Maria Alba

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Charros, gauchos y manolas
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Charros, gauchos y manolas

Mar 15, 1930

Charros, gauchos y manolas
1930 91 min 1 vues
The magazine "Paintings of the People" initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs. A hungry bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting, and when he experiments with scenes set in Mexico, Argentina and Spain, his paintings come to life. In Xochimilco, Mexico, a young bachelor has a drunken dream that his girl friend is performing Josephine Baker's famous banana dance in a Parisian nightclub. In Buenos Aires, an Italian and a Galician are rivals for the affections of a Creole girl. At the other side of the Hispanic world, a Sevillian girl tells of her tragic romance with a matador, who obstinately continues to appear in the ring despite having been injured.
Olimpia
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Olimpia

Oct 10, 1930

Olimpia
1930 209 min 1 vues
Spanish version of the MGM romance, His Glorious Night: in the old Austro-Hungarian empire, a princess rejects her arranged marriage and loves, instead, a dashing cavalry captain.
Mr. Robinson Crusoe
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Mr. Robinson Crusoe

Aug 19, 1932

Mr. Robinson Crusoe
1932 76 min 14 vues
Steve Drexel s'échoue volontairement sur une île déserte suite à un pari. Il a l'intention de recréer la civilisation et de sculpter une ville miniature de la 52e rue et de Park Avenue dans la jungle. Drexel se lie d'amitié avec son chien, un singe indigène et une chèvre sauvage capturée dans l'un de ses pièges. Il tente de cultiver un indigène pour en faire son Homme Vendredi de Robinson Crusoé, mais échoue à faire s'échapper l'indigène.
Adventure
The Return of Chandu
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The Return of Chandu

Oct 01, 1934

The Return of Chandu
1934 203 min 18 vues
Chandu consults his crystal ball and sees that Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is in danger. She is about to be sacrificed by the black magic cult of Ubasti. Headed for the magic island of Lemuria, he is shipwrecked , washed ashore and captured. He becomes invisible, escapes and after numerous detours is able to rescue the princess.
Action
Kiss of Araby
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Kiss of Araby

Apr 21, 1933

Kiss of Araby
1933 70 min 1 vues
While the commander of the British Army in Arabia, Major J. W. Courtney, is out in the desert chasing marauding tribesmen, his wife carries on an affair with Captain Randall. Courtney returns to the outpost ahead of time and the wife takes refuge in the quarters of Lieutenant W.B. Lawrence. Lawrence, maintaining the silence (and stiff upper lip) that his code of honor dictates is drummed out of the service. He joins the forces of El Rahman and becomes a sheik of the desert. Warfare, instigated by Randall, breaks out between the troops and the tribesmen and ends when the mortally wounded Randall confesses to his dastardly deeds, the least of which included making love to his commander's wife.
Adventure
Road House
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Road House

Jul 25, 1928

Road House
1928 50 min 1 vues
Larry Grayson, jazz age son of permissive parents, drifts from wild parties with his classmates to more heady, roadhouse entertainment. There he becomes involved with an underworld gang and falls in love with Spanish Marla, one of their vamps. Larry leaves home after an argument with his father, throws in with the gang (who are using him for their own purposes), and is blamed for a murder. Tried and convicted, Larry is given a light sentence when the judge places most of the blame on his overindulgent parents.
Drama
Chandu on the Magic Island
4.8

Chandu on the Magic Island

Jan 01, 1935

Chandu on the Magic Island
1935 70 min 6 vues
On the mystic island of Lemuria, the cult of Ubasti seek the Egyptian Princess Nadji to sacrifice so that their goddess Ossana, whose soul resides in Nadji's body, may be resurrected by Black Magic. Nadji is located in the Far East port of Suva, but shielded by the White Magical powers of Frank Chandler, an American raised by Eastern mystics who is also known as Chandu. When Chandu takes a voyage alone, however, the evil Voice of Ubasti is able to magically spirit her to Lemuria, where Black Magic reigns supreme. Chandu sets out in pursuit with his sister Dorothy, niece Betty and nephew Bob; but, shipwrecked on the magic island, Chandu finds his family also held prisoner for sacrifice while he is plunged into an endless maze of caverns beneath the evil temple, where both his mortal and magical strength seem rendered useless.
Fantasy
Just a Gigolo
4.8

