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.

The Invisible Ray

1936

English

6.5

♡ 9

63%

Lambert Hillyer Director

Hans Schumm as Clinic Valet

Etta McDaniel as Diane's Safari Attendant

Bela Lugosi as Dr. Felix Benet

Edwards Davis as Scientist

Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.

The General Died at Dawn

1936

English

6.5

♡ 1

100%

Lewis Milestone Director

William Frawley as Brighton

J.M. Kerrigan as Leach

Gary Cooper as O'Hara

Philip Ahn as Oxford

China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.

The Princess Comes Across

1936

English

6.7

♡ 2

62%

William K. Howard Director

Milburn Stone as American Reporter

William Frawley as Benton

George Chandler as Film Man

Douglass Dumbrille as Lorel

A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.

Modern Times

1936

English

8.5

♡ 136

98%

Charles Chaplin Director

Charles Chaplin as A Factory Worker

Paulette Goddard as A Gamin

Frank Hagney as Shipbuilder

Bobby Barber as Worker

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

Mayerling

1936

French

7.0

♡ 5

74%

Anatole Litvak Director

Odette Talazac as La nourrice de Marie

Yolande Laffon as L'archiduchesse Stéphanie

Charles Boyer as L'archiduc Rodolphe

Vladimir Sokoloff as Le chef de la police

Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the interference of the Emperor, the couple refuse to give each other up.

Libeled Lady

1936

English

7.8

♡ 8

86%

Jack Conway Director

George Chandler as Bell Hop

Myrna Loy as Connie Allenbury

Harry C. Bradley as Justice of the Peace

Walter Connolly as Mr. James B. Allenbury

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

Rangle River

1936

English

6.4

♡ 1

queensland, australia

Romance

station

Western

Clarence G. Badger Director

Stewart McColl as Black

Victor Jory as Dick Drake

George Stirling as Minna

Robert Coote as Reggie Mannister, Flight-Lieutenant

Marion Hastings returns to her father Dan's cattle property in western Queensland after being away in Europe for fifteen years. She is treated with hostility by her father's foreman, Dick Drake, and her father's neighbour, Don Lawton.

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

1936

English

6.8

♡ 4

53%

railroad construction

Romance

romantic rivalry

Western

Henry Hathaway Director

Richard Carle as Ezra Tolliver

Sylvia Sidney as June Tolliver

Irving Bacon as Mailman

Frank Rice as Zeke Denker

A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.

After the Thin Man

1936

English

7.6

♡ 12

96%

husband wife relationship

W.S. Van Dyke Director

Margaret Bert as Nightclub Customer during Pollys Singing Act

Myrna Loy as Nora Charles

Barbara Pepper as Party Guest

Murray Alper as The Kid

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.

Guns of the Pecos

1936

English

5.6

♡ 2

Drama

singing cowboy

Western

Noel M. Smith Director

Anne Nagel as Alice Burton

Art Dillard as Henchman

Robert Middlemass as Judge L.F. Blake

Bill Elliott as Wellman

A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.

Dancing Pirate

1936

English

5.2

♡ 4

31%

Lloyd Corrigan Director

Pat Nixon as Dance-Class Student

Marjorie Reynolds as Dancer

Ellen Lowe as Miss Ponsonby

Max Wagner as Pirate

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.

César

1936

French

7.6

♡ 2

100%

88%

Action

Drama

Marcel Pagnol Director

Orane Demazis as Fanny Panisse

Édouard Delmont as Le docteur Félicien Venelle

Albert Spanna as Le facteur

Milly Mathis as Tante Claudine Foulon

Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track down his biological father, Marius, whose life has been fraught with calamity and poverty.

Intermezzo

1936

German

6.5

♡ 2

Gustaf Molander Director

Ingrid Bergman as Anita Hoffman

Erik 'Bullen' Berglund as Impresario Charles Möller

Anders Henrikson as Swedish Sailor

Emil Fjellström as Truck driver

An intense love affair develops between a married concert violinist (Gösta Ekman) and his daughter's music teacher (Ingrid Bergman).

Anything Goes

1936

English

6.2

♡ 2

83%

Lewis Milestone Director

Richard Carle as Bishop Dobson

Ida Lupino as Hope Harcourt

Philip Ahn as Ling

Charles Ruggles as Moonface Martin - Rev. Dr. Moon

A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.

Whoops, I'm an Indian!

1936

English

6.9

♡ 8

Del Lord Director

Larry Fine as Larry

Moe Howard as Moe

Beatrice Blinn as Saloon Girl

Bert Young as Saloon Patron

Set in the Old West, the stooges are crooked gamblers swindling the residents of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape into the woods. To elude the sheriff they disguise themselves as Indians. Their plan works until Curly, dressed as a squaw, is forced to marry a local tough guy. The stooges are unmasked and wind up in the hoosegow.

Next Time We Love

1936

English

6.4

♡ 3

83%

Edward H. Griffith Director

James Stewart as Christopher Tyler

Harry C. Bradley as Desk Clerk

Jack Cheatham as Taxi Driver

Ray Milland as Tommy Abbott

A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.

The Final Chord

1936

German

6.7

♡ 1

Drama

Music

Douglas Sirk Director

Ilse Trautschold as

Kurt Meisel as Baron Salviany

Theodor Loos as Professor Obereit

Erich Ponto as Vorsitzender des Schwurgerichts

After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor.

They Were Five

1936

French

7.5

♡ 2

77%

Action

Drama

Julien Duvivier Director

Charles Vanel as Charles dit Charlot

Jean Gabin as Jean dit Jeannot

Franck Maurice as Un locataire

Paul Demange as Un locataire

Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.

Things to Come

1936

English

6.6

♡ 14

91%

William Cameron Menzies Director

Arthur Hambling as Man Toasting the Boss

Margaretta Scott as Roxana / Rowena

Abraham Sofaer as The Jew

Patrick Barr as World Transport Official

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

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Guns of the Pecos

Dancing Pirate

César

Intermezzo

Anything Goes

Whoops, I'm an Indian!

Next Time We Love

The Final Chord

They Were Five

Things to Come