Movies by Lists - 131 Classic Pre-Code Films You Must Watch (131 [134]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 42nd StreetWhen the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show. | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.4 (11.6K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| All Quiet on the Western FrontA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror. | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | Drama, War | 8.1 (60.2K votes) | 152 | 20211228 |
| Animal CrackersMayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding. | 1930 | Victor Heerman | Comedy, Family, Musical | 7.5 (14.3K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Animal Kingdom, TheBased on a play by Philip Barry, this sophisticated comedy is about a man trying to justify his love for both his wife and his mistress. | 1932 | Edward H. Griffith, George Cukor | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (1.1K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Ann VickersA prison reformer and a controversial judge fall in love and have a child out of wedlock. | 1933 | John Cromwell | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (619 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Anna Christie [Brown]A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past. | 1930 | Clarence Brown | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (3.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Arsène LupinA detective is tasked to capture an elusive thief called Arsene Lupin. | 1932 | Jack Conway | Crime, Mystery, Romance | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Baby FaceA young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank - by gleefully seducing her way to the top. | 1933 | Alfred E. Green | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (6.8K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Beast of the City, ThePolice Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it. | 1932 | Charles Brabin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.3K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Bed of RosesA former prostitute, determined to reform upon leaving prison, falls in love with a cotton barge owner and must choose between him and her banker lover. | 1933 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (849 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Bitter Tea Of General Yen, TheA Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love. | 1932 | Frank Capra (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.0 (3.8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Black Cat, TheAmerican honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshipping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident. | 1934 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Adventure, Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller | 7.0 (10.9K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Blonde VenusA cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely ill husband's operation. | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Drama | 7.1 (4.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Blondie of the FolliesTwo young women find their friendship strained when one wins a role in a Broadway show, and the other's boyfriend begins to fall for her. | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | Comedy, Musical | 6.4 (1.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Blood MoneyBill Bailey (George Bancroft) is a Los Angeles, California bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges against a client dismissed. He falls in love | 1933 | Rowland Brown | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 6.8 (363 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Born to be BadAn immoral mother blackmails a wealthy businessman after he accidentally hits her delinquent son with his truck. | 1934 | Lowell Sherman, Jack Conway | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (1.1K votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Broadway Melody, TheA pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt. | 1929 | Harry Beaumont | Drama, Musical, Romance | 5.7 (7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Call Her SavageSexy Texas gal storms her way through life, brawling and boozing until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the errors of her ways. | 1932 | John Francis Dillon | Drama | 7.0 (778 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| CleopatraThe man-hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Mark Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor. | 1934 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 6.8 (3.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Coconuts, TheDuring the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves. | 1929 | Robert Florey, Joseph Santley | Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (7.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Crash, TheRich couple loses their fortune in stock market crash. | 1932 | William Dieterle (*) | Drama | 5.9 (326 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| CynaraLondon barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shop-girl who is out to have him. Told in flashback. | 1932 | King Vidor (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (699 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Dance, Fools, DanceAfter the death of her father and loss of the family fortune, Bonnie gets a job as a cub reporter while her brother becomes involved in bootlegging. | 1931 | Harry Beaumont | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Design For LivingA woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship. | 1933 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 (6.5K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Devil Is a Woman, TheA young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her. | 1935 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (3.5K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Devil's Holiday, TheA savvy city girl is hired to sugar an earnest farm boy into a business deal, but loses her heart. | 1930 | Edmund Goulding | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (193 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Dinner at EightAffluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal. | 1933 | George Cukor (*) | Drama | 7.5 (8.2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| DishonoredThe Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians. | 1931 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.2 (2.6K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Divorcee, TheWhen a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind. | 1930 | Robert Z. Leonard | Romance, Drama | 6.7 (3K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Double HarnessA woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her. | 1933 | John Cromwell | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (1.2K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| DownstairsAn amoral chauffeur seeks to seduce a young bride. | 1932 | Monta Bell | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (1.8K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde. | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (13.6K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Dr. MonicaAn obstetrician who is unable to have children discovers that the baby she is about to deliver was fathered by her husband. | 1934 | William Keighley, William Dieterle | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (361 