Movies by Lists - Pre-Code Classic Clips (346 [358])Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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20,000 years in Sing SingBrash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him. | 1932 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.0 (2.7K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
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 |
42nd StreetWhen the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show. | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.4 (11.6K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
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 |
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 |
Age of Innocence, TheAn engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan. | 1934 | Philip Moeller | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (440 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Alum and EveWhen Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital. | 1932 | George Marshall (*) | Comedy, Short | 6.6 (86 votes) | 19 | 20211228 |
Animal CrackersMayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding. | 1930 | Victor Heerman | Comedy, Family, Musical | 7.5 (14.3K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Animal Kingdom, TheBased on a play by Philip Barry, this sophisticated comedy is about a man trying to justify his love for both his wife and his mistress. | 1932 | Edward H. Griffith, George Cukor | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (1.1K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Ann Carver's ProfessionAfter graduation from Hampden University, Bill "Lightning" Graham, a football star, and Ann Carver, who just passed her bar exam, marry. Instead of pursuing a career in law, Ann takes on the role of housewife, while Bill is employed | 1933 | Edward Buzzell | Drama | 5.9 (193 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Anna Christie [Brown]A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past. | 1930 | Clarence Brown | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (3.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
ArizonaBob refuses to marry his girlfriend and leaves her. She marries his close friend out of revenge. | 1931 | George B. Seitz | Drama, Romance | 5.7 (286 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Baby FaceA young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank - by gleefully seducing her way to the top. | 1933 | Alfred E. Green | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (6.8K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Bachelor ApartmentA New York playboy dates wild woman until he falls for a hard-working stenographer. | 1931 | Lowell Sherman | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (397 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Bad GirlA man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage. | 1931 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (1.3K votes) | 90 | 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 |
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 |
Big Business GirlThanks to her ability and her legs, Claire McIntyre rises in the business world. | 1931 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy, Romance | 5.8 (328 votes) | 75 | 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 |
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 |
Bitter Tea Of General Yen, TheA Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love. | 1932 | Frank Capra (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.0 (3.8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Black Cat, TheAmerican honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshipping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident. | 1934 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Adventure, Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller | 7.0 (10.9K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Black MoonA young girl who lives on a tropical island loses her parents to a voodoo sacrifice, but although she manages to escape the island, a curse is put on her. Years later, as an adult, she feels a strong compulsion to return to the islan | 1934 | Roy William Neill | Drama | 6.0 (636 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
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 |
Blonde VenusA cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely ill husband's operation. | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Drama | 7.1 (4.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Blondie 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 |
Blood MoneyBill Bailey (George Bancroft) is a Los Angeles, California bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges against a client dismissed. He falls in love | 1933 | Rowland Brown | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 6.8 (363 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
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 |
BombshellA glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on. | 1933 | Victor Fleming (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (2.7K votes) | 96 | 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 |
Broadway BabiesA Chorus girl who is in love with her stage manager is led to believe that he is in love with another young woman, so, she agrees to marry a bootlegger instead. | 1929 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Drama | 6.2 (195 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Broadway BadShowgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing. | 1933 | Sidney Lanfield | Drama, Music | 6.1 (193 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
But the Flesh Is WeakThe Clements father and son live by the generosity of rich women. Max, the son, sets his sites on Lady Joan, who is rich, but down-to-earth and charming. At her house he meets Rosine Brown, an Austrian widow involved with a rich man. | 1932 | Jack Conway | Comedy | 5.6 (267 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Cabin in the Cotton, TheA tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter. | 1932 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 78 | 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 |
Caught PlasteredWheeler and Woolsey play two unemployed vaudevillians who get involved in helping an old lady save her moribund drug store. Problems and laughs begin when the villain spikes the Lemon Sodas they are selling. | 1931 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy, Musical | 6.4 (217 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Central AirportAviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins. | 1933 | William A. Wellman, Alfred E. Green | Drama | 6.4 (406 votes) | 72 | 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 |
