Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
John Huston
Writer
John Huston, Dashiell Hammett
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Plot
San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Family • Country: USA • Language: English, Welsh
Director
John Ford
Writer
Philip Dunne, Richard Llewellyn
Cast
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee
Plot
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, French
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch
Cast
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie
Plot
A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe
Cast
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka
Plot
A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
John Huston, W.R. Burnett
Cast
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
Plot
After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Frank Capra
Writer
Richard Connell, Robert Presnell Sr., Robert Riskin
Cast
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
Plot
A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
The legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Fantasy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
William Dieterle
Writer
Dan Totheroh, Stephen Vincent Benet
Cast
Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell
Plot
A struggling farmer in 1840 New Hampshire makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from the consequences of his contract.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Yasujirô Ozu
Writer
Tadao Ikeda, Yasujirô Ozu
Cast
Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino
Plot
When the patriarch of the Toda family suddenly dies, his widow discovers that he has left her with nothing but debt and married children who are unwilling to support her--except for her most thoughtful son, just returned from China.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Thriller • Country: UK • Language: English, French
Director
Michael Powell
Writer
Emeric Pressburger, Rodney Ackland
Cast
Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Richard George
Plot
A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: Portugal • Language: Portuguese
Director
António Lopes Ribeiro
Writer
António Lopes Ribeiro, Francisco Ribeiro, Vasco Santana
Cast
Vasco Santana, Francisco Ribeiro, Leonor Maia
Plot
Francisco, salesman in a shoe store, is totally in love with Tatão, which sells perfume in the same street. But he is an amateur theater actor, as she hates theater and is a fan of cinema. Will this unlikely love endure?
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Mystery • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
W.S. Van Dyke
Writer
Irving Brecher, Harry Kurnitz, Dashiell Hammett
Cast
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
Plot
A jockey has been shot dead at the race track. Famous detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora happen to be on the scene and Lt. Abrahams asks for Nick's expert help.
Category: Movie • Genre: War, Western • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
Wally Kline, Æneas MacKenzie, Lenore J. Coffee
Cast
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy
Plot
A highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Robert Rossen, Jack London
Cast
Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield
Plot
After being fished out of the sea by a sailing ship, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore, and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, German
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Geoffrey Household, Dudley Nichols, Lamar Trotti
Cast
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders
Plot
In July 1939, British hunter Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: India • Language: Tamil
Director
A.T. Krishnaswamy, A.V. Meiyappan
Writer
na
Cast
Ramachandran T.R., Kali N. Rathnam, R. Padma
Plot
The story of a rich, happy-go-lucky young man, and his bungling, yet loyal man-servant. The young man get married to a well-to-do woman who is more educated than him, and she changes him to a more responsible person.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: USA • Language: English, French
Director
Alexander Korda
Writer
Walter Reisch, R.C. Sherriff
Cast
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray
Plot
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson, and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
Julius J. Epstein, James Hagan
Cast
James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
Plot
Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Jack Conway
Writer
William Ludwig, Charles Lederer, David Hertz
Cast
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick
Plot
A wife suspecting infidelity starts divorce proceedings, so the husband pretends to be insane in order to delay the divorce and clear up the misunderstanding.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Christian-Jaque
Writer
Charles Spaak, Pierre Véry
Cast
Harry Baur, Renée Faure, Marie-Hélène Dasté
Plot
The story concerns an old globe-maker who is mysteriously killed while going through the town portraying Pere Noel ("Father Christmas" aka Santa Claus).
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
H.C. Potter
Writer
Nat Perrin, Warren Wilson, Alex Gottlieb
Cast
Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye
Plot
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Musical • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Arthur Lubin
Writer
Arthur T. Horman, John Grant
Cast
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lee Bowman
Plot
Two sidewalk salesman enlist in the army in order to avoid jail, only to find that their drill instructor is the police officer who tried having them imprisoned.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Alfred L. Werker, Hamilton Luske, Jack Cutting
Writer
Kenneth Grahame, Ted Sears, Al Perkins
Cast
Robert Benchley, Frances Gifford, Buddy Pepper
Plot
Humorist Robert Benchley learns about the animation process at Walt Disney Studios while trying to find the great man himself to pitch him the idea of making a cartoon about a shy dragon.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: India • Language: Urdu
Director
Sohrab Modi
Writer
Sudarshan
Cast
Sohrab Modi, Prithviraj Kapoor, Vanamala
Plot
The story is set in 326 B.C. The film begins after Alexander the Great (Sikander in Hindi/Urdu) conquers Persia and the Kabul valley and approaches the Indian border at Jhelum. He respects Aristotle and loves Persian Rukhsana (kno...
