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Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A working girl is menaced by her tyrannical employer.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Henrietta Crosman, Heather Angel, Norman Foster
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A possessive mother pushes her son into World War I service rather than see him get married.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Akio Isono, Sumiko Mizukubo
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two Geisha with a connection to a young man deal with life’s hardships.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi, Takuaki Seiryô
Stars: Tokihiko Okada, Ichirô Sugai, Bontarô Miake
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The tragic tale of a woman who despite doing good where she can gets punished by society.

Director: John G. Adolfi
Stars: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Theodore Newton
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The vacationing head of a successful shoe company is placed as his rival’s trustee, unbeknown to them.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Annie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.

Director: Rowland Brown
Stars: George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Frances Dee
Genre: Drama, Film Noir, Romance
Country: USA

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 against a client dismissed. He falls in love with a slumming socialite who bluntly and startlingly declares her sexual preferences with this immortal line: “If I could find a man who would be my master and give me a good thrashing, I’d follow him around like a dog on a leash.”.

Director: Cyril Gardner
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Laurence Olivier, John Halliday
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.

Director: Phil Goldstone
Stars: Zita Johann, John Miljan, Alan Dinehart
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those who she loves.

Director: Tod Browning
Stars: John Gilbert, Robert Armstrong, Mae Clarke
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Gunner and Bucker are pals who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner has not failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his dough. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.

Director: Robert Florey
Stars: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

It is the World War I period, and Peggy Martin, a showgirl and mistress to London Fiske, marries her love, handsome Monte Van Tyle. They move into the house on 56th street and have a baby, Eleanor. Monte enlists in the army and is killed in action. Peggy is revisited by Fiske who wants her back or he’ll commit suicide. She refuses his advances and the gun he brought accidentally goes off killing him. Peggy is convicted with murdered and jailed. Eleanor is told her mother is dead. Twenty years later, Peggy is released and meets gambler, Bill Blaine. The house on 56th street is now a gambling house owned by politician, Bonelli. Bill and Peggy get jobs there. Eleanor comes to visit them, and goes with Bill into his office. Bill threatens Eleanor, now a huge gambler, that he’ll tell her husband about her huge debts. Eleanor kills Bill and Peggy takes the blame. Bonelli believes Peggy is innocent and offers to help her if she only stays at the house on 56th street.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Irene Dunne, Joel McCrea, Laura Hope Crews
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O’Brien
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work. He regards the assignment as “kindergarten” work. When a young woman asks him to help locate her husband, Therme, he learns that she is really Norma Phillips, wanted by Chicago police for murder of her husband. She escapes, but Saunders borrows a corpse from the morgue to arrange her fake funeral. The trap brings the woman and Therme to the mortuary out of curiosity.

Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

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: Hiroshi Shimizu
Stars: Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue, Ureo Egawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two schoolgirl friends drift apart when one of them falls for a handsome boy.

Director: Pál Fejös
Stars: Annabella, Gustav Fröhlich, Paul Otto
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | Austria

Vienna, at the height of the Great Depression. Like so many others, Hans has no work, no money, nowhere to live. Having lost his livelihood as a taxi driver, he decides that the only solution is to kill himself. But just as he is about to drown himself, he sees a young woman dive into the river, obviously with the same intention. Without a thought, Hans pulls the woman out of the water and does his best to comfort her. Her name is Anna and she is only 18, but like Hans she no longer has the strength to go on living.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Annabella, George Rigaud, Raymond Cordy
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France

Jean is a young cab driver. Anna, a flower-girl neighbour, is in love with him. But he is still thinking to Pola, who just left him. Jean asks her to the bal. Many events (Pola’s come back, two villains…) will disturb this arising love.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Yoshiko Okada, Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Ryoichi and Chikako are brother and sister. They live together. Chikako works during the day in an office and at night she prostitutes herself to fund her brother’s studies at the university. Ryoichi doesn’t know about his sister’s secret life, but he is dating Harue whose brother is a policeman.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA

Ex-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn’t like that relation at first, but McLean, Kean’s boss, convinces him of Kean’s good nature. But Kean uses his relation to Patricia to make a photo of an execution. Due to this, Nolan loses his stripes and Kean isn’t allowed to see Patricia any longer. But when one of his former friends kills two policemen, Kean sees his chance….

