hans's fiancée does her best to convince him that he is being used but to no avail. At their wedding party, a drunken Cleopatra tells the sideshow freaks just what she thinks of them. Together, the freaks decide to make her one of their own.
—garykmcd
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022913/
https://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/Freaks/Fun_Facts
http://www.classicmoviehub.com/facts-and-trivia/film/freaks-1932/
After a tornado hurls through Kansas, a teenager named Dorothy and her dog Toto are swept away from their farm and wakes up in the colorful and vibrant land of Oz. In order to find their way back home, they must embark on a journey to the Emerald City, where the Wizard of Oz resides. On their way there, they become accompanied by a Scarecrow who longs for a brain, a Tin Man who desires a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who seeks courage. All four are hopeful that the 'Great Oz' will be able to fulfill their wishes, but not far behind them is the Wicked Witch of the West, who is out for revenge on Dorothy after she accidentally killed her sister, the Wicked Witch of the East.
—goddangwatir
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138
https://www.flavorwire.com/411724/50-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-wizard-of-oz
Director: James Whale
Writers: H.G. Wells (novel), R.C. Sherriff (screenplay)
Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
—Kenneth Chisholm
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024184/
http://www.classicmoviehub.com/facts-and-trivia/film/the-invisible-man-1933/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502857/10-facts-about-ralph-ellisons-invisible-man
Traveler Allan Gray arrives in the village of Courtempierre and takes lodgings in a small inn. Gray has a great interest in the supernatural, particularly vampires. He's barely settled in when he feels a sinister force descending upon him. In the night an old man enters his room to tell him 'she must not die'. One of the old man's daughters, Leone, has been bitten by a vampire. In order to break the curse, Gray and Leone's sister Gisele must find the original vampire and drive a stake through her heart.
—garykmcd
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023649/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Vampyr-by-Dreyer
https://hellhorror.com/movies/vampyr-movie-1503.html
Director: Karl Freund
Writers: Nina Wilcox Putnam (from a story by), Richard Schayer (from a story by)
Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
During a British Museum-sponsored archaeological expedition to Egypt led by Sir Joseph Whemple, the recently discovered mummy of a high priest, Im-ho-tep, comes to life and walks away into the desert night. Ten years later a new expedition led by Sir Joseph's son, Frank Whemple, find the tomb of Princess Anck-es-en-Amon, Im-ho-tep's long lost love. In order to revive her completely, Im-ho-tep requires Helen Grosvenor to die so he can revive her and make her a living mummy like himself.
—garykmcd
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023245/
https://themotionpictures.net/2018/05/04/favorite-things-about-the-mummy-1932/
Director: James Whale
Writers: Mary Shelley (suggested by: the original story written in 1816 by) (as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley), William Hurlbut (adapted by)
Stars: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature, a woman, to be the companion of the monster.
—John Oswalt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026138/
Adélaïde, Belle, Félicie and Ludovic are young adult siblings who once lived in grandeur until their father's merchant ships were lost at sea. The family is now near ruin, but Adélaïde and Félicie nonetheless still squander away the family money on themselves and keeping beautiful, whereas Belle slaves around the house, doting on her father. Ludovic detests his two spoiled sisters, but is protective of Belle, especially with his friend Avenant, a handsome scoundrel who wants to marry Belle. Crossing the forest one dark and stormy evening, the father gets lost and takes refuge in a fantastical castle. Upon leaving, he steals a blossom off a rose bush, which Belle requested. The castle's resident, an angry beast, sentences him to one of two options for the theft of the rose: his own death, or that of one of his daughters. As she feels she is the cause of her father's predicament (despite her sisters asking for far more lavish gifts), Belle sacrifices herself to the beast. Upon arriving at the castle, Belle finds that the beast, whose grotesqueness she cannot deny, does not want to kill her, but wants to marry her and lavish her with riches. He does not force her, but he will ask her every night to marry him, these times the only ones when he will appear to her. She vows never to say yes. As Belle resigns herself to her mortal fate and looks deeper into the beast - whose grotesque exterior masks a kind but tortured soul - will her thoughts change? Meanwhile, Belle's family, who learn of her situation, have their own thoughts of what to do, some working toward what they believe is Belle's best welfare, and others working toward their own benefit.
—Huggo
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038348/
https://www.criterion.com/films/177-beauty-and-the-beast
https://letterboxd.com/film/beauty-and-the-beast/
Chaos descends upon the world as the brains of the recently deceased become inexplicably reanimated, causing the dead to rise and feed on human flesh. Speculation rests on a radiation-covered NASA satellite returning from Venus, but it only remains a speculation. Anyone who dies during the crisis of causes unrelated to brain trauma will return as a flesh-eating zombie, including anyone who has been bitten by a zombie. The only way to destroy the zombies is to destroy the brain. As the catastrophe unfolds, a young woman visiting her father's grave takes refuge in a nearby farmhouse, where she is met by a man who protects her and barricades them inside. They both later discover people hiding in the basement, and they each attempt to cope with the situation. Their only hope rests on getting some gasoline from a nearby pump into a truck that is running on empty, but this requires braving the hordes of ravenous walking corpses outside. When they finally put their plans into action, panic and personal tensions only add to the terror as they try to survive.
—Curly Q. Link
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Night-of-the-Living-Dead
https://didyouknowfacts.com/8-interesting-facts-about-george-a-romeros-night-of-the-living-dead/
20 years after the end of WWI, in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side, Adenoid Hynkel has risen to power as the ruthless dictator of the country. He believes in a pure Aryan state and the decimation of the Jews. This situation is unknown to a simple Jewish Tomainian barber who has been hospitalized since a WWI battle. Upon his release the barber, who had been suffering from memory loss about the war, is shown the new persecuted life of the Jews by many living in the Jewish ghetto, including a washerwoman named Hannah with whom he begins a relationship. The barber is ultimately spared such persecution by Commander Schultz, whom he saved in that WWI battle. The lives of all Jews in Tomainia are eventually spared with a policy shift by Hynkel himself, who is doing so for ulterior motives. But those motives include a desire for world domination, starting with the invasion of neighboring Osterlich, which may be threatened by Benzino Napaloni, the dictator of neighboring Bacteria. Ultimately Schultz, who has turned traitor against Hynkel's regime, and the barber may be able to join forces to take control of the situation, using Schultz's inside knowledge of the regime's workings and the barber's uncanny resemblance to one of those in power.
—Huggo
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Great-Dictator
http://tonsoffacts.com/30-interesting-and-fascinating-facts-about-the-great-dictator/