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1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama
A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold
Votes: 121,441 | Gross: $9.60M
2. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander
Votes: 23,231
3. 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: 14,446 | Gross: $1.42M
4. Boys Town (1938)
Passed | 96 min | Biography, Drama, Family
When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 6,359
5. Lady for a Day (1933)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 4,662
6. Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Drama
In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Phillips, Dorothy Coonan Wellman
Votes: 2,336
7. Blondie of the Follies (1932)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Musical
Two young women find their friendship strained when one wins a role in a Broadway show, and the other's boyfriend begins to fall for her.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove, Jimmy Durante
Votes: 1,348 | Gross: $1.61M
8. Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937)
Not Rated | 70 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
On a freighter going from San Francisco to Shanghai Mr. Moto solves mysteries caused by a gang of smugglers.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Peter Lorre, Virginia Field, Thomas Beck, Sig Ruman
Votes: 1,224
9. 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: 1,160
10. Emma (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy
Votes: 1,144 | Gross: $2.00M
11. The Big Shakedown (1934)
Not Rated | 64 min | Crime, Drama
Racketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 1,064
12. Having Wonderful Time (1938)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
Bored New York office girl Teddy Shaw goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Peggy Conklin, Lucille Ball
Votes: 999
13. Blackmail (1939)
Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
John Ingram, successful oil field firefighter, is really a chain gang escapee. Someone out of his past finds him.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart, Bobs Watson
Votes: 861
14. Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 842
15. Gentleman's Fate (1931)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Jack lives the high life and wants to make Marjorie his one and only. He then learns that his deceased father is alive--but dying of lead poisoning. His father had sent him away 20 years ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: John Gilbert, Louis Wolheim, Leila Hyams, Anita Page
Votes: 838
16. Paid (1930)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Mary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn't commit. Once out she and former prison mates plan a scam in which old men can be sued for breach of promise - the "heart balm" ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, Douglass Montgomery
Votes: 805
17. Laughing Sinners (1931)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance
Cabaret performer Ivy Stevens in an affair with a low-rent traveling salesman is dumped in a 'Dear Jane' letter and finds solace in joining the Salvation Army.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 795
18. Ever in My Heart (1933)
TV-PG | 68 min | Drama, Romance, War
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 778
19. Lilac Time (1928)
80 min | Drama, Romance, War
All of those handsome young men in their flying machines are billeted in a field next to the Widow Berthelot's farmhouse in France. Her daughter Jeannine is curious about the young men ... See full summary »
Directors: George Fitzmaurice, Frank Lloyd | Stars: Colleen Moore, Gary Cooper, Eugenie Besserer, Burr McIntosh
Votes: 731
20. I Take This Woman (1940)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A doctor (Spencer Tracy) marries a suicidal woman (Hedy Lamarr) but begins to doubt her fidelity.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Frank Borzage, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale, Kent Taylor
Votes: 715
21. Sweethearts (1938)
Passed | 114 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Votes: 705
22. Lucky Night (1939)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Comedy
A wealthy woman meets a bum on a park bench and marries him the same evening.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Myrna Loy, Robert Taylor, Joseph Allen, Henry O'Neill
Votes: 641
23. Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) and her old friend Don Andrews (Lyle Talbot) graduate from medical school at the same time and decide to set up their respective medical offices in the same ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot, Glenda Farrell, Thelma Todd
Votes: 571
24. Havana Widows (1933)
62 min | Comedy
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 534
25. Anything Goes (1936)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles, Ida Lupino
Votes: 522
26. 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: 470
27. The Trail of '98 (1928)
Passed | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Fortune hunters from all over the country rush to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Ralph Forbes, Karl Dane, Harry Carey
Votes: 446
28. Night Court (1932)
Passed | 92 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Romance
Judge and his mistress are investigated on suspicions of corruption.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Phillips Holmes, Walter Huston, Anita Page, Lewis Stone
Votes: 433
29. The Unholy Night (1929)
Passed | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
Director: Lionel Barrymore | Stars: Ernest Torrence, Roland Young, Dorothy Sebastian, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 404
30. Grand Slam (1933)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy
Because the Stanislavsky method of playing bridge has no rules, it promotes marital harmony for those who stick with it.
