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51. Stage Mother (1933)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband's stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living. But when the daughter shows some talent, the mother become a stage mother... See full summary »

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Alice Brady, Maureen O'Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Phillips Holmes

Votes: 260

52. Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An editorial hack becomes a new man after a wild night out.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Ann Dvorak, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat

Votes: 215

53. Escapade (1935)

92 min | Comedy, Romance

Escapade is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring William Powell and Luise Rainer. It is a remake of Maskerade (1934).

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: William Powell, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Virginia Bruce

Votes: 92

54. Clive of India (1935)

Approved | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

In the mid-1700's the East India Company has power over commerce on the sub-continent, with the blessings of the British government. A clerk in the company, Robert Clive, is frustrated by ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive, Francis Lister

Votes: 459

55. The Vagabond King (1930)

104 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His ... See full summary »

Directors: Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Lillian Roth

Votes: 233

56. Three Women (1924)

83 min | Drama

A frivolous middle-aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for her daughter, leaving her young boyfriend crushed.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pauline Frederick, May McAvoy, Marie Prevost, Lew Cody

Votes: 245 | Gross: $0.75M

57. Zaza (1938)

Approved | 83 min | Drama, Romance

A sexy singer in a French music hall falls in love with a handsome, but married, aristocrat.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr, Helen Westley

Votes: 225

58. Nana (1934)

90 min | Drama

Nana is a 1934 American Pre-Code film, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, released through United Artists, starring Anna Sten. and directed by Dorothy Arzner and George Fitzmaurice. This version ... See full summary »

Directors: Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Anna Sten, Phillips Holmes, Lionel Atwill, Richard Bennett

Votes: 276

59. Big Business Girl (1931)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance

Thanks to her ability and her legs, Claire McIntyre rises in the business world.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Loretta Young, Frank Albertson, Ricardo Cortez, Joan Blondell

Votes: 437

60. The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)

Approved | 80 min | Drama, Mystery

A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials. When he discovers that the publisher has betrayed him and is in league ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill, Juanita Quigley

Votes: 198

61. The Three Musketeers (1935)

Approved | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, ... See full summary »

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Walter Abel, Paul Lukas, Margot Grahame, Heather Angel

Votes: 405

62. To Mary - with Love (1936)

Approved | 87 min | Drama

Ten years of married life beginning in 1925. Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Ian Hunter, Claire Trevor

Votes: 159

63. Laughter in Hell (1933)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart, Merna Kennedy, Tom Brown

Votes: 68

64. Vanity Fair (1932)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, Romance

This cinematic adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel stars Myrna Loy in her first starring role.

Director: Chester M. Franklin | Stars: Myrna Loy, Conway Tearle, Barbara Kent, Walter Byron

Votes: 368

65. Love Bound (1932)

Passed | 60 min | Drama, Mystery

A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers ... See full summary »

Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Natalie Moorhead, Clara Kimball Young, Edmund Breese

Votes: 151

66. Orchids and Ermine (1927)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance

A telephone operator at an opulent hotel falls in love with a young man who turns out to be a rich oil millionaire.

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Colleen Moore, Jack Mulhall, Sam Hardy, Gwen Lee

Votes: 182

67. Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Nightclub singer Joan Warren's agent Nicky puts her into situations designed to advance her career.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Alice Faye, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff, Ted Healy

Votes: 149

68. Interference (1928)

83 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Paramount's 1st ALL TALKIE Reported killed in action, Philip Voaze(William Powell) lives under an assumed name in London. Deborah Kane(Evelyn Brent) a former love, discovers him and tries ... See full summary »

Directors: Lothar Mendes, Roy Pomeroy | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, William Powell, Doris Kenyon

Votes: 157

69. More Than a Secretary (1936)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance

When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Jean Arthur, George Brent, Lionel Stander, Ruth Donnelly

Votes: 654

70. Dancing Pirate (1936)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

The story of a Boston dance teacher who gets shanghaied by buccaneers who might make his next steps be off the plank!

Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Charles Collins, Frank Morgan, Steffi Duna, Luis Alberni

Votes: 387

71. Parnell (1937)

Passed | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to secure Home Rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the ... See full summary »

Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Edna May Oliver, Edmund Gwenn

Votes: 567 | Gross: $1.58M

72. East Lynne (1931)

Passed | 102 min | Drama, Romance

The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel, Cecilia Loftus

Votes: 344

73. Trouble for Two (1936)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The Crown Prince (Robert Montgomery) is to marry the Princess Brenda of Irania, but the Princess declines the arranged marriage. Relieved, Florizel heads for London, with the Colonel (Frank... See full summary »

Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen

Votes: 553

74. Casey at the Bat (1927)

Passed | 68 min | Action, Comedy, Sport

Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his ... See full summary »

Director: Monte Brice | Stars: Wallace Beery, Zasu Pitts, Ford Sterling, Sterling Holloway

Votes: 38 | Gross: $0.43M

75. Cardinal Richelieu (1935)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, History, Romance

The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: George Arliss, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold, Cesar Romero

Votes: 242

76. Human Cargo (1936)

Approved | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Bonnie Brewster and Packy Campbell are rival reporters who board a ship in Vancouver to go after a smuggling ring which brings in illegal aliens.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Claire Trevor, Brian Donlevy, Alan Dinehart, Ralph Morgan

Votes: 207

77. Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance

Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Walter Connolly, Robert Young, Doris Kenyon, Macon Jones

Votes: 104

78. Ambassador Bill (1931)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Will Rogers, Marguerite Churchill, Greta Nissen, Tad Alexander

