Director: Abel Gance
Stars: Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until war breaks out and he becomes a soldier.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
1938: A young man arrives in Hitler’s Germany, frantically seeking information about his German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp.
Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America.
Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Edward Rigby
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Davey Fenwick (Sir Michael Redgrave) leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny (Margaret Lockwood) who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya, Minoru Takase
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse.
Director: Harry Lachman
Stars: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
A rural maiden’s two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.
Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europe’s most respected news wire service.
Director: Gregory La Cava
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O’Keefe
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.
Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father’s release.
Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
When the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?
Director: Edward Buzzell
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Western
Country: USA
The Marx Brothers come to the rescue in the Wild West when a young man, trying to settle an old family feud so he can marry the girl he loves, runs afoul of crooks.
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he’s really a con man…and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
Director: Joe May
Stars: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Fighting over an inheritance, one Pyncheon brother frames the other for murder.
Director: Alexander Hall
Stars: Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A best-selling author of women’s issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A shoplifter and her prosecutor fall in love, creating tensions for his career and family.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: USA
Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills on the sword.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
During World War I, believing her fiance to be dead, a young ballerina loses her job and is forced to turn to prostitution.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.
Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.
Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend’s body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A duchess’ irrational behavior toward the governess of her children triggers tragic events that will change her family’s lives forever.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where later, the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.
Director: William Wyler
Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean’s policy against homesteaders.
Director: William Wyler
Stars: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers’ Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
Director: King Vidor. Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers’ Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
Director: Edward F. Cline
Stars: W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Henpecked Egbert Sousé has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard.
Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A hard-working, white-collar girl from a middle-class family meets and falls in love with a young socialite, but she soon clashes with his family.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.