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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 Heart and the Money
To marry for money or give all for love is the dilemma faced by the lovely Suzanne. An ambitious mother pushes her toward security but Suzanne's heart longs for the sunlit joy of her boat rides with Raymond to gather wild irises. Louis Feuillade's artistically composed frames (plus one heart-tugging...Start your free trial to watch
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The Heart of an Indian
Thomas Ince leased 17,000 acres of spectacular California land to produce rugged westerns like THE HEART OF AN INDIAN, also known as THE INDIAN MASSACRE. With the men, livestock and wagons of the Miller Brothers 101 Wild West Show, it has the genuine and unglamorous feel of the frontier.Start your free trial to watch
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Hell Harbor
A Caribbean island harbor is the exquisite backdrop for treachery and romance as Anita (Lupe Velez), a descendant of the infamous Morgan the Pirate, gets in the middle of a dispute between her father Harry (Gibson Gowland), who has killed a man, and grimy pearl trader Horngold (Jean Hersholt), who witnessed the crime and...Start your free trial to watch
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Hidden Love
Acclaimed actress Isabelle Huppert stars in this downbeat tale of a suicidal mental patient trapped in an endless maze of despair following the death of her only child. Initially raised in an acrid household, later locked into a dicey marriage and ultimately saddled with a daughter (played by Melanie Laurent - INGLOURIOUS...Start your free trial to watch
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Highway 13
It's murder on wheels when a trucking company loses several vehicles in a series of mysterious crashes, and a company honcho dies in a road accident that is equally inexplicable. Truck driver Robert Lowery soon finds himself enmeshed in the whodunit, which involves a cafe truck stop, an ex-gangster mechanic and indications of...Start your free trial to watch
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His Trust
HIS TRUST, subtitled "the faithful devotion and self- sacrifice of an old negro servant," is something of a race-relations precursor to D.W. Griffith's better-known BIRTH OF A NATION. The aforementioned servant is played in blackface, unfortunately, but the character's portrayal might surprise audiences who have historically...Start your free trial to watch
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His Trust Fulfilled
D. W. Griffith's loose sequel to HIS TRUST features George the "negro servant" who, after looking after the widow and daughter of his slain Confederate master in the first film, is now called upon to look after the girl when her mother dies. George's sacrifices to place the girl in a loving home and...Start your free trial to watch
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Hollow City
HOLLOW CITY is set in Angola, the civil war-torn country in the southern west coast of Africa that had been colonized by Portugal until independence in 1975. In the tribal village of Bie, eleven year old N'dala (Roldan Pinto João) sees his family massacred by soldiers. He and other orphans are rescued by a missionary nun (Ana...Start your free trial to watch
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Home Run
Chapman To (ISABELLA) and China's top actress Fan Bing-Bing (A CHINESE TALL STORY) are the leads in this poignant drama. To boost the sagging ratings of her reality TV show, producer/host Tien (Fan) decides to bring 5-year-old Lu (newcomer Zou Yanwen) to the studio and sends him off to find his way home alone. Lu finds help...Start your free trial to watch
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Home to Danger
This trim Brit noir casts prim "English rose" type Rona Anderson as the estranged daughter of a reprobate Colonel who dies under circumstances that ought to bring more suspicion than they do. Left to distribute a small fortune to charity after his death, she's protected by an upper-class suitor (stork-like Guy Rolfe) as well...Start your free trial to watch
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House by the River
Victorian ne'er-do-well Stephen Byrne (Louis Hayward) assaults and murders his wife's virginal housekeeper. With the reluctant assistance of loyal brother John (Lee Bowman), Stephen remorselessly consigns the girl's corpse to the river. But as John's affection for Stephen's wife Marjorie (Jane Wyatt),...Start your free trial to watch
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The House with Closed Shutters
D.W. Griffith throws an exciting wrench in this otherwise conventional Civil War melodrama when a proud daughter of the confederacy takes her coward brother’s place on the battlefield. She’s killed in heroic fashion and her mother shutters the house to protect the secret of who maintained the family’s...Start your free trial to watch
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Universal Studio's 1923 superproduction remains perhaps the most lavish of all adaptations of Victor Hugo's historical romance. It stars the extraordinary Lon Chaney, the famous silent-era "Man of a Thousand Faces" whose gifts for conveying both physical extremity and pathos were used ideally here as...Start your free trial to watch
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Hyenas
Twenty years after his astonishing first film, TOUKI BOUKI, Djibril Diop Mambety brings us a second feature, HYENAS, as provocative as his first. He adapts a timeless parable of human greed into a biting satire of today's Africa, betraying the hopes of independence for the false promises of Western materialism. Mambety has...Start your free trial to watch
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I Am Dina
In Norway during the 1800s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes the dramatic death of her mother. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Her only friend is the stable boy, Tomas. Dina (Maria Bonnevie) grows up wild and unmanageable. In her teenage...Start your free trial to watch
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I Passed for White
A beautiful young woman meets and marries the man of her dreams, only she hasn't told him that she is half-black, and he and his rich family and friends are white. She soon discovers that happiness cannot be founded on a lie. Please excuse the poor source quality of this film.Start your free trial to watch
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I Shot Billy the Kid
Sheriff Pat Garrett (Robert Lowery), a lawman charged with the task of rounding up the terror of the plains, Billy the Kid (Don Barry), faces a moral dilemma: the Kid once saved him from death at Indian hands. Billy must also make a decision: turn himself in, in exchange for a break from the prosecution,...Start your free trial to watch
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I sovversivi
The first feature directed solely by the Taviani brothers (following two collaborations with Valentino Orsini) is somewhat atypical in being borderline anarchic, sometimes farcical and experimental in its mash-up approach to narrative. Several strands are juggled here, including strife between a yuppie couple that leads to...Start your free trial to watch