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1. Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

Passed | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey

Votes: 3,550

2. 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: 3,385

3. 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: 782

4. 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: 693

5. When Were You Born? (1938)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir

Mei Lee Ling, an astrology expert, tells one of her fellow passengers on a ship, that he will die within two days and the next day he is dead. The police suspects that Mei does know ... See full summary »

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Margaret Lindsay, Anna May Wong, Lola Lane, Anthony Averill

Votes: 423

6. Kid Galahad (1937)

Passed | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris

Votes: 3,934

7. The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Three play-authors, Horace Dryden, Nick Milburn and "Babe" Lawton, are in an apartment seeking a plot for a new play. They are still on Page 1 when an intoxicated man wanders into their ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Lew Ayres, Ruth Coleman, Eugene Pallette, Benny Baker

Votes: 98

8. The Plainsman (1936)

Passed | 113 min | Drama, Western

Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody attempt to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford

Votes: 2,430

9. 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

10. Speed (1936)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance

With the help of his mechanic buddy, an engineer, and the company's attractive new publicist, an automotive test driver struggles to develop a new carburetor by entering cars in the Indy 500 and speed trials at California's Muroc Dry Lake.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: James Stewart, Wendy Barrie, Una Merkel, Weldon Heyburn

Votes: 642

11. 15 Maiden Lane (1936)

Approved | 65 min | Mystery

Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Claire Trevor, Cesar Romero, Douglas Fowley, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 77

12. Break of Hearts (1935)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Romance

Franz Roberti is a famous orchestra conductor who has a number of girlfriends. While talking with his old music teacher, Professor Thalma, he meets Constance, an aspiring music composer. ... See full summary »

Director: Philip Moeller | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, John Beal, Jean Hersholt

Votes: 669

13. We're in the Money (1935)

Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

Two gold-digging process servers are tasked with subpoenaing one's boyfriend, who has been using a pseudonym to avoid breach-of-promise servings and suits.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Ross Alexander

Votes: 518

14. Thanks a Million (1935)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Entertainers enter a political rally to get out of the rain and become part of the show. One of them (Powell) gives a speech in place of the besotted candidate (Walburn) and is chosen to be... See full summary »

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, Fred Allen, Patsy Kelly

Votes: 272

15. The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)

Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Crime

After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her ... See full summary »

Directors: Ralph Murphy, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Gertrude Michael, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Byron, Alison Skipworth

Votes: 90

16. Girl in Danger (1934)

Passed | 57 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Arthur Hohl, Charles Sabin

Votes: 51

17. 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: 9,149 | Gross: $4.80M

18. The House on 56th Street (1933)

Passed | 68 min | Drama, History

Peggy Martin chooses to marry young, wealthy Monty, who she loves. They have a child together and an amazing relationship...until Peggy visits her ailing ex-boyfriend, Fiske, who threatens to commit suicide if she won't take him back.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond, John Halliday

Votes: 737

19. Scarface (1932)

PG | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.

Directors: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | Stars: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins

Votes: 30,330

20. Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 16,205 | Gross: $1.04M

21. One Way Passage (1932)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Frank McHugh, Aline MacMahon

Votes: 4,448

22. The Death Kiss (1932)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Murder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Adrienne Ames, John Wray

Votes: 1,418

23. The Passionate Plumber (1932)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy

To make her lover jealous, a beautiful socialite passes off a bumbling plumber as her paramour.

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Polly Moran, Irene Purcell

Votes: 554

24. Westward Passage (1932)

Passed | 73 min | Drama, Romance

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.

Director: Robert Milton | Stars: Ann Harding, Laurence Olivier, Zasu Pitts, Irving Pichel

Votes: 368

25. City Lights (1931)

G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers

Votes: 196,152 | Gross: $0.02M

26. Five and Ten (1931)

Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance

After her businessman father moves her family from Kansas City to New York, a woman falls in love with an engaged man.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marion Davies, Leslie Howard, Richard Bennett, Irene Rich

Votes: 1,443

27. Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)

Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Romance

A plain secretary works for a womanizing divorce lawyer who only dates married women. To avoid having to deal with the matrimonial pursuits of any of his potential romances, he offers her financial support if she marries him in name only.

Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Constance Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna, Basil Rathbone, Rita La Roy

Votes: 759

28. Delicious and Refreshing (1929)

Comedy, Short

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Director: Francis Martin | Stars: Adrienne Dore, Tania Akron, Eva Thatcher, Al Thompson

29. The Jazz Singer (1927)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Music, Musical

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer

Votes: 11,080 | Gross: $7.63M

30. The King of Kings (1927)

Not Rated | 160 min | Biography, Drama, Family

Jesus Christ faces religious and political oppression during his ministry and in the days before his death and resurrection.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut

Votes: 2,418 | Gross: $1.77M

31. Orchids and Ermine (1927)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance

A telephone operator at an opulent hotel falls in love with a young man who turns out to be a rich oil millionaire.

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Colleen Moore, Jack Mulhall, Sam Hardy, Gwen Lee

Votes: 182

32. Women's Wares (1927)

60 min | Romance, Drama

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Director: Arthur Gregor | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Bert Lytell, Larry Kent, Gertrude Short

Votes: 12

33. The Pinnacle Rider (1926)

Short, Western

A ranch owner who has inherited his property and consequently fled the walled cities and his relatives has his seclusion invaded by an aunt, her son and the supposed fiancée of the latter, ... See full summary »

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Jack Mower, Velma Connor, Billy Engle, Al Hart

Votes: 21

34. Madame Behave (1925)

Passed | 55 min | Comedy, Romance

A cross-dressing farce, adapted from "Madame Lucy" by Jean Arlette, in which to help a friend in a lawsuit, Jack Mitchell disguises himself as the mysterious "Madame Brown," a missing ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Sidney | Stars: Julian Eltinge, Ann Pennington, Lionel Belmore, David James

Votes: 39

35. Captain Fearless (1925)

Adventure

The story of a devil-may-care, reckless youth who, better than anything else, loved a good fight. And when he meets "the" girl in Old Mexico, it is a fight for love.

