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1. Arrowsmith (1931)
Approved | 108 min | Drama
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E. Anson
Votes: 1,997
2. Street Scene (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 2,054
3. The Easiest Way (1931)
Passed | 73 min | Drama, Romance
Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. After falling in ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Constance Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page
Votes: 617
4. The Devil's Brother (1933)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Musical
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman who secretly masquerades as notorious outlaw Fra Diavolo.
Directors: Hal Roach, Charley Rogers | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd
Votes: 2,095
5. Counsellor at Law (1933)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns that his wife has been unfaithful.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 1,509
6. Let's Fall in Love (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A Hollywood director finds himself in trouble when his last Swedish discovery steps out of the ongoing shooting. He finds the perfect candidate in a fair girl. Only, she is no Swedish; but that can always be arranged.
Director: David Burton | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Ann Sothern, Miriam Jordan, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 128
7. Upperworld (1934)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A rich man (Warren William) starts an affair with a showgirl (Ginger Rogers), and when the girl's manager (J. Carrol Naish), finds out, he decides to blackmail him.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Warren William, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers, Andy Devine
Votes: 664
8. Our Daily Bread (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune... and bread!
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards
Votes: 2,196
9. Servants' Entrance (1934)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
The daughter of a rich man going through financial difficulties takes a job as a maid and falls in love with the chauffeur.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres, Ned Sparks, Walter Connolly
Votes: 58
10. Hi, Nellie (1934)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The managing editor for a newspaper, in hot water with his boss, is demoted to writing the "Nellie Nelson" heart throb column, where he gets the unexpected opportunity to crack a major story.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks, Robert Barrat
Votes: 599
11. He Was Her Man (1934)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Dan Curly sends two hitmen to kill double-crossing Flicker Hayes, who retreats to a small village with ex-prostitute Rose to hide.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Victor Jory, Frank Craven
Votes: 692
12. Straight Is the Way (1934)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Romance
Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Franchot Tone, May Robson, Karen Morley, Gladys George
Votes: 218
13. 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: James Dunn, Alice Faye, Frank Mitchell, Jack Durant
Votes: 176
14. Sing and Like It (1934)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy
A gangster becomes enamored of a dowdy amateur off-key singer and tries to force a producer to put her in his Broadway production.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Pert Kelton, Edward Everett Horton, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 461
15. Fugitive Lovers (1934)
82 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hoping to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the way the bus picks up escaped convict ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 229
16. Private Scandal (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
"Private Scandal" is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Vera Caspary, Garrett Fort and Bruce Manning. The film stars ZaSu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Mary Brian, Ned Sparks
Votes: 33
17. Black Fury (1935)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan, Barton MacLane
Votes: 1,059
18. The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but she can't even consider ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Slim Summerville
Votes: 484
19. Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Mystery
Hired to investigate forged bonds, Charlie is thwarted by the murder of his undercover agent, but the arrival of son Lee helps him uncover the true culprits.
Directors: Lewis Seiler, Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Warner Oland, Mary Brian, Thomas Beck, Erik Rhodes
Votes: 1,750
20. The Three Musketeers (1935)
Approved | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, ... See full summary »
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Walter Abel, Paul Lukas, Margot Grahame, Heather Angel
Votes: 405
21. Whipsaw (1935)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance
Hoping to nab a gang of jewel thieves, a government agent poses as a crook and travels across the country with a female thief.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Harvey Stephens, William Harrigan
Votes: 930
22. One More Spring (1935)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
One More Spring is a 1935 film about three people (Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, and Walter Woolf King) living together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on... See full summary »
Director: Henry King | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Walter Woolf King, Jane Darwell
Votes: 131
23. The Great Hotel Murder (1935)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Rosemary Ames, Mary Carlisle
Votes: 81
24. Doubting Thomas (1935)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Will Rogers, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 206
25. Silk Hat Kid (1935)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls ... See full summary »
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, Paul Kelly, Ralf Harolde
Votes: 46
26. Chasing Yesterday (1935)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Romance
An archaeologist is reminded of a past romance which sends him on a trip to the country, where he falls for the orphaned daughter of his former sweetheart.
