Type: Movies
Origin: United States
5897 content found
Carmen Jones 1954

At an all-black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Naturally, she wants Joe, who's engaged to sweet Cindy Lou and about to go into pilot training for the Korean War. Going after him, she succeeds only in getting him into the stockade. While she awaits his release, trouble approaches for both of them. Songs from the Bizet opera with modernized lyrics.

Category: Drama, Musical, Romantic

Stars: Harry Belafonte,Dorothy Dandridge,Pearl Bailey,Olga James

6.9 IMDB Rating 2,897 Views
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954

Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Stars: Howard Keel,Jeff Richards,Russ Tamblyn,Tommy Rall

7.4 IMDB Rating 3,070 Views
Imitation of Life 1959

Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson, a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though, Annie's little girl Sarah Jane, is by far the worse. Neurotic and obnoxious, Sarah Jane doesn't like being black; since she's light-skinned (her father was practically white), she spends the rest of the film passing as white, much to her mother's heartache and shame. Lora, meanwhile, virtually ignores her own daughter in a single-minded quest for stardom.

Category: Drama

Stars: Lana Turner,John Gavin,Sandra Dee,Susan Kohner

7.9 IMDB Rating 2,408 Views
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver 1960

Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.

Category: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Kids

Stars: Kerwin Mathews,Jo Morrow,June Thorburn,Lee Patterson

6.6 IMDB Rating 2,974 Views
Pollyanna 1960

A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. By the time she must leave, she has transformed the community with her indominatable will to see the good side of even the worst situations and bring it out for the betterment of all.

Category: Drama, Family, Kids

Stars: Hayley Mills,Jane Wyman,Richard Egan,Karl Malden

7.3 IMDB Rating 3,006 Views
Little Caesar 1931

Rico is a small-time hood who knocks off gas stations for whatever he can take. He heads east and signs up with Sam Vettori's mob. A New Year's Eve robbery at Little Arnie Lorch's casino results in the death of the new crime commissioner Alvin McClure. Rico's good friend Joe Massara, who works at the club as a professional dancer, works as the gang's lookout man and wants out of the gang. Rico is ambitious and eventually takes over Vettori's gang; he then moves up to the next echelon pushing out Diamond Pete Montana. When he orders Joe to dump his girlfriend Olga and re-join the gang, Olga decides there's only one way out for them.

Category: Action, Crime, Drama

Stars: Edward G. Robinson,Douglas Fairbanks Jr.,Glenda Farrell,William Collier Jr.

7.3 IMDB Rating 2,771 Views
The Public Enemy 1931

Tom Powers and Matt Doyle are best friends and fellow gangsters, their lives frowned upon by Tom's straight laced brother, Mike, and Matt's straight laced sister, Molly. From their teen-aged years into young adulthood, Tom and Matt have an increasingly lucrative life, bootlegging during the Prohibition era. But Tom in particular becomes more and more brazen in what he is willing to do, and becomes more obstinate and violent against those who either disagree with him or cross him. When one of their colleagues dies in a freak accident, a rival bootlegging faction senses weakness among Tom and Matt's gang, which is led by Paddy Ryan. A gang war ensues, resulting in Paddy suggesting that Tom and Matt lay low. But because of Tom's basic nature, he decides instead to take matters into his own hands.

Category: Action, Crime, Drama

Stars: James Cagney,Jean Harlow,Edward Woods,Joan Blondell

7.7 IMDB Rating 2,766 Views
42nd Street 1933

Renowned Broadway producer/director Julian Marsh is hired to put together a new musical revue. It's being financed by Abner Dillon to provide a starring vehicle for his girlfriend, songstress Dorothy Brock. Marsh, who is quite ill, is a difficult task master working long hours and continually pushing the cast to do better. When Brock breaks her ankle one of the chorus girls, Peggy Sawyer, gets her big chance to be the star. She also finds romance along the way.

Category: Comedy, Musical, Romantic

Stars: Warner Baxter,Bebe Daniels,George Brent,Ruby Keeler

7.7 IMDB Rating 3,397 Views
Gold Diggers of 1933 1933

Chorus girls Polly, Carol and Trixie are ecstatic when they learn that Broadway producer Barney Hopkins is putting on a new show. He promises all of the girls parts in the new show and even hires their neighbor Brad Roberts, an unknown composer, to write some of the music. There's only one problem: he doesn't have the money to bankroll it all. That problem is solved when Brad turns out to be quite rich but he insists that he not perform. When opening night comes, the juvenile lead can't go on forcing Brad to take the stage. He's recognized of course and his upper crust family wants him to quit. When he refuses, they tell him to end his relationship with Polly or face having his income cut off. When Brad's snobbish brother Lawrence mistakes Carol for Polly, the girls decide to have a bit of fun and teach him a lesson.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Stars: Warren William,Joan Blondell,Aline MacMahon,Ruby Keeler

8.1 IMDB Rating 2,931 Views
Alice Adams 1935

In the small town of South Renford, Alice Adams comes from a working class background, although she aspires to be among the upper class. Alice's mother blames her husband for their low social standing, despite his working hard and Alice not blaming him for anything. Regardless, Alice tries to do whatever necessary to put on appearances of wealth and social standing, despite everyone in that class in town knowing who she is, and thus largely ignoring her because of her false airs. First meeting at a society ball, Alice surprisingly catches the eye of Arthur Russell, surprisingly as he purportedly is engaged to débutante Mildred Palmer. As Alice continues to hide her true social standing from Arthur as he courts her, Mrs. Adams pressures Mr. Adams into doing something he doesn't want to do in an effort truly to become part of the business class, that measure which entails sinking all his money into a business venture. Beyond the time when Arthur finds out the true nature behind Alice's facade, other issues may bring the fragile Adams society house of cards tumbling down around them, and thus the happiness Alice is seeking with Arthur.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Katharine Hepburn,Fred MacMurray,Fred Stone,Evelyn Venable

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,098 Views
Make Way for Tomorrow 1937

At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?

Category: Comedy, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Victor Moore,Beulah Bondi,Fay Bainter,Thomas Mitchell

8.3 IMDB Rating 2,872 Views
Ball of Fire 1941

Sexy, wisecracking nightclub singer Sugarpuss O'Shea is a hot tomato who needs to be kept on ice: mobster boyfriend Joe Lilac is suspected of murder and Sugarpuss' testimony could put him away. Naive Professor Bertram Potts meets Miss O'Shea while researching an article on slang and in true romantic comedy fashion the two worlds collide. When Miss O'Shea hides out with Potts and his fellow professors, everyone learns something new: the professors how to cha-cha and Potts the meaning of "yum-yum"!

Category: Comedy, Romantic

Stars: Gary Cooper,Barbara Stanwyck,Oskar Homolka,Henry Travers

7.8 IMDB Rating 2,898 Views
The Palm Beach Story 1942

Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be thrown out of their apartment when Gerry meets rich businessman being shown around as a prospective tenant. He gives Gerry $700 to start life afresh but Tom refuses to believe her story and they quarrel. Gerry decides the marriage is over and heads to Palm Beach for a quick divorce but Tom has plans to stop her.

Category: Comedy, Romantic

Stars: Claudette Colbert,Joel McCrea,Mary Astor,Rudy Vallee

7.7 IMDB Rating 2,361 Views
The Pride of the Yankees 1942

Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his childhood in New York until his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech at his farewell day in 1939.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Gary Cooper,Teresa Wright,Babe Ruth,Walter Brennan

7.8 IMDB Rating 2,584 Views
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942

A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family's vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US, this is the life- story of George M. Cohan, who produced, directed, wrote and starred in his own musical shows for which he composed his famous songs.

Category: Biography, Drama, Musical

Stars: James Cagney,Joan Leslie,Walter Huston,Richard Whorf

7.8 IMDB Rating 2,777 Views
I Walked with a Zombie 1943

A young Canadian nurse (Betsy) comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager (Paul Holland). Jessica seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever. When she falls in love with Paul, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give Paul what she thinks he wants.

Category: Fantasy

Stars: James Ellison,Frances Dee,Tom Conway,Edith Barrett

7.2 IMDB Rating 2,853 Views
Murder, My Sweet 1944

This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', renamed for the American market to prevent filmgoers mistaking it for a musical (for which Powell was already famous) has private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a seven year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years. The case is tougher than Marlowe expected as his initially promising enquiries lead to a complex web of deceit involving bribery, perjury and theft, and where no one's motivation is obvious, least of all Marlowe's.

Category: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Stars: Dick Powell,Claire Trevor,Anne Shirley,Otto Kruger

7.6 IMDB Rating 3,295 Views
Puerto Ricans in Paris 2015

Two Puerto Rican NYPD detectives head to Paris to track down a stolen handbag.

Category: Comedy

Stars: Miriam Shor,Luis Guzmán,Edgar Garcia,Rosario Dawson

5.2 IMDB Rating 3,720 Views
Grace Stirs Up Success 2015

Grace is excited for the summer so she can start a business with her friends, but things take an unexpected turn when her mom announces a trip to Paris. There, Grace must learn to get along with her French cousin, Sylvie, and she finds unexpected inspiration for her business. Then, Grace finds out her grandparents bakery, that inspired her to start a business, is closing. Can she and her friends find a way to save it?

Category: Family, Kids

Stars: Virginia Madsen,Olivia Rodrigo,Caitlin Carmichael,Eloise Webb

5.8 IMDB Rating 3,500 Views
400 Days 2015

"400 Days" centers on four astronauts sent on a simulated mission to a distant planet to test the psychological effects of deep space travel. Locked away for 400 days, the crew's mental state begins to deteriorate when they lose all communication with the outside world. Forced to exit the ship, they discover that this mission may not have been a simulation after all.

Category: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Stars: Brandon Routh,Dane Cook,Caity Lotz,Ben Feldman

4.5 IMDB Rating 3,862 Views