A Movies

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

The Princess Comes Across is a movie starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, and Douglass Dumbrille. A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.

Naniwa erejî is a movie starring Isuzu Yamada, Seiichi Takegawa, and Chiyoko Ôkura. A young woman becomes a mistress of her boss in order to support her family.

When a crusader against rackets is murdered, a grand jury battles the rackets by promoting McLaren to be in charge of the cleanup. He fires NYPD Detective Blake, who punches him and joins the racket.

A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally in 1906 San Francisco.

The Last of the Mohicans is a movie starring Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, and Henry Wilcoxon. During the brutal French and Indian War, the legendary scout Hawkeye is prevailed upon to escort Major Duncan Heyward, and the two...

God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.

Swing Time is a movie starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Victor Moore. Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls...

My Man Godfrey is a movie starring William Powell, Carole Lombard, and Alice Brady. A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.

Hitori musuko is a movie starring Chôko Iida, Shin'ichi Himori, and Masao Hayama. A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.

Our Relations is a movie starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, and Alan Hale. Two pairs of long-lost twin brothers experience high jinks involving a valuable ring, cases of mistaken identity, and gangsters.

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.

Gion no shimai is a movie starring Isuzu Yamada, Yôko Umemura, and Benkei Shiganoya. Two geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other...

Rembrandt is a movie starring Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, and Elsa Lanchester. The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.

Wild Bill Hickok attempts to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.

Born to Dance is a movie starring Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, and Virginia Bruce. On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established...

After the Thin Man is a movie starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, and James Stewart. Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when Nora's brother-in-law is...

A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.

A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.

The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.

Black Legion is a movie starring Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, and Dick Foran. A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners...

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney is a movie starring Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, and William Powell. Two English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. O

A wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.

Wings of the Morning is a movie starring Annabella, Henry Fonda, and Leslie Banks. First Technicolor movie shot in the British Isles, features Gypsies, horse racing, singing and romance.

A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.

Way Out West is a movie starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, and Sharon Lynn. Stanley and Ollie are enlisted to deliver the deed to a goldmine in a small village, only for it to be stolen.

Internes Can't Take Money is a movie starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, and Lloyd Nolan. In his first film, young Dr. Kildare helps a female ex-con find her child.

Night Key is a movie starring Boris Karloff, Warren Hull, and Jean Rogers. The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.

A Star Is Born is a movie starring Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, and Adolphe Menjou. A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind...

Night Must Fall is a movie starring Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, and May Whitty. When a rich but cantankerous dowager on an isolated estate hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives.

A ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes, then fall in love.

Make Way for Tomorrow is a movie starring Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, and Fay Bainter. An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.

Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.

A Day at the Races is a movie starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx. A veterinarian posing as a doctor and a race-horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit race-horse.

Another Dawn is a movie starring Kay Francis, Errol Flynn, and Ian Hunter. Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who...

Easy Living is a movie starring Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, and Ray Milland. A wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off the roof of a building; it lands on the head of a stenographer, leading to everyone assuming she...

Topper is a movie starring Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, and Roland Young. A fun-loving couple, finding that they died and are now ghosts, decide to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of a friend of theirs.

A weak, cowardly barber (George Formby)gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.

A general of the old school, who believes strongly in his own honour and sense of duty, must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier, during the Irish War for Independence in 1921.

Ninjô kami fûsen is a movie starring Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan'emon Nakamura, and Tsuruzô Nakamura. The lives of two slum neighbors, one of a happy-go-lucky gambler and the other of a poor ronin, converge when the two get involved...

The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.

The Edge of the World is a movie starring Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, and John Laurie. A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.

A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.

A lounge singer is sent by a count to pose as a wealthy socialite.

A plucky little orphan girl gets dumped abruptly into her gruff, hermit grandfather's care, then later gets retaken and delivered as a companion for an injured girl.

A married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.