Doris Lloyd
Also Known As: Hessy Doris Lloyd
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hessy Doris Lloyd (3 July 1896 – 21 May 1968) was an English-American film, television and stage actress. Born in Liverpool, she went to the United States of America to visit a sister already living there. What was supposed to be a visit she made permanent. She spent several years (1916–25) appearing in Broadway theatre plays, notably a number of Ziegfeld Follies editions, and probably spent some time on the road in touring companies. She decided on a film career, making her first film in 1925. With the exception of returning to one Broadway play in 1947, her career was devoted to films and television. Lloyd appeared in over 150 films between 1925 and 1967, including the 1933 low-budget Monogram Pictures version of Oliver Twist, in which she played Nancy. Irving Pichel starred as Fagin and Dickie Moore as Oliver. Her roles ranged from the sinister Russian spy Mrs. Travers in the biopic Disraeli (1929) to the meek housekeeper Mrs. Watchett in The Time Machine (1960). Her most famous film roles were in the Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller. She voiced one of the roses in Disney's Alice in Wonderland (1951), later making small appearances in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music which both starred Julie Andrews.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Birthday: July 01, 1896
Deathday: May 21, 1968
Adult: No
Gender: Female
Popularity:
Known For:
The Time Machine
Overview: A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-25
Popularity:
The Ghost of Frankenstein
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:
The Black Shield of Falworth
Overview: In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day, they journey to Macworth Castle. There, Myles falls in love with Lady Anne Macworth, makes friends and enemies, and learns to be a knight.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-02
Popularity:
Alice in Wonderland
Overview: On a golden afternoon, wildly curious young Alice tumbles into the burrow and enters the merry, madcap world of Wonderland full of whimsical escapades.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-28
Popularity:
Midnight Lace
Overview: Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
Popularity:
The House of Fear
Overview: The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member. All seems serene and convivial until one by one the members begin to perish in the most grisly of manners. Foul play is suspected by the Good Comrades' insurance agent, who turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson for guidance.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-16
Popularity:
Is Zat So?
Overview: A rich man hires a pair of brothers, one to teach him to box and the other to manage him. Meanwhile, the rich man must fend off his brother-in-law, who is after the family inheritance. The film is lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-15
Popularity:
Tarzan the Ape Man
Overview: James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends abduct her, but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-02
Popularity:
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Overview: Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-01
Popularity:
Three Strangers
Overview: On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-28
Popularity:
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Overview: A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
Popularity:
The Lodger
Overview: In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-19
Popularity:
The Drake Case
Overview: Talkie about a maid who is accused of killing the lady of the house
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-01
Popularity:
The Great Gatsby
Overview: Adaptation of the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald for "Playhouse 90." A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his wealthy neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-26
Popularity:
The Broncho Twister
Overview: Returning from the war, Tom Mason (Tom Mix) rides square into a raging feud between the his family and the neighboring Brady gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-13
Popularity:
The Sound of Music
Overview: In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Genres: Drama Family Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-29
Popularity:
Phantom Lady
Overview: A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-28
Popularity:
She Was a Lady
Overview: Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-22
Popularity:
The Old Maid
Overview: The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-16
Popularity:
Straight from the Heart
Overview: In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
Popularity:
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Overview: Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a dangerous situation.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-22
Popularity:
A Study in Scarlet
Overview: In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-14
Popularity:
The Midnight Kiss
Overview: While vain Lenore Hastings busies herself with her romantic pursuits, Lenore's kid sister Mildred tries to keep the family of her boyfriend Thomas from going broke. Mildred works up a business arrangement, whereby she will sell Thomas' father's 250 pigs for a dollar each. Though Lenore is appalled by Mildred's "disgraceful" behavior, the younger girl quickly earns the respect of everyone in town
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-10
Popularity:
The Letter
Overview: After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-21
Popularity:
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Overview: A tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-18
Popularity:
Frenchman's Creek
Overview: An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-20
Popularity:
Disraeli
Overview: Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-01
Popularity:
Peter Ibbetson
Overview: When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-07
Popularity:
Waterloo Bridge
Overview: In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
Popularity:
Devotion
Overview: A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-25
Popularity:
Life with Henry
Overview: Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-23
Popularity:
Letter of Introduction
Overview: An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
Popularity:
The Conspirators
Overview: A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-24
Popularity:
The Blackbird
Overview: Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-13
Popularity:
The Man from Red Gulch
Overview: In the days of the California Gold Rush of '49, Sandy is at odds with his partner, Falloner, over the latter's heavy drinking.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-13
Popularity:
'Til We Meet Again
Overview: Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-20
Popularity:
Motive for Revenge
Overview: Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty...
