Melodrama
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    Movies

    The Big Chance

    A boxer faces romance, corruption and a once-in-a-lifetime shot.

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    Blanche Fury

    A Victorian governess (Valerie Hobson) marries an English heir, then plots with a stableboy (Stewart...

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    The Calendar

    The leaves of the Calendar begin to fall rapidly when avaricious Wenda (Greta Gynt) jilts...

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    Carnival

    A London ballerina (Sally Gray) falls in love with a sculptor (Michael Wilding) who leaves her, then...

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    Condemned (1929)

    Ronald Colman's second talking picture, Condemned is a snail's-pace melodrama set on a Devil's...

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    Esther Waters

    A woman (Kathleen Ryan) who is seduced and left alone to raise a child gets a chance at happiness...

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    Kabei: Our Mother (2009)

    Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.

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    Angie (1994)

    Two best friends, Angie and Tina, are young, working class women from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. When...

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    Rain Man (1988)

    A wheeler-dealer (Tom Cruise) meets his brother (Dustin Hoffman), an institutionalized...

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    Butterfield 8 (1960)

    A Manhattan call girl (Elizabeth Taylor) has a tragic affair with a rich married man (Laurence...

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    One Desire (1955)

    The "one desire" of ex-gamblers Rock Hudson and Anne Baxter is to escape their shady former lives...

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    One True Thing (1998)

    At her father's (William Hurt) request, a reluctant woman (Renée Zellweger) postpones her career to...

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    The Bachelor Party (1957)

    A married New York bookkeeper (Don Murray) reluctantly joins a distasteful gathering for a...

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    Movies

    The Cranes Are Flying (1960)

    A Moscow girl (Tatyana Samoilova) loves a World War II soldier (Alexei Batalov) but marries a...

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    Nights of Cabiria (1998)

    An aging Roman streetwalker (Giulietta Masina) meets a movie star (Amedeo Nazzari) and a man...

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    Price of Glory (2000)

    Never getting his chance at success, a former boxer (Jimmy Smits) pushes his three sons into the...

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    By Love Possessed (1961)

    A Massachusetts lawyer (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) has an affair with his crippled partner's (Jason...

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    Sweet November (1968)

    A woman lures emotionally crippled men into affairs, then helps them repair their lives.

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    My Life (1993)

    A man (Michael Keaton) and his wife (Nicole Kidman) confront his terminal cancer as he videotapes...

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    Movies

    Tribute (1980)

    A shallow Broadway press agent (Jack Lemmon) learns he is dying just as his son (Robby Benson) by...

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    I Am Sam (2001)

    A man (Sean Penn) with the mental capacity of a child hires a lawyer (Michelle Pfeiffer) to regain...

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    All That Heaven Allows (1955)

    Friends and family want a rich widow (Jane Wyman) to end her romance with a tree surgeon (Rock...

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    The Big Knife (1955)

    A Hollywood movie star's battle with a studio chief leads to a downward spiral of alcohol, blackmail...

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    Blood and Guts

    A young athelete becomes the unlikely star of an itinerant wrestling troupe, and a rival promoter...

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    Twist (2004)

    A smitten runaway (Joshua Close) follows a handsome drug addict (Nick Stahl) into the world of...

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    Talk to Her (2002)

    A lonely nurse (Javier Cámara) loves a comatose patient, while an Argentine journalist (Darío...

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    De Aanslag (1986)

    A middle-aged man, who in 1945 witnessed the massacre of his entire family at the hands of the...

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    Movies

    Foolish Wives (1922)

    A fake Russian count (Erich von Stroheim) lusts for maids, nurses and a U.S. diplomat's wife in...

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    Great Expectations

    Dickens' orphan Pip (John Mills) goes to London to become a gentleman, thanks to his anonymous...

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    Movies

    Ladies of the Chorus (1949)

    A burlesque show performer falls for her mother's former flame.