2016 Movies Seen This Year
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- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsDorothy MackaillFrank FayNoah BeeryA successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsDorothy MackaillConrad NagelH.B. WarnerIn New York City, a young model is swept off her feet by a debonair, handsome young man. Unfortunately for her, he didn't want to get married but had been stringing her along. When she realizes he doesn't want her, she will not force him even though she learned she was pregnant. She becomes bitter and angry at all men, until she meets a gentle and kind artist who tries to show her that her life can be better than it is.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsHarry CareyEdwina BoothDuncan RenaldoTwo white traders in the darkest Africa of the 1870s find a missionary's daughter, who was captured as a child by a savage tribe and now worshiped as a goddess.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyLoretta YoungGeorge E. StoneIndependent cabbie Matt Nolan is primed to let his fists and handgun deliver payback after a big taxi firm uses intimidation and violence to squeeze out small-timers.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyMarian NixonGuy KibbeeYoung boxer Jim Kane, resting at a New Mexico "health ranch," meets and falls for Peggy Harmon, former nightclub table singer...who needs $600 more for her sickly son to stay in the place. To help her, Jim endangers his health with a tough boxing match in Tijuana. Before long, he's back fighting while Peggy stays in the desert. But in the city, after new triumphs, Jim meets Joan, a teasing Society blonde. Will he see through her before it's too late?
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsJack BennyTed HealyUna MerkelCalvin Churchill, a confidence-man, and his sidekick/stooge, "Clip" McGurk, are being pursued by an Internal Revenue agent, Henry Potke, for their failure to file an income-tax on the advice of a shyster lawyer. They are hiding out at the Desert Springs Hotel-Resort, where Calvin is working a scam by posing as a stratosphere-flyer who is looking at making Desert Springs the base of his operations. A rich airplane manufacturer sees a chance to get rid of a stratosphere balloon that he built for an unsuccessful expedition at a great loss. Calvin intends to take the money and run but his estranged wife, Alice, now a tennis instructor at the resort promises to come back to him if he will reform. Alas, reformation does not come easy for Calvin, especially when "Clip" is around, and Henry is closing in.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsOle OlsenChic JohnsonWilliam GaxtonIndependently-wealthy American Jack Forbes has just arrived in Paris. Because of his wealth he can have any woman on his arm. Currently that role is filled by Marcelle Dubrey, but he ditches her when he spots the woman of his dreams. When Jack tells his equally-wealthy friend Michael Cummins that he will marry that mystery woman, Upon learning that that woman is Lu Lu Carroll, whom he has also been trying to court, Michael bets Jack $50,000 that he can't give up all his money and get engaged to her within two weeks. Jack accepts the bet as Mike strips him of his money. Jack must try to meet and woo her without doing anything with her that requires money, while trying to hide the fact that he has no money as he tries to earn some using his limited job skills. Meanwhile, Michael hires American detectives Simon Johanssen and Peter Swanson to tail Jack to ensure that he keeps to the rules of the bet, but also to thwart Jack's every attempt with Lu Lu. Michael is unaware that these two are poor schmucks who are rather inept at being detectives. The combination of all their issues gets the collective into one misadventure after another as the fortnight wears on.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsPaul MuniKaren MorleyWilliam GarganAn immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.
- DirectorDonovan CookStarsWayne AllwineTony AnselmoBill FarmerMickey, Donald and Goofy are the French three Musketeers.
- DirectorMonta BellStarsJohn GilbertPaul LukasVirginia BruceAn amoral chauffeur seeks to seduce a young bride.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsKay FrancisRicardo CortezWarner OlandAbandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsRichard BarthelmessAnn DvorakDudley DiggesJoe Thunderhorse, a Sioux Indian who has become the wealthy star of a Wild West show, returns home to his reservation after years away and finds that his father is dying and his people are being abused by corrupt white officials.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsDorothy JordanLewis StoneNeil HamiltonThe evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsWinnie LightnerOle OlsenChic JohnsonA gold-digger (Winnie Lightner) goes after money from her ex-husbands (Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson), swimsuit salesmen now married to twins.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsEdward G. RobinsonLoretta YoungDudley DiggesA hatchet man is ordered to kill his close friend for the sake of Tong.
- DirectorEdgar SelwynStarsWarren WilliamMaureen O'SullivanGregory RatoffAn entrepreneur will let nothing stand in his way of acquiring a 100-story office building.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsWarren WilliamLoretta YoungWallace FordA working girl is menaced by her tyrannical employer.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsBette DavisGene RaymondFrank McHughAlthough free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsMarilyn MillerBen LyonW.C. FieldsWealthy man falls in love with a poor girl and proposes to her, going against the wishes of his family.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsMargaret SullavanJames StewartRay MillandA young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.
- DirectorH.C. PotterWalter LantzStarsJoan FontaineJames StewartEddie AlbertA spoiled heiress who has jilted multiple fiancés embroils a commercial pilot in a series of wacky misadventures.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartJoanne DruGilbert RolandShrimpers and oilmen clash after an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oil rig.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartJune AllysonHarry MorganBiography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.
- DirectorJack ConwaySam WoodStarsJean HarlowFranchot ToneLionel BarrymoreChorus girl Eadie is determined to marry a millionaire without sacrificing her virtue.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsGena RowlandsMia FarrowIan HolmFacing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.