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American cinema: Romance
The Apartment (1960)
Billy Wilder
C.C. Baxter is a lowly clerk in one of New York's leading insurance companies, but he has great ambitions. To help his promotion prospects, he lends his apartment to his superiors who use it to entertain their various mistresses...
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Billy Wilder
Arch of Triumph (1948)
Lewis Milestone
Paris, 1938. As Europe rushes towards war, the French capital is flooded with illegal immigrants hoping to escape persecution and imprisonment in their own countries...
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Lewis Milestone
The Artist (2011)
Michel Hazanavicius
Hollywood, 1927. George Valentin is a star of silent cinema on whom the sun has never ceased to shine. But the arrival of sound looks set to send him into obscurity...
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Michel Hazanavicius
Atonement (2007)
Joe Wright
England, in the summer of 1935. Briony Tallis is a 13-year-old girl with an overactive imagination who lives in a large country house with her older sister Cecilia...
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Joe Wright
The Awful Truth (1937)
Leo McCarey
Jerry Warriner returns home after his holiday to find that his wife Lucy has apparently got herself romantically involved with her music teacher, Armand Duvalle...
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Leo McCarey
Bachelor Mother (1939)
Garson Kanin
Polly Parrish works as a shop assistant in a New York department store. On the day she learns she is to be dismissed she manages to get herself mistaken for the mother of a baby that has been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage... [More...]
Garson Kanin
Polly Parrish works as a shop assistant in a New York department store. On the day she learns she is to be dismissed she manages to get herself mistaken for the mother of a baby that has been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage... [More...]
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Vincente Minnelli
Film producer Harry Pebbel rounds up three people who owe their success to his associate Jonathan Shields, on the pretext of persuading them to work with Shields on his next film... [More...]
Vincente Minnelli
Film producer Harry Pebbel rounds up three people who owe their success to his associate Jonathan Shields, on the pretext of persuading them to work with Shields on his next film... [More...]
Badlands (1973)
Terrence Malick
Some time in the 1950s... In a small South Dakota town, 15-year-old Holly lives a dull but contented life with her father, a sign painter... [More...]
Terrence Malick
Some time in the 1950s... In a small South Dakota town, 15-year-old Holly lives a dull but contented life with her father, a sign painter... [More...]
Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
King Vidor
The nobleman Chatellerault is sent by King Louis XIII of France to win the hand in marriage of Roxalanne de Lavedan, with the aim of ensuring that her fortune remains within his kingdom... [More...]
King Vidor
The nobleman Chatellerault is sent by King Louis XIII of France to win the hand in marriage of Roxalanne de Lavedan, with the aim of ensuring that her fortune remains within his kingdom... [More...]
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
At the funeral of Maria Vargas, the men who fashioned her into a myth remember their part in her tragic life. Burned out film director Harry Dawes recalls how he went to Spain with his rich but artistically ignorant film producer Kirk Edwards to persuade the unknown Maria, a cabaret dancer, to take up a career in the movie business... [More...]
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
At the funeral of Maria Vargas, the men who fashioned her into a myth remember their part in her tragic life. Burned out film director Harry Dawes recalls how he went to Spain with his rich but artistically ignorant film producer Kirk Edwards to persuade the unknown Maria, a cabaret dancer, to take up a career in the movie business... [More...]
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Spike Jonze
Unable to find work as a puppeteer, Craig Schwartz ends up as a filing clerk in a New Jersey office whose ceilings are so low he cannot stand up straight... [More...]
Spike Jonze
Unable to find work as a puppeteer, Craig Schwartz ends up as a filing clerk in a New Jersey office whose ceilings are so low he cannot stand up straight... [More...]
Bell Book and Candle (1958)
Richard Quine
One Christmas Eve in New York, Gillian Holroyd suddenly discovers that she is attracted to her neighbour, Shepherd Henderson... [More...]
Richard Quine
One Christmas Eve in New York, Gillian Holroyd suddenly discovers that she is attracted to her neighbour, Shepherd Henderson... [More...]
Benny & Joon (1993)
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Benny Pearl, a car mechanic in his early thirties, lives with his younger sister Joon, an aspiring artist who is prone to violent mood swings on account of her mental illness... [More...]
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Benny Pearl, a car mechanic in his early thirties, lives with his younger sister Joon, an aspiring artist who is prone to violent mood swings on account of her mental illness... [More...]
The Big Trail (1930)
Raoul Walsh
Breck Coleman's quest for the man who murdered his friend brings him to the Missouri River, where a party of settlers are about to set off on a 1500 mile trek to their promised land in Oregon... [More...]
Raoul Walsh
Breck Coleman's quest for the man who murdered his friend brings him to the Missouri River, where a party of settlers are about to set off on a 1500 mile trek to their promised land in Oregon... [More...]
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
D.W. Griffith
In the early 1860s, the Stonemans, an affluent family from the Northern States, visit their friends, the Camerons, in the South... [More...]
D.W. Griffith
In the early 1860s, the Stonemans, an affluent family from the Northern States, visit their friends, the Camerons, in the South... [More...]
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Henry Koster
Bishop Henry Brougham has become so preoccupied with raising funds to build his dream cathedral that he has neglected his wife and his more important clerical duties... [More...]
Henry Koster
Bishop Henry Brougham has become so preoccupied with raising funds to build his dream cathedral that he has neglected his wife and his more important clerical duties... [More...]
