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1. I'll Show You the Town (1925)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
A bachelor who cannot bring himself to break a date ends up with three dates at the same restaurant on the same night. He juggles the dates, keeping each from seeing the others, by feigning reasons to excuse himself from each table.
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Edward Kimball, Lilyan Tashman
Votes: 21
2. Poker Faces (1926)
80 min | Comedy
In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it. Unfortunately, the woman he hires is the wife of an insanely jealous prizefighter.
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Laura La Plante, George Siegmann, Tom Ricketts
Votes: 36
3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (I) (1923)
Passed | 133 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
In 15th-century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with a gypsy dancer.
Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester
Votes: 6,116 | Gross: $2.22M
4. 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
5. Steady Company (1932)
65 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Norman Foster, June Clyde, Zasu Pitts, Henry Armetta
Votes: 25
6. Bombay Mail (1934)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Shirley Grey, Onslow Stevens, Ralph Forbes
Votes: 107
7. The Mummy (1932)
Approved | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror
A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron
Votes: 30,183
8. The Doomed Battalion (1932)
81 min | Drama, War
During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.
Directors: Cyril Gardner, Karl Hartl, Luis Trenker | Stars: Luis Trenker, Tala Birell, Albert Conti, Victor Varconi
Votes: 39
9. Skin Deep (1922)
70 min | Crime, Drama
Crook Bud Doyle returns from the war intending to go straight but finds it difficult because of his crook-like features. His wife, her new companion Joe Culver, and Boss McQuarg conspire to... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Milton Sills, Florence Vidor, Marcia Manon, Charles Clary
Votes: 12
10. Nice Women (1931)
70 min | Comedy, Romance
A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.
Director: Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Sidney Fox, Frances Dee, Alan Mowbray, Lucile Gleason
Votes: 30
11. The Turmoil (1924)
70 min | Drama
Industrialist James Sheridan, Sr., once a laborer, insists on molding the careers of his three sons; however, he loses James, Jr., in a flood disaster, and Roscoe suffers a mental breakdown... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Emmett Corrigan, George Hackathorne, Edward Hearn, Theodore von Eltz
Votes: 15
12. A House Divided (1931)
70 min | Drama
In a small Pacific village, a widowed fisherman marries a girl young enough to be his daughter. Complications ensue when the new wife falls in love with her husband's son.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Walter Huston, Douglass Montgomery, Helen Chandler, Mary Foy
Votes: 262
13. The Raven (1935)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Horror
A brilliant surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture grows dangerously obsessed with a young socialite whose life he's saved.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware
Votes: 6,661
14. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
Passed | 144 min | Drama, History
Slavery tears apart a Black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Margarita Fischer, James B. Lowe, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Siegmann
Votes: 503
15. King for a Night (1933)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Chester Morris, Helen Twelvetrees, Alice White, John Miljan
Votes: 89
16. Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern (1930)
117 min | Biography, Drama, History
Second of two German silents about the life of Bavarian king Ludwig II, a character who would much later also be the center of a film by Luchino Visconti.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: William Dieterle, Theodor Loos, Eugen Burg, Ferdinand von Alten
Votes: 60
17. 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: 15
18. The Shakedown (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Dave Roberts is a professional boxer better at losing in fixed matches than in knocking out his opponents. He turns up in towns and is part of a group who sets up corrupt boxing matches. ... See full summary »
Director: William Wyler | Stars: James Murray, Barbara Kent, George Kotsonaros, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 319
19. Wake Up and Dream (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Music, Romance
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Russ Columbo, Roger Pryor, June Knight, Catherine Doucet
Votes: 69
20. The Cohens and Kellys (1926)
80 min | Comedy
The story of two families, one Jewish and one Irish, living side by side in the poorer quarters of New York in a state of hostility.
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Charles Murray, George Sidney, Vera Gordon, Kate Price
Votes: 17
21. Hell of a Reporter (1929)
54 min | Drama
An aspiring reporter lands a scoop when he comes across a group of wealthy American girls, who had been sightseeing in Berlin, being detained by crooks, and displays his skills in rescuing them.
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Eddie Polo, Gritta Ley, Maria Forescu, Robert Garrison
Votes: 38
22. Let's Be Ritzy (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Lew Ayres, Patricia Ellis, Isabel Jewell, Frank McHugh
Votes: 19
23. Black Beauty (1933)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Esther Ralston, Alexander Kirkland, Gavin Gordon, Hale Hamilton
Votes: 17
24. Tom Brown of Culver (1932)
Passed | 82 min | Drama
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Tom Brown, Slim Summerville, Richard Cromwell, H.B. Warner
Votes: 179
25. 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: 1,170
26. The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)
81 min | Crime, Drama
"Fingers" Partos, known by fighters for his great massages, is paroled from prison and returns to straighten out his brother, "Babe." Fingers is convinced that Babe should be a classy ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Constance Cummings, Olga Baclanova, Frank Morgan
Votes: 42
27. Werewolf of London (1935)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After botanist Wilfred Glendon travels to Tibet in search of a rare flower, the Mariphasa, he returns to a London haunted by murders that can only be the work of bloodthirsty werewolves.
Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews
Votes: 6,519
28. Saturday's Millions (1933)
77 min | Drama, Sport
Ups and downs of college football.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Robert Young, Andy Devine, Leila Hyams, Johnny Mack Brown
Votes: 60
29. Aloha (1931)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Ben Lyon, Raquel Torres, Robert Edeson, Alan Hale
Votes: 37
30. Eine Stunde Glück (1931)
82 min | Drama, Musical
The two happy fitters Eddy and Tommy are doing overtime to ensure the great travel-exhibition of the department store they work in is ready for display. Outside, they see a poor newspaper ... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Evelyn Holt, William Dieterle, Harald Paulsen, Hans Reimann
Votes: 21
31. The Michigan Kid (1928)
64 min | Drama
The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to ... See full summary »
Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Renée Adorée, Lloyd Whitlock, Fred Esmelton
Votes: 67
32. I Like It That Way (1934)
Passed | 67 min | Musical, Romance
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Gloria Stuart, Roger Pryor, Marian Marsh, Shirley Grey
Votes: 47
33. The Avenger (1931)
Passed | 72 min | Western
Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Buck Jones, Dorothy Revier, Otto Hoffman, Sidney Bracey
Votes: 82
34. Heaven on Earth (1931)
Passed | 77 min | Drama
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
Directors: Russell Mack, Bert Glennon | Stars: Lew Ayres, Anita Louise, Harry Beresford, Slim Summerville
Votes: 35
35. Auf Leben und Tod (1930)
Adventure
Eddie, a muscular circus performer, catch one night a burglar. It is Paul who is stealing from his wealthy sister Eveline. He needs money for his opium abuse, caused by the unscrupulous dealer Van Straaten.
Director: Edmund Heuberger | Stars: Eddie Polo, Rina Marsa, Lotte Stein, Peggy Norman
Votes: 12
36. The Whole Town's Talking (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
In 1919, Chester Binney, a wounded World War I veteran, is discharged from the U.S. Army in Los Angeles, and returns to his hometown. There he is feted by his pre-war employer, George ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Laemmle | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Virginia Lee Corbin, Trixie Friganza, Otis Harlan
Votes: 29
37. Sex (1920)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
A broadway actress uses her sex appeal to ruin a marriage only to dump her lover for a richer prospect.
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Louise Glaum, Irving Cummings, Peggy Pearce, Myrtle Stedman
Votes: 347
38. Hearts of Humanity (1932)
Not Rated | 56 min | Drama
Genial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son, Shandy from Ireland. Several days before the ship is to dock, O'Hara gets a ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Jean Hersholt, Jackie Searl, J. Farrell MacDonald, Claudia Dell
Votes: 67
39. K: The Unknown (1924)
90 min | Mystery
Sidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young men in her small town. One of them, a mysterious fellow known as K, suddenly finds that the ... See full summary »
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Virginia Valli, Percy Marmont, Margarita Fischer, Donald Keith
Votes: 42
40. The Leopard Woman (1920)
68 min | Adventure
An epic of passion, intrigue, and espionage set in the African Jungle.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Louise Glaum, House Peters, Noble Johnson, Benny Ayers
Votes: 56
41. Storm Over the Andes (1935)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, War
A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides in the conflict.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Jack Holt, Antonio Moreno, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 30
42. Transient Lady (1935)
Passed | 69 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Gene Raymond, Henry Hull, Frances Drake, June Clayworth
Votes: 36
43. Straight from the Heart (1935)
Passed | 75 min | Drama
"Straight from the Heart" is a 1935 American drama film directed by Scott R. Beal and starring Mary Astor, Roger Pryor and Juanita Quigley.
Director: Scott R. Beal | Stars: Mary Astor, Roger Pryor, Juanita Quigley, Carol Coombe
Votes: 15
44. The End of the Game (1919)
50 min | Western
Frank Miller, arriving in a California gold rush town in the days of '49, gets fleeced of all his assets in a crooked card game by a gang while his sister Mary waits in their hotel. ... See full summary »
Director: Jesse D. Hampton | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Gayne Whitman, Jack Richardson
Votes: 20
45. Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
A French girl falls in love with an American soldier, and after the War she follows him to New York, where he is a police officer.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Bessie Love, Tom Moore, Kate Price, Addie McPhail
Votes: 38
46. Where Was I? (1925)
70 min | Comedy
A mother is determined to break up her daughter's engagement and ruin her fiance financially.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Pauline Garon, Lee Moran
Votes: 11
47. Private Jones (1933)
70 min | War, Comedy
After America has joined the World War I, young William Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the only supporter of his family and is employed by his sister's boss.
Directors: Russell Mack, William Wyler | Stars: Lee Tracy, Gloria Stuart, Donald Cook, Emma Dunn
Votes: 63
48. Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1925)
56 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A.J. Raffles and his friend Bunny travel aboard a luxury liner where a necklace is stolen. The Amateur Cracksman is believed to have done it. This unusual jewel thief returns the pieces ... See full summary »
Director: King Baggot | Stars: House Peters, Miss DuPont, Hedda Hopper, Fred Esmelton
Votes: 63
49. Durchs Brandenburger Tor. So lang' noch untern Linden ... (1929)
100 min | Drama
Directors: Max Knaake, William Dieterle | Stars: Paul Henckels, June Marlowe, Aribert Mog, Fritz Kampers
Votes: 11
50. Borrowed Plumage (1917)
50 min | Adventure
The Earl of Selkirk and his family learn of the impending arrival of American pirate John Paul Jones, they flee their castle, leaving behind Nora, the kitchen maid. Left alone in the house,... See full summary »
Director: Raymond B. West | Stars: Bessie Barriscale, Arthur Maude, Dorcas Matthews, J. Barney Sherry
Votes: 17