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1. Dracula (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
Directors: Tod Browning, Karl Freund | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye
Votes: 58,603
2. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Passed | 176 min | Drama, Musical
The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan
Votes: 8,989
3. San Francisco (1936)
Passed | 115 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally, in 1906 San Francisco.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt
Votes: 6,100
4. Cover Girl (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
Rusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers
Votes: 5,944
5. Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Approved | 128 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon
Votes: 4,248
6. Boom Town (1940)
Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period both love the same woman.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr
Votes: 3,780 | Gross: $9.17M
7. Idiot's Delight (1939)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of disparate travelers are caught and thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the beginning of World War II.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn
Votes: 1,713
8. Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Passed | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two rival newsreel photographers join forces to find an aviatrix's missing brother, who has disappeared in the Amazon rainforest.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly
Votes: 1,678
9. Five (1951)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk.
Director: Arch Oboler | Stars: William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin
Votes: 1,565
10. War Hunt (1962)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, War
Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.
Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: John Saxon, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack, Tommy Matsuda
Votes: 1,119
11. Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Musical, War
The theater in which this film is set was called The Windmill and performers there refused to be deterred by the blitz that was leveling much of London at the time.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Marc Platt
Votes: 1,109
12. Port of New York (1949)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at New York Harbor to smuggle in their contraband.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Scott Brady, Richard Rober, K.T. Stevens, Yul Brynner
Votes: 1,073
13. Small Town Girl (1936)
Passed | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
Kay lives in a small rural time and thinks that her life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night she meets young, handsome, rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while ... See full summary »
Directors: William A. Wellman, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes, Andy Devine
Votes: 970
14. One Night of Love (1934)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Mary Barrett is an aspiring Opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot, Mona Barrie
Votes: 747
15. Strange Confession (1945)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in tragedy.
Director: John Hoffman | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Brenda Joyce, J. Carrol Naish, Milburn Stone
Votes: 736
16. 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
17. Secrets (1933)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A New England society girl braves the West to help her husband build his fortune.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Mary Pickford, Leslie Howard, C. Aubrey Smith, Blanche Friderici
Votes: 702 | Gross: $0.70M
18. Navy Blue and Gold (1937)
Passed | 94 min | Drama, Sport
Three young men, with a common fondness for football, become roommates the at United States Naval Academy where they experience its rules and traditions.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Robert Young, James Stewart, Florence Rice, Billie Burke
Votes: 694
19. Man-Proof (1938)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mimi has tried everything to become the bride to Alan, but he chooses Elizabeth instead. The ironic part is that Mimi's mother writes romance novels and neither one has had any luck with ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon
Votes: 678
20. Paradise for Three (1938)
Passed | 78 min | Romance, Comedy
A wealthy business man, out of touch with real folks, decides to mingle and see what it is really all about.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Mary Astor, Edna May Oliver
Votes: 628
21. Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
Not Rated | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one ... See full summary »
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday
Votes: 513
22. Madame X (1937)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Directors: Sam Wood, Gustav Machatý | Stars: Gladys George, Warren William, John Beal, Reginald Owen
Votes: 505
23. Whirlpool (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows to wait for ... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 445
24. What Every Woman Knows (1934)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy
The story takes place in Scotland, where plain Maggie Wylie's family, fearing she may become a spinster, finances young John Shand's studies in return for his agreement to marry her in five... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Helen Hayes, Brian Aherne, Madge Evans, Lucile Watson
Votes: 437
25. Bwana Devil (1952)
Not Rated | 79 min | Adventure
British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.
Directors: Arch Oboler, Robert Clampett | Stars: Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce, Ramsay Hill
Votes: 422
26. Song of Russia (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Propaganda film from WW2, designed to raise the awareness of the American public regarding USSR's fight against Nazi Germany.
