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by i_m_pita_and • Created 4 years ago • Modified 6 days ago
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  • Different from the Others (1919)

    1. Different from the Others

    191950mNot Rated
    7.0 (1.6K)
    Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.
    DirectorRichard OswaldStarsConrad VeidtLeo ConnardIlse von Tasso-Lind
  • Musidora in Les Vampires (1915)

    2. Les Vampires

    19157h 1mNot Rated
    7.3 (5.7K)
    An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
    DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsMusidoraÉdouard MathéMarcel Lévesque
  • Song at Midnight (1937)

    3. Song at Midnight

    19372h 4mNot Rated
    6.1 (1K)
    China's first horror film, this is loosely based on The Phantom of the Opera. A disfigured musical genius roams a traditional Chinese opera house, punishing those who offend him.
    DirectorWeibang Ma-XuStarsMenghe GuPing HuShan Jin
  • Peter Lorre and Frances Drake in Mad Love (1935)

    4. Mad Love

    19351h 8mApproved
    7.2 (6.2K)
    In Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.
    DirectorKarl FreundStarsPeter LorreFrances DrakeColin Clive
  • Paulette Goddard in The Cat and the Canary (1939)

    5. The Cat and the Canary

    19391h 12mApproved
    7.1 (4.1K)
    When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.
    DirectorElliott NugentStarsBob HopePaulette GoddardJohn Beal
  • Franz Doelle, Hilde Hildebrand, Renate Müller, Fritz Odemar, Friedel Pisetta, Reinhold Schünzel, Hermann Thimig, Anton Walbrook, Aribert Wäscher, and Alfred Zeisler in Victor and Victoria (1933)

    6. Victor and Victoria

    19331h 24m
    6.9 (631)
    Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome when she falls in love with Robert.
    DirectorReinhold SchünzelStarsRenate MüllerHermann ThimigHilde Hildebrand
  • Miriam Hopkins in The Story of Temple Drake (1933)

    7. The Story of Temple Drake

    19331h 10mNot Rated
    7.1 (2.1K)
    A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.
    DirectorStephen RobertsStarsMiriam HopkinsWilliam GarganJack La Rue
  • Drácula (1931)

    8. Drácula

    19311h 44mUnrated
    7.0 (5.5K)
    Centuries-old vampire Dracula preys upon the innocent Eva and her friends.
    DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsCarlos VillaríasLupita TovarBarry Norton
  • Bette Davis in Beyond the Forest (1949)

    9. Beyond the Forest

    19491h 37mApproved
    6.8 (2.9K)
    Resentful of her small-town life, a married woman schemes to run off with a rich businessman.
    DirectorKing VidorStarsBette DavisJoseph CottenDavid Brian
  • Toshirô Mifune and Takashi Shimura in Drunken Angel (1948)

    10. Drunken Angel

    19481h 42mNot Rated
    7.6 (14K)
    A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTakashi ShimuraToshirô MifuneReizaburô Yamamoto
  • Bruce Lee in Golden Gate Girl (1941)

    11. Golden Gate Girl

    19411h 50m
    8.0 (86)
    In San Francisco, widower Jien-Sien Ho, known to the Chinese community as Gin Man, worries that his 16-year-old daughter Chain-Ying spends too much time at the Chinese Opera. Nevertheless, Duck Sook, a salesman in Jien-Sien's shop, takes Chain-Ying to see Fay-Tien Wong, an actor from China, perform. After the show, Wong invites Chain-Ying to the Golden Gate Music Club for a party and the girl asks him for singing lessons. Chain-Ying and Wong begin to spend time together and Chain-Ying's friend, Sia-Lien Ho, tells Jien-Sien about his daughter's excursions with the actor and the fact that she has been missing school. Jien-Sien confronts Chain-Ying, who insists that in America, fathers have no rights over their daughters. When Chain-Ying says she loves Wong, Jien-Sien disowns her and then blames Duck Sook for his daughter's infidelity. Wong tells Chain-Ying that she must try to understand the old people's ways and then agrees to marry her, hoping that her father will now accept them. When Duck Sook tries to intervene on the couple's behalf, however, Jien-Sien says that he will never forgive them. The enraged father then goes to the theater owner and tells him to deport Wong, and the owner agrees not to renew the singer's contract, which is soon to expire. Several months later, Wong returns home one night and announces that he must return to China. Worried about his bride, who is now pregnant, he tells her that he will send for her when he has settled. Meanwhile, Duck Sook asks Jien-Sien to forgive his pregnant, lonely daughter, but he refuses. Mao Lee, Jien-Sien's cook, takes pity on Chain-Ying, gives her money and attends the birth of the baby girl. For his disloyalty, Jien-Sien fires Mao-Lee, who joins Duck Sook in taking over a Chinese laundry so that they can support Chain-Ying's baby after Chain-Ying's sudden death. Duck Sook and Mao Lee give the baby a Chinese name, Loy Lo, and an American name, Lulu, and when the girl grows up, Duck Sook teaches her Chinese dances and instills in her a love of the theater. When a benefit concert and party is organized for Chinese war refugees, Lulu wishes to perform, and Duck Sook and Lulu both audition and receive parts. Lulu has a supporting role in an opera with a visiting star, Sing Kuo, but when Duck Sook must find the traditional dress that is required for her performance, he discovers that all the stores are sold out of it. Duck Sook steals a gown, and later encounters the woman from whom he stole it. She is understanding, however, and agrees to lend the garment to Lulu. During the show, it is revealed that Sing Kuo is really Wong, Lulu's father, and Duck Sook introduces the singer to his daughter and then to her grandfather, who has donated three-thousand dollars to the cause. Jien-Sien greets Lulu warmly and all shake hands and return to Jien-Sien's shop to celebrate their reunion.
    DirectorEsther EngStarsYee-Man TsoHok-Sing WongMoon Quan
  • Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dorothy Dandridge in Porgy and Bess (1959)

