TCM Big Screen Classics

With iconic titles that span decades, the TCM Big Screen Classics Series has something for everyone! An unmissable lineup begins in January and continues monthly throughout the year as Fathom Events and TCM bring some of the greatest titles ever back into movie theaters. In addition, these classics will each be accompanied by exclusive commentary from TCM hosts who will provide insight, background and more, making these events that movie lovers won’t want to miss.

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In Theaters Feb 9, Feb 12

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

Love Story

Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV (Ryan O'Neal) and music student Jennifer Cavilleri (Ali MacGraw) share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other.

Feb 9
Feb 12

In Theaters Feb 23

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

The Color Purple

Academy Award^® winner Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey star in director Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple.

Feb 23

In Theaters Mar 15

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

King Kong

In the classic adventure that made her a star, Fay Wray plays the beautiful woman who conquers the savage heart of a giant ape.

Mar 15

In Theaters Apr 26, Apr 27, Apr 29

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

A League of Their Own

Big league box office stars Geena Davis, Madonna, Lori Petty and Tom Hanks pitch up as The Rockford Peaches, a brash and ballsy team of tryers with a talent they were never meant to have and the guts to take it all the way!

Apr 26
Apr 27
Apr 29

In Theaters May 17, May 20

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

Airplane!

Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty join panicky passengers, inept ground controllers and an inflatable auto-pilot (named “Otto,” of course!) in the disaster-film spoof voted “one of the 10 funniest movies ever made” by the American Film Institute.

May 17
May 20

In Theaters May 31, Jun 3

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

The Shining

Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall star in director Stanley Kubrick's disturbing adaptation of Stephen King's blockbuster horror novel.

May 31
Jun 3

In Theaters Jun 14, Jun 17

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

Annie

Director John Houston's film adaptation of the Broadway smash hit, ANNIE, which in turn was based on the perennial cartoon favorite, Little Orphan Annie. This musical extravaganza features stunning performance by Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Tim Curry and Albert Finney.

Jun 14
Jun 17

In Theaters Jun 28, Jul 1

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

The Blues Brothers

Comedy icons John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star in the outrageously funny musical comedy The Blues Brothers.

Jun 28
Jul 1

In Theaters Jul 19, Jul 22

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

Ghost

One of the most memorable romantic films ever and winner* of two Academy Awards®, Sam (Patrick Swayze), living as a ghost, discovers his death wasn’t just a random robbery gone bad.

Jul 19
Jul 22

In Theaters Aug 9, Aug 12

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

Babe

Academy Award^® winner and Best Picture nominee, Babe is the inspirational story of a shy Yorkshire piglet who doesn’t quite know his place in the world.

Aug 9
Aug 12

In Theaters Sep 13, Sep 14, Sep 17

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Richard Dreyfuss stars as cable worker Roy Neary, who along with several other stunned bystanders experience a close encounter of the first kind - witnessing UFOs soaring across the sky. After this life-changing event, the inexplicable vision of a strange, mountain-like formation haunts him.

Sep 13
Sep 14
Sep 17

In Theaters Oct 11, Oct 12

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

Psycho

Join the Master of Suspense on a chilling journey as an unsuspecting victim (Janet Leigh) visits the Bates Motel and falls prey to one of cinema’s most notorious psychopaths - Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins).

Oct 11
Oct 12

In Theaters Nov 8, Nov 9

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

A feisty misfit sent to a mental hospital inspires his fellow patients to assert themselves, much to the chagrin of the strong-willed head nurse, who turns out to be more dangerous than any of the inmates. Based on the novel by Ken Kesey and the play by Dale Wasserman.

Nov 8
Nov 9

In Theaters Dec 13, Dec 14

TCM Big Screen Classics Presents

Fiddler on the Roof

Director Norman Jewison offers this uplifting classic about a poor Jewish milkman (Topol) in Czarist Russia who, along with his devoted family, battles financial challenges and growing anti-Semitism within his village.

Dec 13
Dec 14

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