Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Writer
Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller, Rowland Leigh
Cast
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Plot
When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
Cast
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
Plot
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Émile Zola, Jean Renoir, Denise Leblond
Cast
Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon
Plot
In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, Russian
Director
Frank Capra
Writer
Robert Riskin, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
Cast
Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore
Plot
The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Marcel Carné
Writer
Eugène Dabit, Henri Jeanson, Jean Aurenche
Cast
Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet
Plot
On 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 ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Marcel Pagnol
Writer
Jean Giono, Marcel Pagnol
Cast
Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Charpin
Plot
A small village rejoices at the arrival of a new baker. But when his young wife runs off with another man, he is unable to keep baking and the village is thrown into disarray.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, Hebrew
Director
Norman Taurog
Writer
John Meehan, Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull
Plot
When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: France • Language: French, German
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Jean Renoir, Carl Koch, Noelle Gillmor
Cast
Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet
Plot
A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Mystery • Country: France • Language: French, English
Director
Christian-Jaque
Writer
Jean-Henri Blanchon, Victor Hugo, Jacques Prévert
Cast
Erich von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Armand Bernard
Plot
Strange things happen at night at the St. Agil secondary school. Baume, Sorgue and Macroix - three of the school's pupils - discover a suspicious man on the premises. Shortly after this unsettling event, pupils begin to go missing.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Family • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
John G. Blystone
Writer
Charley Rogers, Felix Adler, James Parrott
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis
Plot
Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Marcel Pagnol
Writer
Marcel Pagnol
Cast
Fernandel, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin
Plot
Meeting a movie team on location near his house, a young man gets a lot of encouragement for his dreaming career as a movie star in what was only sarcasm from the members of the team. This is the characteristic of a schpountz: som...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Horror • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Abel Gance, Steve Passeur
Cast
Victor Francen, Line Noro, Sylvie Gance
Plot
A traumatized World War I veteran builds a machine to prevent war. When the government subverts his machine and a second world war seems increasingly inevitable, in desperation the inventor summons the ghosts of the war dead to pr...
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Dick Rickard
Writer
Robert Lawson, Munro Leaf, Vernon Stallings
Cast
Don Wilson, Walt Disney, Milt Kahl
Plot
Ferdinand is a quiet, gentle bull who only wants to stop and smell the flowers. After he is stung by a bee, the townspeople believe he is ferocious and take him to the bullfight.
Theodor Pistek, Frantisek SmolÃk, Frantisek Kreuzmann
Plot
A most gifted pupil sharply criticizes the school in a homework essay, and the language teacher is convinced he is the author of a school magazine and expels him. The teachers vote to expel hi, but then they win a contest..
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Musical • Country: Russia • Language: Russian
Director
Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Writer
Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Nikolay Erdman, Vladimir Nilsen
Cast
Igor Ilyinsky, Vladimir Volodin, Pavel Olenev
Plot
Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow...
Govindrajulu Subba Rao, Kanchanamala, Suri Babu P.
Plot
The son of a priest falls in love with a Harijan girl and elopes with her. The film was a social drama that deals with untouchability prevalent in pre-independent India.
Václav Wasserman, Rudolph Bernauer, Rudolf Österreicher
Cast
Vlasta Burian, Ladislav Hemmer, Adina Mandlová
Plot
Duchacek is the employee in the law company. As a faithful employee he is working hard to help his boss. And when it seems almost impossible to collect enough money in time, you should give this task to Duchacek.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Norman Z. McLeod
Writer
Eddie Moran, Jack Jevne, E.J. Rath
Cast
Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray
Plot
Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of her...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Robert Siodmak
Writer
Oscar Paul Gilbert, Charles Spaak
Cast
Harry Baur, Albert Préjean, Gabrielle Dorziat
Plot
Justin Mollenard is a sailor and arms smuggler who does not support the hypocrisy of society. He has a wife in Dunkirk who reproaches him the fact of having neglected the family for many years.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Mystery • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Leigh Jason
Writer
Julius J. Epstein, Wilson Collison, Fred F. Finklehoffe
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene
Plot
After the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Norman Taurog
Writer
Mark Twain, John V.A. Weaver, Marshall Neilan
Cast
Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis
Plot
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Romance • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Sacha Guitry
Writer
Sacha Guitry
Cast
Sacha Guitry, Gaby Morlay, Jacqueline Delubac
Plot
The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporte...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Busby Berkeley
Writer
Sig Herzig, Bertram Millhauser, Beulah Marie Dix
Cast
John Garfield, Claude Rains, The Dead End Kids
Plot
A champion boxer on the lamb, believed to have committed murder while drunk, takes refuge and finds redemption at an Arizona farm for delinquent youths.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Richard Wallace, Lewis Milestone, Gilbert Pratt
Writer
Paul Osborn, I.A.R. Wylie, Charles Bennett
Cast
Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Roland Young
Plot
Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Allan Dwan
Writer
Karl Tunberg, Don Ettlinger, Kate Douglas Wiggin
Cast
Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley
Plot
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly sets it up for her to become a radio broadcaster.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Film-Noir • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Virginia Van Upp, Norman Krasna, Jack Moffitt
Cast
Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane
Plot
An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Musical • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
John G. Blystone, Hal Roach
Writer
Jean Negulesco, Charley Rogers, James Parrott
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Grete Natzler
Plot
Laurel and Hardy, rat trap salesmen who are unable to do business in Switzerland, having no money to pay for lunch end up working for the hotel where a composer, who has run away from his wife, has taken refuge.
