Fimocu­lous has nice­ly high­light­ed a series of good films that Hulu has made freely avail­able. The one obvi­ous down­side is that, unless some­thing has changed at Hulu, the flicks will only be avail­able to view­ers in the US. (Hulu needs to do bet­ter than this!) Nonethe­less, here they are, and thanks to Kotkke.org for help­ing flag these. (Update: For many excel­lent films, please see our col­lec­tion of Free Movies Online.)

Lost in Trans­la­tion

Eter­nal Sun­shine of the Spot­less Mind

Requiem for a Dream

Met­ro­pol­i­tan

The Fifth Ele­ment

28 Days Lat­er

Koy­aanisqat­si

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Today we present Frank Capra’s Acad­e­my Award-win­ning com­e­dy from 1934, star­ring Clark Gable — It Hap­pened One Night. Grab some pop­corn. Dim the lights (even if you’re at work). And enjoy:

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A con­tri­bu­tion (which we always wel­come) from one of our read­ers in Roma­nia:

“The broth­ers Auguste and Louis Lumière cre­at­ed the first pub­licly shown movies, the first doc­u­men­taries and, with this 50-sec­ond film shot at a Provence rail­way sta­tion, the first hor­ror pic­ture. It is said that as Paris audi­ences watched the train chug toward the screen, they believed it was about to crash out of the frame and into the audi­to­ri­um, and ran out scream­ing. True or not, the sto­ry indi­cates the pow­er the medi­um would wield over its audi­ence.

The 50-sec­ond silent film [L’Ar­rivée D’un Train En Gare De La Cio­tat] cap­tures the entry of a steam loco­mo­tive into the train sta­tion in the French coastal town of la Cio­tat. Like most of the oth­er ear­ly Lumière films, L’Ar­rivée d’un train con­sists of a sin­gle, unedit­ed ‘view’ illus­trat­ing an aspect of every­day life.”

“L’Ar­rivée D’un Train En Gare De La Cio­tat” appears in our col­lec­tion, 4,000+ Free Movies Online: Great Clas­sics, Indies, Noir, West­erns, Doc­u­men­taries & More.

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