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1. The Women (I) (2008)

PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Drama

A wealthy New Yorker wrestles with the decision to leave her cheating husband, as she and her friends discover that women really can have it all.

Director: Diane English | Stars: Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, Annette Bening, Debra Messing

Votes: 23,106 | Gross: $26.90M

2. Ponds Theater (1953– )

60 min | Drama

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Stars: Valerie Cossart, Harry Townes, Mildred Dunnock, Carmen Mathews

Votes: 52

3. Broadway Television Theatre (1952–1954)
Episode: Smilin' Through (1953)

Comedy, Drama

A widower cares for his niece into young adulthood, disapproving of her choice of a husband with potentially devastating consequences.

Stars: Wesley Addy, William Prince, Beverly Whitney

4. Ponds Theater (1953– )
Episode: Smilin' Through (1953)

60 min | Drama

A widower cares for his niece into young adulthood, disapproving of her choice of a husband with potentially devastating consequences.

Stars: Bethel Leslie, Richard Ney, Jack Sweeney

5. Broadway Television Theatre (1952–1954)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

This syndicated show presented adaptations of Broadway shows.

Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Edward Everett Horton, Melville Cooper, Ernest Truex

Votes: 37

6. Dragon Seed (1944)

Passed | 148 min | Drama, History, War

The lives of a small Chinese village are turned upside down when the Japanese invade it, and a heroic young woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against these invaders.

Directors: Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff

Votes: 1,341

7. Cry 'Havoc' (1943)

Passed | 97 min | Drama, War

A chronicle of the experiences of a mixed group of Army hospital volunteers stationed in Bataan during World War II.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell, Fay Bainter

Votes: 1,219

8. Flight for Freedom (1943)

Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War

The life of air pioneer Amelia Earhart is here given a fictionalized treatment, with a speculative conclusion.

Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Herbert Marshall, Eduardo Ciannelli

Votes: 303

9. Smilin' Through (1941)

Passed | 100 min | Musical, Romance

John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because at his wedding years ago, his bride Moonyean was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, Moonyean's 5-year-old orphaned niece... See full summary »

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond, Ian Hunter

Votes: 462 | Gross: $1.89M

10. Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)

Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Romance

Andy is all set to graduate from high school when he flunks his English exam--despite the fact that the Judge went through the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Votes: 597

11. Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Approved | 118 min | Drama, Romance

The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver

Votes: 9,228

12. Northwest Passage (1940)

Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.

Directors: King Vidor, Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey

Votes: 3,908

13. The Women (1939)

Not Rated | 133 min | Comedy, Drama

A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland

Votes: 14,916 | Gross: $2.27M

14. Stand Up and Fight (1939)

Passed | 97 min | Drama, History, Romance

It starts in 1844 in Maryland, where Blake Cantrell, plantation owner with slaves, is forced by debts to sell his estate and his people. Then he leaves for Cumberland, looking for a job (... See full summary »

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Wallace Beery, Robert Taylor, Florence Rice, Helen Broderick

Votes: 329

15. The Shining Hour (1938)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A nightclub dancer marries into high society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas

Votes: 1,295 | Gross: $0.94M

16. I'll Take Romance (1937)

Passed | 90 min | Music, Romance

An opera manager tries to woo a contract-breaking soprano into performing in Buenos Aires.

Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Grace Moore, Melvyn Douglas, Helen Westley, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 139

17. Come and Get It (1936)

Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.

Directors: Howard Hawks, William Wyler, Richard Rosson | Stars: Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan

Votes: 2,389

18. That Girl from Paris (1936)

Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a Parisian opera star, takes off in search of adventure and true-love, leaving her arranged husband to be at the altar. While hitchhiking, Nikki meets handsome ... See full summary »

Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, Gene Raymond, Herman Bing

Votes: 372

19. Alice Adams (1935)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Evelyn Venable

Votes: 4,572

20. Roberta (1935)

Passed | 106 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An American jazzman and his buddy woo a Russian princess and a fake countess in Paris.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott

Votes: 3,646

21. Break of Hearts (1935)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Romance

Franz Roberti is a famous orchestra conductor who has a number of girlfriends. While talking with his old music teacher, Professor Thalma, he meets Constance, an aspiring music composer. ... See full summary »

Director: Philip Moeller | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, John Beal, Jean Hersholt

Votes: 669

22. The Little Minister (1934)

Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance

In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums' Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp

Votes: 854

23. Spitfire (1934)

Passed | 87 min | Drama

A story about a savage girl in an American outback who is suspected of witchcraft.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy, Martha Sleeper

Votes: 905

24. Romance in Manhattan (1934)

Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Rejected as an immigrant because he doesn't have the required $200, a Czech immigrant jumps ship and is befriended by a chorus girl and becomes a taxi driver.

Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Arthur Hohl, Jimmy Butler

Votes: 827

25. The Fountain (1934)

Approved | 83 min | Drama, Romance

Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now ... See full summary »

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Ann Harding, Brian Aherne, Paul Lukas, Jean Hersholt

Votes: 124

26. 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

27. The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)

Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Promising politician John Shadwell is married to Laura but in love with Vergie Winters, a milliner from his hometown. As Shadwell's political career blooms, gossip and rumors begin to cause... See full summary »

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Ann Harding, John Boles, Helen Vinson, Betty Furness

Votes: 291

28. This Man Is Mine (1934)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

Irene Dunne is married to Ralph Bellamy. Their union is comfortable but all that changes when Bellamy's old flame Constance Cummings comes back to town. Will the the thrill of loves past disrupt their happy home?

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Constance Cummings, Ralph Bellamy, Kay Johnson

Votes: 386

29. Little Women (1933)

Passed | 115 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A chronicle of the lives of sisters growing up in 19th-century New England.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas, Edna May Oliver

Votes: 7,936 | Gross: $4.58M

30. After Tonight (1933)

Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance, War

While romancing a beautiful Russian countess, a captain in the Austrian intelligence service is assigned to capture "K-14", a clever spy who has so far managed to remain undetected. What ... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland, Edward Ellis, Sam Godfrey

Votes: 422

31. The Silver Cord (1933)

Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance

A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Joel McCrea, Laura Hope Crews, Eric Linden

Votes: 630

32. Double Harness (1933)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama

A woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Ann Harding, William Powell, Lucile Browne, Henry Stephenson

Votes: 1,296

33. Our Betters (1933)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Although the British upper class may be thought our betters in society, but they are certainly not our betters, and perhaps our equals, in morality.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Constance Bennett, Violet Kemble Cooper, Phoebe Foster, Grant Mitchell

Votes: 855

34. Ann Vickers (1933)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A prison reformer and a controversial judge fall in love and have a child out of wedlock.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 660

35. Smilin' Through (1932)

Approved | 98 min | Drama, Romance

The adoptive father of a young woman is horrified to learn she plans to marry the son of the man who accidentally killed her aunt years before.

Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard, O.P. Heggie

Votes: 1,555 | Gross: $2.19M

36. What Price Hollywood? (1932)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance

The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff

Votes: 2,589

37. Rockabye (1932)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Actress Judy Carroll, from the gas-house district has been trained, educated and developed so well by her manager, that not even the publicity-seeking world of the theater has guessed her ... See full summary »

Directors: George Cukor, George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Paul Lukas, Jobyna Howland

Votes: 523

38. Young Bride (1932)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A shy, naive New York children's librarian must become stronger and wiser after she discovers that her new husband is a liar, a cheat, and a fraud.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Eric Linden, Arline Judge, Roscoe Ates

Votes: 254

39. Caught Plastered (1931)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical

Wheeler and Woolsey play two unemployed vaudevillians who get involved in helping an old lady save her moribund drug store. Problems and laughs begin when the villain spikes the Lemon Sodas they are selling.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Lucy Beaumont

Votes: 275

40. Way Back Home (1931)

Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Seth Parker takes in Robbie Turner and protects him from his cruel father Rufe. When the father disappears, Seth intends to raise Robbie as his own son. The vindictive father attacks Mary ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Phillips Lord, Effie Palmer, Frank Albertson, Bette Davis

Votes: 905

41. White Shoulders (1931)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

After years of wilderness living, multi-millionaire Gordon Kent, who has made his fortune as a mining engineer, returns to New York City for good times and "white shoulders." There he meets... See full summary »

Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Mary Astor, Jack Holt, Ricardo Cortez, Sidney Toler

Votes: 16

42. Friends and Lovers (1931)

Passed | 68 min | Drama, Romance, War

British Army Captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Lili Damita, Laurence Olivier, Erich von Stroheim

Votes: 442

43. Too Many Cooks (1931)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance

Two young lovers are building their house, but their relatives don't stop interfering, finally cutting off the young man's income and alienating them, but he is impressing everybody by continuing working at his home.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Lee, Roscoe Ates, Robert McWade

Votes: 155

44. Leathernecking (1930)

Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Film version of the 1928 Rodgers and Hart Broadway musical "Present Arms" concerning Chick Evans, a Marine private in Honolulu who falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon and schemes ... See full summary »

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Irene Dunne, Ken Murray, Louise Fazenda, Ned Sparks

Votes: 47

45. The Runaway Bride (1930)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A young socialite and a rich playboy elope to Atlantic City. However, she soon realizes he's not the man she wants him to be and tries to call off the wedding. A jewelry store robbery, murder and other mayhem are soon involved.

Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Paul Hurst, David Newell

Votes: 293

46. 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

47. The Pay-Off (1930)

Passed | 70 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: 300

48. Street Girl (1929)

Passed | 87 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Betty Compson, John Harron, Jack Oakie, Ned Sparks

Votes: 478

49. Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929)

72 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. Peace and quiet are last things he gets, though, as there are some very strange things going on at the establishment.

Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Lucien Littlefield

Votes: 437

50. Side Street (1929)

Passed | 74 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Three successful Irish brothers cross paths in a very unexpected way.

Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Tom Moore, Owen Moore, Matt Moore, Emma Dunn

Votes: 107