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-15
Popularity:
Bought!
Overview: Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
Popularity:
Of Human Bondage
Overview: A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-05
Popularity:
Vigil in the Night
Overview: A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-05
Popularity:
Dangerous Corner
Overview: Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-04
Popularity:
Too Many Parents
Overview: Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-19
Popularity:
Charley's Aunt
Overview: A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-25
Popularity:
Kind Lady
Overview: Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-06
Popularity:
Voltaire
Overview: Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire, but is increasingly influenced against him by his minister, the Count de Sarnac.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-05
Popularity:
The King Without a Crown
Overview: This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was raised by Indians in America.
Genres: History Mystery Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-09
Popularity:
Rosie!
Overview: An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-22
Popularity:
The Bachelor Father
Overview: Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-10
Popularity:
Long Lost Father
Overview: A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-19
Popularity:
Murder Is News
Overview: A radio reporter does a story on the infidelity and divorce of a wealthy and powerful businessman. The man invites the reporter to his mansion for a chat, but when he gets there, he finds that the businessman has been murdered--and that now he himself is on the killer's hit list.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-17
Popularity:
Barricade
Overview: In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-08
Popularity:
A Feather in Her Hat
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:
Shining Victory
Overview: In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
Popularity:
Scotland Yard Investigator
Overview: A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
Genres: Mystery Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-30
Popularity:
Once a Lady
Overview: A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-07
Popularity:
Old English
Overview: An old man unethically provides an income for his two grandchildren.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-12
Popularity:
Secrets
Overview: In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-16
Popularity:
The Black Doll
Overview: Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-31
Popularity:
Transgression
Overview: When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-27
Popularity:
British Agent
Overview: In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-15
Popularity:
A Shot in the Dark
Overview: An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-31
Popularity:
Way for a Sailor
Overview: A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-01
Popularity:
Tovarich
Overview: When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-25
Popularity:
Looking Forward
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:
Peg o' My Heart
Overview: Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-26
Popularity:
Clive of India
Overview: Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-25
Popularity:
Brilliant Marriage
Overview: When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-25
Popularity:
The Constant Nymph
Overview: The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-23
Popularity:
They Made Me a Criminal
Overview: A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
Popularity:
Strange Wives
Overview: When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
Popularity:
Exit Smiling
Overview: The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Flaming Women) female lead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-06
Popularity:
Glamour
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-09
Popularity:
A Woman Rebels
Overview: A defiant young woman struggles against the norms and morals established by Victorian society and enforced by her autocratic father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
Popularity:
Back Street
Overview: A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-04
Popularity:
A Man Called Peter
Overview: Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-31
Popularity:
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Overview: Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
Popularity:
One Exciting Adventure
Overview: One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
Popularity:
We Are Not Alone
Overview: A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-25
Popularity:
The Spellbinder
Overview: Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-28
Popularity:
Chicken Wagon Family
Overview: Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
Popularity:
First Love
Overview: In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
Popularity:
The Perfect Gentleman
Overview: A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
Popularity:
The Under-Pup
Overview: A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-31
Popularity:
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Overview: This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-11
Popularity:
Oliver Twist
Overview: An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-28
Popularity:
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Overview: Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died; however, his monster is found.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-05
Popularity:
The Wolf Man
Overview: After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-12
Popularity:
The Trail of '98
Overview: Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-20
Popularity:
Sister Kenny
Overview: An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-10
Popularity:
Port of Seven Seas
Overview: In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets out to sea for several years, she marries another man to prevent the child being born out of wedlock.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
Popularity:
G.I. War Brides
Overview: Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.I. she loves. She assumes the identity of an English war bride, Joyce Giles, who has decided she no longer loves the American soldier she married and is not going to join him in the U.S. Linda arrives to find that her soldier no longer wishes to marry her...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-12
Popularity:
Mary Poppins
Overview: Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-17
Popularity:
Sarah and Son
Overview: A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-14
Popularity:
The Lady
Overview: A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has left gambling in casinos and then dies, leaving her penniless and with an infant son. When her former father-in-law tries to get custody of the child, she leaves him with a couple she trusts, but when she later goes to reclaim her son, she can't find the people she left him with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-08
