Movies by Lists - Hidden Pre Code Gems (501 [504]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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24 HoursA nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime. | 1931 | Marion Gering | Drama | 6.2 (311 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
50 Million FrenchmenIndependently wealthy American Jack Forbes has just arrived in Paris. Because of his wealth, he can have any woman on his arms. Currently that role is filled by Marcelle Dubrey, but Jack ditches her when he spots the woman of his dre | 1931 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 5.4 (143 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Abraham LincolnAn episodic biography of the 16th President of the United States. | 1930 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Biography, Drama, War | 5.7 (1.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Ace of AcesA sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change. | 1933 | J. Walter Ruben | Drama, War | 6.3 (388 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
AdorableJanet Gaynor plays a rebellious princess who must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry. But will this ordinary man love her back once he finds out she's a princess? | 1933 | William Dieterle (*) | Musical, Comedy, Romance | 5.8 (135 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
After DarkIf it wasn't British, this would be in the Forgotten Horrors book. Hugh (Inspector Holt in HUMAN MONSTER) has some valuable jewels stolen. They're hidden in the back of an old clock in an antique shop. When the thieves return for the | 1932 | Albert Parker | Crime, Drama | 5.0 (53 votes) | 45 | 20211228 |
Age of Consent, TheCollege co-eds learn to handle the responsibilities of romance. | 1932 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (352 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
Aggie Appleby, Maker of MenWhen Aggie's boyfriend Red is sent to jail, she meets a mild-mannered man and decides to turn him into a real man. | 1933 | Mark Sandrich (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.4 (265 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Air HostessIn World War I, pilot Bob King is shot and killed in France. His friends Ted "Lucky" Hunter (James Murray) and Pa Kearns (J.M. Kerrigan) pledge to look after his daughter, Kitty (Evalyn Knapp).[Note 3] Years later, after the war, Kea | 1933 | Albert S. Rogell | Drama | 5.9 (130 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Alias the DoctorKarl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while Stephan is barely passing. When Stephan's actions causes the death of Anna, Karl is | 1932 | Michael Curtiz, Lloyd Bacon | Drama | 6.0 (274 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
All of MeA professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied. | 1934 | James Flood | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (107 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
American MadnessSocially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all in the same day. | 1932 | Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William Neill | Drama | 7.4 (2K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
American Tragedy, AnA poor factory worker, employed by a wealthy uncle, falls in love with a beautiful heiress but his happiness and promising future are jeopardized by a previous affair with a coworker he impregnated. | 1931 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (738 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
An Innocent ManA man framed for murder escapes prison and goes west, where he joins a gang with the real killer involved. | 1933 | Armand Schaefer | Western | 5.4 (1.2K votes) | 54 | 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 |
Are You ListeningA radio writer/producer accidentally kills his wife and then attempts to escape an on-air hunt for him. | 1932 | Harry Beaumont | Drama | 6.2 (496 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
As the Earth TurnsDrama following the lives of an immigrant farm family in Maine. | 1934 | Alfred E. Green | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (230 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Attorney for the DefenseAn ambitious lawyer uses circumstantial evidence to help convict an innocent man then tries to make amends with his family. | 1932 | Irving Cummings | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (163 votes) | 70 | 20220822 |
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 |
Bachelor BaitA well-meaning but bumbling clerk at the Marriage License Bureau winds up getting fired. He decides to open up his own "matchmaking" business and takes a personal interest in his clients, but things don't quite work out as smoothly a | 1934 | George Stevens (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (313 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Bachelor Father, TheOld man invites three of his illegitimate children to live with him. | 1931 | Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (1.1K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Back StreetA woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life. | 1932 | John M. Stahl | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (740 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Barbarian, TheAn American tourist catches the eye of a disguised Arab prince who decides to kidnap her, then try to win her love. | 1933 | Sam Wood (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (596 votes) | 83 | 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 |
Beauty and the BossAn executive hires a mousy, plain woman as his secretary so she will not divert him from his work, but she still becomes determined to win his heart. | 1932 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (581 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Beauty ParlorTwo manicurists mingle with the customers of a hotel barbershop. | 1932 | Richard Thorpe | Drama, Romance | 5.7 (36 votes) | 64 | 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 |
Before DawnSinister forces compete to find the million dollars in gold hidden by recently deceased gangster Joe Valerie in his family's old dark house 15 years earlier, | 1933 | Irving Pichel | Drama, Mystery | 6.1 (412 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
Beggars in ErmineJohn Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill. | 1934 | Phil Rosen (*) | Drama | 5.9 (125 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Behind Office DoorsMary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him. | 1931 | Melville W. Brown | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (461 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Behind Stone WallsEsther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jack. Bob comes to her defense and confesses to the shooting. The father prosecutes... | 1932 | Frank R. Strayer | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.4 (102 votes) | 58 | 20240419 |
Behind That CurtainEve Mannering realizes too late that her abusive husband is a philanderer and murderer and seeks protection with her true love, explorer John Beetham. | 1929 | Irving Cummings | Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 4.8 (472 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Below the SeaA wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions. | 1933 | Albert S. Rogell | Action, Adventure, Romance | 6.0 (253 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Big Broadcast, TheA radio-singer, Bing Hornsby, is none-too-concerned about his job, and an affair with Mona leads to his dismissal. When it appears Hornsby is getting and paying a lot of attention to his fiancée, Anita Rogers, station manager Leslie | 1932 | Frank Tuttle | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.8 (237 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Big City BluesYoung man from small town moves to New York City looking for better life. | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 (765 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
Big House, TheA convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences. | 1930 | George W. Hill, Ward Wing | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (2.1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Big Shakedown, TheRacketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies. | 1934 | John Francis Dillon | Crime, Drama | 6.5 (985 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
Big Timer, TheAn up and coming boxer ( Ben Lyon) runs into problems when he takes on a women fight manager (Constance Cummings). Ben Lyon is once again playing with Tom Dugan [They co-starred in "The Hot Heiress"(1931)]. This one is directed by Ed | 1932 | Edward Buzzell | Drama, Sport | 5.7 (251 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Big Trail, TheBreck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West. | 1930 | Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler | Adventure, Romance, Western | 7.2 (3.7K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
Bill of Divorcement, AA man, Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in a mental asylum. However, he finds things are not the way they were when he left. | 1932 | George Cukor (*) | Drama | 6.5 (1.7K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Bird of ParadiseA native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god. | 1932 | King Vidor (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.0 (1.3K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Bishop Misbehaves, TheOn a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned. Thinking it a joke, he plays ... | 1935 | Ewald André Dupont | Comedy, Crime | 6.6 (325 votes) | 85 | 20240605 |
Blessed EventAl Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who sends Frankie to talk to Alvin. But Al has | 1932 | Roy Del Ruth | Drama, Comedy | 7.0 (661 votes) | 80 | 20220414 |
Blonde CrazyThe adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice. | 1931 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (1.9K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Blondie JohnsonStory of a Depression-downtrodden waif who uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss. | 1933 | Ray Enright, Lucien Hubbard | Crime, Drama | 6.6 (652 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
BoleroAn egotistical nightclub dance performer named Raoul, has the determination to succeed at all costs, and the only woman in his life that truly matters to him is a dancing partner named Helen. | 1934 | Wesley Ruggles, Mitchell Leisen | Drama, Music | 6.6 (328 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Born to LoveA war officer who is thought dead returns to the woman he loves, only to find she has remarried. | 1931 | Paul L. Stein | Drama, Romance, War | 5.8 (302 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Bowery, TheIn New York's Bowery during the Gay Nineties, a saloon owner and a rebel share a rivalry. | 1933 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music | 6.8 (497 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Bright LightsA successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet. | 1930 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 5.7 (295 votes) | 69 | 20220414 |
BroadmindedJack's father is sending Jack away to keep him from the gambling, booze, girls and late nights. He has Ossie go as Jack's companion, not knowing that Ossie does the same things as Jack. They decide to go to California and the trip is | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Comedy | 5.8 (297 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
BroadwayA naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder. | 1929 | Pál Fejös | Crime, Music, Romance | 6.2 (391 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
Bureau of Missing PersonsButch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work. He regards the assignment as "kindergarten" work. When a young woman asks him to help locate her husband, Therme, he learns that s | 1933 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 73 | 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 |
Captain ThunderVictor Varconi plays a charming Mexican bandit gets involved in several conflicting paradoxical relations, including an alliance with a crooked rival bandit and a beautiful daughter of the governor. | 1930 | Alan Crosland | Adventure, Drama, Music, Western | 4.6 (158 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Careless LadyInnocent Sally Brown (Joan Bennett) thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris. | 1932 | Kenneth MacKenna | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (102 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
CavalcadeA portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933. | 1933 | Frank Lloyd | Drama, Romance, War | 5.9 (5.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
Chance at HeavenAn ambitious mechanic is tempted to desert his wonderful girlfriend when a silly but rich debutante falls for him. | 1933 | William A. Seiter (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (560 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
ChancesTwo brothers on leave fall for the same girl in World War I London. | 1931 | Allan Dwan | Drama, Romance, War | 6.4 (223 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Charming SinnersSet in London, Kathryn Miles's marriage is threatened when she discovers her husband's longstanding affair with her best friend but surprises everyone when she uses it to create a new life for herself. | 1929 | Robert Milton, Dorothy Arzner | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (84 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Cheat, TheWoman in debt makes an impulsive investment which doesn't go her way. | 1931 | George Abbott, Berthold Viertel | Drama | 6.4 (532 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Cheating BlondesA reporter sets out to prove the woman who rejected his marriage proposal is a murderer. Meanwhile, she's hiding in plain sight, posing as her missing twin sister. | 1933 | Joseph Levering | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.3 (58 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Circus Queen Murder, TheSuave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus roll | 1933 | Roy William Neill | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.1 (305 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
City StreetsMan joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison. | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.0 (1.6K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Clear All Wires!Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago | 1933 | George W. Hill | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (162 votes) | 78 | 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 |
