When the US Navy fleet docks at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.

Three Godfathers

1936

English

7.3

♡ 3

50%

Richard Boleslawski Director

Chester Morris as Bob Sangster

Irene Hervey as Molly

Virginia Brissac as Mrs. McLane

Minerva Urecal as Parishoner

In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men. Remade as 3 Godfathers (1949).

Wife vs. Secretary

1936

English

7.0

♡ 4

70%

Clarence Brown Director

James Stewart as Dave

Jean Harlow as Helen

Myrna Loy as Linda Stanhope

John Qualen as Mr. Jenkins

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.

The Only Son

1936

Japanese

7.7

♡ 7

86%

1930s

Drama

parent child relationship

tokyo, japan

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Mitsuko Yoshikawa as O-Taka

Chishû Ryû as Professor Ookubo

Masao Hayama as Ryosuke Nonomiya,

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Sugiko

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.

Mr. Thank You

1936

Japanese

7.3

♡ 4

90%

Hiroshi Shimizu Director

Kaoru Futaba as

Reikô Tani as Doctor

Nagamasa Yamada as Peddler

Reikichi Kawamura as Villager from Tokyo

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

Big Brown Eyes

1936

English

6.5

♡ 6

86%

Raoul Walsh Director

Douglas Fowley as Benny Battle

Edwin Maxwell as Editor

Joan Bennett as Eve Fallon

Sam Flint as Martin

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.

Our Relations

1936

English

7.3

♡ 18

81%

Harry Lachman Director

Alan Hale as Joe Grogan -Denker's waiter

Charlie Hall as Man in Pawnshop

Betty Brown as Mrs. Betty 'Bubbles' Laurel

Rosemary Theby as Pirate's Club Customer

Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.

Fury

1936

English

7.8

♡ 11

94%

Fritz Lang Director

Raymond Hatton as Hector - Barber

Harry Harvey as Jasper Anderson - Defendant

Sylvia Sidney as Katherine Grant

George Chandler as Milton Jackson

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

1936

English

7.3

♡ 9

77%

Dave Fleischer Director

Mae Questel as Olive Oyl

Jack Mercer as Popeye

Gus Wickie as Sindbad

Lou Fleischer as Wimpy

After wrecking Popeye's ship and stealing away Olive Oyl, hero of Arabic legend Sindbad decides to test him and his ever-resilient new rival's strength in order to prove their supremacy as the "most remarkable, extraordinary fella" of Sindbad's menagerie island.

My Man Godfrey

1936

English

7.9

♡ 22

97%

Gregory La Cava Director

Ethelreda Leopold as Socialite

David S. Horsley as Socialite

Katherine Perry as Socialite

Alan Mowbray as Tommy Gray

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

The Lower Depths

1936

French

7.5

♡ 4

Jean Renoir Director

Maurice Baquet as Alochka - le fou accordéoniste

Vladimir Sokoloff as Kostylev

Junie Astor as Natacha

Jean Gabin as Pepel Wasska

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.

Swing Time

1936

English

7.4

♡ 15

93%

George Stevens Director

Pierre Watkin as Al Simpson

Dale Van Sickel as Diner

William A. Boardway as Nightclub Patron

Charlie Hall as Taxi Driver

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.

The Garden of Allah

1936

English

5.8

♡ 5

36%

38%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Richard Boleslawski Director

Marlene Dietrich as Domini Enfilden

C. Aubrey Smith as Father J. Roubier

Ann Bupp as Girl

John Carradine as Sand Diviner

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

The Devil-Doll

1936

English

7.0

♡ 10

Tod Browning Director

E. Alyn Warren as Commissioner

Gus Leonard as Eiffel Tower Elevator Operator

Henry B. Walthall as Marcel

Lionel Barrymore as Paul Lavond

Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1936

English

7.0

♡ 9

67%

historically inaccurate

marriage engagement

Romance

War

Michael Curtiz Director

Donald Crisp as Col. Campbell

Errol Flynn as Maj. Geoffrey Vickers

Martin Garralaga as Panjari

Nigel Bruce as Sir Benjamin Warrenton

In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.

Show Boat

1936

English

7.4

♡ 5

100%

James Whale Director

Betty Brown as 1st Girl

Juanita Moore as Dancer

Barbara Pepper as New Year's Eve Cutie

Ann Bupp as (uncredited)

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Night Mail

1936

English

6.8

♡ 3

67%

Harry Watt Director

John Grierson as Commentary

Stuart Legg as Commentary

Arthur Clark as Engineer

Robert Rae as Senior Driver - LMS Railway

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to Glasgow.

Marihuana

1936

English

4.0

♡ 3

Dwain Esper Director

Harley Wood as Burma Roberts - aka 'Blondie'

Hal Taggart as Burma's Customer's Husband

Mark Daniels as Teenager

Hildegarde Stadie as Woman in Roadhouse

A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher in order to make money so they can get married. However, during a drug deal her boyfriend is killed leaving Burma to fend for herself. Burma then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right after giving up her baby for adoption.