Max Linder

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• Movie8.1

  DramaRomance

  In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

  Casablanca

  1943 · 6.2K votes

• Movie7.5

  RomanceDrama

  A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

  Gilda

  1946 · 678 votes

• Movie7.2

  DramaThriller

  A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.

  Nightmare Alley

  1947 · 243 votes

• Movie7.0

  ComedyFantasy

  Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?

  Here Comes Mr. Jordan

  1941 · 126 votes

• Movie7.0

  ComedyRomance

  Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

  My Favorite Wife

  1940 · 176 votes

• Movie7.2

  ComedyRomance

  A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

  Mr. Lucky

  1943 · 50 votes

• Movie6.6

  DramaRomance

  A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.

  Kitty Foyle

  1940 · 56 votes

• Movie6.0

  Drama

  Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.

  Born to Be Bad

  1950 · 42 votes

• Movie6.9

  DramaThriller

  On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.

  Watch on the Rhine

  1943 · 56 votes

• Movie6.3

  DramaCrime

  A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

  The Locket

  1946 · 47 votes

• Movie6.3

  DramaRomance

  A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.

  The Conspirators

  1944 · 16 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaRomance

  After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.

  Deception

  1946 · 50 votes

• Movie5.9

  MysteryCrime

  When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.

  Backfire

  1950 · 32 votes

• Movie6.1

  DramaRomance

  A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.

  My Dear Secretary

  1948 · 26 votes

• Movie7.8

  RomanceComedy

  A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

  It Had to Be You

  1947 · 4 votes

• Movie7.0

  DramaRomance

  A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

  Humoresque

  1947 · 74 votes

• Movie6.7

  Comedy

  In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

  The Naughty Nineties

  1945 · 32 votes

• Movie5.7

  RomanceComedy

  Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

  The Ghost Comes Home

  1940 · 3 votes

• Movie7.2

  ComedyRomance

  Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.

  Fun on a Weekend

  1947 · 5 votes

• Movie5.1

  Comedy

  Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

  Second Fiddle

  1939 · 8 votes

• Movie6.9

  DramaThriller

  After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

  Possessed

  1947 · 88 votes

• Movie6.3

  Crime

  When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.

  Blondes at Work

  1938 · 10 votes