College HumorA college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed. | 1933 | Wesley Ruggles | Action, Comedy, Music, Romance, Sport | 5.9 (205 votes) | 80 | 20220414 |
Common Law, TheYoung Valerie models for an American painter who tries to make a future in Paris and they fall in love. | 1931 | Paul L. Stein | Romance, Drama | 6.0 (300 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Consolation MarriageIn prohibition-era Manhattan, shopkeeper Mary Brown loses Aubrey, her childhood sweetheart, when he marries a rich woman. Reporter Steve "Rollo" Porter has lost -his- childhood sweetheart, Elaine, who has also married another. Mary a | 1931 | Paul Sloane | Drama | 6.1 (464 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
CoquetteA flirtatious Southern belle is compromised with one of her suitors. | 1929 | Sam Taylor | Drama, Romance | 5.6 (2.2K votes) | 76 | 20220414 |
CorruptionA young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him | 1933 | Charles E. Roberts | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 5.7 (152 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
CorsairA stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas. | 1931 | Roland West | Adventure, Crime, Romance | 5.7 (241 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Counsellor at LawSuccessful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns his wife has been unfaithful. | 1933 | William Wyler (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (1.2K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Crash, TheRich couple loses their fortune in stock market crash. | 1932 | William Dieterle (*) | Drama | 5.9 (326 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
Criminal Code, TheAfter a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated. | 1930 | Howard Hawks (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Crimson RomanceAfter Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force | 1934 | David Howard | Action, Drama, War | 5.7 (174 votes) | 71 | 20220723 |
CroonerStory of a saxophonist and his rise to fame as a singing star. | 1932 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.0 (167 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Cross StreetsA man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before. | 1934 | Frank R. Strayer | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (80 votes) | 65 | 20240419 |
Crusader, TheGangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter. | 1932 | Frank R. Strayer | Drama | 6.0 (75 votes) | 65 | 20240419 |
Cuckoo in the Nest, AA crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other. | 1933 | Tom Walls | Comedy | 6.0 (115 votes) | 85 | 20220414 |
DamesA multimillionaire decides to boycott "filthy" forms of entertainment such as Broadway shows. | 1934 | Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley | Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance | 7.1 (2.1K votes) | 91 | 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 |
Dancers in the DarkA bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too. | 1932 | David Burton | Drama | 6.0 (146 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Dancing LadyAn attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man, who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway. | 1933 | Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (2.4K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Danger LightsThe tough boss of a railroad yard befriends a young hobo, and unwittingly places in jeopardy his relationship with the woman he loves. | 1930 | George B. Seitz | Adventure, Drama | 6.1 (528 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Dangerous ParadiseHeyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms... | 1930 | William A. Wellman (*) | Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 5.6 (111 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
Daring DaughtersA savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life. | 1933 | Christy Cabanne | Drama, Romance | 5.7 (40 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
Dark Horse, TheJailbird is hired to lead a dimwitted candidate's campaign for governor. | 1932 | Alfred E. Green | Comedy | 7.1 (1.2K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Day of ReckoningIn this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his | 1933 | Charles Brabin | Drama | 6.3 (253 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Death Kiss, TheMurder during film shoot sparks search for a killer. | 1932 | Edwin L. Marin | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.1 (1.1K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Desert Song, TheThe Desert Song is a 1929 American Pre-Code operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy. | 1929 | Roy Del Ruth | Action, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (108 votes) | 123 | 20220414 |
Devil Is Driving, TheThere is a garage in downtown New York City on the ground floor of an eight-story building, with a winding ramp, that serves as a cache for stolen automobiles. The second floor is the repair shop, with the third, fourth and fifth ... | 1932 | Benjamin Stoloff | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.1 (178 votes) | 65 | 20240419 |
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 |
DiplomaniacsBarbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual b | 1933 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy, Musical | 6.5 (310 votes) | 61 | 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 |
DixianaIn antebellum New Orleans, two men vie for the affections of a beautiful young girl during Mardi Gras. | 1930 | Luther Reed | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 5.3 (367 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Doctor XA wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer. | 1932 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.4 (3.4K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Don't Bet on WomenAt a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert Drake. Herbert who is happily married, bets Fallon that the next woman who walks in | 1931 | William K. Howard | Comedy, Romance | 6.1 (155 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Doorway to Hell, TheDespite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime. | 1930 | Archie Mayo | Crime, Drama | 6.5 (1.1K votes) | 78 | 20220414 |
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 |
Dragon Murder Case, TheThe Stann family gives a small party prior to daughter Bernice's marriage to socialite Monty, but all of the guests seem to be against the match. | 1934 | H. Bruce Humberstone | Mystery | 6.3 (604 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
DynamiteWealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wea | 1929 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Drama | 7.0 (429 votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
Easiest Way, TheGrowing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. After falling in love with young up-and-coming newsman Jack Ma | 1931 | Jack Conway | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (508 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Easy to LoveCarol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. | 1934 | William Keighley | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 (333 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Eleventh Commandment, TheA wealthy but unmarried woman dies, and since no heirs can be found, her estate will automatically go to her attorney. The attorney's partner, however, would like to get his hands on the old woman's money, so he hatches a scheme with | 1933 | George Melford | Drama | 6.0 (47 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
EmmaAfter decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father. | 1932 | Clarence Brown | Drama | 7.0 (984 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Employees' EntranceA working girl is menaced by her tyrannical employer. | 1933 | Roy Del Ruth | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (1.3K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Evenings For SaleImpoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A chance meeting with his former butler, brings a job offer as a gig | 1932 | Stuart Walker | Comedy | 6.7 (116 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Ever in My HeartWorld War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German. | 1933 | Archie Mayo | Drama, Romance, War | 6.7 (718 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Everything's RosieA carnival huckster and his 17-year-old foster daughter try to be accepted by the townspeople when she and a handsome lad fall in love. | 1931 | Clyde Bruckman | Comedy, Romance | 5.9 (160 votes) | 67 | 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 |
Expensive WomenExpensive Women is a 1931 Pre-Code talking film drama directed by silent film veteran Hobart Henley and stars Dolores Costello. It was Costello's final film as a leading lady and star for Warners, which she had been since 1925. She r | 1931 | Hobart Henley | Drama | 5.5 (219 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
ExtravaganceWhen spoiled Alice Kendall marries Fred Garlan, an up-and-coming entrepreneur, she expects her wealthy lifestyle to remain the same, causing problems in their marriage. | 1930 | Phil Rosen (*) | Drama, Romance | 5.8 (142 votes) | 71 | 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 |
False FacesDr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital, primarily for a lack of ethics, and goes to Chicago and sets himself up as a plastic surgeon (unqualified) and seducer of women; his quack methods lead to an operating | 1932 | Lowell Sherman | Drama | 6.5 (63 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Famous Ferguson Case, TheA foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journa | 1932 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.5 (298 votes) | 74 | 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 |
Finger Points, TheRookie reporter receives bribes from gangsters to suspend negative press. | 1931 | John Francis Dillon | Crime, Drama | 5.9 (446 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Finishing SchoolThe trials and tribulations in a private, snobbish girls school. | 1934 | George Nichols Jr., Wanda Tuchock | Drama | 6.4 (550 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Finn and HattieA child genius has fun getting her cousin into trouble. When she is not bedeviling her cousin, she is helping her father get out of trouble with con artists. | 1931 | Norman Z. McLeod, Norman Taurog | Comedy | 6.4 (60 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Fireman Save My ChildJoe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small home town. He gets an offer to play in a big team, he hopes to get more money for his inventions. But he is invited to present his invention to a fire-extinguisher co | 1932 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Sport | 5.9 (258 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Five and TenAfter her businessman father moves her family from Kansas City to New York, a woman falls in love with an engaged man. | 1931 | Robert Z. Leonard | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (1.4K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Five Star FinalThe City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results. | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.3 (2.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Flirting Widow, ThePhyllis wants to marry Bobby, but Father won't permit it until older sister Celia weds. So Celia invents a military fiancée in Arabia, unimaginatively christens him John Smith, writes him a love letter, and then kills him off. Onl... | 1930 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.1 (292 votes) | 72 | 20240419 |
Flying HighAn eccentric inventor and his new flying machine are the focus of this musical comedy. | 1931 | Charles Reisner | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 5.7 (282 votes) | 80 | 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 |
Forsaking All OthersDill leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dill, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her. | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (1.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Four Frightened PeopleFour passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. In order to reach safety they have to trek through the jungle, facing wild animals and attacks by primitive tribesmen. | 1934 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Adventure, Drama | 6.2 (599 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
FramedWoman swears revenge against an Inspector who was responsible for her father's death. | 1930 | George Archainbaud | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (240 votes) | 65 | 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 |
Friends and LoversBritish Army Captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmail | 1931 | Victor Schertzinger | Drama, Romance, War | 5.5 (368 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Friends of Mr. SweeneyAfter 20 years of writing for The Balance, Asaph has become a conservative shadow of his former self. When his ex-college chum visits Asaph, he cannot believe the change. So Ace decides to go out and has Beulah get a girl for Rixey. | 1934 | Edward Ludwig | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (108 votes) | 68 | 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 |
Gabriel Over the White HouseA political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident. | 1933 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 6.4 (1.3K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Gay Bride, TheAfter the adversary of a bootlegger has him killed, he takes up with his widow, a gold-digging chorus girl, but a handsome bodyguard is also determined to win her over. | 1934 | Jack Conway | Comedy, Crime | 6.5 (539 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Gay Diplomat, TheCaptain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance. | 1931 | Richard Boleslawski | Drama | 5.1 (175 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Gentleman's FateJack lives the high life and wants to make Marjorie his one and only. He then learns that his deceased father is alive but dying of lead poisoning. His father sent him away, twenty years before, to keep him out of the rackets. But no | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (794 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Gentlemen of the PressA driven newspaperman misses out on the joys and sorrows of ordinary life. | 1929 | Millard Webb | Drama | 6.7 (89 votes) | 75 | 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 |
