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- DirectorArmand DenisStarsCharles de GrandcourtJean ToscanRecorded during the expedition into the Belgian Congo by Armand Denis and Leila Roosevelt, this documentary plays up the supposedly savage exoticism of the African natives in contrast to the civilizing imperialism by the Europeans.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsPierre FresnayMarie BellMicheline FranceyA nun suffering from TB is desperately trying to save an alcoholic tramp and to bring him back to his wife and kids.He has a friend who died last year and became the coachman of the "Ghost Wagon" .
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsLouise CarlettiJean ClaudioSerge GraveAbandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.
- DirectorEmmanuel BourcierJean d'AgraivesGeorges BarroisStarsJacques BreteuilLiviu CiuleiClaude DargetA documentary showing the pride France took in its position as an Empire, during the period after the Munich accords when it felt threatened by bullying from Italy and the possibility of war still with Germany.
- DirectorJacques de BaroncelliStarsVictor FrancenJacques DumesnilAnnie DucauxDuring a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and the natives seek protection against witch doctors.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsMichèle MorganPierre Richard-WillmCharles VanelRobert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.
- DirectorZoltan KordaStarsJohn ClementsRalph RichardsonC. Aubrey SmithA British Army officer resigns, burning his last-day summons to war in the Sudan. Accusing him of cowardice, his girlfriend and three friends give him white feathers. To gain redemption, he shadows his friends to save their lives.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsMaureen O'HaraRobert NewtonCharles LaughtonIn Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
- DirectorSam WoodSidney FranklinStarsRobert DonatGreer GarsonTerry KilburnAn aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
- DirectorTim WhelanArthur B. WoodsStarsLaurence OlivierRalph RichardsonValerie HobsonA quirky British Secret Service Agent named Major Hammond tries to discover who is using a secret weapon to steal experimental planes.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsAnnie van EesAlbert van DalsumEnny SnijdersTwelve year old Jan Grovers spends more time in the alleys of Rotterdam than with his family (though he occasionally looks after his tree younger sisters, all of whom are called Mientje). Together with his best friend and partner in crime Pietje Puk he plans to travel to America to get rich. When a local clergyman takes pity on the boy and tries to teach him good manners, Boefje at first rebels. However, once he is sent to a strict boarding school, he takes an interest in music, specifically the pipe organ.
- DirectorFrederic ZelnikStarsLily BouwmeesterPaul StormEmma MorelWealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
- DirectorJerzy GabryelskiStarsZbigniew SawanZofia KajzerównaStanislawa WysockaA mining adventure centered on a courageous engineer and his love.
- DirectorSchamyl BaumanStarsSture LagerwallSigne HassoStig JärrelArchitect Sture Ahrengren (Sture Lagerwall) walks out of his job with an architectural firm for several reasons, and with the support of his wife Helena (Signe Hasso). He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg (Stig Järrel), who has a big engineering job going. But Ahrengren gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena (Ilse-Nore Tromm).
- DirectorHugo HaasStarsHugo HaasBedrich KarenZdenek Stepánek"The White Sickness", a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war.
- DirectorAleksandr IvanovStarsElena TyapkinaZoya FyodorovaNikolay KryuchkovThe Soviet Far East and Manzhou-Go are separated by a border river, on one side of which the Russian White Guards settled in a small Manchurian village, and the Vlasov family lives on the opposite bank. Wishing to destroy the Vlasovs, the White Guards penetrate their house. A group of fighters comes to the aid, led by the commandant of the border section, Captain Tarasov. A long, grueling battle begins.
- DirectorMikhail RommYefim AronIsidor SimkovStarsBoris ShchukinNikolai OkhlopkovAleksandr ShatovHistorical-revolutionary film about Lenin's activities in the first years of Soviet power.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsMarina LadyninaNikolay KryuchkovBoris AndreyevAn example of a popular genre in 1930s Soviet film, the musical comedy exalting the economic and social success of Communism, inspired by but in competition with the Hollywood musicals of the same era.
- DirectorLazar Antsi-PolovskiyGeorgiy BeryozkoEfim DziganStarsInna FyodorovaVsevolod SanaevSerafim KozminskiyThe Soviet Army, taken by surprise in this imaginary scenario by an attack, immediately routs the invaders and then crosses the border into the enemy territory in hot pursuit, culminating in a military apotheosis.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsIrene DunneCharles BoyerMaria OuspenskayaA French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship.
- DirectorGarson KaninStarsGinger RogersDavid NivenCharles CoburnAn unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.
- DirectorVictor FlemingKing VidorStarsJudy GarlandFrank MorganRay BolgerYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartJean ArthurClaude RainsA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsBarbara StanwyckJoel McCreaAkim TamiroffIn 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsCary GrantJean ArthurRita HayworthAt a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is forced to risk his pilots' lives in order to win an important contract, as a traveling American showgirl stops in town.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsIrene DunneCharles BoyerBarbara O'NeilA concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsJascha HeifetzJoel McCreaAndrea LeedsA boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day.
- DirectorHenry KingOtto BrowerStarsSpencer TracyNancy KellyRichard GreeneTasked by his editor, American reporter Henry M. Stanley travels to a dangerous and uncharted region of East Africa to find the missing Scottish pioneer missionary Dr. David Livingstone.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsCarole LombardJames StewartCharles CoburnWhile on a business trip, an ambitious young lawyer meets and immediately falls in love with a stranger. They wed the following day, and tragedy soon strikes.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinJulien CaretteSimone SimonIn this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
- DirectorAndré MalrauxBoris PeskineStarsAndrés MejutoNicolás RodríguezJosé Santpere1937, during the spanish civil war, at Teruel. The fight of the Republicans (with very poor means but high commitment) against fascist army of General Franco. Can be seen as romanticized witness of director and writer Andre Malraux, who joined the Republicans in 1936.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei AbrikosovThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsCharles LaughtonMaureen O'HaraCedric HardwickeIn 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsMarcel DalioNora GregorPaulette DubostA bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsDavid AlbrittonArvo AskolaJack BeresfordThe document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsSheigo AraiJack BeresfordRalf BerzsenyiThe document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin, orchestrated as Nazi propaganda.
- DirectorBurt GillettBill RobertsStarsWalt DisneyMarcellite GarnerEddie HoldenInspired by the Grimm's fairy tale, this classic 1938 Mickey cartoon finds our hero (voiced by Walt Disney) battling a hilariously huge "problem.
- DirectorDick RickardStarsBetty BruceTom BuchananRalph HansellTwo of the Three Little Pigs are caught by the Big Bad Wolf while swimming. But when the wolf tries to get the third, he is captured by the third pig who uses his new lie detector to get the information about his two brothers from the wolf.....
- DirectorJack KingStarsClarence NashDonald is golfing, and his nephews are along to "help." Between their noise and their practical jokes, Donald isn't having a lot of fun or success with his game.
- DirectorJack CuttingClyde GeronimiHamilton LuskeStarsClarence NashAmanda CewelTom CotryA baby duckling is shunned by his family because he is different. He is also rejected by all of the other birds and animals. Finally a mother swan adopts him as one of her brood.
- DirectorDick RickardStarsDon WilsonWalt DisneyMilt KahlFerdinand is a quiet, gentle bull who only wants to stop and smell the flowers. After he is stung by a bee, the townspeople believe he is ferocious and take him to the bullfight.
- DirectorJack CuttingStarsBilly BletcherMelvin J. GibbyFlorence GillThe farm comes to life, to various classical tunes. The high point is a rooster serenading a chicken, with all the animals joining in. But then comes the sound that's even more welcome to the animals: the farmer and his wife with food (the only actual words spoken).