Pre-Code Yet to See
by redrumm104 | created - 06 Nov 2022 | updated - 6 hours ago | Public- Instant Watch Options
- Genres
- Movies or TV
- IMDb Rating
- In Theaters
- Release Year
- Keywords
1. No More Orchids (1932)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Romance
An heiress forced to marry into royalty in order to save her banker father falls in love with another man while on a cruise.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Louise Closser Hale, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 510
2. Are You Listening? (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Drama
A radio writer/producer accidentally kills his wife, then attempts to escape the on-air hunt for him.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: William Haines, Madge Evans, Anita Page, Karen Morley
Votes: 521
3. The Road to Singapore (1931)
Approved | 69 min | Drama, Romance
Gossip, snobbery, mistrust, divorce and a mail-order engagement dominate the lives of the British upper class living in the plantation colonies of Southeast Asia.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: William Powell, Doris Kenyon, Marian Marsh, Louis Calhern
Votes: 498
4. The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy
Ex-showgirls and roommates Polaire Gwynn (Madge Evans) and Schatze Citroux (Joan Blondell) are reunited with their sometime friend and former co-worker, Jean Lawrence (Ina Claire), when she... See full summary »
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Joan Blondell, Madge Evans, Ina Claire, David Manners
Votes: 535
5. Supernatural (1933)
Passed | 65 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A serial black widow murderess returns to life in the body of a young woman to exact revenge on a former lover, a phony spiritualist who betrayed her.
Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Carole Lombard, Randolph Scott, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne
Votes: 929
6. The Dark Hour (1936)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of suspects, many of them in the victim's own family.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Ray Walker, Berton Churchill, Irene Ware, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 358
7. The Circus Queen Murder (1933)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a ... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Donald Cook, Greta Nissen, Ruthelma Stevens
Votes: 333
8. The Night Club Lady (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
New York Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt must save a wealthy socialite from a rendezvous with death on New Year's Eve.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Ruthelma Stevens
Votes: 99
9. The Secret 6 (1931)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama
After rising bootlegger Slaughterhouse Scorpio eliminates his gangland competition, two reporters and a cabal of six businessmen work to expose him.
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow
Votes: 1,049
10. The Woman in Room 13 (1932)
67 min | Mystery
The Woman in Room 13 is a 1932 American mystery film directed by Henry King, written by Guy Bolton and Max Marcin. Cast: Elissa Landi, Ralph Bellamy, Neil Hamilton, Myrna Loy. Released on May 15, 1932, by Fox Film Corporation.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Elissa Landi, Ralph Bellamy, Neil Hamilton, Myrna Loy
Votes: 39
11. Almost Married (1932)
50 min | Thriller
Russian beauty Anita Mellikovna, traveling by train with a forged passport and carrying jewels, finds the police on her tail. Seeing Deene Maxwell, whom she met one summer in Scotland, on a... See full summary »
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Violet Heming, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander Kirkland, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 19
12. Blind Adventure (1933)
Approved | 65 min | Mystery
An American in London stumbles on a criminal ring.