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| DraculaTransylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night. | 1931 | Tod Browning, Karl Freund | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 7.5 (50.7K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Ex-LadyAlthough free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover. | 1933 | Robert Florey | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 (1.5K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| FaithlessSocialite Carol Morgan romps through the depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him. | 1932 | Harry Beaumont | Drama | 6.7 (563 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Farewell to Arms, AAn American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I. | 1932 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 6.5 (5.8K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| FemaleAlison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer. | 1933 | Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (1.7K votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Flying Down to RioA bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer. | 1933 | Thornton Freeland | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (3.6K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Footlight ParadeChester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses. | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.6 (5.3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| ForbiddenA librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid. | 1932 | Frank Capra (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.5K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| FrankensteinDr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster out of lifeless body parts. | 1931 | James Whale (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.8 (70.2K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Free Soul, AAn alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him. | 1931 | Clarence Brown | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (2.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Frisco JennyFrisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of a prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to prominence as district attorney dedicated to closing down such houses. | 1932 | William A. Wellman (*) | Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.9 (972 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Gay Divorcee, TheA woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce. | 1934 | Mark Sandrich (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.5 (7.7K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| George White's ScandalsOpening with a credit line that reads "Entire production conceived, created and directed by George White," a film evolves where the only plot line is a thin backstage romance between Jimmy Martin and Kitty Donnelly in and around a do | 1934 | Thornton Freeland, Harry Lachman, George White | Musical | 6.3 (87 votes) | 1 | 20211228 |
| Going HollywoodA love-struck teacher pursues a radio singer to Hollywood. | 1933 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Musical, Romance | 6.2 (1.8K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Gold Diggers of 1933A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous. | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 7.7 (8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Grand HotelA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas. | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (18.8K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Heat LightningIn the Mojave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. In a 24-hour period, Olga must deal with Myra's desire to go to a town dance with a cad, the appearance by happenstance of Geor | 1934 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (774 votes) | 63 | 20220414 |
| Hold Your ManA woman is sent to a reformatory when her con artist lover flees after killing a man during a botched blackmail scheme. | 1933 | Sam Wood (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (1.6K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| HooplaA hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the son of the show's manager. | 1933 | Frank Lloyd | Drama | 6.6 (270 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Hot SaturdayA pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer. | 1932 | William A. Seiter (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (1K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| House on 56th Street, TheIt is the World War I period, and Peggy Martin, a showgirl and mistress to London Fiske, marries her love, handsome Monte Van Tyle. They move into the house on 56th street and have a baby, Eleanor. Monte enlists in the army and is ki | 1933 | Robert Florey | Drama, History | 6.6 (595 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| I'm No AngelCircus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way. | 1933 | Wesley Ruggles | Comedy, Music, Romance | 6.9 (3.4K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| InspirationYvonne is a beautiful model who loves frequenting the Parisian bohemian life, because she loves hobnobbing with artists. | 1931 | Clarence Brown | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (566 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Island of Lost SoulsA mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there. | 1932 | Erle C. Kenton | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.4 (9.2K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| It Happened One NightA renegade reporter trailing a young runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York, and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops. | 1934 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Romance | 8.1 (100.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Kid From Spain, TheAn innocent man accused of robbing banks masquerades as a bullfighter to escape the police. | 1932 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.4 (543 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| King KongA film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition. | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.9 (83.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Kiss Before the Mirror, TheWhen a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney--who suspects that his own wife is having an affair. | 1933 | James Whale (*) | Drama, Mystery | 6.5 (550 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| KongoThis remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. From a wheelchair a handicapped white man rules an area of Africa as a living god. He rules the local natives through s | 1932 | William J. Cowen | Drama, Horror | 6.6 (867 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| La An' a LampA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme. | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 8.0 (14.