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1. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, History, Romance
A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser
Votes: 7,252
2. Baby, Take a Bow (1934)
PG | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight... See full summary »
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Claire Trevor, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 1,048
3. Ladies' Man (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Drama
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."
Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Carole Lombard, Gilbert Emery
Votes: 420
4. Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Men pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. She marries Eddie and plans to quit dancing. Before she does, she meets a handsome and rich gentleman.
Directors: Lionel Barrymore, Edward Buzzell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley, Sally Blane
Votes: 908
5. Zaza (1938)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Romance
A sexy singer in a French music hall falls in love with a handsome, but married, aristocrat.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr, Helen Westley
Votes: 225
6. Yours for the Asking (1936)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear that he could ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: George Raft, Dolores Costello, Ida Lupino, Reginald Owen
Votes: 201
7. Delicious (1931)
106 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, El Brendel, Raul Roulien
Votes: 246
8. Four Hours to Kill! (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses ... See full summary »
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Gertrude Michael, Helen Mack
Votes: 213
9. Brilliant Marriage (1936)
Approved | 64 min | Drama, Romance
The daughter of rich socialites meets a French woman at a party. The woman reveals that the girl is adopted and that her birth mother was a murderer. Ashamed, the girl runs away from home and falls for the wrong man.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Joan Marsh, Ray Walker, Hugh Marlowe, Inez Courtney
Votes: 75
10. Easy to Take (1936)
67 min | Comedy
In this comedy, kiddie-show host Uncle Rodney finds himself assuming guardianship of a bratty lad at the behest of his radio station, which thinks it would boost ratings. The host will also... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Tryon | Stars: Marsha Hunt, John Howard, Eugene Pallette, Richard Carle
Votes: 38
11. The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)
Passed | 113 min | Drama
Broadway showgirl Mary Dugan is charged with murder in the knifing death of her wealthy lover and goes on trial for her life. When her defense counsel appears to bungle his job, Mary's ... See full summary »
Director: Bayard Veiller | Stars: Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, H.B. Warner, Raymond Hackett
Votes: 158
12. Devotion (1931)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The poor, downtrodden (beautiful, of course) "dutiful" daughter of a London society family falls for a barrister, disguises herself, and takes a job as governess to his son. Adapted from the novel, "A Little Flat in the Temple"
Director: Robert Milton | Stars: Ann Harding, Leslie Howard, Robert Williams, O.P. Heggie
Votes: 264
13. Private Scandal (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
"Private Scandal" is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Vera Caspary, Garrett Fort and Bruce Manning. The film stars ZaSu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Mary Brian, Ned Sparks
Votes: 35
14. Shanghai (1935)
75 min | Drama, Romance
While she is in Shanghai visiting her sick aunt, young New York socialite Barbara Howard falls in love with Russian banker Dmitri Koslov. Everything would be for the best, if only Dmitri ... See full summary »
Director: James Flood | Stars: Loretta Young, Charles Boyer, Warner Oland, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 157
15. The Witching Hour (1934)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Guy Standing, John Halliday, Judith Allen, Tom Brown
Votes: 120
16. The Right of Way (1930)
TV-G | 68 min | Drama, Romance
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his heirs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients.... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Loretta Young, Fred Kohler, William Janney
Votes: 235
17. False Faces (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Drama
Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital, primarily for a lack of ethics, and goes to Chicago and sets himself up as a plastic surgeon (unqualified) and seducer of ... See full summary »
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Lowell Sherman, Peggy Shannon, Lila Lee, Berton Churchill
Votes: 87
18. Cock o' the Walk (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he manages to get himself feared and hated ... See full summary »
Directors: Walter Lang, Roy William Neill | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Myrna Loy, Philip Sleeman, Edward Peil Sr.
