Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen

by Flosive | created - 15 Apr 2012 | updated - 11 Jan 2021 | Public

All movies featured in the documentary series 'Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen' (and lol at the 10,060 views this list has gotten so far. I hope you weren't too disappointed by what you found here).

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1. Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen (1996)

50 min | Documentary, History

A six hour series exploring the 100 year evolution of sexuality and censorship in motion pictures.

Stars: Raquel Welch, Jason Alexander, Dan Aykroyd, Marisa Tomei

Votes: 108

2. A Trip to the Moon (1902)

TV-G | 13 min | Short, Action, Adventure

A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.

Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet

Votes: 55,739

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

3. The Kiss (1896)

Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Romance

In a medium close-up shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at hair's breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides to give his chosen one an innocent peck.

Director: William Heise | Stars: May Irwin, John C. Rice

Votes: 3,673

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

4. The Golden Beetle (1907)

Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy

A sorcerer tosses an iridescent little beetle into a flaming ceremonial cauldron, and much to his amazement, a six-winged fairy in the body of a beautiful young woman emerges. Is his sorcery potent enough to tame her?

Directors: Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca

Votes: 928

Hand colored movie Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

5. Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp (1906)

12 min | Short, Fantasy

The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an evil magician, steals the lamp for ... See full summary »

Director: Albert Capellani | Stars: Georges Vinter, Paul Capellani, Liane de Pougy, André Deed

Votes: 445

Hand colored movie Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

6. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1902)

9 min | Adventure, Short

An early adaptation of the Ali Baba tale.

Director: Ferdinand Zecca

Votes: 422

Hand colored movie Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

7. Beware of My Husband (1906)

6 min | Short, Comedy

A man says goodbye to his wife. Once he is gone, his wife invites her lover in. However, the husband has missed his train. What will happen when he returns?

Director: Georges Hatot

Votes: 18

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

8. Fatima (1897)

Short

"A well-known oriental dancer in a dance du ventre to the music of a Turkish band."

Star: Fatima

Votes: 79

May have been a different 'Fatima' short.

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

9. Traffic in Souls (1913)

TV-PG | 88 min | Crime, Drama

With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.

Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner, Matt Moore

Votes: 729 | Gross: $0.43M

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

10. A Fool There Was (1915)

Not Rated | 67 min | Drama

A married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.

Director: Frank Powell | Stars: Theda Bara, Edward José, Mabel Frenyear, May Allison

Votes: 1,040

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

11. Cleopatra (1917)

125 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony.

Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall, Alan Roscoe

Votes: 393

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

12. Intolerance (1916)

Passed | 163 min | Drama, History

99 Metascore

The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, F.A. Turner

Votes: 16,716 | Gross: $2.18M

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

13. Male and Female (1919)

Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Drama

Lady Mary Lasenby is a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Robert Cain

Votes: 1,974

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

14. The Spanish Dancer (1923)

103 min | Drama, History, Romance

A love story between Don Cesar de Bazan and a beautiful Gypsy dancer.

Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Pola Negri, Antonio Moreno, Wallace Beery, Kathlyn Williams

Votes: 105 | Gross: $0.31M

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

15. The Ten Commandments (1923)

Passed | 136 min | Biography, Drama, History

After hearing the story of Moses, the sons of a devout Christian mother go their own ways, and the atheist brother's breaking of the Ten Commandments leads to tragedy.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Theodore Roberts, Charles de Rochefort, Estelle Taylor, Julia Faye

Votes: 2,660 | Gross: $5.36M

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

16. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

Passed | 150 min | Drama, Romance, War

An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard

Votes: 3,549 | Gross: $9.20M

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

17. Blood and Sand (1922)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

A toreador's (Rudolph Valentino) familial and social life is threatened when he has an affair.

Directors: Fred Niblo, Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Rosa Rosanova, Leo White, Rosita Marstini

Votes: 1,534 | Gross: $2.73M

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

18. The Son of the Sheik (1926)

Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

The son of the sheik and a dancing girl fall in love, but when he is made to believe she has betrayed him he seeks revenge.

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett, Montagu Love

Votes: 2,129 | Gross: $1.56M

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

19. It (1927)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance

A salesgirl pursues a handsome playboy.

Directors: Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin, Priscilla Bonner

Votes: 3,569 | Gross: $0.41M

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

20. Hula (1927)

64 min | Drama, Romance

The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Clara Bow, Clive Brook, Arlette Marchal, Arnold Kent

Votes: 298 | Gross: $0.44M

Nude bathing scene, movie unnamed. Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

21. Pandora's Box (1929)

Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz

Votes: 11,853 | Gross: $0.01M

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

22. The Heart of Humanity (1918)

105 min | Drama, Romance, War

An American woman is terrorized by the ravages of war and a lecherous Prussian lieutenant when she becomes a Red Cross nurse overseas during the Great War.