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Ladies of LeisureAn upper-crust artist hires a 'party girl' as a model; romance follows. | 1930 | Frank Capra (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (1.2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Little CaesarA small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune. | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (13K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Love Me TonightA Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess. | 1932 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.6 (4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Madam SatanAngela and Bob Brooks are an upper class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband. But Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections. An elaborate masquerade ball is to be held aboard a magnificent dirigible. Ange | 1930 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (1K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Madame Du BarryMadame DuBarry is a 1934 American historical film directed by William Dieterle and starring Dolores del Rio, Reginald Owen, Victor Jory and Osgood Perkins. The film portrays the life of Madame Du Barry, the last mistress of King Loui | 1934 | William Dieterle (*) | Comedy, Drama, History | 6.3 (265 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Man WantedA female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary. | 1932 | William Dieterle (*) | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (714 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| MandalayAbandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay. | 1934 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama | 6.6 (854 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Mary Stevens, M.D.Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) and her old friend Don Andrews (Lyle Talbot) find themselves graduating from medical school at the same time. They decide to set up their respective medical offices in the same building. Mary builds her rep | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Drama | 6.5 (446 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Mask of Fu Manchu, TheEnglishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does. | 1932 | Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.3 (3.3K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Mata HariA semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I. | 1931 | George Fitzmaurice | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (3.7K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Men in WhiteAn idealistic doctor must make some hard choices between his dedication to the profession and his personal life. | 1934 | Richard Boleslawski | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (658 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Midnight MaryAn abused orphan sinks into a life of crime. | 1933 | William A. Wellman (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.4K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Min and BillMin, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant. | 1930 | George W. Hill | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (1.7K votes) | 69 | 20220531 |
| Monte CarloA countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser. | 1930 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| MoroccoA cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and due to the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself. | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (6.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Most Dangerous Game, TheA psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport. | 1932 | Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller | 7.1 (12K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Mummy, TheAn Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he thinks is his long-lost princess. | 1932 | Karl Freund | Fantasy, Horror | 7.1 (25.9K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Murder at the VanitiesA homicide detective with an eye for the ladies investigating a murder in Earl Carroll's Vanities allows the music review to continue during the investigation. | 1934 | Mitchell Leisen | Music, Mystery, Romance | 6.5 (750 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Murders in the Rue MorgueA mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments. | 1932 | Robert Florey | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 6.4 (4.3K votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Murders in the ZooA monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her. | 1933 | A. Edward Sutherland | Crime, Horror | 6.5 (1.1K votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Mystery of the Wax MuseumThe disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor. | 1933 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (5.5K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Night NurseA nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children. | 1931 | William A. Wellman (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery | 7.0 (3.7K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| No Man of Her OwnAn on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman. | 1932 | Wesley Ruggles | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (1.4K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Of Human BondageA young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both. | 1934 | John Cromwell | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (7.2K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Old Dark House, TheSeeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate. | 1932 | James Whale (*) | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 7.1 (10.7K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| One Hour With YouAn unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one. | 1932 | George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (2.5K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| One Way PassageA terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret. | 1932 | Tay Garnett | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (3.7K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| PaidMary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn't commit. Once out she and former prison mates plan a scam in which old men can be sued for breach of promise - the "heart balm" racket. After plotting verious ways to get back | 1930 | Sam Wood (*) | Drama | 6.0 (757 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| PossessedAn ambitious factory girl meets a handsome, wealthy lawyer, but he's interested in her as a mistress, not a wife. | 1931 | Clarence Brown | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (2.1K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Private LivesDivorced couple unexpectedly meet each other during their honeymoon and rekindle their love. | 1931 | Sidney Franklin | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (1.2K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Public Enemy, TheAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime. | 1931 | William A. Wellman (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (20.6K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Queen ChristinaQueen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves. | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (7.7K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| RafflesA distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes | 1930 | George Fitzmaurice, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Adventure, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller | 6.5 (921 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| RainA prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul. | 1932 | Lewis Milestone | Drama | 6.9 (2.7K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Red DustThe owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees. | 1932 | Victor Fleming (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (4.2K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Red Headed WomanLillian relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man. | 1932 | Jack Conway | Comedy, Romance | 7.0 (3K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| RiptideMary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. | 1934 | Edmund Goulding | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (605 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Roman ScandalsA kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Em | 1933 | Frank Tuttle | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 6.6 (675 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Sadie McKeeA working girl's fortunes improve when she marries into money, but happiness is not so easily won. | 1934 | Clarence Brown | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (1.