Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Horror • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Writer
James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose, Merian C. Cooper
Cast
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Plot
A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Musical • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Leo McCarey
Writer
Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman
Cast
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Plot
Rufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side th...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: Spain • Language: French
Director
Luis Buñuel
Writer
Luis Buñuel, Rafael Sánchez Ventura, Pierre Unik
Cast
Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Plot
A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Family • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
William A. Seiter
Writer
Frank Craven, Oliver Hardy, Jack Barty
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase
Plot
When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English, French
Director
Alfred E. Green
Writer
Gene Markey, Kathryn Scola, Darryl F. Zanuck
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook
Plot
A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank by gleefully seducing her way to the top.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Musical • Country: Portugal • Language: Portuguese
Director
José Cottinelli Telmo
Writer
José Cottinelli Telmo, José Galhardo
Cast
Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa, António Silva
Plot
After flunking in medical school, the young and bohemian Vasco need to trick his aunts, the main financers of his studies, preventing them to know that he is not a doctor.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
George Cukor
Writer
Frances Marion, Herman J. Mankiewicz, George S. Kaufman
Cast
Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
Plot
As an aspiring New York socialite prepares for a lavish dinner party, her guests find themselves consumed by a tangle of business, romantic, and personal crises - all of which come to a head on the big night.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, Spanish
Director
Rouben Mamoulian
Writer
H.M. Harwood, Salka Viertel, Margaret P. Levino
Cast
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Plot
Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Max Ophüls
Writer
Curt Alexander, Max Ophüls, Felix Salten
Cast
Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Carl Esmond, Magda Schneider
Plot
Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff howev...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Czech • Language: Czech, German
Director
Gustav Machatý
Writer
Robert Horky, Frantisek Horký, Jacques A. Koerpel
Cast
Hedy Lamarr, Zvonimir Rogoz, Aribert Mog
Plot
Eva has just got married to an older gentleman. She leaves him, and one day, she meets a young man, and they fall in love. Fate brings the husband together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Burt Gillett
Writer
Pinto Colvig, Albert Hunter, Boris V. Morkovin
Cast
Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton
Plot
The Three Little Pigs each build a house of different material. The Big Bad Wolf comes along and blows away the straw and stick homes, but is unable to destroy the house of bricks.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: Russia • Language: Russian, German
Director
Boris Barnet
Writer
Konstantin Finn, Boris Barnet
Cast
Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov
Plot
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, national...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: Germany • Language: German, Italian
Director
Leni Riefenstahl
Writer
Leni Riefenstahl
Cast
Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess
Plot
Der Sieg des Glaubens (English: The Victory of Faith, Victory of Faith, or Victory of the Faith) (1933) is the first propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Her film recounts the Fifth Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which oc...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: na
Director
Yasujirô Ozu
Writer
Tadao Ikeda, Kôgo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu
Cast
Yoshiko Okada, Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka
Plot
Ryoichi and Chikako are brother and sister. They live together. Chikako works during the day in an office and at night she prostitutes herself to fund her brother's studies at the university. Ryoichi doesn't know about his sister'...
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker
Writer
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Cast
na
Plot
Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A chil...
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Franz Wenzler
Writer
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Cast
Emil Lohkamp, Paul Wegener, Heinrich Heilinger
Plot
Student Hans is so appalled by decadent Berlin and the schemes of the Communist Party that he inspires the Nazi cohorts of his fellow storm troopers to actively fight the Communists who in turn conspire to assassinate him.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Mystery • Country: France • Language: French, Latin
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Georges Simenon, Louis Delaprée, Pierre Calmann
Cast
Harry Baur, Valéry Inkijinoff, Gina Manès
Plot
Willy 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Lowell Sherman
Writer
Mae West, Harvey F. Thew, John Bright
Cast
Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore
Plot
In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
S.S. Van Dine, Robert N. Lee, Peter Milne
Cast
William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
Plot
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Musical • Country: Germany • Language: German, English
Director
Reinhold Schünzel
Writer
Reinhold Schünzel
Cast
Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig, Hilde Hildebrand
Plot
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her...
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
William A. Wellman
Writer
Earl Baldwin, Daniel Ahern, Robert Presnell Sr.
Cast
Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Phillips
Plot
In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.
The movie is about Golnar, a young teahouse girl who was kidnapped as a child and taken to Lorestan with a clan of bandits living among the Lors. The leader of the thieves, Gholi Khan, is beginning to look at her with interest now...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Romance • Country: France • Language: French
Director
René Clair
Writer
René Clair
Cast
Annabella, Jorge Rigaud, Raymond Cordy
Plot
Jean is a young cab driver. Anna, a flower-girl neighbour, is in love with him. But he is still thinking to Pola, who just left him. Jean asks her to the bal. Many events (Pola's come back, two villains...) will disturb this arisi...
