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1. Almost Human (I) (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance
John Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt, and Paul, being a pedigree canine and somewhat of a cad, lures trusting Maggie to the barn ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Urson | Stars: Vera Reynolds, Kenneth Thomson, Majel Coleman, Claire McDowell
Votes: 372
2. It Happened One Night (1934)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 112,235 | Gross: $4.36M
3. The Big Parade (1925)
Not Rated | 151 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
Directors: King Vidor, George W. Hill | Stars: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell
Votes: 7,275 | Gross: $11.00M
4. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Not Rated | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.
Directors: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson
Votes: 7,974 | Gross: $12.45M
5. Human Wreckage (1923)
80 min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
Directors: John Griffith Wray, Dorothy Davenport | Stars: Dorothy Davenport, James Kirkwood, Bessie Love, George Hackathorne
Votes: 24
6. 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: 5,644
7. This Land Is Mine (1943)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, War
A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
Votes: 3,731
8. 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: 2,335
9. The Tower of Lies (1925)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may be using her body to get the money.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Norma Shearer, Lon Chaney, Ian Keith, Claire McDowell
Votes: 114 | Gross: $0.22M
10. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
Passed | 134 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
After the German administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 6,389
11. Midsummer Madness (1920)
60 min | Drama
When Julian's wife Daisy leaves home to visit her sick father, he finds himself attracted to his best friend's wife Margaret, who has been neglected by her husband. Julian and Margaret take... See full summary »
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Jack Holt, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Lila Lee
Votes: 19
12. The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
Approved | 100 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
Nick and Nora head to Nick's hometown of Sycamore Springs to spend some time with his parents. His father, a prominent local physician, was always a bit disappointed with Nick's choice of ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven
Votes: 6,271 | Gross: $3.86M
13. The Working Man (1933)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The vacationing head of a successful shoe company is placed as his rival's trustee, unbeknownst to them.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Theodore Newton, Hardie Albright
Votes: 1,282
14. Two Daughters of Eve (1912)
18 min | Drama, Short
Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story acted conventionally, she nevertheless maligned the other woman simply because she was an... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Claire McDowell, Florence Geneva, Gertrude Bambrick
Votes: 29
15. 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: 6,351
16. Brothers (1930)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Bob Naughton and Eddie Connolly are identical-twin brothers who were separated in infancy. Bob is raised by a rich lawyer and has all the advantages, but is a drunk with no moral character.... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Bert Lytell, Dorothy Sebastian, William Morris, Richard Tucker
Votes: 16
17. The Big House (1930)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.
Directors: George W. Hill, Ward Wing | Stars: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery
Votes: 2,591
18. The Mark of Zorro (1920)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
A seemingly idiotic fop is really the courageous vigilante Zorro, who seeks to protect the oppressed.
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 2,786
19. Three Comrades (1938)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Romance
The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young
Votes: 2,077
20. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932)
75 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Marian Nixon, Ralph Bellamy, Mae Marsh, Louise Closser Hale
Votes: 35
21. Silks and Saddles (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Richard Walling, Marian Nixon, Sam De Grasse, Montagu Love
Votes: 14
22. The White Raven (1917)
60 min | Drama
William Baldwin, ruined in business by his partner John Blaisdell, implores Blaisdell's aid and receives in answer a five-dollar bill inscribed with "Spend this for a gun and use it on ... See full summary »
Director: George D. Baker | Stars: Ethel Barrymore, William B. Davidson, Walter Hitchcock, George A. Wright
Votes: 16
23. More Trifles of Importance (1941)
Approved | 11 min | Drama, Short
This entry in the Passing Parade series deals with medical discoveries that are discovered by accident.
