Jewel Robbery
★ 6.5 · 1932 · 68m · Romance · Comedy · Crime
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels deals with the tedium of her aristocratic Vienna life with a long line of lovers. Her rich husband, Franz, seems oblivious. As she's just about to end her latest affair, the baroness gets a much-needed dose of adrenaline when she becomes the target of a charismatic thief. After staging a daring robbery, he makes off with not only the baroness's ring but also her heart.
More Like This
The Duke Steps Out
1929 · ★ 6.5
Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his having a chauffeur and house full of servants. Susie likes him but, to get rid of her, his manager tells her Duke already has a New York chorus girl. As the students listen to a radio broadcast of his victorious fight from San Francisco, she learns that the student Duke is the boxer Duke and that there is no chorus girl.
More info →
No, No, Nanette
1930 · ★ 6.3
A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.
More info →
Dogora
1964 · ★ 6.7
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.
More info →
Stamboul Quest
1934 · ★ 5.2
In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. He suspects Ali Bey, Turkish commander for the Dardanelles, and dispatches Annemarie to Constantinople to secure the proof. En route, she becomes involved with Douglas Beall, a footloose American. Complications ensue, requiring Annemarie to engage in some dangerous improvisations.
More info →
The Devil's Brother
1933 · ★ 6.8
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
More info →
Those Three French Girls
1930 · ★ 4.7
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.
More info →
Svengali
1931 · ★ 6.3
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
More info →
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934 · ★ 5.3
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
More info →
Five and Ten
1931 · ★ 6.1
John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother Jenny is lonely. Son Avery hates his job. Daughter Jennifer is snubbed by classmate Muriel and her friends. At a charity bazaar, Jennifer meets Berry and sparks are evident. However, he is engaged to Muriel and Muriel will make sure that she, and only she, marries Berry. After the marriage, Berry still thinks of Jennifer as Jennifer thinks of Berry. Avery laments about the state of his family since they were happy in Kansas City.
More info →
Girls Demand Excitement
1931 · ★ 10
Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled socialite coed Joan Madison.
More info →
The Big House
1930 · ★ 6.6
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
More info →
Her Private Life
1929 · ★ 3
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
More info →