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Because of Him

Because of Him

Because of Him
IMDb: 6.7
88

A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
State Fair

State Fair

State Fair
IMDb: 7
100

During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Thin Man Goes Home

The Thin Man Goes Home

The Thin Man Goes Home
IMDb: 7.3
101

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Genre: Comedy, Mystery
They Got Me Covered

They Got Me Covered

They Got Me Covered
IMDb: 6.5
95

Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn’t all he’s botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry…

Genre: Comedy
Lost Angel

Lost Angel

Lost Angel
IMDb: 7.1
91

Alpha’s been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the…

Genre: Drama
Du Barry was a Lady

Du Barry was a Lady

Du Barry was a Lady
IMDb: 6.1
101

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis…

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Air Raid Wardens

Air Raid Wardens

Air Raid Wardens
IMDb: 6.1
67

Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.

Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat
IMDb: 6.2
105

Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Maisie Gets Her Man

Maisie Gets Her Man

Maisie Gets Her Man
IMDb: 6.2
85

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton’s lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Babes on Broadway

Babes on Broadway

Babes on Broadway
IMDb: 6.6
118

Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up their own show to…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
A Woman’s Face

A Woman’s Face

A Woman’s Face
IMDb: 7.2
106

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Feminine Touch

The Feminine Touch

The Feminine Touch
IMDb: 6.4
97

A college professor who believes there’s no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Come Live with Me

Come Live with Me

Come Live with Me
IMDb: 7
86

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Third Finger, Left Hand

Third Finger, Left Hand

Third Finger, Left Hand
IMDb: 6.8
96

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don’t go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the…

Genre: Comedy
Star Dust

Star Dust

Star Dust
IMDb: 6.6
86

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she’s too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Sky Murder

Sky Murder

Sky Murder
IMDb: 6
72

This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the…

The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James
IMDb: 6.6
92

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse’s killers, the back-shooting Fords. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

Genre: Western
Phantom Raiders

Phantom Raiders

Phantom Raiders
IMDb: 6.1
70

In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to…

My Little Chickadee

My Little Chickadee

My Little Chickadee
IMDb: 6.8
83

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach’s shipment of gold. When…

Genre: Comedy, Western
Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet

Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet

Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet
IMDb: 7.4
103

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Genre: Drama
Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln
IMDb: 7.5
100

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge,…

Genre: Drama, History
Stagecoach

Stagecoach

Stagecoach
IMDb: 7.8
96

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Nick Carter, Master Detective
IMDb: 6.1
59

Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Jesse James

Jesse James

Jesse James
IMDb: 7
106

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Genre: Western
Hollywood Cavalcade

Hollywood Cavalcade

Hollywood Cavalcade
IMDb: 6.5
97

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Blondie Takes a Vacation

Blondie Takes a Vacation

Blondie Takes a Vacation
IMDb: 6.8
72

Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson…

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
You Can’t Take It with You

You Can’t Take It with You

You Can’t Take It with You
IMDb: 7.8
126

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match….

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Having Wonderful Time

Having Wonderful Time

Having Wonderful Time
IMDb: 6
70

Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Double Danger

Double Danger

Double Danger
IMDb: 5.7
60

A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable “Konjer Diamonds”. Director Lew Landers’ 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
IMDb: 7.1
91

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

Genre: Adventure, Family
The Toast of New York

The Toast of New York

The Toast of New York
IMDb: 6.3
109

After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Parnell

Parnell

Parnell
IMDb: 5.3
118

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O’Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.

Breakfast for Two

Breakfast for Two

Breakfast for Two
IMDb: 6.4
67

After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven
IMDb: 6.6
81

Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
And So They Were Married

And So They Were Married

And So They Were Married
IMDb: 6
74

A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Whole Town’s Talking

The Whole Town’s Talking

The Whole Town’s Talking
IMDb: 7.3
93

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He’s never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Peter Ibbetson

Peter Ibbetson

Peter Ibbetson
IMDb: 6.9
88

When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with…

Mark of the Vampire

Mark of the Vampire

Mark of the Vampire
IMDb: 6.2
60

Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim’s friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes…

Genre: Horror, Mystery
The Informer

The Informer

The Informer
IMDb: 7.4
91

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He’s desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Captain Blood

Captain Blood

Captain Blood
IMDb: 7.7
119

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.