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The Passion of Joan of Arc

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Year:1928
Director:Carl Theodor Dreyer
Written by:Carl Theodor Dreyer (Screenplay), Joseph Delteil (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
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The Jazz Singer

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Year:1927
Director:Alan Crosland
Written by:Samson Raphaelson (Author), Alfred A. Cohn (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
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The Devil and Daniel Webster

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Year:1941
Director:William Dieterle
Written by:Stephen Vincent Benét (Screenplay), Dan Totheroh (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

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Year:1936
Director:Frank Capra
Written by:Clarence Budington Kelland (Story), Robert Riskin (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Charade

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Year:1963
Director:Stanley Donen
Written by:Peter Stone (Screenplay), Peter Stone (Story), Marc Behm (Story)

Script Synopsis:After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?
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Battleship Potemkin

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Year:1925
Director:Sergei Eisenstein
Written by:Nina Agadzhanova (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.
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Hard Days Night

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Year:1964
Director:Richard Lester
Written by:Alun Owen (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
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L’avventura

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Year:1960
Director:Michelangelo Antonioni
Written by:Michelangelo Antonioni (Screenplay), Elio Bartolini (Screenplay), Tonino Guerra (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

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Year:1934
Director:Benjamin Stoloff

Script Synopsis:Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
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  • Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round ( tt0025905 ) at IMDb
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Trouble in Paradise

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Year:1932
Director:Ernst Lubitsch
Written by:Aladar Laszlo (Author), Grover Jones (Author), Samson Raphaelson (Author)

Script Synopsis:Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
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