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1. The General (1926)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.
Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley
Votes: 98,388 | Gross: $1.03M
2. 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: 7,059 | Gross: $4.80M
3. 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 2,963
4. Born Reckless (1930)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, War
Hoping to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Catherine Dale Owen, William Harrigan, Marguerite Churchill
Votes: 564
5. Arrowsmith (1931)
Approved | 108 min | Drama
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E. Anson
Votes: 2,004
6. 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: 4,457
7. Thunderbolt (1929)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. ... See full summary »
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 891
8. Up the River (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When paroled trustee Steve and former inmate Judy who try to put their criminal lives behind them are blackmailed, two career criminals come to their rescue.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart
Votes: 1,380
9. Spite Marriage (1929)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy
An unimpressive but well intending man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
Directors: Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle, Leila Hyams
Votes: 2,511
10. The Sea Beast (1926)
136 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
This silent movie is based on Melville's classic Moby Dick. Ahab and his brother compete for the affections of minister's daughter Esther. But the great white whale has been eluding the ... See full summary »
Director: Millard Webb | Stars: John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, George O'Hara, Mike Donlin
Votes: 222 | Gross: $0.80M
11. The Beast of the City (1932)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt
Votes: 1,420 | Gross: $0.89M
12. 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: 1,620
13. The Purchase Price (1932)
TV-PG | 68 min | Comedy, Drama
A torch singer becomes a farmer's mail-order bride.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot, Hardie Albright
Votes: 1,841
14. Heroes for Sale (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance, 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: 2,518
15. Doctor Bull (1933)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Doc Bull, a no-nonsense country doctor who has served his community for decades, fights small-town prejudice and provincialism in several crises.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Will Rogers, Marian Nixon, Vera Allen, Howard Lally
Votes: 741
16. Picture Snatcher (1933)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama
Ex-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn't ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis, Alice White
Votes: 1,749
17. Beggars of Life (1928)
Not Rated | 84 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Wallace Beery, Richard Arlen, Louise Brooks, Bob Perry
Votes: 1,327
18. 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: 512
19. For the Defense (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
William Powell plays William Foster, a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning ... See full summary »
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Scott Kolk, William B. Davidson
Votes: 679
20. Ella Cinders (1926)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
Ella Cinders, oppressed and abused by her stepmother and stepsisters, wins a contest for a film role in Hollywood. When the contest turns out to be fraudulent, she determines to stay and achieve Hollywood stardom the hard way.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, Vera Lewis, Doris Baker
Votes: 1,084
21. The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama
Reporters at a scandal sheet dwell on a murder case, with tragic results.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Adrienne Dore
Votes: 468
22. Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Sport
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 279
23. The Iron Man (1931)
73 min | Drama, Romance
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lew Ayres, Robert Armstrong, Jean Harlow, John Miljan
Votes: 344
24. Don't Bet on Love (1933)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Drama
Bill McCaffery, a plumber, wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. Molly Gilbert, his manicurist girlfriend, stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
Director: Murray Roth | Stars: Lew Ayres, Ginger Rogers, Charley Grapewin, Shirley Grey
Votes: 157
25. The Widow from Chicago (1930)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Vice lord Dominic has brought Swifty Dorgan east to do a job for him. When Swifty appears to have died falling from a train, detective Henderson impersonates him hoping to get into the mob.... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Alice White, Edward G. Robinson, Neil Hamilton, Frank McHugh
Votes: 436
26. The Star Witness (1931)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama
Members of a family witness two murders, but the gang uses threats, violence and kidnapping to try to keep the members from testifying.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Walter Huston, Frances Starr, Grant Mitchell, Sally Blane
Votes: 753
27. Flesh (1932)
Passed | 96 min | Drama, Romance
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Wallace Beery, Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Jean Hersholt
Votes: 736
28. The Noose (1928)
65 min | Drama
A crook blackmails a governor because he knows of the governor's wife's dark past.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Montagu Love, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Jay Eaton
Votes: 89
29. Hangman's House (1928)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
"Citizen" Hogan, an exile Irish patriot, risks his life by returning to Ireland and helping a young couple.
Director: John Ford | Stars: June Collyer, Larry Kent, Victor McLaglen, Earle Foxe
Votes: 557
30. The Secret Witness (1931)
66 min | Drama, Mystery
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Una Merkel, William Collier Jr., Zasu Pitts, Purnell Pratt
Votes: 104
31. Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917)
70 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance
Gentleman burglar Raffles tries to get his hand on a priceless pearl.
Director: George Irving | Stars: John Barrymore, Christine Mayo, H. Cooper Cliffe, Frank Morgan
Votes: 190
32. The Devil Is Driving (1932)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
There is a garage in downtown New York City on the ground floor of an eight-story building, with a winding ramp, that serves as a cache for stolen automobiles. The second floor is the ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Wynne Gibson, James Gleason, Lois Wilson
Votes: 179
33. Man Hunt (1933)
65 min | Mystery
A young amateur detective follows clues to a diamond thief.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Junior Durkin, Charlotte Henry, Dorothy Davenport, Arthur Vinton
Votes: 85
34. Ladies Love Brutes (1930)
80 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: George Bancroft, Mary Astor, Fredric March, Stanley Fields
Votes: 139
35. A Fool's Advice (1932)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Frank Fay, Ruth Hall, Nat Pendleton, Berton Churchill
Votes: 114
36. Bad Company (1931)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama
Ricardo Cortez plays a ruthless, near-psychotic gangster who withal follows his own code of honor. Helen Twelvetrees co-stars as a trusting young woman who marries mob lawyer John Garrick, ... See full summary »
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez, John Garrick, Paul Hurst
Votes: 151
37. Goldie Gets Along (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Goldie is a young girl who was taken in by her aunt after her mother died in Paris , brought to USA and lived until 19 with her aunts family. They don't understand her and call her a hussy ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Lili Damita, Charles Morton, Sam Hardy, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 164
38. They Learned About Women (1930)
Passed | 95 min | Musical, Drama
When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has ... See full summary »
Directors: Jack Conway, Sam Wood | Stars: Gus Van, Joe Schenck, Bessie Love, Mary Doran
Votes: 266
39. Riley the Cop (1928)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama
Joe Smith, a young bakery worker, gets engaged to Mary Coronelli, who comes from a wealthy family. Her snooty aunt takes Mary to Europe, hoping to break up the couple, but Joe uses his ... See full summary »
Director: John Ford | Stars: J. Farrell MacDonald, Louise Fazenda, Nancy Drexel, David Rollins
Votes: 253
40. Our Mutual Girl (1914)
Drama
'Our Mutual Girl' was unique. Not quite a serial, not quite a newsreel, and not strictly an advertisement, it combined elements of all three. In 52 weekly one-reel episodes, running from ... See full summary »
Directors: Oscar Eagle, Lawrence B. McGill, John W. Noble, Walter Stanhope | Stars: Norma Phillips, Mayme Kelso, Jessie Lewis, James Alling
41. Hot Curves (1930)
83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
One player on a baseball team lets his ego run his life and ends up losing the girl he is dating--who happens to be the team manager's daughter. Another player on the team is a great ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Benny Rubin, Pert Kelton, Rex Lease, Alice Day
Votes: 58
42. Air Hostess (1933)
67 min | Drama
In World War I, pilot Bob King is shot and killed in France. His friends Ted "Lucky" Hunter (James Murray) and Pa Kearns (J.M. Kerrigan) pledge to look after his daughter Kitty (Evalyn ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Evalyn Knapp, James Murray, Arthur Pierson, Thelma Todd
Votes: 154
43. Oh, Doctor! (1925)
63 min | Comedy
Rufus Billop was never believed to survive as a newborn. He's lived through infancy and childhood surrounded by doctors and medicines, worried over his frail health, becoming an ... See full summary »
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Reginald Denny, Mary Astor, Otis Harlan, William V. Mong
Votes: 91
44. The Primrose Path (1925)
60 min | Drama
Bruce Armstrong (MacDonald) is quite wealthy. He is also a drinker, a gambler, and pretty much worthless as a human being. For some reason, successful dancer Marilyn Merrill (Bow) sticks by... See full summary »
Director: Harry O. Hoyt | Stars: Wallace MacDonald, Clara Bow, Arline Pretty, Stuart Holmes
Votes: 91
45. High Gear (1933)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When Mark 'High Gear' Sherrod (Murray) looses his nerve, the race car driver takes a job driving a taxi, but when he befriends a cute reporter and the young handicapped son of a deceased driver, he attempts to return to the track.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: James Murray, Joan Marsh, Jackie Searl, Eddie Lambert
Votes: 118
46. Sweepstakes (1931)
77 min | Comedy, Sport
A jockey is influenced to throw a race.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Eddie Quillan, Lew Cody, James Gleason, Marian Nixon
Votes: 60
47. Song of the Eagle (1933)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A German American family from 1916 thru 1933. After the losses of the Great War, what will happen to the family patriarch and his lager business under Prohibition?
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Charles Bickford, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Jean Hersholt
Votes: 25
48. Warming Up (1928)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
Bert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the enmity of McRae, the league's leading ... See full summary »
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Richard Dix, Jean Arthur, Claude King, Philo McCullough
Votes: 20
49. The Unknown Purple (1923)
70 min | Mystery
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cromport, uses the light to revenge ... See full summary »
Director: Roland West | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Alice Lake, Stuart Holmes, Helen Ferguson
Votes: 13
50. Right Off the Bat (1915)
Comedy, Drama, Sport
Dramatization of the life of real life major league baseball player Mike Donlin.
Director: Hugh Reticker | Stars: Roy Hauck, Henry Grady, Fannie Bourke, Doris Farrington