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Director: Max Ophüls
Stars: Edwige Feuillère, George Rigaud, Daniel Lecourtois
Genre: Drama
Country: France

After an unhappy marriage, a woman of the world is forced to become a dancer in a cabaret in order to raise her young son.

Director: Gregory Ratoff
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard, Edna Best
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter’s talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife’s affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver.

Director: Garson Kanin
Stars: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

When a tycoon is accused of murder, the private eye tracking him finds himself roped in as an accessory and attempts to evade police, kidnapping a poetess along the way.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

An explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, after one of them steals their adoptive family’s famous heirloom sapphire.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she’ll meet her final days with dignity.

Director: Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin
Stars: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two itinerant migrant workers, one mentally disabled and the other his carer, take jobs as ranch hands during the Great Depression to fulfill their shared dream of owning their own ranch.

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA

When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Maureen O’Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton
Genre: Adventure, Crime
Country: UK

In early 19th century Cornwall, a young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are landlords of the Jamaica Inn. Mary soon realises her uncle’s inn serves as the base for a gang of ship wreckers – who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast, and Mary begins to fear for her life.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: USA

In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.

Director: Abel Gance
Stars: Victor Francen, Line Noro, Sylvie Gance
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.

Director: Joseph Cornell
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Director Joseph Cornell evokes the nostalgia of childhood by filming a children’s party.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer assisted by Ms. Tsuruhachi on the shamisen. The pair is popular, but he nitpicks often on her music and so they split. She marries a benefactor, but after a joint show, feels music is above marriage.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer assisted by Ms. Tsuruhachi on the shamisen. The pair is popular, but he nitpicks often on her music and so they split. She marries a benefactor, but after a joint show, feels music is above marriage.

Director: Arthur B. Woods
Stars: Emlyn Williams, Anna Konstam, Allan Jeayes
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK

A convict, just out of prison, is implicated in a murder and goes on the run, hitching a ride with a truck driver.

Director: Frank Lloyd
Stars: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee
Genre: Adventure, History
Country: USA

Vagabond poet François Villon rises to high office in 1463 Paris.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier
Stars: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Fernandel, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Meeting a movie team on location near his house, a young man saw a lots of encouragment for his dreaming carreer as a movie star in what was only sarcasm from the members of the team. (This is the caracteristic of a schountz: someone who see himself as a born movie comedian and is blind on the critics to his dream) After he has signed a fake contract which he blindly take as genuine even if it is ridiculous, he starts to Paris without money to make his carreer.

Director: Busby Berkeley, John Farrow
Stars: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

Director: Christian-Jaque
Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Armand Bernard
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France

In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective – going to America. A night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them see a man coming out from a wall. Then the day after he talks about it, he disappears. Then the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That’s when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Walter Huston, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Claude Rains, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, has passed on his love of music to his four early adult daughters – Thea, Emma, Kay and Ann – who live with him and his sister, the girls’ Aunt Etta, in the long time family home.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Harry Baur, Albert Préjean, Gabrielle Dorziat
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Justin Mollenard is a sailor and arms smuggler who does not support the hypocrisy of society. He has a wife in Dunkirk who reproaches him the fact of having neglected the family for many years.

Director: Norman Taurog
Stars: Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A young woman at a girl’s school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA

This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.

Director: Norman Taurog
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn’t have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.

Director: Victor Saville
Stars: Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.

Director: James W. Horne, Ray Taylor
Stars: Warren Hull, Iris Meredith, Richard Fiske
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A crime fighter known as The Spider battles a villain called The Octopus, who is out to sabotage America and install his own government.

Director: Gustaf Molander
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Tore Svennberg, Anders Henrikson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

An embittered woman, leader of a criminal gang, has a change of heart.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: France

A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems.

Director: Marc Allégret
Stars: Louis Jouvet, Claude Dauphin, Odette Joyeux
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Isabelle, Cécilia and François are drama students at the “Conservatoire d’art dramatique”. Cécilia is in love with François, but the young man is in love with Isabelle instead. Cécilia elaborates a desperate plan to get back at François.

Director: Garson Kanin
Stars: Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Doctor John Abbott is a single parent who settles in the town of Westport, with his son Dick, trying to eke out a living for them. He also inherits, by way of his doorstep, an unwanted baby girl, Jean Johnson, whom he adopts into his family, rears and loves as his own.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards… but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Charpin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A small village rejoices at the arrival of a new baker. But when his young wife runs off with another man, he is unable to keep baking and the village is thrown into disarray.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven
Genre: War, Drama
Country: USA

British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.

Director: Mark Sandrich
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A psychiatrist agrees to hypnotize his friend’s girlfriend in order to convince her to accept his proposals of marriage, but she ends up falling for the psychiatrist instead.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A professor marries a nightclub singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Stars: Shotaro Akagi, Shin’ichi Himori, Ayuko Hirano
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two blind masseurs travel to a mountain retreat. One of them falls for a visiting lady from Tokyo and investigates a series of thefts.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: Kay Francis, George Brent, Ian Hunter
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.

Director: Elliott Nugent
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Phyllis Welch, William Frawley
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert (Lloyd), accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.

