1937 Movies

Folk comedy with Osvald Helmuth in a brilliant role as the butcher Mortensen, who wins a fortune at the roulette table and engages a baron to train hi...

During the Russian Civil War, orphan Fyodor (Fedka) Trofimov, whose father was killed by Whites, is adopted by a Red cavalry unit.

Scenes from the daily life of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva—the cangaceiro leader Lampião—and his group, captured by cinematographer Benjamin Abrahão. T...

Norman McLaren's documentary-style account of how a letter from home reaches a sailor on duty in foreign waters.

Young Hiroko’s conservative principles place her at odds with most modern women, as she has already submitted to her mother’s choice of man for any ma...

A small town official in pre Weimar Germany stands in opposition to any progress in his area, but is challenged when a stage impresario who looks just...

Semyon Primak, in the direction of the regional committee, arrives in one of the small towns of Donbas and immediately enters into battle with the chi...

The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized depi...

Based on the 'Arabian Nights', this film tells of the Baghdadi woodcutter Alibaba (M. Bose) and his magic 'Open Sesame' formula; of the hero's jealous...

Maler Pratt, an artist, refuses to sell his paintings as he thinks that they still need improvement before being publicly exhibited, but his wife Moni...

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

A dentist moves the drilling chair into a nightclub, treating his patient's pain with heavy doses of vaudeville acts.

Meany, Miny & Moe goes golfing.

The film "Das geht jeden an" focuses on the cultural riches of the Westphalia region. In addition to towns and landscapes, the film shows well-known l...

An orphan, Josefa, runs away from her threatening uncle with whom she is living, and stows away on traveller Fændrik's boat. She is no better off with...

Cattlemen's Protective Association agent Tom Wade masquerades as outlaw Luke Bardes, hired to help Jed Travis persuade his niece Jennifer to sell him...

South Africa has a long history of colonialism by among others the Portuguese, French, Dutch and British. This travelogue begins in Cape Town, one of...

Meany, Miny, and Moe attempt to run a country store. When a telephone order comes in, hijinks ensue.

Considering Germany's own treatment of Poland in 1939, it is ironic in the extreme that the 1938 German film Um Freiheit und Liebe (For Freedom and Lo...