The Old-Fashioned Way

International House

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house

1933

Inspiration

The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars include Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau a

1931

I'm No Angel

The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head

1933

Footlight Parade

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going

1933

Grand Hotel

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

1932

The Greeks Had a Word for Them

A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal

1932

No Time for Love

An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.

1943

Going Hollywood

Sylvia is a French teacher at an all-girls school who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank

1933

In the White City

Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

1983

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

1932

Ziegfeld Girl

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on

1941

Mystery of the Wax Museum

A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both p

1933

City Girl

A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm

1930

The Smiling Lieutenant

An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.

1931

The Great McGinty

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 br

1940

No Man of Her Own

An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.

1932

Evidence

Lord Cyril Wimborne, a barrister, divorces his wife, Myra, and takes custody of their child, Kenyon, when he finds her name linked with the profligate

1929

Mata Hari

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

1931

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident

1987

The Scarlet Empress

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Gran

1934