Tag: 1938

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: Leni Riefenstahl
Stars: Sheigo Arai, Jack Beresford, Ralf Berzsenyi
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: Germany

The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin, orchestrated as Nazi propaganda.

Director: Leni Riefenstahl
Stars: David Albritton, Arvo Askola, Jack Beresford
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: Germany

The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.