Film Index

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...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

Human Desire (1954)
Fritz Lang

When railway worker Carl Buckley is fired by his foreman, he compels his seductive wife Vicki to ask Mr Owens, a senior railway official, to have him reinstated...   [More...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

The Impostor (1944)
Julien Duvivier

In June 1940, Clément, a condemned prisoner, is about to be guillotined in Paris when German bombs rain down and allow him to escape...   [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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Charles Barton

Special undercover agent Mark Sheldon is assigned to expose an illicit slave operation on a remote island in the Pacific run by a man named Stephen Danel...   [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...]

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...]



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