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A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.

시간이 지나도 오지 않는 남편에게 전화를 걸려 던 레오나는 우연히 오늘 밤 11시 15 분에 살인을 계획하는 통화를 엿듣게 되는데 단서가 모호하다는 이유로 경찰 엔 사건 접수조차 되질 않고 아빠 역시 심장이 안좋은 딸아이의 투정 정도로 대수롭지 않게 생각할 뿐이다. 제약 회사를 운영하는 아버지로부터 아낌없는 사랑을 받고 자란 레오나 애인이있는 헨리를보고 한눈에 반한 레오나는 자신의 우월한 조건을 이용해 헨리와 결혼을 하지만 장인의 꼭두각시 놀음을 벗어나고 싶어하는 헨리와 다툼이 잦아지면서 신경 쇠약 증상이 점점 심해져 간다. 장인의 그늘에서 벗어나고 싶어했던 자신을 이용해 레오나를 죽이려는 악당들의 음모를 뒤늦게 알게 된 헨리는 침대에서 일어나 창문으로 다가가 도와달라고 소리치라고 다급하게 전화기에 대고 외친다.

Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.

샬롯은 보스턴의 상류집안 출신이지만, 폭군 같은 어머니에게 시달리느라 자존감이 바닥에 떨어진 상태다. 정신과 의사인 재퀴드 덕분에 요양병원으로 피신한 이후, 그녀는 서서히 자신감을 회복하고 독립적인 여성으로 거듭난다.

A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.

Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...

A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.

옛 전통과 관습에 묻혀 살아가는 미국 남부. 그러나 북부가 노예 제도를 폐지하고 이를 남부에도 강요하자 두 지역은 남북전쟁이란 소용돌이에 휘말린다. 아름다운 미모와 당당한 성격으로 마을 청년들의 선망의 대상이 되던 스칼렛 오하라는 애슐리 윌크스를 사랑하고 있었다. 그러나 그녀가 사랑하는 애슐리는 멜라니와 결혼을 해버리고 화가 난 스칼렛은 자신의 여동생이 좋아하는 멜라니의 남동생 찰스와 결혼을 한다. 얼마 후 애슐리와 찰스는 입대를 하게 되고, 결국 찰스는 전사하고 마는데...

남태평양에 위치한 마나쿠라 섬. 이곳엔 순진하고 자유를 사랑하는 원주민들이 평화롭게 살아간다. 그러나 마나쿠라를 통치하는 프랑스의 총독 드라지는 이런 원주민들의 삶을 이해하지 못하고 정의와 의무, 법과 질서만을 강조한다. 마라마와 테랑기는 이곳 원주민으로 서로 사랑하는 사이다. 두 사람은 섬주민들이 축복해 주는 가운데 결혼식을 올리고 행복한 신혼의 단꿈에 젖어 있었다. 그러던 어느날, 테랑기는 타히티로 일을 나갔다가 그만 백인을 때려 6개월 형을 선고받게 된다. 함께 타이티로 항해를 떠났던 네이글 선장은 타히티의 총독에게 테랑기를 석방해 줄 것을 간청하지만 총독은 강경하게 이를 거절하는데...

Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.

17세기 영국, 제임스 왕의 폭정에 반란이 일어난다. 모든 시민이 대항하지만 의사인 블러드는 겁쟁이라는 주변의 질타에도 나름의 신념을 굳게 믿으며 동참하지 않는다. 그러다 블러드에게 심한 부상을 당한 반란군이 찾아오고 그를 치료해주다 투옥되어 결국 노예로 팔려가는 신세가 된다. 이 사건을 통해 그는 현실을 바꾸고자 결심하고 권력자 비숍 대령과 맞서지만 실패하고 악명 높은 탄광으로 팔려나갈 찰라에 비숍의 조카 애나벨라가 그를 사겠다고 나서는데...

Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.

A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.

Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...

Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is deported. While Myra's ship is docked at Duala, in German West Africa, the war breaks out and she finds herself facing internment by the Germans.

