Monthly Film Bulletin 1934. All the films reviewed in 1934.
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1. Along Came Sally (1934)
84 min | Comedy, Musical
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Cicely Courtneidge, Sam Hardy, Phyllis Clare, Billy Milton
Votes: 73
2. The Bowery (1933)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In New York's Bowery during the Gay Nineties, a saloon owner and a rebel share a rivalry.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray
Votes: 614 | Gross: $4.36M
3. The Constant Nymph (1933)
84 min | Drama
Sensitive Belgian schoolgirl Tessa (Victoria Hopper) is in love with world-famous composer Lewis Dodd (Brian Aherne), who marries her wealthy cousin Florence (Leonora Corbett).
Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Brian Aherne, Victoria Hopper, Leonora Corbett, Lyn Harding
Votes: 58
4. General John Regan (1934)
74 min | Comedy
Director: Henry Edwards | Stars: Henry Edwards, Chrissie White, Ben Welden, Pegeen Mair
5. The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 4,077
6. Lady for a Day (1933)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 4,656
7. Morning Glory (1933)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance
When a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success.
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Mary Duncan
Votes: 3,285
8. Night Flight (1933)
Passed | 84 min | Drama
Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 944
9. One Sunday Afternoon (1933)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Frances Fuller, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 737
10. S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)
Passed | 77 min | Drama
In a departure from the trademark Alpine settings of Arnold Fanck's Bergfilme ("Mountain Films"), S.O.S. ICEBERG (S.O.S. EISBERG) takes place off the coast of Greenland, where an explorer, ... See full summary »
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland
Votes: 157
11. Three Cornered Moon (1933)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy
Nellie Rimplegar has to tell her grown children that due to her bungled handling of their finances, the family has been wiped out by the Stock Market crash. Friend and family doctor, Alan ... See full summary »
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen, Mary Boland, Wallace Ford
Votes: 488
12. Turn Back the Clock (1933)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Joe and Mary barely get by with their tobacco store. After an old friend returns now married to wealthy Elvina, Joe wishes he married her instead when he had the chance. Will he be happy when his wish comes true?
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, Otto Kruger, George Barbier
Votes: 543
13. This Is the Life (1933)
78 min | Comedy
Teashop proprietors inherit fortune, crash society, and thwart Chicago gangsters.
Director: Albert de Courville | Stars: Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale, Betty Astell, Ray Milland
14. The Way to Love (1933)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
The Way to Love is a 1933 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film, starring Maurice Chevalier and Ann Dvorak.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Ann Dvorak, Edward Everett Horton, Minna Gombell
Votes: 71
15. Deserter (1933)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had ... See full summary »
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Boris Livanov, Vasili Kovrigin, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Tamara Makarova
Votes: 319
16. Life Is Beautiful (1930)
96 min | Romance
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller | Stars: Aleksandr Baturin, Yevgeniya Rogulina, Mariya Belousova, Andrei Gorchilin
Votes: 102
17. The Growing Youth (1933)
115 min | Drama
Emotional upheavals transpire when three girls enter a boys' school, to study for an important exam: a teacher and a student both fall in love with one of them.
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Heinrich George, Peter Voß, Hertha Thiele, Marieluise Claudius
Votes: 20
18. Pred maturitou (1932)
102 min | Drama
Two high school boys, both taken with a girl in another school, are expelled after a conflict with a headmaster, in this drama of adolescence and critique of authoritarianism.
Directors: Svatopluk Innemann, Vladislav Vancura | Stars: Jindrich Plachta, Frantisek Smolík, Antonín Novotný, Miroslav Svoboda
Votes: 28
19. Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)
71 min | Drama
During Great Depression, a family is evicted from their apartment and with no other option they move to a tent camp called Kuhle Wampe.
Director: Slatan Dudow | Stars: Hertha Thiele, Ernst Busch, Martha Wolter, Adolf Fischer
Votes: 817
20. Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück (1929)
121 min | Drama
Mutter Krause and her children live in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. The film depicts the cruelty of poverty and communism as a rescuing force that reaches Mutter Krause and the child too late.