Child of ManhattanPaul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sop... | 1933 | Edward Buzzell | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (275 votes) | 70 | 20240524 |
Cock of the AirAn opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer. | 1932 | Tom Buckingham | Comedy | 6.9 (90 votes) | 80 | 20240530 |
College CoachCoach Gore, a ruthless and cynical big-time football coach, neglects his wife in his unrelenting drive to make Calvert College a football power. | 1933 | William A. Wellman (*) | Drama, Sport | 5.8 (521 votes) | 76 | 20240530 |
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 |
Come On, Marines! [Come On Marines!]Lucky"" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Philippine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a guerilla-war rebellion. Their assignment is to r... | 1934 | Henry Hathaway | Crime, Drama, Romance, War | 5.5 (81 votes) | 70 | 20240530 |
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 |
Confessions of a Co-EdA young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and she finds herself in a dilemma as to who to choo | 1931 | David Burton, Dudley Murphy | Drama | 5.9 (100 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
CoquetteA flirtatious Southern belle is compromised with one of her suitors. | 1929 | Sam Taylor | Drama, Romance | 5.6 (2.2K votes) | 76 | 20220414 |
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 |
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 Country CruiseStory of several passengers, including an escaped killer, on a cross-country bus trip. | 1934 | Edward Buzzell | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.3 (107 votes) | 72 | 20240524 |
Cuckoos, TheTwo phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies. | 1930 | Paul Sloane | Comedy, Musical | 6.1 (246 votes) | 97 | 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 |
Dangerous CurvesA young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him. | 1929 | Lothar Mendes | Drama | 5.8 (142 votes) | 75 | 20220723 |
Dark HazardJim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie, Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old | 1934 | Alfred E. Green | Drama | 6.3 (452 votes) | 73 | 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 |
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 |
Dentist, TheAn unconventional dentist deals with a variety of eccentric and difficult patients in slapstick fashion. | 1932 | Leslie Pearce | Comedy, Short | 6.8 (1.6K votes) | 21 | 20211228 |
Design For LivingA woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship. | 1933 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 (6.5K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Devil and the DeepMan sets out for revenge after learning of his wife's affair. | 1932 | Marion Gering | Drama | 6.3 (615 votes) | 78 | 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 to Pay!, TheSpendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time, he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is | 1930 | George Fitzmaurice | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 (669 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Devil's Cabaret, TheAt "Satan & Co., Inc.", the Devil is upset because too many people are going up to Heaven rather than down to Hades. He gives his assistant, Mr. Burns the task of getting more people to his domain. In front of a nightclub, Mr. Burns | 1930 | Nick Grinde | Comedy, Musical, Short | 6.3 (400 votes) | 16 | 20211228 |
Dinner at EightAffluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal. | 1933 | George Cukor (*) | Drama | 7.5 (8.2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
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 |
DisgracedIn the course of her work, a model meets her future husband, but her bliss is tainted when she becomes involved in a murder. | 1933 | Erle C. Kenton | Mystery, Romance | 6.6 (74 votes) | 66 | 20220414 |
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 |
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 |
DoughboysA naive and wealthy young man seeks to impress a girl and then unwittingly signs up for army service. | 1930 | Edward Sedgwick | Comedy, Romance, War | 5.8 (457 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
DownstairsAn amoral chauffeur seeks to seduce a young bride. | 1932 | Monta Bell | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (1.8K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde. | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (13.6K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
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 |
Eight Girls in a BoatIn an exclusive Swiss school for young girls, Christa Storm discovers she is going to have a baby, and keeps the secret from everyone but her lover, David Perrin, a young medical student. Having been in the private school most of her | 1934 | Richard Wallace | Drama | 6.8 (32 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Elmer the GreatCountry bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball. His skill with a bat takes the team to the World Series, but on the way to the championship he has to deal with gamblers and crooked pitchers. | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport | 6.1 (485 votes) | 72 | 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 |
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 |
Fashions of 1934When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses. | 1934 | William Dieterle (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 6.9 (1.6K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Fast and LooseA wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl. | 1930 | Fred C. Newmeyer | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (230 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Fast WorkCharley mistakes an escaped lunatic for the father of a girl he's intersted in. | 1930 | James W. Horne | Comedy, Short | 7.3 (32 votes) | 19 | 20211228 |
Fast WorkersGunner and Bucker are pals who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner has not failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, | 1933 | Tod Browning (*) | Drama | 6.2 (821 votes) | 66 | 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 |
Final EditionA tough, female reporter tries to get a story on the head of a crime syndicate and when the new police commissioner is murdered, she tries to get the evidence she needs for her story by getting in with the mobsters right-hand man. | 1932 | Howard Higgin | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (125 votes) | 66 | 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 |
Fit to be TiedGeorge Burns, seeking a tie, is frustrated by department store staff. | 1930 | Ray Cozine | Comedy, Short | 6.2 (86 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
FlirtationA precode romantic melodrama about a burlesque dancer and a country boy who must pretend to be married. | 1934 | Leo Birinsky | Drama, Music, Romance | 5.2 (59 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
