Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: None, English
Director
Charles Chaplin
Writer
Charles Chaplin, Harry Carr, Harry Crocker
Cast
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
Plot
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Fantasy • Country: USA • Language: English, Hungarian
Director
Tod Browning, Karl Freund
Writer
Bram Stoker, Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston
Cast
Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners
Plot
Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Crime • Country: Germany, USA • Language: German, French
Director
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer
Bertolt Brecht, Léo Lania, Ladislaus Vajda
Cast
Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher
Plot
The 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 coronat...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Brazil • Language: None, Portuguese
Director
Mario Peixoto
Writer
Mario Peixoto
Cast
Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor
Plot
Three castaways - a man and two women - adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean find solace in recounting the tales of their lives to one another, reminiscing about the circumstances that led them to their desolate predicament.
A butler changes the life of a nouveau-riche entrepreneur's life, while his daughter falls in love with the company's manager instead of a suitor chosen for her.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Jean Vigo
Writer
Jean Vigo
Cast
Jean Taris
Plot
Jean Vigo films the talents of great swimming champion Jean Taris performing different acts. Vigo film technique allied with Taris swimming style are intertwined with grace and effect.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Family • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Gerhard Lamprecht
Writer
Erich Kästner, Billy Wilder, Emeric Pressburger
Cast
Rolf Wenkhaus, Käthe Haack, Fritz Rasp
Plot
Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Fantasy • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Ardeshir Irani
Writer
Joseph David, Ardeshir Irani
Cast
Master Vithal, Zubeida, Jillo
Plot
A period fantasy that told of the ageing king of Kamarpur, and his two rival queens, Navbahar and Dilbahar, and their rivalry when a fakir predicts that Navbahar will bear the king's heir. Dilbahar unsuccessfully tries to seduce t...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, History • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Erik Charell
Writer
Norbert Falk, Robert Liebmann
Cast
Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg
Plot
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Frank Capra
Writer
Jo Swerling, John Meehan, Robert Riskin
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy
Plot
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Russia • Language: Russian, Mari
Director
Nikolai Ekk
Writer
Osip Brik, Nikolai Ekk, Anton Makarenko
Cast
Nikolay Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov
Plot
Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards. But crooks kill one of the young people when they try to damage the newly build railroad to that camp.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, Chinese
Director
Roy Del Ruth
Writer
Dashiell Hammett, Maude Fulton, Brown Holmes
Cast
Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges
Plot
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
James W. Horne
Writer
H.M. Walker, Oliver Hardy, James W. Horne
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James W. Horne
Plot
Jilted by his girlfriend, "Jeanie-Weenie," Oliver joins the Foreign Legion to forget, bringing Stanley along with him. They wilt under the scorching desert sun and under the harsh discipline of the Commandant. On a long march to r...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Clarence Brown
Writer
Adela Rogers St. Johns, Becky Gardiner, Philip Dunning
Cast
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore
Plot
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France • Language: Russian, German
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Irène Némirovsky, Julien Duvivier
Cast
Harry Baur, Paule Andral, Jackie Monnier
Plot
David 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Alfred E. Green
Writer
Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Lucien Hubbard
Cast
Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp
Plot
A Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
James W. Horne
Writer
H.M. Walker, Oliver Hardy, James W. Horne
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
Plot
Oliver's plans to marry his hefty sweetheart go awry when the girl's father gets a load of her intended groom. They then elope in a tiny car much too small for their combined dimensions, not to mention the accompanying Stan. They ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
James W. Horne
Writer
H.M. Walker, Stan Laurel, James Parrott
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr
Plot
A kindly old widow serves a free meal to the penniless boys but her greedy landlord wants to evict her for non payment of her mortgage, prompting the boys to come to her rescue.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Erich Engel, Fyodor Otsep
Writer
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Erich Engels, Leonhard Frank
Cast
Fritz Kortner, Anna Sten, Fritz Rasp
Plot
Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father: Dimitri asks his father for his heritage. The father says he wants to marry young Grushenka. Dimitri tries to talk the girl out of that plan and is himself totally smitten w...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Jean Boyer, Camille Flammarion, Abel Gance
Cast
Abel Gance, Colette Darfeuil, Sylvie Gance
Plot
The two Novalic brothers, Jean and Martial, are in love with the same woman, Genevieve. Jean is an impoverished actor and an idealistic dreamer, who does not want Genevieve to share in his life of suffering. Martial is an internat...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
James W. Horne
Writer
Charlie Hall, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch
Plot
Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Laurel send their husbands to the store to buy ice-cream but on the way back home the boys rescue from drowning a suicidal woman who's wanted by the police.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Martin Flavin, Fred Niblo Jr., Seton I. Miller
Cast
Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings
Plot
After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
The story of a newly graduated Leningrad teacher, Yelena Kuzmina. She goes furniture shopping with her fiance, Petya, and in a fantasy sequence she imagines teaching a class of neat, obedient city schoolchildren. Instead, she is a...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Mystery • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Hamilton MacFadden
Writer
Earl Derr Biggers, Hugh Stanislaus Stange, Barry Conners
Cast
Warner Oland, Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi
Plot
The unsolved murder of a Hollywood actor several years earlier and an enigmatic psychic are the keys to help Charlie solve the Honolulu stabbing death of a beautiful actress.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Frank Borzage
Writer
Viña Delmar, Brian Marlow, Edwin J. Burke
Cast
James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Minna Gombell
Plot
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, Yiddish
Director
Roy Del Ruth
Writer
Kenyon Nicholson, Kubec Glasmon, John Bright
Cast
James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone
Plot
Independent cabbie Matt Nolan is primed to let his fists and handgun deliver payback after a big taxi firm uses intimidation and violence to squeeze out small-timers.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
James W. Horne, James Parrott
Writer
H.M. Walker, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Spencer Bell
Plot
In order to secretly attend a stag party in their honor, the boys urge their wives to travel ahead alone on a jointly-planned Atlantic City vacation by invoking Oliver's fake migraine as an excuse to remain behind.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Film-Noir • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Robert Siodmak
Writer
Ludwig Hirschfeld, Ernst Neubach, Curt Siodmak
Cast
Heinz Rühmann, Lien Deyers, Raimund Janitschek
Plot
A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Czech, Austria • Language: Czech
Director
Gustav Machatý
Writer
VÃtezslav Nezval, Gustav Machatý
Cast
Ladislav H. Struna, Magda Maderova, Jirina Sejbalová
Plot
Mána is a young secretary. One evening she and her roommate accompany two wealthy older gentlemen to dinner. After one of them offers money to her she realizes his intentions and flees from the restaurant in shock. She later meets...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: China • Language: None, Mandarin
Director
Wancang Bu
Writer
Wancang Bu, Richard J. Meyer
Cast
Lingyu Ruan, Yan Jin, Lili Zhou
Plot
The daughter of a peasant family that works on a landowner's property is in love with the owner's son but the parents force them to separate.She lands up having a child out of wedlock.
