The Definitive Watchlist Seeking the Same Brilliance as The Kinsman: Cult Guide

Dir: Henry Edwards

A shepherdess becomes an opera star. A shepherd becomes a sculptor.

Dir: Henry Edwards

A poor author feigns marriage to please his dying father.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The City of Beautiful Nonsense perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Henry Edwards

In the East London tenements lives one Alexandra Vickers, better known as "Viccy." She is rough-tongued, quick-tempered, and generous as far as her slender means allow. Her parents died when the girl was very young and left her to shift for herself. Later she takes up her abode with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith and their nephew, Albert Grummett. In the month of August the family decides to go to the hop fields and earn their living picking the sticky vegetable from which is made the national beverage, beer. About this time in America a wealthy contractor dies and leaves his immense fortune to Victoria Alexandra Vickers, the only daughter of his brother. A search is made for the girl and she is finally located in the hop fields. She is placed under the care of a Mrs. Carrington, to become polished. After "Viccy" leaves, Grummett, with five hundred pounds given him by the girl, sets himself up in business and is soon prosperous. Mrs. Carrington's son asks "Viccy" to marry him, as he needs money to pay his debts, and the girl accepts him. She later sees Grummett, however, and after discovering that Carrington wants only her money she goes back to Grummett, and East returns to East.

Dir: Henry Edwards

A boarding house skivvy helps a poor playwright, becomes an actress and saves him from an insane convict.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of East Is East perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Henry Edwards

A rich madman escapes from an asylum and saves a lady from a Danish baron.

Dir: Henry Edwards

A mean squire's novelist son becomes a village benefactor.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Doorsteps perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Henry Edwards

A shopkeeper sends his adopted son to college on an inheritance and rejects his secretary's love for his sake.

Dir: Henry Edwards

A rescued man takes the place of a convicted heir, who later blackmails him.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Lunatic at Large perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Henry Edwards

A millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.

Dir: Henry Edwards

A Russian's secret wife marries her cousin to give her baby a name.