Slang Movies
- 1996
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood7.0231996HD
When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and...
- 2000
Snatch
Snatch7.82000HD
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down...
- 1963
Crooks in Clover
Crooks in Clover7.7391963HD
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo...
- 1941
Ball of Fire
Ball of Fire7.3641941HD
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang...
- 2003
Games of Love and Chance
Games of Love and Chance6.62003HD
A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is...
- 1951
Symphony in Slang
Symphony in Slang7.21951HD
At the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer's life story with all his contemporary slang.
- 1953
Francis Covers the Big Town
Francis Covers the Big Town5.11953HD
A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.
- 1932
By Whose Hand?
By Whose Hand?61932HD
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an...
- 2006
The N Word
The N Word6.62006HD
An exploration of the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the narrative are poetry, music, and commentary from...
- 1932
They Never Come Back
They Never Come Back5.51932HD
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to...
- 1941
Murder by Invitation
Murder by Invitation5.61941HD
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no...
- 1942
What's Cookin'?
What's Cookin'?5.51942HD
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the...
- 1940
American Spoken Here
American Spoken Here01940HD
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.