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American cinema: Drama
House by the River (1950)
Fritz Lang
Stephen Byrne, a young American writer who is keen to make a name for himself, lives with his wife Marjorie in a house set on the banks of a river...
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Fritz Lang
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
Henry Hathaway
During WWII, brilliant university graduate Bill Dietrich is recruited by the FBI to help uncover Nazi agents working in the United States...
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Henry Hathaway
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
William Castle
At the suggestion of his wife, Annabelle, eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren invites five strangers to his house, offering each of them ten thousand dollars if they manage to spend one full night in the house...
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William Castle
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
Robert Wise
When the Nazis invade her native Poland during WWII, Victoria Kowelska is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. There, she makes a friend in Karin de Nakova, a woman who is too weak to survive the ordeal of the camp...
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Robert Wise
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
John Ford
As he prepares to leave the house he has lived in for fifty years, Huw Morgan looks back on the eventful years of his childhood...
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John Ford
Humoresque (1946)
Jean Negulesco
A moment of personal tragedy prompts concert violinist Paul Boray to re-evaluate his life. He recalls happier times when, as a small boy, his mother gave him a violin for his birthday... [More...]
Jean Negulesco
A moment of personal tragedy prompts concert violinist Paul Boray to re-evaluate his life. He recalls happier times when, as a small boy, his mother gave him a violin for his birthday... [More...]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Wallace Worsley
Paris in the 1480s. From his vantage point atop Notre Dame Cathedral, a deformed hunchback named Quasimodo watches the poor people celebrate their annual Festival of Fools... [More...]
Wallace Worsley
Paris in the 1480s. From his vantage point atop Notre Dame Cathedral, a deformed hunchback named Quasimodo watches the poor people celebrate their annual Festival of Fools... [More...]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
William Dieterle
Across Europe, in the aftermath of the One Hundred Years War, a new age of peace and civilisation beckons. Yet some of the old prejudices and superstitions remain... [More...]
William Dieterle
Across Europe, in the aftermath of the One Hundred Years War, a new age of peace and civilisation beckons. Yet some of the old prejudices and superstitions remain... [More...]
The Hustler (1961)
Robert Rossen
Eddie Felson is a small-time pool shark with big-time ambitions. Fed up of taking pin money from suckers, Eddie decides to challenge legendary pool player Minnesota Fats, playing for the highest stakes he can afford... [More...]
Robert Rossen
Eddie Felson is a small-time pool shark with big-time ambitions. Fed up of taking pin money from suckers, Eddie decides to challenge legendary pool player Minnesota Fats, playing for the highest stakes he can afford... [More...]
I Confess (1953)
Alfred Hitchcock
Father Michael Logan is a devout Catholic priest in a Quebec church. One evening, his caretaker, Otto Kellar, insists that he hears his confession - to the murder of a man named Villette... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Father Michael Logan is a devout Catholic priest in a Quebec church. One evening, his caretaker, Otto Kellar, insists that he hears his confession - to the murder of a man named Villette... [More...]
I Remember Mama (1948)
George Stevens
Katrin Hanson is an aspiring writer has just completed her first novel, a nostalgic account of her family life in San Francisco, in around 1910... [More...]
George Stevens
Katrin Hanson is an aspiring writer has just completed her first novel, a nostalgic account of her family life in San Francisco, in around 1910... [More...]
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Jacques Tourneur
Betsy Connell, a young Canadian nurse, is hired to go to the Caribbean island of Saint Sebastian and care for Jessica Holland, wife of the owner of a local sugar plantation... [More...]
Jacques Tourneur
Betsy Connell, a young Canadian nurse, is hired to go to the Caribbean island of Saint Sebastian and care for Jessica Holland, wife of the owner of a local sugar plantation... [More...]
Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976)
Federico Fellini
The debauched life of Giacomo Casanova is legendary, a succession of erotic adventures with women who are no more to him than instruments of pleasure... [More...]
Federico Fellini
The debauched life of Giacomo Casanova is legendary, a succession of erotic adventures with women who are no more to him than instruments of pleasure... [More...]
Imitation of Life (1959)
Douglas Sirk
When she loses her 6-year-old daughter Suzie on a crowded beach, Lora Meredith is relieved to find her in the care of a friendly black woman, Annie Johnson... [More...]
Douglas Sirk
When she loses her 6-year-old daughter Suzie on a crowded beach, Lora Meredith is relieved to find her in the care of a friendly black woman, Annie Johnson... [More...]
Impact (1949)
Arthur Lubin
One of America's top industrialists, Walter Williams is blissfully unaware that his wife Irene has been carrying on an affair with a younger man, Jim Torrence... [More...]
Arthur Lubin
One of America's top industrialists, Walter Williams is blissfully unaware that his wife Irene has been carrying on an affair with a younger man, Jim Torrence... [More...]
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Nicholas Ray
Dixon Steele is a jaded Hollywood screenwriter who hasn't had a success for years. At a nightclub, his agent Mel Lippman tries to persuade him to adapt a popular romantic novel for a film... [More...]
Nicholas Ray
Dixon Steele is a jaded Hollywood screenwriter who hasn't had a success for years. At a nightclub, his agent Mel Lippman tries to persuade him to adapt a popular romantic novel for a film... [More...]