Director: Phil Jutzi | Stars: Alexandra Schmitt, Holmes Zimmermann, Ilse Trautschold, Gerhard Bienert
Votes: 321
21. La maternelle (1933)
83 min | Drama
When her father files bankruptcy and then dies, Rose's fiancé jilts her; she takes a job as a maid in a Montmartre kindergarten with 150 poor children. Rose gives each child loving ... See full summary »
Directors: Jean Benoît-Lévy, Marie Epstein | Stars: Madeleine Renaud, Alice Tissot, Paulette Élambert, Sylvette Fillacier
Votes: 133
22. Berkeley Square (1933)
Passed | 88 min | Fantasy, Romance
A young American man comes to believe that he can will himself back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meet his ancestors, who lived in the house he has just inherited.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, Valerie Taylor, Irene Browne
Votes: 982
23. Christopher Bean (1933)
75 min | Comedy
When the painter Christopher Bean dies, some unscrupulous art dealers try to get several of his paintings cheaply from a family who have no idea of their value.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, Helen Mack, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 42
24. The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Howard Hawks | Stars: Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey
Votes: 1,070
25. Footlight Parade (1933)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell
Votes: 6,087 | Gross: $3.49M
26. For Love of You (1933)
77 min | Comedy, Musical
The second of two "Jack and Jim" musicals.
Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Arthur Riscoe, Naunton Wayne, Franco Foresta, Diana Napier
Votes: 22
27. Golden Harvest (1933)
72 min | Drama
Eben Martin spends his lifetime accumulating wheat farms in hopes that his sons Chris and Walt will take over the family business and work the land. Chris is more interested in finance, ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Richard Arlen, Chester Morris, Genevieve Tobin, Roscoe Ates
Votes: 55
28. Jack Ahoy (1934)
70 min | Comedy
A song and dance comedy in which Jack Hulbert plays an incompetent sailor.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Jack Hulbert, Nancy O'Neil, Alfred Drayton, Tamara Desni
Votes: 47
29. One Man's Journey (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose ... See full summary »
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, May Robson, Dorothy Jordan, Joel McCrea
Votes: 535
30. Son of a Sailor (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy
A smooth-talking sailor looking for a quick date meets an admiral's granddaughter and finds himself in a house full of top Navy officers, along with a couple of spies interested in plans for a new robot-controlled flight system.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Jean Muir, Frank McHugh, Thelma Todd
Votes: 194
31. Sorrell and Son (1933)
Approved | 84 min | Drama
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: H.B. Warner, Margot Grahame, Peter Penrose, Hugh Williams
32. A Southern Maid (1934)
83 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A Southern Maid is a 1933 British musical film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Bebe Daniels, Clifford Mollison and Hal Gordon. It is based on the operetta A Southern Maid by Harold ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Hughes | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Clifford Mollison, Nancy Brown, Hal Gordon
Votes: 21
33. Too Much Harmony (1933)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Musical
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Harry Green
Votes: 90
34. Trouble (1933)
70 min
A pair of stewards on a cruise ship manage to foil the plans of jewel thieves.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Sydney Howard, George Curzon, Dorothy Robinson, Hope Davy
35. Turkey Time (1933)
73 min
Max (Walls) and David (Lynn) are enjoying a Christmas holiday and have a lot of fun, mainly at the expense of the feeble Stoatt (Robertson Hare)
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Dorothy Hyson, Robertson Hare
Votes: 32
36. The World Changes (1933)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Romance
An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat-packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Mary Astor, Aline MacMahon, Donald Cook
Votes: 526
37. The Wrecker (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Romance
The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan. While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary and supposed best friend Cummings engage in some heavy petting.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Jack Holt, Genevieve Tobin, George E. Stone, Sidney Blackmer
38. Le petit roi (1933)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
In an imaginary country, Michel VIII is still a child but he is to reign when his time comes. Revolution threatens and the young monarch's entourage lies to him and even tries to get rid of him.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Robert Lynen, Arlette Marchal, Béatrice Bretty, Jean Toulout
Votes: 72
39. La rue sans nom (1934)
82 min | Drama
Early example of poetic realism: A grubby poor neighborhood, where buildings are slated to be taken down, reacts to the arrival of a young woman, whose father has spent time in prison.