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Roland Young, Ralph Bellamy
Votes: 279
13. Before Midnight (1933)
Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, June Collyer, Claude Gillingwater, Bradley Page
Votes: 326
14. The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934)
Passed | 58 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Gail Patrick, Kane Richmond
Votes: 82
15. 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
16. Rendezvous at Midnight (1935)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Mystery
There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who actually confessed to the killing before it was committed.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Valerie Hobson, Catherine Doucet, Irene Ware
Votes: 38
17. The Man Who Lived Twice (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama
A criminal has plastic surgery done to change his identity. However, during the operation, he loses his memory; when he comes to after the surgery, he has a change of heart and decides to help people by becoming a doctor.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Marian Marsh, Thurston Hall, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 178
18. Counterfeit Lady (1936)
Approved | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Phyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she pulls a scam that gains her a $17,000 ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Joan Perry, Douglass Dumbrille, George McKay
Votes: 25
19. Smashing the Spy Ring (1938)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Top U.S. government spy-smasher John Baxter (Ralph Bellamy) does just that as he is aided by Eleanor Dunlap (Fay Wray) and companion federal agent Ted Hall (Regis Toomey) while being highly... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Fay Wray, Regis Toomey, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 42
20. Queen of the Mob (1940)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama
Mobster Ma Webster rules her clan with an iron hand, taking charge of all their robberies despite the protests of George Frost, the only member of her gang who is not her son. On Christmas ... See full summary »
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Blanche Yurka, J. Carrol Naish, Jeanne Cagney
Votes: 94
21. Meet the Wildcat (1940)
Approved | 66 min | Mystery
Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced that Brod is the notorious art thief ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Joseph Schildkraut, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 85
22. Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (1941)
Passed | 70 min | Mystery
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, Mona Barrie
Votes: 185
23. Murders in the Zoo (1933)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Horror
A monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, Gail Patrick, Randolph Scott
Votes: 1,783
24. Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Twenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to prove their bravery to her.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, Edward Arnold
Votes: 1,167
25. We're Only Human (1935)
Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama
A tough police Detective (Preston Foster), is determined to bring in a gangster, with the help of his newspaper reporter gal (Jane Wyatt).
Director: James Flood | Stars: Preston Foster, Jane Wyatt, James Gleason, Arthur Hohl
Votes: 147
26. Double Door (1934)
75 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In New York in 1910, wealthy spinster Victoria Van Brett controls with an iron hand both the family fortune and the lives of her younger sister Caroline and half brother Rip. When Rip ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Evelyn Venable, Mary Morris, Anne Revere, Kent Taylor
Votes: 348
27. Midnight Club (1933)
64 min | Crime, Drama
Elegant Colin Grant and his associates are successful jewelry thieves, even unmasked to their victims, their perfect alibis making it impossible for the Comissioner police to arrest them. ... See full summary »
Directors: Alexander Hall, George Somnes | Stars: Clive Brook, George Raft, Helen Vinson, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 110
28. 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
29. Her Forgotten Past (1933)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Over the objections of her father (Henry B. Wathall) Doris Maynard (Barbara Kent) elopes with family chauffeur Dan Simmons (Eddie Phillips). Simmons pawns her jewels, forges her father's ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ford | Stars: Monte Blue, Barbara Kent, Henry B. Walthall, Eddie Phillips
Votes: 22
30. Terror Aboard (1933)
69 min | Crime, Mystery
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: John Halliday, Charles Ruggles, Shirley Grey, Neil Hamilton
Votes: 134
31. Trick for Trick (1933)
67 min | Mystery
Six months after the body of Evelyn Maxwell, who was the assistant to the magician Azrah, is pulled out of a river, the detective assigned to the case, Jed Dobson, is still searching for ... See full summary »
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Ralph Morgan, Victor Jory, Sally Blane, Tom Dugan
Votes: 22
32. Two Seconds (1932)
67 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee, Preston Foster
Votes: 1,300
33. The Last Mile (1932)
Passed | 75 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An innocent man sentenced to death gets caught up in a prison riot.
Director: Samuel Bischoff | Stars: Howard Phillips, Preston Foster, George E. Stone, Noel Madison
Votes: 418
34. The People's Enemy (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became rich what he craved for was ... See full summary »
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Preston Foster, Lila Lee, Melvyn Douglas, Shirley Grey
Votes: 64
35. The Last Warning (1938)
Approved | 63 min | Mystery
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Preston Foster, Frank Jenks, Kay Linaker, E.E. Clive
Votes: 50
36. Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! (1940)
Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman--but he can't stop ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Donald Woods, Kathryn Adams, Wallace Ford, Mona Barrie
Votes: 42
37. No Man of Her Own (1932)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 1,689
38. Virtue (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver, but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a murder.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Carole Lombard, Pat O'Brien, Mayo Methot, Jack La Rue
Votes: 930
39. Grand Canary (1934)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In the Canary Islands, a missionary girl tries to reform a derelict doctor, who finds true love elsewhere.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Warner Baxter, Madge Evans, Marjorie Rambeau, Zita Johann
Votes: 119
40. The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue, Florence Eldridge
Votes: 1,841
41. Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Drama
In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Phillips, Dorothy Coonan Wellman
Votes: 2,335
42. Night World (1932)
58 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Story of the goings-on at a Prohibition-era nightclub.