    12. Porgy and Bess

    19592h 18mNot Rated77Metascore
    6.9 (2K)
    A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly - if only everyone else would allow them to.
    DirectorsOtto PremingerRouben MamoulianStarsSidney PoitierDorothy DandridgeSammy Davis Jr.
  • Mädchen in Uniform (1958)

    13. Mädchen in Uniform

    19581h 31m
    7.0 (1.9K)
    In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.
    DirectorGéza von RadványiStarsLilli PalmerRomy SchneiderTherese Giehse
  • Drakula Istanbul'da (1952)

    14. Drakula Istanbul'da

    19521h 42m
    6.1 (555)
    Azmi is a lawyer from Istanbul. Drakula of Romania has assumed a new title. Azmi travels to Romania for legal matters. He is warned of Drakula but Azmi is a strong believer of goodness.
    DirectorMehmet MuhtarStarsAnnie BallCahit IrgatAyfer Feray
  • Olivia (1951)

    15. Olivia

    19511h 28m
    6.9 (923)
    Late nineteenth century in a finishing school for young girls near in France, the principal, the fascinating Miss Julie, sows confusion in the heart of the newcomer, Olivia.
    DirectorJacqueline AudryStarsEdwige FeuillèreSimone SimonMarie-Claire Olivia
  • Charles Boyer, Vittorio De Sica, and Danielle Darrieux in The Earrings of Madame De... (1953)

    16. The Earrings of Madame De...

    19531h 45mNot Rated
    7.9 (12K)
    When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
    DirectorMax OphülsStarsCharles BoyerDanielle DarrieuxVittorio De Sica
  • Our Town (1956)

    17. Our Town

    19561h 38m
    7.0 (299)
    In 1906, a man returns to Japan after finishing a job in the Philippines, only to discover that his lover is dying, leaving him a baby girl.
    DirectorYûzô KawashimaStarsRyûtarô TatsumiYôko MinamidaShirô Ôsaka
  • L'opéra-mouffe (1958)

    18. L'opéra-mouffe

    195816mShort
    6.7 (1.5K)
    Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.
    DirectorAgnès VardaStarsDorothée BlanckAntoine BourseillerAndré Rousselet
  • Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Robert Middleton, and Mary Murphy in The Desperate Hours (1955)

    19. The Desperate Hours

    19551h 52mApproved
    7.4 (11K)
    Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
    DirectorWilliam WylerStarsHumphrey BogartFredric MarchArthur Kennedy
  • Humphrey Bogart and Patricia Joiner in The Enforcer (1951)

    20. The Enforcer

    19511h 27mApproved
    7.2 (6K)
    A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.
    DirectorsBretaigne WindustRaoul WalshStarsHumphrey BogartZero MostelTed de Corsia
  • St. Louis Blues (1958)

    21. St. Louis Blues

    19581h 45mApproved
    7.1 (751)
    The story of W. C. Handy, the undisputed father of the blues.
    DirectorAllen ReisnerStarsNat 'King' ColeEartha KittCab Calloway
  • Dementia (1955)

    22. Dementia

    19551h 1mNot Rated
    6.7 (2.8K)
    This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.
    DirectorsJohn ParkerBruno VeSotaStarsAdrienne BarrettBruno VeSotaBen Roseman
  • Chelsea Girls (1966)

    23. Chelsea Girls

    19663h 30mUnrated
    5.7 (1.7K)
    Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
    DirectorsPaul MorrisseyAndy WarholStarsBrigid BerlinRandy BorscheidtChristian Päffgen
  • Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld in Pretty Poison (1968)

    24. Pretty Poison

    19681h 29mR
    7.0 (4.5K)
    When a mentally-disturbed young man tells a pretty girl that he's a secret agent, she believes him; murder and mayhem ensue.
    DirectorNoel BlackStarsAnthony PerkinsTuesday WeldBeverly Garland
  • Pitfall (1962)

    25. Pitfall

    19621h 37mNot Rated
    7.5 (4.5K)
    A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
    DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsHisashi IgawaSumie SasakiSen Yano

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