Tag: 1935

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: 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: Leni Riefenstahl
Stars: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Max Amann
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: Germany

The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.