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There is nothing wrong with a new release. But occasionally you want to watch something tried and true, a film that has been enjoyed by numerous generations and is certain not to disappoint. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of vintage films featuring some of Hollywood’s most famous performers. Brush up on your cinematic history, or at the very least know that you’re going to watch a high-quality, timeless film.

White Christmas.

A white Christmas does not have to take place during the winter months. Watch the holiday classic starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen as they work together to salvage a crumbling Vermont inn.

Based on Frank O’Rourke’s 1964 novel A Mule for the Marquesa, The Professionals, starring Burt Lancaster, is a popular Western about four adventurers hired by a Texas tycoon to rescue his wife, who looks to have been kidnapped by a famed Mexican bandit.

Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty play the ill-fated bank thieves in this 1960s criminal drama inspired by the real-life couple.

The Dirty Dozen

This World War II film, directed by Robert Aldrich, is based on E. M. Nathanson’s 1965 bestseller about a real-life company of troops during WWII. A dozen prisoners are offered amnesty if they participate in a dangerous mission to France, with a sprawling ensemble cast including Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, John Cassavetes, Jim Brown, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Clint Walker, and Robert Webber.

Dirty Harry

Clint Eastwood’s titular character first appears in this thriller, in which a San Francisco cop hunts a sniper serial killer.

Taxi Driver

One of Martin Scorsese’s early classics stars Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, a PTSD-afflicted New York City cab driver. The film, written by Paul Schrader, stars Jodie Foster, Cybil Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks.

Taxi Driver

Francis Ford Coppola recut his Vietnam War classic in 2001, resulting in this extended epic that added 49 minutes to the already 2.5-hour picture. The film, inspired by Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella Heart of Darkness, stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper. It follows a group of soldiers on a special mission to take down a renegade officer in Cambodia.

Bladerunner: Theatrical Cut

Ridley Scott’s famous sci-fi drama imagines a dystopian 2019 Los Angeles (the sequel, Blade Runner 2049, came out in 2017, 35 years after the original and two years before its suggested future). Harrison Ford plays humanity’s reluctant rescuer, a cop who reluctantly agrees to track down rogue synthetic beings known as replicants.

She’s Got to Have It

Every list of classic films should include a Spike Lee film, such as this sensual black-and-white comedy that launched the legendary director’s career. Nola Darling (Tracy Camilla Johns) is a Brooklyn artist who juggles three guys in a timeless story that Lee adapted for the Netflix series of the same name.

She’s Got to Have It

Another Vietnam War epic, Full Metal Jacket, was Stanley Kubrick’s last film before his death. It stars Matthew Modine, Vincent D’Onofrio, and others as Marine trainees who subsequently fight in Vietnam.

Full Metal Jacket

Not to exaggerate, but Nora Ephron’s Oscar-nominated masterpiece is one of the most exquisite films ever made. Over 12 years (OK, actually 96 minutes), Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) go from acquaintances with a mutual hatred for one another to best friends who are—finally!—utterly besotted with one another.