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Kanopy
81
79
7.8
/12878/
75
/334/
75
/308/
3.9
/19654/
94
/17/
89
/137/

Seven Chances (1925)
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
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Fandor
73
66
7.0
/6475/
65
/151/
67
/157/
3.4
/6586/
100
/19/
69
/144/

The Lost World (1925)
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
poster
71
55
7.3
/3526/
70
/41/
65
/34/
3.6
/1894/
77
/93/

Marie Antoinette (1938)
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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73
50
7.6
/2118/
65
/22/
71
/30/
3.8
/1688/
79
/226/

The Scarlet Letter (1927)
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
poster
67
47
6.9
/2709/
73
/47/
63
/35/
3.4
/1933/
66
/32/

Double Wedding (1937)
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
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65
16
6.9
/780/
66
/6/
60
/12/
3.4
/656/

The Show (1927)
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
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MGM Plus
46
11
5.4
/555/
46
/6/
45
/12/
3.1
/273/
19
/1163/

The Scarlet Letter (1934)
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
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55
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5.5
/102/
55
/2/

Renegades of the West (1932)
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
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?
6.9
/32/
60
/1/

The Secret Menace (1931)
An old prospector discovers a bonanza mine of gold on the Diamond Dude Ranch. He tells two men about it and they kill him, and then make plans to acquire the ranch. They run into trouble when the owners put up a fight.
poster
?
5.6
/63/
55
/2/

Heroes of the West (1932)
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
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43
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5.7
/163/
30
/2/

Bringing Up Father (1928)
The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own suicide, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.
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?
7.0
/23/

Law Beyond the Range (1935)
Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over to continue that fight against Heston and his stooge Sheriff. He also hopes to find the notorious leader of an outlaw gang and to also help Kane prove his innocence.
poster
52
?
6.3
/374/
40
/4/

Reducing (1931)
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
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42
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5.5
/110/
40
/1/
33
/3/

The Prodigal (1931)
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
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?
5.9
/100/
70
/2/
45
/2/

A Failure at Fifty (1940)
The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
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?
5.0
/24/
50
/1/

One Hysterical Night (1929)
The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are actually having him committed to an insane asylum. Since all the other inmates/attendees think they are historical figures such as Robin Hood, the Duke of Wellington, Paul Revere, William Tell, Salome, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes and others, it takes a while for Judd to separate the wheat from the chaff and prove he is not deranged. His quest becomes more urgent when he falls in love with a nurse named Josephine, who does not think she is Napoleon's "Josephine" but is convinced Judd thinks he is Napoleaon.
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?
5.6
/18/

The Oakdale Affair (1919)
Refusing to marry her stepmother's choice, Gail Prim leaves her life of luxury, after cutting her hair, dressing in her butler's clothes and stealing money and jewels from her father's safe. Spending the night in a barn, she introduces herself to the thieves already there as the Oskaloosa Kid, a wanted criminal, and barely escapes their struggle to get her loot. Meanwhile, the real Oskaloosa Kid kills Reginald Paynter and throws Nettie Penning, whom Reginald was trying to seduce, onto the highway.
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?
5.4
/78/
50
/1/

Young Eagles (1934)
Two Boy Scouts win an around-the-world trip with a crack aviator, and find themselves crash-landed in the South American jungles after the ace forgets to refuel in Ecuador.
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?
5.6
/30/

Sea Devils (1931)
An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed him for murder.
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?
5.3
/55/

Lord Jim (1925)
Because he deserted his ship and passengers during a collision at sea, a ship's mate loses his certification. Unable to find work at sea, he takes a job at a trading post, and eventually works his way up to managing the business. He falls in love with the owner's daughter, and shares leadership of the local village with the son of the Rajah. One day, however, a band of pirates attacks the village, and the man is astonished to see that the pirates are none other than the tyrannical captain of his former ship and his crew.
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?
5.2
/24/
50
/1/

The Ace of Clubs (1925)
Cowboy Jack Horton searches for the killer of his father and brother, both of whom were found with an ace of clubs pinned to their bodies.
poster
?
6.0
/5/

The Were-Tiger (1925)
A jungle drama about a woman who befriends a tiger.
poster
?
6.2
/72/

The Fighting Parson (1933)
A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the man's identity, but when he arrives at the nearest town, he rides into the middle of a hanging--and the man who is being hanged knows his real identity.
poster
?
5.2
/42/
50
/1/

