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Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy
Story: A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
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262
7.5
7.7
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy
Story: Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
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1334
8.6
8.5
City Lights (1931)
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, Hank Mann
Story: The Tramp struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with.
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Modern Times (1936)
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1061
7.9
7.9
Freaks (1932)
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates
Story: A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
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387
7.6
7.2
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst, Josep Llorens Artigas
Story: A man and a woman are passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, the Church and bourgeois society.
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397
8.3
7.7
L'Atalante (1934)
Director: Jean Vigo
Cast: Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon, Gilles Margaritis
Story: When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live on his ship, on board of which are, besides the two of them, only a cabin boy and the strange old second mate Pere Jules.
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À propos de Nice (1930)
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1520
8.5
8.3
M (1931)
Director: Fritz lang
Cast: Peter Lorre, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke, Inge Landgut
Story: When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
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491
8.2
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The Rules of the Game (1939)
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Nora Gregor, Marcel Dalio, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély
Story: A look at bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II. An assorted cast of characters - the rich and their poor servants - meet up at a French chateau.
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348
7.9
7.9
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton
Story: Nick and Nora Charles, a former detective and his rich, playful wife, investigate a murder case mostly for the fun of it.
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449
7.8
7.4
The Vampire (1932)
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz
Story: A traveler obsessed with the supernatural visits an old inn and finds evidence of vampires.
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