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Jôji Oka, Sumiko Mizukubo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: James Cagney, Mary Brian, Allen Jenkins
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is over, he’s forced to come up with a series of cons to help pay it back.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Benita Hume
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Depression Era story set in London has department store owner (Lewis Stone) facing bankruptcy while his family fritters away money. A long-standing employee (Lionel Barrymore) gets fired but finds new life in a home-based bakery. The owner’s wife (Benita Hume) can’t face life without money, so she runs off with another man. The tables turn, however, when a last-minute reprieve saves the store and a new relationship is forged between the men.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns his wife has been unfaithful.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Sumiko Kurishima, Teruko Kojima, Jun Arai
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son until–her long-lost husband returns.

Director: Victor Saville
Stars: Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK

Musical taken from J.B. Priestley’s novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

Director: Robert Florey
Stars: Bette Davis, Gene Raymond, Frank McHugh
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

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: Frank Borzage
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.

Director: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz
Stars: James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed deputy commissioner as a political favor, arrives – complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. But Thompson, to conceal his years of graft, needs a quick way to discredit Gargan.

Director: Paul Sloane
Stars: Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

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: Frank Borzage
Stars: Mary Pickford, Leslie Howard, C. Aubrey Smith
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

In the late 1800s New England, banker William Marlowe and his wife Martha have arranged for their daughter Mary to marry the officious and older Lord Hurley of England. Mary does not want to marry Lord Hurley, but rather John Carlton, a lowly clerk at her father’s bank.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Stars: W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention, television.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Phillips
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

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: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

A former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.

Director: Wesley Ruggles
Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

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: Stuart Walker
Stars: Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Edgar Dearing, Peter Freuchen, Edward Hearn
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.

Director: Victor Saville
Stars: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Muriel Aked
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windshield as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus. Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes, and we discover the lives of all of the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con man with a hundred pound cheque to the businessman’s distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash, and past it, as some live and some die.

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.

Director: Lowell Sherman
Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA

In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.

Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Sexpot film star Lola Burns seeks a new image and tries marrying a marquis and adopting a baby – all sorts of schemes which go awry.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Stars: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival’s spy to produce spectacular live “prologues” for movie houses.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA

A chronicle of the lives of a group of sisters growing up in nineteenth-century America.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank – by gleefully sleeping her way to the top.

Director: Stephen Roberts
Stars: Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

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: Alexander Korda
Stars: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Marion Davies, Onslow Stevens, J. Farrell MacDonald
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman living in an Irish fishing village inherits her late grandfather’s estate, but is forced to spend three years in England training to be a proper lady to collect the fortune.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Yoshiko Okada, Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Ryoichi and Chikako are brother and sister. They live together. Chikako works during the day in an office and at night she prostitutes herself to fund her brother’s studies at the university. Ryoichi doesn’t know about his sister’s secret life, but he is dating Harue whose brother is a policeman.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Ohinata
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.

Director: Max Ophüls
Stars: Paul Hörbiger, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past misfortune…

Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Charles Vanel, Habib Benglia, Gaston Dubosc
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer on board who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation. When she disappears the next day, suspicion spreads not only to the engineer but also to Dainah’s husband. Forward-thinking and absorbing.

Director: Mario Camerini
Stars: Lia Franca, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zoppetti
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy

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: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuo Saitô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

When a young man inherits his father’s lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Dick Powell
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

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 sends Frankie to talk to Alvin. But Al has the confession of Frankie on cylinders so Frankie becomes his own bodyguard and information line. One person Al is always taking digs at is crooner Bunny Harmon, because he hates crooners. When he writes a story about Dorothy’s blessed event, he comes to regret destroying her life. But more importantly to Al and Frankie, her man may end ‘Spilling the Dirt’ permanently.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Harry Baur, Robert Lynen, Louis Gauthier
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A red-haired boy is his mother’s punching bag ; only his father’s presence is a great comfort to him,but this weak man is under the shrew’s thumb.His pain is so great he feels suicidal.

Director: James Flood, Elliott Nugent
Stars: Warren William, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Prosecutor becomes a defense attorney after an innocent man is sent to an electric chair.

Director: Clyde Bruckman, Harold Lloyd
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a test screening and goes off to Hollywood.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Warren William, Bette Davis, Guy Kibbee
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Jailbird is hired to lead a dimwitted candidate’s campaign for governor.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Travelers of different and varied backgrounds meet and interact on one night in a metropolitan train station and its environs.

Director: Lothar Mendes
Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, Ray Milland
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A man poisons his nephew out of desperation for money.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

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: Marc Allégret
Stars: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

After Fanny’s boyfriend leaves her and sails away, she finds out she’s pregnant.

