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American cinema: All genres
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Paul Leni
As millionaire Cyrus West nears death, his relatives descend on his ancient mausoleum of a house like cats around a canary...
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Paul Leni
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Richard Brooks
His glory days as a professional sportsman behind him, Brick Pollitt is content to while away his remaining days wallowing in strong liquor and self-pity...
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Richard Brooks
Cat People (1942)
Jacques Tourneur
During a visit to the zoo, Oliver Reed meets Irena Dubrovna, an East European immigrant who works as a fashion designer in New York...
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Jacques Tourneur
The Cat's-Paw (1934)
Sam Taylor
Ezekiel Cobb is a young American who has spent the last twenty years living in China with his missionary parents. Hoping to carry on his father's good work, Ezekiel agrees to return to his home town, Stockport, to find a suitable American woman to marry...
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Sam Taylor
Caught (1949)
Max Ophüls
Working class girl Leonora Eames decides to improve her marital prospects by attending a charm school. She pays for her fees by working as a model, which earns her an invitation from a rich client to attend a yachting party...
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Max Ophüls
Charade (1963)
Stanley Donen
Reggie Lambert returns from a holiday in the French Alps to learn that her husband has been murdered, thrown from a train in his pyjamas... [More...]
Stanley Donen
Reggie Lambert returns from a holiday in the French Alps to learn that her husband has been murdered, thrown from a train in his pyjamas... [More...]
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Michael Curtiz
In the early 1850s, Geoffrey Vickers and his brother Perry are British officers in the 27th Lancers, a regiment stationed in the Indian city of Chukoti... [More...]
Michael Curtiz
In the early 1850s, Geoffrey Vickers and his brother Perry are British officers in the 27th Lancers, a regiment stationed in the Indian city of Chukoti... [More...]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Tim Burton
Charlie Bucket lives with his parents and four grandparents in a rundown old house, the family barely surviving on the small amount Charlie's father earns at the toothpaste factory... [More...]
Tim Burton
Charlie Bucket lives with his parents and four grandparents in a rundown old house, the family barely surviving on the small amount Charlie's father earns at the toothpaste factory... [More...]
Chicago (2002)
Rob Marshall
Chicago, in the mid-1920s. Roxie Hart has ambitions to be a vaudeville star and believes her lover, Fred Casely, when he says he can find her an opening... [More...]
Rob Marshall
Chicago, in the mid-1920s. Roxie Hart has ambitions to be a vaudeville star and believes her lover, Fred Casely, when he says he can find her an opening... [More...]
The Children's Hour (1961)
William Wyler
Karen Wright and Martha Dobie are two former college friends who run a private school for young girls in New England. Through hard work and self-sacrifice, they have made the school a success and have just begun to turn a profit... [More...]
William Wyler
Karen Wright and Martha Dobie are two former college friends who run a private school for young girls in New England. Through hard work and self-sacrifice, they have made the school a success and have just begun to turn a profit... [More...]
Chinatown (1974)
Roman Polanski
Jake Gittes is a Los Angeles private investigator who specialises in adultery cases. He is hired by Mrs Mulwray to provide her with evidence that her husband, who happens to be the head of the city's water department, is having an affair with a young woman... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Jake Gittes is a Los Angeles private investigator who specialises in adultery cases. He is hired by Mrs Mulwray to provide her with evidence that her husband, who happens to be the head of the city's water department, is having an affair with a young woman... [More...]
Christmas in July (1940)
Preston Sturges
Jimmy MacDonald is a low-paid clerk in the Baxter Coffee House Company. Desperately short of cash, he enters a rival company's slogan competition, and expects to win the $25,000 prize... [More...]
Preston Sturges
Jimmy MacDonald is a low-paid clerk in the Baxter Coffee House Company. Desperately short of cash, he enters a rival company's slogan competition, and expects to win the $25,000 prize... [More...]
El Cid (1961)
Anthony Mann
In the 11th century, Spain is a divided country. The wars between the Christians and the Moors have raged for many years but now Spain faces a greater threat, from the Muslim general Ibn Yusuf, who has amassed an army in readiness to invade the country... [More...]
Anthony Mann
In the 11th century, Spain is a divided country. The wars between the Christians and the Moors have raged for many years but now Spain faces a greater threat, from the Muslim general Ibn Yusuf, who has amassed an army in readiness to invade the country... [More...]
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Norman Jewison
In 1930s New Orleans, Eric Stoner, nicknamed The Kid, has earned a reputation as a formidable poker player. When he learns that Lancey Howard, the reputed king of the game, is in town, Stoner decides to take him on... [More...]
Norman Jewison
In 1930s New Orleans, Eric Stoner, nicknamed The Kid, has earned a reputation as a formidable poker player. When he learns that Lancey Howard, the reputed king of the game, is in town, Stoner decides to take him on... [More...]
The Circus (1928)
Charles Chaplin
Mistaken for a pickpocket, a tramp is pursued by a policeman through a fairground and takes refuge in a circus big top. When he inadvertently makes the audience roar with laughter, the tramp is immediately engaged by the circus proprietor... [More...]
Charles Chaplin
Mistaken for a pickpocket, a tramp is pursued by a policeman through a fairground and takes refuge in a circus big top. When he inadvertently makes the audience roar with laughter, the tramp is immediately engaged by the circus proprietor... [More...]
Citizen Kane (1941)
Orson Welles
One of the world's wealthiest men, Charles Foster Kane lives alone in his vast private estate, Xanadu, built atop a man-made mountain... [More...]
