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Hypnotized
New JerseyA circus worker wins a sweepstakes prize of $150,000 and must travel to England to present his ticket and collect his winnings. He books passage on a transatlantic liner, but on board is a shady hypnotist who hears about the man's good fortune. He manages to get a chance to hypnotize the winner and then takes his ticket, after which he disappears. When the man wakes up and realizes his ticket has been stolen, he sets out to find the phony "professor" and reclaim his ticket.
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Der Feldherrnhügel
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The Company's in Love
🇩🇪 GermanyThe story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the film, they decide to replace her with the village's young post office clerk Gretl, who returns to Berlin with them. There she has to struggle with the movie's all-male crew, who all try to woo and win her.
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Der Frauendiplomat
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For the Love of Mike
EnglandA useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.
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Josser in the Army
England The 1910sCharting the military escapades of serial bungler Tommy Josser, Josser in the Army sees the hapless hero in France during wartime, where he masquerades as a German general, unmasks a spy, gets captured and then makes a spectacular airborne escape!
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Brother Alfred
🇫🇷 FranceVaudevillian Gene Gerrard stars as George, a young man on a yacht moored off Monte Carlo who has a tiff with his fiancée, goes ashore on a glorious binge, then finds himself accused of assaulting a prince! When he attempts to extricate himself by pretending to be his non-existent twin brother, he finds he's really in trouble...
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The Midshipmaid
England 🇲🇹 MaltaThe Midshipmaid is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Jessie Matthews, Frederick Kerr, Basil Sydney and Nigel Bruce.
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Lucky Girl
EnglandStephan Gregorovitch, the unwilling king of a bankrupt Ruritanian country, along with his hucksterish chancellor and musically-inclined bodyguard, travel incognito to London for some fun. An invitation to a party held by Duke Hugo seems just the ticket, but the presence of jewel thieves in the vicinity soon puts paid to any ideas of a relaxing evening!
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Let Me Explain, Dear
EnglandA husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket!
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Shanty Town
🇸🇪 SwedenAbout two neighboring houses on Södermalm in Stockholm and the people living in them.
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His Wife's Mother
EnglandA newlywed has a trying time proving his innocence when his mother-in-law catches him kissing another girl!
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Love on Wheels
EnglandA department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
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Money Talks
EnglandThis exuberant comedy about Jewish domestic life tells the story of an old man who is to inherit a legacy if he can prove he is in need, and who thus begins to gamble spectacularly with his savings.
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Old Spanish Customers
England 🇪🇸 SpainA henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
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Above Rubies
🇲🇨 MonacoA comedy short directed by Frank Richardson.
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Bachelor's Baby
EnglandA comedy film directed by Harry Hughes.
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A Night Like This
EnglandThe Merry Doings of Two Irresponsibles. — Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
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The Mayor's Nest
EnglandA trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
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Money for Nothing
🇲🇨 MonacoThe screenplay concerns a peniless gambler who is mistaken for a very wealthy man in Monte Carlo.
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A Safe Proposition
EnglandA British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
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Strip, Strip, Hooray!
EnglandA specialist sunbathing camp is threatened by a campaign by the leader of the 'Wear More Clothes League'.
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Thark
EnglandMrs Todd is aggrieved at finding that the country house she has bought is evidently haunted. Sir Hector Benbow and his nephew, on behalf of the previous owner, set out to demonstrate that there is no ghost.
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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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Emil and the Detectives
🇩🇪 GermanyWhen a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.
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The Smiling Lieutenant
🇦🇹 Austria The 1910sMaurice Chevalier laughing and loving again in Ernst Lubitsch's sparkling cocktail of romantic merriment — A simple wink, intended by Austrian palace guard Lt. Nikolaus von Preyn for girlfriend, Franzi, is accidentally intercepted -- and misread -- by the visiting Princess Anna. As a result, the soldier has no choice but to marry the royal lady and move with her to the neighboring kingdom of Flausenthurm. His girlfriend follows to continue the romance and, subversively, give Princess Anna tips on how to keep her husband satisfied.
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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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Sidewalks of New York
New YorkNothing but laughs! — A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.
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50 Million Frenchmen
🇫🇷 FranceSometimes funny, sometimes painful — In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to successfully court a lovely woman with out spending any money. To foil his scheme, the other bettor hires two henchman to stop him.
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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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The Congress Dances
🇦🇹 Austria The 1810sVienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.
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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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The Man in Possession
EnglandA deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office is guarding the assets in her house.
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A Connecticut Yankee
England The Middle AgesMore Laughs than the law allows! — Making a delivery to a mysterious mansion in a rainstorm, radio salesman Hank Martin is knocked out when a suit of armor topples on him. Upon awakening, Hank finds himself in the time of King Arthur. At Camelot Castle, Hank uses a cigarette lighter and his skill with a lasso to save himself from being executed as a demon. Hank so impresses Arthur that the king orders him to joust with one of his knights to save the life of Princess Alisande.
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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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Delicious
New YorkA comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
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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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Tonight or Never
🇮🇹 ItalyA young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
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Her Majesty, Love
🇩🇪 GermanyThe wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage Fred to break the engagement. Lia goes to Berlin to marry a Baron von Schwarzdorf, and Fred arrives too late to stop the marriage.
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Ariane
🇫🇷 FranceAriane was Hungarian director Paul Czinner's first talking picture. Starring in the title role is Czinner's charming wife, Elizabeth Bergner, likewise making her talkie debut. Young, naive Ariane sets herself for an emotional fall when she falls in love with Konstantin (Rudolf Forster), a much older and very married businessman. For his part, Konstantin regards the girl as just another harmless fling -- until he realizes a shade too late that he's really in love with her after all. Filmed in German, Ariane was simultaneously lensed in an English-language version, The Loves of Ariane.
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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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