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- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmAugust FalckEdith ErastoffTerje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmEdith ErastoffJohn EkmanA stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm.
- DirectorMadeline BrandeisStarsZoe RaeDorphia BrownJohn DorlandThe Star Prince falls to earth on a star and is found and reared by a woodcutter. Because the haughty prince is cruel to the beggar who claims to be his mother, a fairy transforms him into an ugly pauper. Ashamed, the prince sets out to find his mother. On his quest, he survives several adventures involving the wicked witch and the little princess, who falls in love with him. When the evil dwarf tries to force the princess to marry him, the Star Prince rescues her, whereupon he is changed back to his original form. The dwarf, however, is turned into a pig, while the Star Prince marries the beautiful princess.
- DirectorR.W. PhillipsStarsMattie EdwardsA professor of Egyptology seeks a mummy for experimentation. A young man devises a scheme to give the professor his desire in hopes of winning the hand in marriage of the teacher's daughter.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsLew CodyMary AldenPauline StarkeBefore she parts from him for a while, a woman falls in love with a composer, working on a symphony, who she encounters in the forests of Canada.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsIris HallWalker ThompsonLawrence ChenaultRacists learn that the land a negro owns lies over a vast oil field, and threaten his life when he refuses to sell.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsEvelyn PreerFlo ClementsJames D. RuffinAbandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
- DirectorJean de RoveraA documentary covering the Olympic Games at Chamonix in 1924.
- DirectorJean de RoveraA documentary on the 1924 Olympic Game in Paris.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsJean BörlinInge FrïssFrancis PicabiaAn absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
- DirectorMauritz StillerStarsLars HansonSven ScholanderEllen Hartman-CederströmA drunkard priest who has been cast out by his community struggles to atone and regain his honour and dignity.
- DirectorMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackStarsMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackMarguerite HarrisonThe struggles of a hardscrabble Iranian nomadic tribe as they journey through bleak country to reach the grasslands that will save their livestock.
- DirectorRichard E. NormanStarsLaurence CrinerKathryn BoydBoise De LeggeA WWI fighter pilot returns to his former job as a railroad detective, and must recover a satchel filled with $25,000 of stolen payroll, locate a missing employee, and capture the gang of thieves responsible.
- DirectorRoy CalnekStarsCharles GilpinMyra BurwellLawrence ChenaultA man is swindled out of his mill business and turns to drink. After losing his daughter who is hit in the head by a glass during a bar brawl, he is reborn and runs for mayor a couple years later
- A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam.
- DirectorWilhelm PragerA documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam.
- DirectorArnold FanckOthmar GurtnerStarsSonja HenieAlf AndersenBertel BackmannA documentary about the 1928 St. Moritz Olympics.
- DirectorRichard MauriceStarsRichard MauriceSammie FieldsOrine JohnsonA surreal melodrama in which a poor violinist named Sundaisy (Maurice) tries to protect an orphan girl (Wand Maurice) from a small-time hoodlum.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsMinoru TakadaKinuyo TanakaUtako SuzukiFeeling the position to be beneath him, a college graduate turns down a receptionist job, but soon finds it necessary to fool his mother and fiancé into thinking that he is employed.
- DirectorFrank PereginiStarsHarry HendersonNorman JohnstoneAnn KennedyAn educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather, who beats and abuses her. However, once he "saves" her, he won't let his new wife meet his mother, as he knows she will be angry and disappointed with him for marrying someone "below his station".
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsTatsuo SaitôTomio AokiTakeshi SakamotoA kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.
- DirectorDudley MurphyStarsBessie SmithJimmy MordecaiIsabel WashingtonIn her only known film appearance, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith witnesses her lover's betrayal, then sings a powerful rendition of the title song.
- DirectorDudley MurphyStarsDuke EllingtonDuke Ellington OrchestraFredi WashingtonDuke Ellington in a jazz musical short with a tragic plotline.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsHarry BaurPaule AndralJackie MonnierDavid is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsMinoru TakadaHiroko KawasakiSatoko DateA small-time hood wants to go straight for a good girl but finds that starting over isn't as simple as it sounds.
- DirectorEloyce GistJames GistIf you listen to jazz, you will go to Hell, where the scorching fires of torment are mighty and endless.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsMitsuko IchimuraTokihiko OkadaChishû RyûA desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery in order to help her. He begins to feel remorse though, which makes him question his decision.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsTatsuo SaitôKaoru FutabaKinuyo TanakaA story of a college student (Tatsuo Saitô) and his schoolmates trying to pass the exams by cheating.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsTokihiko OkadaHiroko KawasakiChôko IidaA bearded kendo champion has difficulties in life because of his conservative ways and his unusual beard.
