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1. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Passed | 152 min | Drama, War

A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy

Votes: 67,821 | Gross: $3.27M

2. Duck Soup (1933)

Not Rated | 69 min | Comedy, Musical

Rufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they're on.

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx

Votes: 62,810

3. Treasure Island (1934)

Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Family

Young Jim Hawkins is torn between his loyalty to his benefactors and his affection for lovable rogue Long John Silver in their struggle to recover a buried pirate treasure.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger

Votes: 3,177 | Gross: $2.54M

4. Platinum Blonde (1931)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Halliwell Hobbes

Votes: 3,465

5. International House (1933)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy

Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention: television.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 1,469

6. The Sixth Commandment (1924)

60 min

John loves Marian, engaged to unfaithful Robert. Marian breaks engagement after learning of Robert's infidelity. John goes to war, returns blinded. Robert dies, John and Marian accused of murder.

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: William Faversham, Charlotte Walker, John Boles, Kathleen Martyn

Votes: 15

7. Female (1933)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.

Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson, Johnny Mack Brown

Votes: 1,922

8. Madame Butterfly (1932)

Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance

Lieutenant Pinkerton marries geisha-in-training but soon after abandons her and goes back to the US.

Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Irving Pichel

Votes: 448

9. Only Yesterday (1933)

Passed | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but tries to seduce her.

Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke

Votes: 422

10. Mata Hari (1931)

Passed | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone

Votes: 3,960 | Gross: $0.93M

11. Millie (1931)

Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance

Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.

Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames, James Hall

Votes: 860

12. The Painted Desert (1931)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, Western

Two men find an abandoned baby and fight over the ownership of the child, resulting in lifelong rivalry.

Directors: Howard Higgin, Tom Buckingham | Stars: William Boyd, Helen Twelvetrees, William Farnum, J. Farrell MacDonald

Votes: 829

13. The Hurricane Express (1932)

Passed | 227 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

When his father is killed in a train wreck, Larry Baker vows to unmask a mysterious criminal called "The Wrecker," who has targeted the L&M Railroad for deadly" accidents."

Directors: J.P. McGowan, Armand Schaefer | Stars: John Wayne, Shirley Grey, Conway Tearle, Tully Marshall

Votes: 687

14. The Hatchet Man (1932)

74 min | Crime, Drama

A hatchet man is ordered to kill his close friend for the sake of Tong.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Dudley Digges, Leslie Fenton

Votes: 908

15. The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)

TV-G | 78 min | Drama

A tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis, Dorothy Jordan, Hardie Albright

Votes: 1,884

16. Broadway Bill (1934)

Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

A runaway heiress and her sister's husband join forces to race the latter's fast horse, Broadway Bill.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Helen Vinson

Votes: 1,164

17. The Match King (1932)

Passed | 79 min | Crime, Drama

Unscrupulous Paul Kroll, starting as a Chicago janitor, uses graft to finance a trip to Sweden where by trickery he gains control of his uncle's small match factory. By expert manipulation ... See full summary »

Directors: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley | Stars: Warren William, Lili Damita, Glenda Farrell, Juliette Compton

Votes: 611

18. As You Desire Me (1932)

Approved | 70 min | Drama, Romance

An officer tries to convince an amnesiac bar entertainer that she is his long-lost lover.

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Erich von Stroheim, Owen Moore

Votes: 767 | Gross: $0.71M

19. The Sea Bat (1930)

Passed | 58 min | Action, Romance, Thriller

The West Indies island of Portuga exists mainly for sponge diving. But the best area of collection is frequented by a very large manta ray. Nina loses her brother to the creature and is ... See full summary »

Directors: Lionel Barrymore, Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Raquel Torres, Charles Bickford, Nils Asther, George F. Marion

Votes: 298

20. The Stranger's Return (1933)

89 min | Comedy, Drama

A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married farmer.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Miriam Hopkins, Franchot Tone, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 507

21. 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

22. Bright Lights (1930)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery, Daphne Pollard

Votes: 382

23. Oh! Oh! Cleopatra (1931)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy

A mad scientist creates a time travel pill, which two goofballs volunteer to test, transporting them to ancient Egypt as Marc Antony and Julius Caesar vying for the beautiful Cleopatra's love in a chariot race.

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Burgess, Robert Frazer

Votes: 38

24. Fighting with Kit Carson (1933)

Passed | 250 min | Western

A pack train led by Kit Carson is attacked by Kraft and his Mystery Riders, who want a government shipment of gold carried by the wagons. Matt Fargo manages to hide the gold, but Carson ... See full summary »

Directors: Colbert Clark, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Betsy King Ross, Noah Beery, Noah Beery Jr.

Votes: 78

25. Beyond the Rainbow (1922)

65 min | Drama

Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his doctors that he has to go to the mountains ... See full summary »

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Harry T. Morey, Billie Dove, Virginia Lee, Diana Allen

Votes: 19

26. Girls Gone Wild (1929)

57 min | Drama

In his last film, silent star William Russell plays the motorcycle policeman father of one of the restless and reckless new generation of late 1920s youth.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, William Russell, Roy D'Arcy

Votes: 65

27. The Public Defender (1931)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Rich playboy Pike Winslow dons the mantle of 'The Reckoner', a mysterious avenger, when he learns that his lady friend Barbara Gerry's father has been framed in a bank embezzlement scandal.... See full summary »

Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Richard Dix, Shirley Grey, Purnell Pratt, Ruth Weston

Votes: 249

28. Tol'able David (1930)

65 min | Drama

Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.

Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Noah Beery, Joan Peers, Henry B. Walthall

Votes: 44

29. Young Bride (1932)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A shy, 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.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Eric Linden, Arline Judge, Roscoe Ates

Votes: 254

30. Kismet (1930)

Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Musical

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.

Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Otis Skinner, Loretta Young, David Manners, Sidney Blackmer

Votes: 84

31. Hold Everything (1930)

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Winnie Lightner, Georges Carpentier, Sally O'Neil

Votes: 35

32. Cross-Examination (1932)

Passed | 74 min | Drama, Mystery

Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a boy charged with the murder of his father. Witness after witness piles up damaging evidence... See full summary »

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: H.B. Warner, Sally Blane, Natalie Moorhead, Edmund Breese

Votes: 139

33. Playboy of Paris (1930)

Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Waiter Albert is incompetent is in conflict with the owner and his daughter. However a surprise inheritance means he must keep his job by day while escorting a glamorous socialite by night.

Director: Ludwig Berger | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Frances Dee, O.P. Heggie, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 103

34. The Gamblers (1929)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm's assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: H.B. Warner, Lois Wilson, Jason Robards Sr., George Fawcett

Votes: 66

35. Morals for Women (1931)

65 min | Drama

A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love in this vintage cautionary tale.

Director: Mort Blumenstock | Stars: Bessie Love, Conway Tearle, John Holland, Natalie Moorhead

Votes: 140

36. 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

37. Law of the Wild (1934)

Approved | 225 min | Action, Crime, Western

Rex, a wild stallion, and Rinty, a police dog, are pals. Their master , John Sheldon, is framed for murder, and Alice Ingram plans to race Rex for money to pay for John's legal defense. ... See full summary »

Directors: B. Reeves Eason, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Rex, Rin Tin Tin Jr., Ben Turpin, Bob Custer

Votes: 99

38. The Golden West (1932)

74 min | Drama, Western

Lovers David Lynch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers' son, he escapes to the West. He marries, and when his son is two, he ... See full summary »

Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Chandler, Marion Burns, Arthur Pierson

Votes: 34

39. Dancing Man (1934)

64 min | Mystery

Gigolo Paul Dtexel (Reginald Denny) makes his living escorting wealthy women to dance halls. One night he meets Diana Trevor (Judith Allen), they fall in love, but much to Diana's horror, ... See full summary »

Director: Albert Ray | Stars: Reginald Denny, Judith Allen, Edmund Breese, Natalie Moorhead

Votes: 32

40. Chinatown After Dark (1931)

59 min | Crime, Drama

The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.

Director: Stuart Paton | Stars: Carmel Myers, Rex Lease, Barbara Kent, Edmund Breese

Votes: 169

41. Return of the Terror (1934)

Approved | 65 min | Mystery

"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.

Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot, John Halliday, Frank McHugh

Votes: 32

42. The Perfect Crime (1928)

83 min | Crime, Drama

A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, might not have occurred at all.

Director: Bert Glennon | Stars: Clive Brook, Irene Rich, Ethel Wales, Carroll Nye

Votes: 21

43. The Good Bad Girl (1931)

Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Gangster's moll Marcia Cameron (Mae Clark) quits her racketeering boyfriend Dapper Dan Tyler (Robert Ellis) for a respectable rich man, Bob Henderson (James Hall), but after giving birth to... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Mae Clarke, James Hall, Marie Prevost, Robert Ellis

Votes: 126

44. Come On, Marines! (1934)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

"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 ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Richard Arlen, Ida Lupino, Roscoe Karns, Grace Bradley

Votes: 80

45. The Reckoning (1932)

63 min | Crime, Drama

Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.

Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Sally Blane, James Murray, Edmund Breese, Bryant Washburn

Votes: 68

46. The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)

81 min | Crime, Drama

"Fingers" Partos, known by fighters for his great massages, is paroled from prison and returns to straighten out his brother, "Babe." Fingers is convinced that Babe should be a classy ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Constance Cummings, Olga Baclanova, Frank Morgan

Votes: 42

47. Czar of Broadway (1930)

79 min | Crime, Drama

A reporter is assigned to do a story on a notorious racketeer.

Director: William James Craft | Stars: John Wray, Betty Compson, John Harron, Claud Allister

Votes: 25

48. The Walls of Jericho (1914)

50 min | Drama

Jack Frobisher, a sheep farmer in Queensland, has returned to England a millionaire, bought his way into the inner circle of Vanity Fair, married the daughter of a marquis, and settled in ... See full summary »

Directors: Lloyd B. Carleton, James K. Hackett | Stars: Edmund Breese, Claire Whitney, Walter Hitchcock, Stuart Holmes

49. Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)

Not Rated | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries.

Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: William Cagney, Edward J. Nugent, June Collyer, Edmund Breese

Votes: 137

50. Top Speed (1930)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An order clerk poses as a millionaire.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Bernice Claire, Jack Whiting, Frank McHugh

Votes: 259