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51. The Live Ghost (1934)
Passed | 21 min | Short, Comedy
A gruff sea captain, who absolutely detests the word "ghost," is having trouble manning his ship because of the rumor it's...well...haunted. He inveigles Stanley and Oliver into helping him... See full summary »
Director: Charley Rogers | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Walter Long
Votes: 1,577
52. When Frank Met Carlitos (2023 TV Special)
TV-14 | 72 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 1934, Carlos Gardel and Frank Sinatra were locked in a dressing room in New York. Will it be true?
Director: Karina Insausti | Stars: Oscar Lajad, Pablo Turturiello, Antonella Misenti
Votes: 93
53. Hitler's Reign of Terror (1934)
55 min | Documentary
A documentary meant to show Americans what had been going on in Germany since Hitler's rise, centered on a fact finding trip by Cornelius Vanderbilt, with newsreel footage of book burnings and such.
Director: Michael Mindlin | Stars: Edwin C. Hill, Samuel Dickstein, Adolf Hitler, John Haines Holmes
Votes: 27
54. Tailspin Tommy (1934)
Approved | 248 min | Action, Drama, Crime
A young mechanic gets a job with a small airline, which he helps win a mail contract. A rival airline plots to destroy it in order to get the contracts for itself.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Maurice Murphy, Noah Beery Jr., Patricia Farr, Walter Miller
Votes: 72
55. Leftenan Adnan (2000)
127 min | Biography, Drama, History
This film is about a Malaysian soldier, Lieutenant Adnan Saidi, who fought bravely against the Japanese Imperial Army during World War 2.
Director: Aziz M. Osman | Stars: Hairie Othman, Umie Aida, Faizal Hussein, Wahid Senario
Votes: 186
56. Living on Velvet (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Terry Parker (George Brent) is shattered by the crash of his airplane which killed his parents and sister, and adopts a listless attitude toward life. But romance enters in the person of ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Kay Francis, Warren William, George Brent, Helen Lowell
Votes: 478
57. Across the Pacific (2020)
History
This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh
Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Brad Koed, Brian Muller, Sergey Nagorny
Votes: 69
58. Dillinger: Public Enemy No. 1 (1934)
Crime, Documentary, Short
Propagandic newsreel commissioned by J. Edgar Hoover to make the FBI's killing of John Dillinger seem more heroic, after a public outcry complained that the government's shooting a man in ... See full summary »
Stars: John Dillinger, Melvin Purvis
Votes: 10
59. The Man from Hell (1934)
Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Reb Russell, Rebel, Fred Kohler, Ann Darcy
Votes: 72
60. Anni difficili (1948)
90 min | Drama, War
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Umberto Spadaro, Ave Ninchi, Enzo Biliotti, Massimo Girotti
Votes: 231
61. Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 68 min | Documentary
Various film historians, film makers, and cultural commentators discuss the cultural, political, economic and religious reasons for what is known as the pre-code era of Hollywood movie ... See full summary »
Stars: Valerie Spencer, John Landis, Jonathan Kuntz, Rudy Behlmer
Votes: 390
62. Three Songs About Lenin (1934)
Not Rated | 61 min | Documentary
Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Dolores Ibárruri, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 890
63. Chaco (2020)
80 min | Drama, War
In 1934, Bolivia is at war with Paraguay. Liborio and Ticona and other Bolivian indigenous soldiers are lost in the hell of the Chaco, under the commandment of German Captain Kundt. They're... See full summary »
Director: Diego Mondaca | Stars: Raimundo Ramos, Fabián Arenillas, Mauricio Toledo, Fausto Castellón
Votes: 154
64. I Give My Love (1934)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama
A woman devotes her life to her son, who went to prison for killing her abusive husband.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Paul Lukas, Wynne Gibson, Eric Linden, Anita Louise
Votes: 30
65. Zkáza krásou (I) (2016)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
The story of Lída Baarová, famous Czech actress of the black and white era, who moved to Nazi Germany before WWII and formed a controversial relationship with Reich Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, who adored her.
Directors: Jakub Hejna, Helena Trestíková | Stars: Lída Baarová, Vladimír Borský, Frantisek Cáp, Gustav Fröhlich
Votes: 95
66. Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)
Not Rated | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries.
Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: William Cagney, Edward J. Nugent, June Collyer, Edmund Breese
Votes: 137
67. Ankara - Heart of Turkey (1934)
56 min | Documentary, History
The made to order record film taken off in 1933-1934 by soviet stage-directors on the instructions of Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk narrating about becoming of the new Turkish ... See full summary »
Director: Sergei Yutkevich | Stars: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Ismet Inönü
Votes: 115
68. Der Röhm-Putsch (1967 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Director: Günter Gräwert | Stars: Hans Korte, Helmut Fischer, Dieter Kirchlechner, Wilmut Borell
Votes: 39
69. Twin Husbands (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama
Chesterfield - John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley, Hale Hamilton. Miljan plays a famous crook who awakens in a posh mansion...
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley, Hale Hamilton
Votes: 130
70. Ireland: 'the Emerald Isle' (1934)
Approved | 8 min | Documentary, Short
This Traveltalks entry focuses on the people, culture, and natural beauty of rural Ireland with visits to an ancient round tower, farms, the gardens at Hope Castle in Castleblayney, and the ancient village of Claddagh at Galway.
Director: Ruth FitzPatrick | Star: James A. FitzPatrick
Votes: 144
71. Il sospetto (1975)
111 min | Crime, Drama
Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistle-blowers.
Director: Francesco Maselli | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Renato Salvatori, Felice Andreasi, Pietro Biondi
Votes: 141
72. Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Music
Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.
Director: Louis Lewyn | Stars: Leo Carrillo, The Debutantes, Eduardo Durant, Eduardo Durant's Rhumba Band
Votes: 229
73. City of Wax (1934)
Not Rated | 9 min | Documentary, Short
Osacr-winning Live Action Short film about bees.
Directors: Horace Woodard, Stacy Woodard | Star: Gayne Whitman
Votes: 102
74. Cargaison blanche (1937)
100 min | Drama
Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Jules Berry, Suzy Prim, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Votes: 112
75. The First World War (1934)
Approved | 78 min | Documentary, War
Produced by the Fox Movietone News arm of Fox Film Corporation and based on the book by Lawrence Stallings, this expanded newsreel, using stock-and-archive footage, tells the story of World... See full summary »
Star: Pedro de Cordoba
Votes: 12
76. The Song of Ceylon (1934)
38 min | Short, Documentary
A short film which documents the lives of the Sinhalese people.
Director: Basil Wright | Star: Lionel Wendt
Votes: 440
77. Fiestas Cristianas/Fiestas Profanas (1934)
51 min | Documentary
Compilation of images belonging to three independent documentaries that were believed to be lost, following the festivities and rituals of the Holy Week in Lorca, Cartagena and Murcia, as well as the Murcia Spring Festival.
Director: José Val del Omar
Votes: 27
78. Service with a Smile (1934)
Passed | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Leon brags about his "super-deluxe" gas station, which he claims is run by chorus girls.
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Leon Errol, Maxine Doyle, Herbert Evans, Marie Wells
Votes: 135
79. The Sea Horse (1935)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Examines the sea horse, the only fish that swims upright. We watch it use its prehensile tail to wrap around plants and other sea horses. A frontal bulge houses organs including an air ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Painlevé
Votes: 714
80. The Hollywood Gad-About (1934)
11 min | Documentary, Short
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies. The Royal Canadian Mounted parade; William Gargan, Gary Cooper and his ... See full summary »
Stars: Walter Winchell, Mary Astor, Sy Bartlett, Billy Barty
Votes: 8
81. La nuit des longs couteaux (2020 TV Movie)
89 min | Documentary, History
In the summer of 1934, Hitler, who liquidated German democracy in record time, found himself caught between two opposing forces: On the one hand, the revolutionary fringe of his party, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Marie-Pierre Camus, Gérard Puechmorel | Stars: Johann Chapoutot, Fritz Georg Dreesen, David Gallo, Joseph Goebbels
Votes: 47
82. Stolen Sweets (1934)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness) on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Sally Blane, Charles Starrett, Jameson Thomas, Claude King
Votes: 33
83. Odor in the Court (1934)
Passed | 22 min | Comedy, Short
Cut-rate lawyers Clark and McCullough defend a beautiful divorcee in court, while at the same time competing to be her next husband.