Votes: 185

79. The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936)

Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A beautiful socialite is acquitted of killing her husband only to be sued by her powerful mother-in-law for custody of her own son.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, George Brent, Arthur Treacher, Alan Baxter

Votes: 133

80. The Red Rider (1934)

Approved | 310 min | Western

Red Davison, the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of Scotty McKee.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Buck Jones, Grant Withers, Marion Shilling, Walter Miller

Votes: 82

81. The Gaiety Girl (1924)

80 min | Drama, Romance

Forced to abandon his ancestral castle, William Tudor accompanies his granddaughter Irene to London, while millionaire John Kershaw buys the castle for his son, "Kit." Irene joins the ... See full summary »

Director: King Baggot | Stars: Mary Philbin, Joseph J. Dowling, William Haines, James O. Barrows

82. The Public Menace (1935)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Non-citizen Arthur marries reporter Murphy for a bogus gangster's confession. A divorce is needed, and Murphy is fired. The gangster wants her to be his girlfriend, the police are outside, and only one who can save her is Murphy.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Jean Arthur, George Murphy, Douglass Dumbrille, George McKay

Votes: 296

83. The Phantom President (1932)

78 min | Comedy, Musical

A presidential candidate is deemed to have a dull personality, thus a charismatic look-alike is hired as a front.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert, Jimmy Durante, George Barbier

Votes: 187

84. Rhythm in the Clouds (1937)

Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Music, Musical

Struggling songwriter Judy Walker talks her way into the apartment of a famous composer, and finds that he's on vacation. Homeless and without any money, she decides to stay at his place, making use of all his belongings.

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Patricia Ellis, Warren Hull, William Newell, Richard Carle

Votes: 241

85. The Way to Love (1933)

80 min | Comedy, Romance

The Way to Love is a 1933 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film, starring Maurice Chevalier and Ann Dvorak.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Ann Dvorak, Edward Everett Horton, Minna Gombell

Votes: 73

86. The Man Who Dared (1933)

Passed | 72 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.

Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Preston Foster, Zita Johann, Joan Marsh, Irén Biller

Votes: 37

87. I Am Suzanne! (1933)

Passed | 98 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Tony Malatini, a puppeteer, at Paris' Theatre des Marionettes notices that his audience consists of only 7 people. He visits his successful competitor on the corner to see why people are ... See full summary »

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Gene Raymond, Leslie Banks, Georgia Caine

Votes: 124

88. Good-bye Love (1933)

67 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

Wealthy 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.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Verree Teasdale, Sidney Blackmer, Phyllis Barry

Votes: 147

89. Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)

Passed | 90 min | Romance, Drama

A French milliner becomes a casino hostess and courtesan, eventually rising to the position of mistress of King Louis XV.

Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Norma Talmadge, William Farnum, Conrad Nagel, Hobart Bosworth

Votes: 110

90. Gordon of Ghost City (1933)

Passed | 220 min | Western

A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather's gold mine and other outlaws who are trying to stop her.

Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Buck Jones, Madge Bellamy, Walter Miller, Tom Ricketts

Votes: 62

91. Forgotten (1933)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance

A kindly old man is neglected by his selfish and greedy sons.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Lee Kohlmar, June Clyde, William Collier Jr., Leon Ames

Votes: 94

92. Carnival in Paris (1937)

Approved | 22 min | Short, Comedy, Musical

The janitor of a Paris museum's Egyptology department agrees to help a girl hide from the police. Using museum costumes, they join the Paris carnival parade and even win the 'best costume' ... See full summary »

Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Henry Brandon, Ann Rutherford, Harry Burns, Ferdinand Gottschalk

Votes: 125

93. Doomsday (1928)

60 min | Drama, Romance

In the English countryside, young Mary Viner has an opportunity to marry Arnold Furze, the hard-working but lonely owner of the oddly-named Doomsday Farm. He sacrifices a treasured stand of... See full summary »

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Florence Vidor, Gary Cooper, Lawrence Grant, Charles A. Stevenson

Votes: 125

94. Girls (1919)

50 min | Comedy, Romance

Man-haters Pamela Gordon, Violet and Kate West, each disappointed in love, vow never to marry, and room together with a sign above their door reading "No man shall cross this threshold." ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Edwards | Stars: Marguerite Clark, Mary Warren, Helene Chadwick, Harrison Ford

95. George White's 1935 Scandals (1935)

Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Vacationing Broadway producer George White stops off in a small Georgia town to send a telegram and, seeing his name in lights on a local theater, is scandalized over the unauthorized use. ... See full summary »

Directors: George White, Harry Lachman, James Tinling | Stars: Alice Faye, James Dunn, Ned Sparks, Lyda Roberti

Votes: 190

96. Bachelor's Affairs (1932)

64 min | Comedy, Romance

A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Minna Gombell, Arthur Pierson, Joan Marsh

Votes: 49

97. Pleasure Cruise (1933)

72 min | Comedy, Romance

A 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.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Genevieve Tobin, Roland Young, Ralph Forbes, Una O'Connor

Votes: 151

98. Springtime for Henry (1934)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Romance

Springtime for Henry is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Otto Kruger, Nancy Carroll and Nigel Bruce. It was based on a play of the same name by Benn W. Levy which enjoyed an eight-month run on Broadway.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Otto Kruger, Nancy Carroll, Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel

Votes: 30

99. The Life of the Party (1930)

Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Musical

Two attractive female song-pluggers decide to become gold-diggers, with comic results.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Winnie Lightner, Irene Delroy, Jack Whiting, Charles Butterworth

Votes: 208

100. Vagabond Lady (1935)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Robert Young, Evelyn Venable, Reginald Denny, Frank Craven

Votes: 194