Director: Richard Wallace, Lewis Milestone, Gilbert Pratt, Richard Thorpe
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Roland Young
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.

Director: Tim Whelan
Stars: Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles (Charles Laughton), who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby (Vivien Leigh), also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley (Sir Rex Harrison), the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby’s dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Andrew Manson (Robert Donat), a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.

Director: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Stars: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.

Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Raimu, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Renaud
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Germany

A merchant from Toulon (Raimu) of honorable appearance is in fact a receiver for a band of criminals. Threatened with blackmail, he commits a murder for which an innocent man is condemned to the penal colony (Pierre Blanchar). Eight years later, the convict escapes and our trader collects it.

Director: Mark Donskoy
Stars: Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovskiy
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

A drama reveals the great writer’s inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mischa Auer
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problem is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre’d at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a handsome millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole’s plan may be thwarted by Bill’s friend, Jim Trevor, who’s met Nicole before and sees through her plot.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Stars: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome “tramp” who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur’s uniform. He also catches the eye of her pretty Geraldine.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?

Director: H.C. Potter
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Jacques Baumer
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Shavian social satire. Odette is an actress who’s now the mistress of a government minister. Her household of cook, maid, and chauffeur needs a valet. On the eve of going with the minister to Deauville, she engages Désiré, a robust and talkative man, even through his most recent employer, a countess, intimates improprieties.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Taizô Fukami, Akira Harue, Kiyoshi Katô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young couple of lovers want to travel to Tokio to work and form a family there, but the parents of him want his son to regent their hotel. Finally, he does what his parents want him to, and her finds herself abandoned in the big city.

Director: Joe May
Stars: Kay Francis, Basil Rathbone, Ian Hunter
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Aging down on her luck cabaret singer murders a respectable composer. On trial she slowly gives in and explains her crime. They had a complicated history.

Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK

A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

In Victorian London, a Crime Novelist and his Wife fake their disappearance in order to hide from an uptight Anglican Bishop who is leading a campaign against the “evils” of crime fiction.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the ‘kid’ falls for his sister.

Director: Marcel Varnel
Stars: Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A schoolteacher and his pupils visit Paris where they outwit a gang of crooks.

Director: Edward Ludwig
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A gangster is jailed for ten years after his wife becomes pregnant. He becomes bitter when she divorces him and remarries.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A Polynesian sailor — unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully — is relentlessly persecuted by his island’s martinet French governor.

Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Pierre Etchepare
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Germany

Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is beautiful and lives in luxury. He lends her a large amount of money, which she loses gambling. Then she drops him. But Lucien is now in love, and once demobilized, he goes to Paris to find her again

Director: Alfred Santell
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In his first film, young Dr. Kildare helps a female ex-con find her child.

Director: Marcel Varnel
Stars: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

With the help of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.

Director: Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood
Stars: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Jacqueline Delubac, Sacha Guitry, Lyn Harding
Genre: Comedy, History
Country: France

Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Lecherous bosses make it difficult for an attractive secretary to keep jobs, so she decides to appear considerably more homely in hopes of holding onto work.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Stars: Reikichi Kawamura, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Masao Hayama
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two young boys are usurped from being the head of their gang of children. Their father is fired and arrested for this, and they are sent to live with their uncle, only to spend their time thinking of ways to escape back home.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Sybil Jason
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A by-the-book patrolman who cares more about the letter of the law than justice feels guilty when his inflexibility sends a family man to prison.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Ousted from their homeland by the Bolshevik revolution, a royal Russian couple find themselves impoverished and living in Paris. They take positions as butler and housemaid in a wealthy household and, owing to their impeccable breeding and manners, excel in their new jobs. But once they are recognized for the royal couple they are, they must face new — and formidable — responsibilities.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Gabriel Gabrio, Orane Demazis, Fernandel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

He rebirth of a dead village and the love of the last inhabitant for a wandering girl.

Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

An actor of the stage finds himself pursued by a lovestruck fan while trying to patch up a tempestuous relationship with his actress lover.

Director: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Dick Foran
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Director: Nate Watt
Stars: William Boyd, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Russell Hayden
Genre: Action, Adventure, Music
Country: USA

Hoppy’s brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man.

Director: Tay Garnett
Stars: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A financier’s daughter spars with a newspaper reporter: he by writing about her, she by announcing their engagement.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA

Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A wealthy banker throws his wife’s expensive fur coat off the roof of a building; it lands on the head of a stenographer, leading to everyone assuming she is his mistress and has access to his millions.

Director: William Keighley, William Dieterle
Stars: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry Stephenson
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA

A poor boy named Tom Canty and the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other’s lives as well.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA

A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.

Director: Mario Camerini
Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Assia Noris, Rubi D’Alma
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy

Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William
Genre: History, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French Officers, in order for them to reveal Napolean’s intentions toward Spain.

Director: Sam Wood, Gustav Machatý
Stars: Gladys George, Warren William, John Beal
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Thrown out of her home after her husband discovers her infidelity, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on revealing her degraded status to her husband and the son she left behind. The son, unaware of her identity, becomes her defense attorney.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Christine, newly widowed and consumed by the memory of a ball she attended age 16, decides to track down the men she danced with that night and discover their fates.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Mary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client’s son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she’s pregnant.

