Tuhlaajapoika (1992)

Actors: Sulevi Peltola (actor), Kimmo Taavila (editor), Hannu Kivioja (actor), Martti Kuisma (actor), Oiva Lohtander (actor), Matti Onnismaa (actor), Aki Kaurismäki (producer), Esko Salminen (actor), Veikko Aaltonen (director), Veikko Aaltonen (editor), Juhani Niemelä (actor), Heikki Kujanpää (actor), Juuso Hirvikangas (actor), Mauri Sumén (composer), Leea Klemola (actress),

Plot: Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.

Keywords: ex-convict, male-prostitute, sadism
Genres: Thriller,

The Human Jungle (1954)

Actors: Nicky Blair (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Lamont Johnson (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Vince Barnett (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Al Hill (actor), Charles Cane (actor), Claude Akins (actor), Phil Arnold (actor), Booth Colman (actor), James Conaty (actor), Chuck Connors (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Don Keefer (actor),

Plot: Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle. He calls this a cop's war that is the same as a soldier's war with the difference being that people hate cops. His cause isn't helped when a rookie policeman accidentally kills an innocent bystander. And he has to protect police informer Mary Abbott from Swados, a killer in the hire of the man behind the petty mobsters.

Keywords: juvenile-delinquency
Genres: Crime,

Isn't Life Wonderful! (1954)

Actors: Edward B. Jarvis (editor), Harold French (director), Philip Green (composer), Cecil Parker (actor), George Woodbridge (actor), Brock Williams (writer), Brock Williams (writer), Warwick Ward (producer), Robert Urquhart (actor), Russell Waters (actor), John Welsh (actor), Wensley Pithey (actor), Eleanor Summerfield (actress), Donald Wolfit (actor), Fabia Drake (actress),

Plot: Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law (Cecil Parker) is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles, (who also serves as a commentator throughout the film.) Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes stuffy-Brit shocked when she attends a carnival. Virginia is also irked because Frank isn't more manly. They nearly all turn up at a convalescent home, where Uncle Willie brings the young lovers together, and announces that milk will be his only beverage-of-choice in the future.

Keywords: 1890s, alcoholic, american, aunt-nephew-relationship, based-on-novel, bicycle, bicycle-parts, black-sheep, brother-in-law, brother-sister-relationship
Genres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: Flat Tires and Broken Romances! (original poster)

Winter Meeting (1948)

Actors: Leo White (actor), Lois Austin (actress), Jeffrey Sayre (actor), Jim Davis (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Russ Clark (actor), Douglas Carter (actor), John Hoyt (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), Mike Lally (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Paul Maxey (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Jack Mower (actor), Florence Bates (actress),

Plot: Spinster poetess Susan Grieve lives in a Manahattan apartment where naval hero Slick Novak comes with her for a nightcap. Next morning they visit her Connecticut farm where Novak tells her he always wanted to be a priest. After some turmoil she advises him to follow his dream which he does.

Keywords: abandonment, based-on-novel, connecticut, forgiveness, life-lesson, loss-of-faith, new-york-city, newspaper-headline, nightclub, orchestral-music-score
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: No woman was ever happier to be next to the man she loves ! You've told me your secret, now I'll tell you mine.

Love, Honor and Goodbye (1945)

Actors: Nolan Leary (actor), Victor McLaglen (actor), Nils Asther (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Tom Chatterton (actor), Earle Hodgins (actor), Charles Dorety (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Francis Ford (actor), William Forrest (actor), Joseph Forte (actor), Robert Greig (actor), Eddie Hall (actor), Forbes Murray (actor),

Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: THE STORY OF A LOVE THAT QUARRELLED WITH FATE AND WON...(original poster - all caps) She sought the bright lights of excitement at the cost of his love...but destiny led her back to his heart...and every real thrill any woman could ever ask for! (original poster)

Next Time We Love (1936)

Actors: Grant Mitchell (actor), Nat Carr (actor), Robert McWade (actor), Ray Milland (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), Jack Daley (actor), Tommy Bond (actor), Otto Fries (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian (actor), Al Hill (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Alfred P. James (actor), John 'Dusty' King (actor), Clive Morgan (actor),

Plot: In New York, the rookie newsman Christopher "Chris" Tyler dreams on becoming a famous journalist. When his girlfriend Cicely spends a couple of days with him, they decide to get married and Cicely leaves college. Chris's best friend Tommy Abbott is his best man and becomes a family's friend. Chris has his great chance when his editor Frank Carteret sends him to Rome assigned as a foreign correspondent. Cicely stays in New York with Tommy and does not tell to Chris that she is pregnant. When she delivers the baby Kit, Chris celebrates and loses a big scoop and his boss fires him. Chris falls in disgrace and the couple has economic difficulties; however Tommy lends money to Cicely and offers an opportunity on the stage as an actress. Cicely is hired and becomes successful and Chris is depressed with the situation. Cicely seeks out Frank Carteret and explains the situation, and he offers a job opportunity to Chris in Russia. He accepts the job but Cicely stays in New York with their son. Along the years, their marriage ends with the distance, but they are still in love with each other.

