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1. Modern Times (1936)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Votes: 259,390 | Gross: $0.16M
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 465,863 | Gross: $1.59M
3. The Kid Brother (1927)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A sheriff's milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.
Directors: Ted Wilde, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone, J.A. Howe | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James, Leo Willis
Votes: 4,819 | Gross: $1.55M
4. Street Scene (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 2,052
5. Hell's Heroes (1929)
Passed | 68 min | Western
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway
Votes: 966
6. Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920)
70 min | Adventure
Notorious pirate Joaquin Santos lives by the saying, "Dead Men Tell No Tales". He conspires with the prominent Squire Rattray to take over and plunder the Lady Jermyn, a ship carrying a ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Terriss | Stars: Catherine Calvert, Percy Marmont, Holmes Herbert, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Votes: 19
7. Battling Butler (1926)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Sport
A love-struck weakling must pretend to be boxer in order to gain respect from the family of the girl he loves.
Director: Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Sally O'Neil, Walter James
Votes: 3,891 | Gross: $0.70M
8. A Daughter of the Gods (1916)
Passed | 180 min | Drama
A sultan agrees to help a wicked witch destroy a mysterious young lady if the witch will bring his young son back from the dead with magic.
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Annette Kellerman, William E. Shay, Hal De Forest, Marcelle Hontabat
Votes: 69
9. Hitch Hike Lady (1935)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama
In this touching tale, an elderly British woman saves up enough money to visit her son in the U.S. She believes that he is doing well, but he is actually a prisoner in San Quentin.
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Alison Skipworth, Mae Clarke, Arthur Treacher, James Ellison
Votes: 133
10. The Lone Ranger (1938)
Approved | 264 min | Western
Heroic's of Lone Ranger & Tonto, matter!
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Silver Chief, Chief Thundercloud, Lynne Roberts, Stanley Andrews
Votes: 246
11. Little Annie Rooney (1925)
Unrated | 94 min | Drama, Comedy
The tenements are home to an international community, including the friends and family of a tough young ragamuffin named Annie Rooney, but their neighborhood is threatened by a dangerous street gang.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Mary Pickford, William Haines, Walter James, Gordon Griffith
Votes: 1,065 | Gross: $1.10M
12. The Blood Ship (1927)
70 min | Drama
A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former ... See full summary »
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Jacqueline Logan, Richard Arlen, Walter James
Votes: 15
13. Invisible Stripes (1939)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart
Votes: 1,921 | Gross: $0.11M
14. The Road to Ruin (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
A controversial, low-budget drama about the life of a young teenage girl who goes down the "road to ruin." Sally is a 16-year-old New York City teen who, neglected by her parents, takes up ... See full summary »
Director: Norton S. Parker | Stars: Helen Foster, Grant Withers, Florence Turner, Charles Miller
Votes: 77 | Gross: $2.50M
15. This Is My Affair (1937)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, History
Navy Lt. Richard Perry becomes an undercover man out to discover the leaders of a group of well connected men who pull off bank robberies during the McKinley administration (early 20th century).
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 685
16. The Cat's-Paw (1934)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy
A naive missionary brought up in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning.
Directors: Sam Taylor, Harold Lloyd | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 1,377 | Gross: $0.69M
17. Legion of the Lawless (1940)
Passed | 59 min | Western
In the 13th film of the 17 B-westerns George O'Brien made in 1937-1940 for RKO (who would remake "Legion of the Lawless" two years later as "Pirates of the Prairie" with Tim Holt), O'Brien,... See full summary »
Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Virginia Vale, Herbert Heywood, Norman Willis
Votes: 105
18. Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical
Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd
Votes: 543
19. The Public Menace (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Non-citizen Arthur marries reporter Murphy for a bogus gangster's confession. A divorce is needed, and Murphy is fired. The gangster wants her to be his girlfriend, the police are outside, and only one who can save her is Murphy.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Jean Arthur, George Murphy, Douglass Dumbrille, George McKay
Votes: 295
20. The Public Defender (1931)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rich playboy Pike Winslow dons the mantle of 'The Reckoner', a mysterious avenger, when he learns that his lady friend Barbara Gerry's father has been framed in a bank embezzlement scandal.... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Richard Dix, Shirley Grey, Purnell Pratt, Ruth Weston
Votes: 247
21. Shadow of the Law (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where ... See full summary »
Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: William Powell, Marion Shilling, Natalie Moorhead, Regis Toomey
Votes: 177
22. Professor Beware (1938)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert (Lloyd), accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Phyllis Welch, William Frawley, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 243 | Gross: $0.80M
23. Mountain Justice (1937)
Passed | 83 min | Drama, Romance
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: George Brent, Josephine Hutchinson, Guy Kibbee, Mona Barrie
Votes: 292
24. Charley My Boy! (1926)
23 min | Short, Comedy
A hard boiled business man wants his daughter to marry for wealth, and not for love. Charley comes into the office seeking a job, and gets confused with an old geezer there as a prospective... See full summary »
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Walter James, William Courtright
Votes: 131
25. The Monster (1925)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A meek clerk who doubles as an amateur detective investigates some very strange goings-on at a remote mental sanitarium.
