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1. Baby Face (1933)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank by gleefully seducing her way to the top.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier
Votes: 8,160
Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way through an office block , from the bottom floor to the top .
2. King for a Night (1933)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Chester Morris, Helen Twelvetrees, Alice White, John Miljan
Votes: 86
Mediocre film about a prizefighter taking the rap for his sister , all the way to the electric chair . Pre code as , 1 the sister gets away with murder , and 2 Chester Morris's character , son of a preacher , dies an atheist .
3. Hot Pepper (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Comedy about a pair of ex-Marines who team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Lupe Velez, Victor McLaglen, El Brendel
Votes: 126
Lupe Velez , full stop.
4. Man's Castle (1933)
75 min | Drama, Romance
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 1,745
Spencer Tracy "lives with" Loretta Young , gets her pregnant , shoots a guard in a robbery , and escapes at the end .
5. The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue, Florence Eldridge
Votes: 1,842
One of the films that led to the Code - watch out for that corn cob...
6. Design for Living (1933)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 7,753
Two men and a woman decide to live as a threesome because they can't make up their minds
7. Bird of Paradise (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 1,577
White man and native in love , later south seas films always have the native girl adopted / have a white father .
8. Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 8,213
Tarzan and Jane have a great time in the jungle , no mention of marriage.
9. Painted Faces (1929)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A vaudeville performer is murdered backstage and another performer is tried for the crime.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Helen Foster, Barton Hepburn, Dorothy Gulliver
Votes: 88
10. Four Frightened People (1934)
Not Rated | 78 min | Adventure, Drama
Four passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. In order to reach safety they have to trek through the jungle, facing wild animals and attacks by primitive tribesmen.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, William Gargan
Votes: 715
11. Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lillian (Jean Harlow) relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man (Chester Morris).
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams
Votes: 3,537
12. She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland
Votes: 7,035 | Gross: $4.80M
13. I'm No Angel (1933)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold
Votes: 3,981 | Gross: $6.21M
14. 50 Million Frenchmen (1931)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Independently-wealthy American Jack Forbes has just arrived in Paris. Because of his wealth he can have any woman on his arm. Currently that role is filled by Marcelle Dubrey, but he ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, William Gaxton, Helen Broderick
Votes: 163
15. Virtue (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver, but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a murder.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Carole Lombard, Pat O'Brien, Mayo Methot, Jack La Rue
Votes: 930
16. The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy
Ex-showgirls and roommates Polaire Gwynn (Madge Evans) and Schatze Citroux (Joan Blondell) are reunited with their sometime friend and former co-worker, Jean Lawrence (Ina Claire), when she... See full summary »
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Joan Blondell, Madge Evans, Ina Claire, David Manners
Votes: 533
17. Frisco Jenny (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Music
The San Francisco earthquake shakes up the life of Jenny, a madam who gives birth to an illegitimate son and gives him up to protect him.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy, Donald Cook
Votes: 1,187
18. Mandalay (1934)
Passed | 65 min | Drama
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 1,124
Kay Francis gets away with murder
19. Corruption (1933)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.
Director: Charles E. Roberts | Stars: Evalyn Knapp, Preston Foster, Charles Delaney, Tully Marshall
Votes: 184
20. Three on a Match (1932)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Warren William
Votes: 4,396
21. Ex-Lady (1933)
Unrated | 67 min | Comedy, Drama
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Bette Davis, Gene Raymond, Frank McHugh, Monroe Owsley
Votes: 1,691 | Gross: $0.50M
22. Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 2,015 | Gross: $0.86M
23. So This Is Harris (1933)
Approved | 28 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Walter can't stand the singing of Phil Harris - unfortunately, he can't seem to escape it, even on the golf course. His golf partner sympathizes, but when Walter discovers that the fellow ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Phil Harris, Walter Catlett, Helen Collins, June Brewster
Votes: 139
24. Forbidden (1932)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Peterson
Votes: 1,699
25. No More Orchids (1932)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Romance
An heiress forced to marry into royalty in order to save her banker father falls in love with another man while on a cruise.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Louise Closser Hale, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 510
26. Okay America! (1932)
Passed | 78 min | Drama
A gossip columnist's rise to fame, closely based on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Lew Ayres, Maureen O'Sullivan, Louis Calhern, Edward Arnold
Votes: 99
27. The Man with Two Faces (1934)
Not Rated | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Mae Clarke
Votes: 755
28. Hard to Handle (1933)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: James Cagney, Mary Brian, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 896
29. The Mind Reader (1933)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Con-man Chandler and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit, as a little research reveals that Americans spent $125 million on mind-readers and astrology.... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Warren William, Constance Cummings, Allen Jenkins, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 564
30. Skyscraper Souls (1932)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance
An entrepreneur will let nothing stand in his way of acquiring a 100-story office building.
