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Directed by Frank CapraOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors James Stewart,
Jean Arthur,
Lionel Barrymore,
Edward Arnold,
Mischa Auer,
Ann MillerRating77%
Successful banker Anthony P. Kirby (Edward Arnold) has just returned from Washington, D.C., where he was effectively granted a government-sanctioned munitions monopoly, which will make him very rich. He intends to buy up a 12-block radius around a competitor's factory to put him out of business, but there is one house that is a holdout to selling. Kirby instructs his real estate broker, John Blakely (Clarence Wilson), to offer a huge sum for the house, and if that is not accepted, to cause trouble for the family. , 2h4
Directed by Frank CapraOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
RomanceThemes Politique,
Political films,
Films based on playsActors Spencer Tracy,
Katharine Hepburn,
Van Johnson,
Angela Lansbury,
Howard Smith,
Adolphe MenjouRating71%
Republican newspaper magnate Kay Thorndyke (Angela Lansbury) intends to make her lover, aircraft tycoon Grant Matthews (Spencer Tracy), President of the United States with her as the power behind the throne. Thorndyke plans to use her newspaper chain's influence to deadlock the 1948 Republican National Convention, so it will choose Matthews as a compromise dark horse candidate instead of Dewey, Taft, or another., 1h28
Directed by Frank CapraOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Melodrama,
RomanceThemes Political filmsActors Barbara Stanwyck,
Nils Asther,
Walter Connolly,
Toshia Mori,
Martha Mattox,
Gavin GordonRating68%
In the late 1920s in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War, as throngs of refugees flee the rainswept city, a couple of elderly missionaries welcomes guests to their home for the wedding of Dr. Robert Strike (Gavin Gordon), a fellow missionary, and Megan Davis (Barbara Stanwyck), his childhood sweetheart whom he has not seen in three years. Some of the missionaries have a cynical view of the Chinese people they have come to save. Shortly after Megan arrives, her fiancé Bob rushes in and postpones the wedding so he can rescue a group of orphans who are in danger from the spreading civil war. Megan insists on accompanying him on his mission.Directed by Charles VidorOrigin USAGenres ComedyThemes Political films,
Films based on playsActors Irene Dunne,
Alexander Knox,
Charles Coburn,
Jeff Donnell,
Lee Patrick,
Phil BrownRating62%
At the New York Bulletin newspaper, its owner, Robert Drexel Gow (Charles Coburn), receives a teletype story that the newspaper’s thirty-nine-year-old editor, Max Wharton (Alexander Knox), is resigning to enlist in the army. Robert is livid, both at the news and the method that he found out about the news. There is a second story on the teletype: Max’s wife, the famous novelist Paula Wharton (Irene Dunne) (whom Max calls Paulie), is in Hollywood adapting her latest book into a movie screenplay. Max wants to do his duty as a citizen and responsible journalist to be close to the war (World War II). Robert’s view is that without Max, the newspaper will fold because Max *is* the newspaper. , 2h32
Directed by John Huston,
Charles Vidor,
Andrew MartonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Political films,
Children's filmsActors Rock Hudson,
Jennifer Jones,
Vittorio De Sica,
Elaine Stritch,
Oskar Homolka,
Mercedes McCambridgeRating58%
Frederick Henry (Rock Hudson) is an American officer serving in an ambulance unit for the Italian Army during World War I. While recovering from a wound in a British base hospital in northern Italy, he is cared for by Catherine Barkley (Jennifer Jones), a Red Cross nurse he had met earlier, near the front, and they engage in an affair. Frederick's friend, the doctor, convinces the army that Frederick's knee is more severely wounded than it actually is and the two continue their romance but never get married., 2h12
Directed by Frank Capra,
Andrew MartonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
Action,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Films about Tibet,
Political filmsActors Ronald Colman,
Jane Wyatt,
Sam Jaffe,
John Howard,
H. B. Warner,
Edward Everett HortonRating75%
Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier and diplomat Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) has one last task in 1935 China: to rescue 90 Westerners in the city of Baskul. He flies out with the last few evacuees, just ahead of armed revolutionaries., 1h27
Directed by Budd Boetticher,
Charles VidorOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Action,
Romance,
WesternThemes Political filmsActors Randolph Scott,
Claire Trevor,
Glenn Ford,
Evelyn Keyes,
Edgar Buchanan,
Porter HallRating63%
In 1863, a sheriff named Steve Upton (Randolph Scott) tries to keep the law in Red Valley, a small town in Utah. While he's away, the bank is robbed. The holdup was secretly masterminded by corrupt banker Stanley Clayton and the livery stable's boss, "Uncle Willie" McLeod, with the help of ruthless gunman Jack Lester, who shoots three innocent men., 1h28
Directed by Dorothy Arzner,
Charles VidorOrigin USAGenres Drama,
WarThemes Political filmsActors Merle Oberon,
Brian Aherne,
Carl Esmond,
Isobel Elsom,
Fritz Leiber,
Erville AldersonRating64%
Nicole Larsen (Merle Oberon) is a member of the Norwegian resistance in a small town, about to be married to the Nazi commandant (Carl Esmond). When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him - an assassin who happens to be her former lover, Capt. Allan Lowe (Brian Aherne)., 53minutes
Directed by Frank Capra,
Anatole LitvakOrigin USAGenres War,
Documentary,
HistoricalThemes Politique,
Documentary films about war,
Documentary films about historical events,
Political films,
Documentary films about World War IIActors Walter HustonRating69%
In an edit added to the film before public release, a comment by Henry L. Stimson, the Secretary of War at the time, was quoted to create trust with the audience, “the purpose of these films is to give factual information as to the causes, the events leading up to our entry into the war and the principles for which we are fighting.”