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1. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson
Votes: 53,204 | Gross: $4.36M
2. Imitation of Life (1934)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson, Ned Sparks
Votes: 5,640
3. Naughty Marietta (1935)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Directors: Robert Z. Leonard, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 1,536
4. Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
Passed | 81 min | Drama
A governess becomes the center of a wealthy family after her employer's wife dies.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, Susan Hayward, Fay Wray
Votes: 1,279
5. Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Twenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to prove their bravery to her.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, Edward Arnold
Votes: 1,165
6. Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham
Votes: 546
7. Letter of Introduction (1938)
Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
From a "letter of introduction" aging actor John learns that he has a grown daughter, aspiring actress Katherine. They keep their secret, but he agrees to star with her in a play to further her career on Broadway.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, George Murphy, Edgar Bergen
Votes: 428
8. One More River (1934)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Romance
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man aboard a ship.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Diana Wynyard, Colin Clive, Frank Lawton, Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Votes: 424
9. Only Yesterday (1933)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Romance
A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but tries to seduce her.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke
Votes: 416
10. Way Down East (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Henry Fonda, Slim Summerville, Edward Trevor
Votes: 244
11. King of Burlesque (1936)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. After his divorce his former top singer returns from London to help out.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Mona Barrie
Votes: 229
12. Make a Wish (1937)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
While at summer camp in the Maine woods, little Bobby Breen befriends composer Basil Rathbone, who left the city to try and break his creative block, and is soon playing matchmaker for his widowed singer mother and Rathbone.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Bobby Breen, Basil Rathbone, Marion Claire, Henry Armetta
Votes: 209
13. The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Mystery
A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials. When he discovers that the publisher has betrayed him and is in league ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill, Juanita Quigley
Votes: 196
14. Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars, adaptations of motion pictures, and a host accompanying. The host would introduce each act, and would conduct an interview with the stars at the end of the play.
Stars: Ken Carpenter, Jay Jackson, Otto Kruger, Gordon MacRae
Votes: 152
15. The Cat Creeps (1930)
75 min | Horror, Mystery
Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.
Directors: Rupert Julian, John Willard | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hackett, Neil Hamilton, Lilyan Tashman
Votes: 95
16. There's Always Tomorrow (1934)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Man, feeling neglected by his family, turns to another woman.
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Frank Morgan, Binnie Barnes, Lois Wilson, Louise Latimer
Votes: 91
17. Lilies of the Field (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance
Mother-love drama, with songs.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Ralph Forbes, John Loder, Eve Southern
Votes: 86
18. Lilies of the Field (1924)
90 min | Drama
Young mother Mildred doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her ... See full summary »
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Conway Tearle, Alma Bennett, Sylvia Breamer
Votes: 85 | Gross: $0.21M
19. Rainbow on the River (1936)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, Romance
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Bobby Breen, May Robson, Charles Butterworth, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 66
20. Good Sport (1931)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Romance
When her husband (Alan Dinehart) sails for a three-month business trip in Europe, an unsophisticated wife ('Linda Watkins (I)') sublets a Manhattan apartment so she can occupy herself with ... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth MacKenna | Stars: Linda Watkins, John Boles, Greta Nissen, Minna Gombell
Votes: 55
21. The Daring Young Man (1935)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Two reporters plan to marry but the bride is left waiting at the altar because her groom has gone undercover to expose gang activity.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, Neil Hamilton, Sidney Toler
Votes: 50
22. Orchids to You (1935)
74 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: John Boles, Jean Muir, Charles Butterworth, Ruthelma Stevens
Votes: 47
23. Ladies Must Love (1933)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four Broadway gold-diggers sign a contract promising to share all their future gains. Troubles begin when one the girls falls in love with a wealthy playboy, getting rid of the contract.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: June Knight, Neil Hamilton, Sally O'Neil, Dorothy Burgess
Votes: 35
24. Madame Spy (1934)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak, he vows revenge on his wife.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Fay Wray, Nils Asther, Edward Arnold, John Miljan
Votes: 34
25. La voluntad del muerto (1930)
Passed | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