Ghoul, TheAn Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb. | 1933 | T. Hayes Hunter | Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 5.9 (2.6K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
GigoletteKay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades Terry Gallagher to give her a hostess job at his New York City clip-joint, which he operates on the theory that if the suckers want it he | 1935 | Charles Lamont | Drama, Romance | 5.2 (31 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Girl from Missouri, TheChorus girl Eadie is determined to marry a millionaire without sacrificing her virtue. | 1934 | Jack Conway, Sam Wood | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (1.2K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Girl MissingTwo sassy gold-diggers stranded in Palm Beach become involved in the case of a fellow chorine who goes missing on her wedding night. | 1933 | Robert Florey | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 6.7 (396 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Girl Said No, TheA brash, pushy young man gets a job in a bank and sets his cap for his boss's secretary, but the death of his father makes him reassess his priorities. | 1930 | Sam Wood (*) | Comedy, Romance | 5.4 (849 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Girl Without a RoomTom Duncan, a young Tennessee painter, is thrilled to receive an art scholarship to Paris. When he arrives, he finds himself surrounded by a group of eclectic characters, as well as his beautiful new roommate, Kay. What relationship | 1933 | Ralph Murphy | Comedy | 6.6 (68 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Girls About TownTwo gold diggers prey on old rich men, but one of them falls in love with a young, rich man. | 1931 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy | 6.8 (625 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Glorifying the American GirlThe rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza "Glorifying the American Girl". | 1929 | Millard Webb | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 5.8 (711 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
God's Gift To WomenA Parisian descendant of Don Juan vows to stop philandering in order to win the hand of a virtous young lady with a disapproving father. | 1931 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Comedy, Romance | 5.2 (370 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Going HollywoodA love-struck teacher pursues a radio singer to Hollywood. | 1933 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Musical, Romance | 6.2 (1.8K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Going WildRollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meal | 1930 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy | 5.9 (180 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
GoldieSailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, | 1931 | Benjamin Stoloff | Comedy | 5.5 (136 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Goodbye LoveA sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler. Complications e | 1933 | H. Bruce Humberstone | Comedy | 5.4 (125 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Good-bye LoveWealthy Chester is not Phyllis's first husband. And all pay alimony. After the wedding Chester learns that she has had eyes on a British big game hunter who turns out to be a pretender like Phyllis: Actually he is Chester's butler. | 1933 | H. Bruce Humberstone | Comedy, Mystery, Romance | 5.3 (137 votes) | 67 | 20231013 |
Great Meadow, TheBerk leaves Diony and their baby to hunt down his mother's murderer and is believed to be dead. Evan provides for them & marries Diony. Berk returns and challenges Evan to a fight but Diony will not be fought over "as if I'm not huma | 1931 | Charles Brabin | Drama, Western | 6.1 (144 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Greeks Had a Word for Them, The [Three Broadway Girls]Sophisticated comedy: a trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a different personality type, from sensitive, to kind-hearted, | 1932 | Lowell Sherman | Comedy | 6.2 (424 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Guilty as HellThe sister of a convicted murder is convinced that he is innocent in this cat-and-mouse game where the murderer is always one step ahead until a final tense confrontation. | 1932 | Erle C. Kenton | Mystery | 6.6 (97 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Guilty HandsA district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover. | 1931 | W.S. Van Dyke, Lionel Barrymore | Drama, Crime | 6.9 (798 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Half MarriageA young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a p | 1929 | William J. Cowen | Drama, Romance | 5.6 (145 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Half Shot at SunriseThe stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I. | 1930 | Paul Sloane | Comedy, Musical | 6.1 (346 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Half-Naked Truth, TheA barker at a down-at-the-heels carnival becomes a powerhouse New York publicity man as he transforms a sideshow dancer into a Broadway sensation. | 1932 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (558 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
HallelujahA sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city. | 1929 | King Vidor (*) | Drama, Musical | 6.8 (1.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Hard to HandleSmall time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is over, he's forced to come up with a series o | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.7 (799 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Hatchet Man, TheA hatchet man is ordered to kill his close friend for the sake of Tong. | 1932 | William A. Wellman (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.3 (809 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Havana WidowsTwo golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana. | 1933 | Ray Enright | Comedy | 6.3 (486 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
Headline ShooterThe adventures of a wayward newsreel cameraman. | 1933 | Otto Brower | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (170 votes) | 61 | 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 |
Hell BelowIn 1918, U.S. Navy Lt. Tommy Knowlton participates in dangerous submarine missions, disobeys orders, gets court-martialed and romances a married woman who happens to be his C.O.'s daughter. | 1933 | Jack Conway | Romance, Drama, War | 6.6 (467 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
Hell DiversStory of rivalry between 2 Navy aircrewmen on and off duty. | 1931 | George W. Hill | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (622 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Hell HarborLovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the greasy local merchant, Anita does everything in her power to make her dream a reality. | 1930 | Henry King | Drama, Romance | 5.5 (176 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Hell's HighwayChain gang prisoners forced to construct a "liberty highway" for their overseer chasten under his brutal stewardship, causing Duke Ellis to mastermind a mass riot. | 1932 | Rowland Brown, John Cromwell | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.7 (662 votes) | 62 | 20220723 |
Hell's HouseJimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions. | 1932 | Howard Higgin | Drama | 6.1 (1.3K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Her BodyguardThe ""sugar daddy"" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other men, most notably the producer of the show in which she's starring. Ho... | 1933 | William Beaudine | Comedy, Romance | 5.6 (30 votes) | 71 | 20240715 |
Her Mad NightA woman is accused of murdering a man who molested her young daughter. | 1932 | E. Mason Hopper | Crime, Drama | 5.5 (61 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Her ManHavana bar girl with tough "protector" falls for young sailor. | 1930 | Tay Garnett | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (402 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Her Private AffairHer Private Affair is a 1929 drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Ann Harding. It was produced and distributed by the Pathé Exchange company. It is a sound film using the RCA Photophone sound-on-film sound system. | 1929 | Paul L. Stein | Drama | 5.2 (141 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Here Comes the NavyA cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism. | 1934 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance, War | 6.3 (965 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Here Is My HeartA rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess. | 1934 | Frank Tuttle | Musical, Comedy | 6.8 (122 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
High PressureGar Evans is a "high pressure" promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success. He sets up the "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and persuades a lot of people to inv | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Comedy | 6.7 (575 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Hips Hips HoorayTwo salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick. | 1934 | Mark Sandrich (*) | Comedy, Musical | 6.4 (503 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
His Double LifePriam Farrel is a celebrated artist but a social recluse. When his valet dies of a sudden illness, a mix-up leads to the body being identified as Farrel's. The timid artist then assumes the identity of his former servant, but finds h | 1933 | Arthur Hopkins | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 (357 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
His WomanA woman masquerades as a missionary's daughter to get on a ship bound to New York. | 1931 | Edward Sloman | Drama, Romance | 5.7 (188 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
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 |
Hole in the Wall, TheMrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known as "The Fox" and newspaperman | 1929 | Robert Florey | Drama, Mystery | 5.7 (182 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Honor Among LoversJerry Stafford, a businessman, is in love with his secretary but she deserts him for another man. When she realizes her mistake, she goes back to him. Doris Brown is her girlfriend who is in love with a man named Monty Dunn. | 1931 | Dorothy Arzner | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (282 votes) | 75 | 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 PepperComedy about a pair of ex-Marines who team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her. | 1933 | John G. Blystone | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 5.8 (106 votes) | 76 | 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 |
HuddleTony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, | 1932 | Sam Wood (*) | Drama, Romance, Sport | 5.8 (231 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
I Loved You WednesdayVicki Meredith, an American ballet student in Paris, falls in love with Randall Williams, another American studying architecture in Paree, and they set up some light housekeeping together until she learns that Randall has forgotten t | 1933 | Henry King, William Cameron Menzies | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (46 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
IllicitA young couple lives together out of wedlock, but they find that they're ahead of their time. | 1931 | Archie Mayo | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (1K votes) | 79 | 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 |
IndiscreetA young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up. | 1931 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.2 (1.4K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Is My Face RedPoster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his gal, Peggy who is a showgirl. When Bill sees Tony stab Angelo Spin | 1932 | William A. Seiter (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (191 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Jennie GerhardtJennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets George Brander, a United State Senator, who becomes infatuated with her. He helps her family and declares his wish to marry her. | 1933 | Marion Gering | Drama | 6.6 (128 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Jimmy the GentAn unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor. | 1934 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (1.8K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Journal of a CrimeA wife shoots her husband's mistress. Afterwards, she is tormented by guilt when someone else is blamed for the crime. | 1934 | William Keighley | Drama | 6.1 (431 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Just a GigoloHaines plays the role of a festive British nobleman, for whom a marriage has been arranged by his relatives. He goes to a European Summer resort and poses as a gigolo to meet the girl chosen, learn what she's like and to apply the "a | 1931 | Jack Conway | Comedy, Romance | 6.1 (889 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Kept HusbandsDaughter of a wealthy family decides to marry a poor working man. | 1931 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (540 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Keyhole, TheAnne Brooks is being blackmailed by her old dancing partner Maurice. They married when she was young but broke up after which he said he was getting a quickie divorce. Anne married the much older millionaire Schuyler Brooks only to h | 1933 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (596 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
King for a NightA prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister. | 1933 | Kurt Neumann | Action, Crime, Drama, Sport | 6.9 (76 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
King of JazzAmerican Pre-Code color film starring Paul Whiteman and his Jazz orchestra. | 1930 | John Murray Anderson, Walter Lantz | Animation, Comedy, Musical | 6.7 (1.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
King of the JungleA white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus. | 1933 | H. Bruce Humberstone, Max Marcin | Action, Adventure | 6.6 (175 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
