La nuit americaine

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows la nuit americaine

poster Chinatown Nights

Chinatown Nights

83mn - Drama, Action, Crime

When bored socialite Joan Fry ventures into San Francisco's Chinatown seeking excitement, she becomes caught in the violent crossfire of a brutal gang war and falls for Chuck Riley, the ruthless white lea…

poster Within Our Gates

Within Our Gates

79mn - Drama, Romance

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.

poster The Beast of Yucca Flats

The Beast of Yucca Flats

54mn - Horror, Sci-Fi

A refugee Soviet scientist arrives at a desert airport carrying secret documents, but is attacked by a pair of KGB assassins and escapes into the desert, where he comes in range of an American nuclear te…

poster The Rink

The Rink

After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

Mohawk

79mn - Action, Western

An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief's daughter. But when a vengeful settler manages to get the arm…

poster Danse indienne

Danse indienne

1mn - Documentary

American Indians dancing.

poster Captain January

Captain January

During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and wants her …

poster Carnival Lady

Carnival Lady

When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.

poster American Beast

American Beast

92mn - Fantasy, Thriller

After his mother's death, a man discovers his family's dark secret about an ancient evil they've contained for generations, and must confront the mysterious creature lurking in his small hometown.

poster High and Dizzy

High and Dizzy

A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.

poster The Naked Street

The Naked Street

84mn - Thriller, Drama

To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of priso…

poster Making an American Citizen

Making an American Citizen

A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.

poster The Fighting American

The Fighting American

53mn - Adventure, Drama

On the wager that he will propose marriage to any girl selected by his fraternity brothers, Bill finds himself making love to Mary, an old-fashioned girl who is secretly in love with him…

poster The St. Francisville Experiment

The St. Francisville Experiment

79mn - Horror, Thriller

Four non-actors, with no script, lock themselves in a haunted Louisiana plantation home overnight to film what takes places. The Lalaurie plantation, site of grisly murders, comes alive before their camer…

poster Death Breed

Death Breed

Three nightmarish tales of terror unfold in this blood-soaked anthology where death takes many forms and horror never truly dies—each story more chilling than the last.

poster Geo-Disaster

Geo-Disaster

87mn - Action, Sci-Fi, Short

When a chunk of dark matter pierces through Earth, it triggers an unprecedented convergence of catastrophic disasters - a super volcano, mega earthquake, and massive tornado - all targeting Los Angeles si…

poster Clancy Street Boys

Clancy Street Boys

When a street-smart teenager's wealthy Texas uncle announces a visit, he must convince his gang to pose as the six siblings his late father bragged about having, leading to hilarious hijinks and unexpecte…

poster The Phantom Planet

The Phantom Planet

After an asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.

Untamed

Raised wild in the South American jungle, oil heiress Bingo Dowling storms into Manhattan society determined to win the heart of Andy McAllister. But when his pride refuses her fortune, this untamed woman…

poster Blonde Ice

Blonde Ice

73mn - Crime, Drama, Romance

A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.

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