Thetragic yet touching dark dramaopens in the festive season with an elderly couple losing their home to foreclosure.

Pabsts masterful ability to build atmosphere and suspense.

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A young boy watching a film from a cinema balcony in The Long Day Closes

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Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)

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Ministry clerk Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) sits strapped to a chair while a masked doctor reaches for a sharp tool.

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Rock Hudson lying by a fire with Jane Wyman in All That Heaven Allows (1955)

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“Preacher” Harry Powell with “Love” written on his fingers in The Night of the Hunter

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The Night of the Hunter (1955)

The Osone family gathered around their militant uncle in ‘Morning for the Osone Family.'

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Fanny and Alexander sitting with their large family in ‘Fanny and Alexander.'

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