Melodrama
With themes of love, suffering, betrayal, sacrifice, and redemption, melodrama puts its audiences through the emotional wringer.
| Spine # | Title | Director | Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 198 |
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany, | 1974 |
| 1012 |
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All About My Mother | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain, | 1999 |
| 95 |
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All That Heaven Allows | Douglas Sirk | United States, | 1955 |
| 912 |
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An Actor’s Revenge | Kon Ichikawa | Japan, | 1963 |
| 507 |
|
Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray | United States, | 1956 |
| 740 |
|
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany, | 1972 |
| 977 |
|
Blue Velvet | David Lynch | United States, | 1986 |
| 203 |
|
The BRD Trilogy | |||
| 719 |
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Une chambre en ville | Jacques Demy | France, | 1982 |
| 993 |
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The Cloud-Capped Star | Ritwik Ghatak | India, | 1960 |
| 1028 |
|
Dance, Girl, Dance | Dorothy Arzner | United States, | 1940 |
| 427 |
|
Death of a Cyclist | Juan Antonio Bardem | Spain, | 1955 |
| 1188 |
|
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart | Wayne Wang | United States, | 1985 |
| 688 |
|
Dry Summer | Metin Erksan | Turkey, | 1964 |
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Eclipse Series 26: Silent Naruse | ||||
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Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas | ||||
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Eclipse Series 36: Three Wicked Melodramas from Gainsborough Pictures | ||||
| 946 |
|
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany, | 1972 |
| 929 |
|
Female Trouble | John Waters | United States, | 1974 |
| 690 |
|
The Housemaid | Kim Ki-young | South Korea, | 1960 |
| 1139 |
|
Hôtel du Nord | Marcel Carné | France, | 1938 |
| 1167 |
|
Imitation of Life | John M. Stahl | United States, | 1934 |
| 810 |
|
In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | United States, | 1950 |
| 656 |
|
Jubal | Delmer Daves | United States, | 1956 |
| 503 |
|
Lola Montès | Max Ophuls | Germany, | 1955 |
| 457 |
|
Magnificent Obsession | Douglas Sirk | United States, | 1954 |
| 860 |
|
Mildred Pierce | Michael Curtiz | United States, | 1945 |
| 296 |
|
Le notti bianche | Luchino Visconti | Italy, | 1957 |
| 1004 |
|
Now, Voyager | Irving Rapper | United States, | 1942 |
| 995 |
|
Polyester | John Waters | United States, | 1981 |
| 1129 |
|
Rouge | Stanley Kwan | Hong Kong, | 1987 |
| 556 |
|
Senso | Luchino Visconti | Italy, | 1954 |
| 949 |
|
A Story from Chikamatsu | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan, | 1954 |
| 1006 |
|
The Story of Temple Drake | Stephen Roberts | United States, | 1933 |
| 832 |
|
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan, | 1939 |
|
Street of Shame | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan, | 1956 | |
| 835 |
|
Valley of the Dolls | Mark Robson | United States, | 1967 |
| 377 |
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | Mikio Naruse | Japan, | 1960 |
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Women of the Night | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan, | 1948 | |
| 855 |
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain, | 1988 |
| 96 |
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Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | United States, | 1956 |