Director: Leo McCarey
Stars: Eddie Cantor, Lyda Roberti, Robert Young
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

An innocent man accused of robbing banks masquerades as a bullfighter to escape the police.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: H.B. Warner, Walter Byron, Bette Davis
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Ronald Quayle escapes from prison. He was sent there for murdering his father, based on the testimony of his stepmother, Caroline. An explosion disfigures him, but plastic surgery gives him an opportunity to return to England and investigate his father’s murder under a new identity. As Robert Crockett he romances his stepmother, ultimately trapping her by creating the appearance of a double-cross among her accomplices, now guests at her house.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Bette Davis
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A socialite gets a divorce but can’t keep out of her ex-husband’s life.

Director: Hobart Henley
Stars: Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Story of the goings-on at a Prohibition-era nightclub.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.

Director: Edward L. Cahn
Stars: Walter Huston, Harry Carey, Raymond Hatton
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A lawman sets out to tame Tombstone, Arizona.

Director: Monta Bell
Stars: John Gilbert, Paul Lukas, Virginia Bruce
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An amoral chauffeur seeks to seduce a young bride.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis, Dorothy Jordan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A tenant farmer’s son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner’s seductive daughter.

Director: John G. Adolfi
Stars: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Violet Heming
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.

Director: Edgar Selwyn
Stars: Warren William, Maureen O’Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An entrepreneur will let nothing stand in his way of acquiring a 100-story office building.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Following the death of Selena’s father, she’s offered a job as a teacher in a small town and a new chapter of her life begins.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

French soldier travels to Germany to find a family of a man he killed during World War I.

Director: Raymond Bernard
Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Gabrio, Charles Vanel
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France

World War 1 begins and a young man enlists to fight for his country.

Director: Jack Conway
Stars: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

A detective is tasked to capture an elusive thief called Arsene Lupin.

Director: George Archainbaud
Stars: Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Shady stockbroker and abusive husband Gerald Parker is found dead in the penguin pool of a NYC aquarium after being knocked cold by his wife’s boyfriend.

Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: Irene Dunne, John Boles, George Meeker
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A woman’s love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the “back streets” of his life.

Director: Edward Buzzell
Stars: Carole Lombard, Pat O’Brien, Mayo Methot
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

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: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

Two young women find their friendship strained when one wins a role in a Broadway show, and the other’s boyfriend begins to fall for her.

Director: Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William Neill
Stars: Walter Huston, Pat O’Brien, Kay Johnson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

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 in the same day.

Director: George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

An unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Marian Marsh, David Manners, Warren William
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

An executive hires a mousy, plain woman as his secretary so she will not divert him from his work, but she still becomes determined to win his heart.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron’s wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Phillips Holmes, Walter Huston, Anita Page
Genre: Crime, Film Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

Judge and his mistress are investigated on suspicions of corruption.

Director: Tay Garnett
Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Frank McHugh
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other’s secret.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film Noir
Country: USA

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Director: John Francis Dillon
Stars: Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Thelma Todd
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Sexy Texas gal storms her way through life, brawling and boozing until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the errors of her ways.

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to a crippled woman.

Director: James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Lothar Mendes, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog
Stars: Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

Director: Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.

Director: Jack Conway
Stars: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Lillian relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Virginia Davis, Joan Blondell, Anne Shirley
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley University, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against the rival Darwin University.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.

Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.

Director: Sidney Franklin
Stars: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The adoptive father of a young woman is horrified to learn she plans to marry the son of the man who accidentally killed her aunt years before.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely ill husband’s operation.

Director: Karl Freund
Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA

A resurrected Egyptian mummy stalks a beautiful woman he believes to be the reincarnation of his lover and bride.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Tatsuo Saitô, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn’t the most important man in his workplace.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Harry Baur, Paule Andral, Jackie Monnier
Genre: Drama
Country: France

David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Albert Préjean, Florelle, Gaston Modot
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: Germany | USA

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.

Director: John S. Robertson
Stars: John Gilbert, Leila Hyams, Lewis Stone
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Cheri-Bibi is an escape artist wrongly imprisoned for murdering the wealthy father of his admirer Cecile. The real murderer is Cecile’s fiancé, so how will Bibi escape his death sentence and win back Cecile?

Director: Erich Engel, Fyodor Otsep
Stars: Fritz Kortner, Anna Sten, Fritz Rasp
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, Johnny Mack Brown
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

World War 1 veterans roam Paris drinking and admiring a woman they recently met.