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Safe In HellAfter accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her. | 1931 | William A. Wellman (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (1.3K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| ScarfaceAn ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall. | 1932 | Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.7 (27.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Scarlet EmpressA German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power. | 1934 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Drama, History, Romance | 7.6 (6.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Search for BeautyThree con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures. | 1934 | Erle C. Kenton | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 6.1 (618 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Shanghai ExpressA notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved. | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.3 (8.6K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| She Done Him WrongIn the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member. | 1933 | Lowell Sherman | Comedy, Drama, History, Musical, Romance | 6.4 (6K votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Sign of the Cross, TheA Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero. | 1932 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Drama, History | 6.9 (2.3K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Sin of Madolen Claudet, TheOut of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school. | 1931 | Edgar Selwyn | Drama | 6.7 (884 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Skyscraper SoulsAn entrepreneur will let nothing stand in his way of acquiring a 100-story office building. | 1932 | Edgar Selwyn | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (765 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Smiling Lieutenant, TheAn amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side. | 1931 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Romance, Musical | 7.2 (3.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Song of Songs, TheLily falls in love with the sculptor who leaves her out of fear of commitment. | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (744 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Story of Temple Drake, TheA wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her. | 1933 | Stephen Roberts | Drama | 7.1 (1.5K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Strangers May KissAgainst her friends wishes, Lisbeth moves to Mexico to live with her lover. | 1931 | George Fitzmaurice | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (473 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Street of WomenA married architect, stuck in a loveless marriage, due to his daughter, has an an affair with a dress designer (Natalie). Just when he's ready to ask his wife for a divorce, his daughter falls in love with Natalie's brother. | 1932 | Archie Mayo | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (354 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| SupernaturalA serial black widow murderess returns to life in the body of a young woman to exact revenge on a former lover, a phony spiritualist who betrayed her. | 1933 | Victor Halperin | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (693 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Tarzan And His MateThe idyllic life of Tarzan and Jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory, and come seeking Jane as well. | 1934 | Cedric Gibbons, James C. McKay, Jack Conway | Action, Adventure, Romance | 7.3 (5.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Tarzan The Ape ManA trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes. | 1932 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Action, Adventure, Romance | 7.0 (7.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Thin Man, TheFormer detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it. | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Mystery | 8.0 (28.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Three on a MatchAlthough Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs. | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (3.8K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Thunder BelowThunder Below is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Richard Wallace and written by Sidney Buchman and Josephine Lovett. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Bickford, Paul Lukas, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Forbes and Le | 1932 | Richard Wallace | Drama | 6.2 (88 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Torch SingerWhen she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. | 1933 | Alexander Hall, George Somnes | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (622 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Trader HornTwo white traders in the darkest Africa of the 1870s find a missionary's daughter, who was captured as a child by a savage tribe and now worshiped as a goddess. | 1931 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (975 votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Trouble in ParadiseA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme. | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 8.0 (14.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Tugboat AnnieAnnie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together. | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Comedy | 7.0 (669 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Twentieth CenturyA flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career. | 1934 | Howard Hawks (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.4 (6.4K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Waterloo BridgeA prostitute's self-loathing makes her reluctant to marry an idealistic soldier during World War I. | 1931 | James Whale (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (2.9K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| White WomanA nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual a | 1933 | Stuart Walker | Drama | 6.1 (231 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Whoopee!Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a | 1930 | Thornton Freeland | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.4 (1K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Zoo in BudapestAn orphan girl escapes her caregivers to be with a young man raised at the zoo whose only previous friends are the animals. | 1933 | Rowland V. Lee | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (462 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| The Warrior's Husband | 1933 | Walter Lang | Comedy | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |