Search results for "Frank Capra"
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike

Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike

Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
IMDb: 7
42

The second film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and the…

Genre: Documentary, War
Pocketful of Miracles

Pocketful of Miracles

Pocketful of Miracles
IMDb: 7.1
136

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.

Genre: Comedy
A Hole in the Head

A Hole in the Head

A Hole in the Head
IMDb: 6.2
120

An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.

Genre: Comedy
Here Comes the Groom

Here Comes the Groom

Here Comes the Groom
IMDb: 6.3
113

Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he’ll lose the orphans he adopted.

Genre: Comedy, Music
State of the Union

State of the Union

State of the Union
IMDb: 7.2
124

An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.

Genre: Comedy
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
IMDb: 7.1
83

The fifth film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World…

Genre: Documentary, War
Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace
IMDb: 7.9
118

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Prelude to War

Prelude to War

Prelude to War
IMDb: 7
53

Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American…

Genre: Documentary, War
Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe
IMDb: 7.6
122

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire…

Genre: Comedy
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
IMDb: 8.1
129

Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to…

Genre: Comedy
You Can’t Take It with You

You Can’t Take It with You

You Can’t Take It with You
IMDb: 7.8
126

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match….

Genre: Comedy
Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon
IMDb: 7.6
132

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by…

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
IMDb: 7.8
115

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where…

Genre: Comedy
It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night
IMDb: 8.1
105

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other…

Genre: Comedy
Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day
IMDb: 7.4
96

Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York’s high society. Upon…

Genre: Comedy
The Bitter Tea of General Yen

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

The Bitter Tea of General Yen
IMDb: 6.9
88

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

Genre: Uncategorized
Forbidden

Forbidden

Forbidden
IMDb: 6.9
85

On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a…

Genre: Uncategorized
American Madness

American Madness

American Madness
IMDb: 7.4
76

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson’s wife…

Genre: Crime
Platinum Blonde

Platinum Blonde

Platinum Blonde
IMDb: 6.8
89

Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for…

Genre: Comedy
The Miracle Woman

The Miracle Woman

The Miracle Woman
IMDb: 7.2
90

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator…

Genre: Uncategorized
Ladies of Leisure

Ladies of Leisure

Ladies of Leisure
IMDb: 6.7
100

Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family…

Genre: Uncategorized