Videoteca

location_onNew York City, New YorkpublicUS

20,000 Men a Year 1939 star_border 5.5
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.

Hotel for Women 1939 star_border 6
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 star_border 7.2
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.

Cowboy from Brooklyn 1938 star_border 4
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

Call It a Day 1937 star_border 5
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.

The Story of Louis Pasteur 1936 star_border 6.9
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.

Ceiling Zero 1936 star_border 5.6
War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas.

Captain Blood 1935 star_border 7.2
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Shipmates Forever 1935 star_border 6.5
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.

Special Agent 1935 star_border 6.3
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify

The Thin Man 1934 star_border 7.5
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Manhattan Melodrama 1934 star_border 7
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Penthouse 1933 star_border 6.7
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.

Looking Forward 1933 star_border 6.2
Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.

The Mask of Fu Manchu 1932 star_border 5.5
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.

Blondie of the Follies 1932 star_border 6
New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.

Skyscraper Souls 1932 star_border 5.6
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.

When a Feller Needs a Friend 1932 star_border 2
A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.

The Secret Six 1931 star_border 5.8
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.

It's a Wise Child 1931
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.

Show more expand_more