More Movies You Must See Before You Die
by worwa-67173 | created - 6 months ago | updated - 6 months ago | PublicCombining the 101 Genre Films and the 501 Directors/Stars lists
Missing:
Repetition (Jon Jost, 1963, 12m)
The Young Runaways (Russ Mayberry, 1978, 120m)
24 Hours of Explicit Sex (Jose Mojica Marins, 1985, 77m)
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1. La fée aux choux (1896)
1 min | Short, Family, Fantasy
The first film directed by a female director, "The Cabbage Fairy" presents a brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Gently ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Alice Guy, Germaine Serand, Yvonne Serand
Votes: 1,397
2. A Country Girl's Seminary Life and Experiences (1908)
Drama, Short
The Old Farm: A country girl leaving home for the seminary. Bidding good-bye to the old folks and her sweetheart. Reception Hall: Arrival of the pupils. Parents bidding the girls good-bye. ... See full summary »
3. A Man with Three Wives (1909)
Short, Comedy
The location of this picture is not in Utah as might be inferred from the title, but right here in New York; and the situation is not so serious as it sounds. Jack Howard who, with his chum... See full summary »
Star: Blanche Sweet
4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1910)
17 min | Short, Horror
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: August Blom | Stars: Alwin Neuß, Oda Alstrup, August Blom, Victor Fabian
Votes: 20
6. The Better Way (1911)
10 min | Drama, Short
Louis Perry is discharged from the penitentiary, having served his sentence. He immediately resumes relations with his evil companions, being a leader in the criminal acts. One day he ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas H. Ince | Stars: King Baggot, Mary Pickford, Owen Moore
7. Little Nell's Tobacco (1910)
Short, Drama
Grandpa Turner lived happily with his daughter Ella and her husband, Robert Fuller. Little Nell, his grandchild, was his inseparable companion, the love between them being touching and ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Mary Pickford, Hayward Mack
8. A Victim of Circumstances (1911)
6 min | Comedy, Short
It is hubby's birthday and the wife wishing to surprise him, surreptitiously interviews the jeweler's clerk to order a gold watch as a present. Her mysterious action arouses suspicion in ... See full summary »
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Fred Mace, Dell Henderson, Lily Cahill, Mabel Normand
9. Ukhod velikogo startsa (1912)
31 min | Short, Drama
A group of peasants comes to see Leo Tolstoy and his wife, the Countess, to request some land. Tolstoy must explain to them that it is his wife who has authority over their land-holdings, ... See full summary »
Directors: Yakov Protazanov, Elizaveta Thiman | Stars: Olga Petrova, Vladimir Shaternikov, Mikhail Tamarov, Elizaveta Thiman
Votes: 110
10. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Clara T. Bracy, Walter Miller
Votes: 2,492
11. My Official Wife (1914)
50 min | Drama
Helene Marie, on the run from the Russian police in St. Petersburg, plots to kill the Czar.
Director: James Young | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, Harry T. Morey, Earle Williams, L. Rogers Lytton
Votes: 36
12. The Perils of Pauline (1914)
Passed | 199 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Pauline, a young maiden, must protect herself from the treacherous "guardian" of her inheritance, who repeatedly plots to murder her and take the money for himself.
Directors: Louis J. Gasnier, Donald MacKenzie | Stars: Pearl White, Crane Wilbur, Paul Panzer, Edward José
Votes: 1,087
13. Snow in the Carpathians
Drama, History, Romance | Announced
A love story set during World War 1 during the winter campaign between the Austrian and Russian armies. The story takes place in Galicia, the border region between Ukraine and Poland and in... See full summary »
Director: Constantin Werner
14. A Fool There Was (1915)
Not Rated | 67 min | Drama
A married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.
