Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.

Hands Across the Table

1935

English

6.9

♡ 4

80%

71%

Action

bodily disabled person

Mitchell Leisen Director

Ralph Bellamy as Allen Macklyn

Murray Alper as Cabbie

William Demarest as Natty

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Snowflake

A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

To Each His Own

1946

English

7.6

♡ 7

81%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Louis Jean Heydt as American Officer

Roland Culver as Lord Desham

Sidney D'Albrook as Man at G.A.R. Hall

Walter Baldwin as Sam Foreman

During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.

Easy Living

1937

English

7.5

♡ 8

100%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Forbes Murray as Husband

Edward Arnold as J.B. Ball

Lillian Lawrence as Magazine Office Worker

Lester Dorr as Stock Investor

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

Golden Earrings

1947

English

6.6

♡ 4

39%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Ray Milland as Col. Ralph Denistoun

Otto Reichow as German Agent

William Yetter Sr. as German Peasant

Hans Schumm as Policeman

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.

Arise, My Love

1940

English

6.9

♡ 3

71%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Douglas Kennedy as College Boy

Jean Del Val as Conductor

Amzie Strickland as Girl at Maxim's

Nestor Paiva as Uniformed Clerk

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

No Time for Love

1943

English

6.7

♡ 4

67%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Ilka Chase as Hoppy Grant

Murray Alper as Moran

Richard Haydn as Roger Winant

Alan Hale Jr. as Union Checker

An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.

No Man of Her Own

1950

English

7.4

♡ 4

71%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Thomas Browne Henry as Doctor at Hospital

Helen Mowery as Harriet Olsen

William Haade as Policeman

Forbes Murray as Train Passenger

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

Murder at the Vanities

1934

English

6.5

78%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Juanita Moore as Black Dancer in Duke Ellington's Ebony Rhapsody

Frank Sully as Chorus Boy

Dennis O'Keefe as Chorus Boy

Wanda Perry as Earl Carroll Girl

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.

Death Takes a Holiday

1934

English

6.9

♡ 6

78%

based on play or musical

Mitchell Leisen Director

Henry Travers as Baron Cesarea

Evelyn Venable as Grazia

Fredric March as Prince Sirki

Gail Patrick as Rhoda

After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of control as he falls in love with the beautiful young Grazia, the only woman not afraid of him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.

The Eagle and the Hawk

1933

English

7.0

♡ 4

73%

raf (royal air force)

suicide

War

world war i

Mitchell Leisen Director

Dennis O'Keefe as Flier

Cary Grant as Henry Crocker

Forrester Harvey as Hogan

Fredric March as Jerry Young

The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

1949

English

6.4

♡ 3

Crime

Drama

oss (office of strategic services)

Mitchell Leisen Director

Thomas Browne Henry as Art Dealer

Wanda Hendrix as Baronessa Giulia de Greffi

Francis Lederer as Baron Rocco de Greffi

Russ Tamblyn as Pietro

Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt. Webster Carey, the mission causes the deaths of many bystanders -- among them, Carey believes, his Italian girlfriend, Giulia de Graffi. Back home, Carey stumbles across evidence that might uncover the identity of the informant. But, when he returns to Italy to get even, Carey is stunned by what he finds.

The Lady Is Willing

1942

English

6.3

♡ 5

67%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Sterling Holloway as Arthur Miggle

Murray Alper as Joe Quig

Eddie Hall as Man Building a Rabbit Cage

Ray Walker as Reporter

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.

Remember the Night

1939

English

7.6

♡ 14

100%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Elizabeth Patterson as Aunt Emma

Kenneth Gibson as Courtroom Spectator

William A. Boardway as Nightclub Patron

Lillian Lawrence as Townswoman at Rummage Sale

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.

Midnight

1939

English

7.8

♡ 7

94%

Mitchell Leisen Director

William Hopper as Flammarions' Party Guest

Francis Lederer as Jacques Picot

Armand Kaliz as Lebon

Nestor Paiva as Woman's Escort

An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.

Bride of Vengeance

1949

English

5.6

♡ 5

Mitchell Leisen Director

Don Beddoe as Councillor

Ian Wolfe as Councillor

Paulette Goddard as Lucretia Borgia

Nestor Paiva as Mayor

The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.

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Hold Back the Dawn

Hands Across the Table

To Each His Own

Easy Living

Golden Earrings

Arise, My Love

No Time for Love

No Man of Her Own

Murder at the Vanities

Death Takes a Holiday

The Eagle and the Hawk

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

The Lady Is Willing

Remember the Night

Midnight

Bride of Vengeance