In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.

The Virtuous Sin

1930

English

5.6

♡ 4

96%

George Cukor Director

Paul Cavanagh as Capt. Orloff

Walter Huston as Gen. Gregori Platoff

Kay Francis as Marya Ivanova Sablin

Anita Garvin as Undetermined Secondary Role

Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.

Three Coins in the Fountain

1954

English

6.2

♡ 9

60%

Jean Negulesco Director

Kathryn Givney as Mrs. Burgoyne

Merry Anders as Undetermined Secondary Role

Larry Arnold as Waiter in Select Restaurant

Norma Varden as Woman at Cocktail Party

Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a secretary at a government agency, sets out to win the heart of her smooth-talking novelist employer; Anita, her coworker, defies office regulations by romancing an Italian who works at the agency; and office newcomer Maria meets a real Italian Prince Charming and falls madly in love. The only thing the three hopeful ladies need to do is seal their fate.

Madam Satan

1930

English

6.3

♡ 4

40%

Cecil B. DeMille Director

Vera Marshe as Call of the Wild

Edwards Davis as Henry VIII

Betty Francisco as Little Rolls Riding Hood

Kenneth Gibson as Undetermined Secondary Role

A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.

Hollywood or Bust

1956

English

6.4

♡ 12

80%

Frank Tashlin Director

Ben Welden as Boss

Willard Waterman as Manager Neville

Hal Taggart as Man at Movie Premiere

Valerie Allen as Undetermined Secondary Role

The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins...

Dangerous to Know

1938

English

6.4

♡ 3

Robert Florey Director

Harry Myers as Guest at Party

Ellen Drew as Secretary

Pierre Watkin as Sen. Carson

Evelyn Keyes as Undetermined Secondary Role

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1916

English

6.1

♡ 8

100%

Stuart Paton Director

Howard Crampton as Cyrus Harding

Wallis Clark as Pencroft

Jack Tornek as Undetermined Secondary Role

Noble Johnson as Undetermined Secondary Role

Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away.

The Lost World

1925

English

7.0

♡ 14

100%

based on novel or book

brontosaurus

central and south america

Harry O. Hoyt Director

Lloyd Hughes as Ed Malone

Bessie Love as Paula White

Arthur Conan Doyle as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Gilbert Roland as Undetermined Secondary Role

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

Shanghai Express

1932

English

7.3

♡ 15

96%

Josef von Sternberg Director

Warner Oland as Henry Chang

Forrester Harvey as Peiping Ticket Agent

Marlene Dietrich as Shanghai Lily

Bess Flowers as Undetermined Secondary Role

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

Belle Starr

1941

English

5.7

♡ 5

33%

Irving Cummings Director

Juanita Moore as Dressed-up Freed Slave

Herman Hack as Raider

Edward Fielding as Undetermined Secondary Role

Elena Verdugo as Young Girl

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.

Stella Dallas

1937

English

7.4

♡ 5

82%

Action

boston, massachusetts

King Vidor Director

Alan Hale as Ed Munn

Lester Dorr as Man on Train

Tim Holt as Richard Grosvenor

Ann Doran as Undetermined Secondary Role

After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.

I Could Go on Singing

1963

English

6.9

♡ 2

100%

parent child relationship

singer

Ronald Neame Director

Aileen Lewis as Backstage Parent

Jack Klugman as George

Tony Robinson as Schoolboy

Brian Godfrey as Undetermined Secondary Role

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.

The Citadel

1938

English

7.0

♡ 6

90%

King Vidor Director

Robert Donat as Andrew Manson

Cecil Parker as Charles Every

Rex Harrison as Dr. Lawford

Leslie Phillips as Undetermined Secondary Role

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.

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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Virtuous Sin

Three Coins in the Fountain

Madam Satan

Hollywood or Bust

Dangerous to Know

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

The Lost World

Shanghai Express

Belle Starr

Stella Dallas

I Could Go on Singing

The Citadel