Director: Richard Thorpe
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Two sisters of differing temperaments, the younger’s milquetoast fiancé, and a free-spirited artist in an auto trailer are all experiencing romantic complications.

Director: Tay Garnett
Stars: Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Blondell
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.

Director: Richard Thorpe
Stars: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, May Whitty
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

When a rich but cantankerous dowager on an isolated estates hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Sport
Country: USA

A veterinarian posing as a doctor and a race-horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit race-horse.

Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA

A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship gets picked up by a fishing boat, where he’s made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.

Director: Wesley Ruggles
Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

A lawyer defends his wife, a pathological liar, in a murder trial.

Director: Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz
Stars: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.

Director: John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, C. Aubrey Smith
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saitô, Michiko Kuwano
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK

A man on the run from a murder charge enlists a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause.

Director: Mark Sandrich
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A budding romance between a ballet master and a tap dancer becomes complicated when rumors surface that they’re already married.

Director: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.

Director: Sadao Yamanaka
Stars: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan’emon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

This movie is about a young stall owner called Onami and her troublesome brother. It all starts when her brother takes a small knife from a samurai who carelessly left it at their stall; the simple action begins a chain of troubling circumstances for the pair.

Director: Wesley Ruggles
Stars: Gladys George, Arline Judge, John Howard
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Gladys George, a superlative actress often wasted in secondary roles, carries her starring assignment in Valiant is the Word for Carrie with singular brilliance. George plays the town trollop, who for the love of two orphaned children sets up a successful dry-cleaning business. Her past comes back to haunt her, but she perseveres, giving up all thoughts of personal happiness to provide a decent upbringing for her adopted family.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Stars: Ken Uehara, Ryuji Ishiyama, Einosuke Naka
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A friendly bus driver and his passengers over the duration of one journey through the mountains to the nearest train station.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Robert Taylor, Loretta Young, Basil Rathbone
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A maid secretly marries the son of her wealthy boss.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Christian Gérard
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Based on Guitry’s own stage play about a sanctimonious fellow who eventually’s victimized by his own hypocrisy. Little effort’s made to “cinematize” the property, which’s filmed just as it was staged.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Marthe Régnier
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He’s bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father’s, but he knows his views carry no weight. He agrees to marry a princess to sire an heir, then spends his nights as a playboy. In 1888, he meets Marie Vetsera, 17, a baroness’s daughter. She is resolute, smitten, and wants nothing in return for her love. The Prime Minister is alarmed; he contrives to have her sent away. Rudolf sinks into dissipation. When she returns, how will the lovers handle the opposition of society and their families? Can Rudolf find a way for them to be together?

Director: Stephen Roberts
Stars: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

A wealthy mystery writer uses her doctor ex-husband’s non-payment of alimony to coerce him into a reconciliation.

Director: Gustaf Molander
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gösta Ekman, Inga Tidblad
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

The world famous violinist Holger Brandt comes back to his family after a tour. He and his wife have been married for many years, but their love has gone. Their young daughter gets a new piano teacher, Anita Hoffman. Mr. Brandt fall in love with her and together they go on a world tour. But he soon discovers that the feelings for his wife that he thought were dead return.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Stars: W.C. Fields, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Cromwell
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, Freddie Bartholomew
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

Blake is in love with an aristocratic woman whose husband seriously injures him. Blake’s friendship with Lord Nelson provides the basis for Blake’s part in the growth of Lloyd’s insurance business following the Battle of Trafalgar. Only very slightly based on history.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.

Director: Howard Hawks, William Wyler, Richard Rosson
Stars: Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman’s daughter.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Raimu, Jacqueline Delubac
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France

A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to whom he confesses his infidelity.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Adolphe Borchard, Marcel Lucien
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

A charming scoundrel reflects on his exploits, from childhood through to manhood.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.

Director: Lothar Mendes, Alexander Korda
Stars: Roland Young, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK

An ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything.

Director: Alexander Korda
Stars: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK

The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.

Director: Paul Martin
Stars: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Paul Kemp
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany

Journalist Gil Taylor has to write a report about the night court, when Ann Gardens case is heard. The young lady seems to be homeless. Gil tries to help her. That’s when trouble starts.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Cesariot that his real father is Marius, the absent son of César, Cesariot’s godfather. Panisse leaves that to Fanny, the lad’s mother. Dissembling that he’s off to see a friend, Cesariot then seeks Marius, now a mechanic in Toulon. Posing as a journalist, Cesariot spends time with Marius and leaves believing tales he is a petty thief. Only after the truth comes out can Marius, Fanny, César, and Cesariot step beyond the falsehoods, benign though they may be.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.

Director: Richard Boleslawski
Stars: Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA

Four outlaws come to New Jerusalem, a town full of courteous and religious people, to rob the bank. After shooting the president of the bank, only three make it out of town followed by the posse. By the time they get to the second desert water hole, they find it dry and also find a wagon with a dying mother and baby. When the horses are dead the next morning, the three outlaws have no choice but to try to walk back to New Jerusalem and only two want to take the baby.