Director: Basil Wrangell | Stars: John Nesbitt, Vondell Darr, Lumsden Hare, Claude King
Votes: 22
24. The Human Comedy (1943)
Passed | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig, Marsha Hunt
Votes: 2,452
25. Union Depot (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Travelers of different and varied backgrounds meet and interact on one night in a metropolitan train station and its environs.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Alan Hale
Votes: 1,184
26. A Little Journey (1927)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Romance
A girl travelling by train to meet her boyfriend meets another young man and falls in love with him.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Claire Windsor, William Haines, Harry Carey, Claire McDowell
Votes: 9
27. A Successful Calamity (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A wealthy industrialist tests the loyalty of his spoiled children and selfish wife by pretending to be broke.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Mary Astor, Evalyn Knapp, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 532
28. Young Tom Edison (1940)
Approved | 86 min | Biography, Drama, Family
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Virginia Weidler
Votes: 1,263
29. Test Pilot (1938)
Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 2,745
30. Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Small-town Indiana girl Lily Mars dreams to be a stage actress. She begs visiting Broadway producer John Thornway for a role but he dismisses her as an amateur. She follows him to New York and worms her way into his show, and his heart.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter, Richard Carlson
Votes: 1,271
31. Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
A single magazine editor pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues, but complications ensue when she meets a potential suitor.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Walburn, Lee Bowman
Votes: 1,138
32. Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
Journalist Steve O'Malley (Spencer Tracy) wants to write a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. Steve receives conflicting reports and tales that make him question what the truth about the hero is.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly
Votes: 3,222
33. The Show-Off (1926)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive but is really just a $30-a-week clerk catches a young bride, then drives her family's finances to the brink of ruin.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Ford Sterling, Lois Wilson, Louise Brooks, Gregory Kelly
Votes: 326
34. The Devil's Circus (1926)
70 min | Drama
Mary (Shearer) and Carlstop (Mack) are lovers. The former is a trapeze artist, while the latter is a pickpocket. Mary gets entangled in a nearly fatal situation with Lieberkind (Miljan), a ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Norma Shearer, Charles Emmett Mack, Carmel Myers, John Miljan
Votes: 174 | Gross: $0.24M
35. Penrod (1922)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and nasty neighbors. He heads the ABPA (... See full summary »
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Wesley Barry, Tully Marshall, Claire McDowell, John Harron
Votes: 18 | Gross: $0.14M
36. In the Aisles of the Wild (1912)
17 min | Short, Drama, Western
A widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance of two trappers, Bob Cole and Jim Watson, who hunt in the neighborhood. As fate will have it... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Claire McDowell, William J. Butler, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 15
37. You Can't Believe Everything (1918)
50 min | Drama
Patricia Reynolds, the belle of the summer resort she is visiting with her friend, Amy Powellson, attracts the attention of Arthur Kirby, whom Amy loves. On an evening drive, Arthur tries ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Darrell Foss, Jack Richardson, Edward Peil Sr.
Votes: 17
38. The Midnight Flyer (1925)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Si Henderson is the only mountaineer to get a job with the railroad when it starts coming through the West Virginia mountains. This development incurs the wrath of Jeb Slater, who keeps ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Forman | Stars: Cullen Landis, Dorothy Devore, Charles A. Post, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 62
39. Decathlon Champion: The Story of Glenn Morris (1937)
Approved | 10 min | Short, Biography, Drama
This Pete Smith Specialty tells how Glenn Morris trained for and won the 1936 Olympic decathlon event.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Glenn Morris, Claire McDowell, Lee Phelps, Pete Smith
Votes: 45
40. Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Passed | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey
Votes: 3,546
41. Under Eighteen (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A poor seamstress girl sours on her engagement to a grocery deliveryman after seeing her sister's abusive marriage. Trying to help her sister pay for a divorce lawyer, she turns to a rich playboy she met at work.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Marian Marsh, Anita Page, Regis Toomey, Warren William
Votes: 465
42. 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
43. The Viking (1928)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, History
Vikings compete for power and the love of a woman.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Donald Crisp, Pauline Starke, LeRoy Mason, Anders Randolf
Votes: 489
44. Those High Grey Walls (1939)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police. This is man whom he had ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Walter Connolly, Onslow Stevens, Paul Fix, Bernard Nedell
Votes: 37
45. The Flaming Forest (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Jules Lagarre, a half-breed brigand, undertakes to dominate the Canadian Northwest with the aid of Indians and cutthroats. André Audemard, a trading post merchant, appeals to the government... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Antonio Moreno, Renée Adorée, Gardner James, William Austin
Votes: 16
46. Your Last Act (1941)
Approved | 11 min | Short
This short looks at the odd bequests that people have made in their wills over the years. They include a woman who left her fortune to her pet cat and a murderer who ensured that his ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: John Nesbitt, Eleanor Taylor, Vince Barnett, Edward Hearn
Votes: 74
47. Ashes of Vengeance (1923)
Passed | 111 min | Drama
When Empress Catherine of France launches an attack on French Protestants known as Huguenots, the Comte de la Roche saves the life of his enemy, the Huguenot Rupert de Vrieac, by making him... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Conway Tearle, Wallace Beery, Josephine Crowell
Votes: 66
48. Cornered (1932)
Passed | 62 min | Western
Shortly after Moody Pierson saves Sheriff Tim's life, Moody is arrested for murder. Tim doesn't believe he did it and lets him get away. Kicked out as Sheriff, Tim goes after the real kiler... See full summary »
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Tim McCoy, Shirley Grey, Noah Beery, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 39
49. In the Name of the Law (1922)
70 min | Drama
The oldest son of a San Francisco Policeman is accused of theft. The officer's wife, brother, and step-sister attempt to help repay the money. The family goes through various misfortunes ... See full summary »
Director: Emory Johnson | Stars: Ben Alexander, Josephine Adair, Johnny Thompson, Jean Adair
Votes: 13
50. 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