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Drama
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) Wallace Worsley, Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Drama, Romance

Clopin bought Esmeralda from the gypsies when she was young. Dancing in the square at the festival, Esmeralda is spotted by Jehan, the evil brother of the good archdeacon Claude Frollo. Read More »
Dirty Heroes (1967) Alberto De Martino, Frederick Stafford, Daniela Bianchi, John Ireland, Drama, War

Holland. Spring 1945. Two armies face each other in the final confrontation of World War II. Read More »
Temptation (1946) Irving Pichel, Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

In a flashback, late-Victorian beauty Ruby, a divorcee with a shady past, calculatingly marries rich Egyptologist Nigel, who installs her at his Cairo estate while he digs for mummies. Read More »
Tennessee Johnson (1942) William Dieterle, Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Hussey, Biography, Drama

The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. Read More »
Talking to Strangers (1988) Rob Tregenza, Ken Gruz, Marvin Hunter, Dennis Jordan, Experimental, Drama

It consists of only nine ten minute segments. Each shot/sequence was filmed only once in 35mm film with direct sound. Read More »
Samurai Spy (1965) Masahiro Shinoda, Hiroshi Aoyama, Jun Hamamura, Osamu Hitomi, Action, Drama

The legendary samurai Sasuke Sarutobi tracks the spy Nojiri, while a mysterious figure named Sakon leads a band of men on their own quest for the wily Nojiri. Read More »
Like Grains of Sand (1995) Ryosuke Hashiguchi, Yoshinori Okada, Ayumi Hamasaki, Kouji Yamaguchi, Drama, Romance

The movie is built around the very complex relationships between Yoshida, leaving Shimizu for Aihara (or at least he tries to) Read More »
The Minister (2011) Pierre Schoeller, Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman, Drama

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. Read More »
This Was Paris (1942) John Harlow, Ann Dvorak, Ben Lyon, Griffith Jones, War, Drama

On the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other. Read More »