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1. The Ten Commandments (1956)
G | 220 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson
Votes: 78,127 | Gross: $93.74M
2. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson
Votes: 53,402 | Gross: $4.36M
3. The Time Travelers (1964)
Approved | 84 min | Sci-Fi
In 1964, a group of scientists create a portal that takes them to a barren, mutant inhabited, Earth in the year 2071.
Director: Ib Melchior | Stars: Preston Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders, John Hoyt
Votes: 3,222
4. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
Passed | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After greedy men have Edmond Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 3,256
5. The Desperadoes (1943)
Approved | 87 min | Western
A wanted outlaw arrives in town to rob a bank that has already been held up! His past and his friendship with the sheriff land them both in trouble.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes
Votes: 1,639
6. Call of the Wild (1935)
Passed | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a traveler purchases a dog to lead the way toward the treasure, but reconsiders his journey when he finds a stranded widow.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen
Votes: 2,547
7. 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: 3,254
8. Come Next Spring (1956)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Romance
In 1920s Arkansas, after a 12 year absence, reformed alcoholic Matt Ballot returns to his abandoned family but has to win them back and regain his hometown's respect too.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennan, Sherry Jackson
Votes: 675
9. Anthony Adverse (1936)
Passed | 141 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise
Votes: 2,035
10. The Whistler (1944)
Passed | 59 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
A depressed man hires an assassin to kill him when he least expects it, but when his life takes an upward turn, he finds he now wishes to live.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Richard Dix, Gloria Stuart, J. Carrol Naish, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 1,136
11. Go West (1940)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Western
The Marx Brothers come to the rescue in the Wild West when a young man, trying to settle an old family feud so he can marry the girl he loves, runs afoul of crooks.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, John Carroll
Votes: 5,838
12. Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Jon Hall, Russell Hicks
Votes: 1,605
13. Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
Passed | 68 min | Mystery
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke, Charlotte Henry
Votes: 2,273
14. 8 Girls in a Boat (1934)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance
In an exclusive Swiss school for young girls, Christa Storm discovers that she is expecting a baby. She keeps the secret from everyone except her lover, young medical student David Perrin. ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Dorothy Wilson, Douglass Montgomery, Kay Johnson, Walter Connolly
Votes: 43
15. King of the Zombies (1941)
Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
On a spooky island, three stranded travelers find an evil doctor working with foreign spies and in control of zombies.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor
Votes: 2,513
16. Blue Skies (1946)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An ex-dancer and New York radio star narrates his love story for a band singer who loved a self-centered man who was unable to commit to his nightclub business or his family.
Directors: Stuart Heisler, Mark Sandrich | Stars: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, Billy De Wolfe
Votes: 1,572
17. The Hard Way (1943)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Embittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson
Votes: 1,497
18. Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)
Approved | 68 min | Mystery
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to ensure her silence.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Joan Marsh, J. Edward Bromberg
Votes: 1,602
19. The Rogues' Tavern (1936)
Approved | 70 min | Horror, Mystery
A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Wallace Ford, Barbara Pepper, Joan Woodbury, Clara Kimball Young
Votes: 562
20. Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Merle Oberon, Ann Sothern, Eric Blore
Votes: 345
21. Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945)
Approved | 243 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Chapter 1 finds Daily Flash newspaper reporter Brenda Starr (Joan Woodbury), and her photographer, Chuck Allen (Syd Saylor), assigned to cover a fire in an old house where they discover the... See full summary »
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Joan Woodbury, Kane Richmond, Ernie Adams, William 'Billy' Benedict
Votes: 91
22. Charlie Chan in the Chinese Cat (1944)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Charlie Chan investigates the locked-room murder of a chess expert.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Sidney Toler, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Benson Fong
Votes: 1,489
23. The Living Ghost (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A retired detective, Nick Trayne, is hired to look for a missing banker. During the investigation, the aforementioned banker returns in a zombie-like state. Trayne must track down the madman responsible for the banker's state.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: James Dunn, Joan Woodbury, Paul McVey, Vera Gordon
Votes: 683
24. Paper Bullets (1941)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Circumstances force naive Dorothy Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Joan Woodbury, Jack La Rue, Linda Ware, John Archer
Votes: 363
25. Bring on the Girls (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Eddie Bracken, Marjorie Reynolds
Votes: 162
26. Man from Headquarters (1942)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Crime reporter Larry Doyle, who contributes to the capture of the Padroni gang, is later framed for murder by the gang leader.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Frank Albertson, Joan Woodbury, Dick Elliott, Byron Foulger
Votes: 115
27. Barnyard Follies (1940)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Pappy, the manager of the Farmdale orphanage, appropriates five thousand dollars of the taxpayers' money to enroll his charges in a 4-H project that could make the orphanage self-sufficient... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Mary Lee, Rufe Davis, June Storey, Jed Prouty
Votes: 54
28. Nobody's Baby (1937)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
After trying to break into show business, two mismatched friends become nurses. One of their patients is a new mother who has hidden her pregnancy from her husband, the nightclub dancing ... See full summary »
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Patsy Kelly, Lyda Roberti, Lynne Overman, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 170
29. Flame of the West (1945)
Passed | 71 min | Western
John Poole, a lawman turned peace-loving doctor, refuses to use force to tame the lawless element of the town. Tom Nightlander, newly-appointed sheriff, who uses both his fists and guns ... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Joan Woodbury, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 113
30. Forty Naughty Girls (1937)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
While Oscar and Hildegarde are attending a Broadway show, a press agent is shot in an actress' dressing room and an actor is murdered onstage in full view of the audience. Oscar and Hildegarde are on the case.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord, George Shelley
Votes: 444
31. Northwest Trail (1945)
Approved | 66 min | Western
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to leave.
Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: Bob Steele, Joan Woodbury, John Litel, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 161
32. God's Country and the Woman (1937)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Jeff cuts off his allowance and puts him to work, but on his first day, he is tricked into signing a ... See full summary »
Director: William Keighley | Stars: George Brent, Beverly Roberts, Barton MacLane, Robert Barrat
Votes: 260
33. Phantom Killer (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, John Hamilton, Warren Hymer
Votes: 252
34. Yankee Fakir (1947)
Approved | 71 min | Western
Yankee and his pitchman partner Newton arrive in the border town of Mystic; when a border patrolman dies Yankee investigates to get to the truth.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Douglas Fowley, Joan Woodbury, Clem Bevans, Ransom M. Sherman
Votes: 115
35. Cipher Bureau (1938)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Leon Ames, Charlotte Wynters, Joan Woodbury, Don Dillaway
Votes: 101
36. Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Blackie is accused of murdering a man at an art auction, which leads to the uncovering of an art racket.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Chester Morris, Harriet Nelson, Richard Lane, George E. Stone
Votes: 507
37. Dr. Broadway (1942)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
New York City physician, Dr. Timothy Kane, knows Broadway, the Great White Way and all of its characters thoroughly, as does his receptionist, Connie Madigan. A man Kane had sent to prison ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Jean Phillips, J. Carrol Naish, Richard Lane
Votes: 136
38. Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture (1949)
Approved | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Chester Morris, Maylia, Richard Lane, Don McGuire
Votes: 350
39. There Goes My Girl (1937)
Approved | 74 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A screwball comedy in the vein of His Girl Friday (1940). Jerry and Connie are ace reporters for rival newspapers. They are engaged to be married, but their employers try every trick in the... See full summary »
Directors: Ben Holmes, Edward Killy | Stars: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Gordon Jones, Richard Lane
Votes: 226
40. Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)
Not Rated | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries.
Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: William Cagney, Edward J. Nugent, June Collyer, Edmund Breese
Votes: 137
41. The Eagle's Brood (1935)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Western
When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: William Boyd, James Ellison, William Farnum, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 256
42. Mystery of the White Room (1939)
Approved | 58 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
In the middle of an eye-surgery operation in a large hospital, the lights in the operating room go out and the chief surgeon is murdered. It is the job of Police-Detective Spencer to figure... See full summary »
Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Helen Mack, Joan Woodbury, Constance Worth
Votes: 84
43. Song of the Gringo (1936)
Passed | 62 min | Western
Tex is sent to investigate miners being killed and their mines confiscated. The culprit is Evans and after Tex joins the gang, he is sent to kill two more miners. When Estaban is killed, Tex is put on trial for all three murders.
Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Tex Ritter, Ted Adams, White Flash, Joan Woodbury
Votes: 183
44. The Arnelo Affair (1947)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A lawyer's wife starts an affair with a mobster but is confronted by his other flame who ends up murdered and the adulterous wife is set up to take the blame for the killing.
Director: Arch Oboler | Stars: John Hodiak, George Murphy, Frances Gifford, Dean Stockwell
Votes: 459
45. Super-Sleuth (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery
An actor who plays a detective in films soon finds himself out of his depth when he tries to investigate a real crime.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Jack Oakie, Ann Sothern, Eduardo Ciannelli, Alan Bruce
Votes: 395
46. Here Comes Trouble (1948)
Approved | 55 min | Comedy
A newspaper publisher sends his future son-in-law to handle a job that ends up with unexpected trouble.
Director: Fred Guiol | Stars: William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Emory Parnell, Betty Compson
Votes: 304
47. I'll Sell My Life (1941)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As Freddie and Lugger, employees of Bovhini, are waiting in the parking lot of the Club Sirocco for Ruth Parmelee, they see a woman accost Ruth and then shoot her and speed away in a car. ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Rose Hobart, Michael Whalen, Stanley Fields, Joan Woodbury
Votes: 61
48. I Killed That Man (1941)
Passed | 71 min | Mystery
Just prior to his execution, a condemned murderer decides to tell the authorities who hired him to commit the murder. However, he's killed by a poison dart in front of a roomful of ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Joan Woodbury, Pat Gleason, George Pembroke
Votes: 208
49. Sunset Serenade (1942)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Bob Nolan, Sons of the Pioneers
Votes: 138
50. Luck of Roaring Camp (1937)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Western
When the miners of Roaring Camp become Godfathers to a motherless baby, they name the boy Luck and promise to set aside money for him from their diggings. But when they strike it rich the money is gambled away instead.
Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Owen Davis Jr., Charles Brokaw, Joan Woodbury, Sheila Bromley
Votes: 68