Director: Allen Holubar | Stars: Dorothy Phillips, William Stowell, Robert Anderson, Walt Whitman

Votes: 113

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

23. Flesh and the Devil (1926)

Passed | 112 min | Drama

Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other fiercely loves.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent

Votes: 4,631 | Gross: $1.61M

Episode 1: Sex and the Silent Screen

24. Blonde Venus (1932)

Passed | 93 min | Drama

A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall, Dickie Moore

Votes: 5,621

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

25. Der blaue Engel (1930)

Passed | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance

90 Metascore

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti

Votes: 16,292 | Gross: $0.08M

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

26. Morocco (1930)

Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance

A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt

Votes: 7,479

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

27. Hell's Angels (1930)

Passed | 127 min | Drama, War

Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.

Directors: Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale | Stars: Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow

Votes: 5,963 | Gross: $5.45M

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

28. Red-Headed Woman (1932)

Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Lillian (Jean Harlow) relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man (Chester Morris).

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams

Votes: 3,537

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

29. Dinner at Eight (1933)

Passed | 111 min | Drama

Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow

Votes: 9,014 | Gross: $4.58M

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

30. Red Dust (1932)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

66 Metascore

The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor

Votes: 4,930 | Gross: $1.70M

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

31. Chained (1934)

Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 1,114

Unnamed Clark Gable film, possibly this one. Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

32. Possessed (1931)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

An ambitious factory girl meets a handsome, wealthy lawyer, but he's interested in her as a mistress, not a wife.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Votes: 2,306

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

33. Rain (1932)

Passed | 94 min | Drama

A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks Jr.

Votes: 3,033 | Gross: $1.17M

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

34. Child Bride (1938)

62 min | Drama

A schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying underage girls.

Director: Harry Revier | Stars: Shirley Mills, Bob Bollinger, Warner Richmond, Diana Durrell

Votes: 1,094

Name check only. Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

35. Slaves in Bondage (1937)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Berrywood Roadhouse is a den of iniquity outside of town. Crooks use a beauty shop to recruit floozies into vice. The crooks target Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon and is pursued by reporter wannabe Phillip as their next victim.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Lona Andre, Donald Reed, Wheeler Oakman, Florence Dudley

Votes: 242

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

36. Assassin of Youth (1938)

Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama

A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Luana Walters, Arthur Gardner, Dorothy Short, Earl Dwire

Votes: 467

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

37. Lash of the Penitentes (1936)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Actual footage of Penitentes - a sect of Catholic religious fanatics who engage in self-flagellation - is combined with new footage about a murder.

Directors: Roland Price, Harry Revier | Stars: Marie DeForrest, William Marcos, Victor Justi, Josef Swickard

Votes: 67

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

38. Inyaah (Jungle Goddess) (1934)

70 min | Adventure

Two white explorers, American Tom Dawes and Scotsman Sandy Kemp, travel to the Dyak villages of Borneo, where they hear stories of a primitive, remote tribe, that is ruled by a "white ... See full synopsis »

Director: J.C. Cook | Star: Gayne Whitman

Votes: 23

as 'Forbidden Adventure'. Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

39. Elysia (Valley of the Nude) (1933)

TV-MA | 46 min | Drama

A reporter is assigned to write an article on a nudist camp.

Director: Carl Harbaugh | Stars: Constance Allen, Betty De Salle, Bryan Foy, Hobart Glassey

Votes: 191

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

40. The Broadway Melody (1929)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

66 Metascore

A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, Eddie Kane

Votes: 8,002 | Gross: $6.12M

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

41. Flying Down to Rio (1933)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

72 Metascore

A bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer.

Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien, Ginger Rogers

Votes: 4,024 | Gross: $2.01M

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

42. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler

Votes: 9,141 | Gross: $4.80M

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

43. Fashions of 1934 (1934)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert

Votes: 2,015 | Gross: $0.86M

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

44. Dames (1934)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Musical

A multimillionaire decides to boycott "filthy" forms of entertainment such as Broadway shows.

Directors: Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Zasu Pitts

Votes: 2,430

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

45. Illicit (1931)

Unrated | 79 min | Drama, Romance

A young couple lives together out of wedlock, but they find that they're ahead of their time.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez, Natalie Moorhead

Votes: 1,168

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

46. Sinners' Holiday (1930)

Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance

Ma Delano (Lucille LaVerne) runs a boardwalk penny arcade and lives upstairs with her sons Harry and Joe (James Cagney and Ray Gallagher) and daughter Jennie (Evalyn Knapp); their story ... See full summary »

Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Grant Withers, Evalyn Knapp, James Cagney, Joan Blondell

Votes: 702

Movie poster only. Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

47. Ladies They Talk About (1933)

Approved | 69 min | Drama

Attractive Nan, member of a bank-robbery gang, goes to prison thanks to evangelist Dave Slade...who loves her.