The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to see who he will sleep with at night. His adversary is a young Parisian artist (the next Picasso), Victor. Victor believes in love and he's going to marry his girlfriend Claudette as soon as he sells his first painting. The Baron seduces Claudette, seemingly to teach Victor a lesson. However, as might be predicted, he soon falls in love with Claudette himself.

After graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a gang of jewel smugglers.

A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump.

An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.

Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.

Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet Nikki, an eccentric and wealthy young woman. Nikki is drawn to Cary, and the five friends, tagged by the boorish reporter, Frink, drink their way from Paris to Lisbon.

When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?

A playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a young British socialite. Comedy.

최면사인 스벵가리는 여성들에게 최면을 걸어 자기가 시키는대로 행동하게 하며 범죄를 저지르게 한다.

A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.

Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his heirs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.

During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn.

A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.

Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usurps his corner and a power struggle ensues between Tobey and the circus's beautiful ballet star, Mimi. Intent on ruining the circus's chances at success, Tobey sabotages their performances. But after a tragedy befalls Mimi, Tobey has a dramatic change of heart and views Mimi in a completely new way.

An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.

Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in love with struggling actress Mary Mason (Miriam Seeger). To prove his love, he hires Mary and the entire company of the show in which she is appearing to entertain his weekend guests at his lavish mansion.

In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.

1차 대전이 진행되고 있을 무렵, 폴과 알버트, 프란츠, 뮬러, 벤은 전쟁에 참전해 조국을 구하라는 한 교수의 연설에 감동을 받아 혹독한 훈련을 마친 후 전선으로 향한다. 하지만 전선에 배치되자마자 벤은 전사하고, 프란츠는 부상으로 다리를 절단하게 된다. 정신을 차린 후, 평생 불구로 살아야한다는 사실에 이성을 잃고 날뛰던 프란츠도 병원에서 사망한다. 한편, 뮬러는 프란츠가 아끼던 군화를 받게 되자 아주 기뻐하지만 그 역시 전사한다. 결국 폴은 전쟁터에서 전쟁의 참상에 대해 서서히 깨닫기 시작하는데...

1930년 시점에 선구적인 컬러 영화일 뿐만 아니라 영화적 표현도 혁신적이다. 무성영화와 흑백 영화, 그리고 영화 이전에영화의 역할을 하던 극에 대한 전통이 녹아들어 시대를 넘는 쿨함으로 탄생하다. 20세기 초반에도 예상 외로 컬러 영화가 꽤 많이 나왔지만 폴 화이트먼의 오케스트라의 비주얼한 퍼포먼스를 엮은 이 영화는 공황 직전 거슈윈의 음악으로 흐르는 낙관적인 태도와 모든 문화의 mix로서 미국이 중심이 되고있다는 자신감으로 가득차 있다.

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

A romantic adventure musical film directed by Raoul Walsh....The film is believed to be lost.

Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict Badlands McKinney also wants to clean up his act.

A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.

Anna runs away from her wealthy father's ranch and becomes a trick rider in a circus to be with her sweetheart, Cal Coney, a circus cowboy, when her father disapproves the match. There she achieves fame as "Anna Montana," but she remains unhappy because Cal refuses to admit that he loves her. Meanwhile, Rawl Souvane, manager of the circus, plans to woo and marry Anna when he preceives that she is wealthy.

A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head.

Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.

Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.

American Beauty (1927)

A hot young salesman at a cosmetics company finds out that, because the company is losing a lot of money, he may soon be out of a job.

After bringing down yet another German pilot and escaping uninjured from his burning aircraft, Haggerty (Milton Sills) and his buddy, aircraft machinist Klaxon (Arthur Stone), head for Paris, albeit without an official leave of absence. In escaping from M.P.'s, Haggerty takes refuge in a room occupied by Germaine Benoit (Molly O'Day). Love soon springs up, and Haggerty decides to reform, returning to Major Cotton (Mitchell Lewis) with this resolution. He is unprepared, however, to be awarded a medal for his actions as a fighter pilot. - From Wikipedia

This romantic drama was released in 1927.