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1. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Passed | 77 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh

Votes: 6,834

2. The Unholy Three (1925)

Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A sideshow ventriloquist, a midget, and a strongman form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" and commit a series of robberies.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen

Votes: 2,217 | Gross: $0.70M

3. The House of Rothschild (1934)

Passed | 88 min | Biography, Drama, History

The wealthy Rothschild family undergoes prejudice from the anti-Semitic society they live within.

Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Sidney Lanfield | Stars: George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young

Votes: 1,327

4. The Big House (1930)

Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.

Directors: George W. Hill, Ward Wing | Stars: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery

Votes: 2,599

5. Tarzan the Fearless (1933)

Passed | 86 min | Adventure, Family

Mary Brooks' father, who has been studying ancient tribes, falls into the hands of the people of Zar, god of the Emerald Fingers. Tarzan helps Mary locate her father, rescues everyone from the High Priest of Zar and takes Mary to his cave.

Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Julie Bishop, Edward Woods, Philo McCullough

Votes: 828

6. The Wedding March (1928)

Passed | 113 min | Drama

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.

Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts, Matthew Betz

Votes: 1,901

7. The Terror (1928)

85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as 'The Terror.'

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: May McAvoy, Louise Fazenda, Edward Everett Horton, Alec B. Francis

Votes: 69 | Gross: $1.22M

8. Her Man (1930)

85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A Havana bar girl with a tough "protector" falls for a young sailor.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Phillips Holmes, Marjorie Rambeau, James Gleason

Votes: 511

9. The Hurricane Express (1932)

Passed | 227 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

When his father is killed in a train wreck, Larry Baker vows to unmask a mysterious criminal called "The Wrecker," who has targeted the L&M Railroad for deadly" accidents."

Directors: J.P. McGowan, Armand Schaefer | Stars: John Wayne, Shirley Grey, Conway Tearle, Tully Marshall

Votes: 685

10. Mississippi (1935)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Musical

Crosby plays a Philadelpia Quaker engaged to a Southern belle. He becomes a social outcast when he refuses to fight a duel. Fields then hires him to perform on his riverboat, promoting him ... See full summary »

Directors: A. Edward Sutherland, Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Queenie Smith

Votes: 592

11. Girls Gone Wild (1929)

57 min | Drama

In his last film, silent star William Russell plays the motorcycle policeman father of one of the restless and reckless new generation of late 1920s youth.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, William Russell, Roy D'Arcy

Votes: 65

12. The Western Code (1932)

Passed | 58 min | Western

When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomis from the unwanted attentions of a saloon ruffian, he learns her mother married ranch ... See full summary »

Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Tim McCoy, Nora Lane, Wheeler Oakman, Gordon De Main

Votes: 80

13. Exquisite Sinner (1926)

60 min | Romance, Drama

A young bourgeois Dominique Prad spurns his family's lucrative silk business for the bohemian life of an artist. Fleeing his estate to join a band of gypsies, the mentally unstable painter falls in love with a pretty gypsy maiden, Silda.

Directors: Phil Rosen, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Renée Adorée, Paulette Duval, Frank Currier

Votes: 26

14. Jungle Menace (1937)

Passed | 308 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

In the Asian province of Seemang where the Bay of Bengal meets the jungle, Chandler Elliott (John St. Polis) owns a large and prosperous rubber plantation. His attractive daughter, Dorothy (... See full summary »

Directors: Harry L. Fraser, George Melford | Stars: Frank Buck, Sasha Siemel, Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston

Votes: 46

15. Outside the Law (1930)

Passed | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Fingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins' territory. Fingers' moll Connie tries to bluff Cobra into thinking the hit won't be for another week when the call comes through saying it's now.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Mary Nolan, Edward G. Robinson, Owen Moore, Rockliffe Fellowes

Votes: 226

16. The Patent Leather Kid (1927)

150 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

A boxer has difficulty balancing his sport with a budding romance; both are further jeopardized when the United States enters the first World War.

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Molly O'Day, Lawford Davidson, Matthew Betz

Votes: 600

17. The Big Chance (1933)

Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.

