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51. Night After Night (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Drama
A successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: George Raft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson, Mae West
Votes: 1,071
52. Moana (1926)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s.
Directors: Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Ta'avale, Fa'amgase, T'ugaita, Tama
Votes: 740
53. A Connecticut Yankee (1931)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A radio salesman finds himself transported back in time to King Arthur's court.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Will Rogers, William Farnum, Frank Albertson, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 444
54. Ex-Lady (1933)
Unrated | 67 min | Comedy, Drama
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Bette Davis, Gene Raymond, Frank McHugh, Monroe Owsley
Votes: 1,696 | Gross: $0.50M
55. Hold Your Man (1933)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A woman is sent to a reformatory when her con artist lover flees after killing a man during a botched blackmail scheme.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Burgess
Votes: 1,817
56. Private Detective 62 (1933)
Passed | 66 min | Drama
A down-and-out private eye falls for a woman he has been hired to frame.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: William Powell, Margaret Lindsay, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Westcott
Votes: 1,069
57. Hot Saturday (1932)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods
Votes: 1,376
58. Penthouse (1933)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A lawyer's fiancée leaves him after he defends a racketeer accused of murder, but she needs his help when her new beau is accused of killing an old flame.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke
Votes: 1,379
59. Applause (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron
Votes: 1,506
60. Bed of Roses (1933)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Determined to reform upon leaving prison, a former prostitute falls in love with a cotton-barge owner and must choose between him and her banker lover.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Pert Kelton
Votes: 1,022
61. The Death Kiss (1932)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Murder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Adrienne Ames, John Wray
Votes: 1,423
62. Millie (1931)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance
Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames, James Hall
Votes: 860
63. 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: 1,792
64. Feet First (1930)
Passed | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
An ambitious shoe salesman who unknowingly meets his boss's daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon has to try to hide his true circumstances.
Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Harold Lloyd | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Robert McWade, Lillian Leighton
Votes: 1,197 | Gross: $1.59M
65. Four Frightened People (1934)
Not Rated | 78 min | Adventure, Drama
Four passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. In order to reach safety they have to trek through the jungle, facing wild animals and attacks by primitive tribesmen.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, William Gargan
Votes: 720
66. The Beast of the City (1932)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt
Votes: 1,420 | Gross: $0.89M
67. Broadway (1929)
Passed | 104 min | Crime, Music, Romance
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Director: Pál Fejös | Stars: Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Thomas E. Jackson
Votes: 462
68. Tugboat Annie (1933)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy
Annie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 816
69. Midnight Mary (1933)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez, Andy Devine
Votes: 1,620
70. The Purchase Price (1932)
TV-PG | 68 min | Comedy, Drama
A torch singer becomes a farmer's mail-order bride.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot, Hardie Albright
Votes: 1,842
71. 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: 276
72. Blood and Sand (1922)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A toreador's (Rudolph Valentino) familial and social life is threatened when he has an affair.
Directors: Fred Niblo, Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Rosa Rosanova, Leo White, Rosita Marstini
Votes: 1,541 | Gross: $2.73M
73. 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: 473
74. Wild Girl (1932)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Bret Harte's story of Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl who is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 281
75. The Crowd Roars (1932)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Race car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden
Votes: 1,477 | Gross: $1.14M
76. The Bishop Murder Case (1929)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the body of a man nicknamed "Cock Robin" is found with an arrow in the heart on an archery range along with a chess bishop as a clue, Philo Vance investigates.
