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1. You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold
Votes: 27,961 | Gross: $4.66M
2. The Wizard of Oz (1925)
TV-G | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Dorothy, heir to the Oz throne, must take it back from the wicked Prime Minister Kruel with the help of three farmhands.
Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Dorothy Dwan, Charles Murray, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr
Votes: 1,752
3. The King of Kings (1927)
Not Rated | 160 min | Biography, Drama, Family
Jesus Christ faces religious and political oppression during his ministry and in the days before his death and resurrection.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut
Votes: 2,424 | Gross: $1.77M
4. The Crusades (1935)
Passed | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History
King Richard and the Third Crusade (1190-1192) are given the DeMille treatment with more spectacle than history.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 1,295
5. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Passed | 150 min | Drama, Romance, War
An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.
Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard
Votes: 3,554 | Gross: $9.20M
6. Don Juan (1926)
Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Romance
In 16th-century Italy, devil-may-care playboy Don Juan runs afoul of the despotic Borgias.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland, Estelle Taylor
Votes: 966 | Gross: $1.92M
7. Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939)
Passed | 302 min | Mystery
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Irving Pichel, Ted Pearson, Jennifer Jones
Votes: 366
8. Zorro Rides Again (1937)
Approved | 212 min | Family, Western
The California-Yucatan Railroad, being built for the good of Mexico, is under siege by a gang of terrorists hoping to force its sale; no one can prove their connection to profiteer Marsden.... See full summary »
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: John Carroll, Noah Beery, Richard Alexander, Reed Howes
Votes: 338
9. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy
A con man from the city dupes a wealthy country girl into marriage.
Directors: Mack Sennett, Charles Bennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain
Votes: 3,729
10. The Return of Chandu (1934)
Approved | 208 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
The cult of Ubasti, headquartered on the isle of Lemuria, believes that Princess Nadji of Egypt is a reincarnation of their long-dead goddess, Ossana, and intend to sacrifice her so that Ossana may be resurrected.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Maria Alba, Clara Kimball Young, Lucien Prival
Votes: 437
11. Get Your Man (1927)
63 min | Comedy, Romance
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Josef Swickard, Josephine Dunn
Votes: 272
12. Narcotic (1933)
Not Rated | 57 min | Biography, Drama, Horror
Exploitation film which follows the downward spiral of an idealistic medical student whose fall from grace leads him to opium dens, a carnival freakshow, swanky drug parties, dingy brothels, and finally the barrel of his own revolver.
Directors: Dwain Esper, Vival Sodar't | Stars: Harry Cording, Joan Dix, Patricia Farley, Jean Lacy
Votes: 424
13. Dante's Inferno (1924)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit suicide. The businessman is tried for murder, executed, and afterward swiftly taken by ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Otto | Stars: Lawson Butt, Howard Gaye, Ralph Lewis, Pauline Starke
Votes: 203 | Gross: $0.26M
14. Laughing Gas (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie pretends to be a dentist though he is only his assistant. When a patient can't stop laughing from the anesthesia Charlie knocks him out with a club. He is sent to the drug store, ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Fritz Schade, Alice Howell, Slim Summerville
Votes: 1,650
15. Custer's Last Stand (I) (1936)
Passed | 328 min | War, Western
When some men are attacked by Indians, a survivor obtains an Indian medicine arrow. An Indian tells Blade he has found gold but will not tell him where until he has that arrow. So Blade ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Rex Lease, Lona Andre, William Farnum, Ruth Mix
Votes: 252
16. The Lost City (I) (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
An evil scientist plots to take over the world from his base in Africa, where he has invented a machine that can cause earthquakes.
Director: Harry Revier | Stars: William 'Stage' Boyd, Kane Richmond, Claudia Dell, Josef Swickard
Votes: 323
17. The Shadow of the East (1924)
60 min | Drama
Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's love for Gillian is revived, but he already has a wife, Lolaire, a native. In a jealous ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Frank Mayo, Mildred Harris, Norman Kerry, Bertram Grassby
18. Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)
Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping.
