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1. The Night of January 16th (1941)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The story revolves around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner, who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane, his secretary who also has a ... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Robert Preston, Ellen Drew, Nils Asther, Clarence Kolb
Votes: 148
2. 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: 3,686
3. Lillian Russell (1940)
Passed | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by bandleader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold
Votes: 580
4. Young People (1940)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Musical
A show-business family leaves the Great White Way and heads for a farm in New England. What results is the difficulties they have before they are accepted by the community.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie, Charlotte Greenwood, Arleen Whelan
Votes: 466
5. Golden Gloves (1940)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Bill Crane, an up and coming honest boxer, runs afoul of Taggerty and his fellow racketeers by fighting fair. They set out to ruin Crane but with the support of his girl Mary and newspaperman Matson the pugilist stands up to the mob.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Richard Denning, Jeanne Cagney, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Paige
Votes: 66
6. Dancing on a Dime (1940)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
From Wikipedia Dancing on a Dime is a 1940 Paramount Pictures movie directed by Joseph Santley about five actors and dancers putting on a show while living in a theatre. It is adapted from ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Grace McDonald, Robert Paige, Virginia Dale, Peter Lind Hayes
Votes: 40
7. Emergency Squad (1940)
Approved | 58 min | Drama
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: William Henry, Louise Campbell, Richard Denning, Robert Paige
Votes: 51
8. Opened by Mistake (1940)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Janice Logan, Robert Paige, William Frawley
Votes: 19
9. Union Pacific (1939)
Passed | 135 min | Drama, Western
In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston
Votes: 3,381
10. The Star Maker (1939)
Approved | 94 min | Biography, Comedy, Music
This is a film based on the life of Gus Edwards, a well-known vaudeville composer, entertainer and producer.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Bing Crosby, Louise Campbell, Linda Ware, Ned Sparks
Votes: 115
11. Second Fiddle (1939)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A studio publicist discovers a Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee, Edna May Oliver
Votes: 542
12. Broadway Serenade (1939)
Passed | 114 min | Drama
Mary Hale, a singer, and Jimmy Seymour, a pianist/composer, are a showbiz couple working in The Big Apple in small nightclubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Broadway producer Larry Bryant... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Lew Ayres, Ian Hunter, Frank Morgan
Votes: 286
13. Disbarred (1939)
Approved | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears that he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to be without an income and ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Gail Patrick, Robert Preston, Otto Kruger, Sidney Toler
Votes: 55
14. Unmarried (1939)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When his manager, Pins Streaver, is killed attempting to rob a safe after losing all his money betting on a fight, third-rate fighter Slag Bailey leaves New York to investigate Streaver's ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Buck Jones, Donald O'Connor, John Hartley
Votes: 72
15. The Arizona Wildcat (1939)
Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Western
In 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbery.
Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Jane Withers, Leo Carrillo, Pauline Moore, William Henry
Votes: 34
16. Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Approved | 106 min | Drama, Music, Musical
This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman
Votes: 2,320
17. The Buccaneer (1938)
Approved | 126 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Semi-fictional account of pirate Jean Lafitte's involvement in the War of 1812.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame
Votes: 780
18. Sweethearts (1938)
Passed | 114 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Votes: 705
19. The Arkansas Traveler (1938)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A folksy drifter (Bob Burns) helps an old friend's widow (Fay Bainter) and daughter (Jean Parker) save their newspaper.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Bob Burns, Fay Bainter, John Beal, Jean Parker
Votes: 75
20. Love Is News (1937)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
A financier's daughter spars with a newspaper reporter: he by writing about her, she by announcing their engagement.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Slim Summerville
Votes: 935
21. Wells Fargo (1937)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, History, Western
The life and career of a Wells Fargo official frames this fictionalized account of the express company's formation.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Joel McCrea, Bob Burns, Frances Dee, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 640
22. Wild Money (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Drama
Newspaper reporter Perry Brown is infatuated with fellow reporter Judy McGowan, but although she flirts with him, she is not romantically inclined toward him. The staff accountant, P. E. ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Louise Campbell, Lynne Overman, Lucien Littlefield
Votes: 31
23. Love and Hisses (1937)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Music
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Simone Simon, Bert Lahr
Votes: 52
24. Sophie Lang Goes West (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California, and is hiding in the train-compartment... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Gertrude Michael, Lee Bowman, Sandra Storme, Buster Crabbe
Votes: 18
25. Time Out for Romance (1937)
