Jean De Briac
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 14, 1891
Deathday: October 18, 1970
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Salty O'Rourke
1945-03-22
Salty O'Rourke
Overview: A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938-03-25
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
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
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Parisian Love
1925-08-01
Parisian Love
Overview: Armand and Marie survive in the streets until charitable (and wealthy) scientist Pierre Marcel takes Armand in after a botched robbery. Marie, a fiery Apache, swears revenge on Marcel for taking her lover away from her.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-01
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Dodsworth
1936-09-23
Dodsworth
Overview: A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-23
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The Princess Comes Across
1936-05-22
The Princess Comes Across
Overview: A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Genres: Comedy Romance Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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Yolanda and the Thief
1945-11-22
Yolanda and the Thief
Overview: Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.
Genres: Music Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-22
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The Marriage Market
1923-10-25
The Marriage Market
Overview: The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and misadventures she has after being expelled from a fashionable and costly east-coast boarding school.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-25
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Pal o' Mine
1924-03-15
Pal o' Mine
Overview: Opera singer Julia Montfort (Irene Rich) returns to the stage when her husband, Verdugo Montford (Josef Swickard) loses his job...and then gives him work secretly paid for by herself. When a temperamental artist Babette Hermann (Pauline Garon) reveals the secret, Verdugo becomes disillusioned. Later, though, his faith in his wife is restored.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-15
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The New Adventures of Tarzan
1935-05-21
The New Adventures of Tarzan
Overview: A serial in 12 chapters. Tarzan goes to Guatemala to find his lost friend, D'Arnot. On the way he helps Major Matling search Mayan ruins for hidden jewels and an idol containing the formula for a powerful explosive. D'Arnot and the idol are rescued, but the idol falls into the clutches of the explorer Raglan.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-21
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The Man Unconquerable
1922-07-02
The Man Unconquerable
Overview: A conservative young man inherits his uncle's pearl fishery concession in the South Pacific. Upon his arrival there, he becomes involved with a woman and a mystery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-02
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The Purple Mask
1955-06-15
The Purple Mask
Overview: France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter). But even she doesn't know the Purple Mask's real identity as foppish dancing master Rene...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-15
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Over the Border
1922-06-04
Over the Border
Overview: Jen Galbraith is in love with Sgt. Tom Flaherty of the Royal Mounted. She is the daughter of Peter Galbraith, who is engaged in smuggling moonshine whiskey across the Canadian border. When she tries to warn her father and brother of the approaching police, she is arrested with the entire gang.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-04
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The golf player
1930-04-19
The golf player
Overview: With all speaking French, Chase joins a golf club to win its president's daughter. The game descends into chaos when the other players conspire against him and he ends driving across the course.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-04-19
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Deception
1946-10-26
Deception
Overview: After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-26
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Swiss Miss
1938-05-20
Swiss Miss
Overview: Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Target Unknown
1951-02-08
Target Unknown
Overview: World War II drama about members of an American bomber squadron who are captured and held prisoners by the German army.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-08
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Wise Girl
1937-12-31
Wise Girl
Overview: Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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The Divine Woman
1928-01-13
The Divine Woman
Overview: [For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations? A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-13
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Behind the Make-Up
1930-01-18
Behind the Make-Up
Overview: Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-18
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I Met Him in Paris
1937-05-28
I Met Him in Paris
Overview: Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-28
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1938-08-05
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Overview: Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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Café Metropole
1937-04-28
Café Metropole
Overview: An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-28
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Casablanca
1943-01-15
Casablanca
Overview: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Men of Chance
1931-12-26
Men of Chance
Overview: A gambler falls for a fake countess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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The Love Light
1921-01-08
The Love Light
Overview: Angela maintains a coastal lighthouse in Italy, where she awaits the return of her brothers from the war. She learns they are casualties and takes solace in the arms of an American sailor washed ashore. However, the sailor turns out to be a German spy, and she is torn between her love for him and her realization that he is part of the enemy force that has destroyed her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-08
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953-07-14
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Overview: Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-14
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The Solitaire Man
1933-09-22
The Solitaire Man
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
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I'll Give a Million
1938-07-27
I'll Give a Million
Overview: After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-27
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City in Darkness
1939-11-15
City in Darkness
Overview: Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-15
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Journal of a Crime
1934-03-10
Journal of a Crime
Overview: A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-10
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Gilda
1946-04-25
Gilda
Overview: A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-25
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The Eagle
1925-11-08
The Eagle
Overview: Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.
