Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Horror • Country: USA • Language: English, German
Director
Tod Browning
Writer
Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon
Cast
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
Plot
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance. So they seek revenge.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Mervyn LeRoy
Writer
Robert E. Burns, Howard J. Green, Brown Holmes
Cast
Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
Plot
A World War I veteran and aspiring engineer tries to re-enter civilian life. After being unwillingly caught up in a robbery, he suffers the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, struggling to clear his name and prove hi...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Crime • Country: USA • Language: English, Italian
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Samson Raphaelson, Grover Jones, Aladár László
Cast
Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
Plot
A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Family • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Norman Z. McLeod
Writer
Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S.J. Perelman
Cast
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Plot
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Huxley University's new president, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against their rival, Darwin University.
Category: Movie • Genre: Film-Noir, Horror • Country: USA • Language: English, Cantonese
Director
Erle C. Kenton
Writer
Waldemar Young, Philip Wylie, H.G. Wells
Cast
Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen
Plot
A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Musical • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Rouben Mamoulian
Writer
Samuel Hoffenstein, George Marion Jr., Waldemar Young
Cast
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles
Plot
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, German
Director
Tay Garnett
Writer
Wilson Mizner, Joseph Jackson, Robert Lord
Cast
William Powell, Kay Francis, Frank McHugh
Plot
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Family • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Jules Renard, Julien Duvivier
Cast
Harry Baur, Robert Lynen, Louis Gauthier
Plot
A 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Mervyn LeRoy
Writer
Lucien Hubbard, Kubec Glasmon, John Bright
Cast
Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis
Plot
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Burt Gillett
Writer
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Cast
Clarence Nash, Esther Campbell, Pinto Colvig
Plot
A jealous stump threatens two trees that are in love by starting a forest fire. When the rain comes and puts out the fire the forest revives and celebrates the wedding.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France • Language: French, Danish
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Georges Simenon, Jean Renoir
Cast
Pierre Renoir, Georges Térof, Winna Winifried
Plot
Inspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stolen car. The car belongs to an insurance agent, Michonnet, and has been abandoned in the garage belonging to Carl Andersen.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Romance • Country: Italy • Language: Italian
Director
Mario Camerini
Writer
Mario Camerini, Aldo De Benedetti, Mario Soldati
Cast
Lia Franca, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zoppetti
Plot
Bruno, a young Milanese driver, falls in love with Mariuccia, dependent on a perfumery. Wanting to impress her, he shows up for their first date, in his employer's car.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: None, Japanese
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Shunyô Yanagawa, Kôgo Noda
Cast
Yoshiko Okada, Shin'yô Nara, Yukiko Tsukuba
Plot
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim - with the help of her gangster brother - the daughter she abandoned years before.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Lewis E. Lawes, Wilson Mizner, Brown Holmes
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron
Plot
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing prison cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but the tough but compassionate warden is able to effect change in him.
Category: Movie • Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi • Country: Germany, France • Language: German
Director
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer
Pierre Benoît, Alexandre Arnoux, Jacques Deval
Cast
Brigitte Helm, Heinz Klingenberg, Tela Tchaï
Plot
Two French Foreign Legionnaires are lost amid the shifting sands of the Sahara Desert when they stumble across the entrance to an underground world. Searching this new found subterranean passage, our heroes are surprised to find t...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Dorothy Arzner
Writer
Edwin Justus Mayer, Cleo Lucas
Cast
Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen
Plot
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
True, Anton Spelec (Vlasta Burian) is by trade a producer of musical instruments, but in his heart and soul he is a sharp-shooter. In a little provincial town arrangements are being made for a large parade during which the worthy ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Ray McCarey, Lloyd French, Jack Lloyd
Writer
H.M. Walker, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Cramer
Plot
Commanded to "scram" out of town by a cantankerous judge, poor vagabonds, Stan and Ollie, slip into something more comfortable to spend the night at a sympathetic inebriate's home; however, is this the right house?
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
George Marshall
Writer
Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, James Parrott
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch
Plot
Stan convinces Oliver to adopt a baby to placate his wife, but upon returning home with the infant, they find a process server with a divorce summons, leaving the two buffoons to care for the squealing baby.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Jean Grémillon
Writer
Pierre Daye, Charles Spaak
Cast
Charles Vanel, Habib Benglia, Gaston Dubosc
Plot
Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer on board who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation. When she disappears the next day, suspi...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Russia • Language: Ukrainian
Director
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Writer
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Cast
K. Bondarevsky, Dmitri Golubinsky, Elena Golki
Plot
A young farmer and his lazy father try to help with the construction of the Dniprohes, but he learns that strength is not enough for a worker and joins the Communist party.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
James W. Horne
Writer
James Parrott, Charley Rogers, H.M. Walker
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Walter Long
Plot
In need of funds, Hardy happens to meet an old friend, now a boxing promoter, and volunteers "Battling Laurel" as the team's prizefighter, only to discover their opponent in the ring is a fearsome old nemesis.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Karl Hartl
Writer
Walter Reisch, Curt Siodmak
Cast
Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Hartmann
Plot
An artificial island in the Atlantic functions as an aerodrome. A sabotage attempt is thwarted by a renowned aviator's intervention, securing the island's safety.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Musical • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Ludwig Berger
Writer
Robert Liebmann, Hans Székely
Cast
Käthe von Nagy, Willy Fritsch, Amanda Lindner
Plot
A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They've never met, but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance ~ not knowing who's who ~ and fall in love.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
George Archainbaud
Writer
Willis Goldbeck, Stuart Palmer, Lowell Brentano
Cast
Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason
Plot
Shady stockbroker and abusive husband Gerald Parker is found dead in the penguin pool of a NYC aquarium after being knocked cold by his wife's boyfriend.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France, Hungary • Language: Hungarian, French
Director
Pál Fejös
Writer
Pál Fejös, Ilona Fülöp
Cast
Annabella, Ilona Dajbukát, Erzsi Bársony
Plot
It tells the story of Mari, an austerely beautiful young peasant girl played by the French star, Annabella. Mari is seduced beneath a flowering tree by the admirer of one of the daughters of the prosperous family for whom she work...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: Czech • Language: Czech, English
Director
Karel Lamac
Writer
Václav Wasserman, Hugo Vavris
Cast
Vlasta Burian, Martin Fric, LÃda Baarová
Plot
Sherlock Holmes must find someone to impersonate King Fernando XXIII of Puerto Rico, but the double he chooses doesn't prove to be as manageable as the great detective could have hoped.
This film is about Chandidas, a legendary 15th-C. Bengali Vaishnavite poet whose biography remains obscure but was an influence on the better documented Chaitanya (1486-1533), a school teacher who promoted the Vaishnavite ideology...