Directors: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess

Votes: 1,827

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

48. The Dentist (1932)

Passed | 21 min | Comedy, Short

An unconventional dentist deals with a variety of eccentric and difficult patients in slapstick fashion.

Director: Leslie Pearce | Stars: W.C. Fields, Marjorie Kane, Arnold Gray, Dorothy Granger

Votes: 1,763

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

49. Night After Night (1932)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Drama

A successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: George Raft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson, Mae West

Votes: 1,065

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

50. 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: 7,036 | Gross: $4.80M

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

51. Baby Face (1933)

Approved | 71 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank by gleefully seducing her way to the top.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier

Votes: 8,161

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

52. A Lost Lady (1934)

Passed | 61 min | Drama, Romance

Two days before Marian and Ned are to be married, he is killed by the husband of a woman he was seeing on the side. Marian becomes withdrawn and they send her to the Canadian Rockies for ... See full summary »

Directors: Alfred E. Green, Phil Rosen | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 540

Movie poster only as 'Lost Lady'. Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

53. 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: 902

Name check only. Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

54. The Story of Temple Drake (1933)

Not Rated | 70 min | Drama

A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.

Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue, Florence Eldridge

Votes: 1,842

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

55. I'm No Angel (1933)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold

Votes: 3,982 | Gross: $6.21M

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

56. Belle of the Nineties (1934)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Ruby Carter, the American Beauty queen of the night club-sporting world, shifts her operations from St. Louis to New Orleans, mostly to get away from prizefighter Tiger Kid. Installed as ... See full summary »

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown, John Miljan

Votes: 915

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

57. Klondike Annie (1936)

Passed | 78 min | Western

Carlton Rose, a girl known as "the Frisco Doll" escapes to Alaska after accidentally killing her guard.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Mae West, Victor McLaglen, Phillip Reed, Helen Jerome Eddy

Votes: 792

Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

58. Maytime (1937)

Passed | 132 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery

An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore, Herman Bing

Votes: 1,182

Shown as an example of the "wishy-washy, milk and water pictures" that censor Will H. Hays demanded. Episode 2: The Temptations of Eve

59. Dinner at Eight (1933)

Passed | 111 min | Drama

Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow

Votes: 9,014 | Gross: $4.58M

Episode 3: Censored

60. China Seas (1935)

Passed | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When earthy Dolly Portland is rejected by Captain Gaskell in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle, in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize Gaskell's ship.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone

Votes: 2,943

Episode 3: Censored

61. Platinum Blonde (1931)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Halliwell Hobbes

Votes: 3,455

Episode 3: Censored

62. Blonde Venus (1932)

Passed | 93 min | Drama

A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall, Dickie Moore

Votes: 5,621

Episode 3: Censored

63. Rain (1932)

Passed | 94 min | Drama

A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks Jr.

Votes: 3,033 | Gross: $1.17M

Episode 3: Censored

64. Bombshell (1933)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

81 Metascore

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, Franchot Tone

Votes: 3,140

Episode 3: Censored

65. It Happened One Night (1934)

Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

87 Metascore

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns

Votes: 112,234 | Gross: $4.36M

Episode 3: Censored

66. 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: 2,697 | Gross: $5.97M

Episode 3: Censored

67. Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

Passed | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

The idyllic life of Tarzan and Jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory, and come seeking Jane as well.

Directors: Cedric Gibbons, James C. McKay, Jack Conway | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanagh

Votes: 5,569

Episode 3: Censored

68. Ecstasy (1933)

TV-MA | 82 min | Drama, Romance

Eva has just got married to an older gentleman. She leaves him, and one day, she meets a young man, and they fall in love. Fate brings the husband together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.

