Drama Movies

The Scarlet Empress is a movie starring Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, and Sam Jaffe. A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.

Of Human Bondage is a movie starring Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, and Frances Dee. A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

Here Comes the Navy is a movie starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Gloria Stuart. A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.

The Count of Monte Cristo is a movie starring Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, and Louis Calhern. After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to...

British Agent is a movie starring Leslie Howard, Kay Francis, and William Gargan. It's 1917. In Russia, the Communist revolution is in full swing. Stephen 'Steve' Locke is a British agent in Russia. The main task of Steve is to...

The man-hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Mark Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor.

Imitation of Life is a movie starring Claudette Colbert, Warren William, and Rochelle Hudson. A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business,...

A kabuki actor's mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover's son.

A wife neglected by her husband, a medical researcher in China, falls in love with a dashing diplomatic attaché.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is a movie starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Massey. A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

A meek milquetoast of a clerk's mistaken for public enemy N° 1, and the notorious killer takes advantage of the situation

In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well

The story of a struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate whose love furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

The Devil Is a Woman is a movie starring Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, and Edward Everett Horton. A young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.

Sanders of the River is a movie starring Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks, and Nina Mae McKinney. A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the...

The Call of the Wild is a movie starring Clark Gable, Loretta Young, and Jack Oakie. During the Klondike Gold Rush, a traveler purchases a dog to lead the way toward the treasure, but reconsiders his journey when he finds a jilted...

A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.

Anna Karenina is a movie starring Greta Garbo, Fredric March, and Freddie Bartholomew. The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the...

Man is haunted by a murder he's committed.

Dangerous is a movie starring Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, and Margaret Lindsay. An alcoholic actress who is considered a dangerous jinx is rehabilitated, but she then shows that she's as dangerous as ever.

A Tale of Two Cities is a movie starring Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, and Edna May Oliver. A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst...

The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital's only resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once, it results in the death of Dr. Hudson, a selfless, brilliant surgeon

Le crime de Monsieur Lange is a movie starring René Lefèvre, Florelle, and Jules Berry. The boss of a publishing company is a womanizer and a jerk, but what would happen if he suddenly disappeared?

Rose-Marie is a movie starring Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, and Reginald Owen. An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.

A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865.

The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.

A friendly bus driver and his passengers over the duration of one journey through the mountains to the nearest train station.

These Three is a movie starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, and Joel McCrea. Two school teachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.

Things to Come is a movie starring Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, and Ralph Richardson. The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts...

A simple small-town man inherits a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.

When Countess Marya Zaleska appears in London, mysterious events occur leading Dr. Von Helsing to believe the Countess must be a vampire.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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...