Search Results For : frank capra

Lady for a Day (1933

Lady for a Day (1933)

IMDb: 7.5
1933

A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day

The Nazis Strike (19

The Nazis Strike (1943)

IMDb: 7.0
1943

The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war

Its a Wonderful Life

Its a Wonderful Life (1946)

IMDb: 8.7
0

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed

Mr. Deeds Goes to To

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

IMDb: 8.0
1936

A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him

The Battle of Russia

The Battle of Russia (1943)

IMDb: 7.3
1943

Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War

Mr. Smith Goes to Wa

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

IMDb: 8.2
1939

A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U S Senate His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his c

Tunisian Victory (19

Tunisian Victory (1944)

IMDb: 6.6
1944

Documentary made by the U S Army Signal Corps

The Miracle Woman (1

The Miracle Woman (1931)

IMDb: 7.2
1931

Lost Horizon (1937)

Lost Horizon (1937)

IMDb: 7.8
1937

When a revered diplomats plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay

American Madness (19

American Madness (1932)

IMDb: 7.4
1932

Socially conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protege is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dicksons wife had an affair all during the same day

Riding High (1950)

Riding High (1950)

IMDb: 6.2
1950

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race

Meet John Doe (1941)

Meet John Doe (1941)

IMDb: 7.6
1941

A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non existent person who said hed be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins

It Happened One Nigh

It Happened One Night (1934)

IMDb: 8.1
1934

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way

State of the Union (

State of the Union (1948)

IMDb: 7.4
1948

An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels

A Hole in the Head (

A Hole in the Head (1959)

IMDb: 6.3
1959

Widower Tony is trying to keep a small Miami hotel afloat while raising a 12 year old son Hes forced to ask his harried brother Mario for help, but hell only bail Tony out if he quits his bohemian lifestyle and marries a sensib

Your Job in Germany

Your Job in Germany (1945)

IMDb: 5.1
1945

N/A

Ladies of Leisure (1

Ladies of Leisure (1930)

IMDb: 6.8
1930

An upper crust artist hires a party girl as a model romance follows

Prelude to War (1942

Prelude to War (1942)

IMDb: 7.1
1942

The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought

Platinum Blonde (193

Platinum Blonde (1931)

IMDb: 6.9
1931

A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change

The Great Buster (20

The Great Buster (2018)

IMDb: 7.5
2018

Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton, directed by Peter Bogdanovich

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

IMDb: 8.1
0

Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd

The Bitter Tea of Ge

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)

IMDb: 7.1
1932

A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love

You Cant Take It wit

You Cant Take It with You (1938)

IMDb: 8.0
1938

The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development

Forbidden (1932)

Forbidden (1932)

IMDb: 7.0
1932

A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid