Paul Porcasi

Paul Porcasi

From Wikipedia. Paul Porcasi (1 January 1879 – 8 August 1946) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 142 films between 1917 and 1945. He was born in Palermo, Sicily. Porcasi was memorable as "Nick the Greek" in Universal's Broadway (1929). Porcasi performed infrequently on Broadway from 1916 to 1928. He ended his theatrical career in the smash hit "Broadway" as Nick Verdis that ran from 16 September 1926 to 11 February 1928 (603 performances) at the Broadhurst Theatre. French actress Yola d'Avril portrayed his daughter, Madame Feronde in MGM's adventure film Tarzan and His Mate. Porcasi died on 8 August 1946 in Hollywood, California.

  • Popularity : 1.045
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1879-01-01
  • Place of Birth : Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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Paul Porcasi Movies

  • 1941
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    It Started with Eve

    It Started with Eve

    7.1 1941 HD

    A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health...

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  • 1935
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    Charlie Chan in Egypt

    Charlie Chan in Egypt

    6.9 1935 HD

    While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed...

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  • 1933
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    When Strangers Marry

    When Strangers Marry

    1 1933 HD

    In this action-drama, a railroad worker plys his trade at the straits of Malay. He begins a steamy affair with a spoiled rich girl. His romantic...

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  • 1937
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    Café Metropole

    Café Metropole

    6.9 1937 HD

    An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

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  • 1943
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    Quiet Please, Murder

    Quiet Please, Murder

    6.6 1943 HD

    A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

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  • 1931
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    The Criminal Code

    The Criminal Code

    6.04 1931 HD

    After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10...

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  • 1935
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    The Florentine Dagger

    The Florentine Dagger

    5.7 1935 HD

    A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.

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  • 1926
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    Say It Again

    Say It Again

    1 1926 HD

    Bob Howard, a WWI wounded soldier in a army hospital, meets and falls in love with Princess Elena. When the Armistice is signed, he is quickly...

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  • 1931
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    Smart Money

    Smart Money

    6.9 1931 HD

    Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.

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  • 1934
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    British Agent

    British Agent

    5.4 1934 HD

    In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.

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  • 1940
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    The Border Legion

    The Border Legion

    5.7 1940 HD

    Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the...

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  • 1937
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    The Emperor's Candlesticks

    The Emperor's Candlesticks

    5.2 1937 HD

    Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

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  • 1930
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    The Three Sisters

    The Three Sisters

    1 1930 HD

    A 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Paul Sloane and starring Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola and Kenneth MacKenna. It was distributed by Fox Film...

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  • 1938
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    Crime School

    Crime School

    6.3 1938 HD

    In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who...

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  • 1932
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    Under Eighteen

    Under Eighteen

    6.6 1932 HD

    Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take....

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  • 1933
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    I Loved a Woman

    I Loved a Woman

    4.8 1933 HD

    The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in...

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  • 1936
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    The Leathernecks Have Landed

    The Leathernecks Have Landed

    5 1936 HD

    Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody"...

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  • 1933
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    Terror Aboard

    Terror Aboard

    6 1933 HD

    An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.

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  • 1942
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    Star Spangled Rhythm

    Star Spangled Rhythm

    5.9 1942 HD

    Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

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  • 1932
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    The Kid from Spain

    The Kid from Spain

    6.6 1932 HD

    Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk. Per chance Eddie...

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  • 1944
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    Swing Hostess

    Swing Hostess

    6 1944 HD

    An out-of-work band singer gets a job at a jukebox company and makes a hit.

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  • 1931
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    Bought!

    Bought!

    6 1931 HD

    Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.

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  • 1933
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    Caliente Love

    Caliente Love

    1 1933 HD

    Poor Walter Catlett messes up the wedding of Joyce Compton and, after botching his suicide attempt, rides along on her honeymoon at Aguas Caliente....

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  • 1932
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    Cynara

    Cynara

    4.8 1932 HD

    A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.

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  • 1933
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    Gigolettes of Paris

    Gigolettes of Paris

    5 1933 HD

    Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse Martell. In love with a...

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  • 1932
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    A Parisian Romance

    A Parisian Romance

    4.3 1932 HD

    The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to...

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  • 1936
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    Down to the Sea

    Down to the Sea

    4.5 1936 HD

    Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.

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  • 1933
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    Big Time Or Bust

    Big Time Or Bust

    3.5 1933 HD

    Newlywed carnival performers decide to try their luck in New York, but their marriage begins to crumble when their careers take separate paths.

