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1. Heartbreak (1931)
Passed | 63 min | Romance, War, Drama
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Charles Farrell, Madge Evans, Paul Cavanagh, Hardie Albright
Votes: 21
2. The Thin Man (1934)
TV-PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
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: 32,586
3. A Night at the Opera (1935)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
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: 34,793 | Gross: $2.54M
4. Escapade (1935)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
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
5. David Copperfield (1935)
Passed | 130 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
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: 4,770
6. Three Godfathers (1936)
Passed | 81 min | Western
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: 968
7. The Big Trail (1930)
Passed | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.
Directors: Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler | Stars: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall
Votes: 4,436
8. San Francisco (1936)
Passed | 115 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally, in 1906 San Francisco.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt
Votes: 6,111
9. Mad Love (1935)
Passed | 68 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
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: 5,882 | Gross: $0.37M
10. Margie (1946)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Glenn Langan, Lynn Bari, Alan Young
Votes: 867
11. Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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: 3,883
12. Why We Fight (1942)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, War
The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Walter Huston, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, Kai-Shek Chiang, Walter Darré
Votes: 2,413
13. China Seas (1935)
Passed | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When earthy Dolly Portland is rejected by Captain Gaskell in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle, in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize Gaskell's ship.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
Votes: 2,952
14. The Shopworn Angel (1938)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance
Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon, Hattie McDaniel
Votes: 1,662
15. Kind Lady (1935)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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
16. Ah Wilderness! (1935)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
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
17. Not Exactly Gentlemen (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Western
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Fay Wray, Lew Cody, Robert Warwick
Votes: 32
18. Dancing Lady (1933)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson
Votes: 2,681
19. It Happens Every Spring (1949)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley
Votes: 1,898
20. Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
Belvedere discovers that he is ineligible for an honorary award because he never attended college. So he enrolls as a freshman in a major university, becoming the target for hazing from obnoxious upper class-man Alan Young.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Clifton Webb, Shirley Temple, Tom Drake, Alan Young
Votes: 857
21. Sequoia (1934)
G | 71 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Toni lives with her father, writer Matthew Martin, in the Sequoia forests of California. While walking, she finds and brings home, a small puma which she calls 'Gato' and a young fawn, ... See full summary »
Directors: Chester M. Franklin, Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Jean Parker, Russell Hardie, Samuel S. Hinds, Paul Hurst
Votes: 275
22. The Sky Hawk (1929)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Jack Bardell, a British aviator in World War I, a dashing hero to all who know him, is discharged following an airplane crash that occurred under suspicious circumstances. Invalided to ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Helen Chandler, John Garrick, Gilbert Emery, Lennox Pawle
Votes: 36
23. Mannequin (1937)
Passed | 95 min | Drama
Affluent Hennessey falls for Jessie who is married to good-for-nothing Eddie. To provide a better life for Jessie Hennessey wants to marry her, and Eddie even approves of the plan, hoping to profit from it financially.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 1,511
24. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Passed | 176 min | Drama, Musical
The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan
Votes: 9,003
25. Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, War
The story of a large U.S. Marines invasion task force bound for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte
Votes: 2,281
26. 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
27. Merely Mary Ann (1931)
74 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Orphan drudge Mary Ann finds love and hope in the arms of a promising but poor composer, John Lonsdale.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Beryl Mercer, J.M. Kerrigan
Votes: 19
28. Stampede (1936)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Western
A cowboy out to find out who murdered his brother discovers that the killers may not be who he thought they were.
