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In our classics section Volotov presents some of the films that made movie history and were created by the world's greatest directors. Eisenstein, Hitchcock, Ford, Chaplin and many more can be found here.

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Film by Samuel Beckett

Film by Samuel Beckett
1965 - 21 mins

Few films in the history of cinema deserve renewed attention as much as this little known masterpiece which the philosopher and film-theorist Gilles Deleuze has called "the greatest Irish film." Indeed its importance is magnified by the very fact that it is one of the few Irish films of any note which attempts to explore a uniquely Irish intellectual tradition. »

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Penny Serenade

Penny Serenade
1941 - 117 mins

Penny Serenade is a film melodrama depicting the story of a loving couple who must overcome a series of adversity to keep their marriage and have a child raised. For his performance in the film, Cary Grant was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. »

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Phantom Of The Opera

Phantom Of The Opera
1925 - 106 mins

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 silent film directed by Rupert Julian adaptation of the Gaston Leroux novel of the same title. The film featured Lon Chaney in the title role as the masked and facially deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star. »

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The Iron Mask

The Iron Mask
1929 - 87 mins

The Iron Mask is a 1929 silent film adaptation of the last section of the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, pere, which is itself based on the French legend of The Man in the Iron Mask. »

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Scrooge

Scrooge
1935 - 78 mins

This 1935 version, directed by Henry Edwards (who would go on to direct Boris Karloff in Juggernaut), plays it straight. This film is notable for a particularly enjoyable performance by Sir Seymour Hicks as Scrooge, who also happened to have played the role in a 1913 Leedham Bantock-directed silent version. »

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The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps
1935 - 86 mins

The 39 Steps is a 1935 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the adventure novel The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan. The film stars Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. There have been three major film versions of the book; Hitchcock's original has been the most acclaimed, and remains so today: In 1999 it came 4th in a BFI poll of British films, while in 2004 Total Film named it the 21st greatest British movie of all time. »

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Two Women

Two Women (La Ciociara)
1960 - 100 mins

Two Women (Original title La Ciociara, literally translated as The Woman from Ciociaria) is a 1960 Academy Award-winning Italian language film which tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi and was directed by Vittorio De Sica. »

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