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Accent on Youth (1935) Wesley Ruggles, Sylvia Sidney, Herbert Marshall, Phillip Reed, Comedy, Romance

Steven Gaye, a successful New York playwright has passed forty and thinks he has bid farewell to the world of romance. Read More »
Channel Crossing (1933) Milton Rosmer, Matheson Lang, Constance Cummings, Anthony Bushell, Crime, Drama

Money isn’t everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil. Read More »
Little Boy Blue (1997) Antonio Tibaldi, Ryan Phillippe, Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Drama

Living in the rural Texas panhandle is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that’s left him impotent Read More »
They Flew Alone / Wings and the Woman (1942) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Edward Chapman, Drama

The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Read More »
Two Girls on Broadway (1940) S. Sylvan Simon, Lana Turner, Joan Blondell, George Murphy, Musical, Romance

Eddie sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. Read More »
Sergeant Madden (1939) Josef von Sternberg, Wallace Beery, Tom Brown, Alan Curtis, Crime, Drama, Family

A highly respected Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force. Read More »
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939) Alexander Hall, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Walter Connolly, Comedy

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, confides to English Professor Ronald Brooke that she is willing to gold-dig and blackmail her way to a Paris vacation. Read More »
O.H.M.S. / Youre in the Army Now (1937) Raoul Walsh, Wallace Ford, John Mills, Anna Lee, Action, Comedy, Drama

American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Read More »
The Story of Molly X (1949) Crane Wilbur, June Havoc, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

Molly’s husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he’s shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start anew. Read More »