Flying Down to RioA bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer. | 1933 | Thornton Freeland | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (3.6K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
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 |
Footlight ParadeChester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses. | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.6 (5.3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
ForbiddenA librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid. | 1932 | Frank Capra (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.5K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
FrankensteinDr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster out of lifeless body parts. | 1931 | James Whale (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.8 (70.2K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Free Soul, AAn alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him. | 1931 | Clarence Brown | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (2.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
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 |
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 |
From Hell to HeavenThe various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways. . | 1933 | Erle C. Kenton | Action, Drama, Romance, Sport | 6.1 (115 votes) | 67 | 20240222 |
Fugitive LoversIn a hopeful effort to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the way the bus picks up escaped convict Paul Porter, who quickly allies hi | 1934 | Richard Boleslawski | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (210 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Gambling ShipTired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tel | 1933 | Louis J. Gasnier, Max Marcin | Drama | 6.1 (225 votes) | 72 | 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 |
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 ShockCharley goes into hysterics whenever his fiancée touches him. | 1930 | James W. Horne | Comedy, Short | 6.2 (72 votes) | 20 | 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 |
Gobs of FunTwo sailors have shore leave. They both plan on spending it with the same girl, Lulu. Lulu is the kind of girl who has a boyfriend on every ship and a husband on the side. | 1933 | Ray McCarey | Short, Comedy | 5.7 (25 votes) | 17 | 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 |
Gold Diggers of 1933A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous. | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 7.7 (8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Goldie Gets AlongGoldie is a young girl who was taken in by her aunt after her mother died in Paris , brought to USA and lived until 19 with her aunts family. They don't understand her and call her a hussy and so she won't stay any longer and sets of | 1933 | Malcolm St. Clair | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.0 (152 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
GraftCub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election. | 1931 | Christy Cabanne | Thriller | 5.6 (93 votes) | 54 | 20211228 |
Grand HotelA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas. | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (18.8K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
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 |
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 |
Happy DaysMargie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boat | 1929 | Benjamin Stoloff | Musical | 5.6 (165 votes) | 80 | 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 |
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 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 AngelsBrothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms. | 1930 | Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale | Drama, War | 7.3 (5.3K votes) | 127 | 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 |
Hips Hips HoorayTwo salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick. | 1934 | Mark Sandrich (*) | Comedy, Musical | 6.4 (503 votes) | 68 | 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 |
Hollywood PartyJimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big party with so that he might use the lions in hi | 1934 | Richard Boleslawski, Allan Dwan, Edmund Goulding, Russell Mack, Charles Reisner | Comedy, Musical | 6.1 (940 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Hook Line and SinkerTwo fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony | 1930 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy, Romance | 6.1 (350 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Hot Heiress, TheHe is one of the best riveters in the union, but he is still a day laborer. She comes from money, but when they saw each other, it was love at first sight. They date, they dance, they fall for each other. First, she had to say no to | 1931 | Clarence G. Badger | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 5.8 (216 votes) | 79 | 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 Divided, AIn a small Pacific village, a widowed fisherman marries a girl young enough to be his daughter. Complications ensue when the new wife falls in love with her husband's son. | 1931 | William Wyler (*) | Drama | 6.9 (204 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
I Cover The WaterfrontAn investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter. | 1933 | James Cruze | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (577 votes) | 72 | 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 |
Impatient Maiden, TheA maid's dreams come true - except they are not quite what she expected. | 1932 | James Whale (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (244 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
International HouseAssorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention, television. | 1933 | A. Edward Sutherland | Comedy | 7.1 (1.3K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Iron ManPrizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lew | 1931 | Tod Browning (*) | Drama | 6.0 (292 votes) | 73 | 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 |
Island of Lost SoulsA mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there. | 1932 | Erle C. Kenton | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.4 (9.2K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
It Pays to AdvertiseTo prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ens | 1931 | Frank Tuttle | Comedy | 5.4 (132 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
Jewel RobberyA gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers. | 1932 | William Dieterle (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 7.2 (2.1K votes) | 68 | 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 |
