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1. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

Not Rated | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.

Directors: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson

Votes: 7,973 | Gross: $12.45M

2. The Mark of Zorro (1940)

Approved | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Family

A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard

Votes: 10,977 | Gross: $4.36M

3. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War

Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins

Votes: 6,791 | Gross: $1.00M

4. The Unsuspected (1947)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett

Votes: 3,636

5. 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: 3,536

6. Romance (1930)

Approved | 76 min | Drama, Romance

Young Harry is in love and wants to marry an actress, much to the displeasure of his family. Harry thinks that Bishop Armstrong knows nothing about love, so Armstrong tells him the story of... See full summary »

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon, Elliott Nugent

Votes: 1,032 | Gross: $1.60M

7. The Mark of Zorro (1974 TV Movie)

Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Western

When Don Diego returns to California only to find the people overrun and overtaxed by corrupt politicians, he takes matters into his own hands as the masked crusader Zorro.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Louise Sorel

Votes: 690

8. That Night in Rio (1941)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda, S.Z. Sakall

Votes: 932

9. The Mysterious Lady (1928)

Passed | 96 min | Drama, Romance

An attractive Russian spy seduces an Austrian officer in order to get some important plans, but when she actually falls in love with him, both of them are placed in a dangerous situation.

Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Albert Pollet

Votes: 1,460 | Gross: $0.54M

10. A Woman of Affairs (1928)

Passed | 98 min | Drama

When two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown

Votes: 1,693 | Gross: $0.85M

11. The Sea Beast (1926)

136 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

This silent movie is based on Melville's classic Moby Dick. Ahab and his brother compete for the affections of minister's daughter Esther. But the great white whale has been eluding the ... See full summary »

Director: Millard Webb | Stars: John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, George O'Hara, Mike Donlin

Votes: 218 | Gross: $0.80M

12. 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: 2,269

13. Don Juan (1926)

Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Romance

In 16th-century Italy, devil-may-care playboy Don Juan runs afoul of the despotic Borgias.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland, Estelle Taylor

Votes: 963 | Gross: $1.92M

14. The Affairs of Cellini (1934)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, History

The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Constance Bennett, Fredric March, Frank Morgan, Fay Wray

Votes: 484

15. The Red Lily (1924)

Passed | 81 min | Drama

Two young lovers escape their past lives to Paris until fate separates them.

Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Enid Bennett, Ramon Novarro, Wallace Beery, Frank Currier

Votes: 500

16. Strange Interlude (1932)

Passed | 109 min | Drama

After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan

Votes: 839

17. Susannah of the Mounties (1939)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, Western

Susannah is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in. Everybody suffers further Indian attacks and the Mountie is saved from ... See full summary »

Directors: William A. Seiter, Walter Lang | Stars: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Margaret Lockwood, Martin Good Rider

Votes: 996

18. Under Two Flags (1936)

Passed | 112 min | Adventure

Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell

Votes: 506

19. Our Blushing Brides (1930)

Passed | 102 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Three department-store girls--Connie, Franky, and Jerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than $20 per week. Jerry is the sensible one, but ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, Dorothy Sebastian

Votes: 926

20. Polly of the Circus (1932)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance

After a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love.

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Hatton

Votes: 1,235

21. When a Man Loves (1927)

Passed | 111 min | History, Romance

A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Sam De Grasse

Votes: 416 | Gross: $0.89M

22. Laughing Sinners (1931)

Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance

Cabaret performer Ivy Stevens in an affair with a low-rent traveling salesman is dumped in a 'Dear Jane' letter and finds solace in joining the Salvation Army.

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau

Votes: 795

23. Metropolitan (1935)

Approved | 79 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

An opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man, then leaves this company too, which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.

Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Lawrence Tibbett, Virginia Bruce, Alice Brady, Cesar Romero

Votes: 137 | Gross: $0.02M

24. The Romance of Tarzan (1918)

70 min | Action, Adventure

Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed.

Director: Wilfred Lucas | Stars: Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, Thomas Jefferson, Cleo Madison

Votes: 59

25. Wonder of Women (1929)

95 min | Drama

A German pianist is going to break up with his unfaithful wife, when he receives the message that his favourite stepchild has died.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, Peggy Wood, Harry Myers

Votes: 89

26. West of Broadway (1931)

Passed | 73 min | Drama, Romance, War

Jerry Seevers returns from World War I service broken in health and his doctor tells him he has only six months to live. His fiancée jilts him and he sets out to drink himself to death. In ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: John Gilbert, El Brendel, Lois Moran, Madge Evans

Votes: 646

27. 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

28. Looking Forward (1933)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Family

In this Depression-era story set in London, a department-store owner (Lewis Stone) faces bankruptcy while his family fritters away money. A long-standing employee (Lionel Barrymore) gets ... See full summary »

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Benita Hume, Elizabeth Allan

Votes: 307

29. Chasing Rainbows (1930)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Bessie Love, Charles King, Jack Benny, George K. Arthur

Votes: 270

30. The Sea Bat (1930)

Passed | 58 min | Action, Romance, Thriller

The West Indies island of Portuga exists mainly for sponge diving. But the best area of collection is frequented by a very large manta ray. Nina loses her brother to the creature and is ... See full summary »

Directors: Lionel Barrymore, Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Raquel Torres, Charles Bickford, Nils Asther, George F. Marion

Votes: 298

31. A Slave of Fashion (1925)

60 min | Comedy, Romance

Katherine Emerson, an Iowa girl hungry for the good things in life, leaves her small hometown and sets out for New York. En route, she is involved in a train wreck in which another woman is... See full summary »

Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Norma Shearer, Lew Cody, William Haines, Mary Carr

Votes: 181 | Gross: $0.18M

32. The Magic Flame (1927)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance

A love triangle involving two members of a travelling circus and an aristocrat has serious consequences for all three individuals.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Agostino Borgato, Gustav von Seyffertitz

Votes: 64 | Gross: $0.62M

33. The Phantom of Paris (1931)

Passed | 74 min | Drama, Thriller

Cheri-Bibi is an escape artist wrongly imprisoned for murdering the wealthy father of his admirer Cecile. The real murderer is Cecile's fiancé, so how will Bibi escape his death sentence and win back Cecile?

Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: John Gilbert, Leila Hyams, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt

Votes: 1,409

34. Yellow Lily (1928)

65 min | Drama, Romance

Archduke Alexander, a debauchee, falls in love with Judith Peredy, the sister of the doctor of the village near Alexander's hunting lodge. Although Judith loves Alexander, she spurns him because her brother Eugene has warned her off.

Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Billie Dove, Clive Brook, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Marc McDermott

Votes: 37

35. The Iron Duke (1934)

88 min | Biography, Drama

Chronicling the life of Arthur Wellesley the first duke of Wellington, who faced down Napoleon's armies at Waterloo, and served as prime minister.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: George Arliss, Gladys Cooper, Ellaline Terriss, A.E. Matthews

Votes: 119

36. The Trey o' Hearts (1914)

310 min | Adventure

A crippled old man and his daughter plot to kill a young man they mistakenly believe was responsible for the man's injury. Matters get complicated when his other daughter, who is a twin, falls in love with the intended victim.

Directors: Wilfred Lucas, Henry MacRae | Stars: Cleo Madison, George Larkin, Edward Sloman, Tom Walsh

Votes: 25

37. Rose of the Golden West (1927)

70 min | Drama, Romance

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Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Mary Astor, Gilbert Roland, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Montagu Love

Votes: 15

38. Morgan's Raiders (1918)

50 min | Drama

"Wild Cat" Betsey Dawley, whose father "Handsome Harry" was disowned by the proud Dawley family of Greenburgh, Kentucky, meets and thoroughly charms her snobbish cousin Virginia's fiance ... See full summary »

Directors: Wilfred Lucas, Bess Meredyth | Stars: Violet Mersereau, Barbara Gilroy, Edmund Burns, Frank Holland

39. The Third Degree (1926)

80 min | Romance

Circus artist Alicia deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. Fifteen years later, Alicia's deserted daughter Annie Martin is a trapeze performer in a ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Dolores Costello, Louise Dresser, Rockliffe Fellowes, Jason Robards Sr.

Votes: 53

40. In Gay Madrid (1930)

Passed | 82 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Ricardo, a young law student in his hometown of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Lottice Howell, Claude King

Votes: 101

41. The Mighty Barnum (1934)

Approved | 85 min | Biography, Comedy

The comic exploits of confidence trickster and showman P.T. Barnum from his early days through to the creation of The Greatest Show on Earth.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Wallace Beery, Adolphe Menjou, Virginia Bruce, Rochelle Hudson

Votes: 101

42. Big Little Person (1919)

Passed | 60 min | Drama

The Big Little Person was a 1919 American silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. Based on the novel of the same name by Rebecca Lane Hooper Eastman, the ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Mae Murray, Clarissa Selwynne, Rudolph Valentino, Allan Sears

43. 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

44. Thy Name Is Woman (1924)

90 min | Comedy, Romance

Spanish soldier Juan Ricardo is assigned to obtain evidence against Pedro the Fox, an old smuggler. His acquaintance with Pedro's wife Guerita ripens into mutual love.

Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Barbara La Marr, William V. Mong, Wallace MacDonald

Votes: 23 | Gross: $0.21M

45. The Cuban Love Song (1931)

Passed | 86 min | Musical, Romance

A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find his illegitimate child.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, Ernest Torrence, Jimmy Durante

Votes: 227

46. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928)

80 min | Drama, Romance

An orphan (Richard Barthelmess) is adopted by Major Buford (Claude Gillingwater) is educated in Lexington and joins the Union Army as a Captain. He rediscovers his childhood sweetheart (... See full summary »

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Molly O'Day, Nelson McDowell, Martha Mattox

47. The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine (1913)

Short, Drama

Reed and Rosson are owners of the Yellow Aster mine. They have taken out enough gold to make the final payment, which is due. Both brothers love the same girl, Pauline, but she prefers Reed... See full summary »

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Wallace Reid, Pauline Bush, Arthur Rosson, Frank Borzage

48. Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in small character roles. Meanwhile, her ... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Patsy Ruth Miller, Louise Dresser, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jerry Miley

Votes: 19

49. Rose o' the Sea (1922)

70 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Tells of a waif from the sea, who on the death of her guardian and protector, is forced to make her own way in New York. Her lack of guile and sophistication wins her a place and esteem. ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Anita Stewart, Rudolph Cameron, Thomas Holding, Margaret Landis

50. Three Women of France (1917)

Short, Drama

The war had turned a splendid chateau into a hospital. Sister Genevieve, a woman who knew the sorrow of suffering but not the sorrow of sin, helped to care for the wounded soldiers therein.... See full summary »

Director: Ruth Ann Baldwin | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Adelaide Woods, Irene Hunt, Virginia Lee Corbin