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Illegal
EnglandThis is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
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Sherlock Holmes
EnglandMoriarty is sentenced to death, and Sherlock Holmes prepares to retire to the country and marry his girl. But Moriarty has sworn that Holmes, Lt. Col. Gore-King of Scotland Yard, and his trial judge shall all be hanged too. When Moriarty escapes and proceeds to put his threat into operation, Holmes has to postpone his retirement.
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Hearts of Humanity
EnglandGenial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son, Shandy from Ireland. Several days before the ship is to dock, O'Hara gets a radiogram informing him that his wife has died at sea. That night a burglar breaks into the Antigue & Second Hand Shop ran by Sol Bloom, directly below O'Hara's flat. The burglar shoots O'Hara, who has rushed to his friend's aid, and, with his last breath he asks Sol to take care of Shandy. When Shandy arrives, Sol immediately makes him a member of the family, which also consists of a very mischievous motherless boy named Joey Bloom, whose pursuits consist of stealing oranges from fruit-dealer Tony, and playing hookey from school. Tom Varney, the young beat cop, is in love with Ruth Sneider, whose mother runs a Cleaning and Dyeling establishment. Ruth, however, is momentarily dazed with worthless Dave Haller.
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Lovers Courageous
EnglandA daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.
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But the Flesh Is Weak
EnglandA poor-but-charming father (C. Aubrey Smith) and son (Robert Montgomery) try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.
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The Phantom Fiend
EnglandAn elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
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Looking on the Bright Side
EnglandGracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period.
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Cynara
EnglandBack to the arms of his wife after a hectic weekend with his mistress! — A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
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The Impassive Footman
EnglandA woman finds brief respite from the selfishness of her husband with a young doctor, and their mutual attraction is rekindled by a chance meeting at a concert.
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The Water Gipsies
EnglandJane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
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Service for Ladies
EnglandMax Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
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The Ringer
EnglandA shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
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The Faithful Heart
England The 1890sHerbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.
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Lord Camber's Ladies
EnglandIn this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
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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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The Silent Witness
EnglandA London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).
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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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After Office Hours
EnglandA bird's-eye view of life in a City of London office.
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The Midshipmaid
EnglandThe 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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When London Sleeps
EnglandSlippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
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The Man Called Back
EnglandFresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
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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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Frail Women
England The 1910sAn illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.
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Shanty Town
🇸🇪 SwedenAbout two neighboring houses on Södermalm in Stockholm and the people living in them.
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The Wonderful Story
EnglandA paralysed farmer watches his brother fall in love with the woman he intended to marry.
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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
EnglandA henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
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Verdict of the Sea
EnglandWhen 'Gentleman' Burton boards the Capri his aura of mystery makes the crew curious about his origins and makes him especially attractive to the Captain's daughter. But he little realises the danger that is to unfold when the Captain conceals diamonds on board as a favour...
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Rynox
EnglandWealthy businessman F.X. Benedik, Head of the Rynox company, claims to have been receiving threats from a mysterious stranger named Boswell Marsh. Benedik is subsequently found murdered and the hunt is on for the elusive Marsh. Benedik's son Tony takes over the running of the business and tries to find some lead on Marsh, and why he should have borne a murderous grudge against Benedik Senior. His investigations lead him to the unexpected finding that Marsh never existed.
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Almost Married
EnglandThrills! Chills! AND GRIM REALITIES IN A MELODRAMATIC SHOCKER — With the firing squad at the ready and the Bolsheviks at her heels, Anita Mellikovna (Violet Heming) is given safe passage out of Moscow by embassy attaché Deene Maxwell (Ralph Bellamy). Deene weds Anita, unaware that she is still legally the wife of Louis Capristi (Alexander Kirkland), an incarcerated madman. When Capristi learns of the marriage, he escapes and makes his way to London where he turns the newlyweds’ heaven into a living hell.
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Bachelor's Baby
EnglandA comedy film directed by Harry Hughes.
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The Callbox Mystery
EnglandA British crime film directed by G.B. Samuelson.
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Dance Pretty Lady
England The 1900sDuring the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.
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Diamond Cut Diamond
EnglandOne of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.
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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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Men of Steel
EnglandJames Harg and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, Harg works on ideas for a revolutionary new manufacturing process for hard steel. When his father is badly injured in a workplace accident resulting from employer negligence, Harg uses some of the compensation payment to develop his invention to a stage where it can be tested in practice. It is a huge success and Harg patents his process. He rises to a position on the board of the company, before staging a coup to oust his former employer and take over the business himself.
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Murder at Covent Garden
EnglandA detective goes undercover and poses as a criminal to try to discover the reasons behind the murder of a night club owner.
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Murder on the Second Floor
EnglandA novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
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The Return of Raffles
EnglandA British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham
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A Safe Proposition
EnglandA British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
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Sally Bishop
EnglandA British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter
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The Strangler
EnglandA British crime film directed by Norman Lee
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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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