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  • 1931
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    The Good Bad Girl

    The Good Bad Girl

    5.5 1931 HD

    A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.

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  • 1934
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    La Cucaracha

    La Cucaracha

    5.444 1934 HD

    Señor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local café in Mexico because of its reputation for good food and to audition the...

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  • 1938
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    Bulldog Drummond in Africa

    Bulldog Drummond in Africa

    5.5 1938 HD

    Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an...

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  • 1930
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    Born Reckless

    Born Reckless

    5.6 1930 HD

    In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.

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  • 1935
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    I Dream Too Much

    I Dream Too Much

    4.8 1935 HD

    Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love,...

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  • 1934
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    Wake Up and Dream

    Wake Up and Dream

    4 1934 HD

    The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.

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  • 1940
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    Argentine Nights

    Argentine Nights

    1 1940 HD

    An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors. Comedy with songs.

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  • 1931
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    Gentleman's Fate

    Gentleman's Fate

    5.5 1931 HD

    A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.

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  • 1932
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    Men Are Such Fools

    Men Are Such Fools

    1 1932 HD

    An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife...

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  • 1934
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    Tarzan and His Mate

    Tarzan and His Mate

    6.583 1934 HD

    Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.

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  • 1931
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    Svengali

    Svengali

    6.065 1931 HD

    A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.

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  • 1935
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    Hi, Gaucho!

    Hi, Gaucho!

    7.5 1935 HD

    The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.

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  • 1932
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    While Paris Sleeps

    While Paris Sleeps

    5.8 1932 HD

    To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are...

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  • 1931
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    Doctors' Wives

    Doctors' Wives

    1 1931 HD

    The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin...

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  • 1943
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    Casablanca

    Casablanca

    8.16 1943 HD

    In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

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  • 1940
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    I Was an Adventuress

    I Was an Adventuress

    6.3 1940 HD

    Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con...

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  • 1933
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    Havana Widows

    Havana Widows

    5.8 1933 HD

    Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

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  • 1937
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    Madame X

    Madame X

    6.2 1937 HD

    An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her...

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  • 1938
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    I'll Give a Million

    I'll Give a Million

    5.7 1938 HD

    After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is...

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  • 1933
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    The Devil's in Love

    The Devil's in Love

    6 1933 HD

    The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his...

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  • 1935
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    Broadway Gondolier

    Broadway Gondolier

    5.4 1935 HD

    A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

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  • 1935
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    Baby Face Harrington

    Baby Face Harrington

    4.8 1935 HD

    Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy...

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  • 1934
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    His Greatest Gamble

    His Greatest Gamble

    5 1934 HD

    A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.

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  • 1935
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    Stars Over Broadway

    Stars Over Broadway

    5.2 1935 HD

    An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

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  • 1934
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    The Gay Divorcee

    The Gay Divorcee

    6.8 1934 HD

    Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom...

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  • 1939
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    Juarez

    Juarez

    6.5 1939 HD

    The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.

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  • 1939
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    Lady of the Tropics

    Lady of the Tropics

    6.1 1939 HD

    Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.

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  • 1939
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    Everything Happens at Night

    Everything Happens at Night

    4.1 1939 HD

    Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.

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  • 1932
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    Under-Cover Man

    Under-Cover Man

    4.5 1932 HD

    When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring...

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  • 1941
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    Rags to Riches

    Rags to Riches

    10 1941 HD

    A framed cabby rounds up fur thieves and saves his opera-singer girlfriend.

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  • 1941
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    Doctors Don't Tell

    Doctors Don't Tell

    4.9 1941 HD

    Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over...

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  • 1933
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    Footlight Parade

    Footlight Parade

    6.9 1933 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    The Unknown Guest

    The Unknown Guest

    1 1943 HD

    Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.

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  • 1930
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    Morocco

    Morocco

    6.4 1930 HD

    The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That...

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  • 1936
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    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    7.5 1936 HD

    Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the...

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  • 1940
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    Brother Orchid

    Brother Orchid

    6.4 1940 HD

    When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents...

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  • 1932
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    Devil and the Deep

    Devil and the Deep

    4.9 1932 HD

    Naval commander Charles Storm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive...

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  • 1930
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    A Lady's Morals

    A Lady's Morals

    4.2 1930 HD

    Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs.

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  • 1935
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    The Payoff

    The Payoff

    4.9 1935 HD

    An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

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  • 1935
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    Waterfront Lady

    Waterfront Lady

    5.5 1935 HD

    When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he...

