Hallelujah

A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.

A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.

Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs.

New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced … well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in…

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.

Mr. Schmidt’s costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt’s niece Louise, but she’ll have none of him. Schmidt’s friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy…

The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time…

A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent.

Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz,…

In this operetta, the captain of the king’s guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French Revolution and is in love with the movement’s symbolic leader.

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding…