Find something to watch for every mood. Browse 4,480 of the best films ever made — voted on by the world's critics in the Sight & Sound poll — each with a trailer and up-to-date streaming options. Filter by genre, decade, country, language, runtime, or director, or explore our hand-curated film collections.
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During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Howard Hawks · 30 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
His Girl Friday (1940)
Howard Hawks · 27 critic votes
Free on Public Domain Movies, FlixHouse, Darkroom · Streaming on MGM Plus, Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Ernst Lubitsch · 21 critic votes
Free on Mometu · Streaming on FlixFling
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Sullivan's Travels (1942)
Preston Sturges · 14 critic votes
Streaming on YouTube TV
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
The Shop around the Corner (1940)
Ernst Lubitsch · 12 critic votes
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
It Happened One Night (1934)
Frank Capra · 9 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, YouTube Free
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
The Awful Truth (1937)
Leo McCarey · 9 critic votes
Free on The Roku Channel
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
George Cukor · 9 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV, Mometu · Streaming on Philo
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Design for Living (1933)
Ernst Lubitsch, Ben Hecht · 6 critic votes
Streaming on fuboTV
Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Tom and George, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.
The Lady Eve (1941)
Preston Sturges · 6 critic votes
Streaming on YouTube TV
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
Ninotchka (1939)
Ernst Lubitsch · 4 critic votes
Free on Mometu
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Preston Sturges · 4 critic votes
Streaming on YouTube TV
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Preston Sturges · 4 critic votes
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Midnight (1939)
Mitchell Leisen · 3 critic votes
An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
Preston Sturges · 3 critic votes
Streaming on Hoopla
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
Monkey Business (1952)
Howard Hawks · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Hoopla
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
The Thin Man (1934)
W. S. Van Dyke, Lesley Selander · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Kanopy
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Twentieth Century (1934)
Howard Hawks · 1 critic vote
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Easy Living (1937)
Mitchell Leisen · 1 critic vote
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Holiday (1938)
George Cukor · 1 critic vote
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Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
The More the Merrier (1943)
George Stevens · 1 critic vote
Free on The Roku Channel, YouTube Free · Streaming on YouTube TV
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Frank Capra · 1 critic vote
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Preston Sturges · 1 critic vote
Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye's report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.