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1. Sergeant York (1941)
Passed | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias
Votes: 19,793 | Gross: $16.40M
2. What's My Line? (1950–1967)
30 min | Family, Game-Show
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
Stars: John Daly, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen
Votes: 1,769
3. You're My Everything (1949)
94 min | Comedy, Musical
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Anne Revere, Stanley Ridges
Votes: 206
4. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
Passed | 134 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
After the German administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 6,391
5. 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: 5,625
6. Sinners in the Sun (1932)
70 min | Drama, Romance
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
Directors: Alexander Hall, David Burton, William C. de Mille | Stars: Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Adrienne Ames, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 387
7. Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
A plain secretary works for a womanizing divorce lawyer who only dates married women. To avoid having to deal with the matrimonial pursuits of any of his potential romances, he offers her financial support if she marries him in name only.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Constance Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna, Basil Rathbone, Rita La Roy
Votes: 759
8. Dangerous to Know (1938)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama
A gangster tries to fix things so that he can marry a rich society woman.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, Gail Patrick, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 235
9. Hot Saturday (1932)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods
Votes: 1,374
10. After Office Hours (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,044
11. Dynamite (1929)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Julia Faye
Votes: 490
12. King of Gamblers (1937)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy. SPOILERS: Akim Tamiroff, Paramount's resident crime lord, runs all the illegal gambling activities in a major city. ... See full synopsis »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Claire Trevor, Lloyd Nolan, Akim Tamiroff, Buster Crabbe
Votes: 100
13. The Gay Diplomat (1931)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Genevieve Tobin, Betty Compson, Ivan Lebedeff, Ilka Chase
Votes: 210
14. So Big! (1932)
Unrated | 81 min | Drama, Romance
After Selina's father dies, she's offered a job as a teacher in a small town and a new chapter of her life begins.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore, Bette Davis
Votes: 1,825
15. Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance
With a full Hollywood background and settings, but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: John Halliday, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, C. Henry Gordon
Votes: 131
16. Check and Double Check (1930)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy
Typical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.... See full summary »
Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J. Correll, Sue Carol, Irene Rich
Votes: 434
17. The Mandarin Mystery (1936)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
Two murders are committed and a $50,000 Chinese Mandarin stamp is stolen, tossed around and eventually recovered as an aggregation of costly-stamp counterfeiters are uncovered through the mastermind investigation by Ellery Queen.
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Eddie Quillan, Charlotte Henry, Rita La Roy, Wade Boteler
Votes: 458
18. The Yellow Ticket (1931)
Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Walter Byron
Votes: 267
19. I've Got Your Number (1934)
Unrated | 69 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Pat O'Brien, Allen Jenkins, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 519
20. Lady with Red Hair (1940)
Approved | 78 min | Biography, Drama
A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown in a ... See full summary »
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley, Laura Hope Crews
Votes: 416
21. Bachelor's Affairs (1932)
64 min | Comedy, Romance
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Minna Gombell, Arthur Pierson, Joan Marsh
Votes: 49
22. One Is Guilty (1934)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-unoccupied. There, the caretaker "Pop" ... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Warren Hymer, Rita La Roy
Votes: 31
23. Hold That Woman! (1940)
Not Rated | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A skip tracer repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang has stashed stolen diamonds inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: James Dunn, Frances Gifford, George Douglas, Rita La Roy
Votes: 189
24. A Holy Terror (1931)
Passed | 53 min | Action, Adventure, Western
Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: George O'Brien, Sally Eilers, Rita La Roy, Humphrey Bogart
Votes: 323
25. Lilies of the Field (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance
Mother-love drama, with songs.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Ralph Forbes, John Loder, Eve Southern
Votes: 86
26. Leathernecking (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Film version of the 1928 Rodgers and Hart Broadway musical "Present Arms" concerning Chick Evans, a Marine private in Honolulu who falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon and schemes ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Irene Dunne, Ken Murray, Louise Fazenda, Ned Sparks
Votes: 47
27. Flight from Glory (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Drama, Romance
This laudable RKO programmer casts Chester Morris as a fearless pilot whose misdeeds have exiled him to a remote flying field in the Andes mountains.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Chester Morris, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Van Heflin
Votes: 271
28. Midnight Mystery (1930)
69 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
When an island castle off the coast of Maine becomes the scene of a murder, a mystery writer tries to nab the criminal.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Betty Compson, Lowell Sherman, Raymond Hatton, Hugh Trevor
Votes: 131
29. Conspiracy (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
For the last four years Margaret Holt has been helping her brother, assistant D.A. Victor Holt, to try to bring down the dope dealing Schemer Marko gang. Margaret kills Marko (aka 'James ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Bessie Love, Ned Sparks, Hugh Trevor, Ivan Lebedeff
Votes: 175
30. The Hit Parade (1937)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Agent Pete Garland (Phil Regan) is fired by society singer Monica Barrett (Louise Henry) after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds (Monroe ... See full summary »
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Frances Langford, Phil Regan, Max Terhune, Edward Brophy
Votes: 53
31. Whirlpool (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows to wait for ... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 445
32. Border G-Man (1938)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Western
Government agent Jim Galloway is sent undercover to investigate shifty businessman Louis Rankin for violations of the Neutrality Act, a law forbidding the exporting of troops and war ... See full summary »
Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Laraine Day, Ray Whitley, John Miljan
Votes: 150
33. While Paris Sleeps (1932)
67 min | Drama
To save his daughter Manon (Helen Mack) from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard (Victor McLaglen) escapes from jail.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Helen Mack, William Bakewell, Jack La Rue
Votes: 135
34. From Hell to Heaven (1933)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Drama, Romance
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways. .
