Search results for "James Cagney"
Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces
IMDb: 7.9
97

In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Never Steal Anything Small

Never Steal Anything Small

Never Steal Anything Small
IMDb: 6
94

Director Charles Lederer’s 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who’ll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his union’s presidency.

Genre: Drama
Ragtime

Ragtime

Ragtime
IMDb: 7.3
155

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York…

Genre: Drama, History
One, Two, Three

One, Two, Three

One, Two, Three
IMDb: 7.9
115

C.R. MacNamara will do anything to get a promotion within the Coca-Cola company, including looking after boss W.P. Hazeltine’s rebellious teenage daughter, Scarlett. When Scarlett visits Berlin, where C.R. is…

Genre: Comedy
Man of a Thousand Faces

Man of a Thousand Faces

Man of a Thousand Faces
IMDb: 7.1
122

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even…

Genre: Drama
Johnny Come Lately

Johnny Come Lately

Johnny Come Lately
IMDb: 6.8
97

Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased….

Genre: Drama
Here Comes the Navy

Here Comes the Navy

Here Comes the Navy
IMDb: 6.3
87

A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.

Genre: Drama, War
Sinners’ Holiday

Sinners’ Holiday

Sinners’ Holiday
IMDb: 6.3
60

Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.

Genre: Crime, Romance
Lady Killer

Lady Killer

Lady Killer
IMDb: 7
76

An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts’ criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
‘G’ Men

‘G’ Men

‘G’ Men
IMDb: 7.1
83

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down…

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
The Strawberry Blonde

The Strawberry Blonde

The Strawberry Blonde
IMDb: 7.2
97

Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Jimmy the Gent

Jimmy the Gent

Jimmy the Gent
IMDb: 6.6
67

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Taxi!

Taxi!

Taxi!
IMDb: 6.6
69

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl
IMDb: 6
86

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio’s cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy…

Genre: Comedy
The Oklahoma Kid

The Oklahoma Kid

The Oklahoma Kid
IMDb: 6.4
85

McCord’s gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw “The Oklahoma Kid” Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a…

Genre: History, Western
City for Conquest

City for Conquest

City for Conquest
IMDb: 7.2
104

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
The West Point Story

The West Point Story

The West Point Story
IMDb: 6.2
107

A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy
IMDb: 7.1
79

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Torrid Zone

Torrid Zone

Torrid Zone
IMDb: 6.7
88

A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.

Frisco Kid

Frisco Kid

Frisco Kid
IMDb: 6.2
77

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him to arise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary…

The Mayor of Hell

The Mayor of Hell

The Mayor of Hell
IMDb: 6.9
90

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Irish in Us

The Irish in Us

The Irish in Us
IMDb: 6.3
84

A boxer (James Cagney) and his policeman brother (Pat O’Brien) feud over a police captain’s daughter (Olivia de Havilland).

Genre: Comedy, Romance
13 Rue Madeleine

13 Rue Madeleine

13 Rue Madeleine
IMDb: 6.9
95

Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O’Connell, who is too good…

Genre: Thriller, War
Hard to Handle

Hard to Handle

Hard to Handle
IMDb: 6.7
78

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Gallant Hours

The Gallant Hours

The Gallant Hours
IMDb: 7.1
115

A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific…

Genre: Drama, War
Love Me or Leave Me

Love Me or Leave Me

Love Me or Leave Me
IMDb: 7.1
122

A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Run for Cover

Run for Cover

Run for Cover
IMDb: 6.7
93

Western that starts when a man (Matt Dow) is mistaken as a train robber. After the town’s sheriff shoots the kid he’s riding with, Dow clears his name and ends…

Genre: Western
Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy
IMDb: 7.6
126

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

Genre: Drama, Music
White Heat

White Heat

White Heat
IMDb: 8.1
114

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
IMDb: 7.9
104

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Public Enemy

The Public Enemy

The Public Enemy
IMDb: 7.6
83

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts
IMDb: 7.6
123

Mr. Roberts is as an officer who’s yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned Navy ship run by the bullying Captain…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, War
Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die
IMDb: 7.3
92

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter’s criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Crowd Roars

The Crowd Roars

The Crowd Roars
IMDb: 6.2
85

Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion.

Genre: Action, Drama
Ceiling Zero

Ceiling Zero

Ceiling Zero
IMDb: 6.7
95

War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot’s girl-friend and due to this he…

Blood on the Sun

Blood on the Sun

Blood on the Sun
IMDb: 6
93

Nick Condon, an American journalist in 1945 Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The St. Louis Kid

The St. Louis Kid

The St. Louis Kid
IMDb: 6.6
68

Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade
IMDb: 7.5
104

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Fighting 69th

The Fighting 69th

The Fighting 69th
IMDb: 6.6
90

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he’ll prove himself in the end.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
What Price Glory

What Price Glory

What Price Glory
IMDb: 6.2
110

Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg’s top sergeant. And when…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War