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They Live by Night
Crime, Drama, Romance
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value tender doomed romance, shadowy atmosphere, and emotionally restrained crime drama over spectacle.
- Tone
- melancholic, romantic, bleak
- Payoff
- heartbreak, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- doomed love, criminality, alienation, fate
- Setting
- late 1940s, rural towns, highways and secluded hideouts