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A woman seen from behind faces an elevated row of dark-coated jurors, with the title Resurrection between them.
Resurrection
1931 · Edwin Carewe 81 min · Drama
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A privileged man confronts the damage caused by an earlier relationship when the woman he abandoned appears before a court as a defendant.

CupoRomantico Richiede pazienza
Two empty deckchairs, one lilac and one grey, cast shadows across a yellow background.
Rich and Strange
1931 · Alfred Hitchcock 83 min · Comedy drama
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A bored married couple inherit money, leave suburban routine for a world cruise, and discover that escape magnifies rather than solves their dissatisfaction.

DivertenteInsolito Mediamente impegnativo
A woman pushes through dense purple sage in a coarse cream and violet print.
Riders of the Purple Sage
1931 · Hamilton MacFadden 58 min · Western
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A mysterious gunman enters a frontier conflict shaped by persecution, concealed identity, loyalty, and the pressure placed on an independent woman.

TesoRomantico Mediamente impegnativo
Two trails of footprints run along a sandy beach towards foamy blue surf.
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
1931 · F. W. Murnau 81 min · Romantic drama
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Two young islanders flee after the woman is declared sacred and forbidden, but colonial money and religious authority follow their escape.

BelloCupo Poco impegnativo
A boy rests a hand on the head of a man sitting hunched on a stool against yellow.
The Champ
1931 · King Vidor 85 min · Drama
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A washed-up boxer tries to remain a hero to his young son while gambling, alcohol, and an unstable life make love an insufficient plan.

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A woman holds a dark clasp purse while another hand grips her wrist and a folded paper enters above.
The Cheat
1931 · George Abbott 74 min · Drama
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Debt, secrecy, and coercion tighten around a married woman after private risk-taking gives a predatory man power over her.

TesoCupo Richiede pazienza
An overhead clay-coloured land plane is divided by narrow teal water channels at a small boundary.
The Painted Desert
1931 · Howard Higgin 79 min · Western
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A long-running feud over land and water draws a younger generation into divided loyalties, business rivalry, and romance.

TesoRomantico Mediamente impegnativo
A dark glass bottle tilts across orange, its paper label bearing the title.
The Public Enemy
1931 · William A. Wellman 83 min · Drama
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A Chicago street boy turns Prohibition crime into a career whose speed leaves loyalty and family behind.

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Rough black title lettering fills yellow paper crossed by torn pink strips.
The Threepenny Opera
1931 · Georg Wilhelm Pabst 110 min · Musical drama
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Criminal celebrity Mackie Messer marries Polly Peachum and provokes her father into mobilising London’s thieves, beggars, and police against him.

DivertenteCupo Mediamente impegnativo
Two hands reach towards one another from white and khaki sleeves against pale blue.
A Farewell to Arms
1932 · Frank Borzage 88 min · Romantic war drama
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An American ambulance driver and a British nurse fall in love in wartime Italy, where military duty and institutional interference repeatedly separate them.

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Large black lettering and a white telephone receiver fill a pale yellow-green field.
American Madness
1932 · Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William Neill 75 min · Drama
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A bank president who lends on character rather than collateral faces robbery, panic, and a run that tests whether public trust can move faster than fear.

TesoDelicato Poco impegnativo
Two figures are seen from behind, their dark coats and shoulders close together.
Back Street
1932 · John M. Stahl 86 min · Romantic drama
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A woman accepts a life kept out of public view as the long-term lover of a wealthy married man.

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Wet hands rest over a fish-covered work surface, with the title on a pale apron.
Fanny
1932 · Marc Allégret 140 min · Romantic drama
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Fanny faces pregnancy and an uncertain future after Marius leaves Marseille for the sea, while the people around the harbour debate love, duty, and security.

RomanticoDelicato Mediamente impegnativo
Freaks — A circus tent surrounds a ring of chairs in a handmade paper scene.
Freaks
1932 · Tod Browning 62 min · Horror
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A circus community closes ranks after a trapeze artist’s scheme against a performer with a substantial inheritance.

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Original illustration: A giant hotel key and tag above layered paper revolving doors, lobby figures and a staircase.
Grand Hotel
1932 · Edmund Goulding 115 min · Drama
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Guests and workers cross inside a Berlin hotel where money, loneliness, performance, and chance briefly share a lobby.

