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Fandango at Home Free
85
7.9
/34497/
76
/786/
74
/506/
4.0
/36173/
98
/47/
93
/969/
86
/17/
cc age 10+

The Thin Man (1934)
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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80
79
7.6
/12886/
79
/344/
73
/186/
3.8
/11293/
96
/27/
90
/209/
76
/12/

After the Thin Man (1936)
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
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74
71
7.4
/8665/
75
/254/
71
/130/
3.5
/6371/
86
/22/
85
/113/
63
/8/

Another Thin Man (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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79
68
7.4
/4060/
76
/74/
72
/54/
3.6
/2688/
100
/7/
83
/43/
cc age 10+

I Love You Again (1940)
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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73
68
7.2
/7396/
74
/199/
69
/112/
3.5
/4849/
88
/8/
78
/81/
63
/7/

Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
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71
67
6.9
/8801/
68
/226/
66
/218/
3.2
/3577/
94
/16/
68
/91/

Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
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.
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73
64
7.1
/6497/
72
/87/
65
/77/
3.4
/3137/
92
/13/
71
/95/

San Francisco (1936)
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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71
63
7.2
/5173/
70
/98/
70
/75/
3.4
/3396/
80
/15/
71
/81/

Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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69
55
6.8
/3644/
71
/58/
63
/44/
3.2
/2816/
78
/847/

It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
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71
53
7.3
/3519/
70
/40/
65
/34/
3.6
/1651/
77
/2177/

Marie Antoinette (1938)
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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63
39
6.5
/1673/
67
/36/
54
/21/
3.2
/940/
56
/9/
75
/41/

Naughty Marietta (1935)
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
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67
36
6.0
/1446/
73
/22/
64
/15/
3.2
/1127/
80
/5/
63
/19/

Love on the Run (1936)
A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.
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73
36
6.7
/1472/
73
/18/
62
/13/
3.3
/436/
100
/5/
70
/22/

Rose Marie (1936)
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.
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32
6.1
/1301/
53
/17/
53
/21/
2.6
/746/
100
/8/
35
/11/

Trader Horn (1931)
While on safari in an unexplored area of Africa, Trader Horn and Peru find missionary Edith Trent killed by natives. They decide to carry on her quest for her lost daughter Nina. They find her as the queen of a particularly savage tribe, and try to bring her back to civilization.
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65
32
6.8
/1434/
65
/16/
67
/19/
3.3
/878/
59
/70/

Penthouse (1933)
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
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73
28
6.9
/656/
75
/6/
65
/14/
3.4
/277/
88
/99/

Eskimo (1933)
The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.
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28
6.4
/1417/
67
/20/
63
/21/
3.2
/580/
54
/97/

Rage in Heaven (1941)
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.
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60
26
6.8
/1079/
58
/15/
66
/23/
3.4
/534/
42
/156/

White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.
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64
26
6.9
/1136/
63
/8/
58
/13/
3.3
/525/
65
/72/

Guilty Hands (1931)
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.
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59
25
6.4
/1706/
63
/17/
58
/19/
3.2
/896/
49
/17/

Forsaking All Others (1934)
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
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67
25
7.3
/1014/
70
/10/
63
/18/
3.5
/219/
59
/113/

Journey for Margaret (1942)
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.
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65
24
6.5
/1172/
75
/10/
69
/9/
3.3
/613/
52
/57/

Personal Property (1937)
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.
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65
23
6.4
/1087/
68
/8/
46
/8/
3.2
/506/
82
/28/

The Feminine Touch (1941)
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan (Van Heflin), who falls head over heels for Julie, John is assigned to his assistant Nellie (Kay Francis), who only has eyes for her boss. Working closely with Nellie, who Julie thinks is after her husband, John continues his high-minded ways while his angry spouse schemes to make him so jealous he'll knock Elliott's block clean off.
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22
6.6
/708/
78
/12/
65
/7/
57
/773/

New Moon (1940)
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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58
21
6.2
/779/
55
/15/
57
/12/
3.2
/315/
55
/308/

Sweethearts (1938)
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
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61
20
6.6
/772/
73
/13/
54
/14/
3.2
/322/
50
/79/

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
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61
15
6.3
/1143/
60
/11/
53
/16/
3.2
/438/
67
/4/

The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
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52
15
5.7
/595/
55
/4/
58
/6/
40
/156/

Bitter Sweet (1940)
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
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56
14
6.1
/562/
64
/9/
58
/4/
44
/34/

Cairo (1942)
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.
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54
13
6.0
/640/
76
/8/
55
/6/
29
/215/

