When ex-convict cabbie Jimmy Carmody is framed in a jewelry store robbery and murder, an old friend arranges for him to flee the country to the island of Caribo Read More »
Romance
The Gang’s All Here (1943) Busby Berkeley, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she’s starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific. Read More »
Waga koi wa moenu / Flame of My Love (1949) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Drama, Romance
A woman’s struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi Read More »
Ashima (1964) Qiong Liu, Likun Yang, Baosier, Chaoming Cui, Romance, Musical
Ashima is a brave and beautiful girl of the Sani people, beloved by all. One day as she is down at the lake to fetch water, she hears the sound of a shepherd’s flute coming from the hills across the lake. Read More »
Service for Ladies / Reserved for Ladies (1932) Alexander Korda, Leslie Howard, George Grossmith, Benita Hume, Comedy, Romance
Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. Read More »
Raffles (1939) Sam Wood, William Wyler, David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Dame May Whitty, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Read More »
A Very Honorable Guy (1934) Lloyd Bacon, Joe E. Brown, Alice White, Robert Barrat, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Well respected local good guy, Feet Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Read More »
Fanny Hill (1983) Gerry O’Hara, Lisa Foster, Oliver Reed, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Erotic
Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another until she is forced to become a prostitute to survive. Read More »
Doppelganger (1993) Avi Nesher, Drew Barrymore, George Newbern, Dennis Christopher, Horror, Romance, Thriller
A woman moves from NYC to LA after a murder, in which she is implicated. She is followed by what is apparently her evil alter- ego. Read More »
North West Mounted Police (1940) Cecil B. DeMille, Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (“Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?”, another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. Read More »
The Mayor of Hell (1933) Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz, James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron, Crime, Drama, Romance
Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Read More »
The Perfect Gentleman (1935) Tim Whelan, Frank Morgan, Cicely Courtneidge, Heather Angel, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father’s naughty exploits with a lively actress.
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Danger Zone (1951) William Berke, Hugh Beaumont, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Claire Underwood hires San Francisco private-detective Dennis O’Brien to purchase a saxophone case at an auction Read More »
Charley’s Aunt (1941) Archie Mayo, Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, Comedy, Romance
Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley’s Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Read More »
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) George Roy Hill, Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, Comedy, Musical, Romance
In 1922 New York City, Millie Dillmount and Miss Dorothy Brown are just two of the girls living at the Priscilla Hotel for Single Young Ladies run by Mrs. Meers. Read More »