Director: Albert Herman | Stars: John Darrow, Merna Kennedy, Natalie Moorhead, Mickey Rooney

Votes: 204

18. Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery (1935)

Passed | 236 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Dashing aviator Tommy and his sidekick Skeeter try to foil an unscrupulous plan concocted by Manuel Casmetto and Horace Raymore to steal Nazil Island's valuable oil reserves.

Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Clark Williams, Jean Rogers, Delphine Drew, Noah Beery Jr.

Votes: 111

19. The Big City (1928)

70 min | Crime, Drama

Rivalry between two gangs of thieves. The sympathetic group reforms; the others are brought to justice.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, James Murray, Betty Compson

Votes: 95

20. The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924)

Passed | 70 min | Family, Drama

A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy ... See full summary »

Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, William Collier Jr., Louise Fazenda, Charles Hill Mailes

Votes: 68

21. The Honeymoon (1929)

"The Wedding March" ended with the marriage between Nikki and the crippled Cecilia takes place. Eberle swears to kills the prince unless Mitzi will agree to marry him. She relents, but at ... See full summary »

Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Matthew Betz, Dale Fuller, Cesare Gravina, Hughie Mack

Votes: 76

22. Rule 'Em and Weep (1932)

19 min | Comedy, Short

King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.

Director: Harry Sweet | Stars: Sam Hardy, Glenn Tryon, James Gleason, William Austin

Votes: 9

23. Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1921)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world. After being robbed by hoodlums, Barnes joins a group of hobos who take him in and show him the carefree life.

Director: George Beranger | Stars: Johnny Hines, Edmund Breese, Betty Carpenter, George Fawcett

Votes: 61

24. The Tin Man (1935)

Passed | 19 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy

Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot that does everything. The inventor manipulates the robot's control ... See full summary »

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Thelma Todd, Patsy Kelly, Matthew Betz, Clarence Wilson

Votes: 199

25. The Soldier and the Lady (1937)

Passed | 85 min | Adventure, History, Romance

A Russian courier struggles to deliver a message to the troops fighting Tartar invaders.

Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Elizabeth Allan, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame

Votes: 265

26. The Countess of Monte Cristo (1934)

Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A light-hearted comedy when a bit player in a musical tries to convince her friends that she is a countess.

Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Fay Wray, Paul Lukas, Reginald Owen, Patsy Kelly

Votes: 35

27. The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

A cruise ship heads south from L.A. with a variety of passengers - a reporter, a P.I., crooks, a general etc.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Wynne Gibson, Alison Skipworth, John Gilbert

Votes: 750

28. Alias Mary Smith (1932)

61 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.

Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Blanche Mehaffey, John Darrow, Raymond Hatton, Edmund Breese

Votes: 72

29. Child of Manhattan (1933)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance

Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Nancy Carroll, John Boles, Buck Jones, Jessie Ralph

Votes: 275

30. Anna Christie (1923)

96 min | Drama

A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough sailor falls in love with her, sparking conflict between her father and her suitor. What ... See full summary »

Directors: John Griffith Wray, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Blanche Sweet, William Russell, George F. Marion, Eugenie Besserer

Votes: 119

31. Fury Below (1936)

Approved | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners. Jim will soon loose the mine if ... See full summary »

Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Russell Gleason, Maxine Doyle, LeRoy Mason, Sheila Terry

Votes: 59

32. Shooting Straight (1930)

72 min | Crime, Drama

Larry Sheldon is a gambler and during an argument he accidentally shoots a man. Fleeing he changes his identity, pretending to be a minister. Things are complicated when he meets a real preacher and falls in love with his daughter Doris.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Richard Dix, Mary Lawlor, Matthew Betz, James Neill

Votes: 143

33. The Man Who Found Himself (1937)

Passed | 67 min | Drama

A "high flying" surgeon learns a few valuable life lessons at the hands of a beautiful nurse.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: John Beal, Joan Fontaine, Phillip Huston, Jane Walsh

Votes: 308

34. Sins of the Fathers (1928)

73 min | Drama

A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.