Director: Gustav Machatý | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Zvonimir Rogoz, Aribert Mog, Leopold Kramer

Votes: 2,779

Episode 3: Censored

69. Algiers (1938)

Passed | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A wanted jewel thief ensconced in the Casbah meets a beautiful woman who makes him long for an escape.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 3,246

Episode 3: Censored

70. White Cargo (1942)

Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Drama

The story takes place at a British plantation in Africa where Tondelayo entices all the Brits, especially Harry Witzel.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson

Votes: 819

Episode 3: Censored

71. They Drive by Night (1940)

Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino

Votes: 8,816

as 'They Drive by Night'. Episode 3: Censored

72. Of Human Bondage (1934)

Passed | 83 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold, unfeeling waitress who might ultimately destroy them both.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson

Votes: 8,381

Episode 3: Censored

73. Ex-Lady (1933)

Unrated | 67 min | Comedy, Drama

Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Bette Davis, Gene Raymond, Frank McHugh, Monroe Owsley

Votes: 1,691 | Gross: $0.50M

Movie poster only. Episode 3: Censored

74. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War

97 Metascore

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil

Votes: 334,174 | Gross: $198.68M

Episode 3: Censored

75. Captain Blood (1935)

Passed | 119 min | Action, Adventure, History

89 Metascore

After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone

Votes: 16,094 | Gross: $2.96M

Episode 3: Censored

76. They Won't Forget (1937)

Passed | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger

Votes: 1,941

Episode 3: Censored

77. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy

This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting.

Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen, Hans Brausewetter

Votes: 2,183

Episode 3: Censored

78. I Wanted Wings (1941)

Approved | 135 min | Drama, War

The personal and professional lives of three men from different walks of life who join the U.S. Army Air Corps are depicted.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy

Votes: 558

Episode 3: Censored

79. Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

Passed | 132 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

In the 1920s, three women become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies, where they find fame, love, and tragedy.

Directors: Busby Berkeley, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner

Votes: 3,452

Episode 3: Censored

80. Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.

Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong

Votes: 3,411

Episode 3: Censored

81. The All-Star Bond Rally (1945)

18 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Inspirational documentary short film featuring Hollywood stars promoting the sales of War Bonds through songs and skits.

Director: Michael Audley | Stars: Bob Hope, Vivian Blaine, Jeanne Crain, Bing Crosby

Votes: 64

Episode 3: Censored

82. Gilda (1946)

Approved | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 35,251

Episode 3: Censored

83. Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest

Votes: 28,512

Episode 3: Censored

84. The Lady Eve (1941)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

96 Metascore

A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 23,374

Episode 3: Censored

85. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)

Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Romance, War

86 Metascore

After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest

Votes: 7,941

Episode 3: Censored

86. Double Indemnity (1944)

Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

95 Metascore

A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr

Votes: 167,404 | Gross: $5.72M

Episode 3: Censored

87. Casablanca (1942)

PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War

100 Metascore

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains

Votes: 605,818 | Gross: $1.02M

Episode 3: Censored

88. To Have and Have Not (1944)

Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Film-Noir

90 Metascore

During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran

Votes: 37,994

Episode 3: Censored

89. The Outlaw (1943)

G | 116 min | Drama, Western

Western legends Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid are played against each other over the law and the attentions of vivacious country vixen Rio McDonald.

Directors: Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks | Stars: Jack Buetel, Thomas Mitchell, Jane Russell, Walter Huston

Votes: 4,979

Episode 3: Censored

90. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Passed | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

85 Metascore

A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore

Votes: 29,935

Episode 3: Censored

91. Notorious (1946)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

100 Metascore

The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern

Votes: 107,241 | Gross: $10.46M

Episode 4: Hollywood Comes of Age

92. Out of the Past (1947)

Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

85 Metascore

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming

Votes: 40,898

Episode 4: Hollywood Comes of Age

93. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders

Votes: 33,297 | Gross: $0.01M

Episode 4: Hollywood Comes of Age

94. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Passed | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

84 Metascore

A married woman and a drifter fall in love and then plot to murder her husband.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn

Votes: 22,870 | Gross: $8.33M

Episode 4: Hollywood Comes of Age

95. Ditte, Child of Man (1946)

99 min | Drama

Ditte grows up with her grandparents. When the mother moves with Lars Peter, Ditte is taken home to take care of her siblings. She comes to work at Bakkegården, but is thrown out as she awaits children.

Director: Bjarne Henning-Jensen | Stars: Tove Maës, Karen Poulsen, Rasmus Ottesen, Karen Lykkehus

Votes: 450

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Episode 4: Hollywood Comes of Age

97. Bitter Rice (1949)

Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

Director: Giuseppe De Santis | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone

Votes: 4,875

Episode 4: Hollywood Comes of Age

98. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)

Unrated | 126 min | Drama

At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan

Votes: 9,366 | Gross: $21.30M

Episode 4: Hollywood Comes of Age

99. Stromboli (1950)

Approved | 81 min | Drama

Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo

Votes: 7,961

Episode 4: Hollywood Comes of Age

100. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

PG | 122 min | Drama

97 Metascore

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden

Votes: 114,308 | Gross: $8.00M

Episode 4: Hollywood Comes of Age



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