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Warren William, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff, Anita Page
Votes: 923
31. Employees' Entrance (1933)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance
A working girl is menaced by her tyrannical employer.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford, Alice White
Votes: 1,639
32. Expensive Women (1931)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
"Expensive Women" is a 1931 Pre-Code talking film drama directed by silent-film veteran Hobart Henley and stars Dolores Costello. It was Costello's final film as a leading lady and star for... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Dolores Costello, H.B. Warner, Warren William, Anthony Bushell
Votes: 275
33. Under Eighteen (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A poor seamstress girl sours on her engagement to a grocery deliveryman after seeing her sister's abusive marriage. Trying to help her sister pay for a divorce lawyer, she turns to a rich playboy she met at work.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Marian Marsh, Anita Page, Regis Toomey, Warren William
Votes: 465
34. Smarty (1934)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Romance
Vicki Wallace (Joan Blondell) takes great pleasure in teasing her husband,Tony Wallace (Warren William), who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Joan Blondell, Warren William, Edward Everett Horton, Frank McHugh
Votes: 563
35. Havana Widows (1933)
62 min | Comedy
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 532
36. Big City Blues (1932)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Drama
Young man from small town moves to New York City looking for better life.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Jobyna Howland, Ned Sparks
Votes: 885
37. Union Depot (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Travelers of different and varied backgrounds meet and interact on one night in a metropolitan train station and its environs.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Alan Hale
Votes: 1,184
38. The Office Wife (1930)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Romance
Larry Fellowes of Fellowes Publishing wants Kate to write her next book about the 'Office Wife'. The personal secretary/stenographer spends more time with the busy executive and makes more ... See full summary »
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 492
39. My Past (1931)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Romance
Young man and an older man fall for a stage actress.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Lewis Stone, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
Votes: 295
40. God's Gift to Women (1931)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
A Parisian descendant of Don Juan vows to stop philandering in order to win the hand of a virtous young lady with a disapproving father.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Frank Fay, Laura La Plante, Joan Blondell, Charles Winninger
Votes: 452
41. Millie (1931)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance
Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames, James Hall
Votes: 857
42. 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
43. Arsène Lupin (1932)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A detective is tasked to capture an elusive thief called Arsene Lupin.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley, John Miljan
Votes: 1,277
44. Pick-up (1933)
76 min | Crime, Drama
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Lilian Bond, William Harrigan
Votes: 220
45. Midnight Club (1933)
64 min | Crime, Drama
Elegant Colin Grant and his associates are successful jewelry thieves, even unmasked to their victims, their perfect alibis making it impossible for the Comissioner police to arrest them. ... See full summary »
Directors: Alexander Hall, George Somnes | Stars: Clive Brook, George Raft, Helen Vinson, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 110
46. All of Me (1934)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
Director: James Flood | Stars: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, George Raft, Helen Mack
Votes: 123
47. Bolero (1934)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Music
Egotistical nightclub dance performer Raoul has the determination to succeed at all costs, and the only woman in his life who truly matters to him is a dancing partner named Helen.
Directors: Wesley Ruggles, Mitchell Leisen | Stars: George Raft, Carole Lombard, Sally Rand, Frances Drake
Votes: 382
48. Blessed Event (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 763
49. Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932)
TV-G | 79 min | Drama
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton, while falling for the granddaughter of the... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Lee Tracy, Constance Cummings, Walter Connolly, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 179
50. Midnight Mary (1933)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez, Andy Devine
Votes: 1,616
51. Search for Beauty (1934)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason
Votes: 741
52. Lawyer Man (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully beats high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley in a murder case. Bentley asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm.... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: William Powell, Joan Blondell, David Landau, Helen Vinson
Votes: 1,113
53. Jewel Robbery (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, Hardie Albright
Votes: 2,546
54. The Road to Singapore (1931)
Approved | 69 min | Drama, Romance
Gossip, snobbery, mistrust, divorce and a mail-order engagement dominate the lives of the British upper class living in the plantation colonies of Southeast Asia.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: William Powell, Doris Kenyon, Marian Marsh, Louis Calhern
Votes: 498
55. Loose Ankles (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Romance
In this light romantic comedy, 17-year old Loretta Young is cast as wealthy socialite Ann Harper, who has inherited a fortune provided that the family is involved in no scandals appearing ... See full summary »
Director: Ted Wilde | Stars: Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Louise Fazenda, Otis Harlan
Votes: 541
56. Her Man (1930)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A Havana bar girl with a tough "protector" falls for a young sailor.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Phillips Holmes, Marjorie Rambeau, James Gleason
Votes: 510
57. Behind Office Doors (1931)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Ricardo Cortez, Catherine Dale Owen
Votes: 571
58. This Is the Night (1932)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
An affair is almost exposed when Claire's husband unexpectedly returns early from the Summer Olympics.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Roland Young, Thelma Todd, Cary Grant, Lili Damita
Votes: 958
59. Love on a Ladder (1934)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Florence wants to recapture the romance in her marriage and talks a reluctant Edgar into redonning his navy uniform and serenading her.