Votes: 39
19. Polo Joe (1936)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Despite a severe horse allergy, Joe Bolton pretends to be a passionate polo player in order to win the heart of his horse-loving neighbor.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Carol Hughes, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Joe King
Votes: 196
20. Hearts in Exile (1929)
82 min | Romance
Hearts in Exile (1929) is an American Pre-Code romance film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Michael Curtiz.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Dolores Costello, Grant Withers, James Kirkwood, George Fawcett
Votes: 76
21. The Trap (1919)
50 min | Drama, Romance
A schoolteacher in the Yukon promises to marry a rich prospector, but instead she marries his no-good brother. After her husband disappears and is reported dead, she marries a rich New York... See full summary »
Director: Frank Reicher | Stars: Olive Tell, Sidney Mason, Jere Austin, Rod La Rocque
Votes: 19
22. The Prince of Tempters (1926)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
While in Italy, the Duke of Chatsfield secretly marries a peasant girl, and they have a child, Francis. The boy's parents die after having separated, and he is reared in a monastery. When ... See full summary »
Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: Lois Moran, Ben Lyon, Lya De Putti, Ian Keith
23. Soft Living (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
Nancy Woods, secretary to a divorce lawyer, is so tantalized by the idea of collecting alimony payments that she marries Stockney Webb with the intention of fleecing him after the honeymoon... See full summary »
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Madge Bellamy, Johnny Mack Brown, Mary Duncan, Joyce Compton
24. Lawful Larceny (1930)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Romance
A woman of low morals who runs a gambling operation in her house takes pride in destroying the men she ensnares in her net. One of these men's wives (played by Bebe Daniels) will not let ... See full summary »
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Kenneth Thomson, Lowell Sherman, Olive Tell
Votes: 57
25. In His Steps (1936)
Approved | 79 min | Drama
Tom and Ruth are disowned by their parents after eloping. They take up jobs as tenant farmers and learn the true value of marriage, working, and living.
Director: Karl Brown | Stars: Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Harry Beresford, Clara Blandick
Votes: 9
26. Womanhandled (1925)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can resist the flaming flapper and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edmund Breese, Cora Williams
Votes: 103
27. Under Southern Stars (1937)
Approved | 17 min | Short, War
Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Fred Lawrence, Jane Bryan, Fritz Leiber, Gordon Hart
Votes: 88
28. To Hell with the Kaiser! (1918)
70 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A farce in which the German Kaiser and the Crown Prince are defeated and made sport of by a plucky American girl and several American prisoners of war.
Director: George Irving | Stars: Lawrence Grant, Olive Tell, Betty Howe, John Sunderland
Votes: 14
29. National Red Cross Pageant (1917)
50 min | Drama
The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Edith Wynne Matthison, Douglas Wood, Ethel Barrymore, Kitty Gordon
Votes: 35
30. Woman Hungry (1931)
Passed | 65 min | Western
Judith Temple has come West to Arizona for some excitement. As she says goodbye to her brother and his wife, who are returning to the East, Dr. Neil Cranford, who is in love with her, is ... See full summary »
Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Lila Lee, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler
31. Strictly Personal (1933)
71 min | Drama
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Marjorie Rambeau, Dorothy Jordan, Eddie Quillan, Edward Ellis
Votes: 67
32. The Silent Master (1917)
70 min | Crime, Drama
Valentin Marquis de Sombreiul, alias Monsieur Simon, is known as the great master because he is the leader of a band of Parisian Apaches who mete out their own private justice to ... See full summary »
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Robert Warwick, Olive Tell, Donald Gallaher, Ann Little
Votes: 14
33. A Woman's Business (1920)
50 min | Drama
Tired of her boring life in a small Southern town, Barbara marries Johnny Lester, social secretary to the wealthy Mr. Ellis, in the belief that he will provide her with wealth and social ... See full summary »
Director: B.A. Rolfe | Stars: Olive Tell, Edmund Lowe, Donald Hall, Lucille Lee Stewart
34. Slaves of Beauty (1927)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
When Len Jones develops a beauty clay that brings wealth to his household, his wife Anastasia tires of him and falls in love with the beauty-shop manager, Paul Terry, a dashing young male ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Olive Tell, Holmes Herbert, Earle Foxe, Margaret Livingston
35. The Girl and the Judge (1918)
Drama
Mrs. Stanton, the wife of a prominent broker, confesses to her daughter Winifred that she is a kleptomaniac. One of her escapades results in her arrest, and although she is released through... See full summary »
Director: John B. O'Brien | Stars: Olive Tell, David Powell, Charlotte Granville, Eric Mayne
36. Good Medicine (1929)
21 min | Comedy, Short
A patient-less doctor gets a job in a hospital.