KlondikeDr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation that has never been done before, and the patient dies. He is charged with malpractice and manslaughter and his trial is national news, but the jury acquits him. But the court of pu... | 1932 | Phil Rosen (*) | Adventure, Drama | 5.4 (154 votes) | 68 | 20240419 |
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 |
Ladies of the JurySociety Matron, Mrs. Crane, is selected as a juror in the trail of an ex-chorus girl, Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich elderly husband. In court, Mrs. Crane is your unorthodox and disruptive juror. During the first | 1932 | Lowell Sherman | Comedy, Mystery | 6.3 (335 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
Ladies Should ListenThe switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a | 1934 | Frank Tuttle | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (401 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
Ladies They Talk AboutAttractive Nan, member of a bank-robbery gang, goes to prison thanks to evangelist Dave Slade...who loves her. | 1933 | Howard Bretherton, William Keighley | Drama | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Lady For A DayA gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day. | 1933 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (4.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Lady Lies, TheMuch to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman. | 1929 | Hobart Henley | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (95 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Lady of Chance, ASeasoned grifter Dolly Crandall returns to the 'badger game' but has a change of heart when she falls in love with a young man she believes is a rich Southerner. | 1928 | Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (445 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Lady of Scandal, TheA famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires. | 1930 | Sidney Franklin | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (179 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Lady With a PastA wealthy, proper society girl finds that she's much more popular with men when she pretends to be a "bad" girl. | 1932 | Edward H. Griffith | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (333 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Lash, TheDon Francisco Delfina, a nobleman of Southern California in 1848, disguises himself as El Puma and leads a revolt against the tyrannical land agent and politician Peter Harkness. | 1930 | Frank Lloyd | Western | 5.3 (159 votes) | 77 | 20220912 |
Last Flight, TheWorld War 1 veterans roam Paris drinking and admiring a woman they recently met. | 1931 | William Dieterle (*) | Drama | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Last of Mrs. CheyneyAt an elegant gathering of English nobility, young widow Fay Cheyney wins with her beauty, musicality and clever repartee. Cheyney, however, is not who she claims to be. | 1929 | Sidney Franklin | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 (508 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Laughing BoyLaughing Boy is a Navajo from a remote part of the reservation, while Slim Girl was raised by whites in town and lives as a white man's mistress. They meet at a powwow and marry, in spite of the disapproval of Laughing Boy's family. | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Drama, Romance, Western | 4.9 (150 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Laughing Lady, TheA society woman wrongly -- and very publicly -- accused of infidelity is dropped by her friends, spurned by her husband, and faced with the loss of her child. | 1929 | Victor Schertzinger | Drama | 6.8 (50 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Laughing SinnersCabaret performer Ivy Stevens in an affair with a low-rent traveling salesman is dumped in a 'Dear Jane' letter and finds solace in joining the Salvation Army. | 1931 | Harry Beaumont | Drama, Romance | 5.3 (747 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
LaughterA former chorus girl weds a millionaire after the composer she loves leaves. Meanwhile, she strings along an artist in love with her. When the composer returns, she struggles with her needs for security vs love. High jinks and drama | 1930 | Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Comedy, Romance | 6.4 (343 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Lawyer ManIdealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully beats high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley in a murder case. Bentley asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive w | 1932 | William Dieterle (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (916 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Let Us Be GayDowdy housewife Kitty dotes on her self-centered husband but divorces him when his mistress shows up at their home one day to break up their marriage. Bob had become bored with her lackluster appearance, their children and himself. K | 1930 | Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 (526 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Let's Go NativeDress designer Joan Wood, who's heavily in debt, has created costumes for a Broadway show that is exported to Argentina. With the money she wants to pay her debts, but there was a mistake: she is receiving the money in Buenos Aires, | 1930 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 5.8 (142 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Letter, TheJeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). Robert decides to go out for the evening to p | 1929 | Jean de Limur | Drama | 6.7 (696 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Life BeginsAt a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives wait for their babies either anxiously or happily. Efficient and compassionate nurse Miss Bowers keeps the ward running smoothly. Things liven up when Gr... | 1932 | James Flood, Elliott Nugent | Drama | 6.6 (395 votes) | 71 | 20220723 |
Lights of New YorkTwo men are conned into bootlegging business. | 1928 | Bryan Foy | Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 5.7 (807 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
Lilly TurnerA carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she's pregnant. She then marries the carnival's barker, but finds herself attracted to a young engineer. | 1933 | William A. Wellman (*) | Drama | 6.5 (443 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Little WomenA chronicle of the lives of a group of sisters growing up in nineteenth-century America. | 1933 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Family, Romance, War | 7.2 (6.9K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
Local Boy Makes GoodJohn is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter s | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Action, Comedy, Romance, Sport | 6.2 (217 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Lonely WivesA lonely husband whose wife has been away hires a lookalike impersonator to fill his place and fool his mother-in-law while he plays around with a pretty coquette. Confusion prevails when his wife returns that evening. | 1931 | Russell Mack | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (403 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Loose AnklesIn this light romantic comedy, 17-year old Loretta Young is cast as Ann Harper, a wealthy socialite who has inherited a fortune provided the family is involved in no scandals appearing in print, and her two aunts and uncle consent to | 1930 | Ted Wilde | Comedy, Romance | 6.0 (422 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Love AffairHeiress Carol Owen learns to fly from aeronautical engineer Jim Leonard who begins neglecting his work as their affair progresses. Things get complicated when she learns her father died penniless and that she has been being supported | 1932 | Thornton Freeland | Drama, Romance | 5.8 (460 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Love Comes AlongAn American sailor comes to a seedy banana republic, and finds a fellow yank, a stranded girl, as a saloon singer. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding about her feelings toward the local dictator threaten their happiness. | 1930 | Rupert Julian | Adventure, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.8 (48 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Love is a RacketJimmy writes the 'Up and Down Broadway' column for the New York Globe, and he is head over heels for Mary. But Mary is more interested in her career and is looking at starring on Broadway with the help of Boncour. However, there is a | 1932 | William A. Wellman (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (435 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Love Parade, TheThe queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying. | 1929 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (2.3K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
Lucky DevilsThey smash through skylights, tumble down staircases, drop from a high rooftop into a waiting convertible - the only fall Skipper Clark and his pals won't take is to fall in love. | 1933 | Ralph Ince | Action, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (212 votes) | 70 | 20230728 |
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 |
Madame RacketeerInternational con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she che | 1932 | Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Alexander Hall | Comedy | 6.7 (62 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Make Me a StarMerton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non-existent. Actress Flips gives him a chance in a bit part, but he fails in that; how | 1932 | William Beaudine | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (517 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Man of the WorldA young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle. | 1931 | Richard Wallace, Edward Goodman | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (924 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Man To ManEighteen years ago, John Bolton found the man who killed his brother Joe and shot it out. The man was killed and John went to prison. His son Mike is now a college track star and when the fraternity finds out about his father, he ... | 1930 | Allan Dwan | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (146 votes) | 68 | 20220531 |
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 |
Man with Two Faces, TheA talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband. | 1934 | Archie Mayo | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (693 votes) | 72 | 20220414 |
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 |
Manhattan MelodramaThe friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman. | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway, George Cukor | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Manhattan TowerThe lives of a number of the workers and executives in a Manhattan skyscraper are affected by the actions of a philandering and crooked company boss. | 1932 | Frank R. Strayer | Drama | 6.5 (223 votes) | 67 | 20220822 |
Marie GalanteMarie is kidnapped and taken aboard ship, then thrown off at Yucatan. She winds up singing in a café in the Panama Canal zone. There she gets involved in a plot to destroy the canal and runs into American intelligence officer Crawbet | 1934 | Henry King | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 5.7 (351 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Mary Jane's PaSam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family (wife Ellen, two daughters and a son,) he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back | 1935 | William Keighley | Drama | 6.4 (122 votes) | 70 | 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 |
MassacreJoe Thunderhorse, a Sioux Indian who has become the wealthy star of a Wild West show, returns home to his reservation after years away and finds that his father is dying and his people are being abused by corrupt white officials. | 1934 | Alan Crosland | Action, Drama | 6.9 (246 votes) | 70 | 20220414 |
Match King, TheUnscrupulous Paul Kroll, starting as a Chicago janitor, uses graft to finance a trip to Sweden where by trickery he gains control of his uncle's small match factory. By expert manipulation of everyone and employment of femmes-fatale, | 1932 | Howard Bretherton, William Keighley | Drama | 6.9 (521 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Maybe It's LoveA college football player (Joe E. Brown) persuades a beautiful young woman (Joan Bennett) to individually flirt with an entire team of All-American football players, in order to entice them over to her college. But the players get an | 1930 | William A. Wellman (*) | Comedy, Music, Romance, Sport | 5.0 (303 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Mayor of Hell, TheFive members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed deputy commissioner as a politi | 1933 | Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.6K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Meanest Gal in Town, TheA stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town. | 1934 | Russell Mack | Comedy | 6.1 (94 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
Meet the BaronThe famous Baron Munchausen dumps two dimwits in the African jungle. A rescue team mistakes one of them for the missing Baron, and returns them to the US, where they're greeted as heroes. While giving a speech at a college, the "Baro | 1933 | Walter Lang | Comedy | 5.6 (289 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Melody CruiseA popular playboy goes on a cruise from New York in winter to California. He brings a friend to keep him from getting too serious with any of the many eligible women on the cruise. The plot complicates when he does fall in love with | 1933 | Mark Sandrich (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.0 (277 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Men Are Such FoolsAn struggling Italian of American nationality decides to go back to US. His girlfriend, who was ready to ditch him for wealthier people, marries him to get to USA. There, she flirts and then becomes lover of a rich night-club owner., | 1932 | William Nigh | Drama | 5.8 (69 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
Men Call It LoveA well-off bachelor finds himself at a loss for what to do when a married woman comes on to him while he's thoroughly involved with someone else's wife. | 1931 | Edgar Selwyn | Drama, Romance | 5.6 (164 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Men of AmericaA gang of bank robbers hide out in a cabin near a valley road that was closed because of an earthquake. They had just robbed a bank of $50,000, but in $1000 bills, which the leader, Cicero, knows can never be spent. With no other mon | 1932 | Ralph Ince, William Boyd | Crime, Western, Drama | 6.2 (118 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
