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Films based on short fiction
Black Fury
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
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Pelts
Meat Loaf Aday plays Jake Feldman, a furrier struggling to build a business while being tormented by his obsession for a stripper. When a sadistic backwoods trapper kills a strange group of pet raccoo...
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Goodbye, Columbus
A Jewish man and a jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other find that their worlds are very different. She is the archetypical Jewish-American-Princess, very emotionally involved with her p...
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Riptide
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Rivie...
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Nightmare
Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.
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Riding Shotgun
When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffle...
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Secret Agent
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
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The Brass Teapot
When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go.
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Wakefield
A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.
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