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1. No Greater Glory (1934)
Approved | 74 min | Drama, War
Frail Nemecsek, a lonely boy craving belonging, idolizes charismatic Boka, leader of a gang, in an evocative depiction of youth's pain and war's senselessness.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frankie Darro, George P. Breakston, Jimmy Butler, Jackie Searl
Votes: 529
2. A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Romance, War
An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips
Votes: 6,832
3. The Invisible Man (1933)
TV-PG | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers
Votes: 40,012
4. A Star Is Born (1937)
Passed | 111 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
Directors: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson
Votes: 10,910 | Gross: $4.36M
5. The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, History
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton
Votes: 2,707 | Gross: $5.97M
6. Top Hat (1935)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes
Votes: 20,735 | Gross: $3.88M
7. Nothing Sacred (1937)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly
Votes: 7,273
8. Breakfast for Two (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Romance
Texan debutante Valentine Ransome tries to reform a bankrupt playboy.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore
Votes: 1,190
9. Dead End (1937)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie
Votes: 8,602
10. Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 11,714
11. After the Thin Man (1936)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi
Votes: 12,137 | Gross: $4.34M
12. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, History, Romance
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Directors: Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen
Votes: 6,320
13. Cavalcade (1933)
Passed | 112 min | Drama, Romance, War
A portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 5,993 | Gross: $7.63M
14. Show Boat (1936)
Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson
Votes: 3,697
15. Born Reckless (1937)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A champion auto racer takes a job with a taxicab company being harassed by a gangster who wants to take over all the cab companies in town.
Directors: Malcolm St. Clair, Gustav Machatý | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Brian Donlevy, Barton MacLane, Robert Kent
Votes: 204
16. 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
17. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
Passed | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After greedy men have Edmond Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 3,245
18. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Family
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 2,528
19. The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
Approved | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A poor boy named Tom Canty and the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
Directors: William Keighley, William Dieterle | Stars: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry Stephenson, Barton MacLane
Votes: 2,886
20. If I Had a Million (1932)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.
Directors: James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog, Lothar Mendes | Stars: Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, George Raft
Votes: 2,307
21. History Is Made at Night (1937)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive
Votes: 2,523
22. Forsaking All Others (1934)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Dill leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dill, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 1,583
23. Man of the World (1931)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance
A 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.
Directors: Richard Wallace, Edward Goodman | Stars: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Lawrence Gray
Votes: 1,087
24. 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: 213
25. Personal Property (1937)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jean Harlow, Robert Taylor, Reginald Owen, Una O'Connor
Votes: 1,116
26. Children of Divorce (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
Directors: Frank Lloyd, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Einar Hanson
Votes: 407
27. Bulldog Drummond (1929)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers.
Director: F. Richard Jones | Stars: Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Votes: 1,330
28. The Common Law (1931)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance
Young Valerie models for an American painter who tries to make a future in Paris and they fall in love.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Lew Cody, Robert Williams
Votes: 431
29. The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Approved | 91 min | Western
A lonely socialite masquerades as a maid and meets an unpretentious, plain-spoken cowboy who is unaware of her true identity.
Directors: H.C. Potter, Stuart Heisler, William Wyler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, Patsy Kelly, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,821
30. The Young in Heart (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.
Directors: Richard Wallace, Lewis Milestone, Gilbert Pratt, Richard Thorpe | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Roland Young, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,623
31. The Girl from Missouri (1934)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Chorus girl Eadie is determined to marry a millionaire without sacrificing her virtue.
Directors: Jack Conway, Sam Wood | Stars: Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone
Votes: 1,368
32. The Baroness and the Butler (1938)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: William Powell, Annabella, Helen Westley, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 694
33. The House of Secrets (1936)
Passed | 70 min | Horror, Mystery
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
Director: Roland D. Reed | Stars: Leslie Fenton, Muriel Evans, Noel Madison, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 526
34. Daniel Boone (1936)
Approved | 75 min | Biography, Drama, Family
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Heather Angel, John Carradine, Ralph Forbes
Votes: 326
35. Viva Villa! (1934)
Passed | 115 min | Biography, Western
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.
Directors: Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman | Stars: Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo, Donald Cook
Votes: 1,582 | Gross: $1.11M
36. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 1,941
37. Berkeley Square (1933)
Passed | 88 min | Fantasy, Romance
A young American man comes to believe that he can will himself back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meet his ancestors, who lived in the house he has just inherited.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, Valerie Taylor, Irene Browne
Votes: 984
38. Stand-In (1937)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
A New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Blondell, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 1,316
39. Little Man, What Now? (1934)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale, Catherine Doucet
Votes: 641
40. 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
41. 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
42. Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When two investors inform an opportunistic dancer that they can't fund an elderly stage producer's production, she suggests they get an insurance policy on the producer's life.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Victor Moore
Votes: 1,210
43. The Power and the Glory (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Drama
The tragic life story of a power-hungry industrialist is recounted in the aftermath of his death.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Colleen Moore, Ralph Morgan, Helen Vinson
Votes: 734
44. 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
45. Black Oxen (1923)
80 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A Manhattan playboy falls in love with a mysterious European woman whom he notices as an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first, he thinks ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Conway Tearle, Tom Ricketts, Tom Guise
Votes: 242
46. 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: 269
47. Goin' to Town (1935)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Musical
Former dance hall queen Cleo Borden, newly rich, falls for and pursues an upper-crust Englishman.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Mae West, Paul Cavanagh, Gilbert Emery, Marjorie Gateson
Votes: 732
48. Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Mystery
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Loretta Young, Richard Greene, George Sanders, David Niven
Votes: 879
49. 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: 568 | Gross: $1.58M
50. 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: 340