Update 2024-08-31: Part 1 (of 7) has uploaded more than it's size and has 2 seeders! (in addition to me). THANK-YOU SEEDERS! Part 7 (with the lowest IMDB ratings) has also uploaded more than its size - but no complete downloaders yet. The other parts have uploaded about 90% of their size. Experience suggests that a lot of you will complete the torrents in the next 3-4 days. Thanks for your patience!

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These are the 7 torrent that comprise this collection. This torrent is Part 5 of 7.

500 Classic Movies Part 1 of 7 - 67 Movies with IMDB Ratings from 8.0 to 9.0 jZQ 196GB Nb8
500 Classic Movies Part 2 of 7 - 59 Movies with IMDB Ratings from 7.4 to 7.9 jZQ 190GB Nb8
500 Classic Movies Part 3 of 7 - 80 Movies with IMDB Ratings from 7.0 to 7.3 jZQ 237GB Nb8
500 Classic Movies Part 4 of 7 - 76 Movies with IMDB Ratings from 6.7 to 6.9 jZQ 219GB Nb8
500 Classic Movies Part 5 of 7 - 80 Movies with IMDB Ratings from 6.4 to 6.6 jZQ 217GB Nb8 <-- this torrent
500 Classic Movies Part 6 of 7 - 77 Movies with IMDB Ratings from 6.0 to 6.3 jZQ 191GB Nb8
500 Classic Movies Part 7 of 7 - 61 Movies with IMDB Ratings from 3.6 to 5.9 jZQ 146GB Nb8

These files were copied to every one of the 7 torrents: they describe the *collection* files as opposed to the torrent files.

Overall Description.nfo (this file)
These all contain the 500 movie files, in the order specied.
Overall Movies in Alphabetic Order.txt
Overall Movies In IMDB Rating Order.txt
Overall Movies In Year Order.txt

These describe this torrent's files:

Description.nfo (this file)
These all contain the 500 movie files, in the order specified.
Movies in Alphabetic Order.txt
Movies In IMDB Rating Order.txt
Movies In Year Order.txt

These are the movies in this torrent (from "Alphabetic Order"):

80 movies in alphabetic order in Folder "Classic Movies Part 5 of 7 - 80 Movies with IMDB Ratings from 6.4 to 6.6 jZQ Nb8"

A Lawless Street (1955) IMDB 6.4
A Scandal in Paris (1946) IMDB 6.6
Among the Living (1941) IMDB 6.4
Angels One Five (1952) IMDB 6.4
Appointment in London (1953) IMDB 6.5
Arabesque (1966) IMDB 6.4
Bandidos (1967) IMDB 6.6
Bartleby (1970) IMDB 6.6
Blue Skies (1946) IMDB 6.4
Captains of the Clouds (1942) IMDB 6.4
Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) IMDB 6.4
Chicago Syndicate (1955) IMDB 6.5
China (1943) IMDB 6.6
Corridor of Mirrors (1948) IMDB 6.5
Daughters of Darkness (1971) IMDB 6.5
David Holzman's Diary (2011) IMDB 6.5
Esther (1999) IMDB 6.6
Fancy Pants (1950) IMDB 6.5
Fear No Evil (1969) IMDB 6.4
Flesh and Fury (1952) IMDB 6.5
For the Love of Mary (1948) IMDB 6.6
Forever Amber (1947) IMDB 6.5
Francis (1950) IMDB 6.4
Francis Goes to the Races (1951) IMDB 6.4
Garden of Evil (1954) IMDB 6.6
Golden Earrings (1947) IMDB 6.6
Guns for San Sebastian (1968) IMDB 6.6
Hannibal Brooks (1969) IMDB 6.6
Hell Bent for Leather (1960) IMDB 6.6
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) IMDB 6.4
Here Is My Heart (1934) IMDB 6.6
High Tide (1947) IMDB 6.5
Hot Saturday (1932) IMDB 6.5
International Lady (1941) IMDB 6.6
I've Always Loved You (1946) IMDB 6.4
Jacob (1994) IMDB 6.5
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) IMDB 6.6
Kings Go Forth (1958) IMDB 6.5
Knock on Any Door (1949) IMDB 6.6
Ladies They Talk About (1933) IMDB 6.6
Lonelyhearts (1959) IMDB 6.6
Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933) IMDB 6.5
Murder at the Vanities (1934) IMDB 6.5
Next Time We Love (1936) IMDB 6.4
No Man of Her Own (1932) IMDB 6.6
Now and Forever (1934) IMDB 6.5
Only the Valiant (1951) IMDB 6.5
P.J. (1968) IMDB 6.5
Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) IMDB 6.4
Rio Conchos (1964) IMDB 6.6
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) IMDB 6.4
Saint Paul (2000) IMDB 6.4
Secret of the Blue Room (1933) IMDB 6.4
Singapore (1947) IMDB 6.4
Solomon (1997) IMDB 6.5
Strange Confession (1945) IMDB 6.5
Take One False Step (1949) IMDB 6.4
Tennessee Johnson (1942) IMDB 6.5
The Big Operator (1959) IMDB 6.4
The Constant Husband (1955) IMDB 6.4
The Crime of the Century (1933) IMDB 6.6
The Desperadoes (1943) IMDB 6.4
The Ernie Game (1968) IMDB 6.5
The Gentle Gunman (1952) IMDB 6.4
The Ghost Ship (1943) IMDB 6.6
The Great Man's Lady (1942) IMDB 6.6
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) IMDB 6.5
The Left Hand of God (1955) IMDB 6.4
The Mad Doctor (1940) IMDB 6.5
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) IMDB 6.4
The Nutty Professor (1963) IMDB 6.6
The Phantom of the Opera (1962) IMDB 6.4
The Raging Tide (1951) IMDB 6.4
The Shooting (1966) IMDB 6.5
The Silent Enemy (1958) IMDB 6.6
The Sleeping Tiger (1954) IMDB 6.5
The Spiders; Part 1 - The Golden Sea (1919) IMDB 6.5
The Square Jungle (1955) IMDB 6.5
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) IMDB 6.4
World in My Corner (1956) IMDB 6.4