Director: Richard Boleslawski
Stars: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who’d be scandalized if they knew.

Director: James Whale
Stars: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

Despite her mother’s objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company’s new leading lady.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Kikugoro Onoe, Kinjirou Onoe, Shigeru Onoe
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Japan

A short documentary about a great Kabuki dancer.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles
Genre: Drama, History, Musical
Country: USA

Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his brother, Jerome, to the U.S. on a goodwill tour.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Jean Gabin, Charles Vanel, Raymond Aimos
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Five unemployed penniless workers win 100,000 Francs with the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln’s assassin in 1865.

Director: Alfred Zeisler
Stars: Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: UK

A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

After hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution..

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA

A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.

Director: Mark Sandrich
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on liberty in San Francisco.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After police captain, McLaren becomes commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake knocks him down convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake’s sincere in his effort to join the mob. “Buggs” Fenner thinks Blake is a police agent.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally in 1906 San Francisco.

Director: Dorothy Arzner
Stars: Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Burke
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Yôko Umemura, Benkei Shiganoya
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other sister sets up various schemes to get rid of him.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

Nick investigates the case of a missing man and later a murder that is connected to Nora’s family.

Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Seiichi Takegawa, Chiyoko Ôkura
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A young woman becomes a mistress of her boss in order to support her family.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim, Louis Jouvet
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France

A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief’s slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Two school teachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.

Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O’Sullivan, Frank Lawton
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those that framed him.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

When a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A performer and gambler travels to New York City to raise the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiancée, only to become entangled with a beautiful aspiring dancer.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK

A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective’s cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A simple, small town man inherits a massive fortune, making him the target for scammers and publicity-seekers. Overwhelmed by the turn his life has taken, and awoken to another use for his new-found fortune, he makes a momentous decision.

Director: Howard Bretherton
Stars: William Boyd, James Ellison, William Farnum
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA

When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy’s life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.

Director: Berthold Viertel
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Rene Ray, Frank Cellier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK

The tenants of an old boarding house are terrorized by an evil slumlord. One day a strange man arrives at the house and begins to help them with their problems.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Robert Allen
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA

Ignoring an ancient prophecy, evil brother Gregor seeks to maintain his feudal power on his his Tyrolean estate by murdering and impersonating his benevolent younger twin.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Bette Davis, Ian Hunter, Colin Clive
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A lawyer impulsively marries a stranger after his fiancée dumps him.

Director: Busby Berkeley
Stars: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Japan

Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada, Chôko Iida
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn’t keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A meek milquetoast of a clerk’s mistaken for public enemy N° 1, and the notorious killer takes advantage of the situation.

Director: Erle C. Kenton
Stars: Jean Arthur, Victor Jory, Helen Lowell
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Story of a small-town girl victimized by her gossiping neighbors.

Director: James Whale
Stars: Edward Arnold, Robert Young, Constance Cummings
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA

After a night of wild partying at a friend’s house, a couple wake up to discover the party’s host has been murdered in his bed. A detective is called in to investigate, but his investigation is hampered by the fact that the partiers drank so much the previous night, nobody remembers anything that happened.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Paul Lukas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Gertrude Michael
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A detective who has “four hours to kill” before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

It’s the early days of the F.B.I. – federal agents working for the Department of Justice. Though they’ve got limited powers – they don’t carry weapons and have to get local police approval for arrests – that doesn’t stop fresh Law School grad Eddie Buchanan from joining up, and he encourages his former roommate James “Brick” Davis (James Cagney) to do so as well.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Henri Poupon, André Pollack, Annie Toinon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Merlusse is a teacher in an all-boys boarding school – pupils hate him since he smells, has a glass eye and is very strict. When Christmas Eve arrives most boys leave school to spend the holidays with their families but a small group of lonely boys is left behind with Merlusse as their overseer. Merlusse doesn’t get along with the boys very well and they pull various tricks on him but on Christmas Morning boys wake to find a huge surprise waiting for them…

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Kay Francis, George Brent, Patricia Ellis
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A construction engineer with a heart of steel courts a social worker with a heart of gold, while fighting a protection racketeer that tries to derail the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Ricardo Cortez
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Alexander Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston’s bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston’s organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston’s henchmen as she is about to testify.

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.

Director: Victor Saville
Stars: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

Elizabeth dreams of being a music-hall singer. She gets to know Victor, that quite unexpectedly gets a female part in a music-hall number. He unfortunately finds himself voiceless, so, why wouldn’t Elizabeth replace him in it?

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Marion Davies, Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

The story of legendary gambler Diamond Jim Brady and his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Stars: Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Binnie Barnes
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The story of legendary gambler Diamond Jim Brady and his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell.

Director: William A. Seiter
Stars: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler.

Director: Lew Landers
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA

A brilliant surgeon obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe saves the life of a beautiful dancer and goes mad when he can’t have her.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband’s refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.

