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1. The Lost City of X (2022)

3 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy

A team of academics fly to South America in search of ancient ruins only to find disaster.

Director: Sam Vanivray | Stars: Rouhia Bey, J. Edward Bromberg, Patricia Morison, Sam Vanivray

2. Guilty Bystander (1950)

Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.

Director: Joseph Lerner | Stars: Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Mary Boland, Sam Levene

Votes: 1,080

3. Come Out Fighting (1950 TV Movie)

30 min | Drama

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Stars: Lee Tracy, J. Edward Bromberg, Richard Boone, Johnny Britenbruck

Votes: 10

4. I Shot Jesse James (1949)

Passed | 81 min | Western

Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self-disgust.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland, Reed Hadley

Votes: 2,505

5. Your Show Time (1949)

30 min | Drama

Filmed dramas of famous literary short stories by authors such as Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, etc.

Stars: Arthur Shields, Leif Erickson, Selena Royle, Maria Palmer

Votes: 32

6. Your Show Time (1949)
Episode: The Mummy's Foot (1949)

Drama

Peter Renault (Herbert Anderson) is a young playwright who literally gets wrapped up in his story of ancient Egyptian times.

Stars: Arthur Shields, Herbert Anderson, J. Edward Bromberg, Phyllis Coates

Votes: 10

7. A Song Is Born (1948)

Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Music, Musical

With her gangster boyfriend under investigation by the police, a nightclub singer hides out in a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors - one of whom begins to fall for her.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey

Votes: 2,800

8. Arch of Triumph (1948)

Approved | 120 min | Drama, Romance, War

Illegal refugees lead dark lives in pre-World War II Paris.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, Louis Calhern

Votes: 1,921 | Gross: $1.40M

9. Cloak and Dagger (1946)

Passed | 106 min | Adventure, Film-Noir, Romance

In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer, Vladimir Sokoloff

Votes: 3,448

10. Tangier (1946)

Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Drama

A war-weary newsman (Robert Paige) joins a Spanish dancer (Maria Montez) hunting down a Nazi puppet in North Africa.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: Maria Montez, Robert Paige, Sabu, Preston Foster

Votes: 217

11. Queen of the Amazons (1946)

Approved | 61 min | Adventure

A woman's husband has disappeared on an expedition into the jungle. She hires a guide to take her into the jungle to find him. However, they discover that he has been captured by a savage female tribe.

Director: Edward Finney | Stars: Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison, J. Edward Bromberg, John Miljan

Votes: 881

12. The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)

Approved | 82 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

Gilbert Archer, a Broadway gossip columnist for a newspaper, learns that his best friend, a priest, has been murdered and one of the suspects is a pretty girl, Patricia Foster. In one of ... See full summary »

Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: Lee Bowman, Marguerite Chapman, Edgar Buchanan, George Macready

Votes: 104

13. Salome, Where She Danced (1945)

Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Music

A famous Viennese ballerina flees Europe during the Austro-Prussian War and falls in love with an American bandit who looks like her deceased royal lover.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, David Bruce, Walter Slezak

Votes: 373

14. The Missing Corpse (1945)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Mystery

A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse planted in the trunk of Kruger's car.

Director: Albert Herman | Stars: J. Edward Bromberg, Isabel Randolph, Frank Jenks, Eric Sinclair

Votes: 271

15. Pillow of Death (1945)

Passed | 66 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Horror

An unfaithful attorney is suspected of murdering his wife.

Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Brenda Joyce, J. Edward Bromberg, Rosalind Ivan

Votes: 794

16. Easy to Look At (1945)

Approved | 65 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Upon arriving in New York City, 19-year-old Judith Dawson, who hopes to gain fame and fortune as a costume designer, goes to the design house of Tylers, Ltd. looking for a job. After ... See full synopsis »

Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Gloria Jean, Kirby Grant, J. Edward Bromberg, Eric Blore

Votes: 18

17. Chip Off the Old Block (1944)

Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, Ann Blyth, Helen Vinson

Votes: 75

18. Voice in the Wind (1944)

Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A concert pianist has lost his memory, the result of his being arrested and tortured by the Germans during the war for playing a banned song. He journeys to the island of Guadelupe to try to regain his memory and his health.