- DirectorHeinosuke GoshoStarsAtsushi WatanabeKinuyo TanakaMitsuko IchimuraA writer struggles to finish his story against many distractions, but the jazz party next door proves to be too much.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsRudolf ForsterLotte LenyaCarola NeherThe Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
- DirectorMario PeixotoStarsOlga BrenoTatiana ReyRaul SchnoorThree people (Raul Schnoor, Olga Breno and Tatiana Rey) sail aimlessly while remembering their past.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsCeleste ColeAmon DavisDonald HeywoodMusical numbers and comedy routines.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsEunice BrooksStanley MorrellCeleste ColeA young man named Jean in post-World War I Chicago falls in love with a beautiful girl named Edith. He proposes to her, but realizes that she's involved in the rackets and won't leave them, so he goes back home to South Dakota, where he becomes a successful rancher. There he falls for a white girl, but guilt drives him back to Chicago, where he runs into Edith again, and they agree to marry. When Edith is later found murdered, Jean is blamed for the crime.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsMarguerite PierryJacques LouvignyMichel SimonA porcelain-maker invites a guest to sell him chamber pots, but family problems cause interruptions.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsBing CrosbyArthur StoneLuis AlberniBing Crosby meets one of his fans, who won't believe it's him.
- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsRaimuPierre FresnayFernand CharpinMarius is faced with a choice whether to fulfill his passion by sailing the seas or stay and marry the woman he loves.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsLucille LewisWalter FlemingLaura BowmanJohn Walden, left home 20 years earlier and has been "passing" as white in a town where no one knew of his background. He returns home to take his now grown sister back with him so she too can live a life as a white woman. He even goes so far as to find her a suitable white man to marry. Unfortunately, she can not get over the young black man she left back home.
- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsRoland YoungGeorge GrossmithJohn LoderYoung man fights off attempts to marry him off to a series of available girls. Intersting glimpses of London in 1930.
- DirectorMarc AllégretStarsRaimuPierre FresnayFernand CharpinAfter Fanny's boyfriend leaves her and sails away, she finds out she's pregnant.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsCarl MahonStarr CallowayAlice B. RussellAn undercover government agent on a case in Mississipi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss. He rescues the girl, and they leave Mississippi and head to Harlem, but their troubles follow them: they become involved in the murder of a local crime boss there.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsUreo EgawaKinuyo TanakaTatsuo SaitôWhen a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsLawrence ChenaultA.B. DeComathiereLaura BowmanA movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsHarry BaurRobert LynenLouis GauthierA red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag ; only his father's presence is a great comfort to him,but this weak man is under the shrew's thumb. His pain is so great he feels suicidal.
- DirectorAubrey ScottoStarsLouis ArmstrongFanny Belle DeKnightSidney EastonA husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsHarry BaurValéry InkijinoffGina ManèsWilly is broke and his mistress always wants more money. A stranger in a pub agrees to murder his aunt, but everything will not go as planned. Maigret will try to separate fact and fiction.
- DirectorFred WallerStarsDuke EllingtonIvie AndersonFlorence HillDuke Ellington and his orchestra play two jazz compositions plus 'Stormy Weather' (sung by Ivy Anderson).
- DirectorBabe StaffordStarsBing CrosbyFlorine McKinneyIrving BaconAfter singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries, tries again.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsKinuyo TanakaJôji OkaSumiko MizukuboA gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.
- DirectorHiroshi ShimizuStarsMichiko OikawaYukiko InoueUreo EgawaTwo schoolgirl friends drift apart when one of them falls for a handsome boy.
- DirectorCharles BarroisStarsJacques TatiHélène PépéeRhumAn amateur actor, hen-packed loser, signs unwittingly a contract to fight against professional wrestler.
- DirectorDorothy DavenportStarsClaudia DellLola LaneRichard HemingwayJerry, a young newspaper reporter, intrigued by the charm and beauty of Barbara, a girl accused of murder, sets out to prove her innocence in the face of a damaging array of circumstantial evidence.
- DirectorFred WallerStarsCab CallowaySidney EastonFredi WashingtonThis jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity.
