Movies (and TV) I watched in 2017

A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.

As a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarships to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.

A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.

A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.

Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.

After a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War.

A bored photographer recovering from a broken leg passes the time by watching his neighbors and begins to suspect one of them of murder.

Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.

Two U.S. Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.

When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.

In the hospital with a broken leg Ollie is visited by Stan, who brings him hard-boiled eggs, nuts, and total mayhem.

In George Cukor's remake, fading matinee idol Norman Maine helps young singer and actress Esther Blodgett find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.

A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.

Four historical tales depict the ongoing human struggle against prejudice and inhumanity.

Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a simple and essentially melodramatic story and turn it into something more complex and inherently cinematic.

A former barber escapes from a high security prison. Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison.

A documentary about noted British director Anthony Asquith, including clips from his films and interviews with his colleagues and contemporaries.

The British government tries to persuade people not to clog up the wartime (World War II) public transportation system by keeping its use to a minimum during "rush hour".