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Criterion Channel
83
7.9
/56552/
77
/915/
76
/814/
3.9
/55382/
97
/37/
92
/1544/
84
/16/
cc age 13+

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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82
7.9
/30967/
77
/624/
76
/433/
4.1
/44048/
88
/50/
90
/611/
88
/16/

Mildred Pierce (1945)
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
poster
81
7.9
/78394/
77
/1393/
76
/1012/
4.0
/59260/
86
/35/
91
/2422/
cc age 11+

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
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Criterion Channel
80
7.5
/20839/
72
/445/
71
/325/
3.9
/28341/
98
/45/
81
/430/
89
/9/
cc age 13+

A Star Is Born (1954)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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79
77
7.6
/13385/
73
/294/
72
/185/
3.8
/11327/
96
/23/
82
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81
/9/

Destry Rides Again (1939)
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
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80
72
7.7
/9746/
73
/118/
70
/129/
3.9
/9603/
96
/23/
87
/200/

Stage Door (1937)
A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.
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The Roku Channel
78
72
7.2
/8212/
72
/185/
71
/187/
3.8
/11026/
100
/11/
77
/58/

You Only Live Once (1937)
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
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80
69
7.5
/4510/
75
/76/
71
/68/
3.9
/3195/
100
/26/
84
/37/

Gentleman Jim (1942)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
78
69
7.1
/4860/
73
/104/
70
/65/
3.7
/9151/
100
/7/
81
/59/

Vivacious Lady (1938)
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
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77
68
7.2
/4628/
70
/58/
69
/67/
3.7
/4341/
100
/11/
74
/39/
86
/6/

The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
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76
66
7.1
/4460/
73
/92/
67
/96/
3.8
/6936/
100
/11/
70
/32/
76
/12/

The Tarnished Angels (1957)
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
77
65
7.4
/3747/
66
/60/
67
/37/
3.5
/2502/
100
/10/
83
/56/

Love Crazy (1941)
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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67
59
6.9
/4617/
68
/108/
66
/67/
3.4
/4173/
57
/7/
75
/102/

Carefree (1938)
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.
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60
57
6.3
/12151/
63
/246/
59
/241/
3.1
/10266/
65
/23/
47
/222/
63
/9/

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.
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YouTube TV
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54
7.1
/3000/
71
/46/
65
/33/
3.5
/2027/
88
/8/
65
/28/
58
/4/

Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
73
52
7.3
/3435/
75
/26/
70
/33/
3.5
/1800/
79
/323/

Larceny, Inc. (1942)
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
67
49
6.9
/4018/
69
/36/
69
/33/
3.3
/1742/
62
/608/

The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
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61
39
6.6
/2281/
63
/30/
61
/36/
3.3
/2108/
51
/20/

Phffft (1954)
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
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67
39
7.0
/2637/
67
/23/
73
/26/
3.2
/995/
64
/27/

Hollywood Canteen (1944)
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
poster
62
36
6.7
/2300/
66
/21/
60
/37/
3.2
/699/
54
/138/

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
poster
64
34
6.7
/1505/
63
/20/
62
/29/
3.4
/853/
60
/222/

Blues in the Night (1941)
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
poster
66
32
6.7
/1455/
66
/21/
63
/16/
3.5
/825/
68
/668/

Stand-In (1937)
An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.
poster
67
30
7.1
/1695/
62
/16/
63
/21/
3.5
/1307/
72
/11/

The Hard Way (1943)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
63
29
6.7
/1691/
69
/28/
57
/19/
3.3
/642/
58
/52/

Bright Leaf (1950)
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
poster
60
28
6.6
/1850/
65
/34/
64
/22/
3.3
/1168/
39
/12/

My Dream Is Yours (1949)
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further, Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.
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56
27
6.4
/2149/
65
/43/
58
/31/
3.2
/1008/
30
/8/

It's a Great Feeling (1949)
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
poster
62
25
6.7
/1663/
69
/13/
63
/20/
3.3
/818/
48
/15/

Princess O'Rourke (1943)
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
poster
58
24
6.0
/1105/
60
/10/
46
/14/
3.1
/581/
61
/42/

Having Wonderful Time (1938)
Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
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61
23
6.3
/1284/
66
/17/
58
/22/
3.2
/884/
56
/10/

Dangerous When Wet (1953)
The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet... This comedic musical is well remembered for the scene when Katie dreams she is swimming with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry!
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52
21
5.9
/1472/
68
/15/
51
/25/
3.1
/692/
30
/10/
46
/8/

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret army plan to set up a missile base in their community.
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61
17
6.3
/1142/
68
/29/
64
/16/
3.2
/366/
50
/10/

The Saint in New York (1938)
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
poster
52
16
5.8
/484/
45
/4/
47
/10/
3.2
/257/
50
/1061/

Red Garters (1954)
A spirited cast kicks up its heels in a lively musical spoof of cowboy films crammed with spur-jangling tunes by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans and decked out with colorfully stylized, Oscar.-nominated sets. Rosemary Clooney heads up the high-kicking, red-gartered girls of the Red Dog Saloon. They can-can. but she won't-won't unless Jason (Jack Carson) asks her to get hitched. Guy Mitchell and Gene Barry are gun-totin' polecats who think they've got a feud to settle. And Frank Faylen and Buddy Ebsen are among the folks who hope the gunslingers get itchy fingered - so they can hold a town barbecue during the funeral!
poster
57
16
6.6
/1538/
60
/9/
39
/10/
3.2
/528/
57
/9/

The Male Animal (1942)
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
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59
15
6.5
/1174/
68
/7/
60
/10/
3.3
/514/
Popcorn
36
/13/

Lucky Partners (1940)
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
poster
50
14
6.5
/366/
43
/3/
51
/4/
43
/61/

The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border.
poster
54
13
6.5
/954/
62
/15/
52
/19/
3.2
/443/
29
/2/

The Tattered Dress (1957)
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly.
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Amazon Prime Video
38
9
5.4
/415/
37
/7/
44
/10/
20
/30/

The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.
poster
?
10
/1/

Who Killed Julie Greer? (1961)
Amos Burke is an L.A. cop who's inherited millions and usually arrives at crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Investigating the death of actress Julie Greer, he finds lots of suspects - but the killer's identity surprises him.
poster
58
?
6.2
/184/
63
/3/
50
/1/

Okay for Sound (1946)
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.
poster
?
6.6
/20/

A Rented Riot (1937)
While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new tenants throw a wild party.
poster
65
?
7.8
/223/
52
/8/
65
/2/

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
poster
64
?
7.3
/207/
48
/5/
80
/2/

A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
poster
?
6.1
/32/
60
/5/
65
/2/

Breakdowns of 1944 (1944)
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944.
poster
58
?
6.3
/507/
72
/4/
60
/4/
38
/2/

Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
poster
?
7.3
/77/
10
/1/
100
/1/

Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
poster
?
5.8
/61/
40
/2/

Legion of Lost Flyers (1939)
A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running charter-flights and hauling supplies in the frozen wastelands of Alaska. The operation does not go without misadventures, foul-ups, and a bit of treachery tossed in.
poster
?
5.8
/67/

Parole Fixer (1940)
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
poster
?
6.1
/72/
55
/2/

Enemy Agent (1940)
A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.


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