Joyce Coad

Movies13

• Movie6.8

  Drama

  In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his fast life of crime. Before long, his fate intersects with that of Mary, a devout orphan, prompting a romance and a reevaluation.

  The Devil's Circus

  1926 · 7 votes

• Movie6.5

  CrimeDrama

  The story begins in 1923 where after an accident, a newspaper reporter needs to raise $5,000 to pay for an operation, otherwise his young sister will be crippled for life. The desperate reporter is finally able to get the cash from a shady acquaintance, Riggs. Eight years later in New York, circumstances conspire to place the reporter as the number one suspect in the murder of a showgirl. With no witness or alibi, the reporter devises a plan to smoke out the real culprit. A meeting is arranged under the cover of night and to the surprise of both men, the murderer is Riggs. Out of gratitude for past generosity to his sister, the reporter agrees not to expose Riggs, however unwittingly leads the police to him! Riggs is found guilty, and a dramatic scene in the courthouse ensues.

  X Marks the Spot

  1931 · 4 votes

• Movie7.1

  DramaHistory

  In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.

  The Scarlet Letter

  1927 · 33 votes

• Movie7.2

  ComedyDrama

  A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.

  Devotion

  1931 · 5 votes

• Movie10.0

  Comedy

  One Woman to Another (1927)

  One Woman to Another

  1927 · 1 votes

• Movie6.0

  RomanceDrama

  A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.

  Children of Divorce

  1927 · 23 votes

• Movie5.5

  DramaRomance

  While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.

  Captured!

  1933 · 11 votes

• Movie7.5

  RomanceDrama

  Princess Emmanuella agrees to wed the Duke of a neighboring kingdom in order to keep peace between their two countries. However, when the Duke's handsome brother arrives to escort her to her new husband, she finds herself attracted to him, and even moreso when she discovers that her future husband, whom she has never met, is ugly, brutish, and deformed.

  Drums of Love

  1928 · 2 votes

• Movie5.0

  DramaAction

  Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut costs by putting his buildings in danger of fire.

  The Fire Brigade

  1926 · 3 votes

• Movie6.7

  CrimeDrama

  A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.

  Woman Unafraid

  1934 · 3 votes

• Movie8.0

  DramaRomance

  Story about a little boy and girl that meet in a beautiful garden and the little girl promises the boy that some day she would meet him there again. He goes off to study the violin in Italy and when he returns he finds the girl in the garden.

  The Magic Garden

  1927 · 1 votes

• Movie10.0

  Drama

  When architect Lee Ellis is discharged from his position in a large firm and has difficulty in finding a new job his devoted wife Mary invests in a business for him with a small legacy she had received. Soon they become prosperous allowing son Jerry to get his longed-for car, and daughter Betty to attend private school. Jerry goes a little jazz mad and rebels against his mother's influence. He decides to elope with gold-digging flapper Edna Larkin. Mary, learning of the plan, chases and saves Jerry when his train is wrecked though he sustains a broken leg. Seeing he has been foolish he straightens out and the family is reunited.

  Mother

  1927 · 1 votes

• Movie6.0

  Comedy

  Mickey overhears the gang rehearsing a play and thinks it's real.

  Blood and Thunder

  1931 · 2 votes