Jungle BrideA young woman believes that an actor committed the murder for which her brother has been imprisoned, and she gets her fiancé--a newspaper reporter--to accompany her in following the suspected killer aboard a ship headed for South ... | 1933 | Harry O. Hoyt, Albert H. Kelley | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 5.0 (234 votes) | 63 | 20240511 |
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 |
Kid From Spain, TheAn innocent man accused of robbing banks masquerades as a bullfighter to escape the police. | 1932 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.4 (543 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
King 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 KongA film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition. | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.9 (83.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Kiss and Make UpA handsome plastic surgeon has a beauty clinic, where many a beautiful client falls in love with him. His unnoticed secretary is in love with him, too. | 1934 | Harlan Thompson | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.0 (640 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Kiss Before the Mirror, TheWhen a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney--who suspects that his own wife is having an affair. | 1933 | James Whale (*) | Drama, Mystery | 6.5 (550 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
La An' a LampA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme. | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 8.0 (14.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Ladies' ManA society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society." | 1931 | Lothar Mendes | Drama | 5.9 (174 votes) | 70 | 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 KillerA former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him. | 1933 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy, Crime | 7.0 (1.7K votes) | 76 | 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 Refuses, TheFather hires a woman to lure his son away from a gold digger. | 1931 | George Archainbaud | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (339 votes) | 72 | 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'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 |
Life of Vergie Winters, TheJohn Shadwell, a promising politician, is married to Laura but is in love with Vergie Winters, a milliner from his home town. As Shadwell's political career blooms, gossip and rumors begin to cause Vergie to be shunned by the women o | 1934 | Alfred Santell | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (279 votes) | 82 | 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 |
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 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 Me TonightA Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess. | 1932 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.6 (4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
Lovin' the LadiesJimmy Farnsworth (Allen Kearns) bets his friend $5,000 that he can get any two people, under the proper environment, to fall in love and become engaged within a month. | 1930 | Melville W. Brown | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (139 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Luxury LinerA multifaceted, Robert Altman-esque look into the various classes of cruise liner society. Alice White, of Employees Entrance, puts in a worthy showing, as does George Brent as a jilted husband. | 1933 | Lothar Mendes | Drama | 6.8 (109 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Mad Genius, TheA crippled man finds a boy and vows to make him a great dancer. | 1931 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama, Horror, Romance | 6.3 (636 votes) | 81 | 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 |
Maltese Falcon, The [Dangerous Woman]A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon. | 1931 | Roy Del Ruth | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.9 (2.9K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Man in Possession, TheA charming bailiff's assistant poses as a young woman's butler until she can pay her debts. | 1931 | Sam Wood (*) | Comedy | 7.1 (304 votes) | 84 | 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 WantedA female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary. | 1932 | William Dieterle (*) | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (714 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
MandalayAbandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay. | 1934 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama | 6.6 (854 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
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 ParadeThe fortunes of a Broadway costume company rise and fall depending on who is running it, and whether its clients' shows succeed or not. | 1931 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Musical | 5.2 (153 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
ManiacA former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself. | 1934 | Dwain Esper | Horror, Sci-Fi | 3.7 (2.4K votes) | 51 | 20211228 |
Marriage Playground, TheA husband and wife have several children from their previous marriages and now they want to get divorced. The kids don't want to be separated and the oldest daughter and her boyfriend try to keep them together. | 1929 | Lothar Mendes | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.0 (112 votes) | 70 | 20240201 |
Mata HariA semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I. | 1931 | George Fitzmaurice | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (3.7K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Matrimonial Bed, TheLovely Juliet Corton (Florence Eldridge) is sure the dashing coiffeur who just arrived to style her hair is her husband, presumed dead in a railway crash five years earlier. | 1930 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Comedy | 5.7 (236 votes) | 69 | 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 |