RomanticoCupo Poco impegnativo
Footprints approach a sparse wire fence beside a pale water edge on dry earth.
Heritage of the Desert
1932 · Henry Hathaway 60 min · Western
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A young man enters a struggle over a Western ranch, where land, water, loyalty, and a growing romance are threatened by organised violence.

TesoRomantico Poco impegnativo
Large worn boots joined by an ankle chain advance diagonally through a coarse black and ochre print.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932 · Mervyn LeRoy Crime drama
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A veteran’s search for work leads to wrongful implication in a robbery, a brutal chain gang, escape, and a life made increasingly impossible by the system pursuing him.

CupoTeso Poco impegnativo
I Was Born, But...: Momo peeks through a green paper fence as two schoolboys walk through a layered neighbourhood.
I Was Born, But...
1932 · Yasujiro Ozu 90 min · Comedy
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Two brothers learn that their father’s place in the adult world does not match the hero they imagined.

DivertenteDelicato Poco impegnativo
A woman reaches across an aircraft wing design.
Love Affair
1932 · Thornton Freeland 68 min · Romantic comedy drama
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A socialite and a pilot fall in love, while the money behind his invention complicates their freedom to choose each other.

RomanticoDivertente Poco impegnativo
Original illustration: Tailoring scissors, buttons and cloth form a paper cityscape, with Momo drawing a strip of red fabric beneath the title.
Love Me Tonight
1932 · Rouben Mamoulian 88 min · Musical
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A Parisian tailor follows an unpaid bill into an aristocratic household and lets a borrowed identity become a musical romance.

DivertenteRomantico Poco impegnativo
White railway tracks fork across vivid blue beside a red signal lever and diagonal title lettering.
Number Seventeen
1932 · Alfred Hitchcock 64 min · Mystery thriller
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A vacant house, a corpse, a missing necklace, and several uncertain identities lead into a chase that refuses to remain indoors.

MisteriosoDivertente Mediamente impegnativo
Rain streaks across broad green leaves in front of two dark profiles.
Red Dust
1932 · Victor Fleming 86 min · Romantic drama
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On a remote rubber plantation, a manager’s attraction to two very different women exposes the emotional and colonial assumptions sustaining his authority.

RomanticoTeso Poco impegnativo
Scarface: Towering angular lettering and crossing searchlights rise above a red and black city.
Scarface
1932 · Howard Hawks 95 min · Crime
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A gangster climbs through a city with such speed that every victory already looks like a warning.

TesoCupo Poco impegnativo
Shanghai Express — Pearls and a feather lie inside a richly painted night-train corridor.
Shanghai Express
1932 · Josef von Sternberg 82 min · Drama
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A train journey through civil conflict reunites a notorious courtesan with the British officer who once loved her.

RomanticoTeso Poco impegnativo
Gloved hands reach towards a pocket-watch chain beside an open handbag on dark blue satin, above TROUBLE IN PARADISE lettering.
Trouble in Paradise
1932 · Ernst Lubitsch Romantic comedy
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Two elegant thieves discover that love can be harder to manage than a perfect robbery.

DivertenteRomantico Poco impegnativo
Duck Soup: Momo stands at a paper lectern beneath a giant crown, flags and playful red and blue lettering.
Duck Soup
1933 · Leo McCarey 70 min · Comedy
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A tiny nation hires Groucho Marx and discovers that government is perfect slapstick.

DivertenteInsolito Poco impegnativo
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse — Perspective lettering, scattered manuscript pages and red rings surround an empty chair.
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933 · Fritz Lang 121 min · Crime thriller
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A criminal mastermind confined to an asylum appears to direct a new empire of terror through written instructions.

MisteriosoTeso Richiede pazienza
Original illustration: A cloud of paper pillow feathers and playful figures disrupt a rigid school building beneath Zero for Conduct lettering.
Zero for Conduct
1933 · Jean Vigo Comedy-drama
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Four boys return to a boarding school whose petty rules soon invite an uprising.

DivertenteInsolito Mediamente impegnativo
Original illustration: A travelling theatre costume trunk, folded parasol and painted curtain beside a rain-soaked provincial Japanese platform.
A Story of Floating Weeds
1934 · Yasujirō Ozu 86 min
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A travelling actor returns to a provincial town, where an old relationship and an unacknowledged son disturb the troupe’s temporary calm.

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It Happened One Night: Momo waits beside luggage and a bus-stop sign outside a lamplit roadside cabin.
It Happened One Night
1934 · Frank Capra 105 min · Comedy
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Sparring travellers turn a difficult journey into a romance.