Director: Roland West | Stars: Lon Chaney, Gertrude Olmstead, Hallam Cooley, Johnny Arthur
Votes: 1,363
26. The Divine Lady (1928)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith
Votes: 935
27. Riffraff (1935)
Passed | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie and quits his poorly paid job to concentrate on getting better working conditions as union leader. Unfortunately, the union members disagree ... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 1,109
28. Ann Vickers (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance
A prison reformer and a controversial judge fall in love and have a child out of wedlock.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 660
29. White Fang (1936)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Jack London tale of a woman and weakling brother who inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Michael Whalen, Jean Muir, Slim Summerville, Charles Winninger
Votes: 75
30. No More Women (1934)
Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at the same time, even the bottom of the ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Sally Blane, Minna Gombell
Votes: 30
31. The Patent Leather Kid (1927)
150 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A boxer has difficulty balancing his sport with a budding romance; both are further jeopardized when the United States enters the first World War.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Molly O'Day, Lawford Davidson, Matthew Betz
Votes: 597
32. Disbarred (1939)
Approved | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears that he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to be without an income and ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Gail Patrick, Robert Preston, Otto Kruger, Sidney Toler
Votes: 55
33. The Panther's Claw (1942)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Mystery
Members of an opera company are being blackmailed by someone called the Black Panther.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Rick Vallin, Byron Foulger, Herbert Rawlinson
Votes: 317
34. Me, Gangster (1928)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: June Collyer, Don Terry, Anders Randolf, Stella Adams
Votes: 35
35. Eternally Yours (1939)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anita Halstead, swept off her feet by magician Arturo, finds the results less than magical.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Loretta Young, David Niven, Hugh Herbert, Billie Burke
Votes: 879 | Gross: $0.18M
36. Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Military Academy instructor Oliver Yates is 4-F and losing the respect of his students. He quits to join up but ends up working in a shipyard. His rival Charlie for girlfriend Ruth uses the... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Claire Trevor, Jess Barker, Edgar Buchanan, Tom Neal
Votes: 106
37. Jealousy (1934)
Approved | 66 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Nancy Carroll, George Murphy, Donald Cook, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 69
38. California Mail (1936)
Passed | 55 min | Drama, Western
Bids submitted to win the U.S. Mail contract for their stagecoach lines are entered by Banton brothers Roy and Bart, and singing cowboy Bill Harkins. During a stagecoach race to determine ... See full summary »
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Dick Foran, Linda Perry, Smoke, Edmund Cobb
Votes: 133
39. Oh, Susanna! (1936)
Passed | 59 min | Western
While riding to Mineral Springs Autry is robbed by thieves and then tossed off the train.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Frances Grant, Earle Hodgins
Votes: 253
40. Docks of San Francisco (1932)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama
Belle (Mary Nolan), cafe waitress on the San Francisco docks, becomes the moll of small-time racketeer Vance (Jon Davidson), but a slumming novelist John Banning (Jason Robards Sr.), decides to rescue her from chosen seedy life.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Mary Nolan, John Davidson, Marjorie Beebe, Jason Robards Sr.
Votes: 69
41. The Lone Rider Fights Back (1941)
Approved | 64 min | Drama, Music, Western
Tom infiltrates a gang of outlaws and soon internal bickering yields the information he seeks about who murdered his buddy.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: George Houston, Al St. John, Dorothy Short, Dennis Moore
Votes: 38
42. The Kid's Last Ride (1941)
Approved | 55 min | Drama, Music, Western
The Range Busters are hired as lawmen by the notorious Breeden Brothers, two-thirds of trio of three ruthless outlaws now disguised and renamed as solid citizens.
Director: S. Roy Luby | Stars: Ray Corrigan, John 'Dusty' King, Max Terhune, Elmer
Votes: 95
43. The Idol Dancer (1920)
92 min | Drama
A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who will "civilize" whom ensues.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Clarine Seymour, Creighton Hale, George MacQuarrie
Votes: 140
44. Police Court (1932)
Passed | 63 min | Drama
A once great stage and screen actor (Henry B. Walthall) has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son (Leon Janney) is determined to see his father "make good" again.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Leon Janney, Lionel Belmore, King Baggot
Votes: 54
45. Arizona Bad Man (1935)
Approved | 58 min | Western
The daughter of a notorious cattle thief falls for a stranger at a dance. The stranger is really a lawman who is after her father.
Director: S. Roy Luby | Stars: Reb Russell, Rebel, Lois January, Slim Whitaker
Votes: 57
46. Fair Lady (1922)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Margherita, an Italian girl, comes to America to avenge the murder of her fiancé by the mysterious Cardi.
Director: Kenneth S. Webb | Stars: Betty Blythe, Thurston Hall, Robert Elliott, Gladys Hulette
Votes: 24
47. Convicts at Large (1938)
Not Rated | 57 min | Drama
An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict.
Directors: Scott R. Beal, David Friedman | Stars: Ralph Forbes, Paula Stone, William Royle, John Kelly
Votes: 72
48. The Road to Ruin (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Drama
A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
Directors: Dorothy Davenport, Melville Shyer | Stars: Helen Foster, Nell O'Day, Glen Boles, Robert Quirk
Votes: 341
49. Custer's Last Stand (I) (1936)
Passed | 328 min | War, Western
When some men are attacked by Indians, a survivor obtains an Indian medicine arrow. An Indian tells Blade he has found gold but will not tell him where until he has that arrow. So Blade ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Rex Lease, Lona Andre, William Farnum, Ruth Mix
Votes: 250
50. The Big Killing (1928)
60 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hickses come up with a plan to get rid of their enemies once and for all by hiring two ... See full summary »
Director: F. Richard Jones | Stars: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Anders Randolf, Mary Brian
Votes: 21