Director: Ludwig Berger | Stars: Emil Jannings, Ruth Chatterton, Barry Norton, Jean Arthur

Votes: 32

35. The Girl Who Came Back (1935)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Shirley Grey, Sidney Blackmer, Noel Madison, Matthew Betz

Votes: 88

36. Let 'em Have It (1935)

Passed | 96 min | Crime, Drama

Young Federal gang-busters in action, with pauses for romance.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Richard Arlen, Virginia Bruce, Alice Brady, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 222

37. The Black Coin (1936)

Approved | 323 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Federal agents and smugglers battle it out over lost secret papers.

Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Ralph Graves, Ruth Mix, Dave O'Brien, Constance Bergen

Votes: 82

38. The Crimson City (1928)

Passed | 59 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Gregory Kent (John Miljan) is on the run for a crime he did not commit.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Myrna Loy, John Miljan, Leila Hyams, Sôjin Kamiyama

Votes: 32

39. Telling the World (1928)

80 min | Comedy, Drama

The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal arrives in China, Davis has to save her from an execution.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: William Haines, Anita Page, Eileen Percy, Frank Currier

40. Florida Special (1936)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir

Newspaper reporter Bangs Carter and his rich buddy Wally Tucker end up on a train bound for Florida with jewel thieves and Wally's ex-girlfriend. Bangs falls for a passenger along the way as they try to catch the crooks.

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Jack Oakie, Sally Eilers, Kent Taylor, Frances Drake

Votes: 65

41. My Lady's Lips (1925)

70 min | Crime, Drama

A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female ... See full summary »

Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Alyce Mills, William Powell, Clara Bow, Frank Keenan

Votes: 24

42. Let's Go (1923)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After dodging the speed cops, Barry Macklin arrives in his hometown of Hillsboro, where he is supposed to act as negotiator between his father, Andrew Macklin, and the mayor, Ezra Sprowl.

Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Richard Talmadge, Eileen Percy, George Nichols, Tully Marshall

Votes: 41

43. Lights of Old Broadway (1925)

70 min | Drama, Romance

Fely and Anne are twins orphaned when their mother dies en route from Ireland to America. Fely is adopted by the O'Tandys, who live in New York's Shantytown, and Anne is adopted by the ... See full summary »

Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Frank Currier, George K. Arthur

Votes: 559

44. Princess O'Hara (1935)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Drama

King, the driver of a horse-drawn hansom cab, is killed in a turf war between Vic Toledo's cab company and his competitors. Vic sends his goons to get King's daughter Princess a new horse but they steal a prized racing horse.

Director: David Burton | Stars: Jean Parker, Chester Morris, Leon Errol, Vince Barnett

Votes: 37

45. The Big Flash (1932)

20 min | Short, Comedy

A would-be photographer gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a gangster and his girl. Two photographers visit the gangster's moll, then wait for an expected robbery, but a policeman threatens to ruin their shot.

Director: Arvid E. Gillstrom | Stars: Harry Langdon, Vernon Dent, Ruth Hiatt, Lita Chevret

Votes: 58

46. The Fighting Marshal (1931)

Passed | 58 min | Western

A man wrongly accused of murder escapes from prison to clear his name, but is mistaken for a town's new lawman.

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tim McCoy, Dorothy Gulliver, Mary Carr, Matthew Betz

Votes: 79

47. Sawdust (1923)

50 min | Drama

Nita Moore (Gladys Walton), a circus performer, is mistreated by the ringmaster and runs away to join an old couple who are persuaded that Nita is their long lost daughter. Phillip Lessoway... See full summary »

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Gladys Walton, Niles Welch, Edith Yorke, Herbert Standing

Votes: 61

48. Curtain at Eight (1933)

68 min | Mystery

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a stage actor.

Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: C. Aubrey Smith, Dorothy Mackaill, Paul Cavanagh, Sam Hardy

Votes: 216

49. Soul of the Slums (1931)

Passed | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission... See full summary »

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: William Collier Jr., Blanche Mehaffey, James Bradbury Jr., Murray Smith

Votes: 30

50. The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929)

Passed | 80 min | Drama

A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.

Director: Ralph Dawson | Stars: Loretta Young, Carroll Nye, Matthew Betz, Lucien Littlefield

Votes: 50