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

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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

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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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