Director: Mario Camerini
Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Assia Noris, Luigi Almirante
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

A cynical millionaire announces that he intends to disguise himself as a hobo and give a million lire to anyone who treats him nicely. As a result, every bum in Rome is given the royal treatment on the off-chance that they’re the millionaire.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Daijirô Natsukawa, Mitsusaburô Ramon
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi and Osen, while swindling some Buddhist monks out of their temple treasures. When Kumazawa is arrested, Osen agrees to help Sokichi finance his dream of going to medical school. They live in a humble room, and eventually the only way Osen can find enough money for them is to prostitute herself during the day, without Sokichi knowing.

Director: Clyde Bruckman, W.C. Fields
Stars: W.C. Fields, Mary Brian, Kathleen Howard
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Director: James Flood
Stars: Myrna Loy, Cary Grant, Roscoe Karns
Genre: Adventure, Romance
Country: USA

In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely “fly blind” during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback doesn’t deter him from his goal.

Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital’s only resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once, it results in the death of Dr. Hudson, a selfless, brilliant surgeon and generous philanthropist. Merrick falls for Hudson’s widow, Helen, though she holds him responsible for her husband’s demise.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An alcoholic actress who is considered a dangerous jinx is rehabilitated, but she then shows that she’s as dangerous as ever.

Director: Richard Boleslawski
Stars: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

In early 19th Century France an ex-convict who failed to report to parole is relentlessly pursued over a 20 year period by an obsessive policeman.

Director: Jacques Feyder
Stars: Françoise Rosay, Paul Bernard, Jean-Max
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstances to welcome a little boy Pierre, whose father is in jail, into their home. Which makes Louise Noblet all the happier as she can’t have children herself. But, after a while, Pierre’s father is released from prison and reclaims his son… Time passes and Pierre, now a young adult, lives in Paris more or less on the wrong side of the law. He has a mistress, Nelly, who does not say no to other men’s money… Louise, who still loves Pierre as her own son, wants only one thing – to help him get by.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Sachiko Chiba, Yuriko Hanabusa, Toshiko Itô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young woman reaches maturity and yearns to know about her father. Her mother has poisoned her mind about the man who left her for another woman. There is a tender moment when they see each other for the first time. She learns that the man is not as she was told, nor is the woman.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Komako Hara, Daijirô Natsukawa
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan

During a war in the 19th century, a village linked to rebellious forces is attacked by the government army, so a rich family decides to run away; two courtesans travel along them.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván, Jenny Hélia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France

In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently – like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.

Director: Tim Whelan
Stars: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man’s associate.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Roscoe Karns
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A woman reporter tries to prove she’s just as good as any man, but runs into trouble along the way.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.

Director: Wesley Ruggles
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A stenographer becomes a famed entertainer, courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Chikako Hosokawa, Masako Tsutsumi, Ryuko Umezono
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars. A number of loosely linked episodes ensue as the sisters who have different characters, variously become involved in the world of criminals, sacrifice themselves and find love.

Director: Willi Forst
Stars: Pola Negri, Albrecht Schoenhals, Ingeborg Theek
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

A female cabaret singer is put on trial for murdering a predatory musician.

Director: Elliott Nugent
Stars: Elissa Landi, Cary Grant, Lynne Overman
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Annabella, Jean Gabin, Robert Le Vigan
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France

Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault… but Lucas’s friendship soon appears to be less unselfish…

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Will Rogers, Richard Cromwell, George Barbier
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

In small-town America the easy-going publisher of the local paper finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.

Director: Jacques Feyder
Stars: Françoise Rosay, André Alerme, Jean Murat
Genre: Comedy, History, Romance
Country: France | Germany

Tells the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders.

Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Margaret Lindsay
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

In Mexico, a former lawyer becomes the invaluable second-in-command to a casino owner, whose wife begins to fall for him.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

A Victorian-era architect, commissioned by the Duke of Towers to design his stables, falls in love with the Duchess.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA

Three British soldiers on the Northwest Frontier of India struggle against the enemy – and themselves.

Director: William A. Seiter
Stars: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

In Paris, a man clueless about fashion suddenly inherits his aunt’s dress shop, while his bandleader friend reunites with his old flame.

Director: Frank Tuttle
Stars: George Raft, Claire Dodd, Edward Arnold
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Ed Beaumont is the personal friend, advisor and bodyguard to Paul Madvig, the political boss of a large city. When a mysterious murder is committed—the son of a Madvig political opponent—Madvig’s enemies try to pin the crime on him because he is waging a clean-up campaign they oppose. Ed risks his life and his reputation to find the killer and clear his friend.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a ‘good fairy’ to strangers makes life awfully complicated.

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Stars: Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Man is haunted by a murder he’s committed.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA

After being wrongly convicted as a traitor, Peter Blood, an English physician, is sent to exile in the British colonies of the Caribbean, where he becomes a pirate.

Director: Frank Lloyd
Stars: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A tyrannical ship captain takes his reluctant crew on a two-year voyage that will change British maritime law forever.

Director: William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
Stars: James Cagney, Dick Powell, Ian Hunter
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania’s band or Oberon’s, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they’re not alone in that forest.Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused…

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

Director: Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.

Director: Karl Freund
Stars: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive
Genre: Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

Paris, France: a demented surgeon’s obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert pianist husband’s train-wreck-mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer. . . with a gift for knife-throwing.

