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r/classicfilms

121.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 924 upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
121.8Kmembers
924best post
239most comments
301posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

42% 26% 9% 8% 8%
Image 42% Video 26% Text 9% Gallery 8% Link 8% Question 7%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

See this Classic Film 98 General Discussion 85 Classic Film Review 34 Question 29 Video Link 23 Behind The Scenes 17 Memorabilia 7 Events 5 :Moon: What Did You Watch This Week? 3

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Cleopatra (1934) masterfully dodging the Hays Code

↑ 924 💬 71 video 2026

Gene Kelly and Jean Hagen in "Singin' in the Rain" (1952).

↑ 840 💬 121 image 2026

Is there a thirstier noir than The Big Sleep?

↑ 571 💬 133 gallery 2026

finally watched charade 1963 one of the greatest films ever with a great cast and with many plot twists haha what are your thoughts on this great fil…

↑ 557 💬 113 image 2026

Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell in "The Seven Year Itch" (1955)

↑ 553 💬 34 image 2026

All About Eve(1950): Marilyn Monroe's minor role

↑ 551 💬 46 video 2026

One of the best Robin Hood movies

↑ 540 💬 111 image 2026

Born August 23, 1930, Vera Miles turns 96! Happy birthday.

↑ 529 💬 24 image 2026

Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in that one scene from The Lady Eve

↑ 457 💬 15 image 2026

Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and Angela Lansbury in "Gaslight" (1944)

↑ 452 💬 35 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/classicfilms, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/classicfilms have?
r/classicfilms has about 121.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 924 upvotes, which is 8 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/classicfilms?
"Cleopatra (1934) masterfully dodging the Hays Code" reached 924 upvotes and 71 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/classicfilms.
What subreddits are similar to r/classicfilms?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone, r/topofreddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/classicfilms?
Of the posts we hold, 42% are image posts and 26% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/classicfilms?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 23:00 UTC (245 avg upvotes), Monday at 14:00 UTC (206 avg upvotes), Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (194 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/classicfilms?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/classicfilms has 274 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/classicfilms, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.