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1. Roadblock (1951)

Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Honest LA insurance detective Joe Peters becomes corrupt after falling in love with sensual gold-digger model Diane.

Director: Harold Daniels | Stars: Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore, Louis Jean Heydt

Votes: 1,580

2. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Musical

A filmmaker attempts to sell a surreal script he has written, which comes to life as he pitches it.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Billy Lenhart

Votes: 2,643

3. Words and Music (1929)

Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Music

Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.

Director: James Tinling | Stars: Lois Moran, Tom Patricola, David Percy, Helen Twelvetrees

Votes: 91

4. Li'l Abner (1940)

Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Romance

The goings-on in the rural Southern community of Dogpatch, USA.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Jeff York, Martha O'Driscoll, Mona Ray, Johnnie Morris

Votes: 522

5. The Squall (1929)

Passed | 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: 435

6. Diplomaniacs (1933)

Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Musical

Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop on an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Marjorie White, Phyllis Barry

Votes: 344

7. Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Family, Music

Blondie takes over Dagwood's job while he goes off on a fishing trip.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Jonathan Hale

Votes: 408

8. One Hour Late (1934)

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

When the romance between radio-singer Eddie Blake and Bessie Dunn goes sour through a series of misunderstanding, Bessie packs to take a week-end trip with the station boss,Stephen Barclay,... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Joe Morrison, Helen Twelvetrees, Conrad Nagel, Arline Judge

Votes: 67

9. Swamp Fire (1946)

Approved | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the delta county of Louisiana, Johnny Duval is haunted by recurring nightmares of his wartime experiences.

Director: William H. Pine | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Virginia Grey, Buster Crabbe, Carol Thurston

Votes: 277

10. Sitting Pretty (1933)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Chick Parker and Pete Pendleton are songwriters en route from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune, joined by lunch-wagon proprietor Dorothy.

Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Ginger Rogers, Gregory Ratoff

Votes: 194

11. Detective Lloyd (1932)

Passed | 216 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.

Directors: Henry MacRae, Ray Taylor | Stars: Jack Lloyd, Wallace Geoffrey, Muriel Angelus, Lewis Dayton

Votes: 39

12. The Night Before the Divorce (1942)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

George Nordyke is married to Lynn, the perfect wife, but is unhappy about it; his wife is so competent that poor George's masculine ego never gets exercised. But along comes a spider with a... See full summary »

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Joseph Allen, Nils Asther

Votes: 108

13. The Woman from Tangier (1948)

Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

This one has Nylon, an American dancer fleeing Morocco after her employer gets into trouble with the police, and she stops off at Tangiers on her way to Gibraltar. $50,000, in gold, is ... See full summary »

Director: Harold Daniels | Stars: Adele Jergens, Stephen Dunne, Ian MacDonald, Donna Martell

Votes: 55

14. We're in the Legion Now (1936)

Passed | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two petty gangsters trying to elude their enemies join the French Foreign Legion.

Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston, Vince Barnett, Eleanor Hunt

Votes: 101

15. Call of the South Seas (1944)

Approved | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Princess Tahia, a beautiful French Polynesian idealist, falls in love with an American spy whose mission is to extradite an American embezzler living large on her South Pacific island.

Director: John English | Stars: Janet Martin, Allan Lane, William Henry, Roy Barcroft

Votes: 58

16. Cross Country Cruise (1934)

Passed | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Story of several passengers, including an escaped killer, on a cross-country bus trip.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Lew Ayres, June Knight, Alice White, Alan Dinehart

Votes: 107

17. After the Fog (1930)

Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Millionaire Joshua Barker insists that his daughter Faith must marry Phil Langhorne, a man that neither likes, and Faith is in love with and eager to marry her childhood sweetheart, John ... See full summary »

Director: Leander De Cordova | Stars: Mary Philbin, Edmund Burns, Carmelita Geraghty, Russell Simpson

Votes: 38

18. The Scarlet Lady (1928)

Passed | 72 min | Drama

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Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Lya De Putti, Don Alvarado, Warner Oland, Otto Matieson

Votes: 21

19. 3-Ring Marriage (1928)

Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Drama

All three rings are filled in this film, the first FFM trans adult entertainment film to be shown in cinema.

Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Lawford Davidson, Yola d'Avril

Votes: 31

20. As the Earth Turns (1934)

Passed | 73 min | Drama, Romance

Drama following the lives of an immigrant farm family in Maine.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Jean Muir, Donald Woods, Russell Hardie, Emily Lowry

Votes: 272

21. The Cheerful Fraud (1926)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Sir Michael Fairlie meets Ann Kent, a social secretary to the Bytheways, during a rainstorm in London, and though she snubs him, he promptly falls in love. He intercepts Simmons, an ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Reginald Denny, Gertrude Olmstead, Otis Harlan, Emily Fitzroy

Votes: 33

22. Pacific Rendezvous (1942)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Anxious to see some naval action in the Pacific during WWII, Lt. Bill Gordon makes the mistake of telling his new girlfriend, ditzy Elaine Carter, that he was an expert in deciphering codes... See full summary »

Director: George Sidney | Stars: Lee Bowman, Jean Rogers, Mona Maris, Carl Esmond

Votes: 192

23. Under Cover of Night (1937)

Passed | 71 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery

A crazed, philandering professor prevents his studious wife from leaving him by committing the perfect murder.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Florence Rice, Nat Pendleton, Henry Daniell

Votes: 176

24. Tom and His Pals (1926)

Passed | 54 min | Western

Tom Duffy, whose father is the half-owner of the Flying-U Ranch, spends half his time reading movie magazines and the other half with Mary Smith. Mary and her kid-brother, Frankie, are ... See full summary »

Director: Robert De Lacey | Stars: Tom Tyler, Doris Hill, Frankie Darro, Dick Brandon

Votes: 23

25. Hurricane Hutch (1921)

Passed | 300 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Story concerns a paper mill, a mortgage and the struggle to obtain the lost formula for making paper from seaweed. Star is given opportunity to introduce many daredevil features.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Charles Hutchison, Warner Oland, Lucy Fox, Diana Deer

Votes: 27

26. Fancy Baggage (1929)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.

Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Audrey Ferris, Myrna Loy, George Fawcett, Hallam Cooley

Votes: 16

27. Snowdrift (1923)

Passed | 50 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Renegade mining engineer Carter Brent loses his money gambling in the Yukon. He falls in love with Snowdrift, a reputed "half-breed" who is actually a Caucasian orphan reared by a Native ... See full summary »

Director: Scott R. Dunlap | Stars: Buck Jones, Bert Sprotte, Gertrude Ryan, Colin Chase

28. The Net (1923)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Allayne Norman's husband, Bruce, a gambler and a drinker, quarrels with her cousin, an artist, and kills him. Bruce flees, having exchanged identities with a stranger who, suffering from ... See full summary »

Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Barbara Castleton, Raymond Bloomer, Alan Roscoe, Peggy Davis

Votes: 62

29. Masked Mirth (1917)

Comedy, Short

A scientist invents an insidious bomb: It doesn't blow up, doesn't spread toxic gas, it doesn't kill. Instead, victims are thrown into uncontrolled fits of dancing which lead to their doom. And the enemy will stop at nothing to get it.

Director: Robin Williamson | Stars: Ben Turpin, Arthur Currier, Lillian Hamilton, Edward J. Laurie

Votes: 11