As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that the thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish.

American Anarchist

2016

English

5.9

♡ 2

67%

Charlie Siskel Director

Joan Rivers as Self

William Powell as Self - Author, The Anarchist Cookbook

Charlie Siskel as Self - Interviewer

Ochan Kusuma-Powell as Self - Wife of William Powell

The story of one of the most infamous books ever written, "The Anarchist Cookbook," and the role it's played in the life of its author, now 65, who wrote it at 19 in the midst of the counterculture upheaval of the late '60s and early '70s.

Man of the World

1931

English

6.1

♡ 7

29%

Richard Wallace Director

George Chandler as Fred

Rolfe Sedan as Hotel Desk Clerk

Carole Lombard as Mary Kendall

William Powell as Michael Trevor

A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.

Ladies' Man

1931

English

5.7

♡ 6

96%

Lothar Mendes Director

William Powell as Jamie Darricott

Edward Hearn as Maitre D'

Olive Tell as Mrs. Fendley

Kay Francis as Norma Page

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."

The Last Command

1928

English

7.9

♡ 5

95%

russian revolution (1917)

silent film

War

Josef von Sternberg Director

Jack Raymond as Assistant Director

William Powell as Lev Andreyev

Evelyn Brent as Natalie Dabrova

Harry Cording as Revolutionist

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

The Road to Singapore

1931

English

6.4

♡ 3

Alfred E. Green Director

May Beatty as Bridge Player on Ship

William Powell as Hugh Dawltry

Alison Skipworth as Mrs. Wey-Smith

Marian Marsh as Rene March

A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.

One Way Passage

1932

English

7.5

♡ 7

100%

Tay Garnett Director

William Powell as Dan Hardesty

Allan Lane as Friend of Joan's

Al Ernest Garcia as Honolulu Cigar Store Proprietor

Kay Francis as Joan Ames

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.

Sherlock Holmes

1922

English

5.7

♡ 5

78%

Albert Parker Director

Louis Wolheim as Craigin

William Powell as Foreman Wells

Walter Kingsford as Gunman at apartment window

Hedda Hopper as Madge Larrabee

Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed detective investigates an alleged theft, he’s brought face to face with his most devious adversary yet — Professor Moriarty.

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

1937

English

6.4

♡ 5

50%

Dorothy Arzner Director

William Powell as Charles

Robert Montgomery as Lord Arthur Dilling

Melville Cooper as William

Nigel Bruce as Willie Wynton

A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

The Benson Murder Case

1930

English

6.0

♡ 11

Frank Tuttle Director

Paul Lukas as Adolph Mohler

Mischa Auer as Albert Brecker

May Beatty as Mrs. Paula Banning

William Powell as Philo Vance

A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.

The Greene Murder Case

1929

English

6.3

♡ 5

Frank Tuttle Director

Jean Arthur as Ada Greene

William Powell as Philo Vance

Eugene Pallette as Sgt. Ernest Heath

Florence Eldridge as Sibella Greene

Philo Vance investigates when a murderer preys upon members of a wealthy family on New York's Upper East Side.

The Canary Murder Case

1929

English

6.0

♡ 8

25%

Frank Tuttle Director

Jean Arthur as Alice LaFosse

Louis John Bartels as Louis Mannix

William Powell as Philo Vance

Eugene Pallette as Sgt. Ernest Heath

A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.

The Kennel Murder Case

1933

English

6.8

♡ 5

100%

66%

based on novel or book

Michael Curtiz Director

George Chandler as First Reporter at Police Station

Mary Astor as Hilda Lake

William Powell as Philo Vance

Spencer Charters as Sgt. Snitkin

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

Too Many Kisses

1925

English

6.4

♡ 4

Paul Sloane Director

William Powell as Captain Julio

Joseph Burke as Joab Simmons

Albert Tavernier as Manuel Hurja

Harpo Marx as The Village Peter Pan

Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in Spain to find samples of a rare mineral. When the son gets to Spain, he runs afoul of the local police chief - who has a secret that he tries to keep the young man from discovering.

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Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

American Anarchist

Man of the World

Ladies' Man

The Last Command

The Road to Singapore

One Way Passage

Sherlock Holmes

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Benson Murder Case

The Greene Murder Case

The Canary Murder Case

The Kennel Murder Case

Too Many Kisses