Tragedy
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    Blind Mountain (2008)

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

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    You, the Living (2009)

    You, the Living is a film about humankind, its greatness and its baseness, joy and sorrow, its...

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    My 9/11

    A personal reflection on 9/11 tragedy.

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    Don Quixote (1934)

    Steeped in chivalry, Cervantes' hero (Feodor Chaliapin) tilts at windmills with his squire, Sancho...

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    Faust (1926)

    F.W. Murnau's adaptation of the tale of a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for...

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    Macbeth

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    Othello

    After the Moor (Emil Jannings) of Venice passes him over for a promotion, treacherous Iago (Werner...

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    Sommarlek (1954)

    In this melancholy romance, a not-so-young ballerina recalls an earlier, tragic love affair. The...

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    The Unknown (1927)

    A circus freak (Lon Chaney) goes to horrific lengths to win the woman (Joan Crawford) he admires....

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    La Favorita (1952)

    A version of the Donizetti opera -- Sophia Loren(aka Sophia Lazzaro) appears in one of her first...

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    A Bill of Divorcement

    An escaped mental patient (John Barrymore) finds his daughter (Katharine Hepburn) engaged and his...

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    The Great Gatsby

    Accurately described as "a beautiful job" by novelist John O'Hara, this 1926 silent version of F....

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    The Great Gatsby (1949)

    In this "adaptation" of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, a Jazz Age bootlegger learns the hard way...

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    Hamlet

    Johnston Forbes-Robertson, considered the greatest Hamlet of his era, starred in this 6-reel...

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    Hamlet

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    Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

    A Romanian gigolo (Charles Boyer) exits Mexico by marrying a U.S. teacher (Olivia de Havilland) on a...

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    Madame Butterfly

    Not surprisingly, Mary Pickford failed to look sufficiently Japanese in this five-reel melodrama...

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    Madame Butterfly (1932)

    This adaptation of the Puccini opera jettisons all the music and retains only David Belasco's...

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    Othello

    William Shakespeare's immortal tragedy Othello had already been filmed several times as a "short...

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    Troubled Waters (2007)

    An FBI agent (Jennifer Beals) and her partner investigate the kidnapping of the daughter of a...

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    Romeo and Juliet (1916)

    Metro's eight-reel adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was released during same...

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    Carmen

    No "story by" credit is bestowed in the 1942 French filmization of Carmen, though its debt to...

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    Julius Caesar

    Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar (Jeremy Sisto) amasses great power, leading his political...

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    King Lear

    It seems ludicrous now that silent versions of Shakespeare's plays were ever attempted, but they...

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    Macbeth

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    Richard III (1912)

    In 1912, Frederick Warde, a respected actor on the legitimate stage, who, over the course of a long...

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    Macbeth

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    Macbeth

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    Macbeth

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    Macbeth