Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Trouble with Harry, The (1955)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. John Forsythe, Shirley Maclaine - The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and the townspeople, including a young John Forsyth and Shirley Maclaine, don't quite know how to deal with…
Dov'e La Liberta...? (Where Is Freedom?) (1954)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Toto, Vera Molnar, Nita Dover - Legendary Italian comic Toto plays a barber who cannot abide the hypocritical society he is thrust into after spending two decades in prison, and…
Bellissima (1951)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella… - Neo–realist dir. Visconti directs Anna Magnani in a freewheeling performance as a working–class mother obsessed with turning her young…
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)- Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Alec Guinness - Distinguished Ealing black comedy about a disaffected cast–off of an aristocratic family who murders his way through a series of dotty…
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Barbara Lawrence… - Rex Harrison plays an irascible, paranoid orchestra conductor who comes to suspect his devoted wife's infidelity. Anchored around a memorable…
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin - Charlie Chaplin plays a bank cashier who marries and murders rich spinsters in order to support his real family. Chaplin's only commercial failure,…
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey - Renowned black farce features a frenzied Cary Grant trying to convince his two elderly aunts that their habit of poisoning lonely old men, out of…
To Be or Not to Be (1942)- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Jack Benny, Carole Lombard - Wonderful black comedy about a Polish theatre group who in the face of a German invasion, become involved in a covert operation that masquerades them…
Comic Strip Presents: Mr Jolly Lives Next Door / Dirty Movie - Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson - Two of the darker "Comic Strip" TV Comedies, starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson.
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