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A Corner in Wheat

A Corner in Wheat was directed by D W Griffith in 1909. It uses intercutting between the poor farmers and the wealthy society people for effect but it ...
A Fool There Was

A silent 1915 drama starring Theda Bara. It popularized the term "vamp" (short for vampire) as a femme fatale. A rich Wall Street lawyer, diplomat, a ...
Aerial Gunner

In the Air Corps there are 2 rivals fighting for their country in World War II. They are also fighting over the same woman. Starring Chester Morris an ...


Alaska Highway

Released in 1943, this movie takes place in the setting of the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. ...
An Arcadian Maid

A 1910 American silent film directed by D.W. Griffith. It stars Mary Pickford as a young poor girl who is lured to sin by an itinerant peddler played ...
Are We Civilized?

1934 drama of man's inhumanity to man, starring William Farnum and Anita Louise, directed by Edwin Carewe, screenplay by Harold Sherman. ...


Asphalt

This 1929 black and white silent film is about an unhappy criminal (played by Betty Amann) who falls in love with a policeman and tries to redeem hers ...
Atlantic Flight

In 1937, actual airplane pilot Dick Merrill become famous for being the first pilot to make a commercial transatlantic roundtrip flight. Momogram Pict ...
Back Door to Heaven

A boy (Jimmy Lydon) goes to reform school, turns criminal (Wallace Ford) and escapes to see his old teacher (Aline MacMahon) at a class reunion. Relea ...


Bad Boy

A 1939 film about a man who bets the races, but loses and takes money from his company to cover his losses. ...
Barefoot Boy

An obnoxious spoiled boy goes to live with a country boy who is very nice, and together they get involved with crooks and a haunted house that has sto ...
Battle of Blood Island

Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other ...


Battleship Potemkin

A 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein that presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Ru ...
Becky Sharp

A 1935 American historical drama directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins, set in 1815. A lower class girl works her way up to the so ...
Behind Office Doors

A 1931 drama film directed by Melville W. Brown, from a screenplay by Carey Wilson and J. Walter Ruben, based on Alan Schultz's novel, Private Secreta ...


Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

A family is trying to compete against a Greek father and his son. In order to try and win they rob them. It leads to both tragedy and at the same time ...
Big Bluff

The Big Bluff is a 1955 American film noir directed by W. Lee Wilder and starring John Bromfield, Martha Vickers and Robert Hutton. ...
Blood And Sand

This is a silent film adapation that's from the 1909 classic novel by Vicente Ibanez. It's about the rise and fall of matador. Released in 1922. ...


Breakfast in Hollywood

This film has a live audience and is based on the old radio series. The stars: Tom Breneman, Bonita Granville and Beulah Bondi. It was released in 194 ...
Broken Blossoms

Also known as The Yellow Man and the Girl, this 1919 silent drama was directed by D.W. Griffith. It stars Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and Donald ...
Club Paradise

A 1945 American film directed by Christy Cabanne, also known as "Sensation Hunters." ...


Concrete Cowboys

Tom Selleck and Jerry Reed are a couple of con-artist cowboys from Montana who end up in Nashville in the adventure of their lives. ...
Corregidor

An American WWII film directed by William Nigh and starring Otto Kruger, Elissa Landi, and Donald Woods. The film is set in December 1941 through May ...
Cyrano

In the year 1640 in France, Cyrna De Bergerac is a poet, but also a swordsman who is very charismatic. His nose is absurd and he is in love with Roxan ...


David and Goliath

The Biblical story of Israelite shepherd David, who became a hero and later king by defeating of Goliath, the champion of the Philistines. This Italia ...
Downhill

A 1927 British silent drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ivor Novello, Robin Irvine, and Isabel Jeans, and based on the play Down Hill ...
Dreams That Money Can Buy

A 1947 experimental color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter. About a man who sells dreams ...