Category: Movie • Genre: History, Western • Country: USA • Language: English, Sioux
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Zane Grey, Robert Carson, Jack Andrews
Cast
Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger
Plot
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite east with west, he hires a reformed Western outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
Miguel M. Delgado, José F. Elizondo, Jaime Salvador
Cast
Cantinflas, Mapy Cortés, Daniel 'Chino' Herrera
Plot
Cantinflas captures a gang who had robbed a bank the night before. Considered a hero, becomes a member of the force for special missions because of his ability to disguise himself in many different forms.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Maurice Tourneur, Jacques de Baroncelli
Writer
Ben Jonson, Jules Romains, Stefan Zweig
Cast
Harry Baur, Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin
Plot
Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Sidney Lanfield
Writer
Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano, Jean Arbuleau
Cast
Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley
Plot
In order to cover up his philandering ways, a married Broadway producer sets one of his dancers up on a date with a chorus girl for whom he had bought a gift, but the two dancers fall in love for real.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Robert Clampett
Writer
Dave Monahan
Cast
Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Plot
Elmer Fudd expects to find "west and wewaxation" during his visit to Jellostone National Park, but he sets up camp in Bugs' backyard, and the rabbit (and a neighboring bear) definitely don't have leisure in mind.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Arthur Lubin
Writer
Arthur T. Horman, John Grant
Cast
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Powell
Plot
Russ Raymond, America's number one crooner, disappears and joins the Navy under the name Tommy Halstead. Dorothy Roberts, a magazine journalist, is intent on finding out what happened to Russ and she tries everything she can to ge...
Okoma, a young lady working as a conductor with a bus company in Kofu Yamanashi, has an idea for her bus that could avert the dwindling number of passengers.
Zuzanka (Natasa Gollová) can finally stop toiling away at washing dishes at hotel Mercur after a distant aunt has bequeathed her her own hotel - Blue Star. She proudly marches over to the luxury hotel in the center of town and imm...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, French
Director
Josef von Sternberg
Writer
Josef von Sternberg, Geza Herczeg, Jules Furthman
Cast
Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature
Plot
In Shanghai, dragon lady 'Mother' Gin Sling operates a gambling house for wealthy patrons but she clashes with influential land developer Sir Guy Charteris who wants to put her out of business.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel
Writer
Vereen Bell, Dudley Nichols
Cast
Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter
Plot
Attempting to find his lost dog in a vast Georgia swamp, Ben Ragan stumbles upon wanted murderer Tom Keefer who convinces Ben he was framed for the murder by the real killer.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts
Writer
Leo Thiele, Ralph Wright
Cast
John McLeish, Hannes Schroll
Plot
After figuring out how to get dressed, Goofy hits the slopes to demonstrate the art of skiing. Through a series of gags and misadventures, Goofy demonstrates turns, skiing backwards and even the ski jump.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English, Norwegian
Director
H. Bruce Humberstone
Writer
Robert Ellis, Helen Logan, Art Arthur
Cast
Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller
Plot
After Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort, its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. Later, soloist Vivian Dawn quits and Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Mervyn LeRoy
Writer
Anita Loos, Ralph Wheelwright, Hugo Butler
Cast
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart
Plot
After losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.
Category: Movie • Genre: Mystery, Thriller • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Georges Lacombe
Writer
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Stanislas-André Steeman
Cast
Pierre Fresnay, Michèle Alfa, Suzy Delair
Plot
Six friends promise to share their fortune in 5 years. The moment is very close, but one of the six is mysteriously murdered, then another... Superintendent Wenceslas Woroboyioetschik (aka Wens) is in charge of the investigation...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Anatole Litvak
Writer
Robert Rossen, Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay
Cast
Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell
Plot
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Jack King
Writer
Carl Barks, Jack Hannah
Cast
Clarence Nash, Sarah Selby
Plot
Donald is listening to a radio cooking program while mixing up a batch of waffles. But he's distracted and uses rubber cement instead of baking powder.
Gamer, a clerk in a huge farm run by corrupt staff is fired because of his honesty. Going to Cairo to find a job, Gaber's money is stolen by a thief, and he gets involved in a gang which searches for stolen pearl necklace taken by...
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
John English, William Witney
Writer
Ronald Davidson, Norman S. Hall, Arch Heath
Cast
Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William 'Billy' Benedict
Plot
To protect a magic talisman from being used for evil, a teenage boy named Billy Batson is given the power to become an adult superhero, Captain Marvel, with a single magic word: "Shazam!"
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Family • Country: Norway • Language: Norwegian
Director
Toralf Sandø
Writer
Toralf Sandø
Cast
Leif Juster, Ernst Diesen, Joachim Holst-Jensen
Plot
The detectives Gløgg and Rask is put on the task of finding out what has happened to the lost sausage maker H. Brand. They find him after a lot of trouble.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Frank Wead, Robert Buckner
Cast
Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy
Plot
A military surgeon teams with a ranking Navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: UK • Language: English
Director
Gabriel Pascal, Harold French
Writer
George Bernard Shaw, Marjorie Deans, Anatole de Grunwald
Cast
Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley
Plot
A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary.
Rudolf Barrtos, the owner of a farm, quarry and factory, is extremely rich, however, he is unapproachable and irritable, and the dread of his employees. One day he falls down a steep slope by a river and hurts himself. The quarrym...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Mystery • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Albert S. Rogell
Writer
Robert Lees, Frederic I. Rinaldo, Eric Taylor
Cast
Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford
Plot
Elderly Henrietta Winslow lives in an isolated mansion with her housekeeper and beloved cats. As her health fails, her greedy relatives gather in anticipation of her death.
