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Kanopy
80
74
7.8
/13086/
73
/180/
73
/208/
3.8
/8527/
94
/17/
87
/178/

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
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Criterion Channel
79
71
7.6
/6369/
70
/120/
70
/92/
3.8
/5917/
100
/23/
83
/111/

All That Money Can Buy (1941)
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
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79
70
7.6
/8308/
72
/113/
71
/116/
3.8
/6802/
93
/15/
85
/135/

Portrait of Jennie (1948)
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
poster
73
67
7.1
/9796/
70
/190/
67
/145/
3.3
/7746/
92
/71/
74
/140/

The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, Zola's complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for being a spy. Realizing that Dreyfus is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism, Zola boldly pens a newspaper article exposing the truth, is charged with libel and must defend himself in a dramatic courtroom testimony.
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75
62
7.3
/3456/
72
/57/
68
/46/
3.4
/2108/
90
/10/
76
/24/
82
/5/

The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
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68
59
6.8
/4135/
59
/44/
62
/46/
3.4
/2909/
92
/12/
62
/80/

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
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72
53
7.2
/2965/
71
/38/
64
/43/
3.7
/4069/
83
/6/
69
/16/

Jewel Robbery (1932)
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
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70
52
7.1
/2731/
71
/45/
69
/39/
3.5
/1834/
71
/262/

I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave for the holidays from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence.
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Kanopy
63
49
6.7
/2960/
64
/71/
65
/46/
3.3
/2071/
52
/128/

Dark City (1950)
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
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Hoopla
59
41
6.3
/2923/
61
/40/
58
/36/
3.1
/908/
60
/10/
50
/33/

Elephant Walk (1954)
Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.
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64
38
6.8
/1962/
66
/25/
62
/33/
3.4
/1053/
80
/5/
43
/11/

The Turning Point (1952)
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship with John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.
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64
38
6.9
/2708/
75
/19/
65
/24/
3.2
/813/
71
/7/
46
/21/

Juarez (1939)
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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56
38
5.8
/2482/
62
/53/
57
/43/
2.9
/1159/
48
/680/

Salome (1953)
In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic dance turns out to have unexpected implications...
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67
37
7.0
/1987/
74
/16/
65
/23/
3.4
/893/
62
/294/

Love Letters (1945)
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."
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62
37
6.6
/2137/
61
/22/
64
/21/
3.2
/1269/
57
/129/

Fashions of 1934 (1934)
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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70
37
7.4
/1961/
75
/19/
64
/31/
3.4
/477/
69
/150/

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
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72
34
6.8
/1209/
73
/29/
61
/23/
3.4
/726/
100
/5/
62
/2/

The Accused (1949)
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
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50
30
5.8
/2602/
54
/29/
56
/32/
2.9
/1121/
22
/437/

Satan Met a Lady (1936)
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
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56
27
6.5
/1983/
56
/22/
62
/18/
3.1
/658/
36
/64/

Fog Over Frisco (1934)
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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61
27
6.6
/2001/
61
/30/
56
/30/
3.3
/835/
57
/8/

Rope of Sand (1949)
Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.
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59
26
6.5
/1282/
66
/20/
58
/11/
3.1
/980/
48
/67/

Lawyer Man (1932)
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York City political party boss named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by corrupt Dr. Gresham and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
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61
25
6.8
/1087/
63
/13/
58
/23/
3.4
/351/
50
/228/

September Affair (1950)
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.
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60
20
6.4
/562/
55
/4/
64
/8/
60
/38/

Dr. Socrates (1935)
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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68
20
6.8
/929/
67
/8/
67
/8/
3.3
/303/
73
/25/

The Great O'Malley (1937)
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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Amazon Prime Video
56
19
5.6
/685/
54
/11/
55
/13/
3.1
/225/
57
/46/

Blockade (1938)
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.
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60
16
6.1
/783/
62
/8/
59
/14/
3.0
/637/

The Secret Bride (1934)
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
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63
16
6.5
/931/
66
/9/
50
/11/
3.3
/747/

Man Wanted (1932)
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
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61
15
6.1
/763/
57
/24/
64
/18/
3.2
/219/

Red Mountain (1951)
Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospecting couple into trouble when the husband is accused of a murder he committed.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
53
15
6.0
/1419/
54
/11/
52
/16/
3.1
/486/
38
/5/

Kismet (1944)
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
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63
14
6.9
/1436/
55
/4/
64
/12/
3.5
/405/
60
/1/