Directors: William Dieterle, Alfred E. Green | Stars: Paul Lukas, Loretta Young, Frank McHugh, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 365
31. Stand Up and Fight (1939)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, History, Romance
It starts in 1844 in Maryland, where Blake Cantrell, plantation owner with slaves, is forced by debts to sell his estate and his people. Then he leaves for Cumberland, looking for a job (... See full summary »
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Wallace Beery, Robert Taylor, Florence Rice, Helen Broderick
Votes: 329
32. Renegades (1930)
Passed | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery, Gregory Gaye
Votes: 329
33. Before Midnight (1933)
Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, June Collyer, Claude Gillingwater, Bradley Page
Votes: 326
34. They All Come Out (1939)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama
A "Crime Doesn't Pay" morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell, Edward Gargan
Votes: 316
35. Murder in the Clouds (1934)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Bob "three star" is the hotshot pilot for Trans America Lines. When he is not flying for the airlines, he can get into trouble doing aerobatics over the field. His main squeeze is Judy ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Lyle Talbot, Ann Dvorak, Gordon Westcott, Robert Light
Votes: 311
36. The Man Who Found Himself (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Drama
A "high flying" surgeon learns a few valuable life lessons at the hands of a beautiful nurse.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: John Beal, Joan Fontaine, Phillip Huston, Jane Walsh
Votes: 308
37. Day of Reckoning (1933)
Passed | 69 min | Drama
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow... See full summary »
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Richard Dix, Madge Evans, Conway Tearle, Una Merkel
Votes: 278
38. Rose-Marie (1928)
70 min | Drama
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim Kenyon drifts into the post. Soon Jim is... See full summary »
Director: Lucien Hubbard | Stars: Joan Crawford, James Murray, House Peters, Creighton Hale
Votes: 228
39. Sitting on the Moon (1936)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A pair of hit songwriters fall in love with an ex-film star and her friend, but a blackmailer arrives to disrupt the romances. Based on William Field's short story "Temperamental Lady."
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Roger Pryor, Grace Bradley, William Newell, Pert Kelton
Votes: 222
40. Doubting Thomas (1935)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Will Rogers, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 206
41. The Goose Woman (1925)
80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story to get herself back in front... See full summary »
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Jack Pickford, Louise Dresser, Constance Bennett, Marc McDermott
Votes: 199
42. Step Lively, Jeeves! (1937)
69 min | Comedy
Butler Jeeves goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to the fortune of Sir Francis Drake.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Arthur Treacher, Patricia Ellis, Robert Kent, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 187
43. Uptown New York (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Pat and Max are in love and share an intimate relationship. However, after Max receives his surgeon's diploma, his parents have arranged a marriage for him with a woman from a rich, good background.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Jack Oakie, Shirley Grey, Leon Ames, George Cooper
Votes: 164
44. The Personality Kid (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Ritzy McCarty is a fighter managed by his wife Joan, who wants him only to fight until they have the money to build a better life. However, he has other ideas.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Glenda Farrell, Claire Dodd, Robert Gleckler
Votes: 164
45. Numbered Men (1930)
TV-PG | 70 min | Crime, Drama
Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan, set events in motion to prove that love and justice will prevail.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Bernice Claire, Conrad Nagel, Raymond Hackett, Ralph Ince
Votes: 164
46. Shooting Straight (1930)
72 min | Crime, Drama
Larry Sheldon is a gambler and during an argument he accidentally shoots a man. Fleeing he changes his identity, pretending to be a minister. Things are complicated when he meets a real preacher and falls in love with his daughter Doris.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Richard Dix, Mary Lawlor, Matthew Betz, James Neill
Votes: 143
47. Sky Devils (1932)
Passed | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Trying to desert their draft into the army, Wilkie and Mitchell stow away on a ship that takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidentally destroy an ammunition dump.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Spencer Tracy, William 'Stage' Boyd, George Cooper, Ann Dvorak
Votes: 142
48. The Chaser (1938)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
While the county bar association discusses ambulance chasing by unscrupulous attorneys, one of its members, Thomas Z. Brandon, leaves when he learns the location of an accident. After ... See full synopsis »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Morriss, Lewis Stone, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 140
49. We're on the Jury (1937)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery
A gabby socialite busybody and a bumbling real estate developer are seated as jurors in a murder trial.
Director: Ben Holmes | Stars: Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Phillip Huston, Louise Latimer
Votes: 136
50. The Barker (1928)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
A carnival barker wants his son to become a lawyer, but his son gets side-tracked into joining the carnival too.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Votes: 123