Juarez (1939) Trailer

Juarez

A Mighty King . . . A Proud Queen ! . . . pitted against a humble man who had the courage to defy the throne ! 

Juarez is a 1939 American historical drama film directed by William Dieterle. 

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Louis Napoleon III takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximillian Hapsburg to add Mexico to his empire of Mexico.

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) Trailer

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is an American biographical musical comedy, released in 1939 and directed by H.C. Potter.

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In 1911, Vernon Castle, minor comic in a stage revue, pursues the leading lady to a New Jersey beach...where, instead, he meets stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they're married; at Irene's insistence, they abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career, which attempt only lands them in Paris without a sou. Fortunately, agent Maggie Sutton hears them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. But at the height of their fame, World War I begins...

Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) Trailer

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

Darryl F. Zanuck's Entertainment gem will take its place in the Hall of Fame !

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell is a somewhat fictionalized 1939 biographical

 film of the famous inventor.

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Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) Insert

The Adventures of Marco Polo

The Adventures of Marco Polo is a 1938 drama-adventure genre film, and one of the most elaborate and costly of Samuel Goldwyn's productions.

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Come along on a fantastic journey to the first European to visit China! 

The Minus Man (1999) Trailer

The Minus Man

When he's around nothing adds up

The Minus Man is a 1999 film based on the novel by Lew McCreary. 

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The movie centers on a serial killer, Vann (Owen Wilson), who picks victims who seem to be unhappy with their lives, the first example being a drug addict with asthma (Sheryl Crow, in her first film appearance). Vann settles into a small seaside town with a job delivering mail, looking for his next victim while living with a married couple (Brian Cox and Mercedes Ruehl). He is pursued by a woman in town (Janeane Garofalo) and tormented by hallucinations of being pursued by a pair of detectives (Dwight Yoakam and Dennis Haysbert).

Ex Machina (2015) Trailer

Ex Machina

Ex Machina is an upcoming science fiction thriller, written and directed by Alex Garland, marking Garland's directorial debut, and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander.

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To erase the line between man and machine is to obscure the line between men and gods.

The Ace of Hearts (1921)

The Ace of Hearts

The Ace of Hearts is a 1921 film produced and directed by Wallace Worsley.

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A romantic rivalry among members of a secret society becomes even tenser when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination.