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American cinema: All genres
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Alfred Hitchcock
When former tennis champion Tony Wendice discovers that his wife Margot has been having an affair with writer Mark Halliday he concocts what he believes to be the perfect crime...
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Alfred Hitchcock
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
Jean Renoir
In the early 1900s, a young chambermaid, Célestine, arrives from Paris to take up her new post at a country house in Normandy...
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Jean Renoir
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
George Stevens
In July 1945, Otto Frank, a man in his mid-fifties, arrives at a disused spice factory in Amsterdam and climbs a staircase to a concealed annex on the top floor of the building...
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George Stevens
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Robert Aldrich
England, 1944. On the eve of the Allied invasion of Normandy in WWII, Major John Reisman is offered a most unusual assignment...
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Robert Aldrich
Dirty Harry (1971)
Don Siegel
When a young woman is shot dead by a rooftop sniper, San Francisco police inspector Harry Callahan is tasked with finding the killer...
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Don Siegel
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Mike Newell
In 1978, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone is assigned his most dangerous mission: to infiltrate the Bonanno family, one of New York's most feared gangster clans... [More...]
Mike Newell
In 1978, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone is assigned his most dangerous mission: to infiltrate the Bonanno family, one of New York's most feared gangster clans... [More...]
Double Indemnity (1944)
Billy Wilder
Insurance salesman Walter Neff staggers into his Los Angeles office and, speaking into a Dictaphone, he begins to make a terrible confession... [More...]
Billy Wilder
Insurance salesman Walter Neff staggers into his Los Angeles office and, speaking into a Dictaphone, he begins to make a terrible confession... [More...]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
John S. Robertson
Dr Henry Jekyll is a man of flawless repute, a philanthropist who divides his time between treating the sick poor of London and conducting scientific research in his laboratory... [More...]
John S. Robertson
Dr Henry Jekyll is a man of flawless repute, a philanthropist who divides his time between treating the sick poor of London and conducting scientific research in his laboratory... [More...]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Rouben Mamoulian
Dr Henry Jekyll, a renowned medical practitioner and philanthropist, is anxious to marry the woman he loves, Muriel Carew, but the latter's father insists that he must wait awhile yet for decorum's sake... [More...]
Rouben Mamoulian
Dr Henry Jekyll, a renowned medical practitioner and philanthropist, is anxious to marry the woman he loves, Muriel Carew, but the latter's father insists that he must wait awhile yet for decorum's sake... [More...]
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Stanley Kubrick
Convinced that the Communists are infiltrating his country, General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of a US military airbase, gives the order for a bomber wing to launch a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR... [More...]
Stanley Kubrick
Convinced that the Communists are infiltrating his country, General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of a US military airbase, gives the order for a bomber wing to launch a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR... [More...]
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Lambert Hillyer
Arrested by Scotland Yard for the murder of Count Dracula, Professor Van Helsing contacts one of his former students, the psychiatrist Dr Jeffrey Garth, to defend him in his impending trial... [More...]
Lambert Hillyer
Arrested by Scotland Yard for the murder of Count Dracula, Professor Van Helsing contacts one of his former students, the psychiatrist Dr Jeffrey Garth, to defend him in his impending trial... [More...]
Duck Soup (1933)
Leo McCarey
With Freedonia facing bankruptcy, the wealthy widow Mrs Teasdale agrees to lend 20 million dollars to the exchequer, on condition that her favourite, Rufus T... [More...]
Leo McCarey
With Freedonia facing bankruptcy, the wealthy widow Mrs Teasdale agrees to lend 20 million dollars to the exchequer, on condition that her favourite, Rufus T... [More...]
Duel (1971)
Steven Spielberg
David Mann is driving his red Plymouth Valiant through the California desert on his way to a business meeting. The only other vehicle on the otherwise empty highway is a lumbering tanker truck which is expelling noxious black exhaust fumes in his direction... [More...]
Steven Spielberg
David Mann is driving his red Plymouth Valiant through the California desert on his way to a business meeting. The only other vehicle on the otherwise empty highway is a lumbering tanker truck which is expelling noxious black exhaust fumes in his direction... [More...]
East of Eden (1955)
Elia Kazan
California, 1917. Cal and Aron Trask are twin brothers, the sons of Adam Trask, who owns a large lettuce farm in the Salinas Valley... [More...]
Elia Kazan
California, 1917. Cal and Aron Trask are twin brothers, the sons of Adam Trask, who owns a large lettuce farm in the Salinas Valley... [More...]
Easy Rider (1969)
Dennis Hopper
Wyatt and Billy are a pair of drug-dealing bikers whose outlandish appearance and easy lifestyle reflect their yearning for freedom... [More...]
Dennis Hopper
Wyatt and Billy are a pair of drug-dealing bikers whose outlandish appearance and easy lifestyle reflect their yearning for freedom... [More...]
Ed Wood (1994)
Tim Burton
Edward D. Wood, Jr. is a struggling Los Angeles playwright who is determined to make his name in the movies. When he hears that producer George Weiss is planning to make a film on the life story of Christine Jorgensen, Ed sees his opportunity and tries to convince Weiss that, because he has a fetish about dressing up in women's clothes, he is the ideal man to direct the film... [More...]
Tim Burton
Edward D. Wood, Jr. is a struggling Los Angeles playwright who is determined to make his name in the movies. When he hears that producer George Weiss is planning to make a film on the life story of Christine Jorgensen, Ed sees his opportunity and tries to convince Weiss that, because he has a fetish about dressing up in women's clothes, he is the ideal man to direct the film... [More...]