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 in WhiteAn idealistic doctor must make some hard choices between his dedication to the profession and his personal life. | 1934 | Richard Boleslawski | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (658 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Misleading Lady, TheHelen makes a bet to seduce a man within 3 days in order to get a lead role in a play. | 1932 | Stuart Walker | Comedy | 5.6 (108 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Miss PinkertonA hospital nurse is recruited by the police to watch a household where a suspicious death has occurred. | 1932 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (527 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Monkey BusinessOn a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. | 1931 | Norman Z. McLeod (*) | Comedy, Family, Musical | 7.5 (13.4K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Monte CarloA countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser. | 1930 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Morals for WomenA desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love in this vintage cautionary tale. | 1931 | Mort Blumenstock | Drama | 5.4 (117 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Movie CrazyAfter a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a test screening and goes off to Hollywood. | 1932 | Clyde Bruckman, Harold Lloyd | Comedy, Family, Romance | 7.1 (1.5K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Murder at the VanitiesA homicide detective with an eye for the ladies investigating a murder in Earl Carroll's Vanities allows the music review to continue during the investigation. | 1934 | Mitchell Leisen | Music, Mystery, Romance | 6.5 (750 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Murders in the Rue MorgueA mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments. | 1932 | Robert Florey | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 6.4 (4.3K votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Murders in the ZooA monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her. | 1933 | A. Edward Sutherland | Crime, Horror | 6.5 (1.1K votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
My PastYoung man and an older man fall for a stage actress. | 1931 | Roy Del Ruth | Drama, Romance | 5.6 (193 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, TheDuring the Boxer Rebellion in China during the early 20th century, in which a Chinese secret society attacked all westerners and anyone who associated with them, Dr. Fu Manchu's wife and child are killed by foreigners. Enraged, he vo | 1929 | Rowland V. Lee | Crime, Romance, Thriller, War | 6.4 (239 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Mystery of the Wax MuseumThe disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor. | 1933 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (5.5K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Never the Twain Shall MeetDan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend. As one of his ships returns to San Francisco, Dan learns that the Captain has contracted | 1931 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Drama | 5.6 (184 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
New MoonNew Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governo | 1930 | Jack Conway | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.0 (176 votes) | 78 | 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 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 LimitTheater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne'er-do-well gambler. | 1931 | Frank Tuttle | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 5.8 (114 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 |
Now I'll TellGolden is a two-bit gambler who has promised wife Virginia he'll quit when he makes $200,000. When he fixes a fight he gets mobster Mossiter mad, then loses his fortune to him. He pawns his wife's jewels and takes out an insurance po | 1934 | Edwin J. Burke | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (212 votes) | 82 | 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 |
Old Dark House, TheSeeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate. | 1932 | James Whale (*) | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 7.1 (10.7K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Once to Every WomanDuring a number of bizarre cases, a dedicated nurse finds love with one doctor while she resents another new doctor who is extremely talented. | 1934 | Lambert Hillyer | Drama | 6.4 (173 votes) | 70 | 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 Way PassageA terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret. | 1932 | Tay Garnett | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (3.7K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
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 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 |
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 |
Palmy DaysAn assistant of phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert. | 1931 | A. Edward Sutherland | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.1 (537 votes) | 77 | 20220414 |
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 |
Paramount on ParadeA musical revue that basically has Paramount stars and contract-players doing things some had never done on screen, and wouldn't again; such as Ruth Chatteron , in a French-café setting singing "My Marine" (written by Richard A. Whit | 1930 | Dorothy Arzner, Otto Brower, Edmund Goulding, Victor Heerman, Edwin H. Knopf | Comedy, Music | 5.8 (315 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
Parlor, Bedroom and BathA man tries passing off a socially awkward fellow as a Casanova in the hopes of marrying off his would be sister-in-law. | 1931 | Edward Sedgwick | Comedy | 6.1 (874 votes) | 73 | 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 |
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 |
Payment DeferredA man poisons his nephew out of desperation for money. | 1932 | Lothar Mendes | Crime, Drama | 6.9 (626 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Peach-O-RenoAfter a quarrell at their 25th wedding aniversery, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back to gether. Joe and Aggie, | 1931 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (274 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
Play GirlA young woman's financial problems continue through a troubled marriage to a gambler. | 1932 | Ray Enright | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (287 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
Play-GirlA young woman's financial problems continue through a troubled marriage to a gambler. | 1932 | Ray Enright | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (287 votes) | 60 | 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 |
Poppin' the CorkDuring the movement to repeal Prohibition, Oxidontal University student editor Elmer Brown is strongly in favor. He loves the daughter of an ardent prohibitionist; by chicanery, he tries to win Gloria and sell his bottle stopper i... | 1933 | Jack White | Short, Comedy, Music | 5.7 (56 votes) | 24 | 20240530 |
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 Detective 62A down-and-out private eye falls for a woman he has been hired to frame. | 1933 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama | 6.6 (779 votes) | 66 | 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 |
Public Enemy, TheAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime. | 1931 | William A. Wellman (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (20.6K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