Directors: Joseph Maddern, Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Gordon Griffith
Votes: 1,434
19. 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
20. The Great Victor Herbert (1939)
Approved | 91 min | Biography, Music, Musical
A fictionalized version of famous opera composer Victor Herbert where he witnesses the romance, stardom, parenthood, and troubled experiences of his star singers.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Walter Connolly, Lee Bowman
Votes: 134 | Gross: $0.30M
21. The Narrow Corner (1933)
TV-PG | 69 min | Drama
An Englishman sought for murder escapes to South Seas island.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Patricia Ellis, Ralph Bellamy, Dudley Digges
Votes: 341
22. Perils of Pauline (1933)
Passed | 231 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Evalyn Knapp, Craig Reynolds, James Durkin, John Davidson
Votes: 157
23. The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1922)
360 min | Adventure
A man struggles to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Harry Myers, Noble Johnson, Gertrude Olmstead, Scott Pembroke
Votes: 31
24. Caught in a Cabaret (1914)
TV-G | 30 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret and must endure the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and pretends to be a fancy ambassador but must contend with the jealousy of her fiancé.
Director: Mabel Normand | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Dan Albert, Phyllis Allen
Votes: 1,502
25. Caryl of the Mountains (1936)
Approved | 68 min | Western
Funds are embezzled and a fur trapper is murdered. Rin Tin Tin to the rescue!
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Francis X. Bushman Jr., Lois Wilde, Josef Swickard
Votes: 85
26. Mamba (1930)
Passed | 78 min | Drama
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Jean Hersholt, Eleanor Boardman, Ralph Forbes, Claude Fleming
Votes: 108
27. Love Me Forever (1935)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Grace Moore, Leo Carrillo, Robert Allen, Spring Byington
Votes: 149
28. A Dog of Flanders (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Family
Tentative adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Frankie Thomas, O.P. Heggie, Helen Parrish, DeWitt Jennings
Votes: 147
29. A Boy of Flanders (1924)
70 min | Drama, Family
Nello saves the life of a dog but returns home to find his grandfather dead. Living under a haystack, he enters a drawing contest and wins the prize and the affections of a fellow artist, who adopts him.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Jackie Coogan, Nigel De Brulier, Lionel Belmore, Nell Craig
Votes: 31
30. The Keeper of the Bees (1925)
60 min | Drama
World War hero James Lewis MacFarlane, tired of being shunted from one government hospital to another for a wound that will not heal, runs away when he learns that he has but a year to live... See full summary »
Director: James Leo Meehan | Stars: Robert Frazer, Josef Swickard, Martha Mattox, Clara Bow
Votes: 28
31. Old San Francisco (1927)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, History, Romance
In San Francisco, a villainous land owner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Dolores Costello, Josef Swickard, Anders Randolf, Charles Emmett Mack
Votes: 414
32. The Young Rajah (1922)
Passed | 54 min | Romance, Drama
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Wanda Hawley, Pat Moore, Charles Ogle
Votes: 423 | Gross: $0.24M
33. The Secret of Treasure Island (1938)
Approved | 300 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In the Prologue, pirates hide a treasure on an island off the Mexican coast. And the pirates, the map and the treasure disappear in a volcanic eruption. The legend of the island draws ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Don Terry, Gwen Gaze, Walter Miller, Grant Withers
Votes: 226
34. Say It in French (1938)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
In this farcical comedy, a couple with money woes arrange a financially motivated marriage between their golf-pro son and a wealthy heiress. Little do they know, their son has already been wed while playing a tournament in France.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Ray Milland, Olympe Bradna, Irene Hervey, Janet Beecher
Votes: 83
35. The Black Coin (1936)
Approved | 323 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Federal agents and smugglers battle it out over lost secret papers.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Ralph Graves, Ruth Mix, Dave O'Brien, Constance Bergen
Votes: 83
36. My American Wife (1922)
60 min | Drama
A horse-race brings together Kentuckian Natalie Chester and Argentinean Manuel La Tassa. At a party, Pedro De Grossa insults Natalie and Manuel challenges him to a duel. To assure his son's... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Antonio Moreno, Josef Swickard, Eric Mayne
Votes: 19 | Gross: $0.20M
37. Love, Loot and Crash (1915)
11 min | Short, Comedy
A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone cops and stir vigorously.
