The best Boris Karloff’s romance movies

Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

23/11/1887- 02/02/1969
Today we present the best Boris Karloff’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Boris Karloff’s movies.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
6.9/10
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.

The Mad Genius

The Mad Genius
6.3/10
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 a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.

Skyscraper Souls

Skyscraper Souls
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/07/1932
  • Character: Man Approaching Ticket Counter
Skyscraper Souls is a Pre-Code 1932 drama film starring Warren William and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film was directed by Edgar Selwyn and is based upon the novel Skycraper by Faith Baldwin. The film depicts the aspirations and lives of several people in the Seacoast National Bank Building. Among them is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife happy by paying her bills. His secretary Sarah wants him to get a divorce so they can marry.

Bikini Beach

Bikini Beach
5.4/10
A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home.

Tonight or Never

Tonight or Never
6.6/10
A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/03/1932
  • Character: Boris Karloff
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.

Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights
6.7/10
During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl.

I Like Your Nerve

I Like Your Nerve
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/09/1931
  • Character: Luigi - Pacheco's Butler
Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country. The cast includes Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Kolker, Boris Karloff (in the small role of a secretary), Edmund Breon, Claude Allister and Luis Alberni.

Parisian Nights

Parisian Nights
6.5/10
American sculptress Adele La Rue, working in Paris, lacks the inspiration to create a masterpiece, until Jean Ballard, a wild apache leader, takes refuge from the police in her apartment.

Cracked Nuts

Cracked Nuts
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/04/1931
  • Character: Boris - First Revolutionary
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...

Omar the Tentmaker

Omar the Tentmaker
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/12/1922
  • Character: Imam Mowaffak
About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar circa A.D. 1073. His fiancé was forced to marry the shah, but she eventually escaped and, with help of grand Vazir, joined Omar Khayyam. Hollywood made a film based on the same story with Connell Wilde, the life and adventures of Omar Khayyam.

The Golden Web

The Golden Web
After it has been sold to a new owner,a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a valuable mine and is using it for blackmail purposes. The former owner of the mine is framed for a murder, and his daughter and the new owner work to save him from the gallows.

The Little Wild Girl

The Little Wild Girl
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/08/1928
  • Character: Maurice Kent
Vacationing in the Canadian Northwest, a playwright and a songwriter both fall in love with Marie Cleste and take her back with them to New York when her father and her sweetheart apparently die in a forest fire. (The father did perish; the sweetheart escaped, crippled, with his blinded Indian guide into the forest to hide his infirmities.)

Let It Rain

Let It Rain
Let-It-Rain Riley (MacLean) is a devil-may-care Marine sergeant who falls in love with a girl (Shirley Mason) who he assumes to be rich. His rival for the girl's affection is his pal, Kelly (Wade Boteler). The guys find out that the object of their affections is but a modest switchboard operator but she proves to be invaluable when she deciphers a code and discovers that a mail train is about to be robbed.

The Sea Bat

The Sea Bat
5.3/10
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.

The Greater Glory

The Greater Glory
7.4/10
A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.

The Devil's Chaplain

The Devil's Chaplain
6.6/10
Escaping from a revolution, the King (Joseph Swickard) of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds a friend in the form of dashing secret service agent Yorke Norray (Cornelius Keefe).

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