Director: Frank Powell | Stars: Theda Bara, Edward José, Mabel Frenyear, May Allison
Votes: 1,042
15. La folie du Docteur Tube (1915)
6 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect tries it out on his assistant, a dog, himself and two young couples.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Albert Dieudonné, Séverin-Mars
Votes: 492
16. The Regeneration (1915)
Passed | 72 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A boy surrounded by violence grows up to become an infamous gangster.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Sheer, Carl Harbaugh
Votes: 1,432
17. When Love Took Wings (1915)
13 min | Short, Comedy
Three men in love with the same woman contend with each other and with her father, until one of them takes her on an airplane in an attempt to elope with her.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Helen Carlyle, Frank Hayes, Al St. John
Votes: 103
18. Kitchener's Great Army in the Battle of the Somme (1916)
74 min | Documentary, War
Documentary (with some re-enacted footage) of the British army's participation in the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.
Director: Geoffrey Malins | Star: Beauvoir De Lisle
Votes: 459
19. The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Short
A bumbling detective comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress when a drug smuggler wants to force her to marry him.
Director: John Emerson | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love, Allan Sears, Tom Wilson
Votes: 1,005
20. The Valley of Decision (1916)
50 min | Drama, Romance
The story opens with an allegorical prologue, which presents various personified vices, including ambition and greed, then moves into the following drama: Arnold Gray, a fighter against ... See full summary »
Director: Rae Berger | Stars: Richard Bennett, Adrienne Morrison, Rhoda Lewis, George Periolat
Votes: 25
21. Das Tagebuch des Dr. Hart (1918)
82 min | Drama, Romance
An effort to combat the anti-German propaganda promulgated by the Allies.
Director: Paul Leni | Stars: Heinrich Schroth, Käthe Haack, Dagny Servaes, Ernst Hofmann
Votes: 40
22. Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917)
70 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance
Gentleman burglar Raffles tries to get his hand on a priceless pearl.
Director: George Irving | Stars: John Barrymore, Christine Mayo, H. Cooper Cliffe, Frank Morgan
Votes: 189
23. The Colonel (1918)
50 min | Drama
The Colonel (a professional thief) is caught burglarizing a millionaire's home. Rather than be arrested, the Colonel agrees to perform a service for the millionaire in exchange for his ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Sándor Góth, László Z. Molnár, Károly Huszár, Bela Lugosi
Votes: 56
24. A Dog's Life (1918)
Not Rated | 33 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Dave Anderson, Bert Appling
Votes: 9,675
25. Hearts of the World (1918)
TV-PG | 117 min | Drama, War
Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Robert Harron, Adolph Lestina
Votes: 1,107
26. Laughing Bill Hyde (1918)
66 min | Adventure, Comedy
The Atlanta Journal on October 4, 1918, advertised this movie with the following blurb: "Atlanta's last chance to see the best movie to date of the wild, free days of Alaska, when men ... See full synopsis »
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Will Rogers, Anna Lehr, Clarence Oliver, Joseph Herbert
Votes: 22
27. Proekt inzhenera Prayta (1918)
30 min | Short
A young and dynamic engineer, Mack Prite, whose talents have helped him rise above humble origins, struggles against an old entrenched capitalist whose oil company's profits are threatened ... See full summary »
Director: Lev Kuleshov | Stars: Boris Kuleshov, Leonid Polevoy, Eduard Kulganek, N. Gardi
Votes: 140
28. Thomas Graals bästa barn (1918)
95 min | Comedy
In this sequel to Wanted - A Film Actress (1917), comedic situations follow Thomas and Bessie - beginning with the preparations of wedding ceremony, to the daily married life.
Director: Mauritz Stiller | Stars: Victor Sjöström, Karin Molander, Josef Fischer, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
Votes: 112
29. A Trip to Mars (1918)
97 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A group of researchers from Earth travel in a spaceship to Mars, where, to big surprise, they find a peaceful vegetarian and pacifist civilization.
Director: Holger-Madsen | Stars: Gunnar Tolnæs, Zanny Petersen, Nicolai Neiiendam, Alf Blütecher
Votes: 820
30. Passion (1919)
Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein
Votes: 1,005
31. Birthright (1920)
50 min | Drama
When an orphan raised in a secluded country hamlet is filled with wanderlust, she leaves her desolate surroundings to find her birthright.
