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American cinema: Romance
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Howard Hawks
At the time when France falls to Nazi Germany during WWII, American expatriate Harry Morgan is living on the island of Martinique...
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Howard Hawks
Top Hat (1935)
Mark Sandrich
American song-and-dance man Jerry Travers arrives in London to perform in a show produced by his friend Horace Hardwick. Whilst practicing his tap dance routine in his hotel room one evening, Jerry disturbs Dale Tremont, a young woman in the room below his...
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Mark Sandrich
True Heart Susie (1919)
D.W. Griffith
Countryside neighbours Suzie and William are in love, but being young and inexperienced in the ways of love, neither knows how to open his heart to the other...
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D.W. Griffith
True Romance (1993)
Tony Scott
Clarence Worley is an Elvis Presley fan and film enthusiast who works in a comic book store in Detroit. To celebrate his birthday, he goes to watch a trio of martial arts films at his local cinema...
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Tony Scott
Un acte d'amour (1953)
Anatole Litvak
Some years after the war, an American, Robert Teller, pays a visit to a seaside town in the South of France. He casts his mind back to 1944, recalling his time in Paris immediately after the Liberation...
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Anatole Litvak
The Unknown (1927)
Tod Browning
Alonzo the Armless is the main attraction in a Spanish circus with his knife throwing act, which he performs with the use of his feet... [More...]
Tod Browning
Alonzo the Armless is the main attraction in a Spanish circus with his knife throwing act, which he performs with the use of his feet... [More...]
The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Roy Ward Baker
In the mid-1800s, General von Spielsdorf is hosting a ball at his mansion in the small European country of Styria. When one of his guests, an unnamed countess, is called away, the General gladly agrees to take care of her daughter Marcilla... [More...]
Roy Ward Baker
In the mid-1800s, General von Spielsdorf is hosting a ball at his mansion in the small European country of Styria. When one of his guests, an unnamed countess, is called away, the General gladly agrees to take care of her daughter Marcilla... [More...]
Vertigo (1958)
Alfred Hitchcock
When a rooftop chase ends in the death of one of his colleagues, San Francisco cop John Ferguson suddenly develops chronic acrophobia, an irrational fear of heights which forces him into early retirement... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
When a rooftop chase ends in the death of one of his colleagues, San Francisco cop John Ferguson suddenly develops chronic acrophobia, an irrational fear of heights which forces him into early retirement... [More...]
Victory (1919)
Maurice Tourneur
For two years, Axel Heyst has lived the life of a total recluse on the small remote island of Samburan, a lonely outpost in the Dutch East Indies... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
For two years, Axel Heyst has lived the life of a total recluse on the small remote island of Samburan, a lonely outpost in the Dutch East Indies... [More...]
Vivacious Lady (1938)
George Stevens
At the request of his overbearing father, Peter Morgan, a university professor, is sent to Manhattan to bring back his playboy cousin Keith... [More...]
George Stevens
At the request of his overbearing father, Peter Morgan, a university professor, is sent to Manhattan to bring back his playboy cousin Keith... [More...]
War and Peace (1956)
King Vidor
Moscow, 1805. Pierre Bezukhov, a pacifist wastrel, is in love with Natasha, the daughter of the wealthy Count Rostov, but knows he cannot marry her since he is of illegitimate birth... [More...]
King Vidor
Moscow, 1805. Pierre Bezukhov, a pacifist wastrel, is in love with Natasha, the daughter of the wealthy Count Rostov, but knows he cannot marry her since he is of illegitimate birth... [More...]
West Side Story (1961)
Jerome Robbins
New York City in the late 1950s. Two rival gangs of youths, the Jets and the Sharks, fight an increasingly fierce turf war on the streets of Manhattan... [More...]
Jerome Robbins
New York City in the late 1950s. Two rival gangs of youths, the Jets and the Sharks, fight an increasingly fierce turf war on the streets of Manhattan... [More...]
White Christmas (1954)
Michael Curtiz
Christmas Eve, 1944 - somewhere in Europe. After staging a show in honour of their departing commanding officer, Major General Waverly, a platoon of U.S... [More...]