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Reginald Denny, Julanne Johnston, Harry Tighe, Claire de Lorez

Votes: 9

36. Keep Smiling (1925)

60 min | Comedy

The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life preserver that automatically inflates when it hits the water, using it to save the life of ... See full summary »

Directors: Albert Austin, Gilbert Pratt | Stars: Monty Banks, Robert Edeson, Anne Cornwall, Stanhope Wheatcroft

37. Ridin' Pretty (1925)

50 min | Comedy, Western

Sky Parker, an Arizona cowboy, inherits a fortune from his eccentric uncle in San Francisco; under the terms of the will, however, he must live in his uncle's mansion for a year before ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: William Desmond, Ann Forrest, Stanhope Wheatcroft, Billy Sullivan

38. The Iron Horse (1924)

Passed | 150 min | Drama, History, Romance

After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.

Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull, Cyril Chadwick

Votes: 2,446 | Gross: $2.06M

39. Laughing at Danger (1924)

60 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

When he is jilted, Alan Remington, the son of a wealthy Washington politician, falls into a state of deep depression. On the advice of Professor Hollister, from whom he is purchasing a ... See full summary »

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Richard Talmadge, Joseph W. Girard, Joseph Harrington, Eva Novak

Votes: 49

40. Pal o' Mine (1924)

Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance

Opera singer Julia Montfort (Irene Rich) returns to the stage when her husband, Verdugo Montford (Josef Swickard) loses his job...and then gives him work secretly paid for by herself. When ... See full summary »

Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Irene Rich, Josef Swickard, Willard Louis, Alan Roscoe

Votes: 17

41. The Yankee Consul (1924)

60 min | Comedy

Last-minute confusion forces travel agent Dudley Ainsworth to pose as Abijah Boos, American consul to a South American country. On a passenger ship bound for Rio, he meets Margarita Carrosa... See full summary »

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Arthur Stuart Hull, Douglas MacLean, Patsy Ruth Miller, Stanhope Wheatcroft

42. Broadway or Bust (1924)

60 min | Comedy, Romance

Virginia Redding inherits a fortune and goes to New York, leaving behind her suitor Dave, a rancher. Good fortune strikes Dave when radium deposits are discovered on his ranch, and he and ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Ruth Dwyer, King Zany, Gertrude Astor

43. No More Women (1924)

68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Peggy Van Dyke, the daughter of an oil millionaire, meets geologist Paul Maddox, a confirmed bachelor since he found out that his fiancée, Daisy Crenshaw, is unpredictable. Peggy and her ... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Matt Moore, Madge Bellamy, Kathleen Clifford, Clarence Burton

44. The Bull Tosser (1924)

Short, Comedy, Western

Pete is a cowboy who is always telling highly colored and altogether improbable stories of his exploits, but when called upon to prove his ability falls down hard. He is a "natural-born" ... See full summary »

Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Pete Morrison, Elinor Field, William McCall, Frances Martinson

45. When Knights Were Cold (1923)

20 min | Short, Comedy

Though only the second half survives, here's a synopsis of what's left: Stan is a Robin Hood-type character in a medieval walled town. He's chased by an army of knights, but both he and his... See full summary »

Director: Frank Fouce | Stars: Stan Laurel, Mae Laurel, Catherine Bennett, Scotty MacGregor

Votes: 52

46. Blow Your Own Horn (1923)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

Jack Dunbar, needing a job, meets millionaire Nicholas Small, who gives him advice and presents him as a colleague. Small would like his daughter, Anne, to marry inventor Gillen Jolyon. ... See full summary »

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Warner Baxter, Ralph Lewis, Derelys Perdue, Eugene Acker

47. Breaking Into Society (1923)

50 min | Comedy

The O'Tooles inherit a fortune and move to Pasadena where they try to break into society by having lavish dinner parties. The guests are stunned by the O'Tooles' manners, and they leave ... See full summary »

Director: Hunt Stromberg | Stars: Carrie Clark Ward, Bull Montana, Kalla Pasha, Francis Trebaol

48. Blood and Sand (1922)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

A toreador's (Rudolph Valentino) familial and social life is threatened when he has an affair.

Directors: Fred Niblo, Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Rosa Rosanova, Leo White, Rosita Marstini

Votes: 1,535 | Gross: $2.73M

49. A Ladies Man (1922)

Comedy, Short

An aristocratic society couple adopt a foundling of unknown parentage. At the age of ten, however, the unknown foundling heard the call of worldly adventure and ran away from the luxurious ... See full summary »

Directors: Charles Reisner, Malcolm St. Clair, Hunt Stromberg | Stars: Bull Montana, Charles Hill Mailes, Claire McDowell, Myrtle Lind

50. The Hottentot (1922)

60 min | Comedy

A young man happens to have the same name as a famous steeplechase jockey, and when he finds out that people keep mistaking him for the jockey (although he's never been on a horse in his ... See full summary »

Directors: James W. Horne, Del Andrews | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Madge Bellamy, Lila Leslie, Martin Best

Gross: $0.27M