Category: Movie • Genre: Romance, Thriller • Country: Finland • Language: Finnish, Swedish
Director
Nyrki Tapiovaara
Writer
Erik Blomberg, Matti Kurjensaari, Eino Mäkinen
Cast
Tuulikki Paananen, Ilmari Mänty, Santeri Karilo
Plot
A thriller set in turn-of-the-century Helsinki, Stolen Death uses elements of German expressionism to tell the story of Finnish resistance fighters smuggling arms to overthrow the Tsarist occupiers of Finland. Tapiovaara stresses ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: Russia • Language: Russian
Director
Isidor Annensky
Writer
Isidor Annensky, Anton Chekhov
Cast
Olga Androvskaya, Mikhail Zharov, Ivan Pelttser
Plot
The young widow refuses to pay the husband's debt to the landowner neighbor Smirnov. Smirnov in a rage causes her to a duel and then falls in love with her.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
H.C. Potter
Writer
Waldo Salt, Dana Burnet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon
Plot
Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Mystery • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
H. Bruce Humberstone
Writer
Charles Belden, Earl Derr Biggers, Chandler Sprague
Cast
Sidney Toler, Phyllis Brooks, Victor Sen Yung
Plot
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Luis Trenker
Writer
Carl Haensel, Richard Billinger, Hanns Saßmann
Cast
Luis Trenker, Herbert Dirmoser, Heidemarie Hatheyer
Plot
The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer Whymper. But due to an intrigue this agree...
Category: Movie • Genre: Family, Fantasy • Country: Russia • Language: Russian
Director
Aleksandr Rou
Writer
Vsevolod Kochetov, Oleg Leonidov, Ye. Tarakhova
Cast
Pyotr Savin, Mariya Kravchunovskaya, Georgiy Millyar
Plot
Adapted from four different Russian folk-tales, this early Soviet fantasy film tells the story of Emelya the Fool, who, fishing one day, catches a talking pike who pleads for his life and in return grants Emelya wishes for a life ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Max Ophüls
Writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hans Wilhelm, Fernand Crommelynck
Cast
Pierre Richard-Willm, Annie Vernay, Jean Galland
Plot
Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte. But as Werther sets to propose marriage, Charlott...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: UK • Language: English
Director
Tim Whelan
Writer
Clemence Dane, Charles Laughton, Bartlett Cormack
Cast
Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison
Plot
Pickpocket Libby gets support from street performer Charles, and her dancing leads to her invitation to theater patron Harley's party which in turn launches Libby's stage career while Charles keeps on struggling in the streets.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Jack King
Writer
Tom Armstrong, Carl Barks, Jack Hannah
Cast
Clarence Nash
Plot
Donald's sister Dumbella sends her three sons Huey, Dewey, and Louie to visit their uncle Donald. They prove to be quite a handful for Donald, even with help from his book on child rearing.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Western • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Clarence Brown
Writer
Bradbury Foote, Honore Morrow, Conrad Richter
Cast
Walter Huston, James Stewart, Gene Reynolds
Plot
Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
E.W. Emo
Writer
Per Schwenzen, E.W. Emo, Ilya Ilf
Cast
Heinz Rühmann, Hans Moser, Inge List
Plot
Rabe travels to Vienna in hope of a great inheritance from his aunt. But there are only 13 chairs waiting for him, which he sells. Then he finds a letter from the aunt announcing that she has hidden her money in one of the chairs.
Two neighbours with similar names, Pawel and Gawel, meet a violinist girl Violetta who pretends to be a child. When Pawel learns she's not a child anymore, he falls in love with her. And vice versa.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Jack King
Writer
Carl Barks, Jack Hannah, Ted Osborne
Cast
Clarence Nash
Plot
Donald is golfing, and his nephews are along to "help." Between their noise and their practical jokes, Donald isn't having a lot of fun or success with his game.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Matsutarô Kawaguchi, Mikio Naruse
Cast
Kazuo Hasegawa, Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara
Plot
Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer assisted by Ms. Tsuruhachi on the shamisen. The pair is popular, but he nitpicks often on her music and so they split. She marries a benefactor, but after a joint show, feels music is above ...
