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If I Had a Million
The 1930sYOU'VE OFTEN SAID IT! NOW SEE WHAT HAPPENS! — An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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Big City Blues
New YorkIt's Sweet and Hot! — An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
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Central Park
New YorkTwo destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
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Three Wise Girls
New YorkA virtuous small town girl supports her mother on her salary as a soda jerk. — Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.
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The Black Hussar
🇩🇪 Germany The 1810s The 1800sIn 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Several paramilitary Freikorps units battle the French forces, among them the Black Brunswickers led by the 'Black Duke' Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After the War of the Fifth Coalition, the Black Hussars are pursued by Napoleon throughout the country, but frequently take refuge with the noble-minded German people.
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City Lights
The 1930sTrue Blind Love — In this sound-era silent film, a tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower seller.
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The Front Page
IllinoisA Picture That Has Cracked This Shock-Proof Town Wide Open! — Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter is looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.
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Marius
🇫🇷 FranceCésar runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M. Panisse, an aging widower and prosperous sail maker; Honorine, a fishmonger with a sidewalk stall near the bar; her daughter, Fanny, who helps her sell cockles; and, various old salts. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, comic spirit, tries to guide his son.
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The 3 Penny Opera
England The 19th CenturyIn London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
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The Guardsman
🇦🇹 AustriaHE MADE SECRET LOVE TO HIS OWN WIFE! — An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes him (her husband, that is) to be out of town. The actress shows every sign of succumbing to the "Russian's" advances, yet the husband can never quite put the stamp of certainty on her behavior. The truth eventually reveals itself...or does it?
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Bachelor Apartment
New YorkA New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
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Bombs Over Monte Carlo
🇲🇨 MonacoThe captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
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Tokyo Chorus
Tokyo PrefectureMr. Omura, a teacher, leads a group of male students in an outdoor drill. One slight, comic young man, Shinji Okajima, has no shirt under his jacket; he scratches at fleas and makes faces behind Omura's back. Jump ahead several years, Shinji is married with three children. He sells insurance, and on the company's annual bonus day, he protests when an older worker is fired. Shinji loses his own job as a result, and he and his wife must find ways to cope. Lassitude, pride, the demands and needs of young children, and relationships from bygone school days all play a part in the outcome of their struggle.
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Devotion
EnglandA young Londoner (Ann Harding) disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister (Leslie Howard) she loves.
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Border Law
TexasWhen Shag Smith kills Jim's brother Bob, Jim and Thunder quit the rangers so they can cross the border and join Smith's gang. Jim's plan is to get the gang to cross back over the border where the rangers will be waiting.
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Sally in Our Alley
England The 1910sA woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her
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Working Girls
New YorkMEN may do the bossing- but the girls make their own plans for them! — Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her sister June, more streetwise, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
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The Flying Fool
England 🇫🇷 FranceVincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe.....
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Hobson's Choice
EnglandA coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.
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The Three from the Filling Station
🇩🇪 GermanyDie Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.
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Au bonheur des dames
The 1920sDenise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.
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Juno and the Paycock
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sDuring the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.
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Under the Roofs of Paris
🇫🇷 FranceIn the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for beautiful Romanian immigrant Pola. Pola's boyfriend, local hoodlum Fred, grows jealous of Albert's constant attention to his woman and frames the hapless musician for one of his own petty crimes. But while Albert is in prison for Fred's misdeed, Pola ends up falling for Albert's faithful best friend, Louis.
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Golden Dawn
Africa - GeneralGolden Dawn (1930) is a musical operetta released by Warner Brothers, photographed entirely in Technicolor, and starring Walter Woolf King and Noah Beery. The film is based on the semi-hit stage musical of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach. Beery's extraordinarily deep bass voice registers particularly well in the songs.
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Tom Sawyer
Arkansas Illinois Missouri Kentucky The 1830sThe classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.
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Show Girl in Hollywood
CaliforniaSTUDIO SECRETS EXPOSED! — Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
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The Lady of Scandal
EnglandA famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
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Woman in the Moon
The MoonA scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
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So This Is College
CaliforniaTHE ALL-TALKING COLLEGIATE LAUGH RIOT! — Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
England 🇲🇨 MonacoMen adored her-women envied her. through London's gilded society she swept, leaving a trail of broken hearts- and stolen jewels. — There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. Invited to the house of Mrs. Webley, Fay is again the center of attention for Arthur and Elton with her leaning towards stuffy old Elton. When Arthur sees Charles, Fay's Butler, lurking in the gardens, he remembers that Charles was a thief caught in Monte Carlo and he figures that Fay may be more interested in the pearls of Mrs. Webley, which she is. After Fay takes the pearls, but before she can toss them out the window, she is caught by Arthur who is very disappointed in how things are turning out.
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The Girl in the Show
KansasIn this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.
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Syncopation
New YorkBenny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country as part of a revue. The revue gets picked up and taken to New York City, to be on Broadway. However, it quickly folds, and the two are forced to look for other employment. They eventually find work in a nightclub, becoming famous.But while performing at the nightclub, Flo becomes entranced by a young, sophisticated millionaire playboy, Winston.
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South Sea Rose
South Pacific - GeneralA French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband. She wears short skirts and shocks the puritanical New Englanders in her new home with her wild candid ways...
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Melodie des Herzens
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1900sA young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.
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The Cameraman
New YorkYou'll laugh yourself completely out of focus! — A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
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The Farmer's Wife
EnglandSuccessful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
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Lonesome
New YorkWith all the glamor and glitter of Coney Island that millions everywhere are always eager to see — Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
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A Girl in Every Port
🇫🇷 FranceYou'll Like This One!---It's a rollicking, jolly, happy picture---a laugh all the way. — Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?
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The Garden of Eden
🇲🇨 Monaco 🇭🇺 HungaryIf you think you're blasé---if you believe nothing on earth can make you perk up and stare---this is the film to see! It's a fascinating folderol of fun! — Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.
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Riley the Cop
🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 GermanyIn this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
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A Lady of Chance
New York New Jersey AlabamaA con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.
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Paradise
England 🇫🇷 FranceThe daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.
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It
New YorkA salesgirl with plenty of 'it' pursues a handsome playboy. — A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as "it."
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Chicago
IllinoisBased on a true crime story, the movie is about a wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart who kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her, and how she finagles her way out being convicted. Remade once as a movie, and as a Broadway musical.
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Der Bettler vom Kölner Dom
🇩🇪 GermanyAn international gang of thieves and swindlers decide to move their criminal operation to the Teutonic city of Cologne, but Tom Wilkens, one of the best agents of the international police, is not far behind and leads an investigation to unmask the criminals.
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Love Me and the World Is Mine
🇦🇹 Austria The 1910sIn Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two men; the first is a dashing young army officer who can provide blazing romance and little long-time security. The other is an older man, influential in the affairs of Austria, who could provide wealth...and tender devotion. Hannerl thinks about it.
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The General
Tennessee Georgia The 1860sBuster drives "The General" to trainload of laughter. — During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
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