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Anne Shirley, O.P. Heggie, Helen Westley, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 134
27. Thunder in the Night (1935)
69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
On a windy evening in Budapest, police Captain Karl Torok meets with his superior, the prefect of police, who has just lost the position of president of the cabinet to Torok's friend since ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Karen Morley, Paul Cavanagh, Una O'Connor
Votes: 94
28. Man of Iron (1935)
Passed | 61 min | Drama
Steel mill foreman Chris Bennett (Barton MacLane) is well-liked by his men. His rapport with them leads to his promotion to general manager, and then vice-president, over Ed Tanahill (John ... See full synopsis »
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Barton MacLane, Mary Astor, John Eldredge, Dorothy Peterson
Votes: 121
29. Orchids to You (1935)
74 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: John Boles, Jean Muir, Charles Butterworth, Ruthelma Stevens
Votes: 47
30. Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband's relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, May Robson
Votes: 3,871
31. The Road to Glory (1936)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, War
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, June Lang
Votes: 613
32. Meet Nero Wolfe (1936)
73 min | Crime, Mystery
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of... See full summary »
Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: Edward Arnold, Lionel Stander, Joan Perry, Victor Jory
Votes: 296
33. The Country Doctor (1936)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for delivering his services in a lumber town until he delivers the Dionne quintuplets.
Director: Henry King | Stars: The Dionne Quintuplets, Yvonne Dionne, Cecile Dionne, Marie Dionne
Votes: 94
34. Girls' Dormitory (1936)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Romance
When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Ruth Chatterton, Simone Simon, Constance Collier
Votes: 384
35. Ring Around the Moon (1936)
65 min | Drama
(1936, Chesterfield) Donald Cook, Ann Doran, Erin Moore, Doug Fowley. Cook is a high-flying newspaperman who falls into an engagement to a lady he does not love. Lots of poverty row ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Donald Cook, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Alan Edwards, Ann Doran
Votes: 70
36. Reunion (1936)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
The Chamber of Commerce brings together the Dionne quintuplets and other people Dr. John Luke delivered. He hands out wisdom and advice to all.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Jean Hersholt, The Dionne Quintuplets, Cecile Dionne, Yvonne Dionne
Votes: 30
37. Nothing Sacred (1937)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly
Votes: 7,271
38. Seventh Heaven (1937)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, then marches away to war.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 1,054
39. Angel's Holiday (1937)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
With the help of a young newspaperman Jane rescues a movie star who is caught held for ransom when she visits her hometown.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Jane Withers, Joan Davis, Sally Blane, Robert Kent
Votes: 35
40. Fit for a King (1937)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Romance
A newspaper reporter assigned to do a story on royalty and the antics begin. Some comic relief.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Helen Mack, Paul Kelly, Harry Davenport
Votes: 135
41. The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937)
Passed | 89 min | Western
An outlaw re-unites with his long-lost son, steers him away from a boxing career and sends him to law school. When his son returns, a lot has changed.
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Wallace Beery, Virginia Bruce, Dennis O'Keefe, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 228
42. Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
A man hides out in the country to avoid testifying in his friends' divorce. A girl who he thinks is a process server thinks he's a gangster. So do the sheriff and his men.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Don Ameche, Ann Sothern, Slim Summerville, Jane Darwell
Votes: 85
43. She Had to Eat (1937)
Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Arizona gas station owner (Haley) faces comic adventures after he is kidnapped by gangsters who have mistaken him for an escaped killer.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Jack Haley, Rochelle Hudson, Arthur Treacher, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 38
44. The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Mystery
After the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Frances Mercer
Votes: 2,828
45. The Chaser (1938)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
While the county bar association discusses ambulance chasing by unscrupulous attorneys, one of its members, Thomas Z. Brandon, leaves when he learns the location of an accident. After ... See full synopsis »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Morriss, Lewis Stone, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 140
46. The Texans (1938)
Passed | 92 min | Western
After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott, May Robson, Walter Brennan
Votes: 369
47. Joy of Living (1938)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Broadway star Margaret Garrett has spent her whole life working to support her sponging relatives. When she meets carefree Dan Webster, she learns how to have fun for the first time.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Alice Brady, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 919
48. Five of a Kind (1938)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
At age four-and-a-half the Dionne quintuplets star in their third movie - singing, dancing, playing with puppies - and being charming.
Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: The Dionne Quintuplets, Yvonne Dionne, Cecile Dionne, Marie Dionne
Votes: 131
49. The Strange Case of Dr. Meade (1938)
Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Doctor Meade (Jack Holt), a New York City doctor, while taking a vacation in the mountain country of Kentucky, comes across Doctor Hazard (Paul Everton) and his nurse Bonnie (Beverly ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Beverly Roberts, Noah Beery Jr., John Qualen
Votes: 27
50. 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