The Last Flight (1931)
Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet Nikki, an eccentric and wealthy young woman. Nikki is drawn to Cary, and the five friends, tagged by the boorish reporter, Frink, drink their way from Paris to Lisbon.
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56
10
6.1
/777/
65
/6/
62
/8/
3.2
/222/
29
/13/

Another Dawn (1937)
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.
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63
9
6.7
/361/
45
/5/
57
/13/
83
/3/

Volcano (1950)
An exiled Italian prostitute shields her sister from a deep-sea diver on an island volcano.
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46
9
5.8
/374/
60
/1/
40
/4/
29
/43/

Grand Slam (1933)
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
poster
60
9
6.6
/338/
57
/8/
49
/12/
3.3
/274/

Sex in Chains (1928)
A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate. Upon his release his wife is concerned as to how prison has changed the man she married.
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?
8.2
/12/
10
/1/

Das Vergnügen, anständig zu sein (1962)
N/A
poster
?
50
/1/

Silence of the Forest (1929)
N/A
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?
4.4
/24/

Kismet (1931)
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This is a German-language version made in Hollywood along side the 1930 production directed by John Francis Dillon.
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?
4.6
/28/
10
/1/

Man by the Roadside (1923)
N/A
poster
51
?
6.1
/334/
26
/3/
66
/8/

Paid in Full (1950)
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.
poster
53
?
6.3
/429/
40
/1/
58
/6/

From Headquarters (1933)
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
poster
59
?
5.9
/234/
60
/1/

Her Majesty, Love (1931)
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage Fred to break the engagement. Lia goes to Berlin to marry a Baron von Schwarzdorf, and Fred arrives too late to stop the marriage.
poster
?
7.0
/89/
10
/1/

Carnival Confession (1960)
During the 1913 carnival, a man is stabbed to death in the confessional of Mainz Cathedral: Ferdinand Dörfler was the illegitimate son of the businessman Panezza, who never confessed to him. Ferdinand's brother Clemens is accused of fratricide by his own mother. The young Viola, who had come to Mainz from Italy, makes a confession: she loved Ferdinand and had been abandoned by him. Lolfo, who was unconditionally devoted to her, pursued Ferdinand and killed him. Lolfo commits suicide.
poster
?
5.1
/58/
10
/1/
48
/4/

Dubrovsky (1959)
Vladimir Dubrovsky returns from St. Petersburg to his family estate, where he finds his father dying and learns that all his lands and serfs have been fraudulently taken by the owner of a neighboring estate. Having organized a detachment of peasants who refused to obey the new owner, our hero intends to restore justice and take revenge on his offender.
poster
59
?
5.9
/188/
60
/2/

The Devil's in Love (1933)
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
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?
6.2
/155/

The Searching Wind (1946)
Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in Rome just as Mussolini is coming to power. There Alex marries Emily, daughter of a newspaper publisher who hires Cassie for his Paris bureau -- just before retiring from active management of his paper. Alex and Emily's son Sam, recently returned from active duty in World War II, learns the whole story one night in Washington when Emily invites Cassie to dinner. Sam has a story to tell, too.
poster
?
5.5
/12/
45
/1/

The Brandenburg Arch (1929)
In the year 1914: The assistants of cobbler Lehmann compete for the affections of his daughter Frieda. Actually she’s in love with her ambitious cousin Fritz, but the cunning Franz knows how to string her along. When Fritz gets drafted, Frieda gives in and marries Franz. Soon Fritz is declared missing and the old cobbler dies of grief. Along the way Franz, who dodged the military service, earns his money with large-scale racketeering. Frieda is miserable. But then Fritz returns from Soviet captivity, prompting Frieda to divorce Franz. Finally Frieda accepts an inheritance from the USA and marries Fritz. With the money they open up a shoe store.
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?
6.4
/25/
40
/1/

One Hour of Happiness (1931)
The two happy fitters Eddy and Tommy are doing overtime to ensure the great travel-exhibition of the department store they work in is ready for display. Outside, they see a poor newspaper seller, who looks longingly at the beautiful things in the display window. So they simply decide to smuggle the unfortunate inside and compete to win her favor by giving her gifts from the shelves of the department store. In their frenzy of happiness, they don’t notice that the girl is taking the fun little game for the truth. When she realizes that she has to give back the alleged gifts, she runs away.
poster
62
?
5.7
/185/
50
/5/
80
/1/

Peking Express (1951)
A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.


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