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American cinema: All genres
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
William A. Wellman
Eddie Smith and Tommy Gordon are two adolescent boys, from comfortable middle-class homes, who are about to leave school...
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William A. Wellman
The Wild One (1953)
Laslo Benedek
One eventful day, a group of leather-jacked young motorcyclists invade the peace of a small Californian town. Their attempt to gatecrash a motorcycle race is thwarted by its organisers, but their leader, Johnny, does not go away empty handed: he makes off with one of the prize trophies...
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Laslo Benedek
Wild River (1960)
Elia Kazan
In the wake of devastating floods in the early 1930s, the Federal Government decides to embark on a programme of dam building on the Tennessee River that will not only preserve the region but will also generate huge quantities of electricity...
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Elia Kazan
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Mel Stuart
Willy Wonka, the most famous confectionary maker in the world, creates worldwide pandemonium when he announces that he will admit five lucky people to his ultra-secret chocolate factory...
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Mel Stuart
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
Nicholas Ray
In the early 1900s, an idealistic young schoolteacher named Walt Murdock arrives in Miami, Florida, to take up a new post...
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Nicholas Ray
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Billy Wilder
Despite his ill health and the protestations of his nurse, the celebrated barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to defend Leonard Vole, who is charged with the murder of a widow he had befriended... [More...]
Billy Wilder
Despite his ill health and the protestations of his nurse, the celebrated barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to defend Leonard Vole, who is charged with the murder of a widow he had befriended... [More...]
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Victor Fleming
Orphaned schoolgirl Dorothy Gale lives a simple life in Kansas with her Aunt Em, Uncle Henry and her beloved dog Toto. One of Dorothy's neighbours, Miss Gulch, has taken a dislike to Toto and when the dog bites her she threatens to take it away to be destroyed... [More...]
Victor Fleming
Orphaned schoolgirl Dorothy Gale lives a simple life in Kansas with her Aunt Em, Uncle Henry and her beloved dog Toto. One of Dorothy's neighbours, Miss Gulch, has taken a dislike to Toto and when the dog bites her she threatens to take it away to be destroyed... [More...]
The Wolf Man (1941)
George Waggner
After 18 years, Larry Talbot returns to his family home to take the place of his elder brother, who died in a hunting accident... [More...]
George Waggner
After 18 years, Larry Talbot returns to his family home to take the place of his elder brother, who died in a hunting accident... [More...]
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Fritz Lang
Richard Wanley is a humdrum college professor who is looking forward to an uneventful few weeks of bachelor living while his wife takes their children away for the annual holiday... [More...]
Fritz Lang
Richard Wanley is a humdrum college professor who is looking forward to an uneventful few weeks of bachelor living while his wife takes their children away for the annual holiday... [More...]
Woman of the Year (1942)
George Stevens
Sam Craig is a down-to-Earth sportswriter on a New York newspaper. Tess Harding may have a column on the same paper, but she appears to come from another world - a society girl who has become both a prominent political journalist and a torchbearer for feminism... [More...]
George Stevens
Sam Craig is a down-to-Earth sportswriter on a New York newspaper. Tess Harding may have a column on the same paper, but she appears to come from another world - a society girl who has become both a prominent political journalist and a torchbearer for feminism... [More...]
Wonder Man (1945)
H. Bruce Humberstone
Buster Dingle is a popular performer at a swanky New York nightclub, the Pelican Club. The sole witness to a gangland killing, his life is threatened when mobster boss Ten Grand Jackson escapes from police custody... [More...]
H. Bruce Humberstone
Buster Dingle is a popular performer at a swanky New York nightclub, the Pelican Club. The sole witness to a gangland killing, his life is threatened when mobster boss Ten Grand Jackson escapes from police custody... [More...]
Written on the Wind (1956)
Douglas Sirk
Kyle Hadley, the son of one of America's wealthiest oil magnates, is used to getting what he wants. As soon as he meets Lucy Moore, the secretary of an advertising executive, he is determined to take her as his wife... [More...]
Douglas Sirk
Kyle Hadley, the son of one of America's wealthiest oil magnates, is used to getting what he wants. As soon as he meets Lucy Moore, the secretary of an advertising executive, he is determined to take her as his wife... [More...]
The Wrong Man (1956)
Alfred Hitchcock
Working as a bass player in an exclusive New York nightclub, Manny Balestrero earns just enough to keep himself, his wife Rose and his two young sons... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Working as a bass player in an exclusive New York nightclub, Manny Balestrero earns just enough to keep himself, his wife Rose and his two young sons... [More...]
