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BellissimaBellissima (1951) Recommended
Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella
Neo–realist dir. Visconti directs Anna Magnani in a freewheeling performance as a working–class mother obsessed with turning her young…
Kind Hearts and CoronetsKind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Recommended
Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Alec Guinness
Distinguished Ealing black comedy about a disaffected cast–off of an aristocratic family who murders his way through a series of dotty…
Unfaithfully YoursUnfaithfully Yours (1948) Recommended
Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Barbara Lawrence
Rex Harrison plays an irascible, paranoid orchestra conductor who comes to suspect his devoted wife's infidelity. Anchored around a memorable…
Monsieur VerdouxMonsieur Verdoux (1947) Aro Favourite
Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin plays a bank cashier who marries and murders rich spinsters in order to support his real family. Chaplin's only commercial failure,…
Arsenic and Old LaceArsenic and Old Lace (1944) Recommended
Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey
Renowned black farce features a frenzied Cary Grant trying to convince his two elderly aunts that their habit of poisoning lonely old men, out of…
To Be or Not to BeTo Be or Not to Be (1942) Recommended
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Jack Benny, Carole Lombard
Wonderful black comedy about a Polish theatre group who in the face of a German invasion, become involved in a covert operation that masquerades them…
Comic Strip Presents: Mr Jolly Lives Next Door / Dirty MovieComic Strip Presents: Mr Jolly Lives Next Door / Dirty Movie
Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
Two of the darker "Comic Strip" TV Comedies, starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson.

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