Drama Movies of 1937
A Star Is Born
A Star is Born came into being when producer David O. Selznick decided to tell a "true behind-the-scenes" story of Hollywood. The truth, of ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Dead End
Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's East River ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
The Life of Emile Zola
The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best, even ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Heidi
Johanna Spyri's perennial children's favorite Heidi was retailored to the talents of Shirley Temple, resulting in one of her best vehicles. Orphaned early in the proceeding, ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
San Quentin
One of a slew of prison reform picture that ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Wee Willie Winkie
In this lovely John Ford film, Joyce Williams (June Lang) and her young daughter, Priscilla (Shirley ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Grand Illusion
Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
The Prince and the Pauper
In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Stella Dallas
Produced by Sam Goldwyn, this second film version of Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas is by far the best. The combined ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
You Only Live Once
Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Black Legion
This hard-hitting, socially conscious drama, the sort of story that Warner Bros. made their hallmark in the 1930s, concerns a factory worker named Frank Taylor (Humphrey Bogart), who ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
The Wrong Road
In this crime drama, a young couple decides to rob the bank where the woman works as a teller. They get 100,000 dollars and hide it in a music box. Unfortunately, they are caught and sentenced to ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Exiled to Shanghai
Exiled to Shanghai uses the then-waging wars in Spain and China as ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
The Good Earth
Based on Donald Davis and Owen Davis' stage-adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's sprawling novel, Sidney Franklin's The Good Earth is the story of a Chinese farming couple whose lives are torn apart by poverty, greed, and ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Boy of the Streets
In this urban drama, a teenage street punk learns a valuable lesson about the dangers of crime. Jackie Cooper is the tough gangleader with political aspirations. He tries to get himself involved in the graft ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
The Outer Gate
In this drama, a bookkeeper ignores his employer's disapproval and continues to see the boss' daughter. Later the boss ends up accusing him of theft and gets him jailed. ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Pépé le Moko
Pepe le Moko (Jean Gabin) is a well-known criminal mastermind who eludes the French police by hiding in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
The Edge of the World
A key film in the career of director Michael Powell, The Edge of the World was his first original idea to be realized onscreen, and its success attracted the attention of producer Alexander Korda. Korda's bankrolling of ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Moonlight Sonata
Shortly before his desultory political career, ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Bank Alarm
Bank Alarm was one of four low-budget but high-entertainment crime melodramas starring Conrad Nagel and Eleanor Hunt as Federal agents Alan O'Connor and Bobbie Reynolds. On this ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Amapola del Camino
From directors Juan Bustillo Oro and Antonio Guzmán Aguilera, this 1937 Mexican film is a romantic musical about a young woman forced to marry a man she doesn't love. Maria is in love with Juan, ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Atlantic Flight
Atlantic Flight was designed as a vehicle for Dick ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
Asi Es Mi Tierra
When a Spanish revolutionary war general goes home, he's out to spoil any romancing plans a certain young couple may have. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
The Narcotic
Exploitation auteur Dwain Esper directed this hare-brained exposé on the perils of drug addiction. William Davis ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
La Habanera
The German La Habanera is set in "contemporary" Spain-and never mind that there's no evidence of the then-raging Spanish ... [ Drama movie - 1937 ]
