James McNamara

Movies14

• Movie7.2

  Drama

  A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

  The Aviator

  2004 · 6K votes

• Movie6.0

  FantasyAdventure

  Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard. Along the way, the rebellious and mischievous boy discovers his true destiny, becoming the hero forever known as Peter Pan.

  Pan

  2015 · 2.9K votes

• Movie7.8

  ComedyDrama

  After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.

  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

  1939 · 1.2K votes

• Movie7.3

  DramaFamily

  The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

  The Pride of the Yankees

  1942 · 148 votes

• Movie6.1

  ComedyDrama

  A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

  Made for Each Other

  1939 · 57 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaWestern

  One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

  Union Pacific

  1939 · 82 votes

• Movie6.6

  CrimeRomance

  Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

  You and Me

  1938 · 46 votes

• Movie5.6

  MusicDrama

  Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.

  The Ice Follies of 1939

  1939 · 12 votes

• Movie5.8

  Comedy

  A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

  Blonde Inspiration

  1941 · 7 votes

• Movie6.4

  AdventureHistory

  When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.

  Stanley and Livingstone

  1939 · 24 votes

• Movie4.8

  WarDrama

  Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.

  Confirm or Deny

  1941 · 3 votes

• Movie6.5

  Drama

  An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.

  Forty Little Mothers

  1940 · 6 votes

• Movie5.1

  CrimeDrama

  A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.

  Buried Alive

  1939 · 7 votes

• Movie9.0

  Mystery

  Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced that Brod is the notorious art thief known as "The Wildcat," Ann follows him into the street and accuses him of being the thief. Even though the police attest that Brod is a New York City police detective, Ann remains dubious.

  Meet the Wildcat

  1940 · 1 votes