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1. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Passed | 129 min | Drama
An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 99,924 | Gross: $0.06M
2. Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a crusader against rackets is murdered, a grand jury battles the rackets by promoting McLaren to be in charge of the cleanup. He fires NYPD Detective Blake, who punches him and joins the racket.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart
Votes: 3,497
3. The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Passed | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Gladys George
Votes: 15,512
4. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Votes: 23,198
5. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis
Votes: 14,434 | Gross: $1.42M
6. Bad Girl (1931)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Minna Gombell, Frank Darien
Votes: 1,604
7. You Only Live Once (1937)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Votes: 7,649
8. Union Pacific (1939)
Passed | 135 min | Drama, Western
In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston
Votes: 3,382
9. Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lillian (Jean Harlow) relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man (Chester Morris).
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams
Votes: 3,537
10. The Return of Frank James (1940)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Western
Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull
Votes: 3,686
11. Frontier Marshal (1939)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, Western
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Cesar Romero, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 1,034
12. Letty Lynton (1932)
Approved | 84 min | Drama
A socialite begins a shipboard romance with a wealthy man, but is blackmailed by a former lover.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Nils Asther, Lewis Stone
Votes: 602
13. Speak Easily (1932)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy
A timid professor inherits a large sum of money and decides to fund a terrible musical.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn, Thelma Todd
Votes: 1,160
14. Johnny Apollo (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 1,502
15. When You're in Love (1937)
Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Artist Jimmy Hudson (Cary Grant) is stuck in Mexico unable to pay his hotel bill. Meanwhile, opera singer Louise Fuller (Grace Moore) is stuck in the same town, unable to return to the U.S.... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Riskin, Harry Lachman | Stars: Grace Moore, Cary Grant, Aline MacMahon, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 468
16. Secrets of a Secretary (1931)
71 min | Drama
When her father dies, a wealthy young women discovers that she's not wealthy at all--her father lost all of his money in the 1929 stock market crash and she's now officially broke. She ... See full summary »
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Georges Metaxa, Betty Lawford
Votes: 158
17. White Banners (1938)
Approved | 92 min | Drama
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the ... See full summary »
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville
Votes: 468
18. Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Arthur Byron
Votes: 1,397
19. Disputed Passage (1939)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance, War
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Howard, Judith Barrett
Votes: 161
20. Time to Kill (1942)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
A private detective is hired to retrieve a valuable antique coin that was stolen from an old dowager to pay off a blackmailer. The private eye soon finds himself up to his ears in cover-ups... See full summary »
Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Heather Angel, Doris Merrick, Ralph Byrd
Votes: 336
21. Remember Last Night? (1935)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Mystery
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed. A detective is called in to investigate, but his ... See full summary »
Director: James Whale | Stars: Edward Arnold, Robert Young, Constance Cummings, Sally Eilers
Votes: 604
22. San Quentin (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An army trainer becomes captain of the prison yard and in time, falls for the sister of a hardened inmate.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart, Barton MacLane
Votes: 2,237
23. Young America (1932)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Already in trouble with the law, Arthur and his friend Nutty break into a drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. The druggist's wife, Mrs. Doray, asks for custody. When he hears... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Doris Kenyon, Tommy Conlon, Ralph Bellamy
Votes: 272
24. Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to a long prison term. ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Melvyn Douglas, Alan Baxter, Pert Kelton
Votes: 313
25. Queen of the Mob (1940)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama
Mobster Ma Webster rules her clan with an iron hand, taking charge of all their robberies despite the protests of George Frost, the only member of her gang who is not her son. On Christmas ... See full summary »
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Blanche Yurka, J. Carrol Naish, Jeanne Cagney
Votes: 94
26. Kentucky Kernels (1934)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Music
Two out-of-work magicians help lovelorn Jerry adopt little Spanky. When Jerry makes up and elopes, the duo are stuck with the brat. Then Spanky inherits a fortune, so they all head to Kentucky and get caught between two feuding clans.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Mary Carlisle, George 'Spanky' McFarland
Votes: 395
27. They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
Passed | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A World War I veteran who married the girlfriend of his presumed-dead war buddy falls into the racketeering business.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Gladys George, Franchot Tone, Edgar Dearing
Votes: 404
28. After Tomorrow (1932)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Romance
Engaged couple faces financial and family troubles that obstruct their marriage.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Farrell, Marian Nixon, Minna Gombell, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 329
29. Careless Lady (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Romance
Innocent Sally Brown (Joan Bennett) thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
Director: Kenneth MacKenna | Stars: Joan Bennett, John Boles, Minna Gombell, Weldon Heyburn
Votes: 151
30. Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
Passed | 65 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1931, Captain Steven Warren, the chief investigator for the Chicago District Attorney's office, tries to arrest the henchmen of notorious gangster and bootlegger Roger Touhy for a series... See full synopsis »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Preston Foster, Victor McLaglen, Lois Andrews, Kent Taylor
Votes: 75
31. Boy Slaves (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A runaway follows the leader of a gang of boys, and they all wind up working in a turpentine camp.
