Yola d'Avril
Actor · 1907 – 1984 · Lille, France
Yola d'Avril grew up in Paris. In 1923 she moved to Canada and became a dancer. She then went to Hollywood and, from 1925, started being cast in small roles, ultimately appearing in more than seventy films.
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Movie7.9DramaWarThe spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Gone with the Wind
1939 · 4.5K votes
Movie7.8DramaWarWhen a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930 · 977 votes
Movie7.2AdventureDr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Captain Blood
1935 · 283 votes
Movie6.8ThrillerMysteryLeona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948 · 218 votes
Movie6.6ActionAdventureHarry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
Tarzan and His Mate
1934 · 157 votes
Movie7.4RomanceDramaA woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Now, Voyager
1942 · 241 votes
Movie4.6AdventureRomanceA group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
Green Hell
1940 · 14 votes
Movie6.0DramaComedySome dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
The Lady Has Plans
1942 · 6 votes
Movie6.0ActionDramaAugust 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To keep up the momentum, Allied HQ establishes an elite military truck route.
The Red Ball Express
1952 · 22 votes
Movie6.0ComedyRomanceA cross-dressing farce, adapted from "Madame Lucy" by Jean Arlette, in which to help a friend in a lawsuit, Jack Mitchell disguises himself as the mysterious "Madame Brown," a missing witness important to the case of the plaintiff. He attracts the romantic attention of two old roués and one hot Broadway showgirl.
Madame Behave
1925 · 2 votes
Movie6.5DramaThrillerItalian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
Cloak and Dagger
1946 · 74 votes
Movie4.7CrimeComedyAfter graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a gang of jewel smugglers.
Strange Innertube
1932 · 3 votes
Movie6.5DramaCrimePosing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
I Was an Adventuress
1940 · 10 votes
Movie6.7ActionAdventureA Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.
The Hurricane
1937 · 60 votes
Movie6.1ComedyRomanceKay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.
I Met Him in Paris
1937 · 8 votes
Movie10.0DramaHaving spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict Badlands McKinney also wants to clean up his act.
Shanghai Lady
1929 · 1 votes
Movie6.6ComedyRomanceThe queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying
The Love Parade
1929 · 51 votes
Movie8.0DramaA war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.
Little Boy Lost
1953 · 4 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceAn ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
Beauty and the Boss
1932 · 9 votes
Movie8.0During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn.
A Hollywood Theme Song
1930 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceBryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
The Valley of the Giants
1927 · 1 votes
Movie5.2WarDramaA woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.
The Man from Yesterday
1932 · 5 votes
Movie9.0DramaIn this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
Straight from the Heart
1935 · 1 votes
Movie5.7ComedyRomanceA bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
Monsieur Beaucaire
1946 · 11 votes