72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A girl (Trevor) escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man (Whalen) in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen, Joan Davis, Chick Chandler
Votes: 79
26. Dimples (1936)
Passed | 79 min | Family, Musical
Dimples Appleby lives with the pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is performed.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan, Robert Kent, Helen Westley
Votes: 972
27. The Milky Way (1936)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Family, Sport
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and ... See full summary »
Directors: Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey, Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale, Helen Mack
Votes: 1,843 | Gross: $1.17M
28. Wives Never Know (1936)
75 min | Comedy
J. Hugh Ramsey, author of "Marriage, the Living Death" decides that the marriage of his friends The Bigelows cannot possibly be as perfect as it appears.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Adolphe Menjou, Vivienne Osborne
Votes: 60
29. A Son Comes Home (1936)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
The heart-stirring story of a mother, Mary Grady (Mary Boland), forced to choose between saving the life of a falsely-accused innocent boy while, if she does, she will be sending her own son to his death.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Mary Boland, Julie Haydon, Donald Woods, Wallace Ford
Votes: 17
30. Reunion (1936)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
The Chamber of Commerce brings together the Dionne quintuplets and other people Dr. John Luke delivered. He hands out wisdom and advice to all.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Jean Hersholt, The Dionne Quintuplets, Cecile Dionne, Yvonne Dionne
Votes: 29
31. Till We Meet Again (1936)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Romance, War
In August 1914 London, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan to marry immediately. But the War comes ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Michael, Lionel Atwill, Rod La Rocque
Votes: 70
32. Walking on Air (1936)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A stubborn young woman hires a struggling singer to play her obnoxious suitor in a scheme to overturn her father's objections to the man she really wants to marry.
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Jessie Ralph, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 281
33. The Return of Sophie Lang (1936)
Approved | 65 min | Drama
In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a job as a companion to a wealthy old lady ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gertrude Michael, Guy Standing, Ray Milland, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 68
34. Hideaway Girl (1936)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Crime
As a woman in a wedding gown flees town in a stolen car, Detective Dixon learns that Count de Montaigne's gift to his bride, a valuable necklace, was stolen from his wedding reception. ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Shirley Ross, Robert Cummings, Martha Raye, Monroe Owsley
Votes: 29
35. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson
Votes: 53,238 | Gross: $4.36M
36. 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
37. Wings in the Dark (1935)
Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Romance
In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback doesn't deter him from his goal.
Director: James Flood | Stars: Myrna Loy, Cary Grant, Roscoe Karns, Hobart Cavanaugh
Votes: 717
38. She Married Her Boss (1935)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, History, Mystery
An efficient secretary at a department store marries her boss, but discovers that taking care of him at home is a lot different to taking care of him at work.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Michael Bartlett, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 721
39. The Bride Comes Home (1935)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Robert Young, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 259
40. The Best Man Wins (1935)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost ... See full summary »
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Jack Holt, Bela Lugosi, Florence Rice
Votes: 84
41. 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
42. Two Fisted (1935)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Lee Tracy, Roscoe Karns, Gail Patrick, Kent Taylor
Votes: 46
43. Men Without Names (1935)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama
This story about the U.S. Department of Justice and its agents begins with a daring mail-truck robbery by a ruthless gang that flees to the western U.S. after the robbery. When money from ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Madge Evans, David Holt, Lynne Overman
Votes: 62
44. The Flame Within (1935)
72 min | Drama, Romance
Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Ann Harding, Herbert Marshall, Maureen O'Sullivan, Louis Hayward
Votes: 273
45. Two for Tonight (1935)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Bing Crosby, Joan Bennett, Lynne Overman, Mary Boland
Votes: 82
46. The Merry Widow (1934)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Marcel Vallée
Votes: 3,257
47. Romance in Manhattan (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Rejected as an immigrant because he doesn't have the required $200, a Czech immigrant jumps ship and is befriended by a chorus girl and becomes a taxi driver.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Arthur Hohl, Jimmy Butler
Votes: 827
48. Menace (I) (1934)
Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Menace is a very fast-paced dark house murder mystery with a plot centering around three people who are targeted for death because of their alleged guilt in the tragic death of a psychopath's brother.
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Gertrude Michael, Paul Cavanagh, Henrietta Crosman, John Lodge
Votes: 78
49. Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Walter Connolly, Robert Young, Doris Kenyon, Macon Jones
Votes: 101
50. Madame Spy (1934)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak, he vows revenge on his wife.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Fay Wray, Nils Asther, Edward Arnold, John Miljan
Votes: 36