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, Dorothy Revier
Votes: 468
43. Shakedown (1936)
Approved | 55 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the ... See full summary »
Director: David Selman | Stars: Lew Ayres, Joan Perry, Thurston Hall, Victor Kilian
Votes: 15
44. The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Three play-authors, Horace Dryden, Nick Milburn and "Babe" Lawton, are in an apartment seeking a plot for a new play. They are still on Page 1 when an intoxicated man wanders into their ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Lew Ayres, Ruth Coleman, Eugene Pallette, Benny Baker
Votes: 97
45. The Last Train from Madrid (1937)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Lew Ayres, Gilbert Roland, Karen Morley
Votes: 306
46. Four Hours to Kill! (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses ... See full summary »
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Gertrude Michael, Helen Mack
Votes: 211
47. Scotland Yard (1930)
75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
During World War I, criminal Dakin Barrolles, fleeing a bank robbery gone awry, has a chance meeting with a rich, drunken banker and his wife. Fascinated by the kind of people he would ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Joan Bennett, Donald Crisp, Georges Renavent
Votes: 90
48. Transatlantic (1931)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama
A contained cast of characters traveling aboard a transatlantic ocean liner are pushed to dangerous limits though monetary issues that threaten the lives of the people aboard.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, John Halliday, Greta Nissen
Votes: 275
49. Guilty as Hell (1932)
80 min | Mystery
The sister of a convicted murder is convinced that he is innocent in this cat-and-mouse game where the murderer is always one step ahead until a final tense confrontation.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Richard Arlen, Adrienne Ames
Votes: 114
50. The Devil Is Driving (1932)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
There is a garage in downtown New York City on the ground floor of an eight-story building, with a winding ramp, that serves as a cache for stolen automobiles. The second floor is the ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Wynne Gibson, James Gleason, Lois Wilson
Votes: 178
51. I Love That Man (1933)
74 min | Crime, Drama
A woman falls in love with a con artist despite the fact that he does not want to marry her. They try to start a respectable life in a small town, but his shady past threatens to catch up with them.
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Nancy Carroll, Robert Armstrong, Lew Cody
Votes: 39
52. Mister Dynamite (1935)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Jean Dixon, Victor Varconi, Esther Ralston
Votes: 78
53. Grand Exit (1935)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A dashing insurance company investigator tries to catch an arsonist before he...or she...can strike again.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Ann Sothern, Onslow Stevens, Robert Middlemass
Votes: 283
54. Under Cover of Night (1937)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
A crazed, philandering professor prevents his studious wife from leaving him by committing the perfect murder.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Florence Rice, Nat Pendleton, Henry Daniell
Votes: 175
55. Murder on Diamond Row (1937)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An out-of-favor Scotland Yard inspector (Edmund Lowe) hunts a killer diamond fence--The Squeaker (Sebastian Shaw).
