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American cinema: Drama

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Anatole Litvak

1938, a decisive year in the history of man. Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the Nazis have committed themselves to a fascist dream that will make Germany the centre of a new world empire...   [More...]

Conflict (1945)
Curtis Bernhardt

To their friends, Richard and Kathryn Mason are the ideal married couple. In reality, their marriage is a sham, since Richard has fallen in love with his wife's younger sister, Evelyn...   [More...]

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
J. Lee Thompson

In 1991, North America is run by an oppressively fascist regime. Eight years previously, a plague wiped out all domestic animals, and householders replaced these with apes...   [More...]

Cornered (1945)
Edward Dmytryk

Immediately after WWII, Laurence Gerard, a former Canadian fighter pilot, returns to France, eager to be reunited with the woman he married during his brief stay there in the war...   [More...]

The Crash (1932)
William Dieterle

To escape her poverty-ridden background, Linda Gault marries wealthy stockbroker Geoff Gault, but theirs is clearly a marriage of convenience, not of love...   [More...]

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Woody Allen

Judah Rosenthal is a successful ophthalmologist who, despite being a happily married man, has begun an affair with an air stewardess, Dolores Paley...   [More...]

Crossfire (1947)
Edward Dmytryk

One evening, Samuels, a recently discharged US marine, is brutally killed. Captain Finlay takes charge of the murder investigation and quickly homes in on three suspects - the three soldiers who were in Samuels's company shortly before he died: Montgomery, Keeley and Mitchell...   [More...]

Cry of the City (1948)
Robert Siodmak

After a shoot out with the police, hardened crook Martin Rome ends up in hospital having shot dead a cop. Whilst he is recovering he is visited by his fiancée Teena Ricante and is pressurised by a lawyer named Niles to confess to participating in a jewel robbery, a crime of which he is innocent...   [More...]

The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
Gunther von Fritsch

Concerned that his daughter Amy is living in a world of her own, Oliver Reed tries to persuade the six-year-old girl to make some new friends...   [More...]

Cymbeline [TV] (1982)
Elijah Moshinsky

In Ancient Britain, King Cymbeline reigns at a time of fragile peace with the Roman Empire. Since his two sons were stolen from him in childhood, Cymbeline has but one surviving heir, his daughter Imogen...   [More...]

D.O.A. (1950)
Rudolph Maté

A man walks into an urban police station to report his own murder. He is Frank Bigelow, an accountant from a small Californian town who recently went missing after learning he had ingested a fatal dose of a luminous poison...   [More...]

Damien: Omen II (1978)
Don Taylor

After the brutal death of his parents, six-year-old Damien Thorn is adopted by his uncle, Richard Thorn, who sits at the head of a vast business empire...   [More...]

The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
Vincent Sherman

Investigating the murder of a notorious gangster, the police make a connection between the dead man and the wealthy socialite Lorna Hansen Forbes, a woman with an uncertain past...   [More...]

Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Lars von Trier

1964. A Czech émigré, Selma Jezkova, works all the hours she can to earn the money so that her twelve year old son can have an operation to save his eyesight...   [More...]

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Stephen Frears

France, circa 1760. Behind a façade of scrupulous respectability, the Marquise de Merteuil delights in inflicting cruelty on those who do her wrong through her meticulously calculated romantic intrigues...   [More...]

The Dark Corner (1946)
Henry Hathaway

Shortly after opening a private detective agency in New York, Bradford Galt's unlucky past begins to catch up with him. One evening, whilst dating his attractive secretary, Kathleen, he notices that he is being trailed by a strange man in a white suit...   [More...]

The Dark Mirror (1946)
Robert Siodmak

When a doctor is found dead, stabbed to death in his apartment, Lieutenant Stevenson soon assembles three witnesses who are willing to testify that the killer is the victim's girlfriend, Terry Collins...   [More...]

Dark Passage (1947)
Delmer Daves

Wrongly convicted for the murder of his wife, Vincent Parry escapes from prison with the intention of bringing the real culprit to justice...   [More...]

The Dark Past (1948)
Rudolph Maté

Psychiatrist Dr Andrew Collins is spending a peaceful weekend at his country house with his wife and a few friends when gangster Al Walker walks in, looking for a hideout for a few hours...   [More...]

Dark Victory (1939)
Edmund Goulding

Long Island society heiress Judith Traherne has an appetite for fast living - parties, horses and cars being just three of her interests...   [More...]

Day of the Dead (1985)
George A. Romero

Human civilization is virtually at an end, obliterated by a mysterious plague that is animating the dead, turning them into flesh-eating zombies with disgusting table manners...   [More...]

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Robert Wise

The world falls under a spell of expectant dread when a flying saucer appears in orbit above the Earth before landing in Washington D.C...   [More...]

Days of Glory (1944)
Jacques Tourneur

In 1941, scattered bands of Soviet guerrillas wage a fierce battle against the advancing Nazi troops, hindering Germany's progress on the Eastern Front and buying the Red Army time to launch a counter-offensive...   [More...]

Dead Reckoning (1947)
John Cromwell

After World War II, paratroopers Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are on their way back to Washington, looking forward to their return to civilian life...   [More...]

Death of a Salesman (1951)
Laslo Benedek

Willy Loman is a 63-year-old travelling salesman who can no longer cope with the physical demands of his job. As he reflects on his life in his darker moments he struggles to comprehend where it all went wrong...   [More...]

Death of a Salesman (1985)
Volker Schlöndorff

Travelling salesman Willy Loman has lived his life convinced that he and his family are destined for success. Now aged 63 he realises the hollowness of his dreams...   [More...]

Deception (1946)
Irving Rapper

It has been many years since Christine Radcliffe last saw her lover Karel Novak, in Europe during WWII. Convinced that Karel is dead, Christine has attempted to build a new life for herself as a musician in New York, supported by her wealthy new lover, the world famous composer Alexander Hollenius...   [More...]

Decision Before Dawn (1951)
Anatole Litvak

December 1944. As World War II enters its final phase, the allied forces are concentrating their attention on Nazi Germany...   [More...]

The Deer Hunter (1978)
Michael Cimino

A small working class town in Western Pennsylvania in the late 1960s. Michael, Nick and Steven are three close friends, in their late twenties, early thirties, who work at a steel mill...   [More...]

The Defiant Ones (1958)
Stanley Kramer

A party of convicts in a chain-gang are being transported under armed guard when their van falls over the edge of a ravine...   [More...]



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