Men of ChanceHoping to get even with gambler/bookie Johnny Silk, racetrack owners and partners Dorval and Farley convince down-and-out Martha Preston to pose as a rich, single French countess, whom Silk falls in love with and asks to marry. After | 1931 | George Archainbaud | Drama | 6.0 (182 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Merrily We Go to HellA drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania. | 1932 | Dorothy Arzner | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (1.4K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Merry Frinks, TheAn under-appreciated mother inherits a fortune and abandons her family. | 1934 | Alfred E. Green | Comedy, Romance | 5.8 (191 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Merry Wives of RenoThree couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces. | 1934 | H. Bruce Humberstone | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (288 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
MidnightThe foreman of a jury asks questions that send a woman to the electric chair for a murder committed in the heat of passion. On the night of the execution, his actions come back to haunt him. | 1934 | Chester Erskine | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 5.6 (931 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Midnight ClubElegant Colin Grant and his associates are successful jewelry thieves, even unmasked to their victims, their perfect alibis making impossible for the Comissioner police to arrest them. Things are running smoothly until Nick Mason ent | 1933 | Alexander Hall, George Somnes | Crime, Drama | 6.9 (94 votes) | 64 | 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 |
MillieMillie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair. | 1931 | John Francis Dillon | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (703 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Million Dollar LegsA small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money. | 1932 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy, Sport | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 64 | 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 |
Mind Reader, TheChandler, a con-man, and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit, as a little research reveals Americans spent $125 million on mind-readers and astrology. The carny, renamed Chandra, falls for one of | 1933 | Roy Del Ruth | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (479 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Miracle Woman, TheAfter an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness? | 1931 | Frank Capra (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Moby DickIn this extremely loose adaptation of Melville's classic novel, Ahab is revealed initially not as a bitter and vengeful madman, but as a bit of a lovable scamp. Ashore in New Bedford, he meets and falls for Faith Mapple, daughter of | 1930 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Adventure, Drama | 5.6 (475 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Modern Hero, APierre is a young and handsome circus rider whose mother has long tolerated his amorous adventures but becomes genuinely concerned when he actually falls in love. She reveals to him that he's the son of a wealthy man, whom she could | 1934 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (248 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Montana MoonA vacuous and flirtatious daughter of a wealthy rancher falls in love and marries a Texas cowboy and rancher, who calls her 'Montana', and eventually clash over their different lifestyles, to the point of almost ending their marriage | 1930 | Malcolm St. Clair | Western | 4.5 (573 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Morning GloryWhen a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success. | 1933 | Lowell Sherman | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (2.9K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Moulin RougeA singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that a popular French singer named "Raquel" is coming to New York, she decides to go | 1934 | Sidney Lanfield | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (151 votes) | 70 | 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 |
Music in the AirConstantly quarreling couple decide to try the jealousy angle when a naive young couple comes along. | 1934 | Joe May | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.0 (999 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
My PastYoung man and an older man fall for a stage actress. | 1931 | Roy Del Ruth | Drama, Romance | 5.6 (193 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
New Morals for OldA single mother struggles to raise her son and daughter,who find it difficult to listen to her life lessons.they forge their own lives,and make their own mistakes as a result. | 1932 | Charles Brabin | Drama, Romance | 5.3 (213 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
New York NightsA chorus girl with marital woes is pursued by a gangster. | 1929 | Lewis Milestone | Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 5.7 (221 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Night After NightA successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl. | 1932 | Archie Mayo | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (758 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Night BeatA young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse. | 1931 | George B. Seitz | Crime, Drama | 5.3 (63 votes) | 61 | 20221116 |
Night Birds(1930) Jameson Thomas, Muriel Angelus, Jack Rain. Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club. | 1930 | Richard Eichberg | Crime, Drama | 5.5 (38 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Night CourtJudge and his mistress are investigated on suspicions of corruption. | 1932 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.9 (379 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Night FlightPolio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes. | 1933 | Clarence Brown | Drama | 6.2 (864 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Night Life in RenoA story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie si | 1931 | Raymond Cannon | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.0 (114 votes) | 72 | 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 |
Night WorldStory of the goings-on at a Prohibition-era nightclub. | 1932 | Hobart Henley | Drama | 7.0 (392 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
No Greater GloryAdapted from The Paul Street Boys, an autobiographical novel by Ferenc Molnar, GLORY is an unusually sensitive evocation of the pain of youth and the senselessness of war. Frail Nemecsek, a lonely boy who yearns to belong, worships B | 1934 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama | 7.0 (438 votes) | 74 | 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 |
No Marriage TiesAlcoholic reporter Bruce Foster is on the road to ruin when he partners with advertising man "Perk" Perkins to form a successful advertising agency. Foster makes the business a success, but his personal life suffers. | 1933 | J. Walter Ruben | Drama | 6.0 (137 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
No More OrchidsAn heiress forced to marry into royalty in order to save her banker father falls in love with another man while on a cruise. | 1932 | Walter Lang | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (345 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
No One ManWhen the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to. | 1932 | Lloyd Corrigan | Drama | 5.9 (71 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Nothing But The TruthA young man bets $10,000 that he can tell for 24 hour nothing but the truth. | 1929 | Victor Schertzinger | Action, Comedy, Romance | 6.5 (74 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Notorious Affair, AA scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money. | 1930 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Drama, Romance | 5.4 (285 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Notorious But NiceJennie Jones, a girl with a mysterious past, is engaged to her employer's son. His father attempts to destroy her life so his son will reject her. When all seems lost, help comes from an unexpected source, but complications ensue. | 1933 | Richard Thorpe | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (80 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Notorious Sophie Lang, TheAfter an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof s | 1934 | Ralph Murphy, William Cameron Menzies | Comedy, Crime | 6.8 (64 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
Now and ForeverA swindler and his girlfriend take in his young daughter, who has been living with the family of his deceased wife. | 1934 | Henry Hathaway | Drama, Music, Romance | 6.5 (986 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Nuisance, TheAn ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways. | 1933 | Jack Conway | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (314 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Office Wife, TheLarry Fellowes of Fellowes Publishing wants Kate to write her next book about the 'Office Wife'. The personal secretary/stenographer spends more time with the busy executive and makes more decisions than his wife ever well. This crea | 1930 | Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (443 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
Okay America!A gossip columnist's rise to fame, closely based on the real life of Walter Winchell. | 1932 | Tay Garnett | Drama | 7.0 (98 votes) | 78 | 20240323 |
Once in a LifetimeStory of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies. | 1932 | Russell Mack | Comedy | 6.6 (188 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
One Heavenly NightA poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star. | 1930 | George Fitzmaurice | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 5.2 (175 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
One Night at Susie'sA woman who owns a boarding house winds up being the "mother hen" to the assorted mobsters and racketeers who live there. Her foster son takes the blame for a murder that was actually committed by his girlfriend. When he's released, | 1930 | John Francis Dillon | Drama | 5.8 (172 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
One Romantic NightA scheming mother wishes to make a succesful match between her daughter and a prince, yet another man, a commoner, may stand in the way. | 1930 | Paul L. Stein | Comedy, Romance | 5.7 (436 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
One Year LaterA man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution are a reporter, who is dying of lung cancer and wants to interview the condemned m | 1933 | E. Mason Hopper | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (82 votes) | 69 | 20220414 |
Only YesterdayA one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but tries to seduce her. | 1933 | John M. Stahl | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (365 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Other Men's WomenEvents take an unhappy turn for two Bill and Jack, two locomotive engineers, after Bill is attracted to his best friend's wife. | 1931 | William A. Wellman (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (1.2K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Our BettersAlthough the British upper class may be thought our betters in society, but they are certainly not our betters, and perhaps our equals, in morality. | 1933 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (777 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Our Blushing BridesThree department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Jerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Jerry is the sensible one, but the others throw themselves at amoral r | 1930 | Harry Beaumont | Drama, Music, Romance | 5.9 (738 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
Our Dancing DaughtersA flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire. | 1928 | Harry Beaumont | Drama | 6.6 (1.8K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Outcast LadyA woman's trials and tribulations over a romance since childhood, protecting her husband's secret past, and the trouble it causes with her brother. | 1934 | Robert Z. Leonard | Drama, Romance | 5.4 (186 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Pagan Lady, TheA free-spirited bartender on a tropical island has a reputation as a "pagan lady", who hops from man to man and bed to bed. The young son of the island's fire-and-brimstone evangelist arrives on the island, falls in love with her and | 1931 | John Francis Dillon | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 5.4 (48 votes) | 80 | 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 |
Painted FacesA vaudeville performer is murdered backstage and another performer is tried for the crime. | 1929 | Albert S. Rogell | Crime, Mystery | 6.1 (65 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Palooka [Joe Palooka]Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt. | 1934 | Benjamin Stoloff | Comedy, Family, Music | 6.1 (365 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Panama FloA New York chorus girl is coerced into keeping house for an oil man in South America to pay off a debt. Her boyfriend comes to get her but she finds out that he is only out for the oil man's money. | 1932 | Ralph Murphy, Tay Garnett | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (206 votes) | 73 | 20230715 |