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Charles Starrett, Finis Barton, J.P. McGowan, William Millman
Votes: 88
29. Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
A con man must pass himself off as the owner of a château on the French Riviera when he is expected to host his estranged daughter's wedding.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Frank Morgan, Florence Rice, John Beal, Janet Beecher
Votes: 299
30. Naughty Marietta (1935)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Directors: Robert Z. Leonard, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 1,542
31. Angel of Mercy (1939)
Approved | 10 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Story of Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: John Nesbitt, Oscar Apfel, William Bailey, Barbara Bedford
Votes: 111
32. Ladies of Washington (1944)
Approved | 61 min | Drama
Female government employees become involved in murder when one of their group has a relationship with a foreign agent.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Trudy Marshall, Ronald Graham, Anthony Quinn, Sheila Ryan
Votes: 59
33. Reckless (1935)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Wealthy Bob Harrison buys all the seats in the theatre to watch Mona Leslie's musical by himself. He loves her, her agent Ned Riley loves her. Conflict ensues.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, May Robson
Votes: 1,509
34. The Fighting Seabees (1944)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Romance, War
During WW2, the U.S. Navy implements a new idea of forming construction battalions that also are fighting units, in case of Japanese attack.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley
Votes: 3,920
35. The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young typist, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially... See full summary »
Directors: George Seaton, Edmund Goulding, John M. Stahl | Stars: Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Anne Revere, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 506 | Gross: $2.73M
36. The Gay Bride (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
After the adversary of a bootlegger has him killed, he takes up with his widow, a gold-digging chorus girl, but a handsome bodyguard is also determined to win her over.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Zasu Pitts, Leo Carrillo
Votes: 659
37. Father Was a Fullback (1949)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Sport
Football coach George Cooper has as many problems managing his football team as he has at home dealing with his daughters, Ellen and Connie.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Maureen O'Hara, Betty Lynn, Rudy Vallee
Votes: 494
38. Chained (1934)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Romance
A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 1,138
39. Alice in Wonderland (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
In Victorian England a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters.
Directors: Norman Z. McLeod, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising | Stars: Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, William Austin, Gary Cooper
Votes: 2,621
40. The Sky's the Limit (I) (1943)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days off.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley, Robert Ryan
Votes: 1,224
41. The Homestretch (1947)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A film that qualifies as a Travelogue Documentary in that it contains footage of world famous race tracks such as England's Ascot, Palermo in South America, and Churchill Downs, Jamaica, ... See full summary »
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Glenn Langan, Helen Walker
Votes: 116
42. This Day and Age (1933)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
High school students band together to dispense vigilante justice against a vicious gangland boss.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Charles Bickford, Judith Allen, Richard Cromwell, Harry Green
Votes: 238
43. Tampico (1944)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During World War II, a female survivor of a German U-boat attack marries the skipper of the American merchant ship that saved her but is suspected of being a spy who sends secret data about Allied ship movements to the Germans.
Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Robert Bailey
Votes: 298
44. You Can't Have Everything (1937)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals George Macrae over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger
Votes: 276
45. The Night Is Young (1935)
Passed | 81 min | Romance, Musical, Drama
Austrian Emperor Franz Josef has arranged a marriage for his nephew, the Archduke Paul Gustave - nicknamed Gustl - to the suitable Princess Matilda, a woman Gustl can't even remember. He is... See full summary »
Director: Dudley Murphy | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Evelyn Laye, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel
Votes: 284
46. Bomber's Moon (1943)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, War
An American bomber pilot, who sees his brother machine-gunned to death, escapes a concentration camp with a beautiful Russian doctor, and exacts his revenge by shooting down a mysterious German flight mission led by his brother's killer.
Directors: Edward Ludwig, Harold D. Schuster, John Brahm | Stars: George Montgomery, Annabella, Kent Taylor, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 87
47. The Spy (1931)
68 min | Drama
Director: Berthold Viertel | Stars: Kay Johnson, Neil Hamilton, John Halliday, Milton Holmes
Votes: 16
48. Have a Heart (1934)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Sally sits by her window earning money for an operation so she can be a dance teacher again. Jimmie is an ice cream salesman hoping to advance. Their romance is sidetracked when she uses her savings to help him out of a fix.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Jean Parker, James Dunn, Una Merkel, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 166
49. Sailor Beware (1952)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Although allergic to kissing girls, Seaman Melvin Jones, through a fluke TV appearance, gets the undeserved reputation of a great kisser dubbed "Mr. Temptation" and is pursued by amorous young females.
Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Corinne Calvet, Marion Marshall
Votes: 1,386
50. Petticoat Fever (1936)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
A lonesome wireless operator delays a couple who become stranded in Labrador.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, Reginald Owen, Winifred Shotter
Votes: 527