Files tagged with Drama

Reefer Madness
1936 - 67 mins

Considered the archetypal sensationalized anti-drug movie, really an exploitation film made to capitalize on the hot taboo subject of marijuana use. Reefer Madness has become a cult classic because of its dated (1937) outlook on marijuana use and is the height of camp entertainment. »

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Family Enforcer (The Death Collector)
1976 - 85 mins

Saturday Night Fever (sans the music) meets The Godfather (sans the great acting) ... you look at this and you realise that the 1970s really were a fashion dead zone. If they'd had Taste Police out on the streets you wouldn't have to waste your time trying to screw the hoods on tax evasion ... just lock em up for wearing a too loud shirt and hair-cuts that'd look better on those posh poodles old ladies carry under their arm. »

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Sabotage
1936 - 76 mins

Adpted from Joesph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent - which was supposedly losely based on a true story - Hitchcock ditches a lot of what made Conrad's novel so daring. But the master of suspense still manages to produce something that ratchets up the tension and has you drinfting ever closer to the edge of your seat. »

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Blood On The Sun
1945 - 94 mins

The time is the 1930s, the place, Tokyo, Japan. Nick Condon (James Cagney) is a Judo-loving American newspaper editor on a crusade to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Even when the truth is the last thing is host country wants the world to read. When he publishes a world-exlcusive revealing Japan's secret plans for world domination all hell breaks loose and Condon must fight for his life, and the life of the woman (Sylvia Sidney) he's just fallen in love with. »

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Call it Murder (Midnight)
1934 - 76 mins

Humphrey Bogart and OP Heggie star in the story of a jury foreman who helps send a woman to the electric chair, only to later have his daughter kill her lover in a fit of passion. The old "If it were your own daughter" plot device forms the basis of the independently-produced crime melodrama. »

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The Stranger
1946 - 95 mins

Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike, a convicted Nazi war criminal, and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, where he is killed before he can identify Kindler. Now Wilson's only clue is Kindler's fascination with antique clocks; but though Kindler seems secure in his new identity, he feels his past closing in. »

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Too Late For Tears
1949 - 99 mins

One night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else, into Jane and Alan Palmer's back seat. Alan wants to turn it over to the police, but Jane, with luxury within her reach, persuades him to hang onto it "for a while." Soon, the Palmers are traced by one Danny Fuller, a sleazy character who claims the money is his. To hang onto it, Jane will need all the qualities of an ultimate femme fatale...and does she ever have them! »

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Phantom Ship (The Mystery of the Marie Celeste)
1936 - 61 mins

A famous shocker based on the true story of the Marie Celeste, a ship found off the coast of Africa in 1872 with her sails set, but not a soul on board. During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one. Starring the great Bela Lugosi (best known for his performances as Dracula) as the religious seafarer Anton Lorenzen. »

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The Iron Mask
1929 - 87 mins

The Iron Mask is a 1929 silent film adaptation of the last section of the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, pere, which is itself based on the French legend of The Man in the Iron Mask. »

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Quicksand
1950 - 79 mins

After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register, an auto mechanic (Mickey Rooney) is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control. »

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Meet John Doe
1941 - 122 mins

Meet John Doe is a 1941 comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The film, about a "grassroots" political campaign, created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist and pursued by a wealthy businessman, became a box office hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for best original story. »

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Made For Each Other
1939 - 92 mins

Jimmy Stewart plays a young lawyer John Mason. Who marries Jane Mason (Carole Lombard) after knowing her for just one day. Made For Each Other combines laughter with tears in what is a classic, heartwarming example of true family entertainment. »

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Phantom Of The Opera
1925 - 106 mins

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 silent film directed by Rupert Julian adaptation of the Gaston Leroux novel of the same title. The film featured Lon Chaney in the title role as the masked and facially deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star. »

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Kansas City Confidential
1952 - 99 mins

Kansas City Confidential is a compact, gritty 1952 film noir directed by Phil Karlson and starring John Payne. Perennial movie bad guys Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand and Jack Elam play the film's heavies. Four robbers hold up an armored truck getting away with over a million dollars in cash. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a down-on-his-luck flower delivery truck driver is accused of being involved and is arrested and beaten up by the local police. »

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The Outlaw
1943 - 116 mins

The Outlaw is a 1943 western, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jane Russell. The film is notable as Russell's breakthrough role, turning the young actress into a sex symbol and a Hollywood icon. The film revolves around a fictional relationship between Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid and their feud over a woman called Rio. »

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The Green Glove
1952 - 89 mins

The Green Glove is an action adventure film starring Glenn Ford, directed by Rudolph Mate. Glenn Ford stars as an American paratrooper who travels to France after the end of World War II to try and recover a jewel encrusted glove that had been stolen from a country church during the war. His quest leads him to a beautiful young tour guide (Geraldine Brooks), and a Nazi collaborator (George Macready) whom he had fought during the war. »

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The Way We Played (Kako smo se igrali)
2005 - 16 mins

It's spring 1992 and Bosnia is on the eve of war. Oblivious to the encroaching danger two friends play in the spring sunshine. Overnight both their lives change forever. »

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Cold Sweat (De la part des copains)
1970 - 94 mins

From Dr. No director Terence Young comes this action thriller starring Charles Bronson as Joe Moran, an ex-con whose old gang of drug dealers has just been released from prison. When it turns out the thugs have been holding a grudge against him, they kidnap Moran's wife, played by Liv Ullmann. In order to get her back and get his revenge, Moran is forced to take on the whole crew by himself. »

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Penny Serenade
1941 - 117 mins

Penny Serenade is a film melodrama depicting the story of a loving couple who must overcome a series of adversity to keep their marriage and have a child raised. For his performance in the film, Cary Grant was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. »

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Panic In The Streets
1950 - 96 mins

Panic in the Streets is a semidocumentary film noir directed by Elia Kazan shot exclusively on location in New Orleans, Louisiana. The film tells the story of Clinton Reed, an officer of the U.S. Public Health Service (Richard Widmark) and a police captain (Paul Douglas) who have only a day or two in which to prevent an epidemic of pneumonic plague after Reed determines a waterfront homicide victim is an infected.

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He Walked By Night
1948 - 79 mins

When a police officer is gunned down by a man whom he had stopped to question, a city-wide dragnet fails to catch the shooter, leaving the police with only minor clues to go on. Later they discover that the same man has been selling stolen equipment through an electronics dealer, and they set a trap for him. But he shoots his way out of the trap and escapes. The police must piece together a description of the man's appearance and habits from witnesses and a few small clues. »

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