Parachute JumperTo share expenses, unemployed Alabama moves in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster's mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster's bodyguard. Alabama unknowingly applies for a stenographer's job at Mr. | 1933 | Alfred E. Green | Drama | 6.8 (1.1K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Paris InterludeJulie has a star crossed romance with Sam, leaning on pal Cassie when unhappy. When Sam is believed dead Cassie urges Julie to take up with good guy Pat. When Sam returns Cassie tries to do the right thing by her best friend. | 1934 | Edwin L. Marin | Drama | 5.9 (132 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Parole GirlA young woman released on parole vows to ruin the life of the man who insisted on sending her to jail. | 1933 | Edward F. Cline | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (279 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Party GirlA cautionary tale. Ellen's past as a "party girl" is carefully hidden but may be exposed when another party girl tricks her fiance into marriage. | 1930 | Victor Halperin | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.3 (267 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Party HusbandA liberated couple's divergent lifestyles almost ruin their marriage. | 1931 | Clarence G. Badger | Comedy | 6.4 (94 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Passport to Hell, AA notorious beautiful English woman (Myra) is kicked out of British West Africa to German West Africa, just before the start of World War I. She marries a German colonial official (Erich) to avoid internment. When Erich's father disc | 1932 | Frank Lloyd | Drama | 6.6 (110 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Pay-Off, TheA thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny | 1930 | Lowell Sherman | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.5 (272 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Peacock AlleyClaire Tree is a singer/dancer who goes after what she wants in a straight-forward, no-nonsense manner, so when she finds herself in the New York City hotel-suite, in fashionable Peacock Alley, of Stoddard Clayton, she wastes no time | 1930 | Marcel De Sano | Drama, Music, Romance | 4.9 (121 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
Penguin Pool MurderShady stockbroker and abusive husband Gerald Parker is found dead in the penguin pool of a NYC aquarium after being knocked cold by his wife's boyfriend. | 1932 | George Archainbaud | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 7.0 (1.2K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
PenthouseA lawyer's fiancée leaves him after he defends a racketeer accused of murder, but she needs his help when her new beau is accused of killing an old flame. | 1933 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Crime, Mystery, Romance | 6.8 (1.1K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Phantom of Crestwood, TheJenny Wren coerces banker Priam Andes to have a dinner party at his shorefront estate Crestwood, and instructs him to invite three other men, each of whom she plans to extort money from. Jenny plans to retire to Europe after a life o | 1932 | J. Walter Ruben | Crime, Mystery | 6.5 (681 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Phantom of ParisCheri-Bibi is an escape artist wrongly imprisoned for murdering the wealthy father of his admirer Cecile. The real murderer is Cecile's fiancé, so how will Bibi escape his death sentence and win back Cecile? | 1931 | John S. Robertson | Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (1.4K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
PiccadillyA young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act which soon leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love and murder. | 1929 | Ewald André Dupont | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (1.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Pick-upThe scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together. | 1933 | Marion Gering | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (170 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Picture BridesFour "Picture Brides", from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines.Also on the boat with the four "mail-order" ... | 1934 | Phil Rosen (*) | Adventure, Crime, Romance | 5.9 (95 votes) | 66 | 20220531 |
Picture SnatcherEx-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn't like that relation at first, but McLean, Kean | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (1.6K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Playing AroundNew York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go. She gets involved with the playboy and never seems to notice that he might by shady, unti | 1930 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.0 (262 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Pleasure CruiseA stay-at-home husband and his businesswoman wife plan separate vacations, but he doesn't go fishing. He masquerades as a barber on her pleasure cruise. | 1933 | Frank Tuttle | Comedy, Romance | 6.4 (132 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Polly of the CircusAfter a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love. | 1932 | Alfred Santell | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (1.1K votes) | 69 | 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 |
Private WorldsThe work of a progressive female psychiatrist and her colleague at a mental hospital is threatened by the arrival of a conservative new supervisor, who disapproves of both her methods and the fact that she is a woman in a "man's fiel | 1935 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Drama | 6.5 (329 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Prizefighter and the Lady, TheAn ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title. | 1933 | W.S. Van Dyke, Howard Hawks | Comedy, Crime, Romance, Sport | 6.3 (874 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
Professional SweetheartA vice-free radio singer wants to experience the dark side of life, so a press agent convinces her sponsor to choose a "professional sweetheart" from her fans. | 1933 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (585 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
ProsperityIn 1925, John becomes President of the prosperous Warren Bank when Maggie retires. Six years later, John, Helen and the two children are happy in their home, but the two mother-in-laws are still bickering. When Lizzy inadvertently st | 1932 | Sam Wood (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 (268 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Purchase Price, TheA torch singer becomes a mail-order bride for a farmer. | 1932 | William A. Wellman (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 (1.6K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Quick MillionsTruck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he makes plans to kidnap her on her wedding day. | 1931 | Rowland Brown | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (226 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Racketeer, TheA dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite. | 1929 | Howard Higgin | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.4 (407 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Rafter RomanceA man and a woman share an apartment on a shift basis, never seeing each other; she dislikes him until they actually meet. | 1933 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.7 (823 votes) | 73 | 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 |
Reaching for the MoonWall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash | 1930 | Edmund Goulding | Comedy, Romance | 5.6 (421 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Recaptured LoveAn errant husband wants to return to his wife. | 1930 | John G. Adolfi | Comedy, Drama | 5.7 (31 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Reckless HourIn New York City, a young model is swept off her feet by a debonair, handsome young man. Unfortunately for her, he didn't want to get married but had been stringing her along. When she realizes he doesn't WANT her she will not force | 1931 | John Francis Dillon | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (214 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Red Headed WomanLillian relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man. | 1932 | Jack Conway | Comedy, Romance | 7.0 (3K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
RenegadesFour one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding Arabs, and are soon in Casablanca getting d | 1930 | Victor Fleming (*) | Action, Adventure, Romance, War | 5.2 (286 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Reunion in ViennaAn archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst. | 1933 | Sidney Franklin | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (321 votes) | 98 | 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 |
Road to ParadiseA young girl falls in with a gang of criminals. One of their capers is robbing the house of a wealthy socialite who happens to look just like her. In the process of cleaning out the house, the young girl discovers that the socialite | 1930 | William Beaudine | Drama | 5.7 (184 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Road to Reno, TheA modern woman, whose youthful appearance leads people to believe she is her daughter's sister, divorced several times, is about to marry a man who is a fortune-hunter, against the wishes of her daughter and, especially, her outraged | 1931 | Richard Wallace | Drama | 6.0 (45 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Road To Ruin, TheA young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion. | 1934 | Dorothy Davenport, Melville Shyer | Drama | 4.8 (305 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
Road to Singapore, TheGossip, snobbery, mistrust, divorce and a mail-order engagement dominate the lives of the British upper class living in the plantation colonies of Southeast Asia. | 1931 | Alfred E. Green | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (302 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Roar of the DragonA boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "be | 1932 | Wesley Ruggles | Adventure, Romance | 6.3 (224 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
RockabyeActress Judy Carroll, from the gas-house district has been trained, educated and developed so well by her manager, that not even the publicity-seeking world of the theater has guessed her antecedents. But she has not loved well or wi | 1932 | George Cukor, George Fitzmaurice | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (423 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Royal Bed, TheThe hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming son who wants to be king himself and is plotting to take advantage of | 1931 | Lowell Sherman | Comedy | 5.9 (199 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Ruling Voice, TheFor the love and respect of his daughter, a crime boss reconsiders his involvement in the extortion racket he's built. | 1931 | Rowland V. Lee | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (264 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Runaway BrideA young socialite and a rich playboy elope to Atlantic City. However, she soon realizes he's not the man she wants him to be and tries to call off the wedding. A jewelry store robbery, murder and other mayhem are soon involved. | 1930 | Donald Crisp | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.1 (243 votes) | 69 | 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 |
Sagebrush TrailA man framed for murder escapes prison and goes west, where he joins a gang with the real killer involved. | 1933 | Armand Schaefer | Western | 5.4 (1.2K votes) | 54 | 20211228 |
Sailor's LuckU.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a | 1933 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Comedy | 6.6 (93 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
Saturday Night Kid, TheMayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role. | 1929 | A. Edward Sutherland | Comedy | 6.0 (249 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
Scarlet PagesNora Mason becomes entangled in a family mix-up of murder and scandal that threatens to ruin her career and entire future; Unless the mother she does not know can find a way to save her. | 1930 | Ray Enright | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.6 (140 votes) | 66 | 20240419 |
Sea Bat, TheThe West Indies island of Portuga exists mainly for sponge diving. But the best area of collection is frequented by a very large manta ray. Nina loses her brother to the creature and is comforted by a newly arrived minister, who seem | 1930 | Lionel Barrymore, Wesley Ruggles | Action, Romance, Thriller | 5.3 (273 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
Sea Legsnan | 1930 | Victor Heerman, Richard Wallace | Comedy, Romance | 5.6 (39 votes) | 63 | 20240419 |
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 |
Secret of Madame Blanche, TheShowgirl Sally meets young playboy Leonard St. John; they fall in love and are secretly married. When Leonard's father discovers this he sets out to break them apart, and following a bitter row, Leonard kills himself, leaving Sally t | 1933 | Charles Brabin | Drama, History, Romance | 6.5 (336 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Secret of the Blue RoomTwenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to prove their bravery to her. | 1933 | Kurt Neumann | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.4 (792 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Secret Six, TheAfter rising bootlegger Slaughterhouse Scorpio eliminates his gangland competition, two reporters and a cabal of six businessmen work to expose him. | 1931 | George W. Hill | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (875 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Secrets of a SecretaryWhen her father dies, a wealthy young women discovers that she's not wealthy at all--her father lost all of his money in the 1929 stock market crash and she's now officially broke. She takes a job as the social secretary to her fathe | 1931 | George Abbott | Drama | 6.6 (116 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Secrets of the French PoliceA burglar is recruited to aid the police in finding his kidnapped girlfriend, a lovely but impoverished flower girl. Meanwhile, a deranged Russian emigre has been claiming that his ward is actually Princess Anastasia, last survivor o | 1932 | A. Edward Sutherland | Crime | 5.8 (274 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
Secrets of Wu Sin, TheA murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown. | 1932 | Richard Thorpe | Crime, Mystery, Romance | 5.3 (42 votes) | 65 | 20220723 |
Sex MadnessThis exploitation film belongs to the social guidance genre of quasi-documentary narratives, which exhort young adults to follow particular moral and social prescriptions related to sexuality and drug use. | 1938 | Dwain Esper | Drama | 2.8 (897 votes) | 57 | 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 |
She Had to Say YesIt is the bottom of the depression and Sol Glass has the idea that the girls in the stenographic department should be used to entertain the clients. Seems the clients are tiring of the regular fast and hard women and this would be a | 1933 | George Amy, Busby Berkeley | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (469 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Shoot the WorksNicky Nelson runs a small carnival on New York's 42nd Street under the auspices of Nicky Nelson Enterprises, which consists of Joe Davis and his band, stunt man "Sailor" Burke and his gold digger wife Jackie, and The Countess, a matr | 1934 | Wesley Ruggles | Musical, Comedy | 6.9 (45 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
