Nanda, a money lender's son, falls for farmer's daughter Rupa. His father arranges his marriage to Radha for a dowry. Rupa sacrifices her love and blesses Nanda's marriage to Radha.
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Nanda, a money lender's son, falls for farmer's daughter Rupa. His father arranges his marriage to Radha for a dowry. Rupa sacrifices her love and blesses Nanda's marriage to Radha.
Film about Ghost-Cat.
Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the World's Fair, which looks ahead to the "wonder world of 1960."
A timid pig tries to go swimming at the beach, but somehow he keeps getting tangled up with Sourpuss's fishing line.
Krazy, voiced as a burlesque comic, is called in by a housewife who looks like Goofy in drag, to get rid of a mouse and the usual comic incidents ensue.
A depiction of the life of a pampered dog belonging to a rich family. It gets egg-shampoos and all sorts of other annoying indignities heaped upon its shoulders when it had rather be outside digging in the dirt. It gets loose and invites various kinds of gutter and mongrel dogs into the mansion.
A highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in Czech schools, about a wise, working-class woman, happier in her simplicity and good heart than the nobles whom she serves.
Little Cute Chickie Duck loves little lucky Dinky Duck but they have a quarrel, which leads their parents to have a quarrel, which leads to a big-duck brawl...careful, there...which leads to much ado about nothing as Chickie and Dinky have made up and gone flirting together.
A sailor who inherits a farm stirs up the local mountain villages until he finally earns respect as a good farmer and finds peace in marriage to a village girl. An old-fashioned folk comedy.
A day in the life of a 'typical' English family. Intended for African distribution.
The film tells several interconnected stories of Swiss people who fall in love with foreigners but struggle to maintain their relationships due to prejudice and social norms. The narrative culminates in a conciliatory scene in which the characters overcome their differences and recognize the importance of love across national borders.
Andy Panda, a pipe smoking turtle and a friendly electric eel are spending a fun afternoon together fishing. Their fun time is soon spoiled however by the intrusion of a tribe of panda hunters.
A professional thief Dhanji Bhagat uses his street-dancer daughter Raju as cover while working for wealthy schemer Keshav Seth. After Dhanji’s death, Raju’s life spirals into entanglements with Keshav’s shady dealings, a reckless suitor named Ramesh, and a series of misadventures that mix crime, betrayal, and misplaced romance. The story races through thefts, murders, and mistaken loyalties, ending with Ramesh marrying Raju after a turbulent journey of deceit and redemption.
Directed by Homi Wadia.
A 1940 film directed by Manuel R. Ojeda,
A young Norwegian woman lives in a remote fishing village Dreaming of life in the big city, she sends her photo to a beauty contest. She is appointed to represent Norway in a competition for the "Nordic Venus".
Czech-American professor Johny Novák takes over his father's inheritance. The estate reveals that Johny is the father of a girl who lives with her mother Helena Strnadová in Prague, where Johny had stayed eighteen years earlier. Johny's father did not approve of his love and so he withheld Helen's letters, but he sent money to Helen's aunt for the child. Johny intends to visit Helen and her daughter with his friend Jimmy Sládek and informs his aunt about it by telegraph...
A rebellious young woman defies her conservative surroundings and falls in love, setting off a sequence of emotional and social complications. Along the way, she crosses paths with an idealistic doctor suffering from consumption, whose romantic ideals blur the line between healing and heartache. With hints of a "taming the shrew" arc and melodramatic entanglements, Anuradha explores love, agency, and constraint—though much of its story remains lost to time.
The evil Chand (Motilal) and his rich father Mangaldas (Date) persecute the nice Sunder (Ishwarlal): he kidnaps Sunder's sister Kokila (Khursheed) and frames him for theft. Sunder is jailed. The abducted Kokila succumbs to the villain's charms and her love reforms him. When released, Sunder, unaware of the fact that his enemy has reformed, seeks revenge on the very day that Chand and Kokila are to marry.
A butterfly gets trapped by a spider, but a grasshopper comes to save her.
George and Katherine plan to marry but war breaks out. When he returns on two weeks leave, but has his marriage proposal put down by Katherine, George enters a relationship with another woman.
Prem Nagar is a small, happy and contented village somewhere in India. A tiny spark of anger flared up a misunderstanding, a quarrel, jealousy, and greed: So grew envy. This envy burst out into a flame and the flame nearly destroyed the whole village.
"One Tenth of Our Nation" is a 1940 documentary directed by Felix Greene that documents the historical and contemporary conditions of African Americans in the southern United States, with a particular focus on education. Produced for the General Education Board, the film contrasts poverty and limited opportunity with educational initiatives at secondary and collegiate levels, tracing Black life from the legacy of slavery and agricultural labor to modern training programs and institutions.
A young woman criticized by her family for her dissipated life embarks on a new path.
Spies Sneak, Snoop and Snitch try to sneak up on the king while he is sleeping in order to steal some riches.
David Bradley creates a faithfully suspenseful adaptation of a story by Saki which boasts an inadvertent post-modern attitude.
Because the shiner Titin has fallen in love with a singer, he braves the latter's protector, the baron, and passes himself off as an insurer in connection with a pearl necklace that is circulating. Bitters get involved, Titin kidnaps the beauty and leaves the pearls to the baron.
This Traveltalk series short visits Seattle and other areas in the state of Washington. Seattle was a small city until the 1897 gold rush. During World War I, it served as a major shipping center for lumber that was transported through the Panama Canal to East Coast shipbuilders. We also visit a Weyerhaeuser lumber camp located between Longview and Tacoma, and the city of Everett, where lumber is used in the burgeoning aircraft industry.
Papa Bear attempts to give the family's pet canary a bath. An MGM Bear Family cartoon.
Lightships (ships serving the functions of a lighthouse) have for centuries been treated as neutral during wartime, but a British lightship during World War II finds the Nazis don't respect the lightships' humanitarian purpose.
A small village provides a scene for intrigues, fights, love, jealousy, accusations, and revenge.
The birds in question are a group of young ladies who, for different reasons, leave the convent where they grew up in order to face "the struggle of life".
Documentary-filmed events in the Carpatho-Ukraine (aka Ruthenia) during 1939 drive this history of the Ukraine's struggle for independence as a nation.
In 1840, a caravan of carts headed from Buenos Aires to Córdoba carrying merchandise, ammunition and prisoners, against the background of the struggles between the Unitarians and the Federalists.
In this crime drama, a renowned eye surgeon goes mad and murders the lover of his wife. He is later given a life-sentence to be spent in a mental hospital. He thinks he truly is in for life, but then his assistant busts him out so he can save the eyesight of the prosecuting attorney (the assistant's father) who put him there. The operation is successful, but does not go without a hitch as the doctor again goes bananas for a time. Later his loyal assistant continues to try to get the doctor released.
During the "Winter War" between Finland and the USSR, Galya's father goes to the front and she's left behind to take care of grandma and the house. Despite toeing the party line, the film was still banned by censors for being insufficiently patriotic.
Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour.
The challenge of what to feed her family weighs on the mind of hard-pressed Mrs Bond in this surreal wartime film made for the Ministry of Food.
Shows home, work and school activities of a middleclass Japanese family.
Minarsih (Fatimah) is rescued from four thugs by the painter Basuki (Basoeki Resobowo). They fall in love and begin planning their life together. However, a rich man interested in taking Minarsih to be his wife sends a gang to kidnap her. Basuki is unable to repel them. The Laughing Mask (Oedjang) comes to the rescue. (Soerabaijasch Handelsblad 1940).
Bintara is a pirate captain who sails the Malaka strait. He robs ships and murders their crews. Two children survive one of the attacks. They are Rusna and Daud. 15 years later the two become teenagers and live in the woods. There they meet the courageous Panglima Ali. At that time, Bintara is still conducting his evil deeds. But his life is ended by Panglima Ali’s blade.
A radio host tries to give personal advice to his listeners. Only he is unable to take care of himself in life.
It's basically a series of visual gags that takes place on a greyhound race track with the racers chasing a mechanical rabbit attached to a gate (though the rabbit seems lifelike, at least for a cartoon).
Actors Liselotte Schaak and Erik Ode travel from Weimar to Karlsbad in an early version of the Volkswagen Beetle (KdF-Wagen der Nullserie).
In a quiet riverside village, rumors spread that a takian tree is haunted, and that its spirit has begun walking among the living as a beautiful but terrifying apparition. When the ghostly woman appears, everyday routines collapse into paranoia and slapstick panic, with villagers bolting through fields, hiding wherever they can, and turning on each other in their scramble to survive the night. A flickering, fragmentary glimpse of early Thai horror where comedy and dread share the same shadow.
A play on the theme of hearts. Two hearts cavort, change shape, shoot arrows at one another, give birth, and finally become one heart bearing the message "Will you be our Valentine?"
In this comedy set in Helsinki in 1940, laid-off office girls Sirkku, Irkku, and Mirkku forget their everyday worries in the company of cheerful musicians Vallen, Jalle, and Nalle.
Producer's synopsis: "This picture shows how professional models -- beautiful girls -- are used in making up magazine covers. A Chevrolet is shown on the magazine cover, emphasizing its beauty."
A 1940 film directed by José Bohr.
About how the boys of the Kabardian village help adults to raise fleet-footed horses.
Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.
Hilleborg always speaks negatively about her king's marriage to his left hand, Countess Danner. When it is rumored that King Frederik VII and Countess Danner are on their way to Hilleborg and her husband, Niels Parsberg's estate, Hilleborg refuses to be in the living room with the Countess. She switches roles with the housemaid, Lise Sørensen. Lise and Countess Danner quickly become good friends, while Hilleborg's situation worsens when the king decides to spend the night at the estate.
Suresh, a Hindu graduate, and Rafique, a Muslim mechanic, are close friends despite their different worlds. Suresh’s father refuses consent for his marriage to Rafique’s sister, but the bond between the two men survives. Later, unemployment drives them into hardship until they find work together, with Suresh managing Rafique’s business. Trouble brews when Rafique’s jealous brother-in-law sows suspicion, leading to quarrels and separation. Rafique, devoted to his young daughter, misjudges Suresh’s intentions, but a crisis ultimately reunites them, underscoring friendship, sacrifice, and Hindu-Muslim unity.