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Sebastian Shaw, Ann Todd, Tamara Desni
Votes: 267
56. The Witness Vanishes (1939)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Railroaded to an insane asylum twenty years ago by four men who had taken over his newspaper, Lucius Marplay, publisher of the London Sun, escapes with the sole intent of murdering the men ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie, Bruce Lester, Forrester Harvey
Votes: 99
57. Murder in Times Square (1943)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Actor-playwright Cory Williams (Edmund Lowe) is sitting in a nightclub when Longacre Lil (Esther Dale), a Broadway vagrant, comes in and asks him for some money. He not only refuses her but... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Marguerite Chapman, John Litel, William Wright
Votes: 77
58. Dangerous Blondes (1943)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A crime fiction writer and his wife investigate murders that are occurring at a fashion photography studio.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Edmund Lowe, John Hubbard
Votes: 399
59. The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945)
63 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Famed magician Mr. Gregory is visited back stage one night by an amateur magician and his wife. Immediately smitten with Ellen Randall, Gregory plots to win her over.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Jean Rogers, Donald Douglas, Marjorie Hoshelle
Votes: 248
60. Secrets of a Nurse (1938)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Mystery, Sport
When battered prize-fighter Lee Burke is taken to the West Side hospital, nurse Katherine MacDonald leaves her romantically-inclined patient, wealthy attorney John Dodge to take care of ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Helen Mack, Dick Foran, Samuel S. Hinds
Votes: 22
61. Espionage (1937)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, Musical
Rival reporters pose as honeymooners on a European train to track a munitions magnate.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Madge Evans, Paul Lukas, Ketti Gallian
Votes: 172
62. The Girl on the Front Page (1936)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Gloria Stuart, Reginald Owen, Spring Byington
Votes: 79
63. Chandu the Magician (1932)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.
Directors: William Cameron Menzies, Marcel Varnel | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Irene Ware, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 1,139
64. Attorney for the Defense (1932)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama
An ambitious lawyer uses circumstantial evidence to help convict an innocent man then tries to make amends with his family.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Evelyn Brent, Constance Cummings, Don Dillaway
Votes: 182
65. Risky Business (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: George Murphy, Dorothea Kent, Eduardo Ciannelli, Leon Ames
Votes: 35
66. From Headquarters (1933)
TV-G | 64 min | Mystery, Drama
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat
Votes: 366
67. Bordertown (1935)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Mexico, a former lawyer becomes the invaluable second-in-command to a casino owner, whose wife begins to fall for him.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 2,001
68. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Thomy Bourdelle, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 13,593
69. American Madness (1932)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Mystery
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all during the same day.
Directors: Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William Neill | Stars: Walter Huston, Pat O'Brien, Kay Johnson, Constance Cummings
Votes: 2,262
70. Thank You, Jeeves! (1936)
Approved | 57 min | Comedy
Erudite manservant Jeeves hopes to keep his frivolous employer Bertie out of new harrowing adventures, but a damsel in distress, carrying half of some mysterious plans, intrudes on their ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Greville Collins | Stars: Arthur Treacher, Virginia Field, David Niven, Lester Matthews
Votes: 309
71. We Have Our Moments (1937)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Taking a cruise to Europe, a schoolteacher gets involved with a gang of crooks.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Mischa Auer, Thurston Hall
Votes: 61
72. Dinner at the Ritz (1937)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
The daughter of a murdered financier is working as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks those among her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Annabella, David Niven, Paul Lukas, Romney Brent
Votes: 306
73. Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Mystery
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Loretta Young, Richard Greene, George Sanders, David Niven
Votes: 876
74. Criminals of the Air (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers. Since the town is also noted for a ... See full summary »
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Rosalind Keith, Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, John Gallaudet
Votes: 94
75. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 1,936
76. Central Park (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Gangsters posing as police officers offer a woman a chance to make money if she helps them out.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford, Guy Kibbee, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 494
77. The Woman Accused (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Drama
During a three-day pleasure cruise, a murder victim's friend (John Halliday) tries to trick a new bride (Nancy Carroll) into admitting her guilt.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday, Irving Pichel
Votes: 320
78. One New York Night (1935)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Mystery
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Franchot Tone, Una Merkel, Conrad Nagel, Harvey Stephens
Votes: 101
79. The Great Gambini (1937)
70 min | Mystery
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancé and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Akim Tamiroff, Marian Marsh, John Trent, Genevieve Tobin
Votes: 81
80. Men Without Names (1935)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama
This story about the U.S. Department of Justice and its agents begins with a daring mail-truck robbery by a ruthless gang that flees to the western U.S. after the robbery. When money from ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Madge Evans, David Holt, Lynne Overman
Votes: 62
81. Exclusive (1937)
Approved | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two newspapers are pitted against each other. One owned by gangster Charles Gillette (Lloyd Nolan), the other by Ralph Houston (Fred MacMurray).