Popularity:
Kiss and Make-Up
Overview: Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
Popularity:
The Woman in Red
Overview: A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-16
Popularity:
Alcatraz Island
Overview: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-13
Popularity:
The Great Lie
Overview: After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-05
Popularity:
Mutiny on the Bounty
Overview: Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
Popularity:
The Plough and the Stars
Overview: A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-26
Popularity:
Lady with Red Hair
Overview: An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-30
Popularity:
Journey for Margaret
Overview: An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-17
Popularity:
The Boys from Syracuse
Overview: The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-30
Popularity:
Molly and Me
Overview: A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-25
Popularity:
The Auctioneer
Overview: Simon, a young Jewish man emigrating to the US, adopts the daughter of a dying woman on the ship. After he settles in the US, he eventually builds up a successful business as a pawnbroker and auctioneer. His adopted daughter Ruth falls in love with a young Wall Street broker, and her father invests his fortune in the young man's firm. However, a crooked broker at the firm causes Simon to lose all his money, and he must start all over again. He sets out to track down the crooked broker and get his money back.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-16
Popularity:
My Name Is Julia Ross
Overview: Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-08
Popularity:
The Washington Masquerade
Overview: An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle temptations and innocent looking traps of Washington.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-09
Popularity:
The White Cliffs of Dover
Overview: American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-11
Popularity:
A Farewell to Arms
Overview: A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-08
Popularity:
Night Monster
Overview: Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-20
Popularity:
The Soldier and the Lady
Overview: In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
Genres: Adventure History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-09
Popularity:
Lonesome Ladies
Overview: Released on July 3, 1927
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-03
Popularity:
The Careless Age
Overview: Directed by John Griffith Wray. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Carmel Myers, Holmes Herbert, Kenneth Thomson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-15
Popularity:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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:
Robbers' Roost
Overview: Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick’s sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the Sheriff about the raid. But when his plan is overheard he is made a prisoner.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-30
Popularity:
Tyrant of the Sea
Overview: In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet decides to send out one of its vessels to destroy it the French flagship under cover of fog. Forced out of retirement, ruthless, tyrannical and temperamental Captain William Blake is put in command. He wields his command with sadistic fury until an epidemic of scurvy attacks the crew and, when he refuses to go ashore for needed provision, mutiny and insubordination results...and, then, the French flagship arrives.
Genres: History Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-22
Popularity:
Adam's Rib
Overview: A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-18
Popularity:
Reno
Overview: A film by George Crone
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-30
Popularity:
The Notorious Landlady
Overview: An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
Popularity:
Lord Jeff
Overview: Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
No Place for a Lady
Overview: A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-11
Popularity:
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Overview: A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
Popularity:
Keep 'Em Flying
Overview: When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-27
Popularity:
Allotment Wives
Overview: Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-08
Popularity:
Young Bess
Overview: The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-29
Popularity:
Kind Lady
Overview: Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Elcott, who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in Mary is to covet everything she has.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-20
Popularity:
This Above All
Overview: In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-12
Popularity:
Devotion
Overview: In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-05
Popularity:
The Great Plane Robbery
Overview: Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-09
Popularity:
The Swan
Overview: Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-26
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
The Sign of the Ram
Overview: A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-03
Popularity:
Black Paradise
Overview: In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find a job, un-reforms and steals a diamond necklace. Graham, a detective, gives chase to a desolate island in the South Pacific where a rum-running gangster, Murdock, holds him captive. Callahan becomes infatuated with a native girl, Leona, and Sylvia turns to Graham for protection against the offensive Murdock. A volcano eruption causes problems for all.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-30
Popularity:
Kitty
Overview: Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-16
Popularity:
Two Girls Wanted
Overview: Marianna Miller, who together with her sister Sarah pounds the pavements, looking for a job. After a period of starvation and deprivation Marianna is hired as secretary to duplicitous businessman Philip Hancock.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-11
Popularity:
Becky Sharp
Overview: The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanity Fair", the film looks at the English class system during the Napoleonic Wars era.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-28
Popularity:
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Overview: The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
Genres: Crime Horror Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-31
Popularity:
Two for Tonight
Overview: A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-12
Popularity:
The Luckiest Girl in the World
Overview: A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-01
Popularity:
Love's Influence
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-01
Popularity:
The Red Danube
Overview: A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-14
Popularity: