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1. The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, History
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton
Votes: 2,707 | Gross: $5.97M
2. Unconquered (1947)
Passed | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff
Votes: 2,898
3. Love Me Tonight (1932)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 4,635
4. Dark Command (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, War
In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers
Votes: 3,046
5. Barbary Coast (1935)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Mary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in 1850s San Francisco.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan
Votes: 2,052
6. The Covered Wagon (1923)
98 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Alan Hale, Ernest Torrence
Votes: 781 | Gross: $7.63M
7. Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A successful nightclub singer weds a struggling songwriter, but when his fame eclipses hers, she delves into alcoholism.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Susan Hayward, Lee Bowman, Marsha Hunt, Eddie Albert
Votes: 1,704
8. We Who Are About to Die (1936)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama
An innocent man (John Beal) sits on death row in colorful company, as friends race to save his life.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, John Beal, Ray Mayer
Votes: 234
9. The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Approved | 91 min | Western
A lonely socialite masquerades as a maid and meets an unpretentious, plain-spoken cowboy who is unaware of her true identity.
Directors: H.C. Potter, Stuart Heisler, William Wyler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, Patsy Kelly, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,821
10. Let Us Live (1939)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiancée of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Baxter
Votes: 677
11. 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: 1,381
12. Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
Approved | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
After losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt
Votes: 2,294
13. The Monster (1925)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A meek clerk who doubles as an amateur detective investigates some very strange goings-on at a remote mental sanitarium.
Director: Roland West | Stars: Lon Chaney, Gertrude Olmstead, Hallam Cooley, Johnny Arthur
Votes: 1,368
14. Tom Sawyer (1930)
Passed | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be ... See full summary »
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Lucien Littlefield
Votes: 235 | Gross: $11.00M
15. The Thirteenth Guest (1932)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Thirteen years ago, somebody murdered the wealthy host of a dinner party. Now, the guests from that event reunite at the creepy house where the crime took place to figure out who inherited the victim's estate.
Director: Albert Ray | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, J. Farrell MacDonald, Paul Hurst
Votes: 918
16. Female (1933)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson, Johnny Mack Brown
Votes: 1,918
17. Fancy Pants (1950)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Western
An American actor impersonating an English butler is hired by a woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes Arthur... See full summary »
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kirkwood
Votes: 1,493 | Gross: $2.60M
18. Small Town Girl (1936)
Passed | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
Kay lives in a small rural time and thinks that her life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night she meets young, handsome, rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while ... See full summary »
Directors: William A. Wellman, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes, Andy Devine
Votes: 970
19. The Saturday Night Kid (1929)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy
Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Clara Bow, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Edna May Oliver
Votes: 305
20. The Last Outlaw (1936)
Approved | 62 min | Western
After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his hometown to see his daughter Sally, who is unaware that he is her father. He befriends Cal Yates, the now ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Harry Carey, Hoot Gibson, Tom Tyler, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 129
21. Welcome Stranger (1947)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy
The old-time town doctor of Fallbridge plans his first vacation in 30 years. But his dislike of, and frequent squabbles with his young interim replacement may jeopardize more than his vacation.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Joan Caulfield, Wanda Hendrix
Votes: 346
22. Bar 20 Rides Again (1935)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Western
Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: William Boyd, James Ellison, Jean Rouverol, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 260
23. 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
24. Ever in My Heart (1933)
TV-PG | 68 min | Drama, Romance, War
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 778
25. Housewife (1934)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Brent, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, John Halliday
Votes: 1,138
26. Wyoming (1940)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western
After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier is murdered by cattle-rustlers when he returns home to Wyoming, but a fugitive train-robber steps in to avenge his death and aid his family in their fight against a local land-grabber.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Ann Rutherford, Lee Bowman
Votes: 297
27. Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Anne Shirley, now betrothed to her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe, takes a teaching position in a prestigious school far from her home on Prince Edward Island. While she is quickly ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Henry Travers, Patric Knowles
Votes: 217
28. Maker of Men (1931)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Sport
Bob plays football badly, so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy, and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defeat his dad's team.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Jack Holt, Richard Cromwell, Joan Marsh, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 149
29. Love Among the Millionaires (1930)
