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Death Whistles the Blues (1964)

A dead musician's widow seeks revenge against the gun trafficker who betrayed them. ...

The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog (1964)

Hector, the dog of an officer of the merchant navy, wanders during a stopover in Lisbon. Captured by smugglers, he is soon used as a mule in a case of diamond smuggling. But this is not counting on his innate sense of justice and law... ...

The Running Man (1963)

An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator. ...

Thunder in the Sun (1959)

A band of Basque immigrants treks through the Old West toward California, where they hope to put down roots and open wineries. When the group's leader dies, his widow Gabrielle marries his brother in accordance with Basque tradition. But it's a loveless un ...

The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958)

Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers, leaving Brown alive to face a military tribunal in which he is branded a coward, stripped of all insignia and d ...

An Affair to Remember (1957)

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen? ...

Jaguar (1956)

Oil explorers suspect a South American jungle boy of murder. ...

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina be ...

New York Confidential (1955)

Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts. ...

With This Ring (1954)

Dramatised promotional film for the Miller Brewing Company. ...

The Girl on The Roof (1953)

A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and accepts his invitation to join him for drinks and dinner in his apartment. There sh ...

Conquest of Cochise (1953)

A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war. ...

Second Chance (1953)

A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico. ...

So This Is Love (1953)

Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953. ...

The Moon Is Blue (1953)

Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections. ...

Thunder Bay (1953)

Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig. ...

Havana Rose (1951)

Ambassador Rico DeMarco is in Washington trying to raise a five-million dollar loan for his country, Lower Salamia. Filbert Filmore and his domineering wife are about to sign on the dotted line for the loan when DeMarco's vivacious daughter, Estelita, upse ...

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, thi ...

Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)

Mother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man. ...

Whirlpool (1950)

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points ...

Bad Men of Tombstone (1949)

A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own. ...

Adventures of Don Juan (1948)

Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under threat from sinister forces. ...

Angel on the Amazon (1948)

An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth. ...

Romance on the High Seas (1948)

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catc ...

Rose of Santa Rosa (1947)

Angry because his father, Don Manuel Ortega, had arranged a marriage with a girl he has never met, Dolores de Garfias, Ramon Ortega, despite the threat of being disinherited, becomes an entertainer at a local night club. His father uses his influence and h ...

The Fugitive (1947)

Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest. ...

The Kneeling Goddess (1947)

Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary. ...

Fiesta (1947)

When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring. ...

Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)

A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain. ...

Pepita Jiménez (1946)

On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready ...

Hit the Hay (1945)

An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer. ...

Man Alive (1945)

A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend. ...

The Red Dragon (1945)

Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun. ...

A Bell for Adano (1945)

Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests ...

La pícara Susana (1945)

Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family. ...

Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)

Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight problems with his history knowlege, so he sends Bill everywhere in history, but not to WWII. ...

Brazil (1944)

Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress Nicky Henderson, who has hit the best-seller charts with her latest tome, Why Marry a L ...

Mrs. Parkington (1944)

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society ...

Double Indemnity (1944)

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator. ...

My Best Gal (1944)

A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical. ...

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)

Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father's murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy. ...

Going My Way (1944)

Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for di ...

The Sultan's Daughter (1943)

A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American. ...

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. H ...

Dixie (1943)

A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of D ...

Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use. ...

The Black Swan (1942)

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the reb ...

Girl Trouble (1942)

A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid. ...

Larceny, Inc. (1942)

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers... ...

Obliging Young Lady (1942)

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce. ...

Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)

Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects. ...

Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)

Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the vocalist, by pretending she once knew the King or Aregal back in the old count ...

Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)

Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arriv ...

A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)

An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend. ...

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 ...

Moon Over Miami (1941)

After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-k ...

Blood and Sand (1941)

Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring. ...

Citizen Kane (1941)

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction t ...

That Night in Rio (1941)

An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue. ...

The Mark of Zorro (1940)

In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless fop, while on the other, he is the masked avenger Zorro. ...

Down Argentine Way (1940)

The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which ...

I Was an Adventuress (1940)

Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their ...

Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)

Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal. ...

Tropic Holiday (1938)

A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border. ...

Romance in the Dark (1938)

A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true. ...

El carnaval del diablo (1936)

Spanish-language version of The Devil on Horseback (1936). ...

Poderoso caballero (1935)

A Successful Calamity (1932)

Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, ...

Careless Lady (1932)

Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris. ...