Director: Pierre Chenal | Stars: Constant Rémy, Gabriel Gabrio, Paule Andral, Paul Azaïs
Votes: 16
40. October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)
95 min | Drama, History
A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko
Votes: 8,445
41. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Passed | 98 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 15,803 | Gross: $2.79M
42. The Ghoul (1933)
Approved | 77 min | Action, Drama, Horror
An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.
Director: T. Hayes Hunter | Stars: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger, Dorothy Hyson
Votes: 3,243
43. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Passed | 61 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox, Leon Ames, Bert Roach
Votes: 5,257
44. Bucket of Blood (1934)
55 min | Horror
A young man is driven mad by his obsession with the repulsive diseased eye of the old man who cares for him.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Norman Dryden, John Kelt, Yolande Terrell, Thomas Shenton
Votes: 96
45. The Vampire Bat (1933)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When corpses drained of blood begin to show up in a European village, vampirism is suspected to be responsible.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Maude Eburne
Votes: 3,050
46. Frankenstein (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles
Votes: 79,675
47. The Invisible Man (1933)
TV-PG | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers
Votes: 39,917
48. Das Medium (1921)
74 min
Director: Hermann Rosenfeld | Stars: Karl Armster, Harry Berber, Erra Bognar, Lil Dagover
49. Son of Kong (1933)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Family, Horror
The showman who brought Kong to New York returns to Skull Island and finds Kong's son, a spunky 12-footer with a winning personality and his dad's awesome strength.
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher, John Marston
Votes: 5,283 | Gross: $1.34M
50. Vampire (1915)
50 min | Drama
A story of a female motorist that is brought to a resort in the Airondacks. Once brought in to heal from her wounds the male patrons find out that she has a rather bewitching way with men with total disregard of her ways.
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Olga Petrova, Vernon Steele, William A. Morse, Wallace Scott
Votes: 56
51. Autumn Crocus (1934)
86 min | Drama, Romance
A demure Manchester schoolmistress falls in love while holidaying in the Austrian Tyrol.
Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Ivor Novello, Fay Compton, Muriel Aked, Esme Church
Votes: 80
52. Brief Moment (1933)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A dissolute rich society boy marries a worldly nightclub singer, and she begins to have a wholly unexpected effect on him.
Director: David Burton | Stars: Carole Lombard, Gene Raymond, Donald Cook, Monroe Owsley
Votes: 361
53. The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
Directors: William K. Howard, Sam Wood | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Jeanette MacDonald, Frank Morgan, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 471 | Gross: $0.99M
54. Cradle Song (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Drama
The only filmed English version of Gregorio Martinez Sierra's classic Spanish play.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Louise Dresser
Votes: 35
55. Dancing Lady (1933)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson
Votes: 2,664
56. Dick Turpin (1934)
79 min | Drama
Directors: Victor Hanbury, John Stafford | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Jane Carr, Frank Vosper, James Finlayson
Votes: 19
57. Duck Soup (1933)
Not Rated | 69 min | Comedy, Musical
Rufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they're on.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Votes: 62,722
58. Sons of the Desert (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Family
