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1. Alice in Wonderland (1933)

Passed | 76 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In Victorian England a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters.

Directors: Norman Z. McLeod, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising | Stars: Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, William Austin, Gary Cooper

Votes: 2,626

2. Saved from the Titanic (1912)

10 min | Short, Drama

The story of the Titanic disaster based on the account of a survivor.

Director: Étienne Arnaud | Stars: Dorothy Gibson, Alec B. Francis, Julia Stuart, John G. Adolfi

Votes: 123

3. 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: 3,962 | Gross: $0.93M

4. Arrowsmith (1931)

Approved | 108 min | Drama

A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E. Anson

Votes: 2,007

5. The Terror (1928)

85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as 'The Terror.'

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: May McAvoy, Louise Fazenda, Edward Everett Horton, Alec B. Francis

Votes: 70 | Gross: $1.22M

6. 3 Bad Men (1926)

Unrated | 122 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen, Tom Santschi

Votes: 1,504

7. The Bishop Murder Case (1929)

Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When the body of a man nicknamed "Cock Robin" is found with an arrow in the heart on an archery range along with a chess bishop as a clue, Philo Vance investigates.

Directors: David Burton, Nick Grinde | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young, Alec B. Francis

Votes: 856

8. The Cat's-Paw (1934)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy

A naive missionary brought up in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning.

Directors: Sam Taylor, Harold Lloyd | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Nat Pendleton

Votes: 1,378 | Gross: $0.69M

9. Feet First (1930)

Passed | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

An ambitious shoe salesman who unknowingly meets his boss's daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon has to try to hide his true circumstances.

Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Harold Lloyd | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Robert McWade, Lillian Leighton

Votes: 1,197 | Gross: $1.59M

10. Hollywood (1923)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves Grandma, an aunt, her brother, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. ... See full summary »

Director: James Cruze | Stars: Hope Drown, Luke Cosgrave, George K. Arthur, Ruby Lafayette

Votes: 91 | Gross: $0.31M

11. The Circle (1925)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Drama

An unhappy woman considers leaving her dull husband for another man.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Eleanor Boardman, Malcolm McGregor, Alec B. Francis, Eugenie Besserer

Votes: 713

12. Outward Bound (1930)

Unrated | 83 min | Drama, Fantasy

Later remade as "Between Two Worlds."

Directors: Robert Milton, Ray Enright | Stars: Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Beryl Mercer, Dudley Digges

Votes: 623

13. Oliver Twist (1933)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Family, Mystery

An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.

Director: William J. Cowen | Stars: Dickie Moore, Irving Pichel, William 'Stage' Boyd, Doris Lloyd

Votes: 405

14. His Private Secretary (1933)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance

Dick Wallace secretly marries a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who thinks she is a gold digger, is opposed. She takes a job with the company under her maiden name to prove she's okay.

Director: Phil Whitman | Stars: Evalyn Knapp, John Wayne, Reginald Barlow, Alec B. Francis

Votes: 766

15. Beau Brummel (1924)

135 min | Drama, History, Romance

George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Carmel Myers

Votes: 541 | Gross: $0.29M

16. The Mystery of Mr. X (1934)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A jewel thief suspected of being a local serial killer targeting police officers decides to solve the mystery himself to clear his name.

Directors: Edgar Selwyn, Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Allan, Lewis Stone, Ralph Forbes

Votes: 501

17. Beyond the Rocks (1922)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis

Votes: 2,404 | Gross: $0.27M

18. The Gold Diggers (1923)

80 min | Comedy, Romance

Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold diggers, always chasing after the men's money. ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Hope Hampton, Wyndham Standing, Louise Fazenda, Gertrude Short

Votes: 38

19. The Last Mile (1932)

Passed | 75 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An innocent man sentenced to death gets caught up in a prison riot.

