Tragedy
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    Double Suicide (1969)

    The story is based on the historic Bunraku puppet play about star-crossed lovers.

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    Throne of Blood (1957)

    A Japanese version of ``Macbeth'' features a samurai (Toshirô Mifune), his scheming wife (Isuzu...

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    Othello (1959)

    Russian film adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy.

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    King Lear (1975)

    This is a Russian, black-and-white production of the great Shakespearean classic, starring Juri...

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    Oedipus Rex (1967)

    Theban King Oedipus (Douglas Campbell) slays his father and defiles his mother in Sophocles' tragedy...

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    Medea (1969)

    Put in the coldest possible terms, Medea is the story of a woman who gets sore at her husband and...

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    Macbeth

    In this arthouse satirical interpretation of the famous Shakespeare play, a thug named Macbeth...

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    King Lear (1988)

    A wealthy corporate executive arrives in Switzerland in search of a reclusive filmmaker to reaffirm...

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    Sult (1968)

    To protest the British government's classification of IRA prisoners, Bobby Sands (Michael...

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    Othello

    The classic Shakespearean story of the Moorish general who meets and falls in love with a young...

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    Boris Godunov (1989)

    This is a highly adapted cinematic rendition of the great Russian opera Boris Godunov (1874),...

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    The Falls

    Canadian filmmaker Kevin McMahon shows the good and the bad of the natural wonder Niagara Falls.

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    Usureyuku Kioku No Nakade

    Two teens fall in love but their relationship ends in tragedy.

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    Imperial's Ism

    A poetic reflection of a real-life tragedy in a North Carolina factory.

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    Madame Butterfly (1996)

    A Navy officer (Richard Troxell) weds a geisha (Ying Huang), deserts her, then returns years later...

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    Medea (2003)

    Set in a pagan Danish setting, an adaptation of Euripide's classic myth of Medea, a scorned woman...

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    Qian'Niu Hua

    A tender childhood drama about a seemingly frail boy drawn into the events surrounding a rape and...

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    Macbeth

    A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord siezes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio...

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    In Heaven

    Stuck between adolescence and adulthood, Csiwi forms close friendships with Levi and Valeska. All...

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    Andares in the Time of War

    A reflection on the power of love in the face of tragedy.

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    Black and White

    Recreation of the landmark 1958 South Australian Court trial in which young aboriginal Max Stuart...

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    Shadowboxer (2006)

    A professional assassin (Helen Mirren) and her stepson-lover (Cuba Gooding Jr.) shelter a pregnant...

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    The Illusion (2006)

    The ghost of a long-dead movie editor shows a dying director (Kirk Douglas) three films that...

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    October 17, 1961

    A reconstruction of the events that occurred on the night of October 17, 1961 in Paris through the...

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    La Tragedia de Macario

    Inspired by the tragic and true events of immigrants struggling to cross the Mexican-American...

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    Titus (1999)

    This film is an adaptation of the Shakespeare play "Titus Andronicus." Titus returns victorious from...

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    Macbeth (1987)

    The Verdi opera, based on Shakespeare's play.

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    Beyond Belief (2008)

    Two women whose husbands died on Sept. 11 travel to Afghanistan to meet other widows.

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    Secret Sunshine (2007)

    Sin-ae moves with her son Jun to Miryang, the town where her dead husband was born. As she tries to...

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    Blind Mountain (2008)

    A young woman is kidnapped and sold to a villager in the mountains.