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poster Alice Chops the Suey
Alice Chops the Suey
7mn - Animation
Alice is kidnapped by Chinese Gangsters and brought to Chinatown. Her cat tries (successfully) to rescue her, but then they're hunted by a bunch of angry Chinese Triad members.
poster Chinese Laundry Scene
Chinese Laundry Scene
1mn - Crime, Comedy
The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman.
poster I Cover Chinatown
I Cover Chinatown
(3.1/5)
64mn - Crime, Drama, Music
A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.
poster Shadows
Shadows
(3.1/5)
68mn - Drama
Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathe…
poster Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
3mn - Comedy
A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from …
poster Manhatta
Manhatta
11mn - Documentary
Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a cemetery. Ranks…
poster A Tale of Two Worlds
A Tale of Two Worlds
(2.9/5)
70mn - Drama
A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
poster Lost for Words
Lost for Words
107mn - Drama, Romance
A wounded ex-Marine seeking a fresh start in Hong Kong falls for a talented Chinese ballerina from Beijing, but as their cross-cultural romance deepens through language lessons and shared dreams, mounting…
poster Romance of a Fruit Peddler
Romance of a Fruit Peddler
22mn - Comedy
Cheng the fruit seller is in love with the daughter of his neighbor the doctor, but the good doctor won't let him marry her unless Chang finds him more patients...
poster The Happiest Place on Earth
The Happiest Place on Earth
(3.2/5)
81mn - Mystery, Drama
A daycare teacher's dreams of a home and family of her own are threatened by the loss of her husband's newspaper job and his subsequent disappearance.
poster Blood on the Sun
Blood on the Sun
(3/5)
98mn - Action, Drama, War
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by …
poster New Women
New Women
106mn - Drama
Overnight, the sexy Wei Ming will become a successful novelist. But, desperate to get the money that she needs to cure her little daughter (and harassed by a rich, unscrupulous rake), she will end up even…
poster The Front Page
The Front Page
(3.4/5)
101mn - Comedy
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the crimin…
poster Shanghaied Lovers
Shanghaied Lovers
(2.7/5)
15mn - Comedy
Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.
poster Dinty
Dinty
72mn - Adventure, Comedy
Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.
poster Anatahan
Anatahan
(3.5/5)
94mn - Drama
From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.
poster Fate of Graduates
Fate of Graduates
(3.7/5)
100mn -
The film tells the tragic story of two recent college graduates, Tao Jianping ("Tao" is a homophone for peach), and Li Lilian ("Li" is a homophone for plum). Married, the two hope to change society for th…
poster Cry for Happy
Cry for Happy
(2.9/5)
110mn - Romance, Comedy
Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
poster How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns
How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns
11mn - Action, Comedy, Romance
A French aristocrat, who has recently arrived in America, has placed a personal advertisement in the newspaper...
poster McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
1mn - Documentary
“This view was taken upon Mr. McKinley's lawn at his home in Canton, Ohio. Mr. McKinley appears walking across the lawn in company with his Secretary, who hands him a telegram, which he reads with apparen…
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