ShopwornA poor woman and a man from an upper-class family fall in love, but his mother will go to any lengths to stop their marriage. | 1932 | Nick Grinde | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (701 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Should Ladies BehaveAn unhappy couple watch as their daughter throws herself at an older man because he is a sophisticated artist. The daughter doesn't know that her aunt is the man's lover. At a weekend retreat, everything comes to a head when the moth | 1933 | Harry Beaumont | Comedy, Drama | 5.8 (157 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Side StreetsA destitute sailor secures a job with a spinster who runs a small fur trimming shop. They marry, and soon have a child, but he cheats on her with serious consequences. | 1934 | Alfred E. Green | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (191 votes) | 63 | 20220414 |
Sidewalks of New YorkA dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place. | 1931 | Zion Myers, Jules White | Comedy, Crime | 5.6 (493 votes) | 74 | 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 |
Silver Cord, TheA domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son. | 1933 | John Cromwell | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (519 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Silver Horde, TheA salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll. | 1930 | George Archainbaud | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (494 votes) | 75 | 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 |
Sin of Nora Moran, TheNora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputat | 1933 | Phil Goldstone | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 6.8 (647 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Sin Ship, TheA lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers. | 1931 | Louis Wolheim | Drama | 5.5 (274 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Sin Takes a HolidayA plain secretary works for a womanizing divorce lawyer who only dates married women. To avoid having to deal with the matrimonial pursuits of any of his potential romances, he offers her financial support if she marries him in name | 1930 | Paul L. Stein | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (576 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Sing, Sinner, SingA singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime. | 1933 | Howard Christie | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (71 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Single Standard, TheWealthy Arden Stuart is bored in a party. After refusing Tommy Hewlett's wedding proposal, she has her driver driver her to a lonely place, where they have a one-night stand and return to the party, where she witnesses her driver com | 1929 | John S. Robertson | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (583 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Sinners' HolidayMa Delano (Lucille LaVerne) runs a boardwalk penny arcade and lives upstairs with her sons Harry and Joe (James Cagney and Ray Gallagher) and daughter Jennie (Evalyn Knapp); their story involves rum-running, accidental murder, and a | 1930 | John G. Adolfi | Adventure, Crime, Romance | 6.3 (645 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
Sins of the Children, TheA German immigrant to a small American town is a barber with four children. He has saved enough money to invest in a savings-and-loan company with a friend. Unfortunately, one of his sons has been stricken with tuberculosis, and the | 1930 | Sam Wood (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (258 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Sitting PrettyChick Parker and Pete Pendleton are songwriters that are en route from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Dorothy, a lunch wagon proprietor, joins them. | 1933 | Harry Joe Brown | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.4 (164 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Six Of A KindWhen a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds. | 1934 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy | 6.7 (653 votes) | 62 | 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 |
Slightly MarriedMary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for vagrancy. But a stranger, Jimmy Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married. A | 1932 | Richard Thorpe | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (138 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Slightly ScarletA jewel thief's accomplice falls for a mysterious gentleman crook. Together, they decide to reform but trouble finds them when the girl's boss is killed during a struggle. | 1930 | Louis J. Gasnier, Edwin H. Knopf | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 5.3 (38 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Smart WomanA wife turns the tables on her cheating husband. | 1931 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (414 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
SmartyVicki Wallace (Joan Blondell) takes great pleasure in teasing her husband,Tony Wallace (Warren William), who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attor | 1934 | Robert Florey | Comedy, Romance | 5.8 (506 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Smilin' ThroughThe adoptive father of a young woman is horrified to learn she plans to marry the son of the man who accidentally killed her aunt years before. | 1932 | Sidney Franklin | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (1.3K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
So This Is AfricaBert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of broke, hungry vaudevillians who are holed up in a hotel room with a few (tame) lions. They are hired by a movie producer who wishes to send them and their lions to Africa with a great | 1933 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy, Musical | 6.5 (125 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Soldier's Plaything, AGeorgie thinks he has killed Hank. He flees with his pal Tim and ships off to the war in Europe, eventually serving in Germany after armistice. There Georgie falls for Gretchen and promises to marry only if he can right his past mist | 1930 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance, War | 4.3 (159 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
Something Always HappensUnemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival c | 1934 | Michael Powell (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (276 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Son of the GodsA Chinese posing as an American goes to Monte Carlo where he falls in love with Alanna, who later goes berserk upon learning his true identity. | 1930 | Frank Lloyd | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (189 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Speak EasilyA timid professor inherits a large sum of money and decides to fund a terrible musical. | 1932 | Edward Sedgwick | Comedy | 5.8 (999 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Sporting BloodThe saga of thoroughbred Tommy Boy, born in a rain puddle, and his various owners as he evolves into a a champion stakes horse. | 1931 | Charles Brabin | Drama, Romance, Sport | 6.0 (378 votes) | 82 | 20240419 |
St. Louis KidTrucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The ... | 1934 | Ray Enright | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (407 votes) | 67 | 20220723 |
Stamboul QuestIn 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. He suspects Ali Bey, Turkish commander for the Dardanelles, and dispatches An | 1934 | Sam Wood, Jack Conway | Romance, Thriller, Drama | 6.3 (407 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
State's AttorneyAttorney Tom Cardigan is the discontented "mouthpiece" for Vanny Powers' mob. When Tom takes sweet June Perry as his mistress, she tries in vain to redeem him. But Powers decides Tom would be even more useful to him as District Attor | 1932 | George Archainbaud | Drama | 6.7 (370 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Stepping OutWhen Sally (Charlotte Greenwood) and Eve (Leila Hyams) take a vacation together to make their rich husbands miss them, the boys (Reginald Denny and Harry Stubbs) promptly invite over two gold digging actresses (Lilian Bonds and Merna | 1931 | Charles Reisner | Comedy, Romance | 5.6 (162 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
StingareeA young woman is seduced by a charismatic highwayman who offers her promises of fame as a singer in exchange for romance. | 1934 | William A. Wellman (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.8 (456 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Stolen HeavenEngineering a $20,000 robbery, Mary and Joe draw up a pact to spend all the money foolishly and then commit suicide. | 1931 | George Abbott | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (119 votes) | 76 | 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 |
Strange Case of Clara Deane, TheA young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal, who soon involves her--unwittingly--in a robbery. Sentenced to prison, she gi... | 1932 | Louis J. Gasnier, Max Marcin | Crime, Drama | 6.7 (56 votes) | 60 | 20230619 |
Strange InterludeAfter Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his. | 1932 | Robert Z. Leonard | Drama | 5.7 (738 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Strange Love of Molly Louvain, TheMolly Louvain's plans for a respectable marriage with her sweetheart Ralph fall through so she takes to the road with a two-bit crook and becomes wanted by the police in connection with a high-profile crime. | 1932 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (488 votes) | 73 | 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 |
Street SceneTwenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave. | 1931 | King Vidor (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (1.7K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Strictly DynamiteA struggling writer finds success writing scripts for a radio comic at the expense of his high-brow ambitions. | 1934 | Elliott Nugent | Comedy, Music | 5.7 (160 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Study in Scarlet, AIn London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by | 1933 | Edwin L. Marin | Mystery, Thriller | 5.6 (921 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Success at any PriceJoe comes from a rough neighborhood and when his brother Mike is gunned down in 1927, he decides to go into legitimate business. He wants to make a lot of money and fast so he is ambitious and rude. He wants what he cannot have and t | 1934 | J. Walter Ruben | Drama | 6.5 (242 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Successful Calamity, AA wealthy industrialist tests the loyalty of his spoiled children and selfish wife by pretending to be broke. | 1932 | John G. Adolfi | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (441 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Sundown TrailDorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is t... | 1931 | Robert F. Hill | Western | 5.6 (113 votes) | 56 | 20240419 |
Sunny Side UpMolly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage h | 1929 | David Butler | Comedy, Musical | 6.6 (415 votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
Sunnyside UpMolly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage h | 1929 | David Butler | Comedy, Musical | 6.6 (416 votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
Tanned LegsPeggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fai | 1929 | Marshall Neilan | Comedy, Musical | 5.5 (173 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Tarnished LadyTarnished Lady is a 1931 Pre-Code American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart is based on his short story, A Story of a New York Lady. | 1931 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (205 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
TaxiIndependent cabbie Matt Nolan is primed to let his fists and handgun deliver payback after a big taxi firm uses intimidation and violence to squeeze out small-timers. | 1931 | Roy Del Ruth | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (1.3K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Ten Cents A DanceMen pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. She marries Eddie and plans to quit dancing. Before she does, she meets a handsome and rich gentleman. | 1931 | Lionel Barrymore, Edward Buzzell | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (768 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Ten Nights in a BarroomA man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter. | 1931 | William A. O'Connor | Drama | 5.0 (116 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Their Mad MomentTheir Mad Moment is a 1931 American Pre-Code film directed by Chandler Sprague and starring Dorothy Mackaill. It is based on the 1927 book by Eleanor Mercein Kelly, Basquerie. | 1931 | Hamilton MacFadden, Chandler Sprague | Comedy, Drama | 5.3 (57 votes) | 55 | 20240419 |
Their Own DesireLally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays Polo. After 23 years of marriage, he decides to divorce his wife, and marry Mrs. Chevers. This sours Lally on all men, while on vacation she meets Jack, who succeeds in stealin | 1929 | E. Mason Hopper | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (685 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
They Call It SinMarian moves to New York to make it big in the chorus and becomes involved in a love triangle. | 1932 | Thornton Freeland | Drama | 6.2 (620 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Thirteen WomenUrsula plots to murder 12 women with her supernatural powers. | 1932 | George Archainbaud | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 6.2 (1.4K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Thirteenth Guest, TheMurder of a woman sparks a search for a killer. | 1932 | Albert Ray | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 5.8 (768 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Thirty Day PrincessA European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her. | 1934 | Marion Gering | Comedy, Romance | 6.8 (913 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
This Is the NightAn affair is almost exposed when Claire's husband unexpectedly returns early from Summer Olympics. | 1932 | Frank Tuttle | Comedy | 6.6 (614 votes) | 80 | 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 |