- DirectorRobert J. FlahertyStarsColman 'Tiger' KingMaggie DirraneMichael DirraneIn this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsSonnie HaleBetty BalfourHarriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, has a guilty secret: She has a baby daughter, born out of wedlock. Harriet leaves her public and flees to South Africa to raise her daughter quietly. The years pass, and now her daughter, Harriet Hawkes, returns to London as a young show-biz hopeful. Tommy, a wily publicity man, knowing that young Harriet is a dead ringer for her famous mother, convinces a theater producer to star her in a new revue as none other than the original Harriet Green, miraculously untouched by old age. The ruse works too well: Now the public believes Harriet is a well-preserved 60-year-old and Tommy is her son. The deception is more than merely inconvenient, because now Harriet and Tommy have secretly fallen in love.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsYûkichi IwataMitsuko YoshikawaDen ÔhinataTwo half-brothers try to cope with the loss of their father.
- DirectorFernando de FuentesStarsMarta RoelEnrique del CampoCarlos VillatoroAlfonso (Del Campo), Eduardo (Villatoro) and Eduardo's wife Cristina (Ruel) get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three amigos suffer personality changes, specially Cristina who tries to seduce Alfonso in a strange coincidence to a story told by an old monk. After some efforts to escape, Alfonso is trapped inside a jail and more strange and macabre situations happen.
- DirectorJacques BerrStarsRhumJacques TatiTwo friends try to raise money by tricking people into an improvised leisure tour.
- DirectorJuan Bustillo OroStarsVíctor UrruchúaCarlos VillatoroMagda HallerWhen the Monk Javier acts violently in a gothic monastery, the Prior asks the Monk Juan to calm him down since he believes that Javier is possessed by demons. When Juan comes to Javier's cell, they recognize each other and Javier runs after him. Javier reaches Juan and hits his head with a heavy crucifix, and returns to his cell. Later, Javier confesses to the Prior that Juan was his best friend when he was a tubercular musician and how their friendship ended when his beloved fiancé Ana died. Then, Juan confesses to the Prior that Javier's confession is correct, but he would like to tell the same story through his eyes.
- DirectorWalter SummersStarsRalph RichardsonAnn ToddJoyce KennedyDrummond leads a black-shirted platoon of men from his former unit against foreign interlopers trying to pull England into dangerous overseas entanglements.
- DirectorHeinosuke GoshoStarsTatsuo SaitôMitsuko YoshikawaMasao HayamaAn aging couple truffle to pay for their daughter's marriages while keeping their much younger son from feeling left out.
- DirectorEdvin AdolphsonSigurd WallénStarsValdemar DalquistJulia CæsarSigurd WallénIn one of the narrow streets of the Old town of Stockholm lies hotel City. It's inhabited by mysterious characters such as 'Greven', 'Blomman' and others. The police inspector Göransson is chasing a jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse'.
- DirectorFred WallerStarsDuke EllingtonDuke Ellington OrchestraBarney BigardDuke Ellington plays his symphonic jazz piece ('A Rhapsody of Negro Life') with his orchestra against slice-of-life background scenes. The four movements: 1) The Laborers, 2) A Triangle: Dance, Jealousy, Blues, 3) A Hymn of Sorrow, 4) Harlem Rhythm.
- DirectorGustaf EdgrenStarsLars HansonKarin KavliVictor SjöströmLena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsTakeshi SakamotoYoshiko OkadaChôko IidaUnemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn't keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka.
- DirectorGustaf MolanderStarsGösta EkmanBjörn BerglundHåkan WestergrenThe Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an excellent house maid, Boman. Because of the family's extravagance, they are heading for bankruptcy. But perhaps their problems would be solved if Rolf was awarded the Nobel Prize?
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsIsuzu YamadaYôko UmemuraBenkei ShiganoyaTwo geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other sister sets up various schemes to get rid of him.
- DirectorGustaf MolanderStarsIngrid BergmanGösta EkmanInga TidbladAn innocent young pianist falls into an affair with a married violinist.
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsIsuzu YamadaYôko UmemuraChiyoko ÔkuraA young woman becomes a mistress of her boss in order to support her family.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChôko IidaShin'ichi HimoriMasao HayamaA widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsRaimuPierre FresnayOrane DemazisHonoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Cesariot that his real father is Marius, the absent son of César, Cesariot's godfather. Panisse leaves that to Fanny, the lad's mother. Dissembling that he's off to see a friend, Cesariot then seeks Marius, now a mechanic in Toulon. Posing as a journalist, Cesariot spends time with Marius and leaves believing tales he is a petty thief. Only after the truth comes out can Marius, Fanny, César, and Cesariot step beyond the falsehoods, benign though they may be.