The steps in creating this collection:

1) Download the vast bulk of it from a private tracker - 448 of the 500 are from Nb8 on the private tracker. Excellent encodes. All praise to Nb8, sincerely. I'm not an encoder, just a re-packager.

2) Moved the movies into 7 folders representing IMDB rating ranges, e.g. "500 Classic Movies Part 7 of 7 - 61 Movies with IMDB Ratings from 3.6 to 5.9 jZQ 146GB Nb8"

3) Adding more movies to the "500 Classic Movies Part 1 of 7 - 67 Movies with IMDB Ratings from 8.0 to 9.0 jZQ 196GB Nb8" because it had too few movies and "500 Classic Movies..." sounded more impressive than "471 Classic Movies..." LOL

Altogether there are 500 movies, counting the 4 versions of "Blade Runner (1982)" as one movie.

Across the 500, the average IMDB rating is 6.84 (well above the supposed average for dramas 6.4) and the average size of the video file is 2.8GB.

These are the typical files for each movie:

12 Angry Men (1957) IMDB 9.0\12.Angry.Men.1957.1080p.BluRay.Flac.1.0.x265.HEVC-Nb8.jpg
12 Angry Men (1957) IMDB 9.0\12.Angry.Men.1957.1080p.BluRay.Flac.1.0.x265.HEVC-Nb8.mkv
12 Angry Men (1957) IMDB 9.0\12.Angry.Men.1957.1080p.BluRay.Flac.1.0.x265.HEVC-Nb8.nfo
12 Angry Men (1957) IMDB 9.0\12.Angry.Men.1957.1080p.BluRay.Flac.1.0.x265.HEVC-Nb8.srt
12 Angry Men (1957) IMDB 9.0\IMDB Trailer.html
12 Angry Men (1957) IMDB 9.0\IMDB.html

The movies have:

* English subtitles (if my code works)
* A JPG that is the main image from the movie's IMDB page
* IMDB.html -- double-click it to go to the movie's IMDB page*
* IMDB Trailer.html - double-click to view the trailer (317 of the 500 movies have these)
* Youtube Trailer.html - brings you to the movie's trailer on Youtube.com (61 of the 500 have these)
* [movieName].NFO which has information like this:

     [video]
       [codec]h264[/codec]
       [micodec]h264[/micodec]
       [bitrate]2498763[/bitrate]
       [width]1920[/width]
       [height]872[/height]
       [aspect]240:109[/aspect]
       [aspectratio]240:109[/aspectratio]
       [framerate]23.976[/framerate]
       [language]und[/language]
       [scantype]progressive[/scantype]
       [default]True[/default]
       [forced]False[/forced]
       [duration]148[/duration]
       [durationinseconds]8931[/durationinseconds]
     [/video]
     [audio]
       [codec]aac[/codec]
       [micodec]aac[/micodec]
       [bitrate]224000[/bitrate]
       [language]eng[/language]
       [scantype]progressive[/scantype]
       [channels]6[/channels]
       [samplingrate]48000[/samplingrate]
       [default]True[/default]
       [forced]False[/forced]
     [/audio

Enjoy!