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Dead End (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Dead End
director: William Wyler actor: Sylvia Sidney / Joel McCrea
other title: Strada sbarrata / Beco Sem Saída
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
Monkey Business (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Monkey Business
director: Howard Hawks actor: Cary Grant / Ginger Rogers
other title: Il magnifico scherzo / Liebling, ich werde jünger
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
On Moonlight Bay (1951) [Movie] TMDB
On Moonlight Bay
director: Roy Del Ruth actor: Doris Day / Gordon MacRae
other title: Vecchia America / Meus Braços Te Esperam
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president
Fury (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Fury
director: Fritz Lang actor: Sylvia Sidney / Spencer Tracy
other title: Furia / Fúria
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.
The Mortal Storm (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
The Mortal Storm
director: Frank Borzage actor: Margaret Sullavan / James Stewart
other title: Bufera mortale / Tödlicher Sturm
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.
Crime Without Passion (1934) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Crime Without Passion
director: 本 赫特 (Ben Hecht) / 查尔斯 迈克阿瑟 (Charles MacArthur) actor: Claude Rains / Margo
other title: 冷血罪行 / Delitto senza passione
Prominent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi.
No Man of Her Own (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
No Man of Her Own
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Barbara Stanwyck / John Lund
other title: Non voglio perderti / Mentira latente
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Carole Lombard / Robert Montgomery
other title: Il signore e la signora Smith / O Sr. e a Sra. Smith
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
director: Henry Hathaway actor: George Montgomery / Maureen O'Hara
other title: I cavalieri azzurri / 10 Leutnants von West-Point
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
Holiday Affair (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Holiday Affair
director: Don Hartman actor: Robert Mitchum / Janet Leigh
other title: Tu partirai con me / Un mariage compliqué
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.
Untamed (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Untamed
director: George Archainbaud actor: Ray Milland / Patricia Morison
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
The Wedding Night (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Wedding Night
director: King Vidor actor: Gary Cooper / Anna Sten
other title: Notte di nozze / Die Nacht der Liebe
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops romantic feelings for Manya Novak, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik Sobieski. After a snowstorm, Tony and Manya get trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists that her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.