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Can’t Help Singing

Can’t Help Singing

Can’t Help Singing
IMDb: 6.2
90

With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost’s singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can’t stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows…

Genre: Western
Marco the Magnificent

Marco the Magnificent

Marco the Magnificent
IMDb: 5.3
112

Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.

Genre: Adventure
The Great Bank Robbery

The Great Bank Robbery

The Great Bank Robbery
IMDb: 5.6
98

A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880’s Texas.

Genre: Comedy, Western
Marquis de Sade: Justine

Marquis de Sade: Justine

Marquis de Sade: Justine
IMDb: 5.1
124

Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who will claim not…

Genre: Drama, Horror
Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.

Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.

Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
IMDb: 5.8
113

Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house and begins to…

Hotel Paradiso

Hotel Paradiso

Hotel Paradiso
IMDb: 6.1
98

Monsieur Feydeau has writer’s block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris – Monsieur Boniface with a domineering…

Genre: Comedy
After the Fox

After the Fox

After the Fox
IMDb: 6.4
108

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Crime on a Summer Morning

Crime on a Summer Morning

Crime on a Summer Morning
IMDb: 6.3
109

An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions within the group come to the fore.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Blue Panther

The Blue Panther

The Blue Panther
IMDb: 5.3
110

Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin’s place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all…

Lord Jim

Lord Jim

Lord Jim
IMDb: 6.7
154

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.

The Liquidator

The Liquidator

The Liquidator
IMDb: 5.9
105

Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was himself. This leads to…

Alphaville

Alphaville

Alphaville
IMDb: 7
100

An American private-eye arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.

Topkapi

Topkapi

Topkapi
IMDb: 6.9
119

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger…

The Trial

The Trial

The Trial
IMDb: 7.6
119

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Romanoff and Juliet

Romanoff and Juliet

Romanoff and Juliet
IMDb: 6.3
103

Political satire has Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling in love.

Genre: Comedy
Ocean’s Eleven

Ocean’s Eleven

Ocean’s Eleven
IMDb: 6.5
127

Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil
IMDb: 8
111

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When…

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
IMDb: 6.8
113

While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In…

Genre: War
The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep
IMDb: 6
82

In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey…

Anastasia

Anastasia

Anastasia
IMDb: 7
105

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While…

Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Arkadin
IMDb: 7.1
99

Claiming that he doesn’t know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can’t remember anything before the…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
They Who Dare

They Who Dare

They Who Dare
IMDb: 5.5
107

In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied…

Genre: War
Desert Legion

Desert Legion

Desert Legion
IMDb: 5.5
86

A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.

Black Magic

Black Magic

Black Magic
IMDb: 6.4
105

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV’s court.

The Gangster

The Gangster

The Gangster
IMDb: 6.5
84

Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Fiesta

Fiesta

Fiesta
IMDb: 5.9
104

When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
A Scandal in Paris

A Scandal in Paris

A Scandal in Paris
IMDb: 6.6
100

A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

Dragon Seed

Dragon Seed

Dragon Seed
IMDb: 5.9
145

The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese…

Genre: Drama
For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls
IMDb: 6.8
170

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on…

Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo
IMDb: 7.3
96

The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He is helped by the hotel’s…

Genre: Thriller, War
Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat
IMDb: 6.2
105

Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Corsican Brothers

The Corsican Brothers

The Corsican Brothers
IMDb: 6.5
111

Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents’ death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police
IMDb: 6.4
126

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (“Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?”, another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder….

The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty
IMDb: 7.3
82

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city’s political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from “the boss,”…

Genre: Comedy
Union Pacific

Union Pacific

Union Pacific
IMDb: 7.1
135

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing…

Genre: Drama, Western
King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown
IMDb: 6.2
57

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city’s Chinatown.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Disputed Passage

Disputed Passage

Disputed Passage
IMDb: 6.4
91

A doctor’s medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a…

Genre: Drama, War
Spawn of the North

Spawn of the North

Spawn of the North
IMDb: 6.7
110

Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.

Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know
IMDb: 6.4
70

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase,…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Buccaneer

The Buccaneer

The Buccaneer
IMDb: 6.6
126

French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.