74 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with him and his family in Palm Springs.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Clara Bow, Stanley Smith, Stuart Erwin, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 105
30. The League of Frightened Men (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Mystery
In the second of Columbia's Nero Wolfe movies, the housebound detective is confronted with several deaths and a disappearance among a group of 10 Harvard alumni who had years earlier hazed ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Walter Connolly, Lionel Stander, Eduardo Ciannelli, Irene Hervey
Votes: 123
31. Blonde Alibi (1946)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
Director: Will Jason | Stars: Martha O'Driscoll, Tom Neal, Donald MacBride, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 53
32. Lilly Turner (1933)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance
A carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she's pregnant. She then marries the carnival's barker, but finds herself attracted to a young engineer.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 530
33. Sudden Money (1939)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstakes contest.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Marjorie Rambeau, Charley Grapewin, Broderick Crawford
Votes: 88
34. The Gladiator (1938)
Not Rated | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A man returns to college and is talked into joining he football team and is a real joke on the team, until he is given a drug that gives him super strength.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Man Mountain Dean, Dickie Moore
Votes: 128
35. Days of Jesse James (1939)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Music, Western
A bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Don 'Red' Barry, Pauline Moore
Votes: 290
36. Manslaughter (1922)
TV-PG | 100 min | Drama
Thrill-seeking society girl Lydia causes a motorcycle policeman's death and is prosecuted by her fiancé Daniel, who describes in lurid detail the downfall of Rome. While she's in prison, she reforms and Daniel becomes a wasted alcoholic.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Leatrice Joy, Thomas Meighan, Lois Wilson, John Miltern
Votes: 512 | Gross: $1.20M
37. Forbidden Fruit (1921)
87 min | Drama
Mary Maddock becomes a seamstress after her husband Steve wastes their money on booze. Her employer provides her as an escort to accompany millionaire Mallory. Her husband tries ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Agnes Ayres, Clarence Burton, Theodore Roberts, Kathlyn Williams
Votes: 194
38. Harold Teen (1934)
66 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Harold seems to flop at everything he tries: his schoolwork, his newspaper job--even his car is repossessed. It even looks like his girlfriend is losing interest in him, until a school ... See full summary »
Director: Murray Roth | Stars: Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Patricia Ellis, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 141
39. Border Vigilantes (1941)
Passed | 63 min | Western
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky. and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the town's problems. Hoppy discovers that the bad guys are led by the town boss--and so are the vigilantes.
Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Frances Gifford
Votes: 180
40. Tangled Destinies (1932)
56 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
After a plane makes an emergency landing, passengers take refuge in a deserted house, but one of them is a killer.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Gene Morgan, Doris Hill, Glenn Tryon, Vera Reynolds
Votes: 248
41. The Fighting Parson (1933)
Passed | 66 min | Western
A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the man's identity, but when he arrives at the nearest town, he rides into the middle of a ... See full summary »
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Marceline Day, Skeeter Bill Robbins, Ethel Wales
Votes: 68
42. Young Bill Hickok (1940)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Music, Western
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some Western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Julie Bishop, John Miljan
Votes: 274
43. The Donovan Affair (1929)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The lights go out at a high-society dinner party and one of the guests is murdered. The police are summoned and Inspector Killian shows up with his assistant Carney. In order to get a clear... See full summary »
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, William Collier Jr., Agnes Ayres
Votes: 121
44. The Crime Doctor (1934)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Otto Kruger, Karen Morley, Nils Asther, Judith Wood
Votes: 26
45. Saturday Night (1922)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom, leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Leatrice Joy, Conrad Nagel, Edith Roberts, Jack Mower
Votes: 163
46. You Can't Beat Love (1937)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Romance
Never one to turn down a dare, wealthy but eccentric lawyer Jimmy Hughes takes his faithful butler Jasper and gets a job digging ditches to fulfill a bet he made with two reporters. In his ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Preston Foster, Joan Fontaine, Herbert Mundin, William Brisbane
Votes: 273
47. The Mighty Barnum (1934)
Approved | 85 min | Biography, Comedy
The comic exploits of confidence trickster and showman P.T. Barnum from his early days through to the creation of The Greatest Show on Earth.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Wallace Beery, Adolphe Menjou, Virginia Bruce, Rochelle Hudson
Votes: 102
48. In Old Caliente (1939)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western
Americans come West to California in the hope of peaceful settlement.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Jack La Rue
Votes: 262
49. The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932)
56 min | Crime, Drama
Incredibly fast-moving courtroom yarn in which Bennett is defended by ex-beau Cook when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance, while the trial is broadcast live on the radio.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Joan Bennett, Donald Cook, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 134
50. In Old Sacramento (1946)
Approved | 89 min | Western
In California, Johnny Barrett is a dashing gambler by day and a masked bandit by night who starts a romantic rivalry with young gold miner Sam Chase over showboat singer Belle Malone.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Bill Elliott, Constance Moore, Henry H. Daniels Jr., Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 79