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1. 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: 5,651
2. The Countess of Monte Cristo (1934)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A light-hearted comedy when a bit player in a musical tries to convince her friends that she is a countess.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Fay Wray, Paul Lukas, Reginald Owen, Patsy Kelly
Votes: 35
3. Half a Sinner (1934)
70 min | Drama
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Sally Blane, Joel McCrea, Berton Churchill, Alexandria Carlisle
Votes: 29
4. Mad About Music (1938)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about, and writes herself letters, from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father, and is eventually put in a position where ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick, Arthur Treacher
Votes: 666
5. Affairs of a Gentleman (1934)
68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Paul Lukas, Leila Hyams, Patricia Ellis, Phillip Reed
Votes: 49
6. The Black Cat (1934)
Not Rated | 65 min | Crime, Horror, Romance
American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshipping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop
Votes: 13,007 | Gross: $0.51M
7. East of Java (1935)
72 min | Drama
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Young, Frank Albertson, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 39
8. 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
9. Let's Talk It Over (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Chester Morris, Mae Clarke, Frank Craven, John Warburton
Votes: 14
10. 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
11. The Lady Fights Back (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A beautiful environmentalist clashes with an engineer who is building a dam.
Director: Milton Carruth | Stars: Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey, William Lundigan, Willie Best
Votes: 29
12. Night Life of the Gods (1935)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
An eccentric scientist invents a ray that can turn people to stone. Then he invents one that can turn them back. He finds out that his stone-to-flesh ray can bring the museum's statues of Greek deities to life! Hilarity and hi-jinks ensue.
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Alan Mowbray, Florine McKinney, Peggy Shannon, Richard Carle
Votes: 115
13. The Jury's Secret (1938)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Bill Sheldon has a grudge against Midland City newspaper publisher Brandon Williams as Sheldon blames the city's recent flood against Williams for using his power and influence to hold up ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Kent Taylor, Fay Wray, Jane Darwell, Nan Grey
Votes: 34
14. The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)
Approved | 68 min | Drama
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Josephine Hutchinson, William Gargan, Barbara Read
Votes: 58
15. The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama
An actor continually confesses to murders he didn't commit, figuring that the police won't believe him when he confesses to a murder that he actually does intend to commit.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Lewis Stone, Barbara Read, Tom Brown, Forrester Harvey
Votes: 70
16. Little Tough Guy (1938)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama
After his father is sentenced to death for accidentally killing a cop, Johnny's family is left to fight for survival. His sister becomes a burlesque performer for money while Johnny joins a local gang and turns to a life of street crime.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Robert Wilcox, Helen Parrish, Marjorie Main, Jackie Searl
Votes: 225
17. I'll Tell the World (1934)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Stanley Brown, ace reporter for a news syndicate, is on a date when he receives a summons from Hardwick, his editor, to report to work and begin trailing Grand Duke Ferdinand, a visiting ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Lee Tracy, Gloria Stuart, Roger Pryor, Onslow Stevens
Votes: 75
18. Love Birds (1934)
Passed | 61 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Love Birds is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and written by Doris Anderson, Henry Myers and Tom Reed. The film stars Slim Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, Mickey... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Slim Summerville, Mickey Rooney, Frederick Burton
Votes: 27
19. A Girl with Ideas (1937)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Wendy Barrie, Walter Pidgeon, Kent Taylor, Dorothea Kent
Votes: 31
20. Romance in the Rain (1934)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Roger Pryor, Heather Angel, Esther Ralston, Victor Moore
21. The Love Captive (1934)
63 min | Drama, Romance
During a high society party, Dr. Alexis Collender offers to hypnotize the host's butler and demonstrate his power of control using a loaded pistol. After the terrified butler refuses to go ... See full synopsis »
Director: Max Marcin | Stars: Gloria Stuart, Nils Asther, Paul Kelly, Alan Dinehart
22. Uncertain Lady (1934)
65 min | Comedy
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Genevieve Tobin, Paul Cavanagh, Mary Nash
23. The Human Side (1934)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Doris Kenyon, Charlotte Henry, Reginald Owen