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
Frank Capra
When Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai to marry her fiancé, a missionary worker named Robert Strike, the country is in the midst of a bloody civil war... [More...]
Frank Capra
When Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai to marry her fiancé, a missionary worker named Robert Strike, the country is in the midst of a bloody civil war... [More...]
Blind Husbands (1919)
Erich von Stroheim
An American doctor, Robert Armstrong, and his wife Margaret arrive at the Alpine village of Cortina d'Ampezzo in Northern Italy, looking forward to a well-deserved holiday... [More...]
Erich von Stroheim
An American doctor, Robert Armstrong, and his wife Margaret arrive at the Alpine village of Cortina d'Ampezzo in Northern Italy, looking forward to a well-deserved holiday... [More...]
Blonde Venus (1932)
Josef von Sternberg
Edward Faraday is an American research chemist whose experiments with radioactive substances have given him a life-threatening illness... [More...]
Josef von Sternberg
Edward Faraday is an American research chemist whose experiments with radioactive substances have given him a life-threatening illness... [More...]
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Arthur Penn
In the early 1930s, America is in the grip of the Great Depression. Life is hard, but Clyde Barrow, a young man who has recently been released from prison, manages to scrape along by holding up the odd store and gas station... [More...]
Arthur Penn
In the early 1930s, America is in the grip of the Great Depression. Life is hard, but Clyde Barrow, a young man who has recently been released from prison, manages to scrape along by holding up the odd store and gas station... [More...]
Born Yesterday (1950)
George Cukor
Not content with having made a fortune through his scrap metal business, Harry Brock arrives in Washington DC intending to expand his empire with the help of one or two corruptible congressmen... [More...]
George Cukor
Not content with having made a fortune through his scrap metal business, Harry Brock arrives in Washington DC intending to expand his empire with the help of one or two corruptible congressmen... [More...]
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Blake Edwards
Moving into his new apartment in New York City, struggling writer Paul Varjak tumbles into the chaotic life of his neighbour, a muddleheaded drifter named Holly Golightly... [More...]
Blake Edwards
Moving into his new apartment in New York City, struggling writer Paul Varjak tumbles into the chaotic life of his neighbour, a muddleheaded drifter named Holly Golightly... [More...]
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Howard Hawks
To secure a million dollar donation for his natural history museum, palaeontologist David Huxley finds he has to play a round of golf with his donor's agent, Mr Peabody... [More...]
Howard Hawks
To secure a million dollar donation for his natural history museum, palaeontologist David Huxley finds he has to play a round of golf with his donor's agent, Mr Peabody... [More...]
Broken Blossoms (1919)
D.W. Griffith
The behaviour of westerners in his beloved China convinces Cheng Huan that he should travel to Anglo-Saxon lands and spread the gentle message of Buddha... [More...]
D.W. Griffith
The behaviour of westerners in his beloved China convinces Cheng Huan that he should travel to Anglo-Saxon lands and spread the gentle message of Buddha... [More...]
Bus Stop (1956)
Joshua Logan
Bo Decker, a young cowboy who owns a thriving ranch in Montana, takes the bus to Phoenix with his friend Virgil to participate in a rodeo event... [More...]
Joshua Logan
Bo Decker, a young cowboy who owns a thriving ranch in Montana, takes the bus to Phoenix with his friend Virgil to participate in a rodeo event... [More...]
Cabaret (1972)
Bob Fosse
Berlin, 1931. Sally Bowles is a feisty young American who performs a popular cabaret act at the Kit Kat Club, one of the city's hottest nightspots, although she dreams of one day becoming a successful film actress... [More...]
Bob Fosse
Berlin, 1931. Sally Bowles is a feisty young American who performs a popular cabaret act at the Kit Kat Club, one of the city's hottest nightspots, although she dreams of one day becoming a successful film actress... [More...]
Call Me Madam (1953)
Walter Lang
The United States needs to appoint a new ambassador to the European country of Lichtenburg and who better than the oil tycoon and society queen Sally Adams... [More...]
Walter Lang
The United States needs to appoint a new ambassador to the European country of Lichtenburg and who better than the oil tycoon and society queen Sally Adams... [More...]
Camille (1936)
George Cukor
Despite her humble origins, Marguerite Gautier becomes one of the belles of high society Paris, thanks to the extraordinary power she has over men who are more than willing to pay for her favours... [More...]
George Cukor
Despite her humble origins, Marguerite Gautier becomes one of the belles of high society Paris, thanks to the extraordinary power she has over men who are more than willing to pay for her favours... [More...]
Captain Blood (1935)
Michael Curtiz
England, 1685. Dr Peter Blood is convicted of treason when he treats a wounded man who took part in an uprising against King James II... [More...]
Michael Curtiz
England, 1685. Dr Peter Blood is convicted of treason when he treats a wounded man who took part in an uprising against King James II... [More...]
Carefree (1938)
Mark Sandrich
In a desperate attempt to get his fiancée Amanda to agree to marry him, Stephen Arden asks his psychiatrist friend, Dr Tony Flagg, to analyse her... [More...]
Mark Sandrich
In a desperate attempt to get his fiancée Amanda to agree to marry him, Stephen Arden asks his psychiatrist friend, Dr Tony Flagg, to analyse her... [More...]