Director: Frank Griffin | Stars: Charley Chase, Fontaine La Rue, Josef Swickard, William Hauber
Votes: 158
38. A Submarine Pirate (1915)
Not Rated | 24 min | Comedy, Short
An inventor and his accomplice plan to rob a ship carrying gold bullion by using a submarine. A waiter overhears their plans, buys himself an admiral's uniform, tricks his way into command of the sub and plots to take the ship himself.
Directors: Charles Avery, Syd Chaplin | Stars: Syd Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Glen Cavender, Wesley Ruggles
Votes: 195
39. Lash of the Penitentes (1936)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Actual footage of Penitentes - a sect of Catholic religious fanatics who engage in self-flagellation - is combined with new footage about a murder.
Directors: Roland Price, Harry Revier | Stars: Marie DeForrest, William Marcos, Victor Justi, Josef Swickard
Votes: 67
40. Under Your Spell (1936)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Lawrence Tibbett, Wendy Barrie, Gregory Ratoff, Arthur Treacher
Votes: 74
41. The Mad Empress (1939)
Approved | 72 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Rival version of drama of Carlotta, Maximilian and Juarez, story better known from simultaneously filmed 1939 Juarez. This different production, financed by Mexico and Columbia , was bought out by Warners to play down competition.
Director: Miguel Contreras Torres | Stars: Medea de Novara, Conrad Nagel, Jason Robards Sr., Lionel Atwill
Votes: 50
42. Beloved (1934)
85 min | Drama, Musical
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: John Boles, Gloria Stuart, Morgan Farley, Ruth Hall
Votes: 56
43. The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Comedy
The plot is a satire derived from Hugh Antoine D'Arcy's poem of the same title. The painter courts Madeleine but loses to the wealthy client who sits for his portrait. The despairing artist... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Cecile Arnold, Jess Dandy, Vivian Edwards
Votes: 1,184
44. Hotel Imperial (1927)
85 min | Drama, War
During World War I, a hotel maid and Austrian officer in hiding attempt to survive in a Russian-occupied town.
Director: Mauritz Stiller | Stars: Pola Negri, James Hall, George Siegmann, Max Davidson
Votes: 276
45. The Light of Western Stars (1918)
Passed | 70 min | Western
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Swickard | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Winifred Kingston, Bert Appling, Josef Swickard
46. A Favorite Fool (1915)
Short, Comedy
Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sympathizes with her and she decides to quit her place as trapeze woman in the show and get... See full summary »
Director: Edwin Frazee | Stars: Eddie Foy, Polly Moran, Charles Arling, Eddie Foy Jr.
47. The Property Man (1914)
Not Rated | 28 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. There are further difficulties with frequent scene changes, wrong entries and a fireman's hose... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Charles Bennett, Jess Dandy
Votes: 949
48. Cheated Hearts (1921)
50 min | Drama
The oldest son of a Virginia colonel, Barry Gordon inherits a taste for alcohol, the habit that caused his father's death. His brother, Tom, falls in love with Muriel Beekman, their ... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Herbert Rawlinson, Warner Baxter, Marjorie Daw, Doris Pawn
49. Mexicali Rose (1939)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Music, Western
Bad guys interested in oil profits attempt to take a mission away from poor Mexican children, but Gene and Frog save the day.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Noah Beery, Luana Walters
Votes: 117
50. The Veiled Woman (1929)
70 min | Drama
A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her own life, one of whom she had to kill to protect herself.
Director: Emmett J. Flynn | Stars: Lia Torá, Paul Vincenti, Walter McGrail, Josef Swickard
Votes: 20