Director: Samuel Bischoff | Stars: Howard Phillips, Preston Foster, George E. Stone, Noel Madison

Votes: 423

20. Evangeline (1929)

87 min | Drama

In Acadia, now part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their wedding can take place, the British imprison the men and send them ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin Carewe | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Roland Drew, Alec B. Francis, Donald Reed

Votes: 169

21. The Coast of Folly (1925)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance

Unable to abide her self-righteous husband, Nadine Gathway leaves home and drops out of sight for 20 years. When Mr. Gathway dies, he leaves his huge fortune to his daughter, Joyce, on the ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Anthony Jowitt, Alec B. Francis, Dorothy Cumming

Gross: $0.26M

22. Smilin' Through (1922)

Passed | 96 min | Drama

Kathleen, a young Irish woman, is in love with Kenneth Wayne but is prevented from marrying him by her guardian John Carteret. John is haunted by memories of his thwarted love for Kathleen's aunt, Moonyean.

Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Wyndham Standing, Harrison Ford, Alec B. Francis

Votes: 110 | Gross: $0.56M

23. Robin Hood (1912)

30 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

Maid Marian is represented in the cast as the daughter of Old Merwyn and it is at his house that the action begins. He introduces a rich gentleman as her prospective husband after ... See full summary »

Directors: Étienne Arnaud, Herbert Blaché | Stars: Robert Frazer, Barbara Tennant, Alec B. Francis, Julia Stuart

Votes: 71

24. Three Wise Fools (1923)

70 min | Comedy, Drama

Three elderly bachelors adopt a girl who's the daughter of the woman they were in love with in their youth.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Claude Gillingwater, Eleanor Boardman, William H. Crane, Alec B. Francis

Votes: 37 | Gross: $0.24M

25. In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath (1911)

7 min | Comedy, Short

Too fat for comfort, and fearing an increase in avoirdupois, Bunny purchases a Vapor Bath, guaranteed to make the fat thin and do the trick with neatness. In his anxiety to make a trial of ... See full summary »

Stars: John Bunny, Flora Finch, Hazel Neason, Florence Neason

26. Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915)

65 min | Crime, Drama

After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.

Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Robert Warwick, Robert Cummings, Alec B. Francis, Frederick Truesdell

Votes: 284

27. Man and Maid (1925)

60 min | Comedy, Romance

During the World War, Alathea Bulteel, a Red Cross nurse, discovers the prostrate form of an English officer among the ruins of a bombed building in Paris. She cares for him until help ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Lew Cody, Harriet Hammond, Renée Adorée, Paulette Duval

28. Charley's Aunt (1925)

80 min | Comedy

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Sidney | Stars: Syd Chaplin, Ethel Shannon, James E. Page, Lucien Littlefield

Votes: 75 | Gross: $0.56M

29. The Tenth Woman (1924)

70 min | Drama, Romance

A ranch owner saves a pretty young woman from committing suicide, and later marries her. They are very happy together until a former girlfriend visits him. Then the trouble begins.

Director: James Flood | Stars: Beverly Bayne, John Roche, June Marlowe, Raymond McKee

30. The Cinderella Man (1917)

60 min | Comedy

When Marjorie Caner returns from abroad, she is quite lonely in her millionaire father's big house. Learning that a young poet, Anthony Quintard, is living in poverty next door while ... See full summary »

Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Mae Marsh, Tom Moore, Alec B. Francis, George Fawcett

Votes: 83

31. Outcast Lady (1934)

Passed | 77 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery

A woman's trials and tribulations over a romance since childhood, protecting her husband's secret past, and the trouble it causes with her brother.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Constance Bennett, Herbert Marshall, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Hugh Williams

Votes: 199

32. Waking Up the Town (1925)

63 min | Comedy

A young girl visits her grandfather, who owns an auto repair shop. She falls in love with his handsome assistant, who is also an engineer trying to talk the town banker into financing his ... See full summary »

Director: James Cruze | Stars: Jack Pickford, Claire McDowell, Alec B. Francis, Norma Shearer

Votes: 35

33. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)

Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Low-life Harry falls in love with sweet Betty who inspires him to improve himself so he can marry her. He enters a $25, 000 cross-country hiking contest. After many adventures he wins, pays off his father Amos's mortgage and marries Betty.

Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford, Edwards Davis, Tom Murray

Votes: 818 | Gross: $0.24M

34. The Sacred Flame (1929)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance, War

Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical ... See full summary »

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Pauline Frederick, William Courtenay, Conrad Nagel, Lila Lee

35. Lucretia Lombard (1923)

70 min | Drama

An emotional drama with a love triangle. A man gets engaged, but soon after falls in love with another woman.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Irene Rich, Monte Blue, Marc McDermott, Norma Shearer

Votes: 47

36. Looking Forward (1933)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Family

In this Depression-era story set in London, a department-store owner (Lewis Stone) faces bankruptcy while his family fritters away money. A long-standing employee (Lionel Barrymore) gets ... See full summary »

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Benita Hume, Elizabeth Allan

Votes: 307

37. The Tender Hour (1927)

80 min | Romance, Drama

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Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Billie Dove, Ben Lyon, Montagu Love, Alec B. Francis

38. Murder Will Out (1930)

Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Chinese gang blackmails businessman.

Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Lila Lee, Noah Beery, Malcolm McGregor

39. A Thief in Paradise (1925)

80 min | Drama

After years of failure, Maurice Blake becomes a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earning a risky living by diving for pearls with Philip Jardine, the disinherited son of a San ... See full summary »

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Doris Kenyon, Ronald Colman, Aileen Pringle, Claude Gillingwater

Votes: 20

40. Camille (I) (1926)

108 min | Drama, Romance

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Lilyan Tashman, Rose Dione

Votes: 52 | Gross: $0.62M

41. Mary of the Movies (1923)

Passed | 57 min | Drama, Romance

Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, ... See full summary »

Director: John McDermott | Stars: Marion Mack, Florence Lee, Mary Kane, Harry Cornelli

Votes: 21

42. Earthbound (1920)

80 min | Crime, Drama

Jim Rittenshaw is happily married to Daisy, or so he thinks. Richard Desborough, Jim's friend from his college days, becomes enamored of Daisy, who leads him on. Desborough lives by the ... See full summary »

Director: T. Hayes Hunter | Stars: Wyndham Standing, Naomi Childers, Billie Cotton, Mahlon Hamilton

43. Little Church Around the Corner (1923)

70 min | Drama

When his daughter is trapped underground in a mine explosion, a wealthy minister in a mining town is snapped out of his attitude of "miner's safety" to save her.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Claire Windsor, Kenneth Harlan, Hobart Bosworth, Walter Long

Votes: 48

44. The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1922)

70 min | Drama, Romance

In trying to decide whom to marry--Rita Pring, the daughter of a South Seas ship captain, or Lady Helen Deene, an Englishwoman with wealth and influence--Burke Hammond consults Professor ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Leatrice Joy, Alan Roscoe

Gross: $0.14M

45. The Shepherd of the Hills (1928)

90 min | Drama

John Boles (as Young Matt) is a troubled young mountain man, but a stranger comes to help him in an unlikely way.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Alec B. Francis, Molly O'Day, John Boles, Matthew Betz

46. Lola (I) (1914)

50 min | Drama

With the electric-ray machine that he invented, a scientist brings his daughter back to life after she dies in a car crash but he fails to revive her soul at the same time.

Director: James Young | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, Alec B. Francis, Edward Kimball, James Young

Votes: 22

47. The Champion of Lost Causes (1925)

Passed | 50 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

In search of material for an article, Loring an author, visits a gambling resort run by Zanten. There he notices Joseph Wilbur, who is acting strangely and is later murdered. Peter Charles ... See full summary »

Director: Chester Bennett | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Barbara Bedford, Walter McGrail, Jack McDonald

48. The Mississippi Gambler (1929)

Passed | 57 min | Drama, Music, Romance

"The Mississippi Gambler" is a 1929 film made by Universal Pictures, directed by Reginald Barker, and starring Joseph Schildkraut and Joan Bennett.

Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Joan Bennett, Carmelita Geraghty, Alec B. Francis

Votes: 23

49. The Drug Traffic (1914)

Short, Western, Drama

Johnson, a druggist, plies an illicit trade in cocaine and morphine, which he sells slyly over his drug counter to a selected clientele. In his richly furnished office the head of the ... See full summary »

Stars: Alec B. Francis, Will E. Sheerer, Belle Adair, Stanley Walpole

50. The Man Who Had Everything (1920)

50 min | Drama

Harry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind beggar with his car, but he shows no remorse. In response to his heartlessness, the beggar ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Jack Pickford, Lionel Belmore, Priscilla Bonner, Shannon Day

Votes: 42