Director: Leslie Pearce | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Enid Bennett, Olive Tell
37. Sailors' Wives (1928)
60 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Earle Foxe, Burr McIntosh
Votes: 15
38. Secret Strings (1918)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Janet Newell learns that her husband Raoul is a crook and leaves him. However, when he offers her a position as companion to the wealthy Richard de GIles and his wife, she accepts, ... See full summary »
Director: John Ince | Stars: Olive Tell, William J. Kelly, Hugh Thompson, John Daly Murphy
39. Her Sister (1917)
Drama
Eleanor Alderson and her young sister Jane lose their positions as models when Eleanor prevents Jane from accepting buyers' invitations. Eleanor accepts help from a retired seeress and ... See full summary »
Director: John B. O'Brien | Stars: Olive Tell, David Powell, Eileen Dennes, Anita Rothe
40. The Very Idea (1929)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy
A Eugenics expert convinces his sister and her husband, a barren couple, to adopt the offspring of his carefully selected "thoroughbreds": the family's chauffeur and maid who themselves are engaged.
Directors: Frank Craven, Richard Rosson | Stars: Frank Craven, Hugh Trevor, Sally Blane, Olive Tell
Votes: 57
41. Love Without Question (1920)
Mystery, Crime, Horror
Old Silas Blackburn, a wealthy recluse, lives alone with his ward Katherine and his butler. One night, Katherine discovers Silas murdered in the room where three generations of Blackburns ... See full summary »
Director: B.A. Rolfe | Stars: Olive Tell, James Morrison, Mario Majeroni, Ivo Dawson
42. Summer Bachelors (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Madge Bellamy, Allan Forrest, Matt Moore, Hale Hamilton
43. The Unforseen (1917)
Drama
On the eve of her elopement with Henry Traquair, Margaret Fielding is accidentally discovered in Traquair's apartments by his friends, Captain Richard Haynes and Walter Maxwell. Because the... See full summary »
Director: John B. O'Brien | Stars: Olive Tell, David Powell, Lionel Adams, Fuller Mellish
44. The Wrong Woman (1920)
50 min | Drama
Distinguished musician William Marshall has a daughter, Doris, and a ward, Viola Sherwin. Franklyn White, who is engaged to Doris, becomes smitten with Viola, but she is not interested and ... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Abramson | Stars: Olive Tell, Montagu Love, Jack Crosby, Guy Coombs
45. Chickie (1925)
80 min | Drama
Young stenographer Chickie Bryce dreams of marrying a millionaire. Until then, though, she is content to carry on with Barry, a lawyer from a nearby office. The relationship soon becomes ... See full summary »
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, John Bowers, Hobart Bosworth, Gladys Brockwell
Gross: $0.18M
46. Wings of Pride (1920)
Drama
In New York City, haughty society girl Olive Muir is engaged to a man named Dick. Olive objects when Alice Prentice, a girl of lower station, comes to visit her family. After Alice's ... See full summary »
Director: B.A. Rolfe | Stars: Olive Tell, John B. O'Brien, Denton Vane, Ida Pardee
47. Worlds Apart (1921)
60 min | Mystery
Having been rejected by Phyllis Leigh in favor of wealthier suitor Peter Lester, Hugh prevents Elinor Ashe from drowning herself. Hugh recklessly marries Elinor, but they occupy different ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Eugene O'Brien, Olive Tell, William H. Tooker, Florence Billings
48. Clothes (1920)
50 min | Drama
Mistakenly believing that she has inherited a large estate from her father, Olivia Sherwood spends money wantonly. In reality, her funds are supplied by unscrupulous attorney Arnold West, ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Sittenham | Stars: Olive Tell, Crauford Kent, Cyril Chadwick, Zeffie Tilbury