Melodrama
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    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Bronte's gothic heroine, Cathy (Anna Calder-Marshall), loves stableboy Heathcliff (Timothy...

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    Morocco (1930)

    Martin is a lonely storage clerk who observes his neighbors and collects information about their...

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    Anna Christie (1930)

    Accompanied by one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Hollywood history, Greta Garbo...

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    Blonde Venus (1932)

    Marlene Dietrich stars as Helen Faraday, a German cabaret singer in the States whose husband, Ned,...

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    City Lights (1931)

    A little tramp (Charlie Chaplin) gets money from a drunken millionaire (Harry Myers) for an...

  • A Double Life picture
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    A Double Life

    Ronald Colman won an Academy Award for his portrayal of an off-the-beam actor in A Double Life. A...

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    Flesh and the Devil (1926)

    A wicked woman (Greta Garbo) dishonors her husband and divides two Austrian officers (John Gilbert,...

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    Grand Hotel (1932)

    A ballerina (Greta Garbo), baron (John Barrymore), stenographer (Joan Crawford), bookkeeper and...

  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame picture
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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

    Grotesque bell-ringer Quasimodo (Charles Laughton) saves Gypsy Esmeralda (Maureen O'Hara) from a mob...

  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame picture
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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

    Grotesque bell-ringer Quasimodo (Lon Chaney) rescues Gypsy Esmeralda (Patsy Ruth Miller) from a mob...

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    Intolerance

    D.W. Griffith's silent masterpiece of four interconnected tales depicting man's inhumanity toward...

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    Jane Eyre (1944)

    Charlotte Bronte's gothic heroine (Joan Fontaine) loves her moody employer (Orson Welles), who keeps...

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    Waterloo Bridge (1940)

    A ballet dancer (Vivien Leigh) and a British officer (Robert Taylor) cross stars on the eve of World...

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    Love Letters (1945)

    A British officer (Joseph Cotten) meets the amnesiac widow (Jennifer Jones) of a buddy he wrote love...

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    Beyond the Rocks (1922)

    A woman (Gloria Swanson) married to a wealthy man has an affair with a handsome nobleman (Rudolph...

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    The Big Shakedown

    An idealistic but naive pharmacist believes the mobsters who claim they want him to manufacture...

  • Casque D'Or picture
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    Casque D'Or

    The Paris demimonde of 1900 is the setting for Casque d'Or. Georges Manda (Serge Reggiani), an...

  • The Devil Is a Woman picture
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    The Devil Is a Woman

    Director Josef Von Sternberg and his greatest discovery, Marlene Dietrich, worked together for the...

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    Flower of Night (1925)

    According to the Paramount publicity mill, Joseph Hergesheimer wrote this unoriginal tale of...

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    Saratoga Trunk (1946)

    A gold-digger (Ingrid Bergman) meets a rich Texas gambler (Gary Cooper) in 1875 New Orleans and...

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    Seventh Heaven

    A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.

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    Street Angel (1928)

    Fox's follow-up to Seventh Heaven, The Street Angel reunited stars Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor...

  • 'Til We Meet Again picture
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    'Til We Meet Again (1940)

    A dying woman (Merle Oberon) and condemned man (George Brent) fall in love on a ship from Hong Kong...

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    The Trespasser (1929)

    The Trespasser was Gloria Swanson's first all-talking picture. All talk is right. Swanson plays a...

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    Cobra Woman (1944)

    On the eve of her wedding to Ramu (Jon Hall), the beautiful Tollea (Maria Montez) is spirited away...

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    Daybreak

    Daybreak a dark, depressing melodrama, tells the story of Eddie (Eric Portman) an unemployed hangman...

  • Me and My Gal picture
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    Me and My Gal (1932)

    Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen's sister Kate falls for...

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    21 Days (1940)

    Laurence Olivier plays a young Londoner implicated in a brutal murder. According to the rules of...

  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They? picture
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    They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

    Desperate people (Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York) enter a grueling dance marathon in...

  • Two Weeks in Another Town picture
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    Two Weeks in Another Town

    An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to...