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After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares…

A documentary on the life of the people of the Aran Islands, who were believed to contain the essence of the ancient Irish life, represented by a pure uncorrupted peasant…

Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the…

A domineering money-bags’ suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret…

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to an island with…

Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L’Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine,…

Four “Picture Brides”, from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines….

A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.

Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.

Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.

The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn’t even know he exists.

A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she’s preoccupied with appearing in their small town’s community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the…

A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can’t accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating…

Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob….

When a radio star is found murdered in her home, everyone assumes that the mysterious young woman discovered with her is the culprit — everyone, that is, but newspaper reporter…

Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she reappears on the stage as young…

A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was caused by her puritanical,…

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of…

Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip…

Using an atomic reactor, two scientists try to create gold.

Johann Strauss Jr. is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery, where he falls in love with Resi, the baker’s daughter. The girl gets…

Popeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she’s gone off with the title character. Popeye goes to the circus (ringmaster Wimpy) looking for her, to find she’s part of…

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.

Jury foreman Edward Weldon’s questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to…

MGM’s all-star feature Dinner at Eight is parodied in this comic short, in which a cast of unidentified look-alike actors impersonate Lionel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, ‘Jean Harlow’ , et al.

Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.

The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen…

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

Ted Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry’s gang only to learn later that Gentry was the one who killed his father.

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of…

Her father dies… her fiance dumps her… and she can’t find a job… so she covers the waterfront. And then one night…

Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main “hostess” in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

As in the classic fable, the grasshopper plays his fiddle and lives for the moment, while the industrious ants squirrel away massive amounts of food for the winter. With his…