Rosalie (1937)
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.
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60
12
6.7
/636/
63
/6/
69
/11/
3.3
/437/
36
/4/

The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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55
11
6.3
/420/
72
/8/
62
/5/
25
/94/

They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
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50
9
5.7
/626/
61
/7/
50
/3/
3.1
/214/
21
/454/

I Married an Angel (1942)
A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.
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?
5.0
/25/

Wyoming (1928)
A girl leads the way across the great Oregon Trail.
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?
5.1
/19/

Barriers Burned Away (1925)
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?
3.3
/18/

The Land of Long Shadows (1917)
The Land of Long Shadows is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Jack Gardner, Ruth King and Carl Stockdale. It marked the directorial debut of Van Dyke. Joe Mauchin meets Jeanne Verette. He is a trapper, come down to the little post of Mead's Pocket, a vicious mining town, for supplies. She, the daughter of a saloonkeeper who compels her to "drum up trade" among his maudlin patrons. Joe falls in love with Jeanne.
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?
4.8
/10/
10
/1/

On Trial (1917)
Robert Strickland, the self-confessed murderer of Gerald Trask, refuses to defend himself on the witness stand. His attorney, however, cross-examines Strickland's wife.
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?
4.3
/18/

The Little Girl Next Door (1923)
The Little Girl Next Door is a 1912 silent drama
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?
4.3
/21/
10
/1/

The Hawk's Trail (1919)
Through a forged will, a crook assumes control of a valuable estate. He poses as the brother of a dead man, and endeavors to dispose of the deceased man's two daughters, one of whom is in love with the forger's son.
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?
4.3
/20/

The Timber Wolf (1925)
A lumber man called the Timber Wolf comes to the aid of an old prospector.
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?
4.3
/22/

Winner Take All (1924)
Perry Blair starts off as a sparring partner for a fighter, but when he knocks the guy down, manager Charles Dunham immediately sees his potential. He takes Blair to New York, where he meets pretty Cecil Manners. Blair finds out that his next fight is fixed and he pulls out. When Dunham spreads a rumor that he is yellow, Blair decides to return west.
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?
4.1
/23/

The Desert's Price (1925)
Returning from college, Wils McCann discovers that the long-standing feud between his family and their neighbors is actually the fault of the nasty Martin brothers. In love with neighbor girl Julia Starke, Wils succeeds in setting the record straight and disarming the villainous brothers.
poster
?
4.5
/32/
50
/1/

The Gentle Cyclone (1926)
The story is motivated by a long-standing feud, which comes to a head when each of the warring families tries to adopt an orphan girl who is about to receive a huge inheritance.
poster
?
3.3
/23/

The Boss of Camp 4 (1922)
To fulfill a contract entered into by his boss, Chet Fanning agrees to finish the construction within a certain amount of time. However, Andrew Paxton has an enemy in the camp's boss, Dave Miller, who is determined to see the job fail.
poster
?
4.9
/35/

Hearts and Spurs (1925)
Oscar has been sent to the plains to make a man of himself, is soon visited by his sister Sybil Estabrook, who travels west along with her maid in tow. Oscar, who has been losing at cards to Victor Dufresne, is forced by him to rob a stagecoach in order to pay off his gambling debts.
poster
?
4.0
/17/

Men of the Desert (1917)
Some of the most sanguinary feuds in America have been fought out, not in the mountains of the south, but on the deserts of the great west, where cattlemen and sheepmen often dealt out death to each other with the aid of their old friends, Winchester and Colt. Such a feud is in progress between the men of the desert when Jack, a nomadic cowboy, wanders into the scene. He is outspoken against the outlawry, and the sheriff, in jest, hands him his badge and asks him if he can do any better. Jack accepts the challenge and arrests one of the most recent slayers.
poster
?
3.8
/20/

Sadie Goes to Heaven (1917)
Little six-year-old Sadie O'Malley, a child of the tenement district, has a vision of heaven awakened within her by the teaching of a settlement worker, so when she sees a handsome limousine in front of the settlement laundry near her home she thinks it is a heavenly chariot, climbs into a clothes hamper in the interior of the car and is whisked away to the home of Mrs. Welland Riche.
poster
?
4.7
/18/

The Beautiful Sinner (1924)
To help secret serviceman Bill Parsons in pursuit of the thieving Benson gang wealthy criminologist Henry Avery sends his assistant Blinky to cover the waterfront while he attends a reception at the home of Mrs. Cornelius Westervelt. At the soiree he meets gang member Alice Carter while also discover the gang’s cache hidden there. Captured Parsons is saved by Blinky, and the pair foil the gang’s attempt to rob Mrs. Westervelt and her guests.


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