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American cinema: Drama
Out of the Past (1947)
Jacques Tourneur
Jeff Bailey is leading a contented if uneventful life as a petrol station owner in a backwater town when his murky past suddenly catches up with him...
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Jacques Tourneur
The Outlaw (1943)
Howard Hughes
Doc Holliday is delighted to meet up with his old friend Pat Garrett but is surprised to find him wearing a sheriff's badge...
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Howard Hughes
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Elia Kazan
When a dead body is found on the New Orleans waterfront, its gunshot wounds leave no doubt as to the cause of death. But the man would have died even if he had not been shot, as he was infected with pneumonic plague, a lethal strain of bubonic plague...
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Elia Kazan
Papillon (1973)
Franklin J. Schaffner
In the 1930s, a large group of prisoners are shipped from France to a tough penal colony in French Guiana. The party includes convicted murderer Henri Charrière, nicknamed Papillon, and big time stock swindler Louis Dega...
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Franklin J. Schaffner
The Paradine Case (1947)
Alfred Hitchcock
Maddalena Paradine is surprised when, one evening, the police call at her London home and charge her with the murder of her recently deceased husband, Colonel Paradine...
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Alfred Hitchcock
Party Girl (1958)
Nicholas Ray
Chicago, in the early 1930s. Thomas Farrell is a lawyer who makes a healthy living defending the town's mobsters, most notably the feared gangster boss Rico Angelo... [More...]
Nicholas Ray
Chicago, in the early 1930s. Thomas Farrell is a lawyer who makes a healthy living defending the town's mobsters, most notably the feared gangster boss Rico Angelo... [More...]
Paths of Glory (1957)
Stanley Kubrick
By 1916, the war in Europe has arrived at a virtual impasse. On both sides, the progress made in one year is measured in metres and paid for by tens of thousands of soldiers' lives... [More...]
Stanley Kubrick
By 1916, the war in Europe has arrived at a virtual impasse. On both sides, the progress made in one year is measured in metres and paid for by tens of thousands of soldiers' lives... [More...]
Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
George Archainbaud
Gwen Parker meets Philip Seymour, an old flame of hers, at a New York aquarium to ask for money so that she can leave her tyrannical husband, stockbroker Gerald Parker... [More...]
George Archainbaud
Gwen Parker meets Philip Seymour, an old flame of hers, at a New York aquarium to ask for money so that she can leave her tyrannical husband, stockbroker Gerald Parker... [More...]
Penny Serenade (1941)
George Stevens
Julie Gardiner has decided to leave her husband. As she sorts through her old record collection she remembers their life together and the tragic events that have led to their inevitable separation... [More...]
George Stevens
Julie Gardiner has decided to leave her husband. As she sorts through her old record collection she remembers their life together and the tragic events that have led to their inevitable separation... [More...]
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Archie Mayo
Alan Squier, a failed British writer, ends up hitchhiking his way across North America. Whilst crossing the Arizona desert he comes across a diner when he strikes up an immediate rapport with Gabrielle, the daughter of the eatery's owner... [More...]
Archie Mayo
Alan Squier, a failed British writer, ends up hitchhiking his way across North America. Whilst crossing the Arizona desert he comes across a diner when he strikes up an immediate rapport with Gabrielle, the daughter of the eatery's owner... [More...]
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Rupert Julian
Midway through a production of Gounod's Faust, the Paris Opera House is about to change hands, but its new owners are unconcerned by the rumours that the building is haunted by a sinister phantom... [More...]
Rupert Julian
Midway through a production of Gounod's Faust, the Paris Opera House is about to change hands, but its new owners are unconcerned by the rumours that the building is haunted by a sinister phantom... [More...]
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Samuel Fuller
Pickpocket Skip McCoy finds himself in greater trouble than he could ever have imagined when he steals a woman's purse containing microfilm of government secrets... [More...]
Samuel Fuller
Pickpocket Skip McCoy finds himself in greater trouble than he could ever have imagined when he steals a woman's purse containing microfilm of government secrets... [More...]
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Ronald Neame
The ocean liner SS Poseidon is making her way across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Athens, her final journey before being retired and sold for scrap... [More...]
Ronald Neame
The ocean liner SS Poseidon is making her way across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Athens, her final journey before being retired and sold for scrap... [More...]
Possessed (1947)
Curtis Bernhardt
A woman wanders the streets of Los Angeles as if in a daze, calling out the name David to everyone she sees. When she collapses, she is taken to a psychiatric clinic where she is diagnosed as having a schizoid disorder... [More...]
Curtis Bernhardt
A woman wanders the streets of Los Angeles as if in a daze, calling out the name David to everyone she sees. When she collapses, she is taken to a psychiatric clinic where she is diagnosed as having a schizoid disorder... [More...]
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Tay Garnett
Frank Chambers, an unemployed drifter, is touring the backwaters of California when he comes across a roadside café which has a vacancy for a handyman... [More...]
Tay Garnett
Frank Chambers, an unemployed drifter, is touring the backwaters of California when he comes across a roadside café which has a vacancy for a handyman... [More...]
The Pride of the Clan (1917)
Maurice Tourneur
The fisherfolk of Killean, a small island off the Scottish coast, lead a primitive but contented life, ruled by their clan chieftain, MacTavish... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
The fisherfolk of Killean, a small island off the Scottish coast, lead a primitive but contented life, ruled by their clan chieftain, MacTavish... [More...]