Directors: David Burton, Nick Grinde | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 856
77. The Unholy Night (1929)
Passed | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
Director: Lionel Barrymore | Stars: Ernest Torrence, Roland Young, Dorothy Sebastian, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 405
78. Big City Blues (1932)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Drama
Young man from small town moves to New York City looking for better life.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Jobyna Howland, Ned Sparks
Votes: 887
79. Working Girls (1931)
77 min | Drama, Romance
Two sisters, May, older, naive, and June, younger and worldly, arrive in New York straight from the country and settle down in a boarding house. Their search for jobs leads them to find beaus and romantic trouble.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Judith Wood, Dorothy Hall, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Paul Lukas
Votes: 269
80. Blood Money (1933)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Bill Bailey (George Bancroft) is a Los Angeles, California bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges ... See full summary »
Director: Rowland Brown | Stars: George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Frances Dee, Chick Chandler
Votes: 420
81. Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)
90 min | Drama, Musical
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it ... See full summary »
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Constance Cummings, Russ Columbo, Paul Kelly, Blossom Seeley
Votes: 242
82. Romance (1930)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Romance
Young Harry is in love and wants to marry an actress, much to the displeasure of his family. Harry thinks that Bishop Armstrong knows nothing about love, so Armstrong tells him the story of... See full summary »
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon, Elliott Nugent
Votes: 1,035 | Gross: $1.60M
83. The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama
Reporters at a scandal sheet dwell on a murder case, with tragic results.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Adrienne Dore
Votes: 468
84. Murder in the Private Car (1934)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A sleuth has to figure out who is threatening an heiress while she's aboard a train.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle, Russell Hardie
Votes: 679
85. The Dance of Life (1929)
Passed | 115 min | Drama, Romance
When a vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer have little luck in their separate careers, they decide to combine their acts; to save money on the road, they get married.
Directors: John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Hal Skelly, Nancy Carroll, Dorothy Revier, Ralph Theodore
Votes: 354
86. Party Girl (1930)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A cautionary tale. Ellen's past as a "party girl" is carefully hidden but may be exposed when another party girl tricks her fiance into marriage.
Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jeanette Loff, Judith Barrie, Marie Prevost
Votes: 322
87. Lady and Gent (1932)
84 min | Drama, Sport
Fresh young boxer Buzz Kinney is just out of college. He's able to knock out Stag Bailey when the veteran becomes overconfident. Later, Buzz is a worn-out wreck with a broken nose and cauliflower ear.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: George Bancroft, Wynne Gibson, Charles Starrett, James Gleason
Votes: 238
88. The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Mystery
Jenny Wren is found dead after threatening to blackmail some prominent men, and it's up to a detective to find out what happened to Jenny.
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Anita Louise, Pauline Frederick
Votes: 849
89. Under Eighteen (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A poor seamstress girl sours on her engagement to a grocery deliveryman after seeing her sister's abusive marriage. Trying to help her sister pay for a divorce lawyer, she turns to a rich playboy she met at work.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Marian Marsh, Anita Page, Regis Toomey, Warren William
Votes: 466
90. The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)
Passed | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Western
The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
Director: Clyde Bruckman | Stars: W.C. Fields, Rosemary Theby, George Chandler, Richard Cramer
Votes: 1,902
91. Gambling Ship (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and... See full summary »
Directors: Louis J. Gasnier, Max Marcin | Stars: Cary Grant, Benita Hume, Jack La Rue, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 298
92. Easy to Love (1934)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Romance
A middle-aged couple's (Genevieve Tobin, Adolphe Menjou) marital woes take a back seat to their daughter's intentions to run off with her beau.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Genevieve Tobin, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 503
93. Make Me a Star (1932)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Merton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non-existent. Actress Flips gives him a ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin, Zasu Pitts, Ben Turpin
Votes: 649
94. Hell Harbor (1930)
Passed | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Lovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the greasy local merchant, Anita does everything in her power to make her dream a reality.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Lupe Velez, Jean Hersholt, John Holland, Gibson Gowland
Votes: 267
95. Marianne (I) (1929)
Passed | 111 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
During World War I, a young French woman struggles to choose between two suitors: a blind soldier to whom she is engaged and an American serviceman.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marion Davies, George Baxter, Lawrence Gray, Cliff Edwards
Votes: 1,276
96. Bright Lights (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery, Daphne Pollard
Votes: 382
97. Love Is a Racket (1932)
Unrated | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue beholden to a penthouse gangster.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, Lee Tracy
Votes: 567
98. Anybody's Woman (1930)
80 min | Drama, Romance
A man left by his wife gets drunk and marries a chorus girl.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Paul Lukas, Huntley Gordon
Votes: 166
99. Broadminded (1931)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Romance
Jack's father is sending him away to keep him from gambling, booze, girls, and late nights. He has Ossie go as Jack's companion, not knowing that Ossie does the same things as Jack. They ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Ona Munson, William Collier Jr., Marjorie White
Votes: 362
100. Helen's Babies (1924)
85 min | Comedy
A young man who has vowed never to marry and doesn't particularly like children is left in charge of his two very young nieces. At first they drive him to distraction, but then he begins to... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Baby Peggy, Clara Bow, Jeanne Carpenter, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 135