Three Who LovedJohn Hanson (Conrad Nagel) is a bank teller and invests in stocks. He and his best friend (another bank teller) Phil Wilson (Robert Ames) live at a boarding house run by his Swedish fiance's aunt, Mrs. Larson (Bodil Rosing). While Ph | 1931 | George Archainbaud | Drama | 5.7 (152 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
Three Wise GirlsCassie moves to New York and jumps from one job to another until she lands a modeling gig. | 1932 | William Beaudine | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (615 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Tip-Off, TheEddie Quillan falls in love with a gangster's girlfriend but avoids trouble when he becomes friends with Robert Armstrong and his girlfriend | 1931 | Albert S. Rogell | Comedy, Crime | 5.7 (270 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Today We LiveDuring WWI, two officers, one a pilot and the other in the navy, compete for the same beautiful young woman. | 1933 | Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | Drama, Romance, War | 5.9 (1.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
TopazeAn honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme. | 1933 | Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Drama, Comedy | 6.8 (891 votes) | 78 | 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 |
Trespasser, TheThe trial and tribulations of a strong-willed woman who elopes and gives birth out of wedlock without telling her ex-husband. | 1929 | Edmund Goulding | Drama | 6.6 (1.3K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Trumpet Blows, TheIn Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather tha | 1934 | Stephen Roberts | Drama | 5.7 (51 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Truth About Youth, TheRichard Carewe has raised his deceased friend's son from childhood with the help of his housekeeper and her beautiful daughter, Phyllis. He arranges a marriage between Phyllis and the boy, but the rascal impulsively marries a notorio | 1930 | William A. Seiter (*) | Drama, Romance | 5.7 (296 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Tugboat AnnieAnnie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together. | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Comedy | 7.0 (669 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Two Against the WorldA woman from high society must testify in a murder trial prosecuted by her suitor. | 1932 | Archie Mayo | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (204 votes) | 70 | 20220414 |
Two AloneMazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. When reform school runaway Adam arrives, he is put to work by Slag and also mistreated. Mazie and Adam fall in love, but are threatened by | 1934 | Elliott Nugent | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (133 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Two Kinds of WomenThe daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds herself caught up in an affair with a married man, whose wife soon commits suicide. Comp | 1932 | William C. de Mille | Drama | 6.3 (61 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
UnashamedDick will do anything to protect his sister Jean as would her father. But she is in love with sleazy Harry Swift who has his eye on her money. When Harry has her stay with him at a hotel all night, her father still will not give his | 1932 | Harry Beaumont | Drama | 6.2 (184 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Under 18A poor seamstress girl sours on her engagement to a grocery deliveryman after seeing her sister's abusive marriage. Trying to help her sister pay for a divorce lawyer, she turns to a rich playboy she met at work. | 1931 | Archie Mayo | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (414 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Under-Cover ManWhen his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. | 1932 | James Flood | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (67 votes) | 74 | 20230619 |
Unholy LoveAn adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been renamed. | 1932 | Albert Ray | Drama | 5.2 (118 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Union DepotTravelers of different and varied backgrounds meet and interact on one night in a metropolitan train station and its environs. | 1932 | Alfred E. Green | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (988 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
UntamedWhen her rich oilman father is killed, Bingo, raised in the wilds of South America, inherits the company. Her guardians Ben and Howard send her to New York for civilizing but on the way she meets Andy, wonderful in every way but weal | 1929 | Jack Conway | Drama | 5.0 (621 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Up for MurderYoung reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor. | 1931 | Monta Bell, Edward L. Cahn | Drama | 5.9 (71 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Up the RiverWhen paroled trustee Steve and former inmate Judy who try to put their criminal lives behind them are blackmailed, two career criminals come to their rescue. | 1930 | John Ford (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.0 (1.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Uptown New YorkPat and Max are in love and share an intimate relationship. However, after Max receives his surgeon's diploma, his parents have arranged a marriage for him with a woman from a rich, good background. | 1932 | Victor Schertzinger | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (135 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Vanity StreetA NYC police-detective rescues a down-and-out showgirl from a bad situation, gets her a job in the 'Follies", and falls in love with her. Then, as he is about to lead her to the altar, he has to arrest her for a murder she did not co | 1932 | Nick Grinde | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (83 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Vice Squad, TheA diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes. | 1931 | John Cromwell | Crime, Drama | 6.6 (97 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Virginian, TheA good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling. | 1929 | Victor Fleming (*) | Romance, Western | 6.9 (752 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
VirtueA relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver, but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a murder. | 1932 | Edward Buzzell | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (812 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Virtuous Sin, TheMarya is the wife of medical student Victor Sablin, who finds it impossible to deal with military life when he is inducted into the Russian army during World War I. | 1930 | George Cukor, Louis J. Gasnier | Drama, Romance, War | 5.6 (160 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Voice of the City, TheAn escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him. | 1929 | Willard Mack | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (79 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
War NurseWomen from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I. | 1930 | Edgar Selwyn | Drama, Romance, War | 6.1 (323 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Washington Merry-Go-RoundButton Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton, while falling for the granddaughter of the kindly senator Wylie. He then teams up with | 1932 | James Cruze | Drama | 6.5 (164 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Way for a SailorJack is a sailor who lives to go to sea. A typical sailor, he is always broke and has been in seven jails in the last seven ports. The one girl he tries to impress the most is in London and his mates call her 'the Eskimo'. For two... | 1930 | Sam Wood (*) | Romance, Drama | 5.8 (622 votes) | 85 | 20240419 |
WaywardWayward is a 1932 American drama film directed by Edward Sloman and written by Lillian Day, Mateel Howe Farnham and Gladys Unger. The film stars Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Pauline Frederick, John Litel, Margalo Gillmore and Burke | 1932 | Edward Sloman | Unknown | 6.4 (53 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Weary RiverA gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound. | 1929 | Frank Lloyd | Drama | 6.1 (482 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Week-End MarriageAn out-of-work husband (Norman Foster) resents his wife (Loretta Young) being the breadwinner in the family. | 1932 | Thornton Freeland | Comedy | 5.8 (277 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Wharf Angel"Mother Bright's" place on the lawless, waterfront district of the 'Barbary Coast' in San Francisco is the toughest of all saloons that can be found, and that is where "Turk", a stoker on a freighter named "The Coyote", and his shipm | 1934 | William Cameron Menzies, George Somnes | Drama | 6.5 (61 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
What Price HollywoodThe career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director. | 1932 | George Cukor (*) | Drama | 7.1 (2.3K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
What Price InnocenceA young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men. | 1933 | Willard Mack | Drama, Romance | 4.9 (20 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
When Ladies MeetMary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is. | 1933 | Harry Beaumont, Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy, Romance | 6.8 (958 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Whistling in the DarkA mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to get writer's help in devising the "perfect crime" | 1933 | Elliott Nugent, Charles Reisner | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.4 (326 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
White Sister, TheA young woman falls in love with a dashing officer, but becomes a nun when she believes him to be killed in battle. | 1933 | Victor Fleming (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (400 votes) | 105 | 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 |
Wide OpenA nervous woman-shy office clerk, already troubled by an amorous female co-worker, suddenly has to deal with a very forward and attractive young woman who has sneaked into his apartment - and doesn't want to leave. | 1930 | Archie Mayo | Comedy | 5.9 (182 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Wild Party, TheWild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until | 1929 | Dorothy Arzner | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (476 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Winner Take AllYoung boxer Jim Kane, resting at a New Mexico "health ranch," meets and falls for Peggy Harmon, former nightclub table singer...who needs $600 more for her sickly son to stay in the place. To help her, Jim endangers his health with a | 1932 | Roy Del Ruth | Drama | 6.2 (509 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Woman Commands, ACaptain Alex Pastitsch falls into huge debts trying to ensure the expensive mistress. When the situation threatened his career, Colonel Stradimirovitsch has an idea how to fix it. | 1932 | Paul L. Stein, Harry Joe Brown, Horace Jackson, Val Paul | Drama | 6.6 (61 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Woman from Monte Carlo, TheThe wife Lil Dagover of a French battleship captain Walter Huston falls for a young officer Warren William. | 1932 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama | 5.3 (227 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Woman I Stole, TheA man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business. | 1933 | Irving Cummings | Action, Adventure | 6.7 (60 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Woman of Affairs, AWhen two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues. | 1928 | Clarence Brown | Drama | 7.2 (1.5K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Women in His LifeA brilliant, successful criminal defense attorney's life is turned upside down when he takes on a case of a murdered woman who turns out to be an old flame who left him 10 years ago. | 1933 | George B. Seitz | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (200 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Women in his Life, TheA brilliant, successful criminal defense attorney's life is turned upside down when he takes on a case of a murdered woman who turns out to be an old flame who left him 10 years ago. | 1933 | George B. Seitz | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (200 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Working GirlsTwo sisters, May, older, naive, and June, younger and worldly, arrive in New York straight from the country and settle down in a boarding house. Their search for jobs leads them to find beaus and romantic trouble. | 1931 | Dorothy Arzner | Drama | 6.4 (198 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Yellow Ticket, TheA young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country. | 1931 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Adventure, Drama, War | 6.3 (210 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
You and MeAn altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store. | 1938 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Romance | 6.9 (1.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
You Can't Buy EverythingHannah is so tight with her money that she takes her son, Donnie, to the charity ward a week after he hurts his leg. But she has always hoarded her money since her late husband wasted most of it and now she plans to save it for Donni | 1934 | Charles Reisner | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (167 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Young BrideA shy and naive New York children's librarian must become stronger and wiser after she discovers that her new husband is a liar, a cheat, and a fraud. | 1932 | William A. Seiter (*) | Drama | 6.2 (192 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Young Man of ManhattanTwo flappers (Claudette Colbert and Ginger Rogers) try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them. | 1930 | Monta Bell | Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sport | 6.0 (185 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Convention City | 1933 | Archie Mayo | Comedy, Music, Romance | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Gold Diggers of Broadway | 1929 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy, Musical | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Kleiner Mann - was nun? | 1933 | Fritz Wendhausen, Berthold Viertel | Drama | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |