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Mystery of the Wax Museum
New York England The 1930s The 1920sWarner Bros.' Supreme Thriller — The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Shanghai The 1920sThey found a love they dared not touch! — An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
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Dinner at Eight
New York The 1930sAn ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
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Cavalcade
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sTHE PICTURE OF THE GENERATION! — A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War.
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Heroes for Sale
The 1910sWhat good are medals on tortured breasts? — Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
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The Song of Songs
🇩🇪 Germany The 1900sAfter her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt's bookstore, and at night she sneaks across the street to model for Richard, a sculptor with whom she falls in love. A patron of Richard's, Baron von Merzbach, develops an interest in Lily that may not be with the best of intentions.
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The Eagle and the Hawk
England The 1910sOne a dauntless flyer, the other a relentless killer! — The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.
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The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives
The 1930sChristmas Eve. A poor orphan boy trudges through the snow, pathetically. He finally arrives at his miserable cabin. While he is crying, Santa arrives and, singing the title song, offers to take the boy to his workshop. They arrive, and the toys go wild (in the full version, they sing the title song, but this has been censored in some versions due to outdated stereotypes). He plays with a few toys. A candle falls off the tree and starts a fire. The toys try in vain to fight the fire; the boy hooks up a hose to a set of bagpipes and takes care of it.
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Apart From You
🇯🇵 Japan The 1930sFor Apart from You, Mikio Naruse turned his camera on the lives of working women, which he would continue to do throughout his long career. In this gently devastating drama, a critical breakthrough for the director, he contrasts the life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, with that of her youthful counterpart, a lovely young girl resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.
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Outskirts
The 1910sOutskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.
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The Prizefighter and the Lady
The 1930sGirls! There's a new passion in your life! — An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
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Ace of Aces
The 1910sA sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.
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Gabriel Over the White House
District of Columbia The 1930sThe sensation of a nation! — A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
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Today We Live
England The 1910sTwo lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
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Berkeley Square
England The 1930s The 18th CenturyA young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
New York The 1930sA New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
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Prisoner 13
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sColonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe Martinez, from his prison. Martinez has been sentenced to execution at the hands of a firing squad. Carrasco asks to have the revolutionary replaced by absolutely anyone. In a twist of fate, that anyone turns out to be his own long lost son Juan. Upon receiving this news, Marta races to the prison and explains the predicament to Carrasco. He subsequently desperately attempts to prevent the gunning down of his son by his very own government officials.
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Ever in My Heart
The 1910s The 1900sWorld War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
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Bosko's Picture Show
Nevada California England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1930s The 1890sBosko runs a movie theater that shows a wacky newsreel with Jack Dumpsey, a slapstick short from Haurel and Lardy, and a turn-of-the-century melodrama starring Honey.
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Hans Westmar
The 1930s The 1920sNazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--who took part in street brawls and assassinations in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s against Communists and other opponents of the Nazis, and was killed by Communists not long before this film came out.
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Give a Man a Job
The 1930sA three-minute short made in conjunction with the National Recovery Administration that urges employers to hire the unemployed.
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Hitler Youth Quex
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sOur Flag Leads Us Forward — Nazi film based upon the life and death of Hitler Youth Heini Volker, killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood.
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Victor and Victoria
The 1930sAspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick colleague, the slap-stick actor Viktor, at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works as a female impersonator. By chance, Susanne is then "discovered" by an agent, who thinks she′s really a man. She becomes famous and goes on tour to London. But when the local womanizer Robert catches on to her game, Viktor then has to jump in for Susanne as "Viktoria".
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I Was A Spy
The 1910sDuring World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
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One Sunday Afternoon
The 1930s The 1900sHE WONDERED FOR YEARS if he'd married the wrong girl... then fate told him astoundingly! — Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
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The White Sister
The 1910sThe SUPREME ROMANTIC THRILL of all time comes at last to the TALKING SCREEN! — An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.
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Flüchtlinge
🇷🇺 Russia Heilongjiang Province The 1920sPropaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
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Hell Below
🇮🇹 Italy The 1910sOn leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Friction between the two officers becomes intolerable once at sea and after Commander Toler is forced to abandon Tommy's best friend topside while the sub dives to escape enemy planes, Tommy is no longer able to contain his anger.
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The Yellow Cruise
The 1930sThe film tells the expedition leaving Beirut in Lebanon to rally China through the ancient Silk Road with half-tracks vehicles, between 1931 and 1932.
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After Tonight
🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1910sTwo lovers you'll never forget.....SHE a spy....knowing him to be her enemy. HE knowing her only as a woman..lovely, desirable...One Night of Ecstacy! — A Russian spy falls for an Austrian captain in this WW1 romance.
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Shanghai Madness
🇨🇳 China The 1920sIn the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops Wildeth off at a mission for safety, but when his boat returns the mission is being attacked by communists.
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Storm at Daybreak
🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇭🇺 Hungary The 1910sSarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
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Camicia nera
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Looking Forward
England The 1930sYour HEART KNOWS when a picture is GREAT! — Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
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Die Tochter des Regiments
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Two Minutes Silence
England The 1910sAnti-war tale in which several characters recollect their First World War experiences.
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The Girl from Maxim's
🇫🇷 France The 1900sA Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.
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Großfürstin Alexandra
🇦🇹 Austria 🇷🇺 Russia The 1910sFilm by Thiele.
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To Whom Does the World Belong?
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sKuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpaid back rent. The young man, brother of the protagonist Anni, removes his wristwatch and throws himself from a window out of despair. Shortly thereafter his family is evicted from their apartment. Now homeless, the family moves into a garden colony of sorts with the name “Kuhle Wampe.”
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Shanghai Express
Shanghai The 1930sMany Men Had Loved Her -- but only one had been loved in return ! — A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
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Scarface
Illinois The 1920sThe rise and fall of a power hungry mobster. — A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
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American Madness
New York The 1930sThe Great American Picture of Today! — Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
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The Most Dangerous Game
The 1930sThey saw the heads of hunted men in Zaroff's trophy room! — When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
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The Mummy
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930s The 1920sIt Comes to Life! — An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Illinois Georgia The 1930s The 1920sSix sticks of dynamite that blasted his way to freedom … and awoke America’s conscience! — A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Wooden Crosses
The 1910sThe young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.
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Three on a Match
The 1920s The 1910sMary, Vivian and Ruth are former schoolmates who do some catching up after a chance meeting. Of the three women, Vivian, who married successful lawyer Robert, seems to have the most glamorous life. Vivian really isn't satisfied though, and soon deserts Robert and her son for Mike, a mobster. Before long, Vivian is hooked on drugs, and Mike needs cash.
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