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1940s American films
Laura
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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The Lost Weekend
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and...
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Sullivan's Travels
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble"...
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.
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Red River
Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy....
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Monsieur Verdoux
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for h...
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His Girl Friday
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with...
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Gaslight
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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To Have and Have Not
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
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The Set-Up
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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