Frank Capra

Frank Capra

May 18, 1897 · 129 years old

Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (193…

Known For

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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

1946 · 2h 10m · Movie

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman see the value of his own life.

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939 · 2h 9m · Movie

A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his c...

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It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night

1934 · 1h 45m · Movie

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

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Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944 · 1h 58m · Movie

Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd...

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You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You

1938 · 2h 6m · Movie

The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936 · 1h 55m · Movie

A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.

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Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe

1941 · 2h 2m · Movie

A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

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Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

1937 · 2h 12m · Movie

When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.

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Why We Fight

Why We Fight

2005 · 1h 38m · Movie

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these que...

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Pocketful of Miracles

Pocketful of Miracles

1961 · 2h 16m · Movie

New York bootlegger Dave the Dude and his girlfriend Elizabeth "Queenie" Martin try to turn boozy street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when Annie learns that her daughter Louise is marrying the son of a Spanish count.

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Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day

1933 · 1h 36m · Movie

A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.

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The Bitter Tea of General Yen

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

1932 · 1h 28m · Movie

A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.

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Platinum Blonde

Platinum Blonde

1931 · 1h 29m · Movie

A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.

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A Hole in the Head

A Hole in the Head

1959 · 2h 0m · Movie

Widower Tony is trying to keep a small Miami hotel afloat while raising a 12-year-old son. He's forced to ask his harried brother Mario for help, but he'll only bail Tony out if he quits his bohemian lifestyle and marries a sensib...

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American Madness

American Madness

1932 · 1h 15m · Movie

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all on the same day.

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Why We Fight

Why We Fight

1942 · 52m · Movie

The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.

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The Miracle Woman

The Miracle Woman

1931 · 1h 30m · Movie

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?

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Forbidden

Forbidden

1932 · 1h 25m · Movie

A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.

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The Battle of Russia

The Battle of Russia

1943 · 1h 23m · Movie

Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.

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Ladies of Leisure

Ladies of Leisure

1930 · 1h 39m · Movie

An upper-crust artist hires a 'party girl' as a model; romance follows.

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The Nazis Strike

The Nazis Strike

1943 · 41m · Movie

The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.

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Dirigible

Dirigible

1931 · 1h 40m · Movie

Jack Bradon is tasked to reach the South Pole with a dirigible.

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Rain or Shine

Rain or Shine

1930 · 1h 28m · Movie

Woman inherits a traveling circus which brings financial difficulties.

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The Younger Generation

The Younger Generation

1929 · 1h 15m · Movie

Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them.

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That Certain Thing

That Certain Thing

1928 · 1h 9m · Movie

Molly Kelly wants to marry a millionaire. When she runs into Andy Charles, heir to a restaurant fortune, she jumps at the chance and marries him. Andy's father if furious and disinherits them. Andy tries his hand at ditch digging ...

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So This Is Love

So This Is Love

1928 · 1h 0m · Movie

Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.) is a dress designer in love with shop-girl Hilda Jenson (Shirley Mason). But the problem is that prizefighter Spike Mullins (Johnny Walker) is also in love with Hilda. Jerry, undaunted by the ob...

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Frank Capra: Mr America

Frank Capra: Mr America

2023 · 1h 32m · Movie

FRANK CAPRA: MR AMERICA tells the story of how Frank Capra, a young immigrant, rose through the ranks of early Hollywood to become one of the Great American storytellers.

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