When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Mae Busch
Votes: 9,584
59. Frontier Marshal (1934)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Western
While cleaning Tombstone of outlaws, Michael Wyatt receives the amorous attentions of a saloon dancer.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: George O'Brien, Irene Bentley, George E. Stone, Alan Edwards
Votes: 23
60. Gallant Lady (1933)
84 min | Drama
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Otto Kruger, Tullio Carminati
Votes: 164
61. Going Hollywood (1933)
Passed | 78 min | Musical, Romance
A love-struck teacher pursues a radio singer to Hollywood.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, Fifi D'Orsay, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 1,913 | Gross: $0.96M
62. The House on 56th Street (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, History
Peggy Martin chooses to marry young, wealthy Monty, who she loves. They have a child together and an amazing relationship...until Peggy visits her ailing ex-boyfriend, Fiske, who threatens to commit suicide if she won't take him back.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond, John Halliday
Votes: 735
63. The Invisible Man (1933)
TV-PG | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers
Votes: 39,917
64. I Am Suzanne! (1933)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Tony Malatini, a puppeteer, at Paris' Theatre des Marionettes notices that his audience consists of only 7 people. He visits his successful competitor on the corner to see why people are ... See full summary »
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Gene Raymond, Leslie Banks, Georgia Caine
Votes: 121
65. Little Women (1933)
Passed | 115 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A chronicle of the lives of sisters growing up in 19th-century New England.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas, Edna May Oliver
Votes: 7,931 | Gross: $4.58M
66. Eskimo (1933)
Passed | 117 min | Drama
The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Edgar Dearing, Peter Freuchen, Edward Hearn, Lotus Long
Votes: 608
67. Master of Men (1933)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A steel-mill worker, Buck Garrett (Jack Holt) betters himself and becomes involved in the New York stock market. He marries Kay Walling (Fay Wray), who disapproves his market schemes and ... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Walter Connolly, Berton Churchill
68. Mr. Skitch (1933)
70 min | Comedy, Adventure, Romance
The Missouri Skitches (Will Rogers, ZaSu Pitts, Rochelle Hudson) drive to California via Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Will Rogers, Rochelle Hudson, Zasu Pitts, Florence Desmond
Votes: 126
69. Spy 77 (1933)
89 min | Drama, Romance, War
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Greta Nissen, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Don Alvarado, Lester Matthews
Votes: 66
70. Only Yesterday (1933)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Romance
A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but tries to seduce her.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke
Votes: 420
71. Say It with Flowers (1934)
Not Rated | 71 min | Musical
Warm-hearted Cockneys stage a show to help a sick flower-seller.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Mary Clare, Ben Field, George Carney, Mark Daly
Votes: 53
72. Charlemagne (1993– )
90 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
Young Charlemagns is placed on the Frankish throne in the middle of the 8th Century A.D. Despite having many powerful enemies he slowly unites the nations of Western Europe and rebuilds civilization on the ruins of the Roman Empire.
Stars: Christian Brendel, Anny Duperey, Lino Capolicchio, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
Votes: 236
73. La robe rouge (1933)
91 min | Drama
A mistake made by a court judge can tear up a family forever.
