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Your #1 was Out of the Past (#1).
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Dir. Jacques Tourneur · Robert Mitchum · Jane Greer · Kirk Douglas · Paul Valentine
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
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Dir. George Seaton · Maureen O'Hara · John Payne · Edmund Gwenn · Gene Lockhart
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
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Dir. Emeric Pressburger · Deborah Kerr · Sabu · David Farrar · Flora Robson
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.
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Dir. Charlie Chaplin · Charlie Chaplin · Mady Correll · Allison Roddan · Robert Lewis
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 his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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Dir. David Lean · John Mills · Valerie Hobson · Tony Wager · Jean Simmons
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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Dir. Orson Welles · Rita Hayworth · Orson Welles · Everett Sloane · Glenn Anders
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Gene Tierney · Rex Harrison · George Sanders · Edna Best
In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
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Dir. Delmer Daves · Humphrey Bogart · Lauren Bacall · Bruce Bennett · Agnes Moorehead
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
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Dir. Henry Koster · Cary Grant · Loretta Young · David Niven · Monty Woolley
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
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Dir. Edmund Goulding · Tyrone Power · Helen Walker · Coleen Gray · Joan Blondell
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.
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Dir. Carol Reed · James Mason · Robert Newton · Cyril Cusack · F.J. McCormick
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
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Dir. Jules Dassin · Burt Lancaster · Hume Cronyn · Charles Bickford · Yvonne De Carlo
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
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Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot · Louis Jouvet · Simone Renant · Bernard Blier · Suzy Delair
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
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Dir. Elia Kazan · Gregory Peck · Dorothy McGuire · John Garfield · Celeste Holm
A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
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Dir. Henry Hathaway · Victor Mature · Brian Donlevy · Coleen Gray · Richard Widmark
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
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Dir. Roy Del Ruth · Don DeFore · Ann Harding · Charles Ruggles · Victor Moore
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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Dir. Irving Reis · Cary Grant · Myrna Loy · Shirley Temple · Rudy Vallee
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
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Dir. Edward Dmytryk · Robert Young · Robert Mitchum · Robert Ryan · Gloria Grahame
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?
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Dir. Edward Buzzell · William Powell · Myrna Loy · Keenan Wynn · Dean Stockwell
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Gregory Peck · Ann Todd · Alida Valli · Charles Laughton
In London, barrister Anthony Keane takes the case of Maddalena Paradine, a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her blind husband. Though happily married, Keane becomes infatuated with his enigmatic client and convinced of her innocence. His obsession clouds his judgment as he builds a defense implicating her servant, André Latour—an act that leads to devastating consequences both in court and at home.
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