Keywords: baby, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, farewell-scene, fired-from-the-job, foreign-correspondent, love-triangle, manhattan-new-york-city, marital-problem, marriage, marriage-proposal
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Show Boat (1936)

Actors: Arthur Hohl (actor), Harry Barris (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), James P. Burtis (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), E.E. Clive (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Donald Cook (actor), D'Arcy Corrigan (actor), J. Gunnis Davis (actor), Al Ferguson (actor), Stanley Fields (actor), Ernest Hilliard (actor), Arthur Housman (actor),

Plot: Adaptation of the Broadway musical. Magnolia Hawks is the lovely but protected, and thus very naive, daughter of Cap'n Andy Hawks, the genial proprietor of a show boat that cruises the Missisippi, and his nagging wife, Parthy. She is best friends with the show boat's star, Julie LaVerne, but Julie and her husband Steve are forced to leave when it is revealed that Julie has "Negro" blood in her, thereby breaking the state law by being married to the white Steve. Magnolia replaces Julie as the show boat's female star, and the show's new male star is the suave gambler Gaylord Ravenal. "Nola" and Gaylord fall in love and marry against Parthy's wishes. They and their young daughter lead the high life when Gaylord is lucky in gambling, but live like dirt when he's unlucky. During one such unlucky streak, a broken Gaylord leaves Nola, and she is forced to start over by returning to the stage. Like Old Man River, as the famous song from this show goes, she just keeps rollin' along.

Keywords: based-on-novel, based-on-stage-musical, blackface, chicago-illinois, famous-score, father-daughter-relationship, gambling-addiction, illinois, interracial-relationship, kentucky
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: Here Comes the Grand and Glorious "Show Boat" (version of 1936) Sensation of 1936! HEAR Glorious New Music and Songs by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II: "Gallivantin' Around", "Ah Still Suits Me", "I Have The Room Above Her", plus "Make Believe", "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man of Mine". The grandest show you'll ever know

Quotes:

Mother: Did you understand the moral of the play, my dear?::Little Girl: Oh,sure, ma. Did you see how he kissed her?::Mother: Yes! I hardly thought that was in the best of taste!

Joe: [singing] I gits weary / An' sick o' tryin' / I'm tired o' livin' / An' scared o' dyin' / But Ol' Man River / He jes' keeps rollin' along!

Steve: You wouldn't call a man a white man that had Negro blood in him, would you?::The Sheriff: No, I wouldn't; not in Mississippi. One drop of Negro blood makes you a Negro in these parts!

Joe: I just shell them peas.::Queenie: You ain't pickin' them up.::Joe: No, but I could've if you didn't. I could do a lotta things if it was necessary.::Queenie: Then why don't you?::Joe: It ain't necessary.

Parthy: I could say that my name was Bonaparte, and show you Napoleon's tomb; that wouldn't make him my grandfather would it?

Backwoodsman with Gun: Seein' as how this is the first show we ever seed, you better give me and my friend Zebe here the best two seats in the the-ay-ter.

Frank: But this is Confederate money!::Backwoodsman: That's the kind they use in the hills, it's as good as yours, ain't it?::Frank: But this quarter - it don't ring!::Backwoodsman: Whaddaya want for two bits - sleigh bells?

Magnolia: I never complained. I've lived like this half the time - washing clothes, cooking food over a gas jet, but I loved him. And if all that came with him, I was willing to take care of it. I thought he knew that.

Julie: (singing) Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, I gotta love one man till I die, Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.

Julie: [singing] Oh, I can't explain. It's surely not his brain That makes me thrill. I love him Because he's - I don't know... Because he's just my Bill!

Song and Dance Man (1936)

Actors: Bert Moorhouse (actor), Bull Montana (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), James Burke (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Ralf Harolde (actor), Sonny Bupp (actor), Pat Hartigan (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Arthur Hoyt (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), Paul Kelly (actor), James Flavin (actor), Lester Matthews (actor), Joseph North (actor),

Genres: Drama, Musical,

The Tiger's Trail (1919)

Actors: Paul Hurst (director), Fred Kohler (actor), George Larkin (actor), Harry Moody (actor), Bud Osborne (actor), Ruth Roland (actress), Charles Logue (writer), Gilson Willets (writer), Robert Ellis (director), Louis J. Gasnier (director), George Field (actor), Rose Dione (actress), Chet Ryan (actor), Mark Strong (actor), Mark Strong (actor),

Genres: Adventure,

Her American Prince (1916)

Actors: Arthur Donaldson (actor), Bradley Barker (actor), John Webb Dillon (actor), Ormi Hawley (actress), J. Frank Glendon (actor), Bradley Barker (actor), Ruby Hoffman (actress), D.H. Turner (director), D.H. Turner (actor), Carl Herbert (writer),

Genres: Drama,