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51. Street of Sin (1928)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
The story is set in the seamy Soho section of London, where burglar Basher Bill shares bed and board with his sluttish girlfriend Annie. As wicked as they come, Bill softens when he meets virtuous Salvation Army lass Elizabeth.
Directors: Mauritz Stiller, Ludwig Berger, Lothar Mendes, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Fay Wray, Olga Baclanova, Ernest W. Johnson
Votes: 15
52. Murder at Midnight (1931)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Mystery
A murder during a game of charades at a society party leads the police to begin the hunt through the guest list for a motive and culprit.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Aileen Pringle, Alice White, Hale Hamilton, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 304
53. Million Dollar Legs (1932)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Sport
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money. Either a masterpiece of absurdity or a triumph of satire, ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Jack Oakie, W.C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Lyda Roberti
Votes: 943
54. Black Moon (1934)
Approved | 68 min | Drama, Horror
A young girl who lives on a tropical island loses her parents to a voodoo sacrifice, but although she manages to escape the island, a curse is put on her. Years later, as an adult, she ... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Dorothy Burgess, Cora Sue Collins
Votes: 476
55. Rio Rita (1929)
Passed | 140 min | Adventure, Music, Romance
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.
Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey
Votes: 674
56. A Daughter of the Gods (1916)
Passed | 180 min | Drama
A sultan agrees to help an wicked witch destroy a mysterious young lady, if the witch will bring his young son back from the dead with magic.
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Annette Kellerman, William E. Shay, Hal De Forest, Marcelle Hontabat
Votes: 28
57. Central Park (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Gangsters posing as police officers offer a woman a chance to make money if she helps them out.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford, Guy Kibbee, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 293
58. The American Venus (1926)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Esther Ralston, Lawrence Gray, Ford Sterling, Fay Lanphier
Votes: 26
59. The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Mystery
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney--who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart
Votes: 285
60. Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Jimmy is an expert safe cracker that intends to knock over a small town's leading bank, but he stays there and gets a job instead. As a cashier, he falls in love with the president's ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: William Haines, Lionel Barrymore, Leila Hyams, Karl Dane
Votes: 18
61. Billy the Kid (1930)
Passed | 98 min | Action, Biography, Drama
In this version of the Billy the Kid legend, Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff ... See full summary »
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson, Karl Dane
Votes: 328
62. Texas Cyclone (1932)
Not Rated | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
Pecos Grant rides into a strange town only to find that everyone recognizes him, not as Pecos Grant, but as a presumed-dead man named Rawlins. Even Rawlins' wife thinks her husband has come back. Pecos sets out to solve the mystery.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tim McCoy, Shirley Grey, Wheeler Oakman, John Wayne
Votes: 272
63. Mantrap (1926)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Ernest Torrence, Clara Bow, Percy Marmont, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 295
64. Lonely Wives (1931)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
A lonely husband, whose wife has been away, hires a look-a-like impersonator to fill his place and fool his mother-in-law while he plays around with a pretty coquette. His wife returns that night and confusion prevails.
Director: Russell Mack | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Laura La Plante, Patsy Ruth Miller
Votes: 291
65. Easy to Love (1934)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Romance
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope... See full summary »
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Genevieve Tobin, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 292
66. Free and Easy (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical
A bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, Robert Montgomery
Votes: 790
67. So This Is Africa (1933)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Musical
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of broke, hungry vaudevillians who are holed up in a hotel room with a few (tame) lions. They are hired by a movie producer who wishes to send ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Robert Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, Raquel Torres, Esther Muir
Votes: 80
68. College Humor (1933)
Passed | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Music
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Richard Arlen, Mary Carlisle
Votes: 164
69. Bachelor Apartment (1931)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A New York playboy dates wild woman until he falls for a hard-working stenographer.
