1938
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1. Bank Holiday (1938)
86 min | Comedy, Drama
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the sea-side. Doreen Richards under the name Miss Fulham is off with friend Milly to a beauty ... See full summary »
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: John Lodge, Margaret Lockwood, Hugh Williams, Rene Ray
Votes: 548
2. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Not Rated | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller
While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty
Votes: 57,172
3. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett
Votes: 66,106
4. You and Me (1938)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, Film-Noir
An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey
Votes: 1,632
5. Holiday (1938)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
A young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres
Votes: 18,253
6. Anma to onna (1938)
66 min | Drama
Two blind masseurs travel to a mountain retreat. One of them falls for a visiting lady from Tokyo and investigates a series of thefts.
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu | Stars: Mieko Takamine, Shin Tokudaiji, Shin'ichi Himori, Jun Yokoyama
Votes: 814
7. Pygmalion (1938)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
Directors: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard | Stars: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr
Votes: 9,663 | Gross: $3.05M
8. Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938)
88 min | Drama
Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer assisted by Ms. Tsuruhachi on the shamisen. The pair is popular, but he nitpicks often on her music and so they split. She marries a benefactor, but after a joint show, feels music is above marriage.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Heihachirô Ôkawa
Votes: 181
9. Test Pilot (1938)
Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 2,745
10. N or NW (1938)
8 min | Comedy, Short, Romance
Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends will, but with the moral that correspondents should get the address right.
Director: Len Lye | Stars: Evelyn Corbett, Dwight Godwin
Votes: 132
11. Vivacious Lady (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A professor marries a nightclub singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 4,186
12. Port of Shadows (1938)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Brasseur
Votes: 9,964 | Gross: $0.03M
13. La Bête Humaine (1938)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama
In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux
Votes: 8,423
14. Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, History, Romance
Hydraulic Mining versus Sacramento Valley Farming.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 616
15. Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Passed | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two rival newsreel photographers join forces to find an aviatrix's missing brother, who has disappeared in the Amazon rainforest.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly
Votes: 1,679
16. The Young in Heart (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.
Directors: Richard Wallace, Lewis Milestone, Gilbert Pratt, Richard Thorpe | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Roland Young, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,618
17. Climbing High (1938)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy
Wealthy young man Nicky (Sir Michael Redgrave) pretends to be poor to be close to model Diana (Jesse Matthews) though he's nearly engaged to aristocrat Lady Constance (Margaret Vyner).
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Noel Madison, Alastair Sim
Votes: 245
18. Josette (1938)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Don Ameche, Simone Simon, Robert Young, Joan Davis
Votes: 150
19. Man-Proof (1938)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mimi has tried everything to become the bride to Alan, but he chooses Elizabeth instead. The ironic part is that Mimi's mother writes romance novels and neither one has had any luck with ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon
Votes: 679
20. Four's a Crowd (1938)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
Robert will do anything to get the big account that has eluded him. His public relations business makes public angels of rich scoundrels. Jean needs someone to save the paper and she wants Robert.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles
Votes: 1,333
21. Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery, Franchot Tone, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 515
22. The Sidewalks of London (1938)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy
Pickpocket Libby gets support from street performer Charles, and her dancing leads to her invitation to theater patron Harley's party which in turn launches Libby's stage career while Charles keeps on struggling in the streets.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Larry Adler
Votes: 1,468
23. Cocoanut Grove (1938)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Harriet Nelson, Ben Blue, Eve Arden
Votes: 90
24. 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
25. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven
Votes: 4,543
26. South Riding (1938)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
Winifred Holtby realised that local government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda, but the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Ann Todd
Votes: 184
27. I See Ice! (1938)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Musical
George plays an aspiring news photographer that gets pictures by way of a spy camera in his bow tie. Comic confusion and chases arise from his inadvertently taking blackmail-able snaps of ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: George Formby, Kay Walsh, Betty Stockfeld, Cyril Ritchard
Votes: 152
28. There's Always a Woman (1938)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
An investigator for the district attorney and his amateur-sleuth wife compete to solve a murder mystery.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor, Frances Drake
Votes: 965
29. Hold That Kiss (1938)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Romance
June Evans, clothing model, and Tommy Bradford, travel agent, both dream of being rich. When they meet at millionaire, J. Westley Piermont's daughter's wedding, they both assume each other ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Maureen O'Sullivan, Dennis O'Keefe, Mickey Rooney, George Barbier
Votes: 259
30. The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
Directors: Mitchell Leisen, James P. Hogan | Stars: W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross
Votes: 1,087
31. The Drum (1938)
Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, War
During the British Raj, Captain Carruthers works under cover to track smuggled shipments of arms on the restless Northwest Frontier of India. He fears a full-scale rebellion is brewing. To ... See full summary »
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Sabu, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Valerie Hobson
Votes: 940
32. Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
Andy has problems raising the last payment for a used car and juggling three pretty girls with an upcoming country club dance scheduled.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker
Votes: 2,056
33. Girls' School (1938)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A student monitor at a girls' school faces the scorn of her fellow pupils when she reports one of the popular girls for staying out late.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Anne Shirley, Nan Grey, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Moore
Votes: 231
34. George Takes the Air (1938)
Not Rated | 74 min | Comedy, Musical, War
A case of mistaken identity leads to accident-prone George Brown (George Formby) entering the Royal Air Force and falling in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter.
