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Can’t Help Singing

Can’t Help Singing

Can’t Help Singing
IMDb: 6.2
90

With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost’s singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can’t stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows…

Genre: Western
Marco the Magnificent

Marco the Magnificent

Marco the Magnificent
IMDb: 5.3
112

Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.

Genre: Adventure
Fiesta

Fiesta

Fiesta
IMDb: 5.9
104

When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know
IMDb: 6.5
70

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase,…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown
IMDb: 6.2
57

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city’s Chinatown.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Romanoff and Juliet

Romanoff and Juliet

Romanoff and Juliet
IMDb: 6.3
103

Political satire has Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling in love.

Genre: Comedy
The Blue Panther

The Blue Panther

The Blue Panther
IMDb: 5.4
110

Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin’s place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger – apparently a fugitive from someone aboard – entrusts her with a jewel in…

The Great Bank Robbery

The Great Bank Robbery

The Great Bank Robbery
IMDb: 5.6
98

A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880’s Texas.

Genre: Comedy, Western
Dragon Seed

Dragon Seed

Dragon Seed
IMDb: 6
145

The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese…

Genre: Drama
The Gay Deception

The Gay Deception

The Gay Deception
IMDb: 6.8
77

Mirabel wins a $5,000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Clear All Wires!

Clear All Wires!

Clear All Wires!
IMDb: 5.9
78

Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being…

Desert Legion

Desert Legion

Desert Legion
IMDb: 5.6
86

A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.

Genre: Adventure
The Gangster

The Gangster

The Gangster
IMDb: 6.6
84

Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
High, Wide and Handsome

High, Wide and Handsome

High, Wide and Handsome
IMDb: 6.5
110

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they…

Genre: Music, Western
Go Into Your Dance

Go Into Your Dance

Go Into Your Dance
IMDb: 6.2
89

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.

Genre: Drama, Music
Sadie McKee

Sadie McKee

Sadie McKee
IMDb: 6.7
93

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Alphaville

Alphaville

Alphaville
IMDb: 7.1
100

An American private-eye arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.

North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police
IMDb: 6.5
126

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (“Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?”, another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder….

The Trial

The Trial

The Trial
IMDb: 7.8
118

An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Arkadin
IMDb: 7.2
99

Claiming that he doesn’t know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can’t remember anything before the…

The Liquidator

The Liquidator

The Liquidator
IMDb: 5.9
105

Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was himself. This leads to…

Lord Jim

Lord Jim

Lord Jim
IMDb: 6.8
154

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman (Peter O’Toole) lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Based on Joseph Conrad’s novel written in 1900.

Genre: Adventure
Marquis de Sade: Justine

Marquis de Sade: Justine

Marquis de Sade: Justine
IMDb: 5.2
124

Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who will claim not…

Genre: Drama, Horror
Topkapi

Topkapi

Topkapi
IMDb: 7
119

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger…

Ocean’s Eleven

Ocean’s Eleven

Ocean’s Eleven
IMDb: 6.6
127

Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.

Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil
IMDb: 8
111

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep
IMDb: 6.1
82

In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey…

Anastasia

Anastasia

Anastasia
IMDb: 7.1
105

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While…

Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat
IMDb: 6.2
105

Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo
IMDb: 7.3
96

The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He is helped by the hotel’s…

Genre: Thriller, War
For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls
IMDb: 6.9
170

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on…

A Scandal in Paris

A Scandal in Paris

A Scandal in Paris
IMDb: 6.7
100

A smooth-talking French thief (George Sanders) wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
The Buccaneer

The Buccaneer

The Buccaneer
IMDb: 6.7
126

French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

Now and Forever

Now and Forever

Now and Forever
IMDb: 6.5
81

Young freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can’t accept responsibility but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life….

Genre: Drama, Romance
Hotel Paradiso

Hotel Paradiso

Hotel Paradiso
IMDb: 6.2
98

Monsieur Feydeau has writer’s block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris – Monsieur Boniface with a domineering…

Genre: Comedy
Naughty Marietta

Naughty Marietta

Naughty Marietta
IMDb: 6.7
105

A French princess in Colonial America gets involved with a mercenary.

Genre: Drama, Music
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
IMDb: 6.8
113

While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In…

Genre: War
Here Is My Heart

Here Is My Heart

Here Is My Heart
IMDb: 6.9
77

A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.

Genre: Comedy, Music
They Who Dare

They Who Dare

They Who Dare
IMDb: 5.6
107

In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied…

Genre: War
The Jungle Princess

The Jungle Princess

The Jungle Princess
IMDb: 6.6
85

Christopher Powell is in Malaysia with his fiancĂ©e and her father, capturing wild animals. While out hunting, he is attacked by a tiger, and his native guides run away, leaving…