Tragedy
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    The Merchant of Venice (2004)

    Antonio (Jeremy Irons) borrows money from Shylock (Al Pacino) to help his friend Bassanio (Joseph...

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    The Brave One (2007)

    After a brutal attack leaves her badly injured and her fiance dead, a radio host (Jodie Foster)...

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    House of Flying Daggers (2004)

    During the Tang dynasty, two lawmen (Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau) go under cover at a house of...

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    Reservation Road (2007)

    A college professor (Joaquin Phoenix) sees his beloved son die in a hit-and-run accident and, soon...

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    Enduring Love (2004)

    A man (Rhys Ifans) obsesses over a science professor (Daniel Craig) who helped him save a boy in a...

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    Jet Li's Fearless (2006)

    After spending time in a remote village to atone for his past, a martial artist (Jet Li) gets caught...

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    Hamlet (1948)

    A young Danish prince wrestles with his conscience when he is confronted with questions of treachery...

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    Electra (1962)

    A corporate researcher who wants a young scientist's formula for human regeneration uses his sexy...

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    City of Angels (1998)

    An angel (Nicolas Cage) considers becoming human after falling in love with a Los Angeles heart...

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    Fugitive Pieces (2008)

    A writer (Stephen Dillane) has trouble moving past his haunting memories of the Holocaust.

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    The Great Gatsby (1974)

    F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby (Robert Redford), shady 1920s millionaire, tragically loves Daisy...

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    Tristan & Isolde (2006)

    After the fall of the Roman Empire, English orphan Tristan (James Franco) meets and falls...

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    Bubble (2006)

    Residents of a small town investigate a murder which took place at a local toy factory.

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    West Side Story (1961)

    Rival New York City gangs affect the love of a young man (Richard Beymer) and woman (Natalie Wood)...

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    William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1996)

    Twentieth-century teenagers (Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes) fall in love, despite feuding...

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    A Girl Cut in Two (2008)

    A TV weather girl (Ludivine Sagnier) is caught in the middle when a spoiled playboy (Benoît Magimel)...

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    Julius Caesar (1953)

    Shakespeare's Brutus (James Mason), Cassius (John Gielgud) and others plot the Roman ruler's death,...

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    Macbeth (1948)

    An 11th-century Scottish nobleman's (Orson Welles) wife (Jeanette Nolan) drives him to murder his...

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    He Who Gets Slapped (1924)

    A scientist's faith in humanity is lost when he discovers that his wife is in love with his best...

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    Hamlet (2000)

    A contemporary version of the Shakespeare play is set in New York City circa 2000, after a hostile...

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    The Cure (1995)

    Parental opposition cannot stop the friendship of two rural Minnesota teens (Joseph Mazzello, Brad...

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    Iphigenia (1977)

    Clytemnestra (Irene Papas) begs Greek King Agamemnon (Costa Kazakos) not to sacrifice their daughter...

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    Romeo and Juliet (1936)

    Shakespeare's Renaissance lovers (Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard) tragically defy their feuding...

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    Tess (1980)

    A young strong-willed peasant girl, becomes the affection of two men, in the end tragically falling...

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    Richard III (1955)

    Shakespeare's hunchbacked king (Laurence Olivier) works his mad way from the battlefield to the...

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    Call of the Wild (1975)

    The sled dog Buck helps a roughneck (Charlton Heston) and his partner to cover a lot of territory in...

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    Black Orpheus (1959)

    Death follows a streetcar conductor (Breno Mello) and country girl (Marpessa Dawn) during carnival...

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    The Champ (1979)

    A has-been boxer (Jon Voight) trains in Florida for a comeback and fights his ex-wife (Faye Dunaway)...

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    Romeo and Juliet

    Theda Bara couldn't have gotten any farther away from her vamp roles than the part of Juliet in this...

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    Fanny Midgley

    Fanny Midgley appeared in movies such as Greed, An American Tragedy, and An American Tragedy.

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    James Willwerth

    James Willwerth was a Writer for the TV show American Tragedy.

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    Richard III (1995)

    An ambitious noble murders his way to England's throne in this adaptation of Shakespeare's play, set...

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    A View From the Bridge (1962)

    A working-class Italian-American family is thrust into a conflict when two young men, illegal...

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    Men of Respect (1991)

    A New York mobster (John Turturro) kills his syndicate boss, inspired by his wife (Katherine...

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    The Republic of Love

    Divorced three times, a disc jockey (Bruce Greenwood) falls for a curator (Emilia Fox) who has a...

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    Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)

    A ghetto teen (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.) takes part in an ill-fated robbery to help his parents (George...

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    Love Is the Drug (2006)

    A love triangle among recent high school graduates proves deadly.

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    The Field (1990)

    A tormented Irish patriarch and an American businessman struggle for possession of a plot of land in...

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    Hamlet (1990)

    based on the Shakespeare play about a man who returns home to his kingdom to find his mom married to...

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    Omkara (2006)

    The film is Vishal Bharadwaj's adaption of the Shakespeare masterpiece "Othello".

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    Tis Pity She's a Whore (1971)

    Annabella marries Soranzo, when she is pregnant by her brother Giovanni. Destiny, and jealousies...

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    Ju Dou (1991)

    The bride (Gong Li) and the nephew (Li Baotian) of an old village dyer (Li Wei) become spiteful...

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    The Brothers Karamazov (1968)

    Three brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastary, one a gambler, and one an intellectual,...

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    Othello (1955)

    Shakespeare's Iago (Micheal MacLiammoir) tells the jealous Moor of Venice (Orson Welles) that his...

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    The Fire Within (1966)

    An alcoholic French intellectual (Maurice Ronet) sets a date to die, then shoots himself.

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    Romeo and Juliet

    In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have...

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    Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1980)

    "Names have been changed to protect the innocent" in this infamous fictionalization of the tragic...

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    O (2001)

    Jealous of his popularity, a teenager (Josh Hartnett) at a private school hatches a scheme to ruin...

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    Distant (2004)

    Mahmut is a relatively successful commercial photographer who has been struggling to come to terms...

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    Li Hsiao-Lung Ch'uan-Ch'i (1978)

    The martial artist is seen in clips and recalled by Steve McQueen, James Coburn and others who knew...