- DirectorZoltan KordaStarsBeniamino GigliJoan GardnerIvan BrandtA young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.As "Forget Me Not"
- DirectorAlexander EswayZoltan KordaJohn Monk SaundersStarsFrederick CulleyLaurence OlivierFranklin DyallThis documentary traces man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
- DirectorLothar MendesAlexander KordaStarsRoland YoungRalph RichardsonEdward ChapmanAn ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsBarbara StanwyckPreston FosterBarry FitzgeraldA husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.
- DirectorRaymond BernardStarsAnnabellaPierre Richard-WillmPaul AzaïsRaymond Bernard's film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot
- DirectorWalter ReischStarsMiriam HopkinsGertrude LawrenceSebastian ShawAnn Williams (Miriam Hopkins), secretary to eccentric drama critic T.H. Skeates (A.E. Matthews), is persuaded to alter a ruinous review of Shakespearean actor Edmond Davey (Sebastian Shaw) by Davey's wife Barbara (Gertrude Lawrence). Davey's "Othello" becomes a hit and Ann, even though fired by Skeates, becomes a fan of Davey and starts to fall for him, much to the jealousy of her boyfriend Tommy (Sir Rex Harrison). At the prospect of involvement in an adulterous triangle, Ann recoils. But despite her resolution, the characters' love lives become ever more tangled and a real-life tragedy of Othello looms.
- 193638mNot Rated6.1 (153)ShortDirectorHerbert BriegerCarl JunghansStarsAdolf HitlerThis Nazi propaganda film covers the 1936 Winter Olympics that were held in Germany.
- DirectorLouis KingStarsJohn BarrymoreJohn HowardLouise CampbellCaptain Drummond travels to Switzerland in order to marry his girlfriend but the disappearance of a dangerous cargo of explosives makes him delay his plans.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsEdmund LoweSebastian ShawAnn ToddAn out-of-favor Scotland Yard inspector (Edmund Lowe) hunts a killer diamond fence--The Squeaker (Sebastian Shaw).As "The Squeaker"
- DirectorSadao YamanakaStarsChôjûrô KawarasakiKan'emon NakamuraTsuruzô NakamuraThe lives of two slum neighbors, one of a happy-go-lucky gambler and the other of a poor ronin, converge when the two get involved with the affairs of a powerful samurai official and his gangsters.
- DirectorHanns SchwarzStarsBarry K. BarnesSophie StewartMargaretta ScottParis is Burning. Under the iron fist of Robespierre, hundreds are executed, by the swift and bloodstained guillotine. Through these acts of injustice a new heroism is born - the League of The Scarlet Pimpernel.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsSumiko KurishimaTatsuo SaitôMichiko KuwanoAn affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada's. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.
- DirectorNorman LeeStarsJohn LodgeDorothy MackaillVictor JoryBulldog Drummond goes up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
- DirectorLouis KingStarsJohn BarrymoreJohn HowardLouise CampbellThe girlfriend of Captain Drummond has been kidnapped by an enemy of Drummond who seeks revenge. But Drummond and his friend Colonel Nielsen at once follow his trail...
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsAnnabellaJean-Pierre AumontLouis JouvetOn the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?
- DirectorLouis KingStarsJohn HowardHeather AngelH.B. WarnerDrummond, his girlfriend and his butler try to free an high post of Scotland Yard who has been kidnapped.
- DirectorHiroshi ShimizuStarsMieko TakamineShin TokudaijiShin'ichi HimoriTwo blind masseurs travel to a mountain retreat. One of them falls for a visiting lady from Tokyo and investigates a series of thefts.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsCarman NewsomeEthel MosesAlec LovejoyA black Harvard graduate confronts racism.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsJohn BarrymoreJohn HowardLouise CampbellIn this episode captain Drummond tries to find the killer of various people. All assassinations were provoked by a diamond of great value, but Drummond will face the danger.
- DirectorGustaf MolanderStarsIngrid BergmanGeorg RydebergTutta RolfLudvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJohn BarrymoreCarole LombardWalter ConnollyA flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsJudith WoodDorothy HallCharles 'Buddy' RogersTwo sisters, May, older, naive, and June, younger and worldly, arrive in New York straight from the country and settle down in a boarding house. Their search for jobs leads them to find beaus and romantic trouble.
- DirectorRowland BrownStarsSpencer TracyMarguerite ChurchillSally EilersTruck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he plots to kidnap her on her wedding day.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsIrene DunneRicardo CortezJill EsmondA young woman plots astrological revenge on schoolgirls from her past.