1936 Movies

Modern Times

Directed by: Charles Chaplin

Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford

Country: United States of America

Outline: The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

Libeled Lady

Directed by: Jack Conway

Starring: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy

Country: United States of America

Outline: A newspaper man, his ignored fiancée, and his former employee, a down on his luck reporter, hatch an elaborate scheme to turn a false news story into the truth in order to prevent a high-society woman from suing for libel.

Swing Time

Directed by: George Stevens

Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick

Country: United States of America

Outline: A performer and gambler travels to New York City to raise the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiancée, only to become entangled with a beautiful aspiring dancer.

After the Thin Man

Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke

Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi

Country: United States of America

Outline: Nick investigates the case of a missing man and later a murder that is connected to Nora's family.

San Francisco

Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke

Starring: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt

Country: United States of America

Outline: A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally in 1906 San Francisco.

The Plainsman

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford

Country: United States of America

Outline: Wild Bill Hickok attempts to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.

The Great Ziegfeld

Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard

Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan

Country: United States of America

Outline: The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.

My Man Godfrey

Directed by: Gregory La Cava

Starring: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick

Country: United States of America

Outline: A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler...but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.

Dodsworth

Directed by: William Wyler

Starring: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor

Country: United States of America

Outline: A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Directed by: Frank Capra

Starring: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander

Country: United States of America

Outline: Longfellow Deeds, a simple-hearted Vermont tuba player, inherits a fortune and has to contend with opportunist city slickers.

Fury

Directed by: Fritz Lang

Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot

Country: United States of America

Outline: When a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.

Cain and Mabel

Directed by: Lloyd Bacon

Starring: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins, Roscoe Karns

Outline: A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.

Let's Go with Pancho Villa

Directed by: Fernando de Fuentes

Starring: Antonio R. Frausto, Domingo Soler, Manuel Tamés, Ramón Vallarino

Outline: The Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by ...

The Petrified Forest

Directed by: Archie Mayo

Starring: Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin

Country: United States of America

Outline: A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.

These Three

Directed by: William Wyler

Starring: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two school teachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.

Show Boat

Directed by: James Whale

Starring: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson

Country: United States of America

Outline: Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Charlie Chan at the Opera

Directed by: H. Bruce Humberstone

Starring: Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke, Charlotte Henry

Outline: A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.

Camille

Directed by: George Cukor

Starring: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan

Country: United States of America

Outline: A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.

Our Relations

Directed by: Harry Lachman

Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Alan Hale, Sidney Toler

Outline: Two pairs of long-lost twin brothers experience high jinks involving a valuable ring, cases of mistaken identity, and gangsters.

The Story of Louis Pasteur

Directed by: William Dieterle

Starring: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise, Donald Woods

Outline: The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Directed by: John Cromwell

Starring: Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith, Guy Kibbee

Country: United States of America

Outline: An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.

Everyman's Law

Directed by: Albert Ray

Starring: Johnny Mack Brown, Beth Marion, Frank Campeau, Roger Gray

Outline: Jim Morgan, in cahoots with the Sheriff, hires three wanted gunmen Dog Town Kid, Gibbs, and Pike and makes them Deputies. He wants them to kick the homesteaders off their land. The Kid then...

Theodora Goes Wild

Directed by: Richard Boleslawski

Starring: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall

Outline: The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who'd be scandalized if they knew.