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Les Temps Modernes
8.293

Les Temps Modernes

Feb 05, 1936
Charlot est ouvrier dans une gigantesque usine. Il resserre quotidiennement des boulons. Mais les machines, le travail à la chaîne le rendent malade, il abandonne son poste, recueille une orpheline et vit d'expédients. Le vagabond et la jeune fille vont s'allier pour affronter ensemble les difficultés de la vie…
Comedy
Klondike Annie
6.357

Klondike Annie

Feb 21, 1936
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
Comedy
Night Spot
4.7

Night Spot

Feb 25, 1938
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
Comedy
Yellow Dust
4

Yellow Dust

Mar 12, 1936
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
Western
Stolen Harmony
6

Stolen Harmony

Apr 20, 1935
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
Crime
Start Cheering
7

Start Cheering

Mar 03, 1938
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Comedy
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
5
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Drama
Le Saint contre-attaque
5.615
À San Francisco, le policier Travers, soupçonné d'être lié à la pègre, est assassiné. La police suspecte Le Saint d'être mêlé à cette affaire. Elle confie l'enquête à l'homme qui connaît le mieux Simon Templar pour avoir travaillé à de nombreuses reprises avec et contre lui: l'inspecteur Fernack...
Crime
Laissez Nous Vivre
6.6

Laissez Nous Vivre

Mar 29, 1939
Deux hommes sont condamnés à mort. La fiancée de l'un d'eux convainc un détective de leur innocence : ensemble, ils tentent de trouver le véritable coupable.
Crime
Broadway Serenade
6.2

Broadway Serenade

Apr 07, 1939
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Romance
On Borrowed Time
7.5

On Borrowed Time

Jul 07, 1939
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.
Comedy
Les Raisins de la colère
7.846
Un jeune homme rentre à la ferme familiale en Oklahoma, après avoir purgé une peine de quatre ans de prison pour homicide involontaire. La Grande Dépression sévit alors et comme beaucoup d’autres fermiers, sa famille est chassée de son exploitation. Ensemble, ils partent à travers le pays dans l’espoir de trouver, un jour, du travail en Californie. C’est le début d’un périple éprouvant, de camps de réfugiés en bidonvilles de fortunes, dans une Amérique en proie à la misère et à l’oppression…
Drama
Outrage
6.5

Outrage

Sep 27, 1950
Dans une petite ville américaine, Ann Walton, une jeune comptable, doit épouser Jim Owens. Elle est alors victime d’un viol et sa vie tourne au cauchemar. Ne supportant plus la sollicitude des uns ou la curiosité des autres, elle décide de changer radicalement de vie…
Drama
La Fièvre du pétrole
6.9
Deux prospecteurs, Mc Masters et Sand se rencontrent dans une ville économiquement florissante et s'associent dans la recherche de pétrole. Mc Masters se marie plus tard avec la fiancée de Sand, mais ce dernier est bon perdant. Un jour les deux amis jouent leur exploitation aux dés.
Adventure
Les Tuniques écarlates
6.3
Au Canada, en 1885. Dan Duroc et Jacques Corbeau, deux métis, tentent de pousser leur peuple à une nouvelle rébellion, plusieurs années après l'écrasement d'une première révolte conduite par Louis Riel. La police montée canadienne, dont les hommes sont surnommés 'Les tuniques rouges' à cause de leur uniforme, tente de maintenir l'ordre. Dusty Rivers arrive du Texas dans le but d'arrêter Jacques Corbeau pour meurtre, et s'associe alors aux tuniques rouges.
Action
Le Grand Passage
6.279

Le Grand Passage

Feb 23, 1940
New Hampshire, 1759. Par idéalisme, deux jeunes garçons, Langdon Towne (Robert Young) et Hunk Marriner (Walter Brennan), s'engagent dans une expédition commandée par le Major Rogers (Spencer Tracy), dont le but est d'anéantir une tribu indienne résidant à la frontière canadienne. Les deux individus ont cependant très mal mesuré les conséquences de leur acte...
Adventure
The Arizonian
1

The Arizonian

Jun 27, 1935
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
Western
La Tempête qui tue
7.1

La Tempête qui tue

Jun 20, 1940
Une famille allemande, unie et heureuse, se trouve divisée à l'avénement du national-socialisme. Le père, professeur de faculté et savant renommé, la mère, et Martin, un jeune paysan ami de la famille, sont pour la paix. Les deux fils et Fritz, le fiancé de Freyda, sont tentés par l'aventure hitlérienne.
Drama
Le fils de Monte-Cristo
6.2
En 1865, le général Gurko Lanen s'impose comme dictateur de l'état du Lichtenburg dans les Balkans et tente d'obtenir de force la main de la Duchesse Zona. Mais le comte de Monte Cristo ne l'entend pas de cette oreille et part à sa rescousse.
Action
Nouvelle lune
6.8