Director: Edward L. Hemmer | Stars: Maud Sylvester, Flora Finch, Sidney Mason, Peter Raymond
32. The Golem (1920)
Unrated | 91 min | Fantasy, Horror
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
Directors: Paul Wegener, Carl Boese | Stars: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch, Lyda Salmonova
Votes: 8,543
33. La fête espagnole (1920)
67 min | Drama
Coveted by two different men, a woman turns to a third man instead.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Ève Francis, Gabriel Gabrio, Jean Toulout, Gaston Modot
Votes: 33
34. The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
Unrated | 117 min | Comedy, Drama
Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation than he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment and she two-times him; he comforts near-suicidal Annie and she robs him.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Bebe Daniels
Votes: 1,358
35. Shame (1921)
90 min | Drama
While living in Shanghai with his young son David, William Fielding is close friends with his secretary, Li Clung, after the death of his wife. Foo Chang, a trader, loves the young woman ... See full summary »
Director: Emmett J. Flynn | Stars: John Gilbert, Michael D. Moore, Frankie Lee, George Siegmann
36. Beyond the Rainbow (1922)
65 min | Drama
Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his doctors that he has to go to the mountains ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Harry T. Morey, Billie Dove, Virginia Lee, Diana Allen
Votes: 19
37. The Love Nest (1923)
Unrated | 20 min | Short, Comedy
In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at sea where he boards a whaling ship with a strict captain.
Directors: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline | Stars: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox, Steve Murphy
Votes: 2,570
38. Safety Last! (1923)
Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.
Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young
Votes: 22,936 | Gross: $1.36M
39. Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
Director: Yakov Protazanov | Stars: Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli, Nikolay Batalov
Votes: 2,892
40. At 3:25 (1925)
Unrated | 59 min | Sci-Fi
A scientist's invisible ray freezes Paris into immobility.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Charles Martinelli, Louis Pré Fils, Albert Préjean, Madeleine Rodrigue
Votes: 1,974
41. The Navigator (1924)
Unrated | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.
Directors: Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom, Clarence Burton
Votes: 11,070 | Gross: $1.48M
42. The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924)
Not Rated | 183 min | Drama, Romance
A drunkard priest who has been cast out by his community struggles to atone and regain his honour and dignity.
Director: Mauritz Stiller | Stars: Lars Hanson, Sven Scholander, Ellen Hartman-Cederström, Mona Mårtenson
Votes: 1,380
43. 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: 7,980 | Gross: $12.45M
44. Body and Soul (1925)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A malevolent phony preacher plots to take advantage of a woman from his congregation who happens to be in love with his long-estranged identical twin brother.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Paul Robeson, Marshall Rogers, Lawrence Chenault, Chester A. Alexander
Votes: 1,191
45. The Joyless Street (1925)
125 min | Drama
In post-WWI Vienna, Greta (Greta Garbo), her kid sister, and retired dad try to make it through tough times.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Ágnes Eszterházy, Werner Krauss
Votes: 1,720
46. The Mysterious Stranger (I) (1925)
60 min | Action, Drama
Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage surrounded by high walls. He is ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Nelson | Stars: Richard Talmadge, Josef Swickard, Carmelita Geraghty, Sheldon Lewis
47. The Plastic Age (1925)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to go to parties. He finds that it is impossible to please ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Donald Keith, Clara Bow, Mary Alden, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 376
48. Kid Boots (1926)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Clara Bow, Billie Dove, Lawrence Gray
Votes: 214 | Gross: $0.34M
49. The Son of the Sheik (1926)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The son of the sheik and a dancing girl fall in love, but when he is made to believe she has betrayed him he seeks revenge.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett, Montagu Love
Votes: 2,130 | Gross: $1.56M
50. 7th Heaven (1927)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard, Albert Gran
Votes: 4,169 | Gross: $3.92M
51. Fashions for Women (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Céleste de Givray, whose social success is the result of the audacity of her press agent, Sam Dupont, is persuaded to retreat from public life and to have her face lifted. Lola Dauvry, a ... See full summary »
