Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 29, 1870
Deathday: February 19, 1952
Popularity:
1932-02-12
Overview: A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Genres: Drama Romance War Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-12
Popularity:
1939-01-13
Overview: One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-13
Popularity:
1932-11-05
Overview: The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.
Genres: Adventure Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-05
Popularity:
1936-03-06
Overview: An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
Popularity:
1938-03-25
Overview: American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-25
Popularity:
1939-10-06
Overview: A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
Popularity:
1933-02-24
Overview: Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-24
Popularity:
1932-07-08
Overview: A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
Popularity:
1935-05-13
Overview: A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-13
Popularity:
1942-08-11
Overview: A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-11
Popularity:
1938-07-06
Overview: A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-06
Popularity:
1929-05-02
Overview: Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-02
Popularity:
1929-02-16
Overview: A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-16
Popularity:
1920-08-06
Overview: When, on a prank, shimmy dancer Marcia Meadows visits bookworm Horace Tarbox in his Yale dormitory, Horace falls madly in love and follows her to New York where he and Marcia marry. Denounced by his wealthy father, Horace attempts to support Marcia through his writing, but all his manuscripts are rejected, and he is fired from every job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-06
Popularity:
1936-02-21
Overview: A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-21
Popularity:
1931-10-06
Overview: At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and criminals staying at the hotel who are determined to get it. A suave gentleman thief arrives at the hotel one day with his own plan to get the loot, but complications ensue when he begins to fall for the daughter.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-06
Popularity:
1921-03-07
Overview: The marriage of Jim and Esther spirals downhill rapidly when Esther purchases a sable coat for herself. Hoping to live up to her expensive accessory, Esther soon is keeping company with caddish Morrell. Jim brings his wife's galavanting to an abrupt end by committing suicide. Esther as an object lesson for young Alice Kendall, returns the fur coat that she's bought on impulse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-07
Popularity:
1932-10-15
Overview: Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-15
Popularity:
1935-10-25
Overview: After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
Popularity:
1927-12-24
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-24
Popularity:
1938-10-12
Overview: Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for is a man who can take care of himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-12
Popularity:
1933-04-28
Overview: Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-28
Popularity:
1933-12-18
Overview: A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-18
Popularity:
1928-05-14
Overview: A young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-14
Popularity:
1934-02-01
Overview: Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck that he decides to make her a performer at his musical theater. Soon, Nana is a star, and the girlfriend of Greiner and two other men. But when he learns that she's been getting around, Greiner fires her. As she tries to reclaim her singing job while dodging yet another suitor, her treachery might get the better of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-01
Popularity:
1931-01-19
Overview: Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-19
Popularity:
1934-04-20
Overview: Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-20
Popularity:
1930-05-30
Overview: Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the "underside" of big-city life.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-30
Popularity:
1933-09-22
Overview: An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-22
Popularity:
1936-06-25
Overview: In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-25
Popularity:
1939-03-03
Overview: Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
Popularity:
1932-08-27
Overview: A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Jean Parker and Louise Beavers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-27
Popularity:
1939-05-31
Overview: The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-31
Popularity:
1939-11-23
Overview: A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-23
Popularity:
1932-12-01
Overview: A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-01
Popularity:
1942-03-13
Overview: Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
Popularity:
1940-06-05
Overview: A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She travels to England and is assigned to a hospital under a very strict matron. What the girl doesn't know is that the matron is the mother she has never seen.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-05
Popularity:
1933-02-08
Overview: A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-08
Popularity:
1928-02-19
Overview: A woman must choose between a life on the farm and a life of luxury.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-19
Popularity:
1930-08-15
Overview: Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land an interview with Romanian General Skulany (Noah Beery). Our couple is split apart by a pair of storylines - Nanette tries to woo a Russian prince (Lowell Sherman) who is blackmailing her sister, while Charlie, following a lead to the general, finds himself Romantically involved with Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland), "the general's favorite."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-15
Popularity:
1930-11-10
Overview: Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-10
Popularity:
1939-11-10
Overview: During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
Popularity:
1931-07-12
Overview: Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera. Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother and former girlfriend, Stancia, and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-12
Popularity:
1936-04-02