Director: Ben Holmes | Stars: Bobby Clark, Paul McCullough, Tom Kennedy, Helen Collins
Votes: 53
84. Jungle Cavalcade (1941)
Approved | 76 min | Documentary, Adventure
"Frank Buck's Jungle Cavalcade" is a compilation film that consists of footage from three previous Frank Buck expedition films: "Bring 'em Back Alive," "Wild Cargo" and "Fang and Claw." ... See full summary »
Directors: William C. Ament, Armand Denis, Clyde E. Elliott | Stars: Frank Buck, Teru Miyata
Votes: 61
85. La croisière jaune (1934)
90 min | Documentary
The film tells the expedition, led by Georges Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil and sponsored by André Citoën, leaving Beirut in Lebanon to rally China through the ancient Silk Road with half-tracks vehicles, between 1931 and 1932.
Directors: Léon Poirier, André Sauvage | Stars: Georges-Marie Haardt, Louis Audoin Dubreuil, André Citroën, Victor Point
Votes: 56
86. Screen Snapshots, Series 14, No. 1 (1934)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Walter Connolly, Jackie Cooper, Inez Courtney, Leon Errol
87. Post-Haste (1934)
9 min | Documentary, Short
A short film from the British Postal Service which reminds users of the deadline for parcels for the upcoming holidays.
Director: Humphrey Jennings
Votes: 129
88. Dimcho Debelyanov poetat-voin (1934)
7 min | Documentary, Short
In 1931, the bones of Dimcho Debelyanov were moved by Demir Hisar, where he was buried after being killed in the First World War on 3. 10. 1916. On August 20, 1934, a monument to the poet ... See full summary »
Director: Angel Temelkov-Anzhelo
89. Wings Over Everest (1934)
22 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest.
Directors: Geoffrey Barkas, Ivor Montagu | Stars: Alexander John, David Timson, Michael Kilgarriff
Votes: 130
90. The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society (1934)
45 min | Documentary
Founded in 1926 by Albert Grass who is thought to have discovered Freud's writing while serving in France during WWI. Sometimes referred to as an urban myth, the Society consisted of people who could not afford to be professional analysts.
Director: Zoe Beloff
91. The Hollywood You Never See (1934)
11 min | Documentary, Short
The making of Cleopatra (1934), showing pre-production, DeMille directing a scene, and the addition of music to the soundtrack.
Director: Herbert Moulton | Stars: Cecil B. DeMille, Ralph Jester, Anne Bauchens, Emily Barrye
Votes: 47
92. Name the Woman (1934)
Approved | 60 min | Mystery
The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, but adventurous newspaper reporter is bent on clearing her name by ripping the lid off a corrupt government machine.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson
93. The Private Life of the Gannets (1934)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short
A 1934 GB production that was picked up in 1937 by Educational for 20th Century Fox distribution about the gannet, (a beautiful white and exceedingly graceful bird deemed the best fisherman... See full summary »
Director: Julian Huxley | Star: A.L. Alexander
Votes: 109
95. Roping Wild Bears (1934)
Passed | 9 min | Documentary, Short
Wild bears that bother livestock are captured with ropes and shipped to zoos.
Director: W. Earle Frank | Star: Pete Smith
Votes: 50
96. L'île de Pâques (1936)
24 min | Documentary
A record of a Franco-Belgian expedition to the remote island in the 1930s.
Directors: John Fernhout, Henri Storck
Votes: 8
97. Le métro (1934)
11 min | Documentary, Short
In Paris, come rain or come shine, he metro comes and goes, through stone tunnels and over iron bridges. The metro users in the corridors, mostly going up and down the stairs, come and go. ... See full summary »
Directors: Georges Franju, Henri Langlois
Votes: 52
98. Movie Memories #2 (1934)
Documentary, Short
This film contains excerpts from for Paramount silent films: BLOOD AND SAND (1922), THE COVERED WAGON (1923), THE MIRACLE MAN (1919), and BEAU GESTE.
Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, J. Warren Kerrigan, Ernest Torrence
Votes: 19
99. Screen Snapshots, Series 13, No. 5 (1934)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Larry Fine, Ted Healy, Jack Holt, Curly Howard
100. Dealers in Death (1934)
64 min | Documentary, History, War
This documentary film is a pacifistic polemic that presents the argument that the world's largest munitions works, principally those in Europe, work in conjunction with one another, even ... See full summary »
Director: Monroe Shaff | Stars: Basil Ruysdael, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 11