1938 Movies

Pictures of Mårbacka and Uppsala. Episodes from films based on Selma Lagerlöf's books. The author herself reads from one of her books.

A fatherless boy's mother passes him from one aunt to another.

An interesting look into 1931, a year of unemployment and misery in the forests of Norway. The movie is important as both film history and social port...

An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth throug...

Experiences during a voyage with a KDF-steamer (Kraft Durch Freude = Power Through Joy, a nazi campaign that allowed working class people to make affo...

Péter Ilosvay and Lina Vásárhelyi are wife and husband, but don't come along with each other. After the divorce they go on living under the same roof...

The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

The film is about the heroic feat of the Kronstadt sailors, defending against the approaches of the revolutionaries from Petrograd during the Russian...

Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering...

La Venus D'Or (Golden Venus) was based on Business, a play by Pierre Sabatier. Mirielle Balin stars as Judith, the mistress of ruthless oil magnate Ha...

Porky tries to feed his chickens, but some ducks steal the corn he puts out, then declare war. The battle rages, with the ducks against the chickens,...

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who wil...

Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.

A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his Jesus freak and very Christian wife dislikes, by...

A man named Kulasekaran comes to Vanarajapuram forest with his wife and little son Karzan to find the secret of Amirdharasam (elixir of life) after fi...

A scammed man is involved in a robbery by mistake, so he goes behind the thugs and thus cleanses his honor.

Propagandistic animation short about the boy chasing the Japanese soldiers trying to break through the Soviet border.

Not by any means a truly comprehensive scientific study, this film nevertheless conveys in a popular fashion facts as to the development and habits of...

A young actress intends to win over a man who, after Don Juan's fame, had isolated himself in a ranch, for which she disguises herself as a man and be...