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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956 · Film · 80 min

Directed by Fritz Lang

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A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

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  1. PositivezupatolFeb 14, 2009

    Some films by Alain Resnais deserve to be on this list:

    Je t'aime, je t'aime: a time machine experiment gone wrong. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063152/

    Providence: a story told while it's being written. Sometimes the writer changes his mind, sometimes his imagination takes him where he doesn't want to go. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076574/

    Smoking / No Smoking: two films that explore different possible 'forks' of the same story. The first fork is the decision by one character to smoke a cigarette. In the first film she does, in the second she doesn't. There are three or four forks in each film which all completely change the fate of the characters. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108167/

    Other films that come to mind:

    Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys , by Michael Haneke. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216625/

    Akira has an ending just about as powerful as the ending of 2001. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094625/

    Beyond a reasonable doubt (Fritz Lang) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049006/

    (but why am I writing this on hacker news?) Vertigo (Hitchcock) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/