Agostino Borgato
Actor · 1871 – 1939 · Venice, Italy
Italian born Agostino Borgato was first a Silent film actor and director in Italy, also a stage actor in his homeland and England, then, from 1925, a Hollywood film actor.
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Movie6.1DramaRomanceA tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
A Farewell to Arms
1932 · 166 votes
Movie6.0HorrorMysteryIn 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1932 · 150 votes
Movie7.3DramaHistoryNorfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
Lloyd's of London
1936 · 25 votes
Movie7.0HorrorThrillerAn insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.
Mad Love
1935 · 126 votes
Movie7.0DramaAn Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Man Of The People
1937 · 4 votes
Movie6.7RomanceComedyA poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
The Bride Wore Red
1937 · 24 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceChildhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resulting in her eventual marriage to David. It's not long after their wedding, however, that tragedy strikes, sending Diana on a downward spiral. When Neville reappears in her life, will he be able to save her from her own misery?
A Woman of Affairs
1928 · 26 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceA beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
Romance
1930 · 19 votes
Movie6.9DramaGardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.
Behind the Make-Up
1930 · 7 votes
Movie6.4ComedyRomanceA wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
The Gay Deception
1935 · 11 votes
Movie7.8ComedyKiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue's manager, with whom she has fallen in love.
Kiki
1926 · 4 votes
Movie7.2DramaCrimeEasy-Money Charley, the best fake crippled beggar in New York, loses his beloved dog and adopts a dying prostitute's daughter to fill the empty place in his heart.
The Street of Forgotten Men
1925 · 4 votes
Movie6.4AdventureRomanceVladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.
The Eagle
1925 · 59 votes
Movie4.8MusicRomanceA guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
The Cuban Love Song
1931 · 8 votes
Movie5.8ComedyRomanceA comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
The Girl Said No
1930 · 5 votes
Movie5.1AdventureDramaWhen a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though Luana is promised to another man, Johnny whisks her away, and for a brief time the lovers live very happily together. But, when a local volcano threatens their lives, Luana knows that she must sacrifice herself to the volcanic gods in order to save her island.
Bird of Paradise
1932 · 29 votes
Movie7.0RomanceActionMontero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duke de la Garda demands his right as feudal lord--to take the bride to his castle for a night. Rather than accede to the duke's advances, the girl chooses death by her own hand. Montero swears vengeance.....
The Night of Love
1927 · 2 votes
Movie6.0AdventureActionA parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
The Three Musketeers
1939 · 11 votes
Movie8.0WesternRomanceFox's immediate follow-up to its successful early-talkie western In Old Arizona was 1929's Romance of the Rio Grande. The story focuses on the Alvarez family of Mexico, specifically fabulously wealthy Don Fernando. Intending to bequeath his vast fortune and estate to his long-estranged grandson Pancho, Don Fernando must contend with his ne'er-do-well nephew Juan.
Romance of the Rio Grande
1929 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaIt is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Hotel Imperial
1939 · 3 votes
Movie6.1RomanceDramaThe daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.
Hula
1927 · 21 votes
Movie5.4CrimeDramaA Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
Daughter of Shanghai
1937 · 16 votes
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Movie6.4WarDramaA young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.
She Goes to War
1929 · 7 votes