Wuthering Heights (1939)
William Wyler
Home to the Earnshaw family, Wuthering Heights sits proud and inviolable as a fortress on the wind-blasted Yorkshire Moors, oblivious to the tragedies that lie ahead... [More...]
William Wyler
Home to the Earnshaw family, Wuthering Heights sits proud and inviolable as a fortress on the wind-blasted Yorkshire Moors, oblivious to the tragedies that lie ahead... [More...]
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Michael Curtiz
In 1942, the veteran star of Broadway George Michael Cohan is appearing in a musical satire in which he plays the President of the United States... [More...]
Michael Curtiz
In 1942, the veteran star of Broadway George Michael Cohan is appearing in a musical satire in which he plays the President of the United States... [More...]
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Frank Capra
Anthony Kirby is the president of a major US bank. The embodiment of soulless capitalism, he has resolved to buy up a block of houses to make way for a munitions factory that will make him even wealthier... [More...]
Frank Capra
Anthony Kirby is the president of a major US bank. The embodiment of soulless capitalism, he has resolved to buy up a block of houses to make way for a munitions factory that will make him even wealthier... [More...]
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
William A. Seiter
Robert Davis, an American dancer stranded in Buenos Aires without a peso to his name, is desperate to find work. His friend, bandleader Xavier Cugat, suggests that he should try to impress hotel owner Eduardo Acuña by performing at his eldest daughter's wedding... [More...]
William A. Seiter
Robert Davis, an American dancer stranded in Buenos Aires without a peso to his name, is desperate to find work. His friend, bandleader Xavier Cugat, suggests that he should try to impress hotel owner Eduardo Acuña by performing at his eldest daughter's wedding... [More...]
You're Darn Tootin' (1928)
Edgar Kennedy
Stan and Ollie are two musicians who play not by ear or by note but by brute force. When they bring a public recital to a disastrous climax, they are dismissed by an irate orchestra leader... [More...]
Edgar Kennedy
Stan and Ollie are two musicians who play not by ear or by note but by brute force. When they bring a public recital to a disastrous climax, they are dismissed by an irate orchestra leader... [More...]
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Mel Brooks
Dr Frederick Frankenstein is a medical school lecturer who just happens to be the grandson of the mad scientist Baron von Frankenstein, whose monster-making exploits have been widely reported in books, films and comic books by irresponsible sensationalists... [More...]
Mel Brooks
Dr Frederick Frankenstein is a medical school lecturer who just happens to be the grandson of the mad scientist Baron von Frankenstein, whose monster-making exploits have been widely reported in books, films and comic books by irresponsible sensationalists... [More...]
The Young Lions (1958)
Edward Dmytryk
On the eve of World War II, Christian Diestl has high hopes that Hitler's National Socialist Party will bring about a better future for his country, but his illusions are soon shattered by the harsh realities of warfare... [More...]
Edward Dmytryk
On the eve of World War II, Christian Diestl has high hopes that Hitler's National Socialist Party will bring about a better future for his country, but his illusions are soon shattered by the harsh realities of warfare... [More...]
The Young One (1960)
Luis Buñuel
Accused of raping a white woman, a black jazz musician named Traver flees for his life, taking a boat to an island off the coast of Carolina... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Accused of raping a white woman, a black jazz musician named Traver flees for his life, taking a boat to an island off the coast of Carolina... [More...]
Zelig (1983)
Woody Allen
How strange that history has all but forgotten Leonard Zelig. The man who was a cultural phenomenon in his time seems to have disappeared without trace... [More...]
Woody Allen
How strange that history has all but forgotten Leonard Zelig. The man who was a cultural phenomenon in his time seems to have disappeared without trace... [More...]
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Robert Z. Leonard
Lift operator Sheila Regan can hardly believe her good fortune when she is invited to attend an audition to become a Ziegfeld girl and appear in the hit show Ziegfeld Follies... [More...]
Robert Z. Leonard
Lift operator Sheila Regan can hardly believe her good fortune when she is invited to attend an audition to become a Ziegfeld girl and appear in the hit show Ziegfeld Follies... [More...]
Zoo in Budapest (1933)
Rowland V. Lee
The zoo in Budapest is a popular attraction but no one loves the zoo's animals more than Zani, the son of a former keeper who has a natural rapport with beasts of any kind... [More...]
Rowland V. Lee
The zoo in Budapest is a popular attraction but no one loves the zoo's animals more than Zani, the son of a former keeper who has a natural rapport with beasts of any kind... [More...]