Nouvelle lune

Jun 28, 1940
Un leader révolutionnaire est amoureux d'un aristocrate français en Louisiane.
Romance
Sky Murder
6.3

Sky Murder

Sep 27, 1940
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
Comedy
Geronimo
5

Geronimo

Nov 26, 1939
L'effort de l'armée pour capturer le chef Apache Geronimo, qui dirige une bande de guerriers sur un saccage de raids et de meurtres, est entravée par une querelle entre deux officiers - qui sont père et fils.
Western
Jackass Mail
7

Jackass Mail

Jul 01, 1942
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Romance
Franc Jeu
6.4

Franc Jeu

Oct 01, 1941
Candy Johnson est un baratineur et arnaqueur; il se lève pour être le patron corrompu de Yellow Creek, mais le père alcoolique de sa femme essaie de mettre les choses à sa place.
Western
Ainsi finit notre nuit
6
Au début de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, un Allemand très attaché à son pays, du nom de Josef Steiner, ne peut accepter le régime nazi. Il délaisse sa femme et commence un long et douloureux pèlerinage à travers l'Europe, pour fuir la persécution. En cours de route, il se lie d'amitié avec un jeune refugié de 19 ans. Mais dès qu'il apprend que sa femme est tombée malade, Steiner est prêt à sacrifier sa liberté pour aller la retrouver.
War
The Return of Sophie Lang
6
In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a job as a companion to a wealthy old lady who is also a jewel collector. One day her employer decides to take an ocean trip to the US, taking Sophie with her. She also takes along a $200,000 diamond, which she locks up in the ship's safe. Of course, the diamond is soon stolen from the safe. A reporter also happens to be aboard the ship, and he has had his suspicions about who Sophie really is. Sophie has to find the real thief and recover the jewel before the ship docks in New York, because an investigation could reveal her true identity.
Crime
Border Flight
6

Border Flight

May 29, 1936
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.
Drama
There's One Born Every Minute
7.2
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
Comedy
Pacific Blackout
6.3

Pacific Blackout

Dec 31, 1941
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Mystery
Robbers' Roost
6

Robbers' Roost

Dec 30, 1932
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.
Action
Les Flibustiers
6.5

Les Flibustiers

Feb 04, 1938
Compte semi-fictif de la participation du pirate Jean Lafitte dans la guerre de 1812.
Adventure
Batman
6.476

Batman

Jul 16, 1943
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
Action
She Couldn't Take It
7

She Couldn't Take It

Oct 08, 1935
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
Comedy
The Calling of Dan Matthews
3
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
Drama
Central Park
5.2

Central Park

Dec 10, 1932
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Romance
J’ai le droit de vivre
7.1
Après sa sortie de prison, Eddie Taylor ne peut profiter d'un répit. Accusé à nouveau, il doit partir en cavale avec sa femme Joan et son bébé. Il devient ensuite un véritable meurtrier en condamnant sa famille à une vie criminelle…
Crime
Miss Manton est folle
6.5

Miss Manton est folle

Oct 21, 1938
Melsa Manton, jeune fille riche et extravagante, découvre un cadavre dans son appartement. Elle prévient la police mais à son arrivée le cadavre a disparu. L’inspecteur de police Brent met en doute le sérieux de la jeune fille qui sera la proie des quolibets de la presse et particulièrement du journaliste Peter Ames qui la qualifie même de folle. Piquée au vif, Melsa décide de retrouver elle-même, avec l’aide d’un groupe d’amies, l’assassin et le cadavre. Son enquête la mènera avec ses amies, suivies de Peter Ames qui ne les lâche pas d’un pouce, dans une maison isolée où se trouve l’assassin prêt à tuer de nouveau…
Comedy
Alibi for Murder
5.5

Alibi for Murder

Sep 23, 1936
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
Action
The Fighting Peacemaker
1
Peace River Parker, foreman of the Cross L Ranch and engaged to Jess, the daughter of the owner, is railroaded into a prison term by the false witness of Jefferson Crane, who covets the ranch and Jess. Through the complicity of Clell Danert, a villainous foreman who also desires Jess, Crane arranges to ruin the Marshall ranch by driving a herd of sheep onto the cattle range.
Adventure
Before Dawn
5.6

Before Dawn

Aug 04, 1933
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.
Mystery