Golden-era Hollywood romances and melodramas.
Golden-era Hollywood romances and melodramas. Streaming 24 hours a day, synchronized to the second across all viewers worldwide.
The following films and shorts broadcast on CH 12 SWOON:
A barrio woman rebels against her abusive husband, and other women from her community join in. A 1956 short drama from Puerto Rico.
Walter Huston plays Lincoln in D.W. Griffith's first sound film, tracing his life from log cabin to Ford's Theatre.
Sacha Guitry's 1955 French epic of Napoleon's life, with Yves Montand among a huge cast. Grand, talky and star-studded.
Four young Berliners spend a lazy Sunday at the lake, made by a crew that later conquered Hollywood: Siodmak, Ulmer, Wilder and Zinnemann.
A son gives up his father's business and fortune to become a missionary. A Christian drama.
James Cagney's film debut: love and a killing on a carnival pier, with Joan Blondell.
On the eve of the Civil War, saboteurs threaten railroad construction, and Army Captain John Nelson, played by Sterling Hayden, is sent to stop them.
Charles Bickford, Raquel Torres and Nils Asther in a 1930 MGM action romance with a thriller streak.
Two boys escape a New Mexico detention farm and take refuge with a girl named Donna. Also known as 'Wild Youth.' A 1961 teen crime picture.
A 1930 sound short co-directed by Eisenstein and Alexandrov, built from romance, music and mood.
Painter Ichiro, played by Toshiro Mifune, sues a gossip magazine after the tabloids invent a love affair. Kurosawa's courtroom drama.
George O'Brien and Myrna Loy in a 1930 western from a Zane Grey story.
Hawaii, days before Pearl Harbor: a boxer who refuses to fight would rather play clarinet. Fred Zinnemann directs Montgomery Clift, Kerr and Sinatra.
A ventriloquist forms a burglary ring, and talking birds are the cover. Lon Chaney's 1930 crime tale.
A 1952 romantic musical short that pairs a classic 1940s song with sultry imagery, celebrating cocktails and romance.
Richard Arlen and Mary Brian star in a 1930 Paramount picture that mixes action, crime and romance.
A newlywed in Rome slips away from her stiff husband to meet her favorite comic-strip hero. Fellini's first solo feature is a charming comic fable.
Three African American brothers face a flood and a broken levee that changes their lives. A 1944 drama.
Kenji Mizoguchi's tale of forbidden love fighting persecution in 18th-century Japan. Also known as The Crucified Lovers.
A boxer returns from prison to find his wife pregnant and a revenge waiting in the wings. A 1938 New York melodrama in Spanish.
An ordinary young American woman learns she's inherited a tiny European country. Comedy and romance follow. A 1952 British comedy.
An idealistic law student from Hell's Kitchen rallies his pals against a local gang. Originally released as Streets of New York.
Satyajit Ray closes the Apu trilogy. Apu is now in his early twenties, and his journey comes full circle.
Perky Nanette tries to save her uncle and aunt's marriage by untangling Uncle Jimmy from a few innocent flings. Herbert Wilcox's 1940 musical.
Stella, a proud, independent rebetiko singer, falls into a whirlwind romance that heads for tragedy. Michael Cacoyannis's 1955 Greek drama.
A newspaper reporter romances the daughter of a suspected smuggler. Claudette Colbert and Ben Lyon star in this 1933 pre-Code romance.
Golden-era Hollywood romances and melodramas.
A postwar travelogue installment from the Roads to Romance series, 1949. Pack a hat and enjoy the scenery.
Golden-era Hollywood romances and melodramas.
A captain's heroics in the French Foreign Legion, filmed in North Africa. George Raft stars in this 1949 desert melodrama.
A three-member board mediates disputes. A man wants to marry the woman he has known for 15 years, and she hesitates. A 1959 episode.
Buster Keaton, Margaret Hamilton and Billy Gilbert ham it up in a spoof of old-time melodrama, with Alan Mowbray along for the ride.
Golden-era Hollywood romances and melodramas.
Paul Robeson plays a London dock worker discovered by an impresario who becomes a singing star. A 1936 drama from an era when Black roles were often limited.
A teenage girl and her parents learn they all have growing up to do, in this 1951 North Carolina mental health drama.
A gang of street kids teams up with the FBI to rescue a kidnapped scientist, their leader's father. Chapter one of twelve.
A class election turns ugly, and a teacher steps in to understand why kids use their fists. A 1952 short on childhood violence.
Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski and two plane-crash survivors stay with a Swedish baroness. A 1937 romance wrapped in music.
Golden-era Hollywood romances and melodramas.
Golden-era Hollywood romances and melodramas.
Golden-era Hollywood romances and melodramas.
An idealistic law student from Hell's Kitchen rallies his pals against a local gang. Originally released as Streets of New York.