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Subgenre Sampler

 
Bank HolidayBank Holiday (Three on a Weekend) (1938)
Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, John Lodge, Hugh Williams
Minor drama with nurse Lockwood heading to the seaside for an illicit weekend only to have her enjoyment tempered by her job.
Beachcomber, TheBeachcomber, The (Vessel of Wrath) (1938)
Dir. Erich Pommer
Feat. Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester
Drama based on the short story by Somerset Maughamet, set in a remote tropical Dutch colony, where the sister of a missionary attempts to reform a…
AngelAngel (1937)
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas
Love triangle between a distracted husband, a neglected wife and an ardent suitor set amid the rigid social norms of the…
CamilleCamille (1937)
Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
One of Greta Garbo’s finest roles, playing the courtesan heroine of Alexandre Dumas’ potboiler, navigating the treacheries of the French…
Trail of the Lonesome Pine, TheTrail of the Lonesome Pine, The (1936) Recommended
Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda
This pioneering colour film is an engaging old–fashioned Western tale of loyalty, family and romance set against an age–old feud between…
Devil Is A Woman, TheDevil Is A Woman, The (1935)
Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero
Set during Carnival in turn on the century Seville where a temptress comes between a young revolutionary and his old friend.
L'AtalanteL'Atalante (1934)
Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Michel Simon, Jean Daste
A recently restored master work from the French film archive combines lyrical romance with inspired touches of fantasy.
Of Human BondageOf Human Bondage (1934)
Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Bette Davis, Leslie Howard
The film which propelled Bette Davis to stardom, with her vivid personification of a coy, but slutty Cockney waitress who becomes the object of…
LiebeleiLiebelei (1933)
Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Arthur Schnitzler
An early work from the German maestro of the tracking shot, whose tale of doomed romance between a young soldier and fraulein (taken from a play by…
Bird of ParadiseBird of Paradise (1932)
Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday
Erotic adventure drama about a sailor who falls in love with a woman from an unnamed Pacific island where the film is set. Plenty of colonialist…

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