The Ninth Gate (1999) or should that be 1666 which is when the book being seached for was written.
The end of this intriguing Roman Polanski film is ambiguous as it ends with Johnny Depp walking towards to the light shining through the now opened 9th gate but doesn't show what happened next. And who really is the mysterious girl? I'm guessing that she is the whore of Babylon who at the end of the film seduces Johnny Depp, and he walks through the gate to see that she gives birth to Lucifer the antiChrist.
I started watching the Japanese animated version of Metropolis (2001) but gave up as it didn't work for me. That's possibly because I have seen the original a few times, and the animated version just didn't give me the sense of awe of the original. Also some of the scenes were intended to be humerous but not to me.
I saw Cheyenne Autumn (1964), John Ford's last western. A good sombre account of the mistreatment of Cheyennes by the white man though not without its faults. Ricardo Montalban and Gilbert Roland were the two lead Cheyennes but neither were native Indians. But the main fault was the out of place section in the middle of the film involving 4 Texans and Wyatt Earp (played by James Stewart). This section had no real connection with the rest of the film and belonged to another film. The film was long enough as it was and this just seemed to be put in to make the film longer. It seems that Ford had put this in as a sort of intermission.
I saw Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948). This was directed by Max Ophuls and starred Joan Fontaine giving one of her best performances such as it is hard to think that the film could have been made with any other actress, Although an American film, it felt much more like an European film.
I saw Letter From An Unknown Woman about 4 years ago and thought it was a great film
I saw two very different films. Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) is a delightful Japanese animated film with as much for adults as for children and is free of violence and catastrophes.
The Spy in Black (1939) a WW1 story filmed on the eve of WW2. This is an important British film as it is the first time that Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger worked together. Although not credited in the titles Alexander Korda was involved as producer and the film was made at the Denham film studios, Korda's base. The music was by Miklos Rozsa who worked on some of the Korda films. Powell was to work with Korda and Rozsa a year later on The Thief of Bagdad.