In the Electric Mist (2009)
Bertrand Tavernier
In the Louisiana town of New Iberia, maverick cop Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer whose victims are all vulnerable young women... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
In the Louisiana town of New Iberia, maverick cop Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer whose victims are all vulnerable young women... [More...]
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Norman Jewison
Sparta, Mississippi. Late one evening, police officer Sam Wood finds a dead body in the street. The murder victim is Mr Colbert, a prominent businessman who was about to open a factory which would provide jobs that are badly needed in the town... [More...]
Norman Jewison
Sparta, Mississippi. Late one evening, police officer Sam Wood finds a dead body in the street. The murder victim is Mr Colbert, a prominent businessman who was about to open a factory which would provide jobs that are badly needed in the town... [More...]
In This Our Life (1942)
John Huston
Stanley and Roy are two sisters, the grown-up daughters of unsuccessful entrepreneur Asa Timberlake. In temperament and behaviour the two women could not be more dissimilar... [More...]
John Huston
Stanley and Roy are two sisters, the grown-up daughters of unsuccessful entrepreneur Asa Timberlake. In temperament and behaviour the two women could not be more dissimilar... [More...]
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Jack Arnold
During a boating holiday with his wife Louise, Scott Carey is enveloped in a strange mist which causes his body to glisten mysteriously... [More...]
Jack Arnold
During a boating holiday with his wife Louise, Scott Carey is enveloped in a strange mist which causes his body to glisten mysteriously... [More...]
The Informer (1935)
John Ford
Dublin, 1922. During the Irish Civil War, a poor unemployed man, Gypo Nolan, dreams of starting a new life in America. If only he had £20, he could take his girlfriend, Katie, with him on a steamboat crossing to the land of opportunity... [More...]
John Ford
Dublin, 1922. During the Irish Civil War, a poor unemployed man, Gypo Nolan, dreams of starting a new life in America. If only he had £20, he could take his girlfriend, Katie, with him on a steamboat crossing to the land of opportunity... [More...]
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Stanley Kramer
In Hillsboro, a small town in Tennessee, schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution to a class of high school students... [More...]
Stanley Kramer
In Hillsboro, a small town in Tennessee, schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution to a class of high school students... [More...]
Interiors (1978)
Woody Allen
Arthur, a wealthy corporate lawyer, and Eve, an interior designer, have three grown-up daughters who are all obsessed with making a success of their lives... [More...]
Woody Allen
Arthur, a wealthy corporate lawyer, and Eve, an interior designer, have three grown-up daughters who are all obsessed with making a success of their lives... [More...]
Intermezzo (1939)
Gregory Ratoff
Holger Brandt is a world-renowned concert violinist, comfortably settled into middle age with a loving wife and two adoring young children... [More...]
Gregory Ratoff
Holger Brandt is a world-renowned concert violinist, comfortably settled into middle age with a loving wife and two adoring young children... [More...]
Intolerance (1916)
D.W. Griffith
Four interwoven stories spanning mankind's turbulent history show how hatred and intolerance have battled against love and charity across the ages... [More...]
D.W. Griffith
Four interwoven stories spanning mankind's turbulent history show how hatred and intolerance have battled against love and charity across the ages... [More...]
Jane Eyre (1944)
Robert Stevenson
Weary of the ill-treatment she has received at the hands of her bullying Aunt Sarah, 10-year-old Jane Eyre is grateful when she learns she is to be sent to Lowood Institution, a charity school for poor orphaned girls such as she... [More...]
Robert Stevenson
Weary of the ill-treatment she has received at the hands of her bullying Aunt Sarah, 10-year-old Jane Eyre is grateful when she learns she is to be sent to Lowood Institution, a charity school for poor orphaned girls such as she... [More...]
Jaws (1975)
Steven Spielberg
When the mutilated body of a young woman is washed up on the shore of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody fears that a killer shark may be stalking the coastline... [More...]
Steven Spielberg
When the mutilated body of a young woman is washed up on the shore of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody fears that a killer shark may be stalking the coastline... [More...]
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Alan Crosland
In Manhattan, New York, Rabinowitz is the Cantor at the Russian Jewish synagogue and is adamant that his young son Jakie will carry on the tradition which goes back five generations... [More...]
Alan Crosland
In Manhattan, New York, Rabinowitz is the Cantor at the Russian Jewish synagogue and is adamant that his young son Jakie will carry on the tradition which goes back five generations... [More...]
Jesse James (1939)
Henry King
In the aftermath of the American Civil War, the St Louis Midland railroad company goes from strength to strength, buying up land as cheaply as possible by threatening and cajoling gullible landowners... [More...]
Henry King
In the aftermath of the American Civil War, the St Louis Midland railroad company goes from strength to strength, buying up land as cheaply as possible by threatening and cajoling gullible landowners... [More...]
Johnny Eager (1942)
Mervyn LeRoy
Recently released from prison, former gangster Johnny Eager convinces his parole officer he has gone straight by masquerading as a taxi cab driver... [More...]
Mervyn LeRoy
Recently released from prison, former gangster Johnny Eager convinces his parole officer he has gone straight by masquerading as a taxi cab driver... [More...]