Lucky Star

1929

English

7.6

♡ 4

85%

Drama

pre-code

Romance

Frank Borzage Director

Jack Pennick as Army Driver

Janet Gaynor as Mary Tucker

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Sgt. Martin Wrenn

Charles Farrell as Timothy Osborn

Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.

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.

That's My Man

1947

English

6.1

♡ 2

95%

parent child relationship

Romance

Sport

Frank Borzage Director

George Pembroke as Gambler

Ethelreda Leopold as Party Guest

Tom London as Racetrack Man

Marshall Reed as Winner's Circle Reporter

A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.

Street Angel

1928

English

7.3

♡ 6

79%

Action

based on novel or book

Frank Borzage Director

Janet Gaynor as Angela

Charles Farrell as Gino

Italia Frandi as (uncredited)

Frankie Genardi as (uncredited)

A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.

Disputed Passage

1939

English

6.4

♡ 4

Frank Borzage Director

Keye Luke as Andrew Abbott

Philip Ahn as Dr. Fung

David S. Horsley as Intern

James P. Hogan as Messenger Boy

A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.

Desire

1936

English

7.1

♡ 7

100%

donostia-san sebastian, spain

Frank Borzage Director

George MacQuarrie as Clerk With Gun

Alan Mowbray as Dr. Maurice Pauquet

Armand Kaliz as Jewelry Clerk

William Frawley as Mr. Gibson

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

Flight Command

1940

English

6.3

♡ 2

33%

Frank Borzage Director

Forbes Murray as Captain

Ruth Hussey as Lorna Gary

Irving Bacon as Taxi Driver

Addison Richards as Vice Admiral

A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.

I've Always Loved You

1946

English

6.4

♡ 1

60%

Frank Borzage Director

Maria Ouspenskaya as Madame Goronoff

Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Sompter

Forbes Murray as Music Critic

Lillian Bronson as Music Teacher

A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.

The Mortal Storm

1940

English

7.7

♡ 9

100%

national socialist party

nazi

professor

Frank Borzage Director

William T. Orr as Erich Von Rohn

Ward Bond as Franz

Lloyd Corrigan as Postman

Brad Dexter as Student

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.

Little Man, What Now?

1934

English

7.1

♡ 5

83%

79%

based on novel or book

Frank Borzage Director

Margaret Sullavan as Emma 'Lammchen' Pinneberg

Alan Mowbray as Franz Schluter

Douglass Montgomery as Hans Pinneberg

Alan Hale as Holger Jachman

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.

History Is Made at Night

1937

English

7.3

♡ 3

100%

Frank Borzage Director

Pierre Watkin as Commodore Eldridge

Amzie Strickland as Restaurant Patron

Edward Earle as Ship's Officer Talking to Capt. Alden

Tim Holt as S.O.S. Radio Operator

An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.

Back Pay

1922

English

6.5

♡ 1

Drama

partially lost film

Frank Borzage Director

J. Barney Sherry as Charles G. Wheeler

Seena Owen as Hester Bevins

Matt Moore as Jerry Newcombe

Ethel Duray as Kitty

Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and goes to New York in search of a grander life. There she becomes the lover of a wealthy and unscrupulous businessman. But when Jerry returns blinded and dying from the war, Hester must choose between her new life and the man whose loyalty to her has never failed.

The Valley of Silent Men

1922

English

6.6

♡ 2

royal canadian mounted police (mountie)

Western

Frank Borzage Director

Joe King as 'Buck' O'Connor

Lew Cody as Cpl. James Kent

George Nash as Inspector Kedsty

Jack W. Johnston as Jacques Radison

The hunter becomes the hunted, an officer of the Royal Mounted, fleeing, fighting for his life. Guided to a secret valley in the frozen North by a hot-blooded French-Canadian beauty, with a secret of her own...

A Farewell to Arms

1932

English

6.4

♡ 14

88%

53%

Action

ambulance driver

based on novel or book

Frank Borzage Director

Helen Hayes as Catherine

Gary Cooper as Frederic

Blanche Friderici as Head Nurse

Adolphe Menjou as Rinaldi

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.

7th Heaven

1927

English

7.5

♡ 18

Action

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.

Bad Girl

1931

English

6.4

♡ 2

39%

Frank Borzage Director

Sally Eilers as Dorothy Haley

Irving Bacon as Expectant Father

Jesse De Vorska as Expectant Father

Aggie Herring as Seamstress

A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.

Man's Castle

1933

English

7.1

♡ 8

Frank Borzage Director

Spencer Tracy as Bill

Etta McDaniel as Dressing Room Maid

Walter Connolly as Ira

Loretta Young as Trina

Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.

Magnificent Doll

1946

English

6.1

♡ 6

8%

black and white

Drama

History

Frank Borzage Director

Pierre Watkin as Harper

Ruth Lee as Mrs. Gallentine

Peggy Wood as Mrs. Payne

Grandon Rhodes as Thomas Jefferson

While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.

The Spanish Main

1945

English

6.3

♡ 3

50%

Frank Borzage Director

Barton MacLane as Capt. Benjamin Black

Maureen O'Hara as Contessa Francesca

Walter Slezak as Don Juan Alvarado

Nancy Gates as Lupita

Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.