1940sA prosecutor takes a shoplifter home to Indiana for Christmas after her trial is delayed, and they fall in love. Remember the Night is Mitchell Leisen's 1940 American romantic drama about a Manhattan prosecutor who postpones a shoplifter's trial until…
1940sMeet John Doe is Frank Capra's 1941 American political drama about a newspaper columnist who invents a fictional everyman who threatens to commit suicide on Christmas Eve in protest against social injustice, and who must then find a real person…
1950sAlastair Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge. Sim's Scrooge is the definitive screen version of the character.
1930sBoris Karloff plays the creature stitched together from corpses and animated by a scientist who quickly loses control of his creation. Frankenstein is James Whale's 1931 American horror film adapted from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel and the 1927 Peggy Webling…
1930sJames Whale's sequel where the resurrected creature demands a mate, leading the doctor back to his laboratory. Bride of Frankenstein is James Whale's 1935 American horror film, sequel to his 1931 Frankenstein, depicting the resurrected Monster's demand that Dr. Henry…
1940sThe Wolf Man is George Waggner's 1941 American horror film depicting Larry Talbot, an American returning to his ancestral Welsh village, who is bitten by a werewolf in the local woods and discovers he has been infected with the curse…
2000sBlack-white with red accents. Sin City is Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's 2005 American neo-noir adapting three Frank Miller graphic novels from his Sin City series.
1990sSpielberg's 1993 Holocaust drama. Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, Fiennes as Goeth.
1940sRobert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas. Out of the Past is Jacques Tourneur's 1947 American film noir adapting Daniel Mainwaring's novel Build My Gallows High under the author's Geoffrey Homes pseudonym.
1940sRobert Siodmak's 1946 Hemingway adaptation. The murder happens in the first ten minutes.
1950sMickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. Foundation for Pulp Fiction's briefcase.
1940sHoward Hawks' 1946 Chandler adaptation. Plot incomprehensible even to the screenwriters.
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