self-sacrifice
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    Stella (1990)

    The story of the sacrifices a woman makes for her lifelong best friend.

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    The Drifter (1988)

    A woodsman finds himself involved in the love affair between his brother and the daughter of the...

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    The Four Feathers (2002)

    Accused of cowardice for resigning when assigned to a dangerous post, a former British soldier...

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    Casablanca (1942)

    Cafe owner Rick (Humphrey Bogart) helps an old flame (Ingrid Bergman) and her husband (Paul Henreid)...

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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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    The Remains of the Day (1993)

    An English butler's (Anthony Hopkins) devotion to service keeps him from the housekeeper (Emma...

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    Shanghai Express (1932)

    A notorious woman (Marlene Dietrich) rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British...

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    The Desperate Ones

    In this drama, two Polish brothers escape from a Russian labor camp and try to join the exiled...

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    Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan (1982)

    Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and the Enterprise crew battle an old foe (Ricardo...

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    The End of the Affair (1999)

    A woman's (Julianne Moore) prayer to save the lover (Ralph Fiennes) she later believes has died...

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    The Little Mermaid (1989)

    A mermaid princess (Jodi Benson) falls in love with an earthly prince (Christopher Daniel Barnes)....

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    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    The death of a patriarch sends an Argentine family to Europe during World War I. Silent.

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    To Each His Own (1946)

    Set during World War I, a tale about a small-town girl, Josephine, who has an illegitimate son by an...

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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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    The Key (1958)

    A tugboat captain (William Holden) inherits an apartment and a woman (Sophia Loren) from another...

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    La Belle et la Bete (2002)

    To save her father, a Frenchwoman (Josette Day) offers her life to a man (Jean Marais) under a...

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    Camille (1936)

    A doomed courtesan clouds her young lover's name in 19th-century Paris.

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    A Day at the Races (1937)

    Doctor Hugo Hackenbush (Groucho Marx), Tony (Chico Marx), and Stuffy (Harpo Marx) upset a...

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    Stella Dallas (1937)

    A working-class woman (Barbara Stanwyck) lets her daughter (Anne Shirley) go to her rich father...

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    All the Brothers Were Valiant

    This tale of the high seas -- based on the novel by Ben Ames Williams -- is as much character study...

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    Blue Skies

    Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances...

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    Dressed to Kill

    Most of Dressed to Kill takes place at a swank nightclub which serves as an Underworld rendezvous....

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    The Garden of Allah

    Rex Ingram directed this romantic tale of passion about pious Father Adrian (Ivan Petrovich) who has...

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    The Patent Leather Kid

    Such was Richard Barthelmess' popularity in 1927 that audiences were willing to sit through all 12...

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    The Brave

    A poor, unemployed father gives the ultimate gift of love to change the quality of life for his...

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    Candy (1968)

    Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel, a sendup of Voltaire's -Candide-. Young Candy is a high...

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    Bizet's Carmen (1984)

    Georges Bizet's 1875 opera about Carmen, the colorful cigarette factory worker whose flirtations...

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    La Promesse de l'aube

    Nina (Melina Mercouri) is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for...

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    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)

    A deaf-mute man (Alan Arkin) helps several other lonely people in a Southern town.

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    River Red (1998)

    Set against the icy, stark beauty of rural New Hampshire, brothers Dave and Tom Holden's fates...