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Drăguș, viața unui sat românesc

Drăguș, viața unui sat românesc

Drăguș, viața unui sat românesc
IMDb: 7.1
45

One of the first sociological and ethnographic documentary films worldwide, made by the team of sociologists and students of Professor Dimitrie Gusti (1880-1955) in the village of Drăguş, Făgăraş County,…

Genre: Documentary
The Outlaws

The Outlaws

The Outlaws
IMDb: 6.2
114

Based on Romanian legends and folk tales about the outlaws from Carpathian Mountains. The film is the middle episode of an adventure trilogy that almost four decades ago anticipated the…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The White Hell of Pitz Palu

The White Hell of Pitz Palu

The White Hell of Pitz Palu
IMDb: 7.2
150

Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Virginian

The Virginian

The Virginian
IMDb: 6.7
91

A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.

Genre: Western
They Had to See Paris

They Had to See Paris

They Had to See Paris
IMDb: 5.8
82

Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get “culture” and meet “the…

Genre: Comedy
Speedway

Speedway

Speedway
IMDb: 6.3
76

Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him…

Genre: Drama, Romance
On With the Show!

On With the Show!

On With the Show!
IMDb: 5.8
104

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can…

Genre: Music, Romance
New York Nights

New York Nights

New York Nights
IMDb: 5.5
82

Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being pursued by a gangster,…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Navy Blues

Navy Blues

Navy Blues
IMDb: 5.7
77

On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don’t approve of…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Madame X

Madame X

Madame X
IMDb: 5.6
95

A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son…

Genre: Drama
The Idle Rich

The Idle Rich

The Idle Rich
IMDb: 5.8
80

Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of “the great middle class” (as blowhard nephew Henry keeps reminding us),…

Genre: Comedy
The Hole in the Wall

The Hole in the Wall

The Hole in the Wall
IMDb: 5.7
63

Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief….

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Divine Voyage

The Divine Voyage

The Divine Voyage
IMDb: 6.6
102

A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.

Genre: Drama
Devil-May-Care

Devil-May-Care

Devil-May-Care
IMDb: 6
97

A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman’s bedroom and winds up butler.

Genre: Romance
Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera
IMDb: 8.3
68

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Genre: Documentary
Behind That Curtain

Behind That Curtain

Behind That Curtain
IMDb: 4.8
91

Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John…

Pandora’s Box

Pandora’s Box

Pandora’s Box
IMDb: 7.8
133

Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
The Letter

The Letter

The Letter
IMDb: 6.7
65

A planter’s wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.

Genre: Drama
The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles
IMDb: 6.5
76

One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
IMDb: 6
94

There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Say It with Songs

Say It with Songs

Say It with Songs
IMDb: 4.9
95

Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight,…

Genre: Music
The Black Watch

The Black Watch

The Black Watch
IMDb: 5.7
93

Captain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Figaro

Figaro

Figaro
IMDb: 6.9
120

A silent adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels.

Genre: Drama
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu

The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu

The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
IMDb: 6.2
80

A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Seven Keys to Baldpate
IMDb: 6.1
73

A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.

The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island
IMDb: 6.1
95

On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island’s inhabitants. Dakkar, his daughter Sonia…

Fragment of an Empire

Fragment of an Empire

Fragment of an Empire
IMDb: 7.3
96

Described by historian Paul Rotha as “the epitome of the Soviet propaganda film, realized with extraordinary skill of technical achievement”, Fragment of an Empire was the first important film effort…

Genre: Drama
The Canary Murder Case

The Canary Murder Case

The Canary Murder Case
IMDb: 5.9
82

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…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Welcome Danger

Welcome Danger

Welcome Danger
IMDb: 5.9
115

A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.

Genre: Comedy
The Scar of Shame

The Scar of Shame

The Scar of Shame
IMDb: 6.2
86

An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.

Genre: Drama
Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond
IMDb: 6.4
90

Hugh ‘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…

Genre: Action, Thriller
The Flying Scotsman

The Flying Scotsman

The Flying Scotsman
IMDb: 6.1
50

The Flying Scotsman is a 1929 black and white film set on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh. Engine driver Bob is due to retire from his job…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Voice of the City

The Voice of the City

The Voice of the City
IMDb: 5.9
81

An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict’s name and nab the gangsters that framed him.

Genre: Crime
Berth Marks

Berth Marks

Berth Marks
IMDb: 7
19

The story involves Stan and Ollie as two musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville. It was only their second sound film, but a silent version was also made…

Genre: Comedy
The Great Gabbo

The Great Gabbo

The Great Gabbo
IMDb: 6.1
94

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Untamed

Untamed

Untamed
IMDb: 5
86

In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for…

Genre: Drama
So This Is College

So This Is College

So This Is College
IMDb: 5.5
98

Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Love Parade

The Love Parade

The Love Parade
IMDb: 7
107

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Bishop Murder Case

The Bishop Murder Case

The Bishop Murder Case
IMDb: 6.1
88

The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he…

Genre: Mystery
Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt
IMDb: 6.5
85

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love…

Genre: Crime, Drama