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1. The Divorcee (1930)

Passed | 84 min | Romance, Drama

When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel

Votes: 3,657

2. The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan

Votes: 4,079

3. They Won't Forget (1937)

Passed | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger

Votes: 1,942

4. 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

5. The Criminal Code (1930)

Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff

Votes: 1,378

6. Smart Money (1931)

Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama

A Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp, Ralf Harolde

Votes: 2,237

7. The Sisters (1938)

Approved | 99 min | Drama

Three daughters of a small town pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter

Votes: 2,130

8. My Reputation (1946)

Passed | 94 min | Drama, Romance

A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Warner Anderson, Lucile Watson

Votes: 1,837

9. Meet the People (1944)

Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Musical

An idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.

Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Lucille Ball, Dick Powell, Virginia O'Brien, Bert Lahr

Votes: 488

10. The Emperor Jones (1933)

Not Rated | 72 min | Drama, Music

Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

Directors: Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille | Stars: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington

Votes: 1,260

11. 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

12. The Saint in Palm Springs (1940)

Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Inspector Fernack asks Simon to watch over an old friend who's carrying $200,000 worth of postage stamps, but the friend is killed, and the stamps stolen.

Director: Jack Hively | Stars: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle, Jonathan Hale

Votes: 805

13. The Adventurous Blonde (1937)

Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

After rival reporters, jealous of Torchy's success, conspire to fake the murder of an actor in order to embarrass her, he ends up being strangled.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Anne Nagel, Tom Kennedy

Votes: 536

14. Everybody Does It (1949)

Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her... See full summary »

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Celeste Holm, Charles Coburn

Votes: 321

15. Love in the Rough (1930)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

When shipping clerk Jack Kelly is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.

Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Dorothy Jordan, Benny Rubin, J.C. Nugent

Votes: 247

16. Annabel Takes a Tour (1938)

Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Movie star Annabel Allison has further comic adventures with her wacky publicity agent.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball, Ruth Donnelly, Bradley Page

Votes: 337

17. Life Begins in College (1937)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so that they can keep the football coach, rumor has it that the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Al Ritz, Harry Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Joan Davis

Votes: 137

18. Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021)

80 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A look at the life and work of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry.

Director: Francesco Zippel | Stars: Gian Luca Farinelli, Chuck D, Amma Asante, Kwame Kwei-Armah

Votes: 204

19. Here Comes Cookie (1935)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Alarmed that his younger daughter is about to marry a gold-digger, a millionaire turns over the fortune to her ditsy older sister for safe-keeping to his ultimate regret, protection.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, George Barbier, Betty Furness

Votes: 178

20. My Kingdom for a Cook (1943)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Romance

Rudyard Morley, an eccentric ambassador from the Court of Saint James, is on a goodwill lecture tour of the United States. His English gourmet cook is unable to accompany him, and this ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Charles Coburn, Marguerite Chapman, Bill Carter, Isobel Elsom

Votes: 120

21. George Hall and His Orchestra (1937)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Music

George Hall and his orchestra couldn't find a hotel in the city where they are scheduled to appear, so they break into the basement of the theater in which they will perform the next day. ... See full summary »

Director: Roy Mack | Stars: George Hall, George Hall and His Orchestra, Dolly Dawn, Johnny McKeever

Votes: 108

22. Moon Over Las Vegas (1944)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Anne Gwynne, David Bruce, Barbara Jo Allen, Vivian Austin

Votes: 24

23. I'll Fly Away (1991–1993)
Episode: Small Wishes (1993)

60 min | Drama

John Morgan shows his jealous side to Lilly's lover Joe Clay. Nathan is arrested on a wrongful drug charge and Forrest wins his murder case of Colonel Landers' wrongful death by two Ku Klux Klansmen.

Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Stars: Sam Waterston, Regina Taylor, Jeremy London, Ashlee Levitch

24. I'll Fly Away (1991–1993)
Episode: The Third Man (1992)

Drama

Jerry Blount confesses to the murder of Colonel Landers which enables Forrest to release Francis from jail. Elsewhere, Lilly falls for a train porter named Joe Clay.

Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Sam Waterston, Regina Taylor, Jeremy London, Ashlee Levitch