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Sunday Punch
New YorkMa Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes to stay for a visit, college dropout Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Swedish janitor Ole (Dan Dailey Jr.) immediately fall for her charms. Ken considers going back to college for Judy, but his fight promoter is less than thrilled with this idea. Meanwhile, Ole is determined to meet Ken in the ring to vie for Judy's heart.
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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
New YorkThe happiest day of a girl's life... and then a strange shadow falls across her love! — The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
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Tobacco Road
Georgia The 1930sON THE SCREEN AT LAST! The Picture you've waited eight years to see...Picturized by the men who gave you "GRAPES OF WRATH" — Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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Charlie Chan in Rio
🇧🇷 BrazilA pair of murders in Rio de Janeiro leads the local police to call the famed detective. Charlie is puzzled, at first, when it appears that one of the murderers is killed by the first victim's widow.
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Teresa Venerdì
🇮🇹 ItalyA comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend, Loletta Prima (Magnani). After his creditors threaten to sell his belongings, he takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay his debts and ends up engaged to wealthy Lilli, daughter of a mattress tycoon, and chased after by the orphan Teresa Venerdí, while trying to keep his life in order.
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Cottage to Let
Scotland England The 1940sAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
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Honky Tonk
The 19th CenturyAnother "Boom Town" but better ! — Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Cheers For Miss Bishop
The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sElla Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
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Barnacle Bill
CaliforniaWally and Margie are a riot! — Director Richard Thorpe's 1941 film stars Wallace Beery as a crusty old San Pedro fisherman, Virginia Weidler as his precocious and motherless daughter, Marjorie Main as a waterfront spinster hoping to reel in a husband, and an ever-present pelican with immaculate comic timing.
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Kipps
The 1900s The 1890sA young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Wyoming The 1860sThe story of a gal who could dish it out...and take it! — Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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Flying Blind
NevadaA plane-load of thrills ... as two lovers battle spies in the skies! — A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
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Jeannie
Scotland England 🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 AustriaBased on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.
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The Shop Around the Corner
🇭🇺 HungaryTwo employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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Brother Orchid
New York England 🇫🇷 France 🇲🇨 Monaco 🇮🇹 ItalyWe'd like youse to meet Brother Orchid! — 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.
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Remember the Night
New York Pennsylvania IndianaBarbara and Fred in 1940's first great love affair…! — When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.
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Clothes Make the Man
The 1830sThe daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, which he appropriated for himself and he puts it on as he leaves the shop. A puppeteer picks him up in his coach and addresses Wenzel as "Count". So is he received in Goldach, where people think he is Count Stroganoff, the ambassador to the Czar of Russia.
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Murder Over New York
New YorkWhen 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.
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Down Argentine Way
New York 🇦🇷 ArgentinaGLAMOROUS BUENOS AIRES NIGHT LIFE WITH SOUTH AMERICAN'S TANTALIZING, TORRID-VOICED CARMEN MIRANDA — An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.
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The Foundling
🇷🇺 RussiaA little girl is lost in Moscow and hits the road making fun (not intentionally) of everybody she meets. She'll be back home soon but she will change the life of at least one man forever...
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The Well-Digger's Daughter
The 1940sA rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.
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Arise, My Love
🇪🇸 Spain 🇫🇷 France The 1930sHere's the gay, glorious story of a war correspondent and a war ace...a romance that could happen only in 1940! — In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through the deepening chaos and catastrophe of the early days of World War II.
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Busman's Honeymoon
EnglandMystery thrills in a LOVE NEST! — When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
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Gold Rush Maisie
ArizonaIT'S A LAUGH RUSH! — Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
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Lucky Partners
New YorkTwo strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
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Little Old New York
New York The 1800sA spirited belle of the brawling waterfront, fighting for the heart of handsome Robert Fulton — Inventor Robert Fulton (Richard Greene) receives support from a tavern owner (Alice Faye) and a shipyard worker (Fred MacMurray) to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
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Return to Yesterday
EnglandRobert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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I Was an Adventuress
🇫🇷 FrancePosing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
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The Shining Path
🇷🇺 Russia The 1930sTanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.
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The Rules of the Game
🇫🇷 France The 1930sA weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
District of ColumbiaRomance, drama, laughter and heartbreak... created out of the very heart and soil of America! — Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Made for Each Other
New York The 1930sHeartbreak...! — A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
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The Women
New York NevadaIt's all about men! — A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Pygmalion
EnglandHe picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly ! — When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
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The Little Princess
England The 1890sA great classic comes to life in glorious Technicolor! — The classic Shirley Temple film in which a little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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Love Affair
New York Atlantic OceanFrench playboy Michel Marnet and American Terry McKay fall in love during the transatlantic passage of a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
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Eternally Yours
New YorkShe lived at the edge of life - with out-stretched arms . . . too short to reach it! Romance - a baffling reality. — Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
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Everything Happens at Night
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandTwo reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
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Tractor Drivers
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1930sThe story takes place in a Soviet placed in what is now Ukraine. A mechanic arrives in the Soviet, lead by a young independent woman driving tractors and, between many comedy sketches and propaganda mottoes, a love comes to light.
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Ménilmontant
🇫🇷 FranceA French comedy drama film directed by René Guissart.
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu
HawaiiWhile Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
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You Can't Take It with You
New YorkYou'll love them all for giving you the swellest time you've ever had! — 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. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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The Baker's Wife
The 1930sIn this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a shepherd the night after Aimable produces his first breads. Aimable is so afflicted that he can not work anymore. Therefore, the villagers, who initially laughed at his cuckoldry, take the matter very seriously (they want the bread) and organize a plan to find Aurelie and to bring her back to the bakery.
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The Divorce of Lady X
EnglandThe morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.
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The Baroness and the Butler
🇭🇺 HungaryA Butler (Powell) gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
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