Director: Jean de Marguenat | Stars: Constant Rémy, Suzanne Rissler, Marcelle Praince, Jacques Grétillat
74. Dawn (1933)
75 min | Drama, War
In 1915, Captain Liers, commander of a submarine is leaving his hometown, where he, his 2nd officer and the radio-operator, who is married there, spend their shore leave. Liers two brothers... See full summary »
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Rudolf Forster, Fritz Genschow, Adele Sandrock, Camilla Spira
Votes: 163
75. Sentimental Romance (1930)
20 min | Comedy, Short
A short, experimental, slightly poetic montage of city and abstract images.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Star: Mara Griy
Votes: 650
76. Unfinished Symphony (1934)
84 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. ... See full summary »
Directors: Anthony Asquith, Willi Forst | Stars: Mártha Eggerth, Helen Chandler, Hans Jaray, Eliot Makeham
Votes: 36
77. Advice to the Forlorn (1933)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on... See full summary »
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Lee Tracy, Sally Blane, Paul Harvey, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 94
78. Bottoms Up (1934)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Promoter Smoothie King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Pat Paterson, John Boles, Sid Silvers
Votes: 172
79. By Candlelight (1933)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Beautiful woman mistakes a prince's butler for the prince.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, Dorothy Revier
Votes: 300
80. Convention City (1933)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell, Mary Astor
Votes: 103
81. 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: 1,507
82. Design for Living (1933)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 7,753
83. Female (1933)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson, Johnny Mack Brown
Votes: 1,916
84. Girl Without a Room (1933)
78 min | Comedy
Young Tennessee painter Tom Duncan is thrilled to receive an art scholarship to Paris. When he arrives, he finds himself surrounded by a group of eclectic characters, as well as his ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Charles Farrell, Charles Ruggles, Marguerite Churchill, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 84
85. His Double Life (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama
Priam Farrel is a celebrated artist but a social recluse. When his valet dies of a sudden illness, a mix-up leads to the body being identified as Farrel's. The timid artist then assumes the... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Hopkins | Stars: Roland Young, Lillian Gish, Montagu Love, Lumsden Hare
Votes: 396
86. Lady Killer (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 1,886
87. Meet the Baron (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Romance
The famous Baron Munchausen dumps two dimwits in the African jungle. A rescue team mistakes one of them for the missing Baron, and returns them to the US, where they're greeted as heroes. ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante, Zasu Pitts, Ted Healy
Votes: 330
88. Strike! (1934)
69 min | Drama
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard (when we still built ships). The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them... See full summary »
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper, Alfred Drayton
Votes: 301
89. The Women in His Life (1933)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A brilliant, successful criminal defense attorney's life is turned upside down when he takes on a case of a murdered woman who turns out to be an old flame who left him 10 years ago.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Otto Kruger, Una Merkel, Ben Lyon, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 214
90. Insel der Dämonen (1933)
60 min | Drama
Wajan, the son of Nudonk,a witch, is beset with difficulties. His mother is in ill favor with the Balinese natives who want to get rid of her, and the hand of Sari, a native chieftain's ... See full summary »
Director: Friedrich Dalsheim | Stars: Lombos, Sari, Nodonk, Wajan
Votes: 21
91. A Cup of Kindness (1934)
81 min | Comedy
Theatrical adaptation about squabbling neighbors includes a musical pantomime dream flashback to show the same characters re-enacting their conflicts way back in the Stone Age.
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Dorothy Hyson
Votes: 46
92. Evergreen (1934)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, has a guilty secret: She has a baby daughter, born out of wedlock. Harriet leaves her public and flees to South ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Betty Balfour, Barry MacKay
Votes: 633
93. 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: 1,326
94. Nana (1934)
90 min | Drama
Nana is a 1934 American Pre-Code film, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, released through United Artists, starring Anna Sten. and directed by Dorothy Arzner and George Fitzmaurice. This version ... See full summary »
Directors: Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Anna Sten, Phillips Holmes, Lionel Atwill, Richard Bennett
Votes: 275
95. Man of Aran (1934)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Drama
In this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.
Director: Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane, Pat Mullin
Votes: 2,324
96. Melody in Spring (1934)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Charlie Ruggles plays a souvenir-buff in quest of a real Swiss cowbell.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Lanny Ross, Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Ann Sothern
Votes: 43
97. A Modern Hero (1934)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance
Pierre is a handsome young circus rider whose mother has long tolerated his amorous adventures but becomes genuinely concerned when he actually falls in love. She reveals to him that he's ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Jean Muir, Marjorie Rambeau, Verree Teasdale
Votes: 277
98. Alexandra (1934)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Revolution breaks out in a small European kingdom, and a young princess is forced to flee for her life. She heads for the neighboring country, which just happens to be ruled by the king she... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Evelyn Laye, George Grossmith, Yvonne Arnaud, Max Miller
Votes: 49
99. Riptide (1934)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Herbert Marshall, Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Votes: 682
100. Sisters Under the Skin (1934)
65 min | Drama
Director: David Burton | Stars: Elissa Landi, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Doris Lloyd
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