Orson Welles
One of the world's wealthiest men, Charles Foster Kane lives alone in his vast private estate, Xanadu, built atop a man-made mountain... [More...]
City Girl (1930)
F.W. Murnau
Tustine, a patriarchal Minnesota farmer, sends his son Lem to town to get the best price he can for the year's wheat crop... [More...]
F.W. Murnau
Tustine, a patriarchal Minnesota farmer, sends his son Lem to town to get the best price he can for the year's wheat crop... [More...]
City Lights (1931)
Charles Chaplin
One evening, a good natured tramp talks a depressed millionaire out of killing himself and, in his gratitude, the millionaire declares that they will be friends for life... [More...]
Charles Chaplin
One evening, a good natured tramp talks a depressed millionaire out of killing himself and, in his gratitude, the millionaire declares that they will be friends for life... [More...]
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Desmond Davis
The Greek god Zeus is outraged when King Acrisius of Argos sends his daughter Danaë and her newborn son Perseus out to sea in a sealed coffin... [More...]
Desmond Davis
The Greek god Zeus is outraged when King Acrisius of Argos sends his daughter Danaë and her newborn son Perseus out to sea in a sealed coffin... [More...]
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Fritz Lang
One day, in the latter years of WWII, Alvah Jesper, a physics professor at an American university, receives an unexpected visit from a secret services official... [More...]
Fritz Lang
One day, in the latter years of WWII, Alvah Jesper, a physics professor at an American university, receives an unexpected visit from a secret services official... [More...]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Steven Spielberg
The scattered inhabitants of Muncie, a small rural community in Indiana, are visited by strange lights in the night sky. One evening, a mother watches in horror as her small child is abducted by a flying saucer... [More...]
Steven Spielberg
The scattered inhabitants of Muncie, a small rural community in Indiana, are visited by strange lights in the night sky. One evening, a mother watches in horror as her small child is abducted by a flying saucer... [More...]
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Robert Florey
Mr Hammer is the owner of a Florida beach hotel who, thanks to the housing slump, is having difficulty attracting customers... [More...]
Robert Florey
Mr Hammer is the owner of a Florida beach hotel who, thanks to the housing slump, is having difficulty attracting customers... [More...]
The Collector (1965)
William Wyler
Having won a fortune on the football pools, Freddie Clegg, a modest bank clerk, decides to buy a solitary house in the middle of the English countryside... [More...]
William Wyler
Having won a fortune on the football pools, Freddie Clegg, a modest bank clerk, decides to buy a solitary house in the middle of the English countryside... [More...]
The Comedy of Errors (1983)
James Cellan Jones
When Egeon, a Syracusian merchant, arrives in Ephesus he is arrested and sentenced to death, as a law forbids his countrymen from entering the city... [More...]
James Cellan Jones
When Egeon, a Syracusian merchant, arrives in Ephesus he is arrested and sentenced to death, as a law forbids his countrymen from entering the city... [More...]
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Anatole Litvak
1938, a decisive year in the history of man. Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the Nazis have committed themselves to a fascist dream that will make Germany the centre of a new world empire... [More...]
Anatole Litvak
1938, a decisive year in the history of man. Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the Nazis have committed themselves to a fascist dream that will make Germany the centre of a new world empire... [More...]
Cornered (1945)
Edward Dmytryk
Immediately after WWII, Laurence Gerard, a former Canadian fighter pilot, returns to France, eager to be reunited with the woman he married during his brief stay there in the war... [More...]
Edward Dmytryk
Immediately after WWII, Laurence Gerard, a former Canadian fighter pilot, returns to France, eager to be reunited with the woman he married during his brief stay there in the war... [More...]
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Woody Allen
Judah Rosenthal is a successful ophthalmologist who, despite being a happily married man, has begun an affair with an air stewardess, Dolores Paley... [More...]
Woody Allen
Judah Rosenthal is a successful ophthalmologist who, despite being a happily married man, has begun an affair with an air stewardess, Dolores Paley... [More...]
Crossfire (1947)
Edward Dmytryk
One evening, Samuels, a recently discharged US marine, is brutally killed. Captain Finlay takes charge of the murder investigation and quickly homes in on three suspects - the three soldiers who were in Samuels's company shortly before he died: Montgomery, Keeley and Mitchell... [More...]
Edward Dmytryk
One evening, Samuels, a recently discharged US marine, is brutally killed. Captain Finlay takes charge of the murder investigation and quickly homes in on three suspects - the three soldiers who were in Samuels's company shortly before he died: Montgomery, Keeley and Mitchell... [More...]
Cry of the City (1948)
Robert Siodmak
After a shoot out with the police, hardened crook Martin Rome ends up in hospital having shot dead a cop. Whilst he is recovering he is visited by his fiancée Teena Ricante and is pressurised by a lawyer named Niles to confess to participating in a jewel robbery, a crime of which he is innocent... [More...]
Robert Siodmak
After a shoot out with the police, hardened crook Martin Rome ends up in hospital having shot dead a cop. Whilst he is recovering he is visited by his fiancée Teena Ricante and is pressurised by a lawyer named Niles to confess to participating in a jewel robbery, a crime of which he is innocent... [More...]
Cry Terror! (1958)
Andrew L. Stone
Electronics expert Jim Molner has his world turned upside down when he becomes unwittingly implicated in an extortion racket which might, literally, have explosive consequences... [More...]
Andrew L. Stone
Electronics expert Jim Molner has his world turned upside down when he becomes unwittingly implicated in an extortion racket which might, literally, have explosive consequences... [More...]