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  • 1935
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    A Night at the Ritz

    A Night at the Ritz

    3 1935 HD

    A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.

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  • 1940
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    Torrid Zone

    Torrid Zone

    6.3 1940 HD

    A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.

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  • 1940
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    Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

    Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

    4.8 1940 HD

    Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.

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  • 1936
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    The Lady Consents

    The Lady Consents

    5.8 1936 HD

    Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.

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  • 1932
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    Stowaway

    Stowaway

    5 1932 HD

    On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and...

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  • 1941
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    Road to Happiness

    Road to Happiness

    5.5 1941 HD

    A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.

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  • 1935
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    Enter Madame

    Enter Madame

    5.5 1935 HD

    Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.

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  • 1933
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    Flying Down to Rio

    Flying Down to Rio

    6.1 1933 HD

    A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

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  • 1937
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    The Bride Wore Red

    The Bride Wore Red

    6.7 1937 HD

    A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

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  • 1937
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    Big Town Girl

    Big Town Girl

    6 1937 HD

    When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a...

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  • 1931
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    Party Husband

    Party Husband

    5 1931 HD

    Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring...

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  • 1937
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    Maytime

    Maytime

    6.222 1937 HD

    An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.

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  • 1933
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    Saturday's Millions

    Saturday's Millions

    1 1933 HD

    Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes...

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  • 1936
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    Muss 'em Up

    Muss 'em Up

    5.5 1936 HD

    Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's...

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  • 1937
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    Seventh Heaven

    Seventh Heaven

    6.6 1937 HD

    A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the...

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  • 1933
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    King Kong

    King Kong

    7.602 1933 HD

    Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann...

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  • 1929
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    Broadway

    Broadway

    5.6 1929 HD

    A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

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  • 1932
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    Red Haired Alibi

    Red Haired Alibi

    4.4 1932 HD

    A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.

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  • 1932
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    The Death Kiss

    The Death Kiss

    5.3 1932 HD

    When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative...

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  • 1943
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    Hi Diddle Diddle

    Hi Diddle Diddle

    6.8 1943 HD

    When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set...

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  • 1934
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    The Great Flirtation

    The Great Flirtation

    3 1934 HD

    An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.

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  • 1932
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    A Woman Commands

    A Woman Commands

    8 1932 HD

    In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's...

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  • 1943
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    Background to Danger

    Background to Danger

    6.6 1943 HD

    An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

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  • 1934
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    Chained

    Chained

    6.8 1934 HD

    Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose...

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  • 1935
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    La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

    La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

    5.7 1935 HD

    La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...

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  • 1936
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    Crash Donovan

    Crash Donovan

    1 1936 HD

    A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

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  • 1934
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    Coming Out Party

    Coming Out Party

    5 1934 HD

    In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the...

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  • 1933
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    The Secret of Madame Blanche

    The Secret of Madame Blanche

    4 1933 HD

    A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

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  • 1934
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    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

    6.994 1934 HD

    A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...

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  • 1945
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    I'll Remember April

    I'll Remember April

    4 1945 HD

    The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.

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  • 1932
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    The Passionate Plumber

    The Passionate Plumber

    6 1932 HD

    Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J....

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  • 1935
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    Go Into Your Dance

    Go Into Your Dance

    7.5 1935 HD

    An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.

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  • 1936
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    Trouble for Two

    Trouble for Two

    6 1936 HD

    A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called...

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  • 1930
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    Such Men Are Dangerous

    Such Men Are Dangerous

    4.8 1930 HD

    A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.

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  • 1938
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    Vacation from Love

    Vacation from Love

    1 1938 HD

    A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.

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  • 1930
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    Derelict

    Derelict

    10 1930 HD

    Two rival seamen fight for both a promotion to a captaincy in their shipping line and the attentions of a Havana saloon singer. Sparks fly as they...

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  • 1943
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    Melody Parade

    Melody Parade

    1 1943 HD

    The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.

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  • 1934
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    Million Dollar Baby

    Million Dollar Baby

    1 1934 HD

    A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new...

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  • 1933
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    The Devil's Mate

    The Devil's Mate

    1 1933 HD

    A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he...

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  • 1933
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    He Couldn't Take It

    He Couldn't Take It

    1 1933 HD

    Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes...

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  • 1930
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    Murder on the Roof

    Murder on the Roof

    1 1930 HD

    This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V. Mong) wrongly accused of murder and follows the efforts...

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