Melodrama
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    Movies

    Black Narcissus (1947)

    Anglican nuns face a variety of pressures as they attempt to maintain a convent school and hospital...

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    Movies

    Clash By Night (1952)

    A Monterey, Calif., woman (Barbara Stanwyck) marries a fisherman (Paul Douglas), then has an affair...

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    Dear Murderer

    A British businessman (Eric Portman) kills one of his wife's (Greta Gynt) lovers and frames another...

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    Movies

    Shanghai Express (1932)

    A notorious woman (Marlene Dietrich) rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British...

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    Movies

    The Dark Angel (1935)

    A blinded veteran (Fredric March) becomes famous under a pen name and learns his sweetheart (Merle...

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    Movies

    The Astonished Heart

    The May-December affair between a psychiatrist (Noel Coward) and a young blonde (Margaret Leighton)...

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    Movies

    Hanna's War (1988)

    Biographical drama of Hungarian martyr Hannah Senesh, who was executed by the Nazis in 1944.

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    Cruel Intentions (1999)

    A manipulative adolescent (Sarah Michelle Gellar) challenges her stepbrother (Ryan Phillippe) to...

  • And God Created Woman picture
    Movies

    And God Created Woman (1988)

    A convict (Rebecca De Mornay) marries a carpenter (Vincent Spano), turns rock star and seduces a...

  • I Could Go on Singing picture
    Movies

    I Could Go on Singing (1963)

    A famous singer (Judy Garland) visits the British doctor (Dirk Bogarde) whose son she bore years...

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    Movies

    The Bodyguard (1992)

    An ex-Secret Service agent (Kevin Costner) falls for his client, an actress/singer (Whitney Houston)...

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    Movies

    Rocky V (1990)

    Broke, punchy and at odds with his son, boxer Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) trains a hungry contender,...

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    Movies

    On Golden Pond (1981)

    An old professor (Henry Fonda) and his wife (Katharine Hepburn) make peace with their daughter (Jane...

  • The Wedding March picture
    Movies

    The Wedding March (1928)

    A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.

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    Movies

    Adam and Evelyne

    A gambler (Stewart Granger) raises a homeless girl (Jean Simmons) in style, telling her he is a...

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    Movies

    Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

    A jealous woman (Gene Tierney) kills people to keep her writer husband (Cornel Wilde) to herself.

  • Being Human picture
    Movies

    Being Human (1994)

    Five shorts portray a character named Hector (Robin Williams) as a caveman, a slave, a warrior, an...

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    Movies

    Manderlay (2006)

    In 1933 a young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) discovers an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live...

  • Rocky III picture
    Movies

    Rocky III (1982)

    Old foe Apollo Creed trains ex-boxing champ Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) for a rematch with...

  • Last Dance picture
    Movies

    Last Dance (1996)

    A clemency-board rookie (Rob Morrow) takes interest in the case of a woman (Sharon Stone) on death...

  • Another Man, Another Chance picture
    Movies

    Another Man, Another Chance

    A veterinarian (James Caan) and a French widow (Geneviève Bujold) fall in love in the Old West.

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    Movies

    Black Girl (1972)

    An aspiring dancer (Peggy Pettit) and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster...

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    Movies

    The Betsy (1977)

    The aging, retired founder of an auto giant comes out of retirement to try to develop a safe,...

  • Elvira Madigan picture
    Movies

    Elvira Madigan (1967)

    A 19th-century Swedish cavalry officer (Thommy Berggren) makes a suicide love pact with a circus...

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    Movies

    White Oleander (2002)

    A teenager (Alison Lohman) endures a string of foster homes after her mother (Michelle Pfeiffer), a...

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    Movies

    An American Christmas Carol (1979)

    Updated Dickens' classic is set in a New England town during the Depression.

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    Movies

    Lost In Beijing (2008)

    A window washer sees his drunken wife (Bingbing Fan) raped by her boss (Tony Leung Ka Fai) and...

  • Les Miserables picture
    Movies

    Les Miserables (1998)

    A French ex-boxer's (Jean-Paul Belmondo) troubles during World War II parallel those of Victor...

  • Duel in the Sun picture
    Movies

    Duel in the Sun

    Good and bad sons (Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck) of a Texas cattle baron fight each other, and the...

  • Our Dancing Daughters picture
    Movies

    Our Dancing Daughters (1928)

    A flapper (Joan Crawford) loves a millionaire (John Mack Brown), but he tragically marries someone...