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Melodrama
see all genres ›Everyday life is, let's face it, not all that dramatic. But in melodrama, fickle fate twists, turns and plunges as precipitously as a rollercoaster, changing lives in an instant—often for the worse.
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Genres / Drama / Melodrama
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The Blue Angel
Emil Jannings, the quintessential German expressionist actor, stars as Professor Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys' prep school. After learning of the pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a local nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon...Start your free trial to watch
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La boda
Luciano, twice her age, wants desperately to marry Iluminades, one of the village's beautiful young available daughters. They call him the "Black Man," the "Outsider," and most of the town does not want the wedding to take place. A very rich man, Luciano made his money as a black slave trader but still manages to win over...Start your free trial to watch
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Border Cafe
In a village near Iran's border with Turkey, Reyhan, a young woman with two children, faces a difficult choice when her husband dies. Instead of agreeing to marry her brother-in-law, as required by traditional law, she chooses to support her family by re-opening her late husband's restaurant. Kambozia Partovia represents...Start your free trial to watch
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Dr. Bill Cortner is a surgeon like his father. After reviving a patient using experimental techniques, his father is nervous. “Don’t try to play God,” he warns him. But Dr. Cortner obviously isn’t listening. He is obsessed with performing surgical transplants and continues to experiment with amputated...Start your free trial to watch
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The Bride and the Beast
THE BRIDE AND THE BEAST is a supernatural drama of terror and scientific fiction. When Laura (Charlotte Austin) and Dan (Lance Fuller) get married, she appears to be more interested in Dan's gorilla. It's revealed through hypnosis that she was Queen of the Gorillas in a previous incarnation. The screenplay...Start your free trial to watch
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Broken Blossoms
Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to England to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient. But it is Lillian Gish who illuminates the screen! In this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she plays a fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape her miserable...Start your free trial to watch
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Burlesque Suicide
Facial expression films continued to be popular in the early 1900s. In one, a man contemplates suicide but takes a drink instead. In a second version, presented here, BURLESQUE SUICIDE NO.2, the same man threatens suicide and then points his finger at the camera (and the audience) and laughs.Start your free trial to watch
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Cabiria
Inspired by grand opera and Italy's imperialist victory in the Libyan War (1911-12), the Italian movie industry produced dozens of historical epics in the period just before WW I. The most influential and successful of these was CABIRIA, the visually spectacular film which set the standard for big-budget feature-length movies...Start your free trial to watch
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The Call of Cthulhu
THE CALL OF CTHULHU is H.P. Lovecraft's most famous story. It is the only story to feature the celebrated monster Cthulhu and in many ways it encapsulates the ideas that went on to permeated Lovecraft's "Cthulhu Mythos." The film follows the story's three-part narrative construction and it moves from the...Start your free trial to watch
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El Camino
The critically acclaimed EL CAMINO follows Lily as she travels across the country to Mexico with Gray, Eliot and their recently deceased friend’s ashes in hand. As these young adults confront their unrealized selves and their grief, nothing happens the way we expect.Start your free trial to watch
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Campfire
The year is 1981. Rachel Gerlik, a forty-two year old widow and mother of two beautiful teenage daughters, Esti and Tami, wants to join the founding group of a new religious settlement in the West Bank. The problem is that the acceptance committee won't accept her unless she remarries and proves that she and her daughters can...Start your free trial to watch
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Candlelight in Algeria
James Mason stars as fugitive British agent Alan Thurston on a mission to find secret photographs of the location of the Allied invasion of North Africa before the Nazis. Susan Foster (Carla Lehmann) is drawn into the intrigue of the event when she decides to help Thurston by hiding him from Dr. Muller...Start your free trial to watch
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La captive
Chantal Akerman’s insinuating chamber drama distills the romantic pathologies of suspicion and control with remarkable precision. Based on the fifth volume Proust’s IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, LA CAPTIVE treats the novel’s fetishized structures of detail and time as symptoms of a slow spreading sickness. The film opens with Simon...Start your free trial to watch
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The Cat and the Canary
A decaying mansion and a stormy night are the archetypal setting for mystery and chaos when a pack of greedy relatives gather for the reading of a twenty-year-old will. But before the fortune of Cyrus West can be handed down, the family must endure a night in the cavernous manor, unnerved by the news that...Start your free trial to watch
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Chain Letters
“Life is a river. A very dirty river,” one protagonist decrees in Mark Rappaport's last narrative feature before he embarked on a 1990s trilogy of quirky, highly personal documentaries about Hollywood (such as ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES). Made in Manhattan during the worst early depths of the AIDS epidemic, this LA RONDE-style...Start your free trial to watch
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The Cheat
A rare phenomenon of the American cinema, Cecil B. DeMille's THE CHEAT (from a screenplay by Hector Turnbull) is a film that continues to arrest, arouse and enthrall. Establishing a narrative formula that he would cling to in years to come, DeMille wove the tale of a wayward wife whose impulsive indiscretions propel her into...Start your free trial to watch
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The Cherry Orchard
Acclaimed international director Michael Cacoyannis (ZORBA THE GREEK) and a dream cast of British screen talent revive Anton Chekhov's masterpiece of imprisonment in wealth and regret. Working from his own translation, Cacoyannis expands and condenses THE CHERRY ORCHARD with a fidelity that preserves...Start your free trial to watch