Drama Movies
Stand Up and Fight (1939)

Stand Up and Fight (1939)

Stand Up and Fight (1939)
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97

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

Lying Lips (1939)

Lying Lips (1939)

Lying Lips (1939)
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68

A nightclub singer refuses to “date” customers, so she’s framed for the murder of her aunt.

Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery
Kentucky (1938)

Kentucky (1938)

Kentucky (1938)
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96

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Dawn Patrol (1938)

The Dawn Patrol (1938)

The Dawn Patrol (1938)
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103

In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled “crates” and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
La Bête Humaine (1938)

La Bête Humaine (1938)

La Bête Humaine (1938)
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98

Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.

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Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Alexander Nevsky (1938)
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109

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
The Shining Hour (1938)

The Shining Hour (1938)

The Shining Hour (1938)
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76

A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Suez (1938)

Suez (1938)

Suez (1938)
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104

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it’s just the place for a canal.

Listen Darling (1938)

Listen Darling (1938)

Listen Darling (1938)
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75

To stop Pinkie’s widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn’t love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family…

Young Dr. Kildare (1938)

Young Dr. Kildare (1938)

Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
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82

A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital’s top…

Genre: Drama
The Lady Objects (1938)

The Lady Objects (1938)

The Lady Objects (1938)
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66

A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Career (1938)

Career (1938)

Career (1938)
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106

One day, a theater company to Iron Creek. In the city’s steel mills meet the young actress Monika young Erik. The love between them is from the very clear but…

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Genre: Drama
Sirocco (1938)

Sirocco (1938)

Sirocco (1938)
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100

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Crashing Through Danger (1938)

Crashing Through Danger (1938)

Crashing Through Danger (1938)
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61

Three electrical linemen work through the hazardous conditions of the Depression Era. Sparks fly, and things become truly dangerous, when Ann comes between this band of brothers. Things get worse,…

Genre: Drama
Boys Town (1938)

Boys Town (1938)

Boys Town (1938)
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96

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded…

Genre: Drama
Sing You Sinners (1938)

Sing You Sinners (1938)

Sing You Sinners (1938)
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88

Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only…

Marie Antoinette (1938)

Marie Antoinette (1938)

Marie Antoinette (1938)
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149

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in…

Genre: Drama, History
I Am the Law (1938)

I Am the Law (1938)

I Am the Law (1938)
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83

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Four Daughters (1938)

Four Daughters (1938)

Four Daughters (1938)
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90

Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Smashing the Rackets (1938)

Smashing the Rackets (1938)

Smashing the Rackets (1938)
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69

Jim ‘Socker’ Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney’s office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
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87

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Shopworn Angel (1938)

The Shopworn Angel (1938)

The Shopworn Angel (1938)
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85

During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car nearly runs him…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)

The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)

The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)
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66

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and…

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Genre: Drama
Woman Against Woman (1938)

Woman Against Woman (1938)

Woman Against Woman (1938)
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61

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband’s scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Blockade (1938)

Blockade (1938)

Blockade (1938)
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85

A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose…

Genre: Drama, War
Men Are Such Fools (1938)

Men Are Such Fools (1938)

Men Are Such Fools (1938)
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69

Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tell Your Children (1938)

Tell Your Children (1938)

Tell Your Children (1938)
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66

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane,…

Genre: Drama
The Toy Wife (1938)

The Toy Wife (1938)

The Toy Wife (1938)
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96

A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.

Genre: Drama
Three Comrades (1938)

Three Comrades (1938)

Three Comrades (1938)
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98

A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)

Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)

Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)
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106

Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band’s singer,…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Yellow Jack (1938)

Yellow Jack (1938)

Yellow Jack (1938)
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83

A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed’s search for the cause of “Yellow Jack” or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.

Port of Shadows (1938)

Port of Shadows (1938)

Port of Shadows (1938)
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93

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Crime School (1938)

Crime School (1938)

Crime School (1938)
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85

In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Strange Monsieur Victor (1938)

The Strange Monsieur Victor (1938)

The Strange Monsieur Victor (1938)
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103

Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However,…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Swing! (1938)

Swing! (1938)

Swing! (1938)
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69

Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.

Genre: Drama
Sex Madness (1938)

Sex Madness (1938)

Sex Madness (1938)
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59

A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of…

Genre: Drama, Horror
In Old Chicago (1938)

In Old Chicago (1938)

In Old Chicago (1938)
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111

The O’Leary brothers — honest Jack and roguish Dion — become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

Genre: Drama, History
Boys’ School (1938)

Boys’ School (1938)

Boys’ School (1938)
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98

In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective – going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees a man coming…

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Over the Wall (1938)

Over the Wall (1938)

Over the Wall (1938)
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67

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Unashamed: A Romance (1938)

Unashamed: A Romance (1938)

Unashamed: A Romance (1938)
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67

A woman who is in love with her boss entices him to join her at a nudist camp, but his affection soon turns elsewhere.

Genre: Drama, Romance