Director: Sam White | Stars: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Dot Farley, William Eugene
Votes: 20
60. Girl Without a Room (1933)
78 min | Comedy
Young Tennessee painter Tom Duncan is thrilled to receive an art scholarship to Paris. When he arrives, he finds himself surrounded by a group of eclectic characters, as well as his ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Charles Farrell, Charles Ruggles, Marguerite Churchill, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 84
61. The Nuisance (1933)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Lee Tracy, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 335
62. Goldie (1931)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Romance
Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tattoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Warren Hymer, Jean Harlow, Jesse De Vorska
Votes: 168
63. Ladies They Talk About (1933)
Approved | 69 min | Drama
Attractive Nan, member of a bank-robbery gang, goes to prison thanks to evangelist Dave Slade...who loves her.
Directors: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess
Votes: 1,827
64. Illicit (1931)
Unrated | 79 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple lives together out of wedlock, but they find that they're ahead of their time.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 1,168
65. Torch Singer (1933)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.
Directors: Alexander Hall, George Somnes | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez, David Manners, Lyda Roberti
Votes: 788
66. Bright Lights (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery, Daphne Pollard
Votes: 381
67. Wharf Angel (1934)
Passed | 65 min | Drama
"Mother Bright's" place on the lawless, waterfront district of the 'Barbary Coast' in San Francisco is the toughest of all saloons that can be found, and that is where "Turk", a stoker on a... See full summary »
Directors: William Cameron Menzies, George Somnes | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Dell, Preston Foster, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 78
68. Strictly Dynamite (1934)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Music
A struggling writer finds success writing scripts for a radio comic at the expense of his high-brow ambitions.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Norman Foster, William Gargan
Votes: 172
69. What Price Innocence? (1933)
Approved | 64 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.
Director: Willard Mack | Stars: Jean Parker, Minna Gombell, Willard Mack, Betty Grable
Votes: 27
70. Side Streets (1934)
Approved | 63 min | Drama, Romance
A destitute sailor secures a job with a spinster who runs a small fur trimming shop. They marry, and soon have a child, but he cheats on her with serious consequences.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Aline MacMahon, Paul Kelly, Ann Dvorak, Dorothy Tree
Votes: 312
71. Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An editorial hack becomes a new man after a wild night out.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Ann Dvorak, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat
Votes: 204
72. Red Noses (1932)
21 min | Comedy, Short
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Blanche Payson, Wilfred Lucas
Votes: 101
73. Maids a la Mode (1933)
18 min | Comedy, Short
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Billy Gilbert, Cissy Fitzgerald
Votes: 87
74. Sneak Easily (1932)
17 min | Comedy, Short
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Billy Gilbert, James C. Morton
Votes: 68
75. I'll Be Suing You (1934)
19 min | Comedy, Short
Patsy is coerced into faking a lost leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Thelma Todd, Patsy Kelly, Benny Baker, Eddie Foy Jr.
Votes: 46
76. Babes in the Goods (1934)
19 min | Comedy, Short
Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight.
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Thelma Todd, Patsy Kelly, Jack Barty, Arthur Housman
Votes: 136
77. Backs to Nature (1933)
20 min | Comedy, Short
The girls are going on a camping trip.