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
Albert Lewin
Paris, 1880. After seeing military action in Africa, Georges Duroy finds himself virtually penniless, barely existing on the money he earns from his low-paid job... [More...]
Albert Lewin
Paris, 1880. After seeing military action in Africa, Georges Duroy finds himself virtually penniless, barely existing on the money he earns from his low-paid job... [More...]
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Michael Curtiz
Content in having dealt the Spanish a resounding naval defeat at Cadiz, Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex, returns to England, expecting a hero's welcome... [More...]
Michael Curtiz
Content in having dealt the Spanish a resounding naval defeat at Cadiz, Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex, returns to England, expecting a hero's welcome... [More...]
The Prodigal (1955)
Richard Thorpe
Micah, a devout servant of the Hebrew tradition, wins his father Eli's disapproval when, on a visit to Damascus, he falls in love with the beautiful priestess of Astarte, Samarra... [More...]
Richard Thorpe
Micah, a devout servant of the Hebrew tradition, wins his father Eli's disapproval when, on a visit to Damascus, he falls in love with the beautiful priestess of Astarte, Samarra... [More...]
Psycho (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock
Arizona secretary Marion Crane is desperate to marry her lover Sam Loomis but the latter's debts and hefty alimony payments to his ex-wife make this impossible... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Arizona secretary Marion Crane is desperate to marry her lover Sam Loomis but the latter's debts and hefty alimony payments to his ex-wife make this impossible... [More...]
The Public Enemy (1931)
William A. Wellman
Growing up in Chicago in the early 1900s, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle take to crime at an early age. Coerced by Putty Nose, their piano-playing fence, they start by stealing from department stores, and then move on to robbing warehouses... [More...]
William A. Wellman
Growing up in Chicago in the early 1900s, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle take to crime at an early age. Coerced by Putty Nose, their piano-playing fence, they start by stealing from department stores, and then move on to robbing warehouses... [More...]
Pushover (1954)
Richard Quine
When hoodlum Harry Wheeler pulls off a bank robbery, detective Paul Sheridan is tasked with maintaining a 24 hour surveillance on his girlfriend, Lona McLane... [More...]
Richard Quine
When hoodlum Harry Wheeler pulls off a bank robbery, detective Paul Sheridan is tasked with maintaining a 24 hour surveillance on his girlfriend, Lona McLane... [More...]
Queen Christina (1933)
Rouben Mamoulian
During the Thirty Years' War, Sweden becomes the pre-eminent power in Europe, under the reign of the warrior king Gustavus Adolphus... [More...]
Rouben Mamoulian
During the Thirty Years' War, Sweden becomes the pre-eminent power in Europe, under the reign of the warrior king Gustavus Adolphus... [More...]
Rage in Heaven (1941)
W.S. Van Dyke
England, 1936. After a chance meeting, Phillip Monrell invites his old college friend Ward Andrews to his grand family home... [More...]
W.S. Van Dyke
England, 1936. After a chance meeting, Phillip Monrell invites his old college friend Ward Andrews to his grand family home... [More...]
Raging Bull (1980)
Martin Scorsese
In 1964, Jake La Motta ekes out a living as a third rate stand-up comedian and raconteur. Overweight, prematurely aged and physically drained, he is a shadow of the man he once was... [More...]
Martin Scorsese
In 1964, Jake La Motta ekes out a living as a third rate stand-up comedian and raconteur. Overweight, prematurely aged and physically drained, he is a shadow of the man he once was... [More...]
Rain (1932)
Lewis Milestone
Owing to a cholera outbreak, the passengers and crew of a ship bound for Apia, Samoa are forced to stop over at Pago Pago... [More...]
Lewis Milestone
Owing to a cholera outbreak, the passengers and crew of a ship bound for Apia, Samoa are forced to stop over at Pago Pago... [More...]
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Edmund Goulding
Whilst staying in Chicago, the writer William Somerset Maugham is invited to a party by his friend Elliott Templeton. He is introduced to Elliot's niece, Isabel Bradley, who is in love with Larry Darrell, a World War I veteran... [More...]
Edmund Goulding
Whilst staying in Chicago, the writer William Somerset Maugham is invited to a party by his friend Elliott Templeton. He is introduced to Elliot's niece, Isabel Bradley, who is in love with Larry Darrell, a World War I veteran... [More...]
Rear Window (1954)
Alfred Hitchcock
Injured on one of his assignments, magazine photographer L. B. Jefferies - known to his friends as Jeff - finds himself confined to his New York apartment with his leg in plaster and only his nurse Stella and girlfriend Lisa to keep him company... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Injured on one of his assignments, magazine photographer L. B. Jefferies - known to his friends as Jeff - finds himself confined to his New York apartment with his leg in plaster and only his nurse Stella and girlfriend Lisa to keep him company... [More...]
Rebecca (1940)
Alfred Hitchcock
Whilst in Monte Carlo, working as a paid companion to a wealthy American woman, a young English girl falls under the spell of an aristocratic widower, Maximilian de Winter... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Whilst in Monte Carlo, working as a paid companion to a wealthy American woman, a young English girl falls under the spell of an aristocratic widower, Maximilian de Winter... [More...]
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Nicholas Ray
17-year-old Jim Stark is at war - with the world, with his parents, with himself. Whenever he gets into trouble, he and his parents move to a new neighbourhood... [More...]
Nicholas Ray
17-year-old Jim Stark is at war - with the world, with his parents, with himself. Whenever he gets into trouble, he and his parents move to a new neighbourhood... [More...]