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7.6

♡ 14

88%

Larry Peerce Director

Ed McMahon as Bill Wilks

Mike Kellin as Harry Purvis

Jan Sterling as Muriel Purvis

Jack Gilford as Sam Beckerman

Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.

Of Human Bondage

7.0

♡ 7

87%

John Cromwell Director

Reginald Owen as Athelny

Frank Mills as Chimneysweep

Bette Davis as Mildred

Alan Hale as Miller

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

Magic Town

1947

6.4

♡ 7

50%

William A. Wellman Director

Regis Toomey as Ed Weaver

Vic Perrin as Elevator Starter

Ann Doran as Mrs. Weaver

Kent Smith as Professor Frederick Hoopendecker

Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.

The Old Fashioned Way

7.3

♡ 2

83%

William Beaudine Director

Georgie Billings as Kid in Railroad Car

Sam Flint as Kid's Father

Richard Carle as Sheriff of Barnesville

Florence Lawrence as Undetermined Role

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

There's Always Tomorrow

1956

7.4

♡ 4

88%

Douglas Sirk Director

Joan Bennett as Marion Groves

Helen Kleeb as Miss Walker

Mack Williams as Norma's Hotel Clerk

William Reynolds as Vinnie Groves

When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.

The Great McGinty

1940

7.2

♡ 6

100%

Preston Sturges Director

Duke Green as Double

Richard Carle as Dr. Jonas J. Jarvis - Card Player in Cantina

Paul Newlan as Prisoner Demanding Quiet

Louis Jean Heydt as Tommy Thompson

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...

Back Street

1941

6.7

♡ 2

80%

Robert Stevenson Director

Nella Walker as Corinne Saxel

Samuel S. Hinds as Felix Darren

Tim Holt as Richard Saxel

Irving Bacon as Skeet

In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxel, who is engaged to a socially prominent woman. Inadvertently prevented from running away with Walter, Ray remains single but reunites with him five years later. Despite Walter being married and having a son, Ray becomes his mistress, and over the years suffers social ostracism and long stretches of solitude while waiting for their brief interludes together.

Special Agent

1935

6.4

♡ 3

33%

William Keighley Director

William B. Davidson as Charlie Young

Lester Dorr as Gas Station Attendant

Bette Davis as Julie Gardner

Thomas E. Jackson as State Police Commander's Assistant

A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster's bookkeeper. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.

Dizzy Detectives

1943

7.7

♡ 9

Jules White Director

Ray Corrigan as Bonzo the Gorilla

Larry Fine as Larry

Moe Howard as Moe

Dick Botiller as Police Detective

The Stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A mysterious burglar disguised as a gorilla has the cops baffled and Mr. Dill, the head of the citizens league, threatening the police chief's job. The boys go on the case and pose as night watchmen at an antiques store. They confront the crook, who turns out to be a real gorilla owned by Dill. After defeating Dill and some other bad guys in a wild fight, the gorilla drinks some nitroglycerin and blows up.

Zander the Great

1925

5.6

♡ 3

George W. Hill Director

George Siegmann as Black Bart

Holbrook Blinn as Juan Fernández

Richard Carle as Mr. Pepper

Harry Myers as Texas

Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.

Beverly of Graustark

1926

6.7

♡ 4

Sidney Franklin Director

Marion Davies as Beverly Calhoun

Albert Gran as Duke Travina

Charles Clary as Mr. Calhoun

Sidney Bracey as Valet

Beverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury. In the meantime, she falls for her bodyguard Dantan.

Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die

1966

Italian

6.0

♡ 2

central intelligence agency (cia)

Henry Levin Director

Beverly Adams as Karin

Raf Vallone as Mr. Ardonian

Oliver MacGreevy as Ringo

Dorothy Provine as Susan Fleming

In this spoof of spy films, CIA agent, Kelly, is in Rio De Janeiro spying on a wealthy industrialist, David Ardonian, who secretly plans to turn the world sterile and repopulate it with his harem. UK spy, Susan Fleming, helps Kelly.

Now and Forever

husband wife relationship

6.5

♡ 9

64%

Henry Hathaway Director

Ronnie Cosby as Guest at Penny's Party

Gary Cooper as Jerry Day

Shirley Temple as Penelope 'Penny' Day

Luise Rainer as Real Estate Office Secretary

Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility, but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's young daughter Pennie, who has been living with his rich deceased wife's family. Pennie appears to be just what Jerry needs to mend his swindling ways and lead a straight life. Then a corruptible influence enters his life.

The Scarlet Claw

1944

7.2

♡ 11

73%

Roy William Neill Director

Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson

Ian Wolfe as Drake

Jack Kenny as Villager in Pub

Frank Austin as Villager in Pub with Dr. Watson

When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.

Cry, the Beloved Country

1951

7.0

♡ 7

92%

65%

johannesburg south africa

apartheid

based on novel or book

Drama

minister

pre-unix

south africa

Zoltan Korda Director

Geoffrey Keen as Father Vincent

Joyce Carey as Margaret Jarvis

Michael Goodliffe as Martens

Sidney Poitier as Reverend Msimangu

In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.

King Kong vs. Godzilla

1962

5.7

♡ 24

52%

Ishirô Honda Director

Byron Morrow as

Akemi Negishi as Chikiro's Mother

Les Tremayne as Commander Roberts / General Shinzo / Narrator

Robert Dunham as US Navy Pilot

When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus.

7th Heaven

1927

7.5

♡ 18

based on play or musical

Frank Borzage Director

Charles Farrell as Chico

Janet Gaynor as Diane

Gladys Brockwell as Nana

George E. Stone as Sewer Rat

In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.

Guns for San Sebastian

1968

6.6

♡ 6

52%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Henri Verneuil Director

Sam Jaffe as Father Joseph

Jorge Martínez de Hoyos as Felipe Cayetano

Charles Bronson as Teclo

Leon Askin as Vicar General

Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.

The Black Cat