Eisenstein - October

October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927) ...
Friday the Thirteenth

A 1933 British drama directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Muriel Aked. About the lives of several passengers in th ...
Gorilla, The

The three Ritz Brothers are fumbling detectives prowling an old dark house haunted by Bela Lugosi, an insane murderer and a giant gorilla. ...


Great Guy

The Weights and Measures Department is corrupted and Johnny Cave (James Cagney) is the Irish Crusader who decides to fight against them. Released in 1 ...
Guest in the House

Also known as Satan in Skirts, this 1944 American film noir was directed by John Brahm and starred Anne Baxter and Ralph Bellamy. A manipulative woman ...
Gung Ho!

A 1943 WWII film that tells the true story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders. Stars Randolph Scott. Based on the World War II Makin Island raid led by ...


Hearts In Bondage

U.S. Navy Officers Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are both best friends. The Civil War eruption divides the two of them. The film was released in ...
Hearts of Humanity

1933. Stars: Jean Hersholt, Jackie Searl, J. Farrell MacDonald. New York City cop Tom O'Hara learns his wife died at sea on her way to him, and the he ...
Hell on Earth

A 1931 WWI movie, about 5 soldiers from opposing sides of the war, stuck together in a basement that is a no man's land between the trenches and front ...


Hell's House

Stars Bette Davis, Junior Durkin. Directed by Howard Higgin. Set at the end of the Prohibition era, about a boy and his adventures at reform school. R ...
Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill

A 1950 drama directed by Richard L. Bare, starring Clem Bevans, Cecil Kellaway, and David Bruce. An elderly man from Wyoming visits his daughter in a ...
I Love Trouble

A noirish detective yarn. The script is by Roy Huggins. Please be aware that the video quality is poor. ...


In Which We Serve

A very popular 1942 British patriotic WWII film directed by Noël Coward and David Lean, inspired by the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, w ...
Intolerance

A silent 1916 masterpiece directed by D.W.Griffith. It tells four parallel stories over 2,500 years: the ancient Babylonian story (539 BC), the Bibli ...
Iron Angel

A Korean war film released in 1964. Written and directed by Ken Kennedy. Stars: Jim Davis, Don 'Red' Barry, and Margo Woode. ...


King Lear

1953 TV production of King Lear starring Orson Welles. ...
Life at Stake

A 1954 film noir directed by Paul Guilfoyle, starring Angela Lansbury and Keith Andes. ...
Little Lord Fauntleroy

A British fortune ends up belonging to an American boy who is the long lost heir. He gets sent out to live with the lord who is unsentimental and cold ...


Little Men

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer run the Plumfield School for boys who are homeless. Dan is invited to the school by Nat and though he is youn ...
Louisiana Story

An Academy Award nominated fictional movie shot like a documentary. It follows the adventures of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon, who live a som ...
Madame Butterfly (Harakiri)

A silent 1919 film directed by Fritz Lang. Inspired by the Giacomo Puccini's opera. ...


Mambo

Robert Rossen wrote and directed this film. This is about the mambo craze in the 1950's that spread throughout the USA. The film was released in 1955. ...
Meet John Doe

This 1941 movie stars Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward Arnold. A new political movement is starting and a man decides that he needs money in o ...
Minesweeper

A 1943 WWII film directed by William A. Berke, about a former navy deserter who returns to duty under an assumed name as a sailor aboard a minesweeper ...


Of Human Bondage

A 1934 drama starring Bette Davis and directed by John Cromwell. It is widely regarded as the film that made Bette Davis a star. It is about a young m ...
Oliver Twist

A 1933 low-budget adaption of the famous book. It stars Dickie Moore as Oliver, Irving Pichel as Fagin, Doris Lloyd as Nancy, and William "Stage" Boyd ...
Our Town

A New Hampshire town starts to experience changes in the 20th century. Everyone seems to be growing up, getting married then living and dying. Every m ...


