Ricardo Cortez Movies

Julie Bronson, whose father operates a desert cafe, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost who runs a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Boris Karloff

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Sidney Toler

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hope Drown

In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then begins pampering her with jewels and furs. When...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Astor

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laraine Day

A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.

Genre: Action

Cast: William Marshall

Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Sterling

When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sidney Toler

Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his childhood sweetheart, Marie Dufrayne.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Peter Lorre

A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits...

Genre: History

Cast: Kay Francis

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Loretta Young

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Claudette Colbert

A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Adele Mara

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Dunne

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Carson

There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lon Chaney

A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Twelvetrees

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Farrell

A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Crawford

A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Loretta Young

A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Beery

A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Greta Garbo

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Al Jolson

Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Astor

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Twelvetrees

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Two Army buddies, Dennis O'Shane and Johnny Day, decide to take their furlough in Paris but instead end up in Spain.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hoot Gibson

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: James Cagney

A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mary Astor

Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

William C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille's talented director brother, teamed with his favorite collaborator, scenarist Clara Beranger, for the 7-reel...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: May McAvoy

A man is blamed for a murder that was actually committed by his wife.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Hersholt

In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she leaves her honest boyfriend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phyllis Brooks

William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

A gambler falls for a fake countess.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carole Lombard

American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.

Genre: War

Cast: Boris Karloff

In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jean Muir

Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. His first lead is the agent's fetching...

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Lundigan

When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

When old rancher Cordoba's grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Cesar Romero

A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Verree Teasdale

Explorers to the South Pole in an airship Zeppelin crash in the frozen Antarctic and must struggle for survival in the land of eternal snow and ice.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Conway Tearle

Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a...

Genre: Western

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gail Patrick

Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Blondell

Setting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, producer-director Alexander Korda steadfastly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lewis Stone

Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

In England, Don Pedro de Barrego meets Dolores Annesley, and he decides he must have her. Dolores, however, refuses to have anything to do with him....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Florence Vidor

The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Frances Howard

Kerry Harlan (La Rocque) is unable to work because he was injured in a battle with a shark, so his youthful wife Amy (Reynolds) becomes a fashion...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Vera Reynolds

Expressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louise Lagrange

In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when the husband loses their money to bookies.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James...

Genre: Western

Cast: Betty Compson

Excess Baggage is a lost 1928 American silent comedy film directed by James Cruze and distributed by MGM. The film was based on the play of the same...

Genre:

Cast: William Haines

A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner...

Genre:

Cast: Al Barabas

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hedda Hopper

A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ross Alexander

A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: William Lundigan

Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort;...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harriet Parsons

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Theodore Kosloff

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Greta Garbo

Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

A product of the Bowery, Trent Regan grows up to become a powerful gangster. Regan's girlfriend Angie Miller, hearing that her childhood sweetheart...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Claude Rains

Billy, a jockey, and Jim, an assistant manager of a New Orleans racetrack, are close friends. They become bitter enemies because of Marie, an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jane Fonda

While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Conway Tearle

A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mary Howard

A ruthless businessman tries to steal his brother's successful shipping company. He hires a gifted mimic to date one of his brother's daughters to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...

Genre:

Cast: Edmund Lowe

Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover. His...

Genre: Western

Cast: Richard Dix

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Betty Bronson

This Woman is a 1924 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen, written by Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring, and starring Irene Rich, Ricardo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Rich

Following a successful experimental operation to reverse age, a wealthy businessman stages his own death and assumes the identity of his nephew. His...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win the love she reads about in the romance novels she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Betty Bronson

Hector Colbert sues his wife Marjorie for a divorce after Peters, an admirer of Marjorie, deliberately compromises her. Colbert's lawyer, Daniel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gloria Swanson

Big Executive

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

While his daughter, Consuelo, is visiting the United States, Emanuel García, the Mayor of Alcorta in the Argentine, arranges for her marriage...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bebe Daniels

Zabette de Chauvalons leaves a convent in Brussels to join her father on the island of Martinique, escorted by Père Bénédict. In...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Bebe Daniels