Search results for "1938"
Child Bride

Child Bride

Child Bride
IMDb: 4.5
62

Jennie is a twelve-year-old girl living with her parents in extremely rural mountain country. Her schoolteacher, Miss Carol, though a mountain girl herself, has gone off to be educated and…

Genre: Drama, Romance
I Accuse

I Accuse

I Accuse
IMDb: 7
119

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a…

Genre: Drama, War
Thanks for the Memory

Thanks for the Memory

Thanks for the Memory
IMDb: 6.4
75

Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick’s publisher who is…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
One Wild Night

One Wild Night

One Wild Night
IMDb: 6.4
72

Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
That’s That

That’s That

That’s That
IMDb: 4.6
7

The rarest of Laurel and Hardy films this side of The Rogue Song (1930), That’s That is a gag reel made up of alternate takes and bloopers said to have…

Genre: Comedy
Thimble Theater

Thimble Theater

Thimble Theater
IMDb: 6
5

One of Joseph Cornell’s funniest films, Thimble Theater is structured like a vaudeville variety show about nature.

The Masseurs and a Woman

The Masseurs and a Woman

The Masseurs and a Woman
IMDb: 7.1
66

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and…

Genre: Drama
Out Where the Stars Begin

Out Where the Stars Begin

Out Where the Stars Begin
IMDb: 5.2
19

When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director, her understudy steps in and a star is born.

Genre: Comedy, Music
The Woman at the End of the World

The Woman at the End of the World

The Woman at the End of the World
IMDb: 6
87

A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.

Genre: Drama
Sixty Glorious Years

Sixty Glorious Years

Sixty Glorious Years
IMDb: 6.3
95

Continuing the story of ‘Victoria the Great’.

Genre: History
Three Loves Has Nancy

Three Loves Has Nancy

Three Loves Has Nancy
IMDb: 6.4
70

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Sirocco

Sirocco

Sirocco
IMDb: 6.8
100

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
How to Raise a Baby

How to Raise a Baby

How to Raise a Baby
IMDb: 6.3
10

American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.

Genre: Comedy
Sex Madness

Sex Madness

Sex Madness
IMDb: 2.8
59

A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of…

Genre: Drama
Birthright

Birthright

Birthright
IMDb: 5.8
74

After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.

Genre: Drama
Topper Takes a Trip

Topper Takes a Trip

Topper Takes a Trip
IMDb: 6.5
80

Mrs. Topper’s friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes…

There’s That Woman Again

There’s That Woman Again

There’s That Woman Again
IMDb: 6
72

Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill’s prying wife wants to…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Mr. Moto’s Last Warning

Mr. Moto’s Last Warning

Mr. Moto’s Last Warning
IMDb: 6.4
71

A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr….

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Young Dr. Kildare

Young Dr. Kildare

Young Dr. Kildare
IMDb: 6.8
82

A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital’s top…

Genre: Drama
The Young in Heart

The Young in Heart

The Young in Heart
IMDb: 7.3
90

A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.

Genre: Comedy
You and Me

You and Me

You and Me
IMDb: 6.9
94

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his ’employed-prison-graduates’ are Helen…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Yellow Jack

Yellow Jack

Yellow Jack
IMDb: 6.2
83

A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed’s search for the cause of “Yellow Jack” or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.

You Can’t Take It with You

You Can’t Take It with You

You Can’t Take It with You
IMDb: 7.8
130

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match….

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Wholly Smoke

Wholly Smoke

Wholly Smoke
IMDb: 6.6
7

A neighborhood bully convinces Porky to take a puff from his cigar, causing Porky to hallucinate a smoke-man named Nick O. Teen, along with a musical number done by cigars,…

Genre: Comedy
Woman Against Woman

Woman Against Woman

Woman Against Woman
IMDb: 6.2
61

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband’s scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

Genre: Drama, Romance
What Price Porky

What Price Porky

What Price Porky
IMDb: 6.7
7

Porky tries to feed his chickens, but some ducks steal the corn he puts out, then declare war. The battle rages, with the ducks against the chickens, sometimes in wing-to-wing…

Genre: Comedy
Vivacious Lady

Vivacious Lady

Vivacious Lady
IMDb: 7.1
90

College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
We’re Going to Be Rich

We’re Going to Be Rich

We’re Going to Be Rich
IMDb: 6.2
78

A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.

Genre: Comedy, History
The Toy Wife

The Toy Wife

The Toy Wife
IMDb: 5.8
96

A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.

Genre: Drama
Violent Is the Word for Curly

Violent Is the Word for Curly

Violent Is the Word for Curly
IMDb: 7.8
18

The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first customers, three famous European professors. The stooges steal some of…

Genre: Comedy
Too Much Johnson

Too Much Johnson

Too Much Johnson
IMDb: 5.7
66

This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles’ Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette’s 1894 comedy about a New…

Genre: Comedy
Tip-Off Girls

Tip-Off Girls

Tip-Off Girls
IMDb: 6.1
61

A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.

Too Hot to Handle

Too Hot to Handle

Too Hot to Handle
IMDb: 6.6
107

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as…

There’s Always a Woman

There’s Always a Woman

There’s Always a Woman
IMDb: 6.7
81

An investigator for the District Attorney’s office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back…

Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Three Comrades

Three Comrades

Three Comrades
IMDb: 7.1
98

A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the…

Genre: Drama, Romance
That Mothers Might Live

That Mothers Might Live

That Mothers Might Live
IMDb: 6.3
10

That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of…

Genre: Drama
Thanks for Everything

Thanks for Everything

Thanks for Everything
IMDb: 6.4
70

Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a…

Genre: Comedy
That Certain Age

That Certain Age

That Certain Age
IMDb: 6.5
95

Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Test Pilot

Test Pilot

Test Pilot
IMDb: 6.8
118

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Texans

The Texans

The Texans
IMDb: 6.3
92

After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.

Genre: Western