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Shanghai Express

United States, 1932
film

The lightweight plot - an evacuation by train from Peking to Shanghai - is merely the pretext for one of Sternberg’s most successful pieces of stylizati..

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Chungking express

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The Lady vanishes

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Sleep my love

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Shanghai triad

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Road to yesterday. - [Edited version]

United States, 1961
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Marlene

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Imagination 10

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Broken blossoms [DVD]

United States, 1919
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