Vampyr

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Year:1932
Director:Carl Theodor Dreyer
Written by:Sheridan Le Fanu (Novel), Christen Jul (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Traveler Allan Gray arrives in the village of Courtempierre and takes lodgings in a small inn. Gray has a great interest in the supernatural, particularly vampires. He's barely settled in when he feels a sinister force descending upon him. In the night an old man enters his room to tell him 'she must not die'. One of the old man's daughters, Leone, has been bitten by a vampire. In order to break the curse, Gray and Leone's sister Gisele must find the original vampire and drive a stake through her heart.
*5603

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.
*5599