Director: P.J. Wolfson | Stars: Anne Shirley, Roger Daniel, James McCallion, Alan Baxter
Votes: 246
32. Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Cesar Romero, Virginia Gilmore, Milton Berle, Charlotte Greenwood
Votes: 267
33. The Spider (1931)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
At the end of his magic show at the Tivoli theater, Chatrand the Great announces over a radio broadcast that he is trying to establish the identity of an amnesia victim, his assistant "... See full summary »
Directors: Kenneth MacKenna, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, El Brendel, John Arledge
Votes: 159
34. Stolen Harmony (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Musical, Romance
Bandleader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and... See full summary »
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: George Raft, Ben Bernie, Grace Bradley, Iris Adrian
Votes: 101
35. The Yellow Ticket (1931)
Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Walter Byron
Votes: 267
36. The Great Profile (1940)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
Barrymore lampoons himself. A famous actor, given to drink, nearly destroys the show, but his leading lady returns to save it. Meanwhile a young girl tries to reform him.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Gregory Ratoff, John Payne
Votes: 268
37. The Great American Broadcast (1941)
90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Cesar Romero
Votes: 292
38. East of the River (1940)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college, but both are in love with the same girl.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: John Garfield, Brenda Marshall, Marjorie Rambeau, George Tobias
Votes: 473
39. Over the Hill (1931)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Mae Marsh stars as the mother of two children. Marsh gives her boys everything they desire, at great cost to herself. She is forced to work in one menial job after another so that her children will never go without.
Director: Henry King | Stars: James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Mae Marsh, James Kirkwood
Votes: 143
40. International Crime (1938)
Passed | 62 min | Drama
Lamont Cranston (Rod La Rocque), amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Astrid Allwyn, Thomas E. Jackson, Oscar O'Shea
Votes: 522
41. Disorderly Conduct (1932)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman. When Fay leads a raid on a gangster's place he ... See full summary »
Director: John W. Considine Jr. | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Sally Eilers, El Brendel, Dickie Moore
Votes: 44
42. Gambler's Choice (1944)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York. Hadley's main antagonist is his childhood friend Mike McGlennon who is determined to stop the gambling activities of Ross.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, Russell Hayden, Lee Patrick
Votes: 186
43. Central Park (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Gangsters posing as police officers offer a woman a chance to make money if she helps them out.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford, Guy Kibbee, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 494
44. Robbers' Roost (1932)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Western
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays' gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick's cattle. Attracted to Herrick's sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: George O'Brien, Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter McGrail, Maude Eburne
Votes: 62
45. Manslaughter (1930)
Passed | 85 min | Romance, Drama
A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before. Upon her release... See full summary »
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Emma Dunn, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 264
46. Panama Lady (1939)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon hooks up with a rough-and-tumble oil driller, who takes her to his oil-field in the jungle to show her what "real" life is like.
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Lucille Ball, Allan Lane, Steffi Duna, Evelyn Brent
Votes: 328
47. Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: George Murphy, Brenda Joyce, Ralph Bellamy, Elsa Maxwell
Votes: 55
48. Rough Riders' Round-up (1939)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Now that the Spanish-American war is over, Roy and other Rough Riders become border patrolmen. Their goal is to stop outlaws who are stealing gold from stagecoaches and express offices.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Eddie Acuff
Votes: 294
49. Amateur Daddy (1932)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Warner Baxter, Marian Nixon, Rita La Roy, William Pawley
Votes: 17
50. The Affair of Susan (1935)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Romance
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Hugh O'Connell, Walter Catlett, Tom Dugan
Votes: 32