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel
Writer
E.C. Segar
Cast
William Costello, William Pennell, Bonnie Poe
Plot
Popeye begins his movie career by singing his theme song, demonstrating his strength at a carnival, dancing the hula with Betty Boop, pummeling Bluto, eating his spinach and saving Olive Oyl from certain doom on the railroad tracks.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Humberto Mauro
Writer
Humberto Mauro, Octavio Gabus Mendes
Cast
Durval Bellini, Dea Selva, Lu Marival
Plot
A man kills his wife on their wedding night, after discovering she had been unfaithful. After being acquitted, he moves to the country, where he falls in love with an innocent girl.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Lloyd French
Writer
Charlie Hall, Stan Laurel, Stanley Rauh
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Samuel Adams
Plot
Hired to sweep the chimney at Professor Noodle's house, the boys wreck the living-room and end-up in the mad scientist's laboratory where they interact with a rejuvenation potion.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Stephen Roberts
Writer
Oliver H.P. Garrett, William Faulkner, Maurine Dallas Watkins
Cast
Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue
Plot
A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Lowell Sherman
Writer
Howard J. Green, Zoe Akins
Cast
Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou
Plot
When a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Lloyd Bacon
Writer
Daniel Ahern, Allen Rivkin, P.J. Wolfson
Cast
James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis
Plot
Danny Kean, a former inmate, pursues photography and romance with Patricia, whose father initially disapproves. A ethical dilemma strains their bond until Kean confronts his criminal past.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Charley Rogers, Lloyd French
Writer
Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Charley Rogers
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
Plot
On his wedding day, Oliver and his best man Stanley become absorbed in a jigsaw puzzle. Eventually the taxi driver, the butler, a policeman and a messenger boy all get involved with the puzzle, making them late for the wedding.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, Italian
Director
Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz
Writer
Edward Chodorov, Islin Auster
Cast
James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron
Plot
A political appointee with a checkered past tries to institute constructive changes as the deputy commissioner at a cruel reform school but gets pushback from a sadistic warden and a suspicious judge who doesn't trust his motives.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Russia • Language: Russian, German
Director
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Writer
Nina Agadzhanova, M. Krasnostavsky, Aleksandr Lazebnikov
Cast
Boris Livanov, Vasili Kovrigin, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Plot
A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class stru...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: Netherlands • Language: Dutch
Director
Joris Ivens
Writer
Joris Ivens
Cast
Joris Ivens
Plot
The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people of the Netherlands struggle and succeed in building a breaker, thereby eliminating...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman
Writer
Gene Markey, Kathryn Scola, Donald Henderson Clarke
Cast
Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson
Plot
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Lloyd French
Writer
Royal K. Cole, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard
Plot
Novice policemen Stanley and Oliver, eating lunch in their patrol car, nearly have their spare tire stolen by a thief and his sassy partner. They then miss the broadcast address of a burglary in progress, and Stanley borrows the p...
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, French
Director
Stuart Walker, Mitchell Leisen
Writer
Seton I. Miller, Bogart Rogers, John Monk Saunders
Cast
Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie
Plot
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
David Hand
Writer
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Cast
Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner
Plot
Mickey Mouse operates a steam shovel; Pegleg Pete is his foreman; Minnie Mouse sells box lunches. Mickey must save the day when Pete makes advances to Minnie.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: China • Language: na
Director
Yu Sun
Writer
Yu Sun
Cast
Lingyu Ruan, Congmei Yuan, Li-li Li
Plot
Sister Ye is the master craftswoman in a village of toymakers that is subject to outside attacks. A series of personal tragedies reduces her to a shell of herself, until she breaks and rallies the townsfolk to fight their oppressors.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Germany, Austria • Language: German
Director
Pál Fejös
Writer
Pál Fejös, Adolf Lantz
Cast
Annabella, Gustav Fröhlich, Paul Otto
Plot
Vienna, at the height of the Great Depression. Like so many others, Hans has no work, no money, nowhere to live. Having lost his livelihood as a taxi driver, he decides that the only solution is to kill himself. But just as he is ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: Mexico • Language: Spanish
Director
Fernando de Fuentes
Writer
Miguel Ruiz, Fernando de Fuentes
Cast
Alfredo del Diestro, Luis G. Barreiro, Adela Sequeyro
Plot
El Prisionero 13 (Prisoner 13) is part of the trilogy of films made by Fernando Fuentes concerning the Mexican Revolution. The film centers on the drunkard Colonel Carrasco, whose wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The ch...
Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia, Gianfranco Giachetti
Plot
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the wa...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Robert Z. Leonard
Writer
Frank R. Adams, J. Hartley Manners, Frances Marion
Cast
Marion Davies, Onslow Stevens, J. Farrell MacDonald
Plot
A young woman living in an Irish fishing village inherits her late grandfather's estate, but is forced to spend three years in England training to be a proper lady to collect the fortune.
