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Five
1951 · Drama
Nazarin
1959 · Drama
The Ballad of Andy Crocker
1969 · Drama
The Stone Cross
1968 · Drama
Marjorie Morningstar
1958 · Drama
Train of Events
1949 · Drama
Anna Karenina
1948 · Romance
Hôtel du Nord
1938 · Romance
God’s Little Acre
1958 · Comedy
Madame X
1937 · Drama
The Widow
1955 · Action
A Touch of Love
1969 · Drama
The Reunion
1963 · Comedy
The Devil Is a Woman
1935 · Comedy
Home from the Hill
1960 · Drama
Mister Cory
1957 · Drama
The Dybbuk
1937 · Drama
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939 · Drama
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
1938 · Drama
The Helen Morgan Story
1957 · Music
Daisy Kenyon
1947 · Drama
The Root of All Evil
1947 · Drama
A Story Written with Water
1965 · Drama
The Great Gatsby
1926 · Drama
Anthony Adverse
1936 · Drama
Violent Life
1962 · Drama
Everybody’s Woman
1934 · Drama
Side Streets
1934 · Drama
The Garden of Allah
1936 · Drama
Lady with Red Hair
1940 · Drama
Crisis
1946 · Drama
So Red the Rose
1935 · Drama
Pension Mimosas
1935 · Drama
Beloved Infidel
1959 · Romance
Tunes of Glory
1960 · Drama
Kanchenjungha
1962 · Drama
Stella Dallas
1937 · Romance
All My Good Countrymen
1969 · History
Fanny by Gaslight
1944 · Romance
Gertrud
1964 · Romance
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