Directors: Gregory Ratoff, Laslo Benedek | Stars: Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, John Hodiak, Robert Benchley
Votes: 316
27. Broadway Serenade (1939)
Passed | 114 min | Drama
Mary Hale, a singer, and Jimmy Seymour, a pianist/composer, are a showbiz couple working in The Big Apple in small nightclubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Broadway producer Larry Bryant... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Lew Ayres, Ian Hunter, Frank Morgan
Votes: 286
28. Moods of the Sea (1942)
Unrated | 10 min | Short, Musical
A recently unearthed experimental documentary of the crashing sea set to Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave." An example of the filmmakers' "new cinema" theory which held that film should be more... See full summary »
Directors: John Hoffman, Slavko Vorkapich
Votes: 270
29. Between Two Women (1937)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
A young surgeon loves a married nurse, then meets and falls for an heiress with appendicitis.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Franchot Tone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Virginia Bruce, Leonard Penn
Votes: 248
30. The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949)
Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Lone Wolf (Ron Randell), a retired thief temporarily working for a newspaper, is accused of gem theft.
Director: John Hoffman | Stars: Ron Randell, June Vincent, Alan Mowbray, William Frawley
Votes: 191
31. Goldie Gets Along (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Goldie is a young girl who was taken in by her aunt after her mother died in Paris , brought to USA and lived until 19 with her aunts family. They don't understand her and call her a hussy ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Lili Damita, Charles Morton, Sam Hardy, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 164
32. Why Must I Die? (1960)
86 min | Crime, Drama
Dottie Manson commits a murder for which club singer Lois King is arrested, tried, and condemned to die. The story line wanders through the trial and Miss King's final hours on Death Row. ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Terry Moore, Debra Paget, Bert Freed, Juli Reding
Votes: 149
33. Colt .45 (1957–1960)
30 min | Western
Christopher Colt appeared to be a gun salesman, but he was actually a government agent tracking down notorious bad guys. His cousin Sam took the lead when the studio had contract disputes with the original star.
Stars: Wayde Preston, Donald May, Kenneth MacDonald, Don 'Red' Barry
Votes: 133
34. The Crimson Canary (1945)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.
Director: John Hoffman | Stars: Noah Beery Jr., Lois Collier, John Litel, Steven Geray
Votes: 104
35. Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Walter Connolly, Robert Young, Doris Kenyon, Macon Jones
Votes: 101
36. The Nun and the Sergeant (1962)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, War
A weary sergeant in Korea commands military prisoners on a dangerous mission and is joined by a nun and a group of schoolgirls in enemy territory.
Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Robert Webber, Anna Sten, Leo Gordon, Hari Rhodes
Votes: 97
37. Conquer by the Clock (1942)
10 min | Documentary, Short, War
Time wasted is time given to the enemy...
Director: Slavko Vorkapich
Votes: 79
38. Storm Over Tibet (1952)
Unrated | 87 min | Adventure
During World War II, David Simms pilots supplies between India and China over the Himalaya Mountains. One day he's forced to miss a flight and is replaced by his friend, Bill March. March's... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Rex Reason, Diana Douglas, Myron Healey, Robert Karnes
Votes: 77
39. The Wreck of the Hesperus (1948)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Drama
A disgraced sea captain goes into the ship-salvage business but he suspects that his partner uses misplaced lanterns to intentionally wreck ships during stormy nights.
Director: John Hoffman | Stars: Willard Parker, Edgar Buchanan, Patricia Barry, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 73
40. The Fabulous Suzanne (1946)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Romance
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Barbara Britton, Rudy Vallee, Otto Kruger, Richard Denning
Votes: 45
42. I Killed Geronimo (1950)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Western
In the Arizona territory,Army Captain Jeff Packard (James Ellison) is on the trail of Apache Chief Geronimo (Chief Thundercloud) and the white renegades who is selling rifles to the tribe. ... See full summary »
Director: John Hoffman | Stars: James Ellison, Virginia Herrick, Chief Thundercloud, Smith Ballew
Votes: 16
43. John Gunther's High Road (1959–1960)
30 min | Documentary, Adventure
John Gunther, who had traveled to many areas of the world, hosted this program that showed two filmed trips to exotic locations. The first film had been shot explicitly for this show; the ... See full summary »
Stars: John Gunther, Armand Charlet, Bernard Burnet, Georges Lépineux
44.
Colt .45 (1957–1960)
Episode:
Circle of Fear
(1958)
30 min | Western
Chris is forced to be the hero when a stagecoach is attacked by Indians.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Wayde Preston, Joan Weldon, Jean Willes, Harvey Stephens
45.
John Gunther's High Road (1959–1960)
Episode:
Song of the Congo
(1959)
Documentary, Adventure
This first documentary concentrates on the native dancing of an African ballet company in Congo.
Star: John Gunther