Drama Movies
Pygmalion (1939)
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months’ training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up…
Beauty for the Asking (1939)
Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. After sending it…
Wings of the Navy (1939)
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
One Third of a Nation (1939)
The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building’s residents.
Made for Each Other (1939)
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
Fisherman’s Wharf (1939)
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman’s life in San Francisco until Carlo’s widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph,…
The Outsider (1939)
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon – and falls in love with her in the process.
Idiot’s Delight (1939)
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Blackwell’s Island (1939)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
The Great Man Votes (1939)
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who…
Devil’s Island (1939)
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant’s daughter.
Stand Up and Fight (1939)
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Lying Lips (1939)
A nightclub singer refuses to “date” customers, so she’s framed for the murder of her aunt.
Kentucky (1938)
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while…
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled “crates” and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand…
A Christmas Carol (1938)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the…
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs…
Alexander Nevsky (1938)
When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his…
The Shining Hour (1938)
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
The Citadel (1938)
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of…
Suez (1938)
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it’s just the place for a canal.
Listen Darling (1938)
To stop Pinkie’s widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn’t love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family…
St. Martin’s Lane (1938)
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby,…
Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital’s top…
The Sisters (1938)
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
The Lady Objects (1938)
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off…
Career (1938)
Stablemates (1938)
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
Crashing Through Danger (1938)
Three electrical linemen work through the hazardous conditions of the Depression Era. Sparks fly, and things become truly dangerous, when Ann comes between this band of brothers. Things get worse,…
Boys Town (1938)
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded…
Sing You Sinners (1938)
Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only…
Marie Antoinette (1938)
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in…
I Am the Law (1938)
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
Four Daughters (1938)
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the…