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1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
PG | 130 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 498,974
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: 112,222 | Gross: $4.36M
3. The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Passed | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Gladys George
Votes: 15,510
4. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Votes: 23,197
5. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander
Votes: 23,209
6. Shadows of Sing Sing (1933)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Muriel Rossi (Mary Brian), the sister of a racketeer, Al Rossi (Harry Woods), falls in love with Bob Martel (Bruce Cabot), the son of a police detective, Joe Martel (Grant Mitchell). Their ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Mary Brian, Bruce Cabot, Grant Mitchell, Harry Woods
Votes: 9
7. Men of the Night (1934)
Passed | 58 min | Drama
"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he expects to get some information concerning Packey Davis, head of a ring of jewel thieves. ... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Judith Allen, Charles Sabin, Ward Bond
Votes: 11
8. Scarlet Street (1945)
Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 19,165
9. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler
Votes: 9,140 | Gross: $4.80M
10. Fighting Thoroughbreds (1939)
63 min | Drama, Sport
A prize-winning stallion breeds off-guard with a mare owned by his rival. The colt is trained to race from birth, eventually running in the Kentucky Derby against another horse owned by its sire.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Mary Carlisle, Robert Allen, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 12
11. Meet John Doe (1941)
Passed | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan
Votes: 14,898
12. Gentleman Jim (1942)
Approved | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert, Jim Corbett, uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale
Votes: 4,112
13. Crime on Their Hands (1948)
18 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
The stooges are janitors working in a newspaper office. When an anonymous caller phones in a tip about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to become reporters and go after the ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Kenneth MacDonald
Votes: 463
14. The Secret Code (1942)
Approved | 275 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A police detective goes undercover and joins a gang of Nazi agents using explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort, whom he battles in disguise as The Black Commando.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Paul Kelly, Anne Nagel, Trevor Bardette, Rudolph Anders
Votes: 74
15. Footlight Parade (1933)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell
Votes: 6,088 | Gross: $3.49M
16. Woman-Wise (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Crooks use prizefights as setups and local sports editor (Whalen) is out to stop them.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Michael Whalen, Thomas Beck, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 17
17. This Gun for Hire (1942)
Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar
Votes: 10,616
18. Show Boat (1936)
Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson
Votes: 3,691
19. Heroes for Sale (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance, War
A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Loretta Young, Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, Gordon Westcott
Votes: 2,516
20. Lucky Boy (1929)
77 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of. He comes ... See full summary »
Directors: Norman Taurog, Charles C. Wilson | Stars: George Jessel, Gwen Lee, Richard Tucker, Gayne Whitman
Votes: 115
21. They Drive by Night (1940)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino
Votes: 8,815
22. You Only Live Once (1937)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Votes: 7,646
23. City for Conquest (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Sport
Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.
Directors: Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco | Stars: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp
Votes: 2,710
24. Pardon Our Nerve (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
City girls have dating-service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part, and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Lynn Bari, June Gale, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Michael Whalen
Votes: 15
25. All Through the Night (1942)
Approved | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Karen Verne, Jane Darwell
Votes: 4,927
26. Road to Utopia (1945)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Two vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.
Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke
Votes: 3,753
27. The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A disfigured watch-maker with a grudge against society embarks on a life of crime.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes, Don Beddoe, George E. Stone
Votes: 1,875
28. The Little Colonel (1935)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
In the post-Civil war south, a darling little girl attempts to restore the peace between her parents and her plantation owner grandfather.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge
Votes: 1,885
29. Show Them No Mercy! (1935)
Approved | 76 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The title refers to the government's plan at the time for putting an end to a lucrative racket, kidnapping. When Hudson and Norris enter a country house to get out of the rain it turns out to be a kidnapper hideout.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot, Edward Norris
Votes: 177
30. 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: 47
31. The Chicago Kid (1945)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Joe Ferrill is trying to get enough money so that when his father gets out of prison, he can live comfortably, but before that happens his father dies in prison. Angry at the world, Joe ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Otto Kruger, Tom Powers, Lynne Roberts
Votes: 19
32. Here I Am a Stranger (1939)
Approved | 82 min | Drama
Young Englishman (Greene) meets his real father (Dix) in America, a former alcoholic. They both grow in getting know one another.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Richard Greene, Richard Dix, Brenda Joyce, Roland Young
Votes: 63
33. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter
Votes: 6,862
34. The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 4,077
35. The Mayor of Hell (1933)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former ... See full summary »
Directors: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 1,842
36. The Glass Key (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Ed Beaumont is the personal friend, advisor and bodyguard to Paul Madvig, the political boss of a large city. When a mysterious murder is committed---the son of a Madvig political opponent-... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: George Raft, Claire Dodd, Edward Arnold, Rosalind Keith
Votes: 521
37. Little Orphan Annie (1938)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Holmes | Stars: Ann Gillis, Robert Kent, June Travis, J. Farrell MacDonald
Votes: 60
38. Princess O'Hara (1935)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Drama
King, the driver of a horse-drawn hansom cab, is killed in a turf war between Vic Toledo's cab company and his competitors. Vic sends his goons to get King's daughter Princess a new horse but they steal a prized racing horse.
Director: David Burton | Stars: Jean Parker, Chester Morris, Leon Errol, Vince Barnett
Votes: 37
39. Hitch Hike Lady (1935)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama
In this touching tale, an elderly British woman saves up enough money to visit her son in the U.S. She believes that he is doing well, but he is actually a prisoner in San Quentin.
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Alison Skipworth, Mae Clarke, Arthur Treacher, James Ellison
Votes: 133
40. Infernal Machine (1933)
65 min | Drama
A bomb is hidden on an ocean liner, but nobody on board is aware of its presence.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Chester Morris, Genevieve Tobin, Victor Jory, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 16
41. Disgraced (1933)
66 min | Mystery, Romance
In the course of her work, a model meets her future husband, but her bliss is tainted when she becomes involved in a murder.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Bruce Cabot, Adrienne Ames, William Harrigan
Votes: 88
42. Woman in Distress (1937)
Approved | 58 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A painting in the possession of an old lady, Phoebe Tuttle, is rumored to be a genuine Rembrandt, and Fred Stevens, ace reporter of the "Dispatch" newspaper, is sent to cover the story. The... See full summary »
Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: May Robson, Irene Hervey, Dean Jagger, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 32
43. Out of the Fog (1941)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell, Eddie Albert
Votes: 2,263
44. The Gilded Lily (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
A stenographer becomes a famed entertainer and is courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 792
45. Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to a long prison term. ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Melvyn Douglas, Alan Baxter, Pert Kelton
Votes: 313
46. The Spider's Web (1938)
Passed | 300 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A crime fighter known as The Spider battles a villain called The Octopus, who is out to sabotage America and install his own government.
Directors: James W. Horne, Ray Taylor | Stars: Warren Hull, Iris Meredith, Richard Fiske, Kenne Duncan
Votes: 167
47. Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
Passed | 65 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1931, Captain Steven Warren, the chief investigator for the Chicago District Attorney's office, tries to arrest the henchmen of notorious gangster and bootlegger Roger Touhy for a series... See full synopsis »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Preston Foster, Victor McLaglen, Lois Andrews, Kent Taylor
Votes: 75
48. Four Hours to Kill! (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses ... See full summary »
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Gertrude Michael, Helen Mack
Votes: 209
49. Hey, Rookie (1944)
Approved | 77 min | Music, Romance, War
Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show. Winnie Clark appears in... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Ann Miller, Joe Besser, Larry Parks, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 40
50. Two Señoritas from Chicago (1943)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Daisy Baker, a Chicago refuse collector who fancies herself as a theatrical agent, finds a play which had been thrown away by two Portuguese playwrights. Without bothering to get permission... See full summary »
Director: Frank Woodruff | Stars: Joan Davis, Jinx Falkenburg, Ann Savage, Leslie Brooks
Votes: 37