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Humanity’s struggle with good and evil is personified in the 1941 film starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”

If you think you have trouble finding a mate on the apps, imagine being Frankenstein’s monster! Everyone that sees you screams in your face and chases you with torches and pitchforks. The only way to find love is to build your mate in the lab. This week’s film is “Bride of Frankenstein.”

For nearly 100 years old, “The Phantom of the Opera” looks pretty good for its age. This 1925 production stars Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry in a tale of all-consuming love and the pursuit of stardom.

The quintessential mad scientist story gets its most iconic telling in 1931’s “Frankenstein” starring Colin Clive, Mae Clarke and Boris Karloff as The Monster.

Based on Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” from 1945 gives viewers a look at the corruption of one man’s soul via his portrait.

• ​US Marshalls are sent to an island hospital for the criminally insane to search for a missing patient, but things are not as they seem on “Shutter Island.”

The Blacklist was a group of writers and other Hollywood creatives that were accused of being communists and refusing to testify against their fellow creatives to a congressional committee. They were jailed for contempt and weren’t allowed to work in Hollywood. But the film “Trumbo” shows how they found a way around it.

Bob Fosse was a troubled genius. Both are on full display in his 1979 semi-autobiographical film “All That Jazz.”

The Christian Nationalist movement isn’t a new creation. It’s been building slowly over the last 75 years. Two documentaries, “God & Country” and “Bad Faith,” look at the underpinnings of this threat to democracy and America as we know it.

Steven Spielberg’s screwball comedy “1941” has a massive cast, lots of special effects, huge stunts…and isn’t very good.