Just a Gigolo

Jun 06, 1931

Just a Gigolo
1931 66 min 3 vues
A playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a young British socialite. Comedy.
Romance
Far West
6.9

Far West

Dec 27, 1929

Far West
1929 68 min 15 vues
L'histoire aux intonations bibliques de trois bandits repentis qui ramenent un nouveau-ne trouve dans le desert a New Jerusalem, la ville dont ils viennent de devaliser la banque.
Western
Great God Gold
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Great God Gold

Apr 14, 1935

Great God Gold
1935 71 min 1 vues
Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek vengeance. He meets his match and downfall when his path crosses with a reporter, Phil Stuart; a girl, Marcia Harper, and a man-with-a-gun from a family he ruined.
Drama
Goldie
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Goldie

Jun 27, 1931

Goldie
1931 68 min 2 vues
Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well.
Comedy
Hypnotized
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Hypnotized

Dec 25, 1932

Hypnotized
1932 67 min 1 vues
A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a sweepstakes prize and was kidnapped by a hypnotist.
Comedy
Fin de Fiesta
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Fin de Fiesta

Dec 05, 1930

Fin de Fiesta
1930 74 min 1 vues
Après un cambriolage dans un entrepôt au bord de la rivière Hudson à New-York, la police arrête Chico Brady accusé d'avoir tué un ouvrier au moment de sonner l'alarme. Un gardien, complice des voleurs, confirme l'accusation afin de protéger Juan, le chef du gang. Lorsque Chico est condamné à mort pour le crime, sa soeur Nora va tout faire pour prouver son innocence.
Romance
Joy Street
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Joy Street

May 12, 1929

Joy Street
1929 69 min 1 vues
Mimi, an unsophisticated American girl attending an exclusive Swiss boarding school, unexpectedly inherits a large fortune. Returning to the United States she quickly begins to live a wild and reckless life. Good-natured Joe attempts to set her straight, but she keeps right on living riotously. It takes Mimi a serious accident while joyriding to comes to her senses and realize she is ready for a more settled existence.
Drama
Une fille dans chaque port
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Une fille dans chaque port

Feb 26, 1928

Une fille dans chaque port
1928 78 min 19 vues
Deux marins, amis et bagarreurs qui une fois arrivés dans un port aiment fréquenter les bars et charmer les filles locales. Lors d'une escale à Marseille, Spike tombe sous le charme d'une foraine, Mademoiselle Godiva, qui ne s'intéresse à lui que pour son argent.
Adventure
Blindfold
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Blindfold

Dec 09, 1928

Blindfold
1928 65 min 1 vues
Blindfold is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Charles Klein and written by Ewart Adamson, Robert Horwood and William Kernell. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process.
Drama
West of the Pecos
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West of the Pecos

Dec 27, 1934

West of the Pecos
1934 68 min 1 vues
Ruiné par la guerre civile, le colonel Lamberth retourne à sa plantation de Géorgie rejoindre sa fille, Terrill. Comprenant qu'il n'y a pour eux aucun avenir, le père et la fille se joignent à une caravane en route pour le Texas. En chemin Terrill revêt des vêtements masculins pour échapper aux avances des rudes hommes de la frontière, et son père lie connaissance et embauche Pécos Smith, un cowboy accusé de vol de bétail. Alors que Pécos Smith est persuadé que Terrill est un jeune garçon, tous trois atteignent leur but, la rivière Pécos, domaine des voleurs de bétail, des despérados et des comanches.
Western
La ley del harem
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La ley del harem

Oct 09, 1931

La ley del harem
1931 83 min 1 vues
When Renée Duval, a Frenchwoman who had been on her way to Venice, is discovered by Al-Hadi, an Arabian prince in the wreckage of an ambushed caravan it is just the beginning of a breathless adventure that will put both their lives at risk!
Drama