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: George Formby, Polly Ward, Jack Hobbs, Garry Marsh
Votes: 250
35. Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)
Approved | 62 min | Mystery
Mr. Moto has himself imprisoned on Devil's Island so he can help his cellmate escape and thereby get the goods on a gang of international killers.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Peter Lorre, Mary Maguire, Henry Wilcoxon, Erik Rhodes
Votes: 894
36. Four Daughters (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A musician is blessed with four musical prodigies, all girls, and cursed when a troubled young composer enters the lives of his Four Daughters.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Claude Rains, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh
Votes: 2,225
37. 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
38. Having Wonderful Time (1938)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
Bored New York office girl Teddy Shaw goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Peggy Conklin, Lucille Ball
Votes: 999
39. White Banners (1938)
Approved | 92 min | Drama
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the ... See full summary »
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville
Votes: 469
40. Nancy Drew: Detective (1938)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Bonita Granville, John Litel, James Stephenson, Frankie Thomas
Votes: 1,201
41. The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Mystery
After the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Frances Mercer
Votes: 2,827
42. Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Mystery
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Sidney Toler, Phyllis Brooks, Victor Sen Yung, Eddie Collins
Votes: 1,842
43. The Crowd Roars (1938)
Passed | 90 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 459
44. Spring Madness (1938)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Romance
In their last semester at Harvard, Sam Thatcher and his roommate, who is nicknamed "The Lippencott", have grand ideas of seeing the remote corners of the world, having booked passage on a ... See full summary »
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Maureen O'Sullivan, Lew Ayres, Ruth Hussey, Burgess Meredith
Votes: 295
45. That Certain Age (1938)
95 min | Comedy, Musical
A teenage girl clashes with her newspaper publisher father's star reporter while he stays in their country guest house, but soon finds herself falling in love with him.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich
Votes: 408
46. The Beloved Brat (1938)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Drama
Drama about a problem child and her problem parents.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Bonita Granville, Dolores Costello, Donald Crisp, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 249
47. The Duke of West Point (1938)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, Romance
An arrogant Cambridge student emigrates to America and enrolls at West Point.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Fontaine, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson
Votes: 181
48. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Passed | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis, May Robson
Votes: 2,238
49. The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama
A brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 2,982
50. Hard to Get (1938)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards (Olivia de Havilland) tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis (Dick Powell), he makes her work out her bill by making beds... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Olivia de Havilland, Charles Winninger, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 710
51. Making Fashion (1938)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Humphrey Jennings shoots Hartnell catwalk.
Director: Humphrey Jennings
Votes: 47
52. Swing It, Sailor! (1938)
Passed | 57 min | Adventure, Comedy
Husky Stone (Ray Mayer), strongest man in the Navy, and as short on brains as he is as long on muscle, has an urge to get married, as his enlistment is up. The object of his affection is ... See full summary »
Director: Raymond Cannon | Stars: Wallace Ford, Ray Mayer, Isabel Jewell, Mary Treen
Votes: 89
53. Back of the Mike (1938)
9 min | Documentary, Short
The behind the scenes of an old west radio show, it takes a look at how they do the sound effects.
Stars: Richard Alexander, Bob Kortman, Lafe McKee, John Hodiak
Votes: 17
54. Carefree (1938)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy, Luella Gear
Votes: 4,315
55. The Beachcomber (1938)
Passed | 92 min | Drama
In the Dutch islands, the sister of a pious missionary attempts to reform a womanizing, drunken beach bum.
Director: Erich Pommer | Stars: Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton, Tyrone Guthrie
Votes: 346
56. Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
Passed | 55 min | Drama, Western
After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Louise Brooks, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune
Votes: 542
57. Convicted (1938)
Approved | 58 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Police Detective Burns (Charles Quigley) is helping Jerry Wheeler (Rita Hayworth), a night-club singer, track down the killer of a gold-digger, for which crime her brother, "Chick," (Edgar ... See full summary »
Director: Leon Barsha | Stars: Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, George McKay
Votes: 182
58. Die kleine und die große Liebe (1938)
82 min | Comedy, Romance
Quick-witted stewardess falls in love with a passenger, who turns out to be a prince.
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Jenny Jugo, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudi Godden, Maria Koppenhöfer
Votes: 21
59. This Man Is News (1938)
63 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
John Brown, one of the thieves in a sensational jewel robbery and subsequent trial, is set free when he turns King's Evidence on the other members. He refuses to give reporter Simon Drake ... See full summary »
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim, Edward Lexy
Votes: 130
60. The Man with 100 Faces (1938)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Jack Drake,a man with a hundred faces and in reality a modern-day Robin Hood known only as Crackerjack, thrills all England with his exploits of stealing from the rich and giving to the ... See full summary »
Director: Albert de Courville | Stars: Tom Walls, Lilli Palmer, Noel Madison, Leon M. Lion
Votes: 246
61. My Bill (1938)
Approved | 64 min | Drama, Romance
The town of Colbrook, Massachusetts was founded by the family of the same name, and as such they are its leading family. Widowed Mrs. Reginald Colbrook - Mary - has had to manage the family... See full summary »
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Kay Francis, Bonita Granville, John Litel, Anita Louise
Votes: 483
62. Boys Town (1938)
Passed | 96 min | Biography, Drama, Family
When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 6,356
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