The Observer's 50 Lost Movie Classics

Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.

An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.

The crew is running out of money to finish their film.

In post-war Australia the men and women of Cinetone struggle to produce the weekly news reels for the movie-going public.

Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take different directions.

In 1964, six teenagers from New Jersey run off to see The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) in the hope of meeting their idols. However, they don't have tickets. Along the way, they learn new things about friendship and growing up.

A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.

A woman explores her sexuality to cope with the passing of her mother, leading her to profound revelations about herself and the people closest to her.

A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement.

The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.

Frustrated former journalist Chuck Tatum now working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about trading post owner Leo Minosa trapped in a cave to rekindle Chuck's career, but the story soon escalates into a media circus.

In 1979, filmmaker Trent Harris visits the small town of Beaver, Utah to film a talent show. Impressed by a performer called Groovin' Gary, he recreates Gary's act in 1981 with Sean Penn and in 1985 with Crispin Glover.

An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist.

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.

Two roommates/physical therapists, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship.

Laura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks' neighboring town.

A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.

Relationships as they are really lived.

When Henry Graham's lawyer informs him that his playboy lifestyle has consumed all of his funds, he must avoid sliding don the social ladder. He plans to marry wealthy scientist Henrietta Lowell--and kill her.

In 1844, a British mercenary helps the revolting slaves of an Antilles island colony gain independence from Portugal, but later returns to hunt down a local rebel leader and former protégé.

Harry returns home to his wife and farm after drifting with his friend Arch and has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties.

An affluent and unexceptional homemaker in the suburbs develops multiple chemical sensitivity.

After their mother commits suicide, two sisters end up living with their kind but peculiar aunt in their grandmother's old house in a small 1950s town.

The incredibly true story of the legendary French entertainer Joseph Pujol, who performed impersonations with his self-described 'elastic anus' and a surfeit of wind.

A happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.