Drama Movies

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager’s daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.

A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.

Agnes “Astra” Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks…

The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to…

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…

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a…

A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.

A nature photographer and his guide meet a corrupt emir with a dirty secret. Only jungle-dwelling Bomba knows the truth.

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads…

A young doctor taking a break from work is shot in the head, and the police can’t find a clue even as to a possible motive. Inspector Al Gordon (John…

Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she’s pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try…

During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.

While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in…

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he…

A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.

A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka, from which voluptuous, bedroom-eyed saloon singer Coral is about to be ejected because “men like her too much.”…

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.

Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he’s paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran’s hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his…

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera…

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants…

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to…

A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

When ship’s fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence…

A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the American settlers and Apaches in the late 1870s Arizona. He learns that the Indians kill only to…

Director Peter Godfrey’s 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as “The Hollywood Raffles”, whose famous robbery victims included such real-life…

A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as…

An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he’s forced to operate on a South American dictator.

A police detective’s violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

In flashback from a ‘Rebecca’-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff,…

A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australians. The two groups clash.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband’s illness.

The Next Voice You Hear… (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world….