A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel Read More »
Romance
Sweet Adeline (1934) Mervyn LeRoy, Irene Dunne, Donald Woods, Hugh Herbert
The 1929 Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical Sweet Adeline has generally been credited as the vanguard Read More »
The Girl from Mexico (1939) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Donald Woods, Leon Errol
In the first entry of an unintended-series that turned into a long-running series for RKO Read More »
Loves of Jeanne Nye AKA Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Read More »
Shooting Stars (1928) Anthony Asquith, A.V. Bramble, Annette Benson, Brian Aherne, Donald Calthrop
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers Read More »
The Girl Downstairs (1938) Norman Taurog, Franciska Gaal, Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly
Paul Wagner and Rosalind Brown are in love, but her father doesn’t feel Paul’s lifestyle will make him a suitable husband for his daughter. Read More »
Yoshiwara (1937) Max Ophüls, Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa, Michiko Tanaka
Late nineteenth century. Young Kohana is sent to Yoshiwara, a suburb of Tokyo where exercise the profession of geisha. Read More »
The Affair AKA Jôen (1967) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Yoshie Minami, Tadahiko Sugano
A woman, unhappily married to a cheating executive, starts meeting her dead mother’s lover Read More »
San Francisco Docks (1940) Arthur Lubin, Burgess Meredith, Irene Hervey, Barry Fitzgerald
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes (Burgess Meredith) is in love with Kitty Tracy (Irene Hervey) Read More »
Spawn of the North (1938) Henry Hathaway, George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour
Two Alaskan salmon fishermen, Tyler Dawson (skipper of the “Who Cares”) and Jim Kimmerlee of the “Old Reliable,” are lifelong pals. Read More »
The Big Street (1942) Irving Reis, Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane
Little Pinks is in love with a nightclub singer named Gloria. But it is a unrequited love as she does not know that he exists. Read More »
Tripoli (1950) Will Price, John Payne, Maureen O’Hara, Howard Da Silva
The U. S. Marine Corps hymn starts with “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli” Read More »
Sonia (1980) Takis Kanellopoulos, Antigoni Doudoumi, Spiros Focás, Kostas Lahas
The brief history of love Sonia lived in the summer with his teacher, greater and married in the early 60s By the fall man Read More »
The Impatient Maiden (1932) James Whale, Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, Una Merkel
Myron Brooks, a medical-school student, graduates and starts his internship at a hospital. Read More »
Bulldog Drummond’s Bride (1939) James P. Hogan, John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner
A bank-robbery in London prevents – again – the marriage of Bulldog Drummond with his girlfriend. Read More »