Drama Movies

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.

The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing…

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

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

An American lawyer’s wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son’s education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.

Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

Film version of Shakespeare’s comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their…

A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.

It’s the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O’Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O’Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment…

Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard.

An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

When a busybody teacher in a girls’ finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.

God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah’s Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it…

The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter’s Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.

A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife’s first husband is still alive.

A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.

The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to…

Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and production methods. ‘I predict that the gramophone…

After saving himself from hanging, Laramie Nelson saves Tracks Williams from the same fate. They then travel to Lindsay’s ranch where they get jobs. There they run into Adams who…

After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a…

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale’s heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the…

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly…

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father’s debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.

A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns…

The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland, a powerful story of love and conflicting loyalties set against the battle for Ireland’s independence.

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting…

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt…

A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where…

At the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as…