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 |
Pursuit of Happiness, TheLederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war. | 1934 | Alexander Hall | Comedy, Romance | 7.0 (62 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Queen ChristinaQueen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves. | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (7.7K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Queen HighThe two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play a single poker hand: the loser to become th | 1930 | Fred C. Newmeyer | Comedy, Musical | 6.1 (119 votes) | 85 | 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 |
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 DustThe owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees. | 1932 | Victor Fleming (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (4.2K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Red Headed WomanLillian relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man. | 1932 | Jack Conway | Comedy, Romance | 7.0 (3K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
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 |
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 |
Roadhouse Murder, TheTo gain fame, a reporter arranges to be suspected of murder. | 1932 | J. Walter Ruben | Thriller | 5.5 (112 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Roman ScandalsA kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Em | 1933 | Frank Tuttle | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 6.6 (675 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
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 |
Safety in NumbersA songwriter hires three chorus girls to show him the "underside" of big-city life. | 1930 | Victor Schertzinger | Comedy, Music, Romance | 5.6 (130 votes) | 80 | 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 |
ScarfaceAn ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall. | 1932 | Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.7 (27.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Search for BeautyThree con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures. | 1934 | Erle C. Kenton | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 6.1 (618 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Shanghai ExpressA notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved. | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.3 (8.6K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
She Done Him WrongIn the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member. | 1933 | Lowell Sherman | Comedy, Drama, History, Musical, Romance | 6.4 (6K votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
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 |
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 |
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, Bing, SingAfter singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries, tries again. | 1933 | Babe Stafford | Comedy, Musical, Short | 5.8 (151 votes) | 19 | 20240530 |
Singapore SueFour sailors enter a Singapore dive, meet a Chinese girl from Brooklyn, and find there's more to her than meets the eye. Two songs. | 1932 | Casey Robinson | Comedy, Musical, Short | 5.0 (180 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
Sinners in the SunA New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer. | 1932 | Alexander Hall, David Burton, William C. de Mille | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (309 votes) | 70 | 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 |
Sky DevilsWilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump. | 1932 | A. Edward Sutherland | Action, Comedy, War | 5.5 (104 votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
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 |
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 |
Smiling Lieutenant, TheAn amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side. | 1931 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Romance, Musical | 7.2 (3.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
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 |
Song of Songs, TheLily falls in love with the sculptor who leaves her out of fear of commitment. | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (744 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
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 |
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 |
Stolen Jools, TheThe boys and a Los Angeles police detective investigate the theft of actress Norma Shearer's jewelry. | 1931 | William C. McGann, John G. Adolfi, Thomas Atkins, Harold S. Bucquet, Victor Heerman | Comedy, Short | 5.7 (1K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Story of Temple Drake, TheA wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her. | 1933 | Stephen Roberts | Drama | 7.1 (1.5K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Strangers May KissAgainst her friends wishes, Lisbeth moves to Mexico to live with her lover. | 1931 | George Fitzmaurice | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (473 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Strictly DishonorableA womanizing singer falls for an old-fashioned Southern belle. The problem is, she already has a fiance. | 1931 | John M. Stahl | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.0 (218 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
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 |
SupernaturalA serial black widow murderess returns to life in the body of a young woman to exact revenge on a former lover, a phony spiritualist who betrayed her. | 1933 | Victor Halperin | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (693 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Sweet MamaA young girl falls in love with a member of a gang of crooks. She determines to bring the rest of the gang to justice so she can save the man she loves. | 1930 | Edward F. Cline | Crime, Drama | 8.1 (63 votes) | 54 | 20211228 |
Take a ChanceFrom a team 2 girls and 2 not-straight men, a girl leaves to be a star, other stays to keep the boys straight. The star comes back with a producer, who falls in love with the girl who stayed. There are hurdles, the 2 men, and her IOU | 1933 | Monte Brice, Laurence Schwab | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.6 (53 votes) | 82 | 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 |
Tarzan And His MateThe idyllic life of Tarzan and Jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory, and come seeking Jane as well. | 1934 | Cedric Gibbons, James C. McKay, Jack Conway | Action, Adventure, Romance | 7.3 (5.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
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 |
