The Lion Has Wings

1939

English

5.6

♡ 2

raf (royal air force)

War

Michael Powell Director

Ian Fleming as Air Officer

Raymond Huntley as Minor Role

Flora Robson as Queen Elizabeth I

Austin Trevor as Schulemburg - German Air Chief of Staff

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.

Blonde Venus

1932

English

7.1

♡ 8

65%

Josef von Sternberg Director

Robert Emmett O'Connor as Dan O'Connor

Marlene Dietrich as Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones

Sterling Holloway as Joe, Hiker

Dennis O'Keefe as Minor Role

In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.

Moonrise

1948

English

7.0

♡ 10

100%

Frank Borzage Director

Dane Clark as Danny Hawkins

Irving Bacon as Judd Jenkins

Amzie Strickland as Minor Role

William A. Boardway as Townsman

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

Carefree

1938

English

6.9

♡ 12

57%

Mark Sandrich Director

Jack Carson as Connors

George Ford as Country Club Guest

Walter Kingsford as Dr. Powers

George DeNormand as Minor Role

Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.

Seven Days in May

1964

English

7.8

♡ 19

92%

89%

Action

based on novel or book

John Frankenheimer Director

William Challee as Gen. Riley

Michael Masters as Minor Role

Fredric March as President Jordan Lyman

John Houseman as Vice-Adm. Farley C. Barnswell

A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

A Yank in London

1945

English

6.1

♡ 5

Herbert Wilcox Director

Rex Harrison as Major David Bruce

Norman Williams as Minor Role

Duncan Lamont as Paratrooper

Cecil Ramage as Trewhewy

The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.

The Girl He Left Behind

1956

English

5.2

♡ 8

15%

David Butler Director

Brett Halsey as Army Recruit

Marjorie Bennett as Madeline's Friend

Chuck Hicks as Minor Role

Amzie Strickland as Women's Club Member

A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood, with supporting roles played by Jim Backus, Jessie Royce Landis, Murray Hamilton, Henry Jones, James Garner, Alan King, Ernestine Wade, David Janssen and Raymond Bailey.

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

1966

English

5.2

♡ 10

33%

Henry Levin Director

Angie Dickinson as Linda Benson

Bessie Love as Minor Role

Trevor Howard as Sam Lincoln

Gilbert Roland as Serge Marko

A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

The Bride Wore Boots

1946

English

5.9

♡ 2

15%

Irving Pichel Director

Forbes Murray as Judge #2

Diana Lynn as Mary Lou Medford

Minerva Urecal as Minor Role

Walter Baldwin as Mr. Hodges - Postman

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

These Three

1936

English

7.4

♡ 6

100%

William Wyler Director

Margaret Hamilton as Agatha

Joel McCrea as Dr. Cardin

Ann Bupp as Minor Role

Alma Kruger as Mrs. Tilford

Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.

Million Dollar Mermaid

1952

English

6.5

♡ 10

86%

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Patrick Whyte as Barge Man

Charlie Hall as Minor Role

Betty Lynn as Minor Role

Dean Smith as Swimmer

After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939

English

7.8

♡ 15

94%

87%

Action

based on novel or book

William Dieterle Director

Walter Hampden as Archdeacon

Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda

Charlie Hall as Mercury

Louis Jean Heydt as Minor Role

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.

Designing Woman

1957

English

6.7

♡ 9

82%

Vincente Minnelli Director

Forbes Murray as Fashion Show Attendee

Chuck Hicks as Galatos

Kay E. Kuter as Hotel Clerk

Ron Nyman as Minor Role

A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.

The Cheat

1931

English

6.3

♡ 3

58%

George Abbott Director

Millard Mitchell as Courtroom Spectator

Bess Flowers as Minor Role

Ethelreda Leopold as Minor Role

Jack Gargan as Minor Role

Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she bets and loses big at a casino, and then she doubles her problems with more impulsive decisions. Hardy Livingstone, a wealthy Casanova just back from the Orient, makes a play for her. Elsa dallies with Hardy, but soon, his insistence and her dire financial affairs seem destined to lead to adultery. Who's the cheat?

The Warriors

1955

English

5.8

♡ 3

43%

Henry Levin Director

Walter Gotell as French Castle Guard

Ian Bannen as French Knight

Sam Kydd as Minor Role

Errol Flynn as Prince Edward

Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect the inhabitant from the ravages of the French. After defeating the French in battle, the defeated French plot to kill the prince. Failing in this, they kidnap his lady, the lovely Lady Joan Holland. Of course Prince Edward has to ride to the rescue, adopting numerous guises to save his paramour, which ultimately end in him leading his men into one final climactic battle against the French. (Also known as "The Warriors" and "The Black Prince").

Something New

1920

English

5.7

♡ 3

Nell Shipman Director

Merrill McCormick as Agrilla Gorgez - the Bandit

Nell Shipman as A Young Woman Writer

Bert Van Tuyle as Bill Baxter - the Hero

Tom Hawley as Minor Role

A young woman visiting in Mexico is kidnapped by a gang of bandits, who drag her through the rugged wilderness to their hideout. She manages to leave word for her friend Bill, who knows the country well. But when Bill cannot find a horse, his only available form of transportation is his roadster. Nevertheless, he is determined to come to her rescue, even though it means trying to drive the car across miles of rocky, broken terrain.

Glory at Sea

1952

English

6.3

♡ 4

Compton Bennett Director

James Kenney as John A. Fraser, Hugh's Son

Harold Ayer as Lt. Cmdr Carson

Trevor Howard as Lt. Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser

Harry Towb as Minor Role

Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.

Francis Goes to West Point

1952

English

6.3

♡ 4

11%

animal character name in title

Comedy

Family

Fantasy

francis the mule character

Arthur Lubin Director

Edward Earle as Col. Denning

Chuck Hicks as Minor Role

Donald O'Connor as Peter Stirling

Gregg Palmer as William Norton

Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.

Victoria the Great

1937

English

6.3

♡ 4

Herbert Wilcox Director

Arnold Lucy as

Charles Lefeaux as Earl of Albermarle

Albert Lieven as Minor Role

Paul Henreid as Minor Role

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.