Second Honeymoon (1930)
A wealthy man's wife becomes bored with him, so his friend decides to trick her into believing her husband is having an affair to "wake her up".
poster
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5.0
/65/
50
/1/

Sal of Singapore (1928)
SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation print does exist at UCLA, although it is unavailable for public viewing, awaiting restoration.
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?
5.7
/37/
30
/2/

Heaven on Earth (1931)
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
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52
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5.7
/175/
45
/4/
53
/10/

The Leatherneck (1929)
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three are still peacetime officers in the US Marines when an unscrupulous character steals Boyd's girl and his two buddies go off to rescue her. When they don't come back, Boyd goes after them to rescue all. This is all done in flashback from a court martial trial for desertion.
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?
5.5
/56/
70
/1/

His First Command (1929)
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
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?
4.6
/17/

The Girl Philippa (1917)
About the year 1900 in a midnight raid on the palace of a Balkan king, emissaries of a great power slay the royal pair, and carry off the infant crown princess. The time shifts to the present. Foreign agents steal the plans of a new shell loaned Great Britain by America. Halkett and Gray, English officers, recover the plans; and the foreign agents endeavor to gain possession of them again.
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65
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6.4
/681/
71
/5/
58
/8/
3.3
/317/
67
/5/

The Gay Bride (1934)
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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?
60
/1/

The Poor Rich Man (1918)
Vantyne Carter is a playboy living in luxury off his father. Vantyne's cousin Teddy, meanwhile, leads a fine upstanding life -- or at least he appears to, so he can curry favor with his wealthy uncle, Vantyne's father. One day, the senior Carter, fed up with his son's antics, decides to play a trick on both Vantyne and Teddy. The old man and his lawyer go off on a hunting trip, and then the lawyer returns with news that Carter was killed in an accident.
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?
4.7
/66/
50
/3/

Tangled Trails (1921)
Corporal Jack Borden, of the Northwest Mounted Police, trails the man who killed his partner to New York City. The killer is an unscrupulous promoter who is selling worthless stock in a gold mine. Borden, with the help of Blanche Hall, locates the man in a Bowery dive, but he escapes and Borden tracks him back to Canada. Along the way, he discovers that Blanche and his sweetheart, Milly, are long-separated sisters and brings about a reconciliation.
poster
65
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6.0
/192/
70
/2/

How to Vote (1936)
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.
poster
55
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6.2
/173/
60
/1/
45
/2/

An Hour for Lunch (1939)
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
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?
5.9
/101/
60
/1/

Cross Fire (1933)
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
poster
?
6.8
/88/
60
/1/
58
/6/

The Pursuit of Happiness (1934)
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
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61
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6.7
/601/
71
/9/
38
/6/
3.3
/215/

Every Sunday (1936)
Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts. To stop this from happening, Judy and Edna gather a crowd the following Sunday; and to keep its attention, they themselves perform with the orchestra. Edna sings an aria and Judy sings 'Americana'.
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68
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6.5
/635/
62
/4/
67
/7/
3.3
/212/
80
/4/

Mississippi (1935)
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
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59
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6.1
/329/
65
/2/
57
/3/

Love Is a Headache (1938)
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
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65
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6.8
/317/
83
/3/
45
/2/

Stablemates (1938)
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
poster
59
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5.9
/291/
66
/3/
50
/2/

The Ghost Comes Home (1940)
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
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7.1
/50/
60
/1/
70
/1/

Give Us This Night (1936)
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
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64
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6.2
/414/
68
/6/
59
/8/

Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
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The Idol of the North (1921)
Dance-hall girl Colette Brissac, brought up in the Canadian Northwest, refuses the protection of New Yorker Lucky Folsom, who later marries Gloria Waldron, an ambitious woman actually in love with engineer Martin Bates. When Bates drifts into the mining town, the miners, while drunk, force him to marry Colette. She nurses him back to health and they gradually fall in love. The arrival of Folsom and Gloria threatens to break up their marriage, and Colette prevents a fight between the two men by wounding Folsom, causing the latter to come to his senses and teaching his wife a lesson.
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?

The Bar Sinister (1917)
The Bar Sinister is a 1917 silent film drama directed by Edgar Lewis.
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6.0
/9/

Lost in a Big City (1923)
N/A
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A Fool and His Money (1920)
N/A
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God's Crucible (1922)
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