Tenderfoot, TheCalvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Ruth Weston, a secretary, learns that her boss, Joe Lehman, is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in. | 1932 | Ray Enright | Comedy, Western | 5.8 (396 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
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 |
Thin Man, TheFormer detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it. | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Mystery | 8.0 (28.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
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 |
Those Three French GirlsThree attractive young women cause misadventures for visiting Americans. | 1930 | Harry Beaumont, Erle C. Kenton | Comedy | 5.0 (103 votes) | 73 | 20220414 |
Three Cornered MoonNellie Rimplegar has to tell her grown children that due to her bungled handling of their finances, the family has been wiped out by the Stock Market crash. Friend and family doctor, Alan Stevens, tells them they'll all need to elimi | 1933 | Elliott Nugent | Comedy | 6.4 (434 votes) | 77 | 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 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 |
Thunder BelowThunder Below is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Richard Wallace and written by Sidney Buchman and Josephine Lovett. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Bickford, Paul Lukas, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Forbes and Le | 1932 | Richard Wallace | Drama | 6.2 (88 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
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 |
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 |
Trial of Vivienne Ware, TheIncredibly fast-moving courtroom yarn in which Bennett is defended by ex-beau Cook when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance, while the trial is broadcast live on the radio. | 1932 | William K. Howard | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (110 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
Trouble in ParadiseA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme. | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 8.0 (14.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
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 |
Turn Back the ClockJoe and Mary barely get by with their tobacco store. After an old friend returns now married to wealthy Elvina, Joe wishes he married her instead when he had the chance. Will he be happy when his wish comes true? | 1933 | Edgar Selwyn | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 6.8 (451 votes) | 79 | 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 Night, TheOn a dark foggy London night, someone tries to strangle Lord Montague, but he escapes. Only to discover the four other men who did get killed were old regimental comrades in Gallipoli. When Scotland Yard gets Monty to gather the othe | 1929 | Lionel Barrymore | Mystery, Thriller | 5.7 (313 votes) | 94 | 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 |
Upper WorldA rich railroad tycoon, bored with his marriage (his wife has no time for him -- she's too busy giving parties and sailing on yachts) starts seeing a showgirl. This are going OK until the girl's manager/boyfriend, seeing his chance t | 1934 | Roy Del Ruth | Crime, Drama, Music | 6.4 (540 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
UpperworldA rich railroad tycoon, bored with his marriage (his wife has no time for him -- she's too busy giving parties and sailing on yachts) starts seeing a showgirl. This are going OK until the girl's manager/boyfriend, seeing his chance t | 1934 | Roy Del Ruth | Crime, Drama, Music | 6.4 (540 votes) | 73 | 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 |
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 |
Viva Villa!After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy. | 1934 | Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman | Western | 6.4 (1.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
Waterloo BridgeA prostitute's self-loathing makes her reluctant to marry an idealistic soldier during World War I. | 1931 | James Whale (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (2.9K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
We're Not DressingYacht owner is stranded on island with her socialite friends, a wacky husband and wife research team, and a singing sailor. | 1934 | Norman Taurog | Comedy, Musical | 6.1 (782 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
West of BroadwayJerry Seevers returns from World War I service broken in health and his doctor tells him he has only six months to live. His fiancée jilts him and he sets out to drink himself to death. In one of his binges he wakes up to find himsel | 1931 | Harry Beaumont | Drama, Romance, War | 6.3 (617 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Wet ParadeThe evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family. | 1932 | Victor Fleming (*) | Drama, History, Romance | 6.3 (479 votes) | 118 | 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 |
What! No BeerTwo men decide to cash in on the end of Prohibition by selling watered down beer. | 1933 | Edward Sedgwick | Comedy | 5.7 (461 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
White ZombieA young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave. | 1932 | Victor Halperin | Horror | 6.3 (10.3K votes) | 69 | 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 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 |
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 |
Wonder BarHarry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out, that Harry wa | 1934 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.6 (650 votes) | 84 | 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 Made Me Love YouA rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer. | 1933 | Monty Banks | Comedy | 6.7 (63 votes) | 70 | 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 |
Zoo in BudapestAn orphan girl escapes her caregivers to be with a young man raised at the zoo whose only previous friends are the animals. | 1933 | Rowland V. Lee | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (462 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Blow Me Down! | 1933 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Hip Zip Hooray | 1933 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Is My Palm Read | 1933 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Piano Tooners | 1932 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Rhapsody in Brew | 1933 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Room Runners | 1932 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Seeing Stars | 1932 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Stratos-Fear | 1933 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Shindig | 1930 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Voice of Hollywood, Series 1, No. 2 | 1930 | | | NA (Unkn) | | Excluded |