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Lowell Sherman, Irene Dunne, Mae Murray, Norman Kerry
Votes: 332
70. Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)
60 min | Comedy, War
Fifi, (Mryna Loy), a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham, (Tom Wilson), and Eggs, (Heinie Conklin), in France during World War One.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Tom Wilson, Heinie Conklin, Myrna Loy, William Irving
Votes: 16
71. Mandalay (1934)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
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: 597
72. The Legion of the Condemned (1928)
Passed | 80 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Four young men from various walks of life sign up for the Lafayette Escadrille, known as "The Legion of the Condemned"
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Barry Norton, Lane Chandler
Votes: 34
73. Merry Wives of Reno (1934)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 200
74. Children of Divorce (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
Directors: Frank Lloyd, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Einar Hanson
Votes: 184
75. The Virginian (1914)
Passed | 55 min | Western
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Jack W. Johnston, Sydney Deane, William Elmer
Votes: 161
76. Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry. George buys a majority interest in ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: John Breeden, Lola Lane, DeWitt Jennings, Sharon Lynn
Votes: 7
77. The Sphinx (1933)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Sheila Terry, Theodore Newton, Paul Hurst
Votes: 314
78. The Mind Reader (1933)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Chandler, a con-man, and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit, as a little research reveals Ameicans 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: 390
79. West Point (II) (1927)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Wealthy Brice Wayne enters West Point and, though he does well on the football field, angers fellow cadets with his arrogance. Disciplined by the coach he yells "To hell with the Corps!" ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: William Haines, Joan Crawford, William Bakewell, Neil Neely
Votes: 1,689
80. Heroes for Sale (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, War
A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Loretta Young, Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, Gordon Westcott
Votes: 1,943
81. Hallelujah I'm a Bum (1933)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A New York tramp (Jolson) falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Harry Langdon
Votes: 708
82. Broadway Bad (1933)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Music
Showgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Adrienne Ames
Votes: 130
83. Lights of New York (1928)
Passed | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Two men are conned into bootlegging business.
Director: Bryan Foy | Stars: Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 661 | Gross: $1.20M
84. Captured! (1933)
Unrated | 69 min | Drama, Romance, War
A British prisoner of war becomes imprisoned alongside his best friend from home, though he is unaware that while he was captured, the friend began an affair with his wife.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paul Lukas, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 354
85. The Squall (1929)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Music, Romance
The activities of Nubi (Myrna Loy), a minx-like, Hungarian gypsy girl who, while on the run from her abusive husband, takes shelter in a farmhouse, where she seduces and holds in thrall all the male members of the family.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Alice Joyce, Richard Tucker, Myrna Loy, Loretta Young
Votes: 290
86. Blessed Event (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Comedy
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: 439
87. Untamed (1929)
Passed | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
When her rich oilman father is killed, Bingo, raised in the wilds of South America, inherits the company. Her guardians Ben and Howard send her to New York for civilizing but on the way she... See full summary »
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 412 | Gross: $0.71M
88. The Pay-Off (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, ... See full summary »
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixon, Hugh Trevor, George F. Marion
Votes: 208
89. Smoke Bellew (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A tale of the great Alaska gold rush in which a man falsely accused of murder tracks down the guilty man.
Director: Scott R. Dunlap | Stars: Conway Tearle, Barbara Bedford, Mark Hamilton, Alphonse Ethier
Votes: 12
90. Once in a Lifetime (1932)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
Director: Russell Mack | Stars: Jack Oakie, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon, Russell Hopton
Votes: 149
91. The Crash (1932)
TV-G | 58 min | Drama
Rich couple loses their fortune in stock market crash.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson, Barbara Leonard
Votes: 264
92. Three Cornered Moon (1933)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy
Nellie Rimplegar has to tell her grown children that due to her bungled handling of their finances, the family has been wiped out by the Stock Market crash. Friend and family doctor, Alan ... See full summary »
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen, Mary Boland, Wallace Ford
Votes: 359
93. Dark Hazard (1934)
Passed | 73 min | Drama
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie, Marge leaves him. After a few years ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell, Robert Barrat
Votes: 389
94. The Spider (1931)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Directors: Kenneth MacKenna, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, El Brendel, John Arledge
Votes: 65
95. Let's Go Native (1930)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Musical
Dress designer Joan Wood, who's heavily in debt, has created costumes for a Broadway show that is exported to Argentina. With the money she wants to pay her debts, but there was a mistake: ... See full summary »
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Jack Oakie, Jeanette MacDonald, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, James Hall
Votes: 110
96. Mammy (1930)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A love triangle develops in a traveling minstrel troupe.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Al Jolson, Lois Moran, Lowell Sherman, Louise Dresser
Votes: 140
97. Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.
Director: Mack V. Wright | Stars: John Wayne, Duke, Henry B. Walthall, Shirley Palmer
Votes: 328
98. Her Wedding Night (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
An American movie star vacationing in France gets mixed up with a songwriter, mistaken identity, and winds up married to someone she doesn't know.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Clara Bow, Ralph Forbes, Charles Ruggles, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 32
99. The Telegraph Trail (1933)
Passed | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perpetuate his economic stranglehold on the territory.
Director: Tenny Wright | Stars: John Wayne, Duke, Frank McHugh, Marceline Day
Votes: 420
100. Fig Leaves (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy
In the modern day (1920s) story, Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of... See full summary »
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: George O'Brien, Olive Borden, Phyllis Haver, George Beranger
Votes: 194