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Esther Ralston, Raymond Hatton, Einar Hanson, Edward Martindel
Votes: 39
52. The Gaucho (1927)
Approved | 115 min | Adventure, Romance
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich ... See full summary »
Director: F. Richard Jones | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez, Joan Barclay, Eve Southern
Votes: 367
53. Two Arabian Knights (1927)
TV-G | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Two American soldiers are captured by the Germans on the Western Front during World War One and escape a POW camp only to stumble into further life-threatening adventures when they come across an Arabian king's daughter while on the lam.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim, Ian Keith
Votes: 1,143 | Gross: $0.51M
54. Underworld (1927)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
Directors: Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson | Stars: George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, Fred Kohler
Votes: 3,479 | Gross: $1.64M
55. The Way of All Flesh (1927)
94 min | Drama
A happy bank clerk loses his identity after a robbery and is then presumed dead.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Emil Jannings, Belle Bennett, Phyllis Haver, Donald Keith
Votes: 225 | Gross: $0.86M
56. Wings (1927)
PG-13 | 144 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
Directors: William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston
Votes: 14,550 | Gross: $6.59M
57. Woman's Law (1927)
Drama
Helene is forced into marrying blackmailer Vaughan Neil, who holds incriminating evidence of a scandal involving her father. In a struggle with the girl the villain is killed, and she is ... See full summary »
Director: Dallas M. Fitzgerald | Stars: Pat O'Malley, Lillian Rich, Ernest Wood, John Cossar
58. The Bridge (1928)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Close shots of a railway train underway: track racing underneath, steam escaping, cars coupling, gears ratcheting, signals changing.
Director: Joris Ivens
Votes: 510
59. His House in Order (1928)
72 min | Drama
A rich man's worship of his first wife ends when he learns that he is not the father of their son.
Director: Randle Ayrton | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Ian Hunter, David Hawthorne, Eric Maturin
Votes: 12
60. The Patriot (1928)
113 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Paul I, the Emperor of All Russia, becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Emil Jannings, Lewis Stone, Florence Vidor, Vera Voronina
61. The Racket (1928)
Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An honest police captain vows to bring down a powerful bootlegger who is protected by corrupt politicians and judges.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost, G. Pat Collins
Votes: 1,588
62. Sadie Thompson (1928)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama
A prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Friderici, Charles Lane, Florence Midgley
Votes: 2,821 | Gross: $2.18M
63. Steamboat Willie (1928)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mickey Mouse is a mischievous deckhand on a riverboat that is under the command of the tyrannical Captain Pete.
Directors: Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney | Star: Walt Disney
Votes: 11,265
64. The Wedding March (1928)
Passed | 113 min | Drama
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.
Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts, Matthew Betz
Votes: 1,899
65. What Price Beauty? (1925)
60 min | Drama
Wholesome country girl, Mary, works at the 'House of Magic' beauty salon and pines for the dreamy owner, Clay. Unfortunately Clay has also been targeted by experienced vamp, Rita, who has ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Buckingham | Stars: Nita Naldi, Natacha Rambova, Pierre Gendron, Virginia Pearson
Votes: 37
66. The Wind (1928)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming
Votes: 7,163
67. Zvenigora (1928)
109 min | Drama, Fantasy
An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Nikolai Nademsky, Semyon Svashenko, Aleksandr Podorozhnyy, Polina Sklyar-Otava
Votes: 1,167
68. The Cocoanuts (1929)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.
Directors: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Votes: 8,201 | Gross: $3.92M
69. Coquette (1929)
Unrated | 76 min | Drama, Romance
A flirtatious Southern belle is compromised with one of her suitors.
Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore, John St. Polis
Votes: 2,317
70. Disraeli (1929)
Passed | 90 min | Biography, Drama, History
Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence, Joan Bennett
Votes: 1,381
71. The Divine Lady (1928)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith
Votes: 937
72. Glorifying the American Girl (1929)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza "Glorifying the American Girl".
Director: Millard Webb | Stars: Mary Eaton, Eddie Cantor, Helen Morgan, Rudy Vallee
Votes: 799
73. The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Passed | 130 min | Comedy, Music
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Directors: Charles Reisner, Christy Cabanne, Norman Houston | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer
Votes: 2,257
74. Images d'Ostende (1929)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Belgian director Henri Storck presents a tribute to one of the most well-known spots in Belgium: the Ostende beach. Filming from everyone and everything, gathering a small collection of ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Storck
Votes: 127
75. The Jazz Age (1929)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Romance
When Steve Maxwell and flapper Sue Randall wreck her father's automobile during a drunken escapade, her father exploits the mishap and blackmails Steve's father into supporting an illegal contract in city affairs.
Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Myrtle Stedman
Votes: 28
76. The Love Parade (1929)
Passed | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth
Votes: 2,620
77. The New Babylon (1929)
120 min | Drama, History
In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a ... See full summary »
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Stars: David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin, Sofiya Magarill
Votes: 935
78. Anna Christie (I) (1930)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler
Votes: 3,505 | Gross: $1.01M
79. The Divorcee (1930)
Passed | 84 min | Romance, Drama
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel
Votes: 3,657
80. Hell's Angels (1930)
Passed | 127 min | Drama, War
Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.
Directors: Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale | Stars: Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow
Votes: 5,973 | Gross: $5.45M
81. Morocco (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt
Votes: 7,485
82. Oshikiri shinkonki (1930)
37 min | Short, Drama
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Teruo Môuri, Hisao Yoshitani, Ichirô Okuni, Keinosuke Sakai
Votes: 12
83. Tol'able David (1930)
65 min | Drama
Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Noah Beery, Joan Peers, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 44
84. The Unholy Three (1930)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Professor Echo, a ventriloquist, forms a burglary ring. He disguises himself as an elderly pet store owner selling talking birds to the wealthy, using his skills to make the birds seem to talk while casing the homes for robberies.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Lon Chaney, Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent, Harry Earles
Votes: 1,405
85. Cimarron (1931)
Passed | 123 min | Drama, Western
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil
Votes: 6,942
86. City Streets (1931)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William 'Stage' Boyd
Votes: 1,874
87. Daphnis and Chloe (1931)
68 min | Drama, Romance
Lamonas the shepherd finds a boy sucking milk from the teats of a goat. He calls him Dafnis and takes him as his own child. At the same time, Dryantas, another shepherd, comes across a little girl whom he calls her Chloe.
Director: Orestis Laskos | Stars: Apollon Marsyas, Loucy Matli, Marika Raftopoulou, Kostas Palaiologos
Votes: 149
88. Labor on the Douro River (1931)
20 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary that looks at the people working in the river Douro, around the city of Porto.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Votes: 766
89. 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: 15,820 | Gross: $2.79M
90. A Free Soul (1931)
Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable
Votes: 2,936
91. Hyppolit a lakáj (1931)
72 min | Comedy
A butler changes the life of a nouveau-riche entrepreneur's life, while his daughter falls in love with the company's manager instead of a suitor chosen for her.
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Gyula Csortos, Gyula Kabos, Mici Haraszti, Éva Fenyvessy
Votes: 1,754
92. Inspiration (1931)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance
Yvonne is a beautiful model who loves frequenting the Parisian bohemian life, because she loves hobnobbing with artists.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 631 | Gross: $0.73M
93. The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Robert Young
Votes: 1,131
94. Blessed Event (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 764
95. Fanny (1932)
Not Rated | 125 min | Comedy, Drama
After Fanny's boyfriend leaves her and sails away, she finds out she's pregnant.
Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Orane Demazis
Votes: 1,927 | Gross: $0.02M
96. Grand Hotel (I) (1932)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery
Votes: 20,887 | Gross: $2.69M
97. Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Passed | 70 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
Votes: 10,912
98. The Old Dark House (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart
Votes: 13,112 | Gross: $0.03M
99. Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 8,222
100. Gli uomini, che mascalzoni... (1932)
64 min | Comedy, Romance
Bruno, a young Milanese driver, falls in love with Mariuccia, dependent on a perfumery. Wanting to impress her, he shows up for their first date, in his employer's car.
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Lia Franca, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zoppetti, Aldo Moschino
Votes: 467
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