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American cinema: Drama

Johnny Guitar (1954)
Nicholas Ray

A lone guitar player named Johnny Guitar arrives at a saloon located on the outskirts of a dusty Arizona cattle town. The saloon belongs to a headstrong woman, Vienna, who was once a lover of his...   [More...]

The Jolson Story (1946)
Alfred E. Green

The son of an immigrant Jewish cantor, Asa Yoelson would rather spend his hours in burlesque theatres than at the synagogue learning to be a good Jew...   [More...]

Journey Into Fear (1943)
Norman Foster

During WWII, American armaments engineer Howard Graham travels to Istanbul with his wife to attend a conference. One evening, he meets up with a business associate who persuades him to visit a nightclub...   [More...]

Juarez (1939)
William Dieterle

1864. When Mexico reneges on its debt payments, the Emperor Napoleon III of France sends an army to depose the Mexican president Benito Juarez and take control of the country...   [More...]

Keeper of the Flame (1942)
George Cukor

After a traumatic stint in Europe, war correspondent Stephen O'Malley returns to the United States to write the biography of Robert Forrest, a renowned public figure who recently died in a tragic accident...   [More...]

Key Largo (1948)
John Huston

With time on his hands, World War II veteran Frank McCloud decides to pay a visit to James Temple, the wheelchair bound father of a friend of his who was killed in the war...   [More...]

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
Gordon Douglas

Ralph Cotter, a notorious gangster, escapes from a prison farm with a fellow convict, Carleton. Pursued by police, Cotter kills Carleton to facilitate his own escape and hooks up with Carleton's sister, Holiday...   [More...]

The Kiss (1929)
Jacques Feyder

Irène is a young French woman who is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, businessman Charles Guarry...   [More...]

Kitty Foyle (1940)
Sam Wood

On the day she is to get married, Kitty Foyle receives an unexpected visit from a former lover Wyn Strafford, whom she hasn't seen for years...   [More...]

Klute (1971)
Alan J. Pakula

When Tom Gruneman, an important research engineer, goes missing his friend John Klute agrees to go looking for him, at the behest of Peter Cable, a senior executive in Gruneman's company...   [More...]

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Orson Welles

In San Francisco, drifter Michael O'Hara falls under the spell of Elsa Bannister, a beautiful young blonde who is grateful when he saves her from some marauding thugs...   [More...]

The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
Maurice Tourneur

By 1757, the Seven Years' War that is ravaging the continent of Europe has reached the colonies in the Americas. A British stronghold in New York, Fort William Henry, is threatened by French armies and their Huron Indian allies...   [More...]

Laura (1944)
Otto Preminger

Inspector Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura Hunt. The prime suspect is Waldo Lydecker, a renowned writer with a high opinion of himself and a low opinion of everyone else - except Laura...   [More...]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
David Lean

In the early years of the First World War, Oxford-educated archaeologist T.E. Lawrence finds himself in Cairo, a deskbound lieutenant in the British Army...   [More...]

The Leopard Man (1943)
Jacques Tourneur

In New Mexico, Jerry Manning hires a trained leopard as a gimmick for his girlfriend Kiki, a nightclub performer. On its first night, the leopard takes fright and runs off into the night...   [More...]

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Max Ophüls

Vienna, circa 1900. Renowned concert pianist Stefan Brand is about to leave town to avoid having to fight a duel when he receives a mysterious letter from an unknown woman...   [More...]

The Letter (1940)
William Wyler

Late one evening, whilst her husband is away working in his Malayan rubber plantation, Leslie Crosbie shoots a man dead in front of her house...   [More...]

Lifeboat (1944)
Alfred Hitchcock

During WWII, a freighter crossing the Atlantic Ocean is struck by a German U-boat. As the ship goes down, a handful of survivors reach the safety of a small lifeboat...   [More...]

Little Caesar (1931)
Mervyn LeRoy

Caesar Enrico Bandello - Rico to his friends - arrives in Chicago with his friend Joe Massara to make his fortune in the criminal underworld...   [More...]

Little Women (1933)
George Cukor

During the American Civil War, the four March sisters anxiously await the return of their father in their small Massachusetts town...   [More...]

The Locket (1946)
John Brahm

On the day of his marriage to his true love Nancy, John Willis receives an unexpected visit from a man who claims to be his future wife's former husband...   [More...]

The Lodger (1944)
John Brahm

Whitechapel, London, in the 1880s. In desperate need of cash so that they can keep up appearances, Mr and Mrs Bonting are forced to rent out one of their rooms to a lodger...   [More...]

Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Sidney Lumet

Outwardly, the Tyrones are a typical middle-class American family living in New London, Connecticut. The year is 1912 and the father, James, looks back on his long career as an actor with a mixture of pride and dismay...   [More...]

The Longest Day (1962)
Ken Annakin

June, 1944. Thousands of Allied troops assembled in the south of England impatiently await the go-ahead for a full-scale invasion of France, the one military manoeuvre that will decisively crush the resolve of the Axis powers and hasten the end of the war...   [More...]

Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Richard Brooks

Theresa Dunn is a university student who is physically and emotionally scarred by surgery she underwent in childhood. As she battles against her poor self-esteem and the righteous tyranny of her Catholic father, she begins an illicit love affair with her teacher, a married man...   [More...]

Lorna Doone (1922)
Maurice Tourneur

In the late 1600s, a region of rural Devonshire in England is menaced by a lawless gang of highwaymen and cut-throats, the Doones...   [More...]

Lost Horizon (1937)
Frank Capra

1935. As bloody revolution sweeps across China, British diplomat Robert Conway is charged with evacuating Westerners from the city of Baskul...   [More...]

The Lost Moment (1947)
Martin Gabel

New York publisher Lewis Venable travels to Venice in the hope of acquiring a set of priceless love letters written by the 19th century poet Jeffrey Ashton to his devoted paramour Juliana Bordereau...   [More...]

The Lost Squadron (1932)
George Archainbaud

Three young aviators, the sole survivors of a squadron that fought with distinction in the First World War, return to America with their faithful mechanic, hoping to pick up where they left off...   [More...]

Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Charles Vidor

In 1920s Chicago, Ruth Etting scrapes a living by dancing with patrons at an exclusive nightclub. When she loses her job, racketeer Marty Snyder takes her under his wing and offers her an opportunity to achieve her ambition to become a singer...   [More...]



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