Arthur Belasco
Actor
Movies24
Movie7.5ComedyMysteryFormer detective Nick Charles has retired from police work, preferring a life of cocktails, parties, and relaxation with his wealthy wife, Nora. Their holiday is interrupted when the daughter of Nick’s former client asks for help finding her missing father, eccentric inventor Clyde Wynant. When Wynant’s body is discovered, Nick is drawn back into the investigation, with Nora eagerly joining him. As the couple questions Wynant’s family, friends, and business associates, a tangled web of greed, deception, and murder begins to unravel.
The Thin Man
1934 · 556 votes
Movie6.8HistoryDramaIn flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Edison, the Man
1940 · 27 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMagazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940 · 13 votes
Movie6.3DramaRomanceA man violates company policy by getting married.
We Who Are Young
1940 · 6 votes
Movie5.5MusicRomanceIn order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Naughty Marietta
1935 · 24 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceOn return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
I Take This Woman
1940 · 10 votes
Movie5.7ComedyFamilyJudge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1940 · 12 votes
Movie5.7MysteryThrillerIn Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Fingers at the Window
1942 · 18 votes
Movie6.6RomanceComedyMembers of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
The Affairs of Martha
1942 · 7 votes
Movie6.9CrimeDramaGertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
Penthouse
1933 · 21 votes
Movie5.9DramaInventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
Young Tom Edison
1940 · 11 votes
Movie6.5CrimeDramaThe coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
The Story of Temple Drake
1933 · 41 votes
Movie6.0ComedyRomanceSmall-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Slightly Dangerous
1943 · 8 votes
Movie6.2CrimeDramaA charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Johnny Eager
1941 · 51 votes
Movie6.6CrimeDramaHumble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Nazi Agent
1942 · 13 votes
Movie6.2ComedyDramaA young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937 · 6 votes
Movie6.1ActionDramaA tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Thunder Afloat
1939 · 6 votes
Movie7.5ComedyDramaRogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
David Harum
1934 · 2 votes
Movie7.5RomanceWesternAn unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Jackass Mail
1942 · 2 votes
Movie7.1DramaCrimeA sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
The Defense Rests
1934 · 10 votes
Movie7.5CrimeDramaA dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Sergeant Madden
1939 · 2 votes
Movie6.9RomanceAdventureA revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
New Moon
1940 · 8 votes
Movie6.8ComedyRomanceStreet-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Swing Shift Maisie
1943 · 5 votes
Movie8.0MysteryActionInspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
Girl in Danger
1934 · 2 votes