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Why Girls Love Sailors

Why Girls Love Sailors

Why Girls Love Sailors
IMDb: 6
20

Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain’s wife catches him. Stan and his…

Genre: Comedy
Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know
IMDb: 6.5
70

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase,…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Java Head

Java Head

Java Head
IMDb: 7
85

The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Limehouse Blues

Limehouse Blues

Limehouse Blues
IMDb: 6.1
63

Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Impact

Impact

Impact
IMDb: 7
111

After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.

King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown
IMDb: 6.2
57

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city’s Chinatown.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Tiger Bay

Tiger Bay

Tiger Bay
IMDb: 5.9
70

Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Drifting

Drifting

Drifting
IMDb: 6.7
71

In Shanghai, an American girl who helps runs an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine…

Genre: Drama
Daughter of the Dragon

Daughter of the Dragon

Daughter of the Dragon
IMDb: 5.8
70

At her Chinese father’s bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Peter Pan

Peter Pan

Peter Pan
IMDb: 7.1
105

Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefarious Captain Hook.

Shanghai Express

Shanghai Express

Shanghai Express
IMDb: 7.3
82

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

Mr. Wu

Mr. Wu

Mr. Wu
IMDb: 6.4
91

When Mandarin Wu’s unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad
IMDb: 7.7
149

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

Portrait in Black

Portrait in Black

Portrait in Black
IMDb: 6.4
112

A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman’s rich husband.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Piccadilly

Piccadilly

Piccadilly
IMDb: 7.1
109

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club’s main act.

Genre: Crime, Drama
A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet
IMDb: 5.6
72

In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping…

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
IMDb: 5.8
53

A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.

Genre: Documentary
Island of Lost Men

Island of Lost Men

Island of Lost Men
IMDb: 6.5
68

A Chinese general’s daughter (Anna May Wong) tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant’s (J. Carrol Naish) jungle empire.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Outside the Law

Outside the Law

Outside the Law
IMDb: 6.6
76

Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. But the evil Black Mike…