DivertenteRomantico Poco impegnativo
L'Atalante — Momo wears a narrow red neck strap while leaning on a boat beside a white cat in a glowing river sunset.
L'Atalante
1934 · Jean Vigo 89 min · Drama
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A newly married couple drifts between a cramped barge and the promise of Paris.

RomanticoInsolito Mediamente impegnativo
The Goddess: A mother and child walk through a lamplit Shanghai street beneath golden lettering.
The Goddess
1934 · Wu Yonggang Drama
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A mother fights to protect her son while the city reduces her choices and judges the means of survival.

CupoBello Mediamente impegnativo
A heavy boot presses a rain-softened paper fragment below a hanging coat and a hand holding folded money.
The Informer
1935 · John Ford Drama
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In revolutionary Dublin, Gypo Nolan informs on a wanted friend and spends a long night trying to escape the moral and political consequences.

CupoTeso Mediamente impegnativo
The Only Son 1936
The Only Son
1936 · Yasujiro Ozu
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A mother gives up much of her own future to fund her son’s education. When aspiration meets adult reality, love becomes difficult to separate from disappointment.

La Grande Illusion: Two metal cups and a flower sit behind prison bars overlooking distant mountains.
La Grande Illusion
1937 · Jean Renoir 113 min · War
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Prisoners and captors discover that class, nationality, and friendship do not divide along the same lines.

DelicatoCupo Mediamente impegnativo
Two adjacent hands gently touch between dark and light coat sleeves beneath the film title.
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937 · Leo McCarey 92 min
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After losing their home, an elderly couple discover that their grown children can offer rooms more readily than a shared life.

DelicatoCupo Poco impegnativo
Original illustration: Two apartment doors, anonymous paper figures and a small terrier surround Momo holding a telephone beneath the title.
The Awful Truth
1937 · Leo McCarey 91 min
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A divorcing couple test new romances, old jealousies, and each other’s patience while insisting that their marriage is finished.

DivertenteRomantico Poco impegnativo
Two formations of tiny figures approach across a broad white surface traced with blue cracks.
Alexander Nevsky
1938 · Sergei Eisenstein 112 min · War
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A thirteenth-century prince is called back to defend Novgorod against an invading Teutonic army.

TesoCupo Mediamente impegnativo
A curling golden leopard balances beside a large fossil bone on a pink plinth beneath BRINGING UP BABY lettering. Original gouache-style illustration.
Bringing Up Baby
1938 · Howard Hawks Screwball comedy
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A palaeontologist’s orderly life collapses after one woman, one leopard, and one missing bone arrive at once.

DivertenteRomantico Poco impegnativo
Love Affair 1939
Love Affair
1939 · Leo McCarey 88 min
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Terry and Michel meet on a ship to New York, then promise to reunite at the Empire State Building six months later.

RomanticoDelicato Poco impegnativo
Original illustration: Enormous cream and gold Mr. Smith Goes to Washington lettering above a small Capitol view, desk and glass of water.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · Frank Capra Political comedy drama
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An idealistic new senator arrives in Washington and discovers that sincerity alone is not enough to defeat a carefully protected political machine.

DivertenteTeso Poco impegnativo
Stagecoach — Momo studies a map beside luggage and a paper desert crossed by a stagecoach.
Stagecoach
1939 · John Ford 96 min · Western
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Nine uneasy travellers cross Monument Valley while a new kind of western takes shape.

TesoRomantico Poco impegnativo
Original illustration for The Rules of the Game: An ornate country-house interior sliced into overlapping paper doorways and a miniature theatre stage, chandelier and empty chairs at mismatched social scales.
The Rules of the Game
1939 · Jean Renoir 106 min · Comedy-drama
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A country-house farce that quietly indicts everyone.

DivertenteInsolito Richiede pazienza
Red shoes step from monochrome ground onto a yellow brick path bordered by red flowers.
The Wizard of Oz
1939 · Victor Fleming 98 min · Musical
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Where black-and-white opens into colour. Pure wonder.

DelicatoBello Poco impegnativo
His Girl Friday: Momo raises a sheet of paper amid oversized typewriter keys, telephones and newspaper towers.
His Girl Friday
1940 · Howard Hawks 92 min · Comedy
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A newsroom romance races so quickly that manipulation and affection share a breath.