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie, Adrienne Ames, David Manners
Votes: 117
35. The Bigelow Theatre (1950–1951)
30 min | Drama, Family
A live CBS half-hour dramatic anthology series, but on two networks in its second season (as "Bigelow-Sanford Theater"); Sunday evenings over CBS and Thursday evenings over DuMont.
Stars: Don DeFore, William Frawley, Jeffrey Silver, Ann Dvorak
Votes: 58
36. Amateur Daddy (1932)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Warner Baxter, Marian Nixon, Rita La Roy, William Pawley
Votes: 17
37. Fugitive Lady (1934)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Romance
When the beautiful Ann Duncan loses her job, she finally accepts Jack Howard's marriage proposal and agrees to elope with him. Ann is soon made aware of Jack's criminal past when Jack flees... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Florence Rice, Neil Hamilton, Donald Cook, William Demarest
Votes: 20
38. Hollywood Speaks (1932)
71 min | Drama
An aspiring starlet is dissuaded from taking her own life by a powerful gossip columnist who decides to take her on as his protege. Together they build up her "image," but are soon side-tracked when he is accused of muder.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Genevieve Tobin, Pat O'Brien, Lucien Prival, Rita La Roy
39. The Love Trap (1929)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy
A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn't over-accepting of chorus girls joining their family.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Laura La Plante, Neil Hamilton, Robert Ellis, Jocelyn Lee
Votes: 239
40. Condemned Women (1938)
Passed | 77 min | Drama
Shoplifter Linda Wilson doesn't care much for life inside or outside jail until she starts a relationship with prison psychiatrist Philip Duncan. When the Warden asks her to break off the ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Sally Eilers, Louis Hayward, Anne Shirley, Esther Dale
Votes: 245
41. Mountain Music (1937)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy
Folksy Ozark girl Mary Beamish (Martha Raye) yearns for the glitter of show business, and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures that her enthusiasm offsets that ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Bob Burns, Martha Raye, John Howard, Terry Walker
Votes: 34
42. The Silver Theatre (1949–1950)
30 min | Drama, Romance
The teleplays normally concerned the various aspects of romance.
Stars: Conrad Nagel, George Reeves, Don DeFore, Diana Lynn
Votes: 32
43. The Delightful Rogue (1929)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure, Romance
Lastro (Rod La Rocque), a rogue pirate sails to Tapit where he encounters Nydra (Rita La Roy), an Americana singer in a waterfront dive, who is the object of of the jealous affections on ... See full summary »
Directors: Lynn Shores, Leslie Pearce | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Rita La Roy, Charles Byer, Ed Brady
Votes: 67
44. Find the Witness (1937)
Approved | 55 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Rudolph Mordini (Henry Mollison) is a Houdini-type magician who claims he couldn't have possibly murdered his wife, as he was enclosed, at the time of the killing, in a sealed ... See full summary »
Director: David Selman | Stars: Charles Quigley, Rosalind Keith, Rita La Roy, Henry Mollison
45. Name the Woman (1934)
Approved | 60 min | Mystery
The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, but adventurous newspaper reporter is bent on clearing her name by ripping the lid off a corrupt government machine.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson
46. Lady from Nowhere (1936)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama
A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her.
Director: Gordon Wiles | Stars: Mary Astor, Charles Quigley, Thurston Hall, Victor Kilian
Votes: 11
47. Traveling Husbands (1931)
73 min | Comedy, Crime
Several traveling salesmen get involved with business, booze, romance, party girls and a lot more while staying at a hotel Detroit.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Frank Albertson, Constance Cummings, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 105
48. Smashing the Rackets (1938)
Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Chester Morris, Frances Mercer, Rita Johnson, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 170
49. Fixer Dugan (1939)
Approved | 68 min | Drama
A young girl is orphaned when her mother, a circus aerialist, is killed in a fall. A rival circus informs the sheriff that the girl is an orphan, and she is subsequently placed in an ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Lee Tracy, Virginia Weidler, Peggy Shannon, Bradley Page
Votes: 131
50. Come Across (1938)
Passed | 21 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A bank robber pulls off a heist and comes out with a good haul. However, he winds up being forced to give most of it to his gangland "friends" to hide him from the police, and who now turn their backs on him when his money runs out.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Bernard Nedell, Bernadene Hayes, Rita La Roy, Donald Douglas
Votes: 27