Public Domain Movies - Feature Films

Detour

crime, drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

"Man is involved in two freakish accidents that make him look like a murderer. Poverty row masterwork that is the most precise elucidation of the noir theme of explicit fatalism." - noir expert Spencer Selby | Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald. | A B-movie, it was shot in six days. The film, budgeted for $89,000 and ended up costing $117,000 to make.

A Bucket of Blood

cult film, Roger Corman, beatniks, Third Eye Cinema

Walter is a busboy overly impressed with the cool cats that hang out at The Yellow Door coffee house,and he wonders how tocome "hip"

Intolerance

Silent, drama, History, D.W. Griffith

Director D.W. Griffith's expensive, most ambitious silent film masterpiece Intolerance (1916) is one of the milestones and landmarks in cinematic history. Many reviewers and film historians consider it the greatest film of the silent era. The mammoth film was also subtitled: "A Sun-Play of the Ages" and "Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages." Griffith was inspired to make this film after watching the revolutionary Italian silent film epic Cabiria (1914) by director Giovanni Pastrone.

White Zombie


You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.

Star Wreck: In the Pirkining

Finland, Scandinavia, cult, Comedy, Parody, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Independent Film

A Finnish culthit that became internationaly known through it's open CC-license. From IMDB: The future looks bleak for Captain Pirk. Originally from the far future, he traveled back to save the world, but was shipwrecked on the 21st century. The world of the past is a dangerous place and he is finding it difficult to convince the ladies he is, in fact, an intergalactic space hero from the future. To make things right Pirk comes up with a questionable plan to save mankind's future...

The General

silent, comedy, romance, war, Buster Keaton, pdmovies

Union solders have stolen The General, a Confederate train manned by Johnnie Gray, who was unable to enlist in the Confederate army because he is needed as an engineer. The Union plans to use the train to supply its soldiers in a sneak attack against the Confederates. But now it's up to Gray and his love, Annabelle Lee, to reclaim The General, recross enemy lines, and warn the Confederates.

The Little Shop Of Horrors

Rodger Corman, horror, black comedy, Jack Nicholson

Roger Corman classic about a nerdy flowershop clerk who grows a giant, man-eating plant. Jack Nicholson makes his film debut as a dental patient who loves pain.

Girl o' My Dreams

comedy, musical

You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.

Hemp for Victory

Propaganda, government film, pdmovies

US government propaganda film made during WWII touting the virtues of hemp. The film was aimed at farmers at a time when the miltary was facing a shortage of hemp, it shows how hemp is grown and processed into rope and other products. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.

Angel on My Shoulder

comedy

You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.

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