Soundtrack: David Mendoza
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by David Mendoza. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1927 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Ramon Novarro · Norma Shearer · Jean Hersholt · Gustav von Seyffertitz
Plot Nephew and heir to the King of a small country, Karl Heinrich is taken to Heidelberg to study by his tutor, Dr. Jüttner. There he falls in love with Kathi,...
7.6
507 votes
7.6
507 votes
The Public Enemy
1931 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast James Cagney · Jean Harlow · Edward Woods · Joan Blondell
Plot A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.
7.6
4K votes
7.6
4K votes
Little Caesar
1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Glenda Farrell · Stanley Fields
Plot The ambitious criminal Rico moves from the country to the big city in the east and joins Sam Vettori's gang with his friend Joe Massara. Sooner he becomes the leader...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
The Merry Widow
1925 · Movie · 137 min. · United States
Direction Erich von Stroheim
Cast John Gilbert · Mae Murray · Roy D'Arcy · Tully Marshall
Plot Prince Danilo falls in love with dancer Sally O'Hara. His uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco forbids the marriage because she is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by...
7.1
363 votes
7.1
363 votes
La bohème
1926 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Lillian Gish · John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Roy D'Arcy
Plot It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them...
7.0
106 votes
7.0
106 votes
Passion
1919 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Pola Negri · Emil Jannings · Harry Liedtke · Eduard von Winterstein
Plot The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
6.7
215 votes
6.7
215 votes
Svengali
1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast John Barrymore · Marian Marsh · Donald Crisp · Bramwell Fletcher
Plot Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. When a pupil he has seduced announces she has left her husband for him,...
6.6
211 votes
6.6
211 votes
Smart Money
1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Edward G. Robinson · James Cagney · Margaret Livingston · Ralf Harolde
Plot Nick Venizelos, an immigrant Greek barber, has an uncommon affinity for poker and other sorts of wagering and a group of his friends bankroll him in a big game, where...
6.5
127 votes
6.5
127 votes
The Mad Genius
1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast John Barrymore · Marian Marsh · Charles Butterworth · Donald Cook
Plot A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with...
5.9
25 votes
5.9
25 votes
The Trail of '98
1928 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Dolores del Rio · Ralph Forbes · Karl Dane · Harry Carey
Plot The Klondike gold strike of 1897 inspires fortune-seekers to head for Alaska. Joe and Jim, brothers from South Carolina; Lars, escaping a shrewish wife in Michigan; a poor farmer from...
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The Careless Age
1929 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction John Griffith Wray
Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Carmel Myers · Holmes Herbert · Kenneth Thomson
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Young Man of Manhattan
1930 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Claudette Colbert · Norman Foster · Ginger Rogers · Leslie Austin
Plot Toby McLean, a reckless sports writer on a New York City newspaper, covers the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey heavyweight-championship fight in Philadelphia. There he meets Ann Vaughn, a feature writer for...
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The Lash
1930 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast Mary Astor · Richard Barthelmess · Fred Kohler · Marian Nixon
Plot Don Francisco Delfina, a nobleman of Southern California in 1848, disguises himself as El Puma and leads a revolt against the tyrannical land agent and politician Peter Harkness.
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Camille
1926 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Fred Niblo
Cast Norma Talmadge · Gilbert Roland · Lilyan Tashman · Rose Dione
Plot Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of...
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Men of the Sky
1931 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Irene Delroy · Bramwell Fletcher · Otto Harbach · Armand Kaliz
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Don Juan
1926 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Alan Crosland
Cast John Barrymore · Mary Astor · Warner Oland · Jane Winton
Plot If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In...
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Honor of the Family
1931 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Bebe Daniels · Warren William · Alan Mowbray · Blanche Friderici
Plot In Hungary, Laura, the mistress of wealthy Paul Barony, is furious when his nephew, Captain Boris Barony, arrives at the castle to save his uncle from her. She runs away,...
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The Reckless Hour
1931 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction John Francis Dillon
Cast Dorothy Mackaill · Conrad Nagel · Walter Byron · H.B. Warner
Plot In New York, a young model begins to go out with a handsome young man, but he doesn't want to marry her. After a while she realizes that he does...
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Chances
1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Anthony Bushell · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Rose Hobart · Holmes Herbert
Plot In a heavy London fog in 1914, soldier Jack Ingleside bumps into an attractive woman. He begs her to have a drink with him, but she laughingly refuses him. To...
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Captain Thunder
1930 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Alan Crosland
Cast Fay Wray · Victor Varconi · Charles Judels · Robert Elliott
Plot Victor Varconi plays a charming Mexican bandit gets involved in several conflicting paradoxical relations, including an alliance with a crooked rival bandit and a beautiful daughter of the governor.
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