Warner Bros. Lets You Watch 31 Films Free Online: David Byrne’s True Stories, Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman, Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep & More

It’s Fri­day, which means that tonight, many of us will sit down to watch a movie with our fam­i­ly, our friends, our sig­nif­i­cant oth­er, or — for some cinephiles, best of all — by our­selves. If you haven’t yet lined up any home-cin­e­mat­ic expe­ri­ence in par­tic­u­lar, con­sid­er tak­ing a look at this playlist of 31 fea­ture films just made avail­able to stream by Warn­er Bros. You’ll know the name of that august Hol­ly­wood stu­dio, of course, but did you know that it put out True Sto­ries, the musi­cal plunge into tabloid Amer­i­ca direct­ed by Talk­ing Heads’ David Byrne? Or Wait­ing for Guff­man, the first impro­vised movie by Christo­pher Guest and his troupe of crack comedic play­ers like Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Cather­ine O’Hara, and Park­er Posey?

That may already strike many Open Cul­ture read­ers as the mak­ings of a fine dou­ble fea­ture, though some may pre­fer to watch the ear­ly work of anoth­er kind of auteur: Michel Gondry’s The Sci­ence of Sleep, say, or Richard Lin­klater’s Sub­Ur­bia (a stage-play adap­ta­tion that could well be paired with Sid­ney Lumet’s Death­trap).

If you’re in more of a mood for crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed his­tor­i­cal dra­ma, you have your pick of The Wind and the Lion, Mutiny on the Boun­ty, The Year of Liv­ing Dan­ger­ous­ly, The Mis­sion, and Michael Collins. And if you’d been mean­ing to get around to such nine­teen-eight­ies lit­er­ary adap­ta­tions as The Bon­fire of the Van­i­ties or The Acci­den­tal Tourist, well, your chance has final­ly come.

“It’s a fair­ly wild selec­tion,” The Verge’s Jess Weath­erbed writes of this playlist, point­ing out its “dread­ful flops like 2000’s Dun­geons & Drag­ons movie, Bob­cat Goldthwait’s Hot to Trot (1988), and Eddie Murphy’s The Adven­tures of Plu­to Nash (2002).”

But if you’re just look­ing to have some fun, there’s no rea­son you could­n’t fire up the likes of Mr. Nice Guy, Jack­ie Chan’s first Eng­lish-lan­guage pic­ture. Should that prove too refined, Warn­er Bros. has also gen­er­ous­ly made avail­able Amer­i­can Nin­ja V — a non-canon­i­cal entry in that series, we should note, star­ring not orig­i­nal Amer­i­can Nin­ja Michael Dudikoff, but direct-to-video mar­tial-arts icon David Bradley. On Fri­day night, after all, any view­ing goes.

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Based in Seoul, Col­in Marshall writes and broad­casts on cities, lan­guage, and cul­ture. His projects include the Sub­stack newslet­ter Books on Cities and the book The State­less City: a Walk through 21st-Cen­tu­ry Los Ange­les. Fol­low him on the social net­work for­mer­ly known as Twit­ter at @colinmarshall.