Genres: Adventure Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-08
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The Three Musketeers
1939-02-17
The Three Musketeers
Overview: A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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Bachelor Mother
1939-06-30
Bachelor Mother
Overview: Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
Espionage Agent
Overview: When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Genres: Drama War Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-30
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The Road to Glory
1936-09-04
The Road to Glory
Overview: The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-04
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Pack Up Your Troubles
1939-10-24
Pack Up Your Troubles
Overview: Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-24
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To the Victor
1948-10-26
To the Victor
Overview: An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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Adventure in Sahara
1938-11-15
Adventure in Sahara
Overview: Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-15
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The Sheik Steps Out
1937-09-05
The Sheik Steps Out
Overview: In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-05
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To Have and Have Not
1945-01-20
To Have and Have Not
Overview: A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
Genres: Adventure Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-20
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Wintertime
1943-09-17
Wintertime
Overview: Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn and modernize it. After the hotel opens, Nora's uncle faces financial ruin and her romance hit a snag in the form of pretty reporter.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-17
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The Night Life
1930-04-19
The Night Life
Overview: Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and outsmarts them both.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-04-19
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Blotto
1930-02-08
Blotto
Overview: Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-08
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Buck Benny Rides Again
1940-05-31
Buck Benny Rides Again
Overview: Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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Here's to Romance
1935-10-04
Here's to Romance
Overview: Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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To Mary - with Love
1936-08-01
To Mary - with Love
Overview: Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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A Chump at Oxford
1940-01-25
A Chump at Oxford
Overview: The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-25
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Arise, My Love
1940-11-08
Arise, My Love
Overview: A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-08
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Bitter Sweet
1940-11-08
Bitter Sweet
Overview: A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-08
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The Catman of Paris
1946-04-20
The Catman of Paris
Overview: When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a mysterious cat-like creature slaughters people close to him, Charles is suspected of murder. Charles fears that he is the beast, but his paramour Marie and best friend Henry, believe he's innocent... until the creature begins to stalk Marie.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-20
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Diamond Jim
1935-09-01
Diamond Jim
Overview: A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Shall We Dance
1937-05-07
Shall We Dance
Overview: Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-07
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Suez
1938-10-28
Suez
Overview: Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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The Frisky Mrs. Johnson
1920-11-12
The Frisky Mrs. Johnson
Overview: The Frisky Mrs. Johnson is a 1920 silent film comedy starring Billie Burke. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It is based on a 1903 Broadway stage play by Clyde Fitch. On the stage Burke's part was played by Amelia Bingham. Burke's next to last silent film. It is a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-12
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Background to Danger
1943-07-03
Background to Danger
Overview: An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-03
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Fired Wife
1943-09-04
Fired Wife
Overview: A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-04
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Mission to Moscow
1943-04-29
Mission to Moscow
Overview: Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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The Unfaithful
1947-07-01
The Unfaithful
Overview: Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-01
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Half Past Midnight
1948-03-01
Half Past Midnight
Overview: A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-01
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Coming Out Party
1934-03-09
Coming Out Party
Overview: In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the strong-willed girl initially demurs until the night of her debut. Her social adviser fills the debutante’s dance card with partners, which inflames the violinist.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-09
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Another Man's Shoes
1922-11-06
Another Man's Shoes
Overview: To evade a gang conspiring to assassinate him, wealthy businessman Stuart Granger induces his unsuspecting, look-alike cousin, Jack Burton, to impersonate him for a month.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-06
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Appointment for Love
1941-10-31
Appointment for Love
Overview: Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Tender Is the Night
1962-01-19
Tender Is the Night
Overview: Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-19
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April in Paris
1952-12-24
April in Paris
Overview: A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-24
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The Lady from Longacre
1921-10-02
The Lady from Longacre
Overview: To escape a loathsome marriage to the king of a neighboring principality, Princess Isabel flees her kingdom for England, where she is rescued by Lord Anthony Conway. His friends are distressed by his gay escapades, and they rebel when he encourages them to entertain the princess, assuming her to be an actress whom she strongly resembles. Returning to her country with the Englishman, she realizes that she must marry the neighboring king to save her country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-02
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Anthony Adverse
1936-08-26
Anthony Adverse
Overview: Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-26
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