Film Index
American cinema: Romance
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
John Landis
David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors...
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John Landis
Anastasia (1956)
Anatole Litvak
Paris, 1928. A decade after Tsar Nicolas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks, rumours continue to circulate that the tsar's daughter, Anastasia, somehow survived...
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Anatole Litvak
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
George Sidney
Returning home to a hero's welcome after WWII, navy personnel Clarence Doolittle and Joe Brady can hardly wait to get ashore and extract every last morsel of pleasure from their leave...
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George Sidney
Angel Face (1952)
Otto Preminger
The Tremaynes, Charles and Catherine, are a wealthy couple who live with their daughter Diane at their hilltop estate in Beverley Hills...
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Otto Preminger
Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
Archie Mayo
On his release from prison, Eddie Kagle's only thought is to recover the ill-gotten gains from the robbery that led to his arrest...
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Archie Mayo
Anna Christie (1930)
Clarence Brown
For years, the old coal barge captain Chris Christopherson has led a free and solitary life. Then, one evening, his daughter, Anna, decides to re-enter his life... [More...]
Clarence Brown
For years, the old coal barge captain Chris Christopherson has led a free and solitary life. Then, one evening, his daughter, Anna, decides to re-enter his life... [More...]
Anna Karenina (1935)
Clarence Brown
During the 19th century, Anna Arkadyevna Karenina undertakes a trip to Moscow in the hope of saving her brother Stiva's marriage... [More...]
Clarence Brown
During the 19th century, Anna Arkadyevna Karenina undertakes a trip to Moscow in the hope of saving her brother Stiva's marriage... [More...]
Annie Hall (1977)
Woody Allen
Alvy Singer is a New York stand-up comedian who is still obsessed with his former girlfriend Annie Hall, a year after their relationship ended... [More...]
Woody Allen
Alvy Singer is a New York stand-up comedian who is still obsessed with his former girlfriend Annie Hall, a year after their relationship ended... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
The April Fools (1969)
Stuart Rosenberg
Howard Brubaker, a successful company man, is trapped in a loveless marriage to an unsympathetic wife, Phyllis. At a party hosted by his boss, Ted, Howard is encouraged to pick up a woman and ends up choosing Ted's attractive French wife, Catherine... [More...]
Stuart Rosenberg
Howard Brubaker, a successful company man, is trapped in a loveless marriage to an unsympathetic wife, Phyllis. At a party hosted by his boss, Ted, Howard is encouraged to pick up a woman and ends up choosing Ted's attractive French wife, Catherine... [More...]
April in Paris (1952)
David Butler
A junior government official, Winthrop Putnam, sees his career aspirations evaporate when he realises that he has invited the wrong woman to represent the American theatre at an exposition in Paris... [More...]
David Butler
A junior government official, Winthrop Putnam, sees his career aspirations evaporate when he realises that he has invited the wrong woman to represent the American theatre at an exposition in Paris... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Arthur (1981)
Steve Gordon
Arthur Bach is a millionaire playboy who spends most of his time cruising New York in his chauffeur-driven limousine, tanking up on hard liquor at any bar he comes across... [More...]
Steve Gordon
Arthur Bach is a millionaire playboy who spends most of his time cruising New York in his chauffeur-driven limousine, tanking up on hard liquor at any bar he comes across... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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...]
Barbary Coast (1935)
Howard Hawks
In 1849, the California Gold Rush is well underway. San Francisco has become a boomtown, a place where fortunes are made and lost in a day... [More...]
Howard Hawks
In 1849, the California Gold Rush is well underway. San Francisco has become a boomtown, a place where fortunes are made and lost in a day... [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...]
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Gene Saks
Paul and Corie Bratter are a pair of young newlyweds who can hardly wait to set up home together. Unfortunately, the home that Corie has chosen, a tiny fifth floor apartment in Greenwich Village, isn't quite what Paul, a straitlaced trainee attorney, had in mind... [More...]
Gene Saks
Paul and Corie Bratter are a pair of young newlyweds who can hardly wait to set up home together. Unfortunately, the home that Corie has chosen, a tiny fifth floor apartment in Greenwich Village, isn't quite what Paul, a straitlaced trainee attorney, had in mind... [More...]
Behind the Headlines (1937)
Richard Rosson
Eddie Haines is radio station KBC's star reporter. His talent for scooping big news stories has made him massively unpopular with his rival journalists, not least of whom is his former girlfriend, Mary Bradley... [More...]
Richard Rosson
Eddie Haines is radio station KBC's star reporter. His talent for scooping big news stories has made him massively unpopular with his rival journalists, not least of whom is his former girlfriend, Mary Bradley... [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 Street (1942)
Irving Reis
Augustus Pinkerton II, known to all as Little Pinks, ekes out a living in New York as a busboy at some of the classiest joints in town... [More...]
Irving Reis
Augustus Pinkerton II, known to all as Little Pinks, ekes out a living in New York as a busboy at some of the classiest joints in town... [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...]
Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
Charles Walters
Kitty Wonder manages a travelling circus with her father, their main attraction being a performing elephant named Jumbo. With the circus heavily in debt, Kitty struggles to keep the show on the road, not an easy task when her father keeps gambling away their earnings... [More...]
Charles Walters
Kitty Wonder manages a travelling circus with her father, their main attraction being a performing elephant named Jumbo. With the circus heavily in debt, Kitty struggles to keep the show on the road, not an easy task when her father keeps gambling away their earnings... [More...]