Strange happenings and disappearances take place in an old dark house.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Antonio Moreno, Lupita Tovar, Andrés de Segurola, Roberto E. Guzmán
Votes: 34
26. The Heart of a Siren (1925)
70 min | Drama
Isabella Echevaria, whose beauty has won her a legion of disappointed admirers, arrives with her retinue of servants at a fashionable French hotel, and there she encounters Gerald Rexford, ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Barbara La Marr, Conway Tearle, Harry T. Morey, Paul Doucet
Votes: 20
27. One Exciting Adventure (1934)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy
Singer Rina Sorel goes about Europe stealing diamonds on impulse because she loves the way they glitter. In Paris, when she steals a diamond from a jewelry store, a strange man pays for the... See full synopsis »
Director: Ernst L. Frank | Stars: Binnie Barnes, Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanagh, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 20
28. Trimmed in Scarlet (1923)
Passed | 50 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Disapproving of the loose woman her father has married, Faith Ebbing leaves home and goes to work, but she later steals $5,000 in Liberty Bonds to pay off Duroc, a blackmailer threatening ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Kathlyn Williams, Roy Stewart, Lucille Ricksen, Robert Agnew
Votes: 16
29. New York (1916)
50 min | Drama
The story concerns itself with Oliver King, a patrician who becomes interested in a chorus girl who "works" him. Learning her true character, he gives her up, but is thereafter blackmailed ... See full summary »
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Florence Reed, Fania Marinoff, John Miltern, Jessie Ralph
Votes: 16
30. The Dawn of Freedom (1916)
50 min | Drama
"The Dawn of Freedom" is a stinging satire on the death of those ideals that prompted the founders of the United States. It contrasts in bold outline the spirit of '76, when every American ... See full summary »
Directors: Theodore Marston, Paul Scardon | Stars: Charles Richman, Arline Pretty, Billie Billings, James Morrison
31. The Writing on the Wall (1916)
50 min | Drama
Irving Lawrence, prominent and wealthy, owns a large number of tenements in the poor section of the city which are among the city's most objectionable dwelling places. His wife, Barbara, ... See full summary »
Director: Tefft Johnson | Stars: Joseph Kilgour, Virginia Pearson, Naomi Childers, Charles Wellesley
32. The Strange Woman (1918)
60 min | Drama
Inez de Pierrefond's mother forces her to marry a wealthy man who proves to be such a brute that after he is killed in a drunken brawl, Inez swears that she will never marry again. Later, ... See full summary »
Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Gladys Brockwell, Charles Clary, William Scott, Harry Depp
33. Made in Heaven (1921)
50 min | Comedy, Romance
Fireman William Lowry tries to help an heiress by agreeing to a marriage of convenience.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Tom Moore, Helene Chadwick, Molly Malone, Kate Lester
34. Experimental Marriage (1919)
50 min | Comedy, Romance
Because he does not want to lose feminist Suzanne Ercoll, lawyer Foxcroft Grey unhappily accepts her proposal that they marry but live together only from Saturday until Monday, leaving each... See full summary »
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford, Walter Hiers, Vera Sisson
35. The Fighting Hope (1915)
Drama
Anna Granger's husband commits a fraud at the bank where he works and is condemned to pay the penalty of a jail sentence. In the hope of proving his innocence she goes to work, under an ... See full summary »
Director: George Melford | Stars: George Gebhardt, Laura Hope Crews, Gerald Ward, Thomas Meighan
36. That French Lady (1924)
60 min | Drama, Romance
John Hemingway, while in Paris studying architecture, falls in love with Inez de Pierrefond, an author who believes in marriage free of state and church laws. He brings her to his home in ... See full summary »
Director: Edmund Mortimer | Stars: Shirley Mason, Theodore von Eltz, Harold Goodwin, Charles Coleman
37. Romance and Arabella (1919)
50 min | Comedy, Romance
Arabella Cadenhouse, a young widow, decides that her second husband must provide her with the romance that was lacking in her first marriage. She is wooed by Harry Atteridge, an ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Edwards | Stars: Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford, Gertrude Claire, Monte Blue
38. Body and Soul (1920)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Diligent American art student studying in Paris, Claire Martin suffers a blow to her head that transforms her into a woman of questionable morals. She then becomes involved with Scott ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Swickard | Stars: Alice Lake, W.E. Lawrence, Stuart Holmes, Carl Gerard
39. The Big Sister (1916)
Passed | 50 min | Drama
A daughter of the slums has a little brother and makes a brave attempt to earn enough for both herself and Jimmy after her father is sent to jail on a fake charge trumped-up by "Nifty" ... See full summary »
Director: John B. O'Brien | Stars: Mae Murray, Matty Roubert, Harry C. Browne, Ida Darling
40. Body and Soul (1915)
50 min | Drama
Claire Martin, niece of the wealthy Mrs. Taylor, suffers from loss of memory. Under the effect of this, Claire acts as an entirely different person. She wanders through the woods seeking ... See full summary »
Director: George Irving | Stars: Florence Rockwell, Kenneth Hunter, Robert Whitworth, Jack Sherrill
41.
Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Adam Had Four Sons
(1957)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, ... See full summary »
Director: David Orrick McDearmon | Stars: Leon Ames, John Baer, Tom Brown, Ken Carpenter
42.
Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Only Yesterday
(1956)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Michael Dreyfuss | Stars: Eleanor Audley, Ken Carpenter, Joan Caulfield, Sally Chamberlin