Maytime

Mar 26, 1937

2h 12m

★ 6.5

Maytime Means Extended Playtime!

Overview

An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.

Genres

Music

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Maytime Trailers

Cast

Marcia Mornay

Jeanette MacDonald

Paul Allison

Nelson Eddy

Nicolai Nazaroff

John Barrymore

August Archipenko

Herman Bing

Kip Stuart

Tom Brown

Barbara Roberts

Lynne Carver

Ellen

Rafaela Ottiano

Cabby

Charles Judels

Trentini

Paul Porcasi

Fanchon (as Sig Rumann)

Sig Ruman

Mr. Rudyard

Walter Kingsford

Louis Napoleon

Guy Bates Post

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8.0

The Wages of Fear

Apr 22, 1953

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.

5.2

Berlin is in Germany

Nov 1, 2001

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.

8.1

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Mar 19, 2004

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

7.8

Anatomy of a Murder

Jul 1, 1959

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

7.0

Under the Yoke

Nov 10, 1952

Follows the Bulgarian people's struggle for national independence in the period from 1875 to the Liberation from Otoman bondage.

6.5

Dog Days

Sep 3, 2001

Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.

6.5

Cry-Baby

Apr 6, 1990

A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.

7.1

Lolita

Sep 27, 1997

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

6.2

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Nov 10, 2004

Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time Mark spends with a gorgeous co-worker Rebecca and, despite a vacation meant to smooth things over, ends their relationship. On assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver - claiming to be a reformed man - they have a short dalliance, and she is arrested at the airport and temporarily jailed on the false accusation of drug smuggling before Mark, seemingly indifferent, comes to the rescue.

6.2

The Good Girl

Aug 7, 2002

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

6.2

My Life for Ireland

Jan 2, 1941

A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.

5.9

Lowlands

Feb 11, 1954

In early 20th century Europe, a dancer becomes the romantic bone of contention between two men, a humble shepherd, and an imperious marquis.

5.8

Married Life

Mar 28, 2008

A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her.

7.1

Broken Embraces

Mar 18, 2009

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.

7.1

This Boy's Life

Apr 9, 1993

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.

6.7

Welcome to the Sticks

Feb 20, 2008

Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...

2.2

Curse of the Stone Hand

Mar 3, 1965

A house by the sea has stood vacant for many years, after misfortune befell several owners, which an artist painting the house explains to a passergy. A cross-editing of principal material from two Chilean films, LA CASA ESTA VACIA and LA DAMA DE LA MUERTE, with the addition of new American-made footage, to create a single story.

0.0

The Mikado

Aug 12, 2011

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his unrequited love for the maiden Yum-Yum. Nanki-Poo agrees to sacrifice his life if he is allowed to spend his remaining days with Yum-Yum, who is betrothed to Ko-Ko. Opera Australia production filmed at The Arts Centre Melbourne.

0.0

La Vie parisienne

Dec 8, 2022

La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in 1866, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. This work was Offenbach's first full-length piece to portray contemporary Parisian life, unlike his earlier period pieces and mythological subjects. It became one of Offenbach's most popular operettas.