Director: Willi Forst
Stars: Paula Wessely, Anton Walbrook, Olga Tschechowa
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Austria | Germany

Vienna 1905: After a carnival party the famous painter Heidenick draws his otherwise engaged girlfriend Anita Helfer with very few clothes on, only blurs her face. The image makes it into the newspaper the next day – but since he can’t tell the model’s name without offending her influential fiancée, he comes up with the fictional name Leopoldine Dur. Unfortunately there is a secretary with that name, who now gets into the focus of high society – and into Heidenick’s, much to Anita’s anger.

Director: William Beaudine
Stars: W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Director: Alan Crosland
Stars: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

An agitated and desperate man spares no expense in insisting that Mason represent him against a neighbor’s howling dog and act as executor of his will.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

In the Mohave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. In a 24-hour period, Olga must deal with Myra’s desire to go to a town dance with a cad, the appearance by happenstance of George, an old boyfriend whose conduct is never above suspicion, and the overnight presence of two women recently divorced in Reno, who, with a chauffeur, are carrying valuable jewels. George gets wind of the jewels and plays with Olga’s heartstrings to set up a robbery. Myra arranges to sneak off with her beau. It’s hot, and the heat lightening is crackling on the horizon. Is Olga’s life of peace and hard work in the desert about to change for the worse?

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

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.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

The lifestyles of Arlene and Valkyr Bradford, half-sisters from a respected San Francisco family, diverge markedly as Arlene takes up with criminals.

Director: Jacques Feyder
Stars: Marie Bell, Pierre Richard-Willm, Charles Vanel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

A romantic drama set against the background of the French Foreign Legion, and an example of poetic realism in the French cinema.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn’t like to hire married men.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin, Hardie Albright
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

Eight strangers are invited by a mysterious unknown host to spend the night in a penthouse apartment. The eight (5 men, 3 women) are wined, dined, then greeted by their host’s voice via a radio broadcast. The voice announces that before the night is over each one will be systematically murdered unless they manage to outwit their ninth guest Death.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Yûkichi Iwata, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Den Ohinata
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two half-brothers try to cope with the loss of their father.

Director: Harold Young
Stars: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK

A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

Director: Alan Crosland
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Dudley Digges
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Joe Thunderhorse, a Sioux Indian who has become the wealthy star of a Wild West show, returns home to his reservation after years away and finds that his father is dying and his people are being abused by corrupt white officials.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Max Dearly, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault, who is well-endowed in every sense. In her new home, Emma finds conflict with her mother-in-law, a husband uninterested in the social whirl, and general discontentment; thereby proving an easy conquest for philanderer Rodolphe. Other lovers follow. Does tragedy await?

Director: Frank Tuttle
Stars: Cary Grant, Frances Drake, Edward Everett Horton
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man’s current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.

Director: Raymond Bernard
Stars: Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Paul Azaïs
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Setsuko Shinobu, Akio Isono, Hikaru Yamanouchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Story of a waitress whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a stiflingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Robert Montgomery, Maureen O’Sullivan, Edward Arnold
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Farmers take in an injured racketeer and try to reform him.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Victor McLaglen, Wynne Gibson, Alison Skipworth
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capeador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve’s friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Dolores del Rio
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out, that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane she kills him.

Director: Mark SandrichRichard Boleslawski
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

An American woman travels to England to seek a divorce from her absentee husband, where she meets – and falls for – a dashing performer.

Director: Edgar Selwyn, Richard Boleslawski
Stars: Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Allan, Lewis Stone
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

A jewel thief suspected of being a local serial killer targeting police officers decides to solve the mystery himself to clear his name.

Director: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Lee Garmes
Stars: Claude Rains, Margo, Whitney Bourne
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Prominent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi.

Director: Harlan Thompson
Stars: Cary Grant, Helen Mack, Genevieve Tobin
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A handsome plastic surgeon has a beauty clinic, where many a beautiful client falls in love with him. His unnoticed secretary is in love with him, too.

Director: Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley
Stars: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A multimillionaire decides to boycott “filthy” forms of entertainment such as Broadway shows.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

Director: Yasujirô Shimazu
Stars: Yumeko Aizome, Ryôtarô Mizushima, Den Ohinata
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Keitaro (Obinata Den) is a law student and Yaeko (Aizome Yumeko) is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko’s sister Kyouko (Okada Yoshiko) has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly interested in Keitaro and Yae becomes anxious.

Director: Mikhail Romm
Stars: Galina Sergeyeva, Andrey Fayt, Anatoliy Goryunov
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

A company of French bourgeois travel through the territories occupied by Germans in a stagecoach accompanied by a woman of the oldest profession.

Director: Edward Ludwig
Stars: Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials. When he discovers that the publisher has betrayed him and is in league with munitions manufacturers to make money off of war, he goes insane.

Director: Erle C. Kenton
Stars: W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A hard-drinking, socially-awkward inventor wrecks his daughter’s chances of marriage into a rich family and bungles his own chances of success by selling one of his more practical inventions.

