10 best movies in the public domain that you must watch. We've updated the list with much more info and with all the movies so you can decide were they worth it. Don't forget to leave a vote in the Poll.
1) Detour (1945)
Snappy dialog, femme fatale, guilt-ridden hero, flimsy sets – it’s protonoir that helped launch a genre.
The film was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney (uncredited) from Goldsmith's novel of the same name and was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. The 68-minute film was released by the Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), one of the so-called "poverty row" film studios in mid-twentieth century Hollywood.
Although made on a small budget with bare sets and straightforward camera work, Detour has gathered much praise through the years and is held in high regard. In 1992, Detour was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
2) Driller Killer (1979)
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill. This film was sometimes confused with the 1948 dance hit Killer Diller.
The Driller Killer is a 1979 horror film directed by and starring Abel Ferrara. It was on a list of banned so-called video nasties in the United Kingdom.
The film was released in the US in 1979, the UK in 2002, and on 10 June 2010 it was re-released as video on demand (VOD). The film is now in the public domain as it was never registered in the United States Copyright Office database.
3) Night of the Living Dead (1968)
George Romero’s gritty classic out-brains the avalanche of zombie flicks it inspired. Mmm ... brains.
Night of the Living Dead is an American independent horror film directed by George A. Romero, starring Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea and Karl Hardman. It premiered on October 1, 1968, and was completed on a US$114,000 budget. The film became a financial success, grossing $12 million domestically and $18 million internationally. Night of the Living Dead was heavily criticized at its release owing to explicit content, but eventually garnered critical acclaim and has been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as a film deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." The film has entered the public domain due to an error by the distributor.
The story follows characters Ben (Duane Jones), Barbra (Judith O'Dea), and five others trapped in a rural farmhouse in Pennsylvania which is attacked by "living dead" monsters known as zombies. Night of the Living Dead was the basis of five subsequent Living Dead films (1978-2010) also directed by Romero and has inspired two remakes (1990, 2006)
4)Well-made stop-motion short PLUTO AND THE VESSEL (2013)
Thursday, 13 February 2014 18:34
"Pluto and the Vessel" is a short animated film by Harrison Browning. It was created using a combination of clay, object, and puppet animation. The work exists simultaneously as both homage to early science fiction horror flicks and as a personal contemplation on the impossible differentiation between containers and their contents.5)Wonderful Sci-Fi Film DR. EASY (2013)
Tuesday, 11 February 2014 15:06
The UK visual artist collective Shynola's short movie about a futuristic medical robot forced to negotiate with a holed-up gunman. This short was written and directed by Jason Groves, Richard Kenworthy, and Christopher Harding, and it serves as a prologue for a planned feature film adaptation of the Matthew De Abaitua's book The Red Men.6)Great Oscar-nominated movie This Way Up (2008)
Saturday, 08 February 2014 11:47
This Way Up takes Pixar style design and Tim Burtonesque plot. The focus of the short is on two funeral directors who have to pick up a recently deceased person. However there hearse is destroyed and they have to take the coffin through a hell of a lot of obstacle course to get her to her resting peace and do it in respect. This film was nominated the Oscar for Best Short Animated Film and is directed by Adam Foulkes and Alan Smith.7)Watch an awesome animated film JUNKYARD (2013)
Monday, 03 February 2014 14:28
Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog's wants to bring an end to the scourge of texting while driving once and for all — and he just might do it. In a powerful 35-minute PSA entitled From One Second to the Next, Herzog hauntingly and painfully documents the tragic testimonies of individuals who have shattered lives and have had their lives shattered as a direct result of texting and driving. Should be a mandatory part of all driver training programs.
8)Beautiful love story in Body Language (2012)
Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:11
Maxine and Sasha come together. They are so attracted to each other. Their relationship could be a nice story, but the presence of a not very convenient Indian and a ballerina mess things up. A lot!
Director : Jonathan Rio, Producers : Nicolas Deprost and Julien Krizek for Whac Media with the help of Pictanovo - Région Nord/Pas De Calais!9)Beautiful and amazing animated movie Caldera (2012)
Tuesday, 14 January 2014 00:33
CALDERA is inspired by my father's struggle with schizoaffective disorder. In states of delusion, my father has danced on the rings of Saturn, spoken with angels, and fled from his demons. He has lived both a fantastical and haunting life, but one that's invisible to the most of us. In our differing understanding of reality, we blindly mandate his medication, assimilate him to our marginalizing culture, and entirely misinterpret him for all he is worth. CALDERA aims to not only venerate my father, but all brilliant minds forged in the haunted depths of psychosis.10)Attack of borg-parasites in short film OPERATOR (2013)
Tuesday, 07 January 2014 18:13
Operator is a stop motion animated short film about a man named Bob, attacked by a bio-mechanical parasite, fighting for his life and family against forces much greater than himself... I was inspired to make this film by a few things, cordyceps mushrooms which infect and control the minds of ants, causing them to climb up as high as possible so that when the mushroom finally bursts from the ants head the spores are spread as far as possible by the wind, said the director Sam Barnett.
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