Movies: Ida Lupino

Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder....

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madde...

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty....

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to...

Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl....

Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires....

A young deaf women confronts desperate crooks who are using one of her remote resort cabins for a hideout....

Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business....

A building superintendent and his wife are held hostage in their apartment by a sadistic would-be bank robber and his spaced-out accomplices....

There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to put a narrative story on celluloid was, Alice Guy Blaché in 1896. Few people know that Lillian Gish became a director in her own right in 1920. Ida L...

In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to s...

A dancer who has just gotten engaged to her partner and choreographer and is about to embark on a major career is devastated to learn that she has contracted polio....

Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van....

Three insurance investigators search for a mysterious billionaire. Based on the Old Time Radio show of the same name....

A young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion, where she finds herself entangled with an enigmatic murderer....

A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing....

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts....

Billie hires an odd man as the new pin boy at her bowling alley, but quickly fires him because of his violent outbursts. Shortly thereafter, she finds out he's a murderer who escaped from prison, which makes his later, sudden, after hours appearance ...

The Love Race is a delightful musical comedy film based around the fierce rivalry between two motor manufacturers – and the romance that develops between the daughter of one and the son of the other......

A Ruritanian Prince is due to marry a princess with acting ambitions, but he has fallen in love with another woman....