Pollyanna

A 1920 American silent sentimental drama/comedy film starring Mary Pickford, directed by Paul Powell, and based upon the Eleanor H. Porter 1913 novel. ...
Pygmalion

Loosely based on the Greek myth "Pygmalion" a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory but his statue was so fair and realistic that he fell i ...
Que Viva Mexico

Sergei Eisenstein shot ¡Que viva México! in Mexico in 1931 at the height of the Great Depression. The courageous financiers of this project were the ...


Rain

A 1932 South Seas drama directed by Lewis Milestone. Starring Joan Crawford and Walter Huston, it was released in 1932. ...
Reign of Terror

Set during the French Revolution, it was released in 1949. Starring Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart and Arlene Dahl. Plotters seek to bring down Max ...
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Paris is being ruled by the Iron Fist of Robespierre and it's burning. Starring: Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart and Margaretta Scott. Released in 19 ...


Road To Happiness

A singer who happens to be down and out ends up turning to acting on the radio and his life changes. The film was released in 1942. ...
Romance of the Limberlost

A 1938 drama directed by William Nigh. Starring Jean Parker and Eric Linden. About an orphaned girl who is raised in servitude bondage, and her only ...
Salome Where She Danced

Set in the 1860s, a Viennese ballerina as known as "Salome" becomes involved in the world of espionage. Released in 1945. ...


Salt Of The Earth

This film is about Mexican-American miners and workers who live in the company town where they don't even have basic plumbing. The miners go on strike ...
Scarlet Street

German Director Fritz Lang made this 1945 film noir and black comedy. The plot revolved around a man in mid-life crisis who befriends a young woman. S ...
Scrooge

About a miser who hates Christmas. Starring: Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. Released in 1935. ...


Shadows of the Orient

A 1936 drama about an immigration agent trying to arrest smugglers flying Chinese people into the USA. ...
Shame

Shame also known as "I Hate Your Guts" "The Intruder" is a 1962 film directed by Roger Corman starring William Shatner as a racist mystery man sent to ...
Son of the Navy

A 1940 American comedy-drama, also known as The Young Recruit. Racing to his battleship the USS Florida, Chief Gunners Mate Mike Malone attempts to hi ...


Song of Freedom

A 1936 British drama. Paul Robeson stars as Zinga, a black dockworker in England with a great baritone singing voice. An opera impresario discovers hi ...
Strange Love of Martha Ivers

This film is a noir melodrama. Starring: Van Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck, Lizabeth Scott, and Kirk Douglas. Released in 1951. ...
Strike

A 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein, depicting a strike in 1903 by the workers of a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia, ...


Sundown

Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans. ...
Symphony of Living

A 1935 American film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Evelyn Brent. A violin prodigy takes violin lessons from a poor old man. ...
That Brennan Girl

A 1946 drama romance directed by Alfred Santell, starring Mona Freeman. It is based on a story by newspaper reporter Adela Rogers St. Johns. On Mot ...


The Big Trees

This 1952 film is a remake of The Valley of the Giants. It stars Kirk Douglas as an unscrupulous timber baron in the year 1900. He tries to get rich f ...
The Big Wheel

The plot focus is on Mickey Rooney's character Bill Coy who follows in his father's footsteps for good and for bad. ...
The Bigamist

A 1953 film noir directed by and starring Ida Lupino. The film's other leads are Edmund O'Brien, Joan Fontaine and Edmund Gwenn. It was written by Col ...


The Birth of a Nation

A 1915 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the novel and play The Clansman (by Thomas Dixon). It is about the relationship over ...
The Blood Of Jesus

A baptist wife gets shot by an atheist accidentally. She dies and ends up at a crossroad and the devil tries to make her go his way. Released in 1941. ...
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

This 1976 film is based upon the true story of Tod Lubitch (played by John Travolta). His immune system was not functioning properly so he must be kep ...


The Great Commandment

A 1939 Christian film directed by Irving Pichel, set in the year A.D. 30, about the conversion to Christianity of a young Zealot, Joel, and the Roman ...
The House I Live In

A 10 minute short film promoting tolerance. Written by Albert Maltz, produced by Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy, and starring Frank Sinatra. Made to oppo ...
The Klansman

Disturbing drama about the Ku Klux Klan and race starring Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, Lola Falana and Linda Evans. Directed by Teren ...


The Last of the Mohicans

This is the adaptation of the novel by James Fenimore Cooper. It's about the American frontier and what it was like during the French and Indian war. ...
The Little Match Girl

A 1928 film from a Hans Christian Andersen's story. On a cold New Year's Eve, a poor girl tries to sell matches in the street and dreams of a fantasy ...
The Little Princess

A silent 1917 film is about little Sara Crewe who ends up being put in a boarding school. Her father must go to war and thinks he's doing the best for ...


The Long Shot

A 1939 horse racing film directed by Charles Lamont, starring Gordon Jones, Marsha Hunt, C. Henry Gordon, Harry Davenport, and George E. Stone. A hors ...
The North Star

A village in the Ukraine has to deal with what happens after a Nazi invasion on June 1941. Released in 1943. ...
The Secret of Doctor Kildare

A 1939 American drama starring Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, and Lionel Atwill. This was the fourth of ten Dr. Kildare pictures. Dr. Gillespie's has ca ...


The Skin Game

A modern family and an old traditional family battle between each other over a small English village and its land. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Relea ...
The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Harry Street is a writer that is dying from an infection that is not curable. He is on a safari in Africa and he knows he is dying and starts talking ...
The Southerner

The Tucker family are very poor cotton pickers and they to start their own farm, but nature is not working with them. A classic tale directed by Jean ...


The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

A woman who is domineering and ruthless marries a D.A. who is an alcoholic. One of her childhood companions witnessed her aunt being murdered and is t ...
The Strange Woman

A 1946 film noir drama thriller film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, and Louis Hayward. Set in Maine in the 1820s ...
The Time of Your Life

A 1948 comedy drama starring James Cagney, about the patrons at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. It is adapted from a 1939 William Saroyan play, and was ...


The Toll of the Sea

A 1922 drama starring Anna May Wong, filmed in Technicolor. A Chinese girl named Lotus Flower falls in love with an American. The story is similar to ...
The Way Ahead

A 1944 British WWII drama starring David Niven and Stanley Holloway, about a group of civilians join the British Army to fight in North Africa. They s ...
The Way to the Stars

Life in and around a British bomber base from 1940 to late 1942. Excellent cast. Solid direction. Good production. This isn't a traditional war action ...


The Wild Women of Wongo

A tribe of beautiful women located on the tropical island of Wongo discover that on the other side of the island there is a tribe of handsome men. Wha ...
The World Gone Mad

The World Gone Mad is a 1933 drama/horror film which pits the district attorney's office against crooks defrauding a corporation from within, unbeknow ...
The Young Lovers

A 1949 drama film directed and co-written by Ida Lupino, and produced by Lupino and Collier Young. Also known as Never Fear, it is about beautiful you ...


They Raid By Night

Bob Owen gets sent to Norway by the British Commandos to prepare for a raid. He must also free General Heden that the Nazis are holding. Starring: Ly ...
Three Broadway Girls

Three women try to land rich husbands, but they spend as much time fighting with each other as they do the men they try to snare. This 1932 movie sta ...
Three Came Home

A 1950 film based on the memoirs of writer Agnes Newton Keith, about her life in North Borneo right before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her sub ...


Wildcat

A 1942 American drama about rival oil drillers. Directed by Frank McDonald, it stars Richard Arlen, Arline Judge, William Frawley, Buster Crabbe, Arth ...
Windjammer

This is the fourth and the last of the George A. Hirliman films. There are a total of 18 westerns in this series. Starring George O'Brien and Constanc ...


Woman In Brown

Also known as The Vicious Circle, this 1948 courtroom drama was directed by W. Lee Wilder and based on the play The Burning Bush by Heinz Herald and G ...