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Tim Burton
On a hill overlooking a typical American suburban town there is an old Gothic mansion, which is home to Edward, an artificial teenage boy who has scissors for hands and whose one talent is topiary... [More...]
Tim Burton
On a hill overlooking a typical American suburban town there is an old Gothic mansion, which is home to Edward, an artificial teenage boy who has scissors for hands and whose one talent is topiary... [More...]
The Elephant Man (1980)
David Lynch
In Victorian England, Frederick Treves, a senior surgeon at the London Hospital, comes across a heavily deformed man being exhibited as a freak in the East End of London... [More...]
David Lynch
In Victorian England, Frederick Treves, a senior surgeon at the London Hospital, comes across a heavily deformed man being exhibited as a freak in the East End of London... [More...]
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Irvin Kershner
The destruction of the Death Star by the Rebel Alliance is followed by a swift retaliation from the Galactic Empire, with Darth Vader leading the offensive... [More...]
Irvin Kershner
The destruction of the Death Star by the Rebel Alliance is followed by a swift retaliation from the Galactic Empire, with Darth Vader leading the offensive... [More...]
The Enforcer (1951)
Bretaigne Windust
For four years, District Attorney Martin Ferguson has been building a murder case against Albert Mendoza, a gangster boss who sells contract killings for cash... [More...]
Bretaigne Windust
For four years, District Attorney Martin Ferguson has been building a murder case against Albert Mendoza, a gangster boss who sells contract killings for cash... [More...]
The English Patient (1996)
Anthony Minghella
In Italy towards the end of the World War Two, a Canadian nurse Hana is tending to a disfigured pilot whose aircraft was shot down in North Africa... [More...]
Anthony Minghella
In Italy towards the end of the World War Two, a Canadian nurse Hana is tending to a disfigured pilot whose aircraft was shot down in North Africa... [More...]
Equus (1977)
Sidney Lumet
Martin Dysart is a middle-aged psychiatrist who reluctantly takes on the case of Alan Strang, a withdrawn 17-year old who has recently blinded six horses for no apparent reason... [More...]
Sidney Lumet
Martin Dysart is a middle-aged psychiatrist who reluctantly takes on the case of Alan Strang, a withdrawn 17-year old who has recently blinded six horses for no apparent reason... [More...]
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Don Taylor
In the early 1970s, a spaceship lands off the coast of California. As a party of US marines watch in anticipation, three astronauts emerge... [More...]
Don Taylor
In the early 1970s, a spaceship lands off the coast of California. As a party of US marines watch in anticipation, three astronauts emerge... [More...]
The Evil Dead (1981)
Sam Raimi
Five young college students decide to spend their vacation in an isolated cabin in the Tennessee mountains. On reaching the cabin, they sense a ghostly presence and are surprised when they find a collection of strange artefacts in the cellar... [More...]
Sam Raimi
Five young college students decide to spend their vacation in an isolated cabin in the Tennessee mountains. On reaching the cabin, they sense a ghostly presence and are surprised when they find a collection of strange artefacts in the cellar... [More...]
The Exorcist (1973)
William Friedkin
Whilst making a film in Georgetown, Washington DC, the actress Chris MacNeil becomes increasingly concerned over her 12-year-old daughter, Regan, who is exhibiting strange psychological and physical changes... [More...]
William Friedkin
Whilst making a film in Georgetown, Washington DC, the actress Chris MacNeil becomes increasingly concerned over her 12-year-old daughter, Regan, who is exhibiting strange psychological and physical changes... [More...]
Fallen Angel (1945)
Otto Preminger
Unable to pay the bus fare to complete his journey to San Francisco, down-at-heel press agent Eric Stanton ends up in a small coastal town with barely enough money to pay for his next meal... [More...]
Otto Preminger
Unable to pay the bus fare to complete his journey to San Francisco, down-at-heel press agent Eric Stanton ends up in a small coastal town with barely enough money to pay for his next meal... [More...]
The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Richard Wallace
John McKittrick, known to his friends as Kit, is a veteran of the Spanish Civil War who managed to escape from a prisoner of war camp where he was subjected to brutal torture... [More...]
Richard Wallace
John McKittrick, known to his friends as Kit, is a veteran of the Spanish Civil War who managed to escape from a prisoner of war camp where he was subjected to brutal torture... [More...]
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Richard Fleischer
American and Soviet scientists have both discovered how to miniaturise matter but the technique is of limited value since shrunken objects return to their full size within sixty minutes... [More...]
Richard Fleischer
American and Soviet scientists have both discovered how to miniaturise matter but the technique is of limited value since shrunken objects return to their full size within sixty minutes... [More...]
Fargo (1996)
Joel Coen
Minneapolis car dealer Jerry Lundegaard needs money, badly. In a desperate attempt to save his ailing business he tries to persuade his wealthy father-in-law Wade Gustafson to lend him a large sum of money to secure a real estate deal, but Gustafson is too smart for his son-in-law and refuses to stump up the money... [More...]
Joel Coen
Minneapolis car dealer Jerry Lundegaard needs money, badly. In a desperate attempt to save his ailing business he tries to persuade his wealthy father-in-law Wade Gustafson to lend him a large sum of money to secure a real estate deal, but Gustafson is too smart for his son-in-law and refuses to stump up the money... [More...]
Father of the Bride (1950)
Vincente Minnelli
Stanley and Ellie Banks are an ordinary middle-class American couple who have lived a well-ordered, trouble-free life - until that awful Earth-shattering day when their daughter Kay announces that she intends to get married... [More...]
Vincente Minnelli
Stanley and Ellie Banks are an ordinary middle-class American couple who have lived a well-ordered, trouble-free life - until that awful Earth-shattering day when their daughter Kay announces that she intends to get married... [More...]