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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 5h

49 years ago:
Marathon Man (US)
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
1976-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10518

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98 years ago:
The Second 100 Years (US)
Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.
1927-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/50903

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77 years ago:
Locura de amor (ES)
The passion that Joan of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Kings and heir to the throne, feels for her husband, Philip the Handsome, sovereign of the ...
1948-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/209899

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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 6h

62 years ago:
Scum of the Earth! (US)
An innocent teenager is blackmailed into nude modeling for a photographer in league with a gang boss who sells illicit photos of terrorized young wome...
1963-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28175

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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 6h

72 years ago:
Una di quelle (IT)
Rocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.
1953-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/261973

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 7h

32 years ago:
Demolition Man (US)
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a res...
1993-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9739

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80 years ago:
Rome, Open City (IT)
Original title: Roma città aperta
In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member o...
1945-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/307

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53 years ago:
Bad Company (US)
After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with...
1972-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/31591

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46 years ago:
Street Warriors II (ES)
Original title: Perros callejeros II
A veteran policeman named Fernando feels a lot of hatred against Ángel because the boy ran him over with a car leaving him lame. Now Fernando accuses ...
1979-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/132001

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 8h

45 years ago:
Umbrella Coup (FR)
Original title: Le Coup du parapluie
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. H...
1980-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/60194

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 8h

68 years ago:
Until They Sail (US)
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
1957-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/108812

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 9h

36 years ago:
Dasharatham (IN)
Original title: ദശരഥം
Rajiv, a chronic bachelor and a business tycoon, decides to have a child. Annie, who has financial needs, agrees to help him and give birth to Rajiv's...
1989-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/249210

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64 years ago:
Mr. Sardonicus (US)
In 1880, Sir Robert Cargrave, a London physician known for his experimental work in paralysis treatment, is summoned to Gorslava by the mysterious Bar...
1961-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/29402

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 9h

70 years ago:
Kismet (US)
A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along...
1955-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4822

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33 years ago:
Under Siege (FR,US)
A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've plann...
1992-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8845

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 10h

54 years ago:
The Olsen Gang in Jutland (DK)
Original title: Olsen-banden i Jylland
The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large...
1971-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11390

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50 years ago:
The Story of Adele H. (FR)
Original title: L'Histoire d'Adèle H.
In the 19th century a mysterious woman named Adele H. crosses the ocean, from Europe to North America, to relentlessly pursue an handsome officer that...
1975-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1829

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66 years ago:
The Wayward Girl (NO)
Original title: Ung flukt
Gerd, considered a woman of dubious morals, falls in love with a boy whose family does not accept their relationship, so both run away and settle in a...
1959-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/56691

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57 years ago:
The Boston Strangler (US)
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through ...
1968-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/26690

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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 12h

85 years ago:
Too Many Girls (US)
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The col...
1940-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/94854

Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 12h

73 years ago:
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (US)
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
1952-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4460

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83 years ago:
Flying Tigers (US)
Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into Wor...
1942-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/29372

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Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.bsky.social · 13h

44 years ago:
Merry-Go-Round (FR)
New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soo...
1981-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/162514

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48 years ago:
Proof of the Man (JP,US)
Original title: 人間の証明
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a Ne...
1977-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/287765

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119 years ago:
The '?' Motorist (UK)
A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.
1906-10-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/132379