8.1
The Bridge on the River Kwai
IMDb: 8.1 1957 161 min
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American ...
7.6
The Man Beneath
IMDb: 7.6 1919 50 min
The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose ...
6.6
The Dragon Painter
IMDb: 6.6 1919 50 min
Tatsu is a slightly delusional painter who lives in the wilderness. He spends his days painting nothing but the image of his love, a princess he ...
6.6
The Cheat
IMDb: 6.6 1915 59 min
A venal, spoiled stockbroker’s wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory ...
6.2
Where Lights Are Low
IMDb: 6.2 1921 69 min
The Chinese prince T’Su Wong Shih loves Quan Yin, the daughter of a gardener, but his uncle wants him to marry a girl of his own class. ...
5.5
Green Mansions
IMDb: 5.5 1959 100 min
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the ...
6.3
Forfaiture
IMDb: 6.3 1937 94 min
This version of the story begins with the engineer’s wife (Denise Morel) being driven to the site where her husband is building a bridge. ...
5.8
Daughter of the Dragon
IMDb: 5.8 1931 70 min
At her Chinese father’s bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective. Release: Daughter of the Dragon 1931 ...
6.3
Tokyo Joe
IMDb: 6.3 1949 88 min
Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe’s, and deserted his wife Trina. They have a ...
6.5
The Geisha Boy
IMDb: 6.5 1958 98 min
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a ...
6.8
House of Bamboo
IMDb: 6.8 1955 102 min
Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan), a former GI who has ...
6.3
The Daydreamer
IMDb: 6.3 1966 101 min
A fictional account of a teen-aged Hans Christian Anderson. In this film, young Hans runs away from home and each time he falls asleep he ...
6.5
Yoshiwara
IMDb: 6.5 1937 102 min
Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a ...
7.2
Swiss Family Robinson
IMDb: 7.2 1960 126 min
After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, ...
7.0
Hell to Eternity
IMDb: 7.0 1960 131 min
Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, ...
6.0
The Daughter of the Samurai
IMDb: 6.0 1937 114 min
At the invitation of the Japanese Ministry of Education, the former “mountain filmer” Fanck directed this “cultural feature ...
6.7
Gambling Hell
IMDb: 6.7 1942 90 min
A thriller about gunrunners in the Far East co-starring Erich von Stroheim and Sessue Hayakawa. When the Germans occupied France, the director ...
6.1
Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks
IMDb: 6.1 1931 80 min
With the advent of sound, the world’s leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his fortunes. His thin, reedy voice ...
5.7
The Wrath of the Gods
IMDb: 5.7 1914 56 min
An American sailor falls in love with a fisherman’s daughter and convinces her that Jesus is more powerful than the gods who have cursed ...
7.3
Three Came Home
IMDb: 7.3 1950 106 min
The true story of Agnes Newton Keith’s imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner-of-war camps from 1941 to the end of WWII. Separated from ...
