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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The Queen of Spades, it turns a shadowy old-world moral trap into elegant psychological horror, with obsessive pursuit, a vulnerable heroine, and dread accumulating through suggestion rather than spectacle.
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Why this pick
Its exquisite monochrome imagery, period formality and sustained uncertainty echo the icy elegance of The Queen of Spades, while supernatural menace remains inseparable from fixation and repression.
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Why this pick
Tourneur similarly makes darkness, sound and implication do the frightening work. Its compact fatalism and elegantly sustained nocturnal unease suit the controlled terror of The Queen of Spades.
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Why this pick
This stark Nordic folktale matches the film's doomed supernatural bargain, period otherness and stylised visual power, treating desire and fate with grave, haunting seriousness.
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Why this pick
Its ghost stories unfold with ceremonial pacing, ravishingly unreal colour and an austere belief in consequences beyond reason—an ideal match for The Queen of Spades' elegant fatalism.
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01 / THE STORY
Captain Herman Suvorin (Anton Walbrook) is a Russian soldier in St Petersburg in 1806. He comes from a working class background, and is consequently spurned by his wealthier fellow officers. Suvorin begins gambling, playing the card game Faro (card game). He is told of an aged countess (Edith Evans), who allegedly Deal with the Devil in exchange for success in playing Faro. Suvorin seduces her ward (Yvonne Mitchell) as part of a plan to learn the countess's secret of success.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
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