Director: Yonggang Wu
Stars: Lingyu Ruan, Tian Jian, Zhizhi Zhang
Genre: Drama
Country: China

Street walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China.

Director: Richard Boleslawski
Stars: Marion Davies, Gary Cooper, Jean Parker
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

Union spy Gail Loveless impersonates a black maid in the early days of the Civil War, but complications arise when she falls in love with a Confederate officer.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

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 Paris couture dresses.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke, George Cukor
Stars: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

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.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Karen Morley, Tom Keene, John Qualen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune… and bread!

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

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.

Director: Rowland V. Lee
Stars: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Henri Poupon
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A young and naive peasant girl in Provence, who has been seduced and abandoned, moves to Marseilles and becomes a street-walker after having her baby.

Director: Arcady Boytler, Raphael J. Sevilla
Stars: Andrea Palma, Domingo Soler, Francisco Zárraga
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

Rosario (Palma) becomes a prostitute after losing her father and discovering her boyfriend had a liaison with another woman. In Veracruz, Rosario lives above a sordid cabaret “selling her love to the men coming from the sea.” One night, sailor Alberto (Soler) rescues Rosario from the dirty hands of a drunk man. They get along and go to Rosario’s room. After making love, they begin to talk and Rosario discovers they’re siblings…

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Frankie Darro, George P. Breakston, Jimmy Butler
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Adapted from The Paul Street Boys, an autobiographical novel by Ferenc Molnar, GLORY is an unusually sensitive evocation of the pain of youth and the senselessness of war. Frail Nemecsek, a lonely boy who yearns to belong, worships Boka, the self-sufficent, charismatic leader of a well-organized gang, decked out in uniforms and sporting their own flag. The perennial outsider sees his chance to win a respected place in Butler’s army when their flag is stolen and war breaks out with another gang.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Charles Boyer, Madeleine Ozeray, Robert Arnoux
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in purgatory, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends. If he fails, he will be eternally damned.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

When a small kingdom’s main tax payer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.

Director: Sidney Franklin
Stars: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

Director: Joe May
Stars: Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Douglass Montgomery
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Constantly quarreling couple decide to try the jealousy angle when a naive young couple comes along.

Director: Max Ophüls
Stars: Isa Miranda, Memo Benassi, Tatyana Pavlova
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can’t live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.

Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business, but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Horror
Country: USA

American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Chôko Iida, Kôji Mitsui
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A kabuki actor’s mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover’s son.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Harry Baur, Valéry Inkijinoff, Alexandre Rignault
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France

Willy Ferriere is dead broke and his mistress costs a lot. One day, he says in a pub that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt. Someone lets him know it’s a deal. The aunt is murdered, and a poor chap is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Miriam Hopkins, Franchot Tone
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather’s farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married farmer.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Helen Vinson
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA

When Prohibition ends, a beer baron sees the writing on the wall, quits the rackets, and tries to break into California society.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Loretta Young, Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A New York tramp (Jolson) falls in love with the mayor’s amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A working girl is menaced by her tyrannical employer.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Henrietta Crosman, Heather Angel, Norman Foster
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A possessive mother pushes her son into World War I service rather than see him get married.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Akio Isono, Sumiko Mizukubo
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two Geisha with a connection to a young man deal with life’s hardships.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi, Takuaki Seiryô
Stars: Tokihiko Okada, Ichirô Sugai, Bontarô Miake
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The tragic tale of a woman who despite doing good where she can gets punished by society.

Director: John G. Adolfi
Stars: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Theodore Newton
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The vacationing head of a successful shoe company is placed as his rival’s trustee, unbeknown to them.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Annie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.

Director: Rowland Brown
Stars: George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Frances Dee
Genre: Drama, Film Noir, Romance
Country: USA

Bill Bailey (George Bancroft) is a Los Angeles, California bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges against a client dismissed. He falls in love with a slumming socialite who bluntly and startlingly declares her sexual preferences with this immortal line: “If I could find a man who would be my master and give me a good thrashing, I’d follow him around like a dog on a leash.”.

Director: Cyril Gardner
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Laurence Olivier, John Halliday
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.

Director: Phil Goldstone
Stars: Zita Johann, John Miljan, Alan Dinehart
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those who she loves.

Director: Tod Browning
Stars: John Gilbert, Robert Armstrong, Mae Clarke
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Gunner and Bucker are pals who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner has not failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his dough. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.

Director: Robert Florey
Stars: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

It is the World War I period, and Peggy Martin, a showgirl and mistress to London Fiske, marries her love, handsome Monte Van Tyle. They move into the house on 56th street and have a baby, Eleanor. Monte enlists in the army and is killed in action. Peggy is revisited by Fiske who wants her back or he’ll commit suicide. She refuses his advances and the gun he brought accidentally goes off killing him. Peggy is convicted with murdered and jailed. Eleanor is told her mother is dead. Twenty years later, Peggy is released and meets gambler, Bill Blaine. The house on 56th street is now a gambling house owned by politician, Bonelli. Bill and Peggy get jobs there. Eleanor comes to visit them, and goes with Bill into his office. Bill threatens Eleanor, now a huge gambler, that he’ll tell her husband about her huge debts. Eleanor kills Bill and Peggy takes the blame. Bonelli believes Peggy is innocent and offers to help her if she only stays at the house on 56th street.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Irene Dunne, Joel McCrea, Laura Hope Crews
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O’Brien
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work. He regards the assignment as “kindergarten” work. When a young woman asks him to help locate her husband, Therme, he learns that she is really Norma Phillips, wanted by Chicago police for murder of her husband. She escapes, but Saunders borrows a corpse from the morgue to arrange her fake funeral. The trap brings the woman and Therme to the mortuary out of curiosity.

Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn’t even remember her, but tries to seduce her.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Stars: Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue, Ureo Egawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two schoolgirl friends drift apart when one of them falls for a handsome boy.

Director: Pál Fejös
Stars: Annabella, Gustav Fröhlich, Paul Otto
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Austria

Vienna, at the height of the Great Depression. Like so many others, Hans has no work, no money, nowhere to live. Having lost his livelihood as a taxi driver, he decides that the only solution is to kill himself. But just as he is about to drown himself, he sees a young woman dive into the river, obviously with the same intention. Without a thought, Hans pulls the woman out of the water and does his best to comfort her. Her name is Anna and she is only 18, but like Hans she no longer has the strength to go on living.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Annabella, George Rigaud, Raymond Cordy
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France

Jean is a young cab driver. Anna, a flower-girl neighbour, is in love with him. But he is still thinking to Pola, who just left him. Jean asks her to the bal. Many events (Pola’s come back, two villains…) will disturb this arising love.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Yoshiko Okada, Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Ryoichi and Chikako are brother and sister. They live together. Chikako works during the day in an office and at night she prostitutes herself to fund her brother’s studies at the university. Ryoichi doesn’t know about his sister’s secret life, but he is dating Harue whose brother is a policeman.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA

Ex-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn’t like that relation at first, but McLean, Kean’s boss, convinces him of Kean’s good nature. But Kean uses his relation to Patricia to make a photo of an execution. Due to this, Nolan loses his stripes and Kean isn’t allowed to see Patricia any longer. But when one of his former friends kills two policemen, Kean sees his chance….

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Jôji Oka, Sumiko Mizukubo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: James Cagney, Mary Brian, Allen Jenkins
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is over, he’s forced to come up with a series of cons to help pay it back.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Benita Hume
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Depression Era story set in London has department store owner (Lewis Stone) facing bankruptcy while his family fritters away money. A long-standing employee (Lionel Barrymore) gets fired but finds new life in a home-based bakery. The owner’s wife (Benita Hume) can’t face life without money, so she runs off with another man. The tables turn, however, when a last-minute reprieve saves the store and a new relationship is forged between the men.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns his wife has been unfaithful.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Sumiko Kurishima, Teruko Kojima, Jun Arai
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son until–her long-lost husband returns.

Director: Victor Saville
Stars: Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK

Musical taken from J.B. Priestley’s novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

Director: Robert Florey
Stars: Bette Davis, Gene Raymond, Frank McHugh
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.

Director: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz
Stars: James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed deputy commissioner as a political favor, arrives – complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. But Thompson, to conceal his years of graft, needs a quick way to discredit Gargan.

Director: Paul Sloane
Stars: Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

During a three-day pleasure cruise, a murder victim’s friend (John Halliday) tries to trick a new bride (Nancy Carroll) into admitting her guilt.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Mary Pickford, Leslie Howard, C. Aubrey Smith
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

In the late 1800s New England, banker William Marlowe and his wife Martha have arranged for their daughter Mary to marry the officious and older Lord Hurley of England. Mary does not want to marry Lord Hurley, but rather John Carlton, a lowly clerk at her father’s bank.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Stars: W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention, television.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Phillips
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

A former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.

Director: Wesley Ruggles
Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

Director: Stuart Walker
Stars: Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Edgar Dearing, Peter Freuchen, Edward Hearn
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.

Director: Victor Saville
Stars: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Muriel Aked
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windshield as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus. Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes, and we discover the lives of all of the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con man with a hundred pound cheque to the businessman’s distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash, and past it, as some live and some die.

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.

Director: Lowell Sherman
Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA

In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.

Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Sexpot film star Lola Burns seeks a new image and tries marrying a marquis and adopting a baby – all sorts of schemes which go awry.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Stars: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival’s spy to produce spectacular live “prologues” for movie houses.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA

A chronicle of the lives of a group of sisters growing up in nineteenth-century America.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank – by gleefully sleeping her way to the top.

Director: Stephen Roberts
Stars: Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang’s leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.

Director: Alexander Korda
Stars: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Marion Davies, Onslow Stevens, J. Farrell MacDonald
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman living in an Irish fishing village inherits her late grandfather’s estate, but is forced to spend three years in England training to be a proper lady to collect the fortune.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Yoshiko Okada, Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Ryoichi and Chikako are brother and sister. They live together. Chikako works during the day in an office and at night she prostitutes herself to fund her brother’s studies at the university. Ryoichi doesn’t know about his sister’s secret life, but he is dating Harue whose brother is a policeman.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Ohinata
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan