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: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chôko Iida, Shin’ichi Himori, Masao Hayama
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.
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.