Overview: The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to Geneva by train, Tony is drugged by sexy cabaret dancer Raquel, who promptly steals the message -- only to be murdered by sinister master spy Sebastian, owner of a posh gambling casino known as The House of a Thousand Candles.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-02
Popularity:
1941-08-12
Overview: Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-12
Popularity:
1928-11-03
Overview: A silent film directed by Ludwig Berger.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-03
Popularity:
1932-05-22
Overview: In a plan to trap potential enemy spies in Washington, an American secret agent sets up a gambling house. He soon finds himself in a rivalry with his old friend the British ambassador over a beautiful Hungarian woman, and it leads to espionage, blackmail and murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-22
Popularity:
1933-12-26
Overview: Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
Popularity:
1935-03-01
Overview: The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
Popularity:
1938-04-03
Overview: Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-03
Popularity:
1945-11-02
Overview: During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-02
Popularity:
1940-12-05
Overview: Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
Popularity:
1940-10-19
Overview: German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-19
Popularity:
1937-05-31
Overview: In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about growing opposition from the Huguenots in the south. The Cardinal also warns de Berault that dueling has been outlawed, and will henceforth be punishable by death. Gil, however, promptly disobeys the law and is indeed sentenced to death. The Cardinal offers to cancel the sentence if de Berault is able to capture the duke who is organizing plans for an uprising. Gil travels to the duke's castle and is allowed to stay as a guest, but the duke's wife and sister immediately suspect that he is a spy. He and his servant still make good progress, until he falls in love with the duke's sister, which complicates everything.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-31
Popularity:
1937-08-28
Overview: An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he arrives, however, he is spotted by a young Coast Guard man, whom he kills - and thus earns the enmity of the entire US Coast Guard, but especially the murdered Guardsman's older brother who, together with his reporter-girlfriend and her comical photographer, vigorously sets to tracking him down and interfering with his plans to develop the city-melting gas in quantity. A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-28
Popularity:
1928-03-10
Overview: A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also happen to be the guardians of a wealthy young man to whom she is attracted. Only a small fragment of this film survives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1928-03-10
Popularity:
1929-10-19
Overview: It is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy and "Tiger Rag". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but the film itself is considered a lost film, according to the Vitaphone Project website. A five minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-19
Popularity:
1934-09-06
Overview: After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to revenge himself on them.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-06
Popularity:
1924-03-09
Overview: The adventures of a young shopgirl who learns that having money is not the key to happiness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-09
Popularity:
1937-08-19
Overview: Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-19
Popularity:
1931-09-24
Overview: At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
Genres: Crime Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-24
Popularity:
1927-08-06
Overview: Albert Leroux, headwaiter at an exclusive Paris hotel, falls hopelessly in love with Elizabeth Foster, an American heiress, though he is convinced that she will never admire a waiter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-06
Popularity:
1930-12-05
Overview: A ladies' man flirts with the wives of other governments' officials.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-05
Popularity:
1926-02-21
Overview: Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and clumsy, but also quite fascinating. She takes him into her employ insisting he does everything she asks.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-21
Popularity:
1926-09-04
Overview: An American dancer on a tour of pre-Boleshevik Russia falls for a young army officer, and the feeling is mutual. However, the officer's father is the Grand Duke of Russia, and he has designs on the girl himself--not letting a minor detail like his already being married bother him--and refuses to let his son marry her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-04
Popularity:
1933-02-03
Overview: A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
Popularity:
1935-10-21
Overview: An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
Popularity:
1939-11-08
Overview: The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-08
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1941-08-20
Overview: A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-20
Popularity:
1931-07-02
Overview: Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-02
Popularity:
1924-09-29
Overview: Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia, is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except for a young but cold British widow, Tamara Loraine. While she's spurning his advances, Tamara is growing ever more fascinated with Gritzko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-29
Popularity:
1932-08-13
Overview: A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-13
Popularity:
1938-08-26
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
Popularity:
1935-03-29
Overview: In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-29
Popularity:
1927-09-30
Overview: Le Marquis de Marignan is a French aristocrat and seducer who flirts with every Parisian girl he meets. If dallying with youngster fräuleins isn't enough to keep him busy, the Marquis also has to cope with an unexpected visit from his fiancée and her father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-30
Popularity:
1934-12-24
Overview: A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-24
Popularity:
1924-02-02
Overview: A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1924-02-02
Popularity:
1935-05-03
Overview: In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
Popularity:
1920-11-15
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-15
Popularity:
1928-03-28
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-28
Popularity: