Movies Like The Divine Spark

Scandal

1933

A musical comedy telling a simple story of backstage life and romance. Featuring Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra and Putney Dandridge.

Tropical Trouble

1936

A series of misunderstanding leads to a colonial governor's wife suspecting him of an affair with his assistant.

Words and Music

1929

Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.

Noisy Neighbors

1929

A family of down-and-out vaudevillians discover that they are the last of the Van Revels, heirs to a Southern plantation and a blood feud with the Carstairs family that began 60 years earlier over a game of croquet. After Eddie falls in love with the neighbors' daughter, a mountaineer branch of the Carstairs clan resumes the feud with the intent of annihilating the Van Revels.

Swanee River

1931

A power company floods a sleepy Tennessee Valley for a dam to run a hydraulic power plant. Garry, a Northern engineer on the project, falls in love with Caroline, Colonel Bradford's adopted daughter.

Hit the Deck

1929

A sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.

Ghosts

1997

In the town of Normal Valley, an eccentric magician named Maestro entertains the local children every day in his spooky mansion. One stormy night, the town's mayor leads a group of angry citizens to the mansion in an attempt to run Maestro out of town.

Der Bettelstudent

1927

Honeymoon Lane

1931

Based on Dowling's 1925 stage vehicle of the same name, the story is set in motion when the king of the mythical European nation of Bulgravia visits an American health resort. Hero Tim Dugan appoints himself the king's unofficial protector, saving him from the larcenous designs of crooked gambler Arnold Bookstein.

Policy Man

1938

Crime comedy.

Gold Diggers of Broadway

1929

Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

I Still Believe

2020

The true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope.

The Unforgivable

2021

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

Stars in Your Eyes

1956

A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property developers also want the theatre and resort to dirty tricks to disrupt the first night's performance!

Children of Dreams

1931

One day, Molly Standing is picking apples in her father's apple orchard in California, with her friend Gertie (Marion Byron), when they meet two boys, Tommy Melville and Gus Schultz. Molly falls in love with Tommy while Gertie falls in love with Gus. They plan a double wedding.

Georgia Rose

1930

Musical film with an all-black cast.

Hits and Bits of 1938

1938

This musical comedy with an all-black cast imagines what television entertainment will be like in the near future.

The End of the Road

1936

Itinerant Scot performers: One daughter of a veteran trouper weds a ne'er do well and dies in childbirth.Her spendthrift man goes but later returns to bleed the old man out of remaining savings.Another daughter makes good as a singer.