The Mad Genius
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with…
Street Scene
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery,…
Under Eighteen
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her…
Girls About Town
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.
The Road to Singapore
A woman’s life falls to pieces when she’s caught cheating on her husband.
Palmy Days
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: “Glorifying the American Doughnut”) with Eddie Cantor as an assistant to a phoney psychic, who is mistaken for an efficiency expert…
The Hot Heiress
Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.
Smart Money
Two brothers’ trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
Arrowsmith
Based on Sinclair Lewis’s novel “Arrowsmith”. A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Party Husband
Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays…
Honor Among Lovers
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
Strangers May Kiss
After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt…
Waterloo Bridge
In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy,…
Chances
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom…
The Cheat
Love, lust, possession, money, social standing, and addiction. Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler; though loved by her husband Jeff, she’s spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile,…
God’s Gift to Women
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
Gentleman’s Fate
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
Five Star Final
An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost.
Local Boy Makes Good
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day,…
Shipmates
A sailor falls in love with the admiral’s daughter but finds they can’t marry because of his lowly rank.
The Seas Beneath
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. “Mystery Ship,” sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that…
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she…
Illicit
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure…
The Squaw Man
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of…
Sit Tight
Winnie Lightner is the head of a health clinic and has Joe E. Brown as one of her employees. Brown is a wrestler named JoJo and he is forced to…
Private Lives
Amanda and Elyot are one another’s former spouse. Elyot remarries to Sibyl, Amanda weds Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive to a hotel on the same day and are put…
Reducing
A woman and her family leave their hick-town to help her sister out in the big-city beauty parlour. There is a bit of a culture shock.
Alexander Hamilton
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Caught Plastered
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.
The Bad Sister
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father’s endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later…
Suicide Fleet
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements
This is a non-narrative film, comprised of shots that “portray a certain young man in the terms of the things that he likes”, such as the flow of the tide…
La Chienne
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, “Lulu”, and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing…
Arizona
A West Point graduate (John Wayne) jilts his girlfriend (Laura La Plante) but runs into her later at an Army outpost.
The Skin Game
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
The Terror of Batignolles
An expressionist comedy greatly influenced by German Expressionism set in a bohemian enclave of northern Paris, which Clouzot made shortly before he served as assistant director to Anatole Litvak and…
The Unknown Singer
A singer who is believed dead returns with a decidedly different appearance. He has been in Russia and has lost his memory. But his wife still loves him.
Dragnet Night
A sailor, who meets a lovely music hall singer during a police raid, falls in love. In a contest at a fair, he defeats a former boxing champ. The ex-champ…
I’ll Be Alone After Midnight
A woman’s marriage is on the rocks ; to avenge herself, she decides to take a lover for one night .So she buys all his stock from a balloon man…
My Cousin From Warsaw
Meine Kusine aus Warschau (My Cousin From Warsaw) was based on a stage play by Louis Verneuil. It’s a romantic farce, with the heroine posing as her own cousin to…