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Frances Farmer, Charles Ruggles, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 95
82. The Princess Comes Across (1936)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 1,237
83. The Invisible Ray (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton
Votes: 3,030
84. The Silk Express (1933)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A trainload of silk puts Neil Hamilton on the fast track to murder in this full-throttle thrill ride costarring Sheila Terry and Guy Kibbee. As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Sheila Terry, Arthur Byron, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 188
85. The Big Shakedown (1934)
Not Rated | 64 min | Crime, Drama
Racketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 1,064
86. Night Key (1937)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Thriller
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Boris Karloff, Warren Hull, Jean Rogers, Alan Baxter
Votes: 1,101
87. The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938)
63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After the disappearance of the estate librarian, and the murder of another, Kerrigan is summoned by the lady of the manor to solve the mystery, and maybe find the Claydon treasure.
Director: H. Manning Haynes | Stars: John Stuart, Garry Marsh, Annie Esmond, Campbell Gullan
Votes: 27
88. Murder in the Family (1938)
75 min | Crime, Drama
After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.
Director: Albert Parker | Stars: Barry Jones, Jessica Tandy, Evelyn Ankers, Donald Gray
Votes: 57
89. Ticket to a Crime (1934)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A Man is found murdered at the Lido Country Club and, although several people are under suspicion, including Elaine and Willis Purdy, the police can not find the murderer; but private ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Ralph Graves, Lois Wilson, Lola Lane, James Burke
Votes: 52
90. Under Suspicion (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Mystery, Romance
When auto magnate Robert Bailey announces he is going to retire and turn his plant over to the employees he incurs the enmity of K.Y. Mitchell, a large stockholder in the company; Carey ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Katherine DeMille, Luis Alberni, Rosalind Keith
Votes: 12
91. Dangerously Yours (1933)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Warner Baxter, Miriam Jordan, Herbert Mundin, Florence Eldridge
Votes: 12
92. Danger in Paris (1937)
73 min | Thriller
Cafe Colette is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Paul Cavanagh, Greta Nissen and Sally Gray. It was also released under the alternative title Danger in Paris. The film was made at Wembley Studios.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Paul Cavanagh, Greta Nissen, Sally Gray, Bruce Seton
93. A Night of Terror (1937)
86 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A lottery winner breaks up with her fiancé and marries a fortune hunter who proves to be dangerous.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone, Binnie Hale, Bruce Seton
Votes: 640
94. Big Brown Eyes (1936)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 1,174
95. Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to a long prison term. ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Melvyn Douglas, Alan Baxter, Pert Kelton
Votes: 313
96. Easy Living (1937)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
When a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Luis Alberni
Votes: 4,167
97. Love Me Tonight (1932)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 4,625
98. I Live on Danger (1942)
73 min | Thriller
Eddie Nelson is wrongly accused of murder, and journalist Jeff Morrell and Nelson's sister, Susan Richards, fight to prove his innocence.
Director: Sam White | Stars: Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Elisabeth Risdon, Edward Norris
Votes: 108
99. The Main Event (1938)
Approved | 55 min | Mystery
FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled because the titleholder has been kidnapped. ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Dare | Stars: Robert Paige, Julie Bishop, Arthur Loft, John Gallaudet
Votes: 11
100. Extortion (1938)
61 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
In this B potboiler, a college professor finds himself suspected of a murder on his school's campus.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Scott Kolk, Mary Russell, Thurston Hall, Arthur Loft
Votes: 13
Tell Your Friends