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Thelma Todd, Patsy Kelly, Don Barclay, Alice Belcher
Votes: 98
78. Flying High (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An eccentric inventor and his new flying machine are the focus of this musical comedy.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Bert Lahr, Charlotte Greenwood, Pat O'Brien, Kathryn Crawford
Votes: 301
79. Playing Around (1930)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go. She gets involved with the playboy and ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Alice White, Chester Morris, William Bakewell, Richard Carlyle
Votes: 328
80. Careless Lady (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Romance
Innocent Sally Brown (Joan Bennett) thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
Director: Kenneth MacKenna | Stars: Joan Bennett, John Boles, Minna Gombell, Weldon Heyburn
Votes: 151
81. Guilty as Hell (1932)
80 min | Mystery
The sister of a convicted murder is convinced that he is innocent in this cat-and-mouse game where the murderer is always one step ahead until a final tense confrontation.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Richard Arlen, Adrienne Ames
Votes: 113
82. Sailor's Luck (1933)
Not Rated | 64 min | Comedy, Romance
On shore leave in San Pedro, U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan meets and falls for Sally Brent. She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Victor Jory, Sammy Cohen
Votes: 106
83. 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: 735
84. 42nd Street (1933)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler
Votes: 13,034 | Gross: $2.30M
85. Girls About Town (1931)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
Two gold-diggers prey on rich old men, but one of them falls in love with a rich young man.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 705
86. Her Bodyguard (1933)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Romance
The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other men, most notably the ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Wynne Gibson, Edward Arnold, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 26
87. Headline Shooter (1933)
Passed | 61 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
The adventures of a wayward newsreel cameraman.
Director: Otto Brower | Stars: William Gargan, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy, Jack La Rue
Votes: 184
88. The Vice Squad (1931)
81 min | Crime, Drama
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Paul Lukas, Kay Francis, Judith Wood, William B. Davidson
Votes: 128
89. Two Kinds of Women (1932)
75 min | Drama
The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds herself caught up in an affair with a ... See full summary »
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Phillips Holmes, Irving Pichel, Wynne Gibson
Votes: 79
90. Roar of the Dragon (1932)
Passed | 69 min | Adventure, Romance
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Richard Dix, Gwili Andre, Edward Everett Horton, Arline Judge
Votes: 251
91. George White's Scandals (1934)
Passed | 1 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Opening with a credit line that reads "Entire production conceived, created and directed by George White," a film evolves where the only plot line is a thin backstage romance between Jimmy ... See full summary »
Directors: Thornton Freeland, Harry Lachman, George White | Stars: Rudy Vallee, Jimmy Durante, Alice Faye, Adrienne Ames
Votes: 107
92. The Gay Nighties (1933)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy
Clark & McCullough, as Hives and Blodgett, are campaign managers for political candidate Oliver Beezley. They plan to defeat Beezley's political rival, Commodore Amos Pipp (James Finlayson)... See full summary »
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Bobby Clark, Paul McCullough, James Finlayson, Dorothy Granger
Votes: 44
93. The Devil's Holiday (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A savvy city girl is hired to sugar an earnest farm boy into a business deal, but loses her heart.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, James Kirkwood, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 256
94. Sitting Pretty (1933)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Chick Parker and Pete Pendleton are songwriters en route from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune, joined by lunch-wagon proprietor Dorothy.
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Ginger Rogers, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 193
95. Young Man of Manhattan (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Toby McLean, a reckless sports writer on a New York City newspaper, covers the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey heavyweight-championship fight in Philadelphia. There he meets Ann Vaughn, a feature ... See full summary »
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster, Ginger Rogers, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 222
96. Uptown New York (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Pat and Max are in love and share an intimate relationship. However, after Max receives his surgeon's diploma, his parents have arranged a marriage for him with a woman from a rich, good background.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Jack Oakie, Shirley Grey, Leon Ames, George Cooper
Votes: 164
97. Honor Among Lovers (1931)
75 min | Drama, Romance
Jerry Stafford, a businessman, is in love with his secretary but she deserts him for another man. When she realizes her mistake, she goes back to him. Doris Brown is her girlfriend who is in love with a man named Monty Dunn.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Monroe Owsley, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 531
98. Professional Sweetheart (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
A vice-free radio singer wants to experience the dark side of life, so a press agent convinces her sponsor to choose a "professional sweetheart" from her fans.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, Zasu Pitts, Frank McHugh
Votes: 693
99. Finishing School (1934)
Passed | 73 min | Drama
The trials and tribulations in a private, snobbish girls school.
Directors: George Nicholls Jr., Wanda Tuchock | Stars: Frances Dee, Billie Burke, Ginger Rogers, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 600
100. Stingaree (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young woman is seduced by a charismatic highwayman who offers her promises of fame as a singer in exchange for romance.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Irene Dunne, Richard Dix, Mary Boland, Conway Tearle
Votes: 520
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