Films - non-Indian

American, British, European, and other non-Indian films discussed as more than a passing mention or reference on Exotic and Irrational Entertainment, listed alphabetically by title and linked to the relevant E&I post(s).

42nd Street - Brief Encounter | Calamity Jane - Films of Alec Guinness | Hail the Conquering Hero - North By Northwest | Oh! What a Lovely War - Young and Innocent | Other posts on films

• 42nd Street (1933)
• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared (2013)

• À nous la liberté (Give us freedom! 1931)
• Films of Jean Arthur, part 1
  Easy Living (1937)
  Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
  You Can't Take It With You (1938)
• Films of Jean Arthur, part 2
  The Devil In Miss Jones (1941)
  If You Could Only Cook (1935)
  The More The Merrier (1943)
  The Talk Of The Town (1942)
  Too Many Husbands (1940)
• Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Part 1
  Flying Down To Rio (1933)
  The Gay Divorcee (1934)
• Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Part 2
  Roberta (1935)
  Top Hat (1935)
• Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Part 3
  Follow The Fleet (1935)
  Swing TIme (1936)
• Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Part 4
  Shall We Dance (1937)
  Carefree (1938)
• Six Months with Jane Austen: Favorite adaptations and final thoughts
• Jane Austen proposal scenes: Sense and Sensibility (1995)
• Jane Austen proposal scenes: Mansfield Park (1999)
• Jane Austen proposal scenes: Emma (1996)
• Jane Austen proposal scenes: Persuasion (1995) 

• Babette's Feast (Babettes gæstebud, 1987)
• Baby Face (1933) (also discussed in "Favorites of 2015: Hollywood and other movies")
• Bad Education (2004) 
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
  
• The Beatles: Eight Days a Week—The Touring Years (2016)
• Becoming Traviata (2012)
• Busby Berkeley
  42nd Street (1933)
  Footlight Parade (1933)
  Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
  Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
• The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
• The Big Combo (1955)
• The Bishop's Wife (1947)
• Black Narcissus (1947) 
• Blancanieves (Snow White, 2012)
• Brief Encounter (1945)
• Burning (2018)

• Calamity Jane (1953)
  
• Call Northside 777 (1948)
  
• Carefree (1938) 
• The Chase (1946)
• Christmas in July (1940) 
• City Lights (1931)
  
• Films of René Clair, part 1:
  Entr'acte (1924)
  The Italian Straw Hat (Un chapeau de paille d'Italie, 1927)
• Films of René Clair, part 2:
  Sous les toits de Paris (Under the roofs of Paris, 1930)
• Films of René Clair, part 3:
  Le Million (1931)
• Films of René Clair, part 4:
  À nous la liberté (Give us freedom! 1931)
• Cluny Brown (1946)
• The Company of Wolves (1984) (also discussed in Favorites of 2022: Films)
  
• Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

• Daisies (Sedmikrásky, 1966)
• Doris Day: An Appreciation
  Romance on the High Seas (1948)
  Calamity Jane (1953)
  Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
  Pajama Game (1957)
  Pillow Talk (1959)
• Design for Living (1933)
• Designing Woman (1957)
• The Devil And Miss Jones (1941)
• The Divorcée (1931)
• Down To Earth (1947)
• Drive My Car (2021)
  

• Easy Living (1937)
• An Education (2009) 
• Emma (2020) 
• England is Mine (2017)
  
• Entr'acte (1924) 
• Eugene Onegin (1958)
• Every Little Step (2008)

• The Favourite (2018)
• Female (1933)
• Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
• First Position (2012)
• Flushed Away (2006)
• Flying Down To Rio (1933)
• Follow The Fleet (1936)
• Footlight Parade (1933)
• Frantz (2016)
• A Free Soul (1931)

• Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953)
• The Gay Divorcee (1934)
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
• Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
• Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides: Working with Time (2004)
• The Good Fairy (1935)
  
• Goodfellas (1991) 
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
• Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion, 1938) 
• Great Expectations (1946)
  
• The Great McGinty (1940)
• Films of Alec Guinness
  Great Expectations (1946)
  Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
  The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
  The Man in the White Suit (1951)
  The Ladykillers (1955)

• Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
  
• Her (2013)
• Hot Saturday (1932)

• I Am A Cliché (2021)
  
• I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
• If You Could Only Cook (1935)
• Impact (1949)
• The Innocents (1961)
• Inside Out (2015) 
• Isn't It Romantic (2018)
• The Italian Straw Hat (Un chapeau de paille d'Italie, 1927)

• Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) 
• Jewel Robbery (1932)
  