Michael Curtiz
Christmas Eve, 1944 - somewhere in Europe. After staging a show in honour of their departing commanding officer, Major General Waverly, a platoon of U.S... [More...]
Wild River (1960)
Elia Kazan
In the wake of devastating floods in the early 1930s, the Federal Government decides to embark on a programme of dam building on the Tennessee River that will not only preserve the region but will also generate huge quantities of electricity... [More...]
Elia Kazan
In the wake of devastating floods in the early 1930s, the Federal Government decides to embark on a programme of dam building on the Tennessee River that will not only preserve the region but will also generate huge quantities of electricity... [More...]
Woman of the Year (1942)
George Stevens
Sam Craig is a down-to-Earth sportswriter on a New York newspaper. Tess Harding may have a column on the same paper, but she appears to come from another world - a society girl who has become both a prominent political journalist and a torchbearer for feminism... [More...]
George Stevens
Sam Craig is a down-to-Earth sportswriter on a New York newspaper. Tess Harding may have a column on the same paper, but she appears to come from another world - a society girl who has become both a prominent political journalist and a torchbearer for feminism... [More...]
Written on the Wind (1956)
Douglas Sirk
Kyle Hadley, the son of one of America's wealthiest oil magnates, is used to getting what he wants. As soon as he meets Lucy Moore, the secretary of an advertising executive, he is determined to take her as his wife... [More...]
Douglas Sirk
Kyle Hadley, the son of one of America's wealthiest oil magnates, is used to getting what he wants. As soon as he meets Lucy Moore, the secretary of an advertising executive, he is determined to take her as his wife... [More...]
Wuthering Heights (1939)
William Wyler
Home to the Earnshaw family, Wuthering Heights sits proud and inviolable as a fortress on the wind-blasted Yorkshire Moors, oblivious to the tragedies that lie ahead... [More...]
William Wyler
Home to the Earnshaw family, Wuthering Heights sits proud and inviolable as a fortress on the wind-blasted Yorkshire Moors, oblivious to the tragedies that lie ahead... [More...]
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Michael Curtiz
In 1942, the veteran star of Broadway George Michael Cohan is appearing in a musical satire in which he plays the President of the United States... [More...]
Michael Curtiz
In 1942, the veteran star of Broadway George Michael Cohan is appearing in a musical satire in which he plays the President of the United States... [More...]
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Frank Capra
Anthony Kirby is the president of a major US bank. The embodiment of soulless capitalism, he has resolved to buy up a block of houses to make way for a munitions factory that will make him even wealthier... [More...]
Frank Capra
Anthony Kirby is the president of a major US bank. The embodiment of soulless capitalism, he has resolved to buy up a block of houses to make way for a munitions factory that will make him even wealthier... [More...]
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
William A. Seiter
Robert Davis, an American dancer stranded in Buenos Aires without a peso to his name, is desperate to find work. His friend, bandleader Xavier Cugat, suggests that he should try to impress hotel owner Eduardo Acuña by performing at his eldest daughter's wedding... [More...]
William A. Seiter
Robert Davis, an American dancer stranded in Buenos Aires without a peso to his name, is desperate to find work. His friend, bandleader Xavier Cugat, suggests that he should try to impress hotel owner Eduardo Acuña by performing at his eldest daughter's wedding... [More...]
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Robert Z. Leonard
Lift operator Sheila Regan can hardly believe her good fortune when she is invited to attend an audition to become a Ziegfeld girl and appear in the hit show Ziegfeld Follies... [More...]
Robert Z. Leonard
Lift operator Sheila Regan can hardly believe her good fortune when she is invited to attend an audition to become a Ziegfeld girl and appear in the hit show Ziegfeld Follies... [More...]
Zoo in Budapest (1933)
Rowland V. Lee
The zoo in Budapest is a popular attraction but no one loves the zoo's animals more than Zani, the son of a former keeper who has a natural rapport with beasts of any kind... [More...]
Rowland V. Lee
The zoo in Budapest is a popular attraction but no one loves the zoo's animals more than Zani, the son of a former keeper who has a natural rapport with beasts of any kind... [More...]