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1. The 3 Wise Guys (1936)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

8.3
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Riding in his private car on Christmas day, railroad tycoon Hatcher prefers work to celebrating, while his son Joe prefers having a good time. In the coach car, Joe sees pretty Clarabelle ... See full summary »

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Robert Young, Betty Furness, Raymond Walburn, Thurston Hall

Votes: 13

2. The Thin Man (1934)

TV-PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

7.9
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86 Metascore

Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton

Votes: 32,564

3. A Night at the Opera (1935)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Musical

7.8
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A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

Directors: Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle

Votes: 34,775 | Gross: $2.54M

4. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, History, Romance

7.8
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87 Metascore

A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.

Directors: Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen

Votes: 6,302

5. Fury (1936)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.8
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When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 13,729

6. Libeled Lady (1936)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

7.8
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When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy

Votes: 8,924

7. On Borrowed Time (1939)

Passed | 99 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

7.7
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A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs with the help of an agent of Death and a magical apple tree.

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Una Merkel

Votes: 2,252

8. Escapade (1935)

92 min | Comedy, Romance

7.7
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Escapade is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring William Powell and Luise Rainer. It is a remake of Maskerade (1934).

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: William Powell, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Virginia Bruce

Votes: 92

9. After the Thin Man (1936)

Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

7.6
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Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi

Votes: 12,129 | Gross: $4.34M

10. The Good Earth (1937)

Passed | 138 min | Drama, Romance

7.5
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Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.

Directors: Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood | Stars: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch

Votes: 5,413

11. A Day at the Races (1937)

Passed | 111 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

7.5
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A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones

Votes: 14,588

12. I Love You Again (1940)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Romance

7.4
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Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh, Edmund Lowe

Votes: 3,806

13. Almost Married (1932)

50 min | Thriller

7.4
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Russian beauty Anita Mellikovna, traveling by train with a forged passport and carrying jewels, finds the police on her tail. Seeing Deene Maxwell, whom she met one summer in Scotland, on a... See full summary »

Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Violet Heming, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander Kirkland, Alan Dinehart

Votes: 19

14. David Copperfield (1935)

Passed | 130 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

7.3
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91 Metascore

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan

Votes: 4,769

15. Another Thin Man (1939)

Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

7.3
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63 Metascore

An explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger

Votes: 8,168 | Gross: $3.32M

16. Tales of Manhattan (1942)

Passed | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

7.3
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A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda

Votes: 2,515

17. Three Godfathers (1936)

Passed | 81 min | Western

7.3
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Three fugitives risk their lives to bring a newborn baby out of the desert to safety.

Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan, Irene Hervey

Votes: 965

18. Mad Love (1935)

Passed | 68 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi

7.2
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In Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.

Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy

Votes: 5,879 | Gross: $0.37M

19. Night Must Fall (1937)

Passed | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

7.2
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When a rich but cantankerous dowager on an isolated estate hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, May Whitty, Alan Marshal

Votes: 2,959

20. Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

7.1
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The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway, George Cukor | Stars: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo

Votes: 4,809

21. The Devil's Brother (1933)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Musical

7.1
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Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman who secretly masquerades as notorious outlaw Fra Diavolo.

Directors: Hal Roach, Charley Rogers | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd

Votes: 2,095

22. Madame X (1937)

Passed | 72 min | Drama

7.1
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Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.

Directors: Sam Wood, Gustav Machatý | Stars: Gladys George, Warren William, John Beal, Reginald Owen

Votes: 505

23. The Devil-Doll (1936)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

7.0
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An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those who framed him.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano

Votes: 4,963

24. Wife vs. Secretary (1936)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

7.0
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The wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband's relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, May Robson

Votes: 3,871

25. Edison, the Man (1940)

Passed | 107 min | Biography, Drama

7.0
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82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn

Votes: 1,777

26. The Pied Piper (1942)

87 min | Drama, War

7.0
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While traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger

Votes: 737

27. Paradise for Three (1938)

Passed | 78 min | Romance, Comedy

7.0
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A wealthy business man, out of touch with real folks, decides to mingle and see what it is really all about.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Mary Astor, Edna May Oliver

Votes: 631

28. Woman to Woman (1923)

Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance

7.0
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David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, ... See full summary »

Director: Graham Cutts | Stars: Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Josephine Earle, Marie Ault

Votes: 88

29. Skyline (1931)

68 min | Drama

7.0
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Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.

Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Hardie Albright, Maureen O'Sullivan, Myrna Loy

Votes: 55

30. Annabelle's Affairs (1931)

Approved | 76 min | Romance

7.0
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After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other truly looks like. Annabelle is given stocks in a mining enterprise by her husband and told ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Jeanette MacDonald, Roland Young, Sam Hardy

Votes: 37

31. Hindle Wakes (1918)

Romance

7.0
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A mill girl leaves home rather than marry the owner's son, with whom she spent a holiday.

Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Norman McKinnel, Colette O'Neil, Hayford Hobbs, Ada King

Votes: 11

32. Evelyn Prentice (1934)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

6.9
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The neglected wife of a high profile attorney dallies with a unscrupulous womanizer and finds herself involved in blackmail and murder.

Director: William K. Howard | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel, Rosalind Russell

Votes: 1,867

33. Hide-Out (1934)

Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

6.9
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Farmers take in an injured racketeer and try to reform him.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold, Elizabeth Patterson

Votes: 881

34. Ah Wilderness! (1935)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

6.9
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Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon, Eric Linden

Votes: 881

35. Kind Lady (1935)

Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.9
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Henry, a homeless artist, is invited in from the cold by Mary. Her kindness is exploited as Henry, his family and friends manipulate their way into living in her home. Mary tries to get rid of them, but they have their own scheme in mind.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Aline MacMahon, Basil Rathbone, Mary Carlisle, Frank Albertson

Votes: 652

36. Bad Little Angel (1939)

Approved | 72 min | Drama

6.8
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A Bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Virginia Weidler, Gene Reynolds, Guy Kibbee, Ian Hunter

Votes: 310

37. Test Pilot (1938)

Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance

6.8
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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

38. At the Circus (1939)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Musical

6.8
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The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kenny Baker

Votes: 6,474

39. Young Tom Edison (1940)

Approved | 86 min | Biography, Drama, Family

6.8
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Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up with disastrous results. As a consequence, the ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Virginia Weidler

Votes: 1,266

40. Go West (1940)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Western

6.8
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The Marx Brothers come to the rescue in the Wild West when a young man, trying to settle an old family feud so he can marry the girl he loves, runs afoul of crooks.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, John Carroll

Votes: 5,832

41. Strike Up the Band (1940)

Passed | 120 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

6.8
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59 Metascore

A high-school boy wants to become a professional musician, and his gal pal wants to become his best girl. They work together staging big-band shows with fellow classmates in the hopes of hitting it big.

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Paul Whiteman, June Preisser

Votes: 1,940

42. Of Human Hearts (1938)

Passed | 103 min | Drama, Western

6.8
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Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Walter Huston, James Stewart, Gene Reynolds, Beulah Bondi

Votes: 1,358

43. Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

6.8
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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

44. The Magnificent Dope (1942)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance

6.8
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Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lynn Bari, Don Ameche, Edward Everett Horton

Votes: 461

45. Piccadilly Jim (1936)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

6.7
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In London, an American street caricaturist falls in love with a young woman who suddenly disappears, prompting him to develop a comic strip based on a "From Rags to Riches" family, that he does not know is hers, causing her embarrassment.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Eric Blore

Votes: 448

46. The Black Camel (1931)

Passed | 71 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

6.7
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The unsolved murder of a Hollywood actor several years earlier and an enigmatic psychic are the keys to help Charlie solve the Honolulu stabbing death of a beautiful actress.

Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Warner Oland, Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi, Dorothy Revier

Votes: 1,655

47. Whipsaw (1935)

Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance

6.7
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Hoping to nab a gang of jewel thieves, a government agent poses as a crook and travels across the country with a female thief.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Harvey Stephens, William Harrigan

Votes: 930

48. Maisie Was a Lady (1941)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Drama

6.7
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Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Ann Sothern, Lew Ayres, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 653

49. Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)

Not Rated | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.7
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A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one ... See full summary »

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday

Votes: 513

50. Public Hero Number 1 (1935)

Passed | 89 min | Crime, Drama

6.7
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A G-man goes undercover to infiltrate a gang, helping the group's leader escape from prison to gain his trust.

Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 673



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