• Joan Jett: Bad Reputation (2018)
• Julieta (2016)

• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
  
• King Kong (1933)

• The Lady Eve (1941)
• The Ladykillers (1955)
  
• A Late Quartet (2012)
• The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
  
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (1959)
  
• Libeled Lady (1936)
• Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
  
• The Love Parade (1929)
• Ernst Lubitsch
  The Love Parade (1929)
  Monte Carlo (1930)
  The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
  One Hour With You (1932)
  Trouble in Paradise (1932)
  Design for Living (1933)
  The Merry Widow (1934)
  

• Ma Vie de Courgette (My life as 'Zucchini,' 2016) 
• Mädchenjahre einer Königin (Victoria in Dover, aka The Story of Vickie, 1954) 
• The Magic Toyshop (1987) 
• Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
• The Man in the White Suit (1951)
  
• Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
• The Merry Widow (1934) 
• Le Million (1931) 
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
  
• Monte Carlo (1930) 
• Moonage Daydream (2022)
  
• The More The Merrier (1943)
• Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
• The Mudlark (1950)
  
• Mulholland Drive (2001)  (also discussed in The greatest films of all time?)
  
• My Mother's Castle (Le Château De Ma Mère, 1990)
• Mysteries of Lisbon (Mistérios de Lisboa, 2010)

• Night Nurse (1931)
• Nightmare Alley (1947)
  
• No (2012)
• North by Northwest (1959) (also see "A knife in the back: The Chase and North by Northwest")
• Norwegian Wood (2010)

• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
• Once Upon A Time In The West (2008) 
• One Hour With You (1932) (also discussed in "Favorites of 2015: Hollywood and other movies")
• Outsourced (2006) (also discussed in "Favorites of 2012: Movies")

• Pajama Game (1957)
• The Palm Beach Story (1942)
• Pelléas et Mélisande: Le Chant des Aveugles (Song of the Blind, 2008) 
• Persuasion (1995) 
• Pillow Talk (1959)
  
• Pina (2011)
• Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché (2021) 
• Poor Things (2023)
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, 2019) (also discussed in The greatest films of all time?)
  
• Pride and Prejudice (1940)
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
• Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
• Puzzle (2018)

• A Quiet Passion (2016)

• RBG (2018)
• Rebecca (1940)
• Red-Headed Woman (1932)
• Remember the Night (1940) 
• A Report on the Party and Guests (O slavnosti a hostech, 1966)
• Revenge of the Mekons (2013) 
• Rivers and Tides: Working with Time (2004)
  
• Roberta (1935) 
• Romance on the High Seas (1948)
  
• Romantics Anonymous (Les émotifs anonymes, 2010)

• The Salt of the Earth (2014)
• The Searchers (1956) (also discussed in The greatest films of all time?)
  
• Shall We Dance (1937)
• Sita Sings The Blues (2008) 
• The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
• Sous les toits de Paris (Under the roofs of Paris, 1930) 
• Stand-In (1938)
  
• Stories We Tell (2012)
• Street of Shame (Akasen chitai, 1956)
• The comedies of Preston Sturges, part 1
  The Great McGinty (1940)
  Christmas in July (1940)
  The Lady Eve (1941)
  
• The comedies of Preston Sturges, part 2
  Sullivan's Travels (1942)
  The Palm Beach Story (1942)
  
• The comedies of Preston Sturges, part 3
  The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
  Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
  
• Sullivan's Travels (1942)
  
• Swing Time (1936)

• The Talk Of The Town (1942)
  
• Tea with the Dames (2018)
• Three On A Match (1932)
• Tim's Vermeer (2013)
• Today's Special (2009) (also discussed in "Favorites of 2013: Movies")
• Tokyo Story (1953)
• Too Many Husbands (1940)
• Top Hat (1935)
• Trouble In Paradise (1932) (also discussed in "Favorites of 2015: Hollywood and other movies")

• Valentin (2002)
• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden divů, 1970)
• Vampyr (1932)
• Vertigo (1958) (also discussed in "Obsession, perversity, and recapitulation: Hitchcock's Vertigo and its sources")

• War and Peace (1967)
• Waterloo Bridge (1931)
• What's Love Got To Do With It? (2022)
• Wild Nights with Emily (2018)

• You Can't Take It With You (1938)
• Young and Innocent (1937)

Other posts on films:

• Helen Walker
• Best Picture? I don't think so
• "When I kiss them, they stay kissed": Pre-Code Hollywood
• Hitchcock's Motifs
• Slumdog Millionaire at the Oscars
• Manny Farber's Film Criticism
• My Ten Favorite Films