DivertenteTeso Poco impegnativo
Original illustration for The Grapes of Wrath: A heavily loaded 1930s family truck small on a long pale road through immense dusty fields toward far California mountains; patched quilt and cooking pot visible, no faces.
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · John Ford 129 min · Drama
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A dispossessed Oklahoma family travels west during the Depression and finds that California’s promise of work conceals another system of exploitation.

CupoDelicato Poco impegnativo
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY is printed on an ornate cream invitation beside a camera and blue ribbon.
The Philadelphia Story
1940 · George Cukor Romantic comedy
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On the eve of a society wedding, an ex-husband and two reporters turn certainty into scrutiny.

DivertenteRomantico Poco impegnativo
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER lettering bends around folded ivory paper above two coloured envelopes. Original typographic artwork.
The Shop Around the Corner
1940 · Ernst Lubitsch Romantic comedy
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Two shop assistants irritate one another at work while unknowingly falling in love through anonymous letters.

DelicatoDivertente Poco impegnativo
Original illustration for Sullivan's Travels: A curled strip of blank film turns into a winding road that passes a worn pair of shoes and a director's empty folding chair.
Sullivan's Travels
1941 · Preston Sturges 90 min
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A successful comedy director disguises himself as a poor traveller to gather authentic suffering for a serious social film.

DivertenteCupo Poco impegnativo
A green snake curls through a fan of playing cards bearing THE LADY EVE lettering on a coral background.
The Lady Eve
1941 · Preston Sturges 93 min · Comedy
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A cardsharp falls for a sheltered heir, then invents a new identity when his distrust turns affection into humiliation.

DivertenteRomantico Poco impegnativo
Turquoise swimming-pool water casts rippling reflections on dark walls beside an empty ladder.
Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur 73 min
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A Serbian designer fears that intimacy will awaken a fatal animal inheritance her new American husband refuses to believe.

MisteriosoTeso Poco impegnativo
Original illustration: A dark mansion staircase curves toward a window framing an early motorcar, with faded flowers and a silver tray in front.
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 · Orson Welles Family drama
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A proud family mistakes inherited importance for permanence while the modern city grows around it.

CupoBello Mediamente impegnativo
The Palm Beach Story — Momo stands among bright palm trees, travel motifs and architectural plans.
The Palm Beach Story
1942 · Preston Sturges 88 min · Screwball comedy
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A woman decides that divorcing her inventor husband and marrying money is the most practical way to finance his ambitions.

DivertenteRomantico Poco impegnativo
There Was a Father 1942
There Was a Father
1942 · Yasujiro Ozu
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A widowed teacher tries to secure his son’s future, yet the decisions he makes keep them apart. Ozu turns the bond between parent and child into a conflict over duty.

Red and blue theatre curtains carry TO BE and OR NOT TO BE lettering around a lit stage with two masks.
To Be or Not to Be
1942 · Ernst Lubitsch Satirical comedy
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A Warsaw theatre company uses costumes, timing, and professional vanity against the Nazi occupation.

DivertenteTeso Mediamente impegnativo
Day of Wrath — A pale Danish room and a solitary woman form a severe engraved composition.
Day of Wrath
1943 · Carl Th. Dreyer 97 min · Drama
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In a seventeenth-century Danish household, a young wife’s desire and the persecution of an accused witch begin to mirror one another.

CupoTeso Mediamente impegnativo
Two pale figures face one another among tall, overlapping cane leaves.
I Walked with a Zombie
1943 · Jacques Tourneur 69 min
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A Canadian nurse arrives on a Caribbean island to care for a silent woman and enters a household shaped by illness, desire, and colonial history.

MisteriosoBello Mediamente impegnativo
A woman leans towards a man; their closely framed faces look in different directions.
Ossessione
1943 · Luchino Visconti 139 min · Crime drama
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A drifter begins an affair with an innkeeper’s wife, and their desire turns escape into a crime neither can leave behind.

TesoCupo Mediamente impegnativo
Original illustration: Giant cream Shadow of a Doubt lettering crossed by black train smoke above a small suburban street and a ring.
Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · Alfred Hitchcock 108 min · Psychological thriller
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A teenager’s adored uncle arrives in her quiet California town just as she begins to suspect that his charm conceals a violent past.

TesoMisterioso Poco impegnativo
A partial circle of Western boots closes around pale empty ground bearing The Ox-Bow Incident.
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 · William A. Wellman Western drama
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A posse forms quickly; certainty forms even faster.

TesoCupo Poco impegnativo