In Hell's Highway (1932), a young man joins a state prison chain gang and exposes the brutal and hypocritical conditions. Through the power of music and his own sacrifice, he tries to bring about prison reform and escape from the horrors he faces.
Come and Get It is a movie set in 1884 Wisconsin, telling the story of a woman who humiliates a man and a father and son who fall in love with the same woman. It explores themes of ambition, love, and jealousy within the backdrop of the timber business and the challenges of an unhappy marriage. The story spans over two decades, from 1884 to 1907.
Mac (1992) is a drama film set in Staten Island, New York City. The story follows a Jewish woman who works as a painter and her experiences with family estrangement, a fall from a roof, and a broken arm. The film explores themes of work, house construction, and strained brother-brother relationships.
A factory worker in a struggling small town fights against all odds to keep his job when the factory is closing down. With the mental illness of his dead son haunting him, he finds solace in his job and maintains a routine that gives him purpose. When his job is threatened, he rallies his co-workers to stage a protest and fight for their livelihoods.
Lieutenant Ville Somero investigates a sabotage at a fortress site on the Karelian Isthmus in the summer of 1939. His suspicions are directed at the guests of a nearby guesthouse. Aarno Teräs an engineer leading the fortification site, and his bride Birgit Lahti get into trouble because of a band of spies and dancer Veronica Sorrento.
Coast of Almeria, Spain. When Neneta, who lives in a van, is abandoned by her partner, she decides to return with her baby to her hometown in Galicia.
Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family years ago and fears he may steal away Lea Damaron, his current girlfriend -- who is Sam's old flame. While Sam tries to sniff out Nazi saboteurs in the plant, he grows closer to Jill McGann, the agent tasked with pretending to be his wife.
An aging widower and a duck encounter helpful and hostile characters as they search for a place and a reason to live.
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money. Farmer's niece Fay falls for Joe. He puts her off. To get back she marries Jim whom she prods into high-grading the grain (skimming off some for private sale). The last payment on Joe's machinery is due just as he discover's what his buddy has been doing.
A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at the camp restaurant. American-slang rules the dialogue to the point non-USA viewers need a slang-glossary to follow the dialogue.
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