Director: Arthur Ripley | Stars: Francis Lederer, Sigrid Gurie, J. Edward Bromberg, J. Carrol Naish

Votes: 280

19. Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Music

An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy's career.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier

Votes: 8,324 | Gross: $3.49M

20. Lady of Burlesque (1943)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before he strikes again.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea, J. Edward Bromberg, Iris Adrian

Votes: 2,783

21. Son of Dracula (1943)

Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Evelyn Ankers

Votes: 6,206

22. Invisible Agent (1942)

Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre, Cedric Hardwicke

Votes: 2,660

23. Reunion in France (1942)

Passed | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War

In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen

Votes: 1,891

24. Tennessee Johnson (1942)

Passed | 103 min | Biography, Drama

Biography of Andrew Johnson, who followed Abraham Lincoln into office and became the first President of the United States ever to be impeached.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Hussey, Marjorie Main

Votes: 673

25. Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world... See full summary »

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Monty Woolley, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Sara Allgood

Votes: 252 | Gross: $0.20M

26. Halfway to Shanghai (1942)

Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Mystery

A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey, Henry Stephenson, J. Edward Bromberg

Votes: 75

27. Dance Hall (1941)

72 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Carole Landis, Cesar Romero, William Henry, June Storey

Votes: 74

28. Pacific Blackout (1941)

Passed | 76 min | Mystery

While bombers roar overhead during a practice blackout in a large American West coast city, Robert Draper, is among the prisoners in a police van. The inventor of a new range finder for ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Robert Preston, Martha O'Driscoll, Philip Merivale, Eva Gabor

Votes: 78

29. The Devil Pays Off (1941)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, War

Chris Waring (William Wright) is a government investigator trying to gather the necessary evidence to convict a shipping magnate, DeBrock (J.Edward Bromberg), of selling his ships to the ... See full summary »

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: J. Edward Bromberg, Osa Massen, William Wright, Margaret Tallichet

Votes: 93

30. Hurricane Smith (1941)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new and happy life for himself. But one of the real criminals shows up to claim the loot ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Ray Middleton, Jane Wyatt, Harry Davenport, J. Edward Bromberg

Votes: 42

31. The Mark of Zorro (1940)

Approved | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Family

A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard

Votes: 10,992 | Gross: $4.36M

32. The Return of Frank James (1940)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Western

Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull

Votes: 3,687

33. Strange Cargo (1940)

Passed | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure (Ian Hunter).

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre

Votes: 2,975

34. Jesse James (1939)

GP | 106 min | Western

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Directors: Henry King, Irving Cummings | Stars: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott

Votes: 4,950

35. Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Romance

Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops, her husband - encouraged by an amorous professional singer - tries opera and also flops.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, Binnie Barnes, Cesar Romero

Votes: 250

36. Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, History

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

Directors: Irving Cummings, Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis

Votes: 455

37. Three Sons (1939)

Approved | 72 min | Drama

A poor merchant grows a highly successful department store in Chicago with the purpose of providing for his four children's future. He is misguided in thinking that giving them everything ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Edward Ellis, William Gargan, Kent Taylor, J. Edward Bromberg

Votes: 114

38. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly sets it up for her to become a radio broadcaster.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart

Votes: 1,928

39. The Baroness and the Butler (1938)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: William Powell, Annabella, Helen Westley, Henry Stephenson

Votes: 694

40. I'll Give a Million (1938)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million francs to anyone who is kind to a tramp.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Warner Baxter, Marjorie Weaver, Peter Lorre, Jean Hersholt

Votes: 254

41. Four Men and a Prayer (1938)

Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Mystery

The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Loretta Young, Richard Greene, George Sanders, David Niven

Votes: 879

42. Suez (1938)

Passed | 104 min | Drama, Romance

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg

Votes: 913

43. Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Manicurists Sally, Irene, and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. After Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Alice Faye, Tony Martin, Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante

Votes: 133

44. Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938)

Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent, J. Edward Bromberg

Votes: 802

45. One Wild Night (1938)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime

When four men disappear after withdrawing large sums from the same bank, crime student and son of the police chief (Baldwin) and newspaper reporter (Lang) try to uncover a possible extortion ring.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: June Lang, Dick Baldwin, Lyle Talbot, J. Edward Bromberg

Votes: 53

46. Seventh Heaven (1937)

Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance

A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, then marches away to war.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff

Votes: 1,055

47. Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Mystery

Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to ensure her silence.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Joan Marsh, J. Edward Bromberg

Votes: 1,599

48. Second Honeymoon (1937)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Romance

Newly remarried woman finds her businessman husband boring and runs into her wealthy playboy first husband.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Stuart Erwin, Claire Trevor

Votes: 508

49. Fair Warning (1937)

Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

In California's Death Valley, a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: J. Edward Bromberg, Betty Furness, John Payne, Victor Kilian

Votes: 85

50. That I May Live (1937)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent, J. Edward Bromberg, Jack La Rue

Votes: 26