Movies for Film Class

The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.

A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.

In San Francisco, a villainous land owner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.

Hank owns horses, stables horses and races horses. He favorite horse always wins and he is prosperous and well known. His son (Bob), however, dreams only of the future of the horseless carriage and not of the horse. This causes problems between Hank and Bob. As the people in the town convert from horses to autos, Hank detests those who switch - so he loses his friends, his son Bob, and finally his livery business. Bob leaves his flame Rose and goes to Detroit, gets involved with the auto industry and does very well. He does not forget Hank and promises to see him again, but Hank's hatred of the auto may cause the death of Bob.

A sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.

A gangster frames two bootleggers for the shooting of a police officer in New York during the prohibition.

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

A singing waiter and composer (Al Jolson) loves two women (Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn), conquers Broadway and holds his dying son, singing "Sonny Boy."

An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.

A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.

After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.

During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.

The Desert Song is a 1929 American Pre-Code operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy.

A sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.

A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.

A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

A rotund bandleader leads a series of theatrical sketches, dance numbers, special effects, and animated segments.

A love triangle develops in a traveling minstrel troupe.

A countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser.

Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it's too late; she's even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she's being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?

Told in four episodes - an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.