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Kanopy
82
73
7.8
/3092/
76
/117/
76
/60/
4.1
/11447/
96
/45/
84
/42/
86
/19/

Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.
poster
74
69
7.1
/10339/
71
/196/
66
/163/
3.4
/8033/
100
/12/
71
/91/

The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
75
67
7.3
/5912/
75
/108/
68
/92/
3.7
/2212/
86
/7/
73
/48/
79
/10/

Objective, Burma! (1945)
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
70
65
6.7
/8761/
66
/190/
64
/148/
3.5
/17367/
95
/22/
63
/129/

The Seventh Victim (1943)
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
poster
60
51
6.6
/4872/
68
/115/
64
/76/
3.2
/1761/
50
/6/
52
/43/

Night Passage (1957)
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
poster
47
40
5.1
/4252/
58
/101/
51
/62/
2.7
/3001/
43
/7/
26
/70/

The Mole People (1956)
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a five millennia-old mutant Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.
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Plex
62
40
6.9
/3388/
68
/41/
62
/29/
3.2
/1004/
50
/243/

Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the devastating truth about himself.
poster
65
39
6.6
/1919/
66
/19/
66
/27/
3.3
/969/
80
/5/
50
/19/

Railroaded! (1947)
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
36
6.6
/2001/
60
/35/
57
/25/
3.3
/601/
77
/1265/

Go for Broke! (1951)
A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Grayson who shares common prejudices of the time. The 442nd serve in Italy, then France, distinguishing themselves in skirmishes and battles; gradually and naturally, Grayson's prejudices evaporate with dawning realization that his men are better soldiers than he is.
poster
60
34
6.6
/2128/
66
/28/
58
/27/
3.2
/1069/
50
/92/

The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.
poster
57
26
6.1
/943/
60
/20/
56
/20/
55
/43/

Bombardier (1943)
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular sequence.
poster
33
21
3.4
/1939/
49
/38/
34
/37/
2.1
/1195/
40
/5/
4
/36/

Lost Continent (1951)
When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain...
poster
The Roku Channel
50
14
5.9
/725/
56
/11/
55
/6/
33
/74/

The Last Outpost (1951)
The cavalry defend a small town from indians.
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65
12
6.1
/516/
74
/5/
61
/15/
3.2
/270/

Phantom Raiders (1940)
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
poster
66
12
6.6
/943/
71
/18/
72
/11/
3.3
/260/
56
/2/

The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.
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Pluto TV
32
10
3.3
/1017/
35
/17/
33
/20/
2.6
/663/
8
/9/

The Human Duplicators (1965)
An alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and creating a race of zombies.
poster
55
10
5.9
/505/
55
/10/
41
/20/
3.1
/243/

The Lady Confesses (1945)
An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 years of disappearance -- thought to be dead, to prevent her husband from marrying his new love until someone kills her.
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Amazon Prime Video
57
10
5.7
/520/
60
/11/
46
/15/
3.0
/338/

Apology for Murder (1945)
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.
poster
49
9
6.0
/539/
62
/9/
52
/13/
25
/5/

Bugles in the Afternoon (1952)
Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman.
poster
55
9
5.8
/450/
55
/9/
46
/18/
3.1
/219/
57
/3/

Bury Me Dead (1947)
A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.
poster
?
5.5
/28/

I'm a Civilian Here Myself (1945)
A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.
poster
?
5.8
/55/
50
/1/
30
/1/

He Hired the Boss (1943)
A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of late-night robberies.
poster
?
5.3
/38/

They Live in Fear (1944)
After witnessing the killing of a professor in concentration camp "Dachau" German student Paul emigrates to the USA. Here an American fellow student endangers Paul's new American existence and his family's which stayed in Germany.
poster
62
?
6.2
/123/
65
/2/

Good Bad Boys (1940)
Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary.
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?
10
/1/

Trader Thorne (1950)
Joe Wilding is the hotshot car salesman at the local Ford dealer. The year is 1950 and the new Fords have just come out. He's assigned to teach the new salesman how to sell cars. The movie follows Joe thru a typical day of calling leads, dropping off business cards, fishing for new prospects, talking to potential buyers in the showroom and working a deal. The new guy starts to get the idea and by the end is sufficiently confident and motivated he proposes to his girlfriend. She accepts.
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?
5.9
/60/
10
/1/

Second Chance (1950)
A bank president and his wife, facing a crisis in their life and both nearing the age of fifty, look back on what has happened to them over the years of their marriage.
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Plex
?
6.4
/46/

Reaching from Heaven (1948)
Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and also to accept the death of his wife as she was about to embark from Europe, as a displaced person, to join him in America.
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?
4.1
/15/
10
/1/
40
/1/

Mobs, Inc. (1956)
Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them of three precarious and dangerous cases of con artistry. Included are tracking down a dance hall girl, who, together with a big operative, are thwarted in attempting a robbery; a racketeer fleecing a book publisher on a Trans-Atlantic voyage, and the tripping up of the plans of a phony land syndicate.
poster
62
?
6.4
/347/
53
/2/
3.5
/337/

Unfinished Business (1941)
Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between a small-town girl in the big city, and the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her.
poster
46
?
5.6
/204/
33
/3/
52
/8/

Pier 23 (1951)
Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first tackles the case of a wrestler who has died of a suspicious heart attack after refusing to lose a match. He then agrees to help a priest talk an escaped criminal into returning to prison.
poster
58
?
6.0
/147/
60
/1/
55
/2/

Too Many Winners (1947)
Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.
poster
60
?
6.1
/135/
60
/2/
60
/2/

Larceny in Her Heart (1946)
In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.
poster
65
?
6.7
/135/
70
/3/
60
/2/

Buyer Beware (1940)
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.
poster
63
?
6.4
/327/
63
/7/

Forbidden Passage (1941)
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.
poster
?
6.4
/51/
70
/1/

Keep 'Em Sailing (1942)
An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate the sabotage of American cargo ships.
poster
55
?
5.6
/219/
60
/2/
50
/4/

Blonde for a Day (1946)
Hugh Beaumont stars as detective "Michael Shayne" in this 1946 B-film.
poster
68
?
6.7
/262/
70
/2/

You Came Along (1945)
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour. After some amusing escapades, Bob and Ivy become romantically involved, agreeing it's "just fun up in the air." Then Ivy finds out the real reason why it shouldn't be anything more.
poster
61
?
6.2
/148/
60
/1/

Murder Is My Business (1946)
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.
poster
57
?
5.7
/198/
56
/3/
60
/2/

Northwest Rangers (1942)
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
poster
54
?
6.4
/350/
40
/2/
58
/8/

A Gun in His Hand (1945)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.
poster
50
?
6.0
/325/
46
/3/
52
/6/

Flight for Freedom (1943)
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
poster
62
?
6.3
/214/
63
/3/
53
/3/

Jack Pot (1940)
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking.
poster
60
?
6.0
/188/
60
/2/

Song of the Open Road (1944)
A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."
poster
?
6.4
/19/

Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946)
Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling air-freight business.
poster
65
?
6.1
/342/
73
/3/
62
/5/

Strange Affair (1944)
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
poster
59
?
6.0
/247/
60
/1/
57
/3/

Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event (1943)
Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.
poster
57
?
6.5
/199/
50
/5/
58
/4/

You, the People (1940)
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.
poster
58
?
6.0
/116/
60
/5/
56
/4/

The Counterfeiters (1948)
Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to nab counterfeiter and his gang.


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