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American cinema: All genres

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Michael Curtiz

England, 1191. With Richard the Lionheart, the rightful king, away fighting in the crusades, the country is governed by his younger brother, John...   [More...]

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Alfred L. Werker

When Professor Moriarty is acquitted of a murder charge, his arch-nemesis Sherlock Holmes vows to bring him to book. Moriarty rises to this challenge by concocting what he believes will be the crime of the century...   [More...]

Advise and Consent (1962)
Otto Preminger

Aware that his health and power are ebbing away, the President of the United States is determined that Robert A. Leffingwell, a liberally inclined academic, should be appointed Secretary of State...   [More...]

The African Queen (1951)
John Huston

In 1914, Rose Sayer assists her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, in leading a missionary village in German East Africa...   [More...]

The Age of Innocence (1993)
Martin Scorsese

New York in the 1870s. The forthcoming marriage of the successful lawyer Newland Archer to May Welland, the scion of a great American family, is sure to be a major society event, but Newland's commitment to May wavers when he takes an interest in her unconventional cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska...   [More...]

Aleksandr's Price (2013)
Pau Masó

When his mother commits suicide, Aleksandr, an illegal Russian immigrant, finds himself alone and friendless in New York...   [More...]

Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915)
Maurice Tourneur

Lee Randall leads a double life. By day, he is a respected, law-abiding citizen; by night he is Jimmy Valentine, an ace safecracker...   [More...]

Alien (1979)
Ridley Scott

Commercial space freighter Nostromo is on its way back to Earth with a cargo of precious mineral ore. When the ship receives a distress call from a nearby planet, the crew - consisting of five men and two women - is revived from stasis and makes ready to investigate, in accordance with company procedure...   [More...]

Alien 3 (1992)
David Fincher

When a fire breaks out aboard the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco, an escape pod containing the surviving crew members is ejected into space...   [More...]

Aliens (1986)
James Cameron

57 years after her encounter with an alien being which wiped out her crew aboard the space freighter Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is picked up and taken back to Earth...   [More...]

All About Eve (1950)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The night Eve Harrington wins her award for the best stage actress of the year, the people who unwittingly brought about her success reflect on her meteoric rise to fame...   [More...]

All I Desire (1953)
Douglas Sirk

In 1910, Naomi Murdock is an itinerant actress who earns barely enough to live on, performing at rundown theatres in provincial towns across America...   [More...]

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Lewis Milestone

At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, a German schoolmaster is urging his class of idealistic youths to enlist and do their bit to save the Fatherland...   [More...]

All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Douglas Sirk

Cary Scott is a middle-aged New England widow. Well provided for by her late husband, she leads a comfortable life but is anxious over what the future may hold for her...   [More...]

All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Anatole Litvak

In the 1840s, French teacher Henriette Deluzy arrives in America and finds work in a girls' school. When her pupils pick up on rumours of her recent past, she decides to tell them her story...   [More...]

American Graffiti (1973)
George Lucas

Modesto, California, 1962. After a party to celebrate the end of term, a group of high school graduates go cruising about town, and end up having a far more eventful night than they planned...   [More...]

An Affair to Remember (1957)
Leo McCarey

The world is stunned by the news that celebrity playboy Nickie Ferrante is about to marry a wealthy American heiress. Nickie is on his way back to New York by ocean liner when fate intervenes and derails his matrimonial plans, via a chance meeting with nightclub singer Terry McKay...   [More...]

An American in Paris (1951)
Vincente Minnelli

After WWII, ex-serviceman Jerry Mulligan decides to stay on in Paris and pursue a career as an artist, seeking inspiration from the city he has fallen in love with...   [More...]

An American Werewolf in London (1981)
John Landis

David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors...   [More...]

Anastasia (1956)
Anatole Litvak

Paris, 1928. A decade after Tsar Nicolas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks, rumours continue to circulate that the tsar's daughter, Anastasia, somehow survived...   [More...]

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Otto Preminger

Paul Biegler is a struggling lawyer in a small Michigan town. Prompted by his alcoholic friend Parnell McCarthy he agrees to take on the case for the defence in an impending murder trial...   [More...]

Anchors Aweigh (1945)
George Sidney

Returning home to a hero's welcome after WWII, navy personnel Clarence Doolittle and Joe Brady can hardly wait to get ashore and extract every last morsel of pleasure from their leave...   [More...]

And the Violins Stopped Playing (1988)
Alexander Ramati

Poland, 1942. Dymitr Mirga is a Romani gypsy whose skills as a violin player are very much appreciated by German officers...   [More...]

And Then There Were None (1945)
René Clair

Eight men and women, all unknown to each other, accept a mysterious invitation to an island estate. They are welcomed by two domestic servants, Mr and Mrs Rogers, who appear to be as ignorant of the reason for the meeting as the guests are...   [More...]

The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Sidney Lumet

Once he has completed a ten year stretch in prison for burglary, John Anderson returns to his girlfriend Ingrid, who now resides in an upmarket New York apartment block, at the expense of her latest admirer...   [More...]

The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Robert Wise

Returning to Earth after probing the dark reaches of space, a satellite drifts off course and crashes into Piedmont, a small town in New Mexico...   [More...]

Angel Face (1952)
Otto Preminger

The Tremaynes, Charles and Catherine, are a wealthy couple who live with their daughter Diane at their hilltop estate in Beverley Hills...   [More...]

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Michael Curtiz

Jerry Connolly and Rocky Sullivan are two kids growing up in a poor area of New York. Their first attempt at robbery ends in failure - Jerry escapes but Rocky is caught and sent to a reform school...   [More...]

Animal Crackers (1930)
Victor Heerman

Society dowager Mrs Rittenhouse is hosting an extravagant party at her Long Island mansion. The purpose of the party is to welcome back the famous explorer, Captain Spaulding, after his expedition to Africa, but the hostess cannot resist using the occasion to show off a priceless Beaugard painting, which has been given to her by her most fervent admirer, Roscoe W...   [More...]

Anna Karenina (1935)
Clarence Brown

During the 19th century, Anna Arkadyevna Karenina undertakes a trip to Moscow in the hope of saving her brother Stiva's marriage...   [More...]



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