Director: Harry Beaumont
Stars: John Gilbert, El Brendel, Lois Moran
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

Jerry Seevers returns from World War I service broken in health and his doctor tells him he has only six months to live. His fiancée jilts him and he sets out to drink himself to death. In one of his binges he wakes up to find himself married to what the assumes is a gold-digger after his money. He leaves her and goes to a ranch in Arizona and get rid of his new bride, who is really in love with him. He sets up divorce proceedings and then realizes he actually loves her.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Robert Montgomery, Charlotte Greenwood, Irene Purcell
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A charming bailiff’s assistant poses as a young woman’s butler until she can pay her debts.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: John Gilbert, Louis Wolheim, Leila Hyams
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Jack lives the high life and wants to make Marjorie his one and only. He then learns that his deceased father is alive but dying of lead poisoning. His father sent him away, twenty years before, to keep him out of the rackets. But now that he is dying, he wants to split the business between Giacomo (Jack) and Frank, his other son. The business includes running booze down from Canada.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke, Lionel Barrymore
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis, Madge Evans
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter’s womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé’s lover.

Director: Dziga Vertov
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Soviet Union

How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.

Director: John G. Adolfi
Stars: George Arliss, Florence Arliss, David Manners
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.

Director: Jack Conway
Stars: William Haines, Irene Purcell, C. Aubrey Smith
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Haines plays the role of a festive British nobleman, for whom a marriage has been arranged by his relatives. He goes to a European Summer resort and poses as a gigolo to meet the girl chosen, learn what she’s like and to apply the “acid test”.

Director: Marion Gering
Stars: Clive Brook, Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Marguerite Pierry, Jacques Louvigny, Michel Simon
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Porcelain maker invites a guest to sell him chamber pots, however family problems cause interruptions.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Marion Davies, Ralph Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Old man invites three of his illegitimate children to live with him.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Walter Huston, Douglass Montgomery, Helen Chandler
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In a small Pacific village, a widowed fisherman marries a girl young enough to be his daughter. Complications ensue when the new wife falls in love with her husband’s son.

Director: Steve Sekely
Stars: Gyula Csortos, Gyula Kabos, Mici Haraszti
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hungary

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: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Marion Davies, Leslie Howard, Richard Bennett
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After her businessman father moves her family from Kansas City to New York, a woman falls in love with an engaged man.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yagumo, Hideo Sugawara
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A married Tokyo man faces unemployment after standing up for an older colleague.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Stars: Eddie Cantor, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Weeks
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

An assistant of phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Ernst Busch
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany | France

Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Two gold diggers prey on old rich men, but one of them falls in love with a young, rich man.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Alfred Abel, Olga Tschechowa, Paul Graetz
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany | UK

A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.

Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: John Boles, Genevieve Tobin, Lois Wilson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Bart is a clerk for a publishing company. He has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart’s former girlfriend, Mildred, is manager of the company’s Paris office. She manages to get the novel published and talks Bart into marrying her after he divorces Peggy. Initially successful, Bart must turn to writing trash to keep Mildred in money. When he sees how well his four sons and daughter Margaret have grown without his help, he asks Peggy to let them all come live with him and Mildred. Peggy agrees, but the arrival of his beloved children puts Mildred’s future in jeopardy.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Stars: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell’s Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.

Director: Alexander Korda
Stars: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Marius is faced with a choice whether to fulfill his passion by sailing the seas or stay and marry the woman he loves.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

The adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Musical
Country: USA

An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, C.V. France
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.

Director: James Whale
Stars: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A prostitute’s self-loathing makes her reluctant to marry an idealistic soldier during World War I.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Germany

In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the ‘king of the beggars’.

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.

Director: Leo McCarey
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Monroe Owsley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA

An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Stars: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

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: Sam Wood
Stars: John Gilbert, Wallace Beery, Jim Tully
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA

Jack is a sailor who lives to go to sea. A typical sailor, he is always broke and has been in seven jails in the last seven ports. The one girl he tries to impress the most is in London and his mates call her ‘the Eskimo’. For two years, he approaches her every time he docks near London, and for two years, Joan rejects the expensive gifts he brings to her and ignores any and all advances he makes. She wants nothing to do with a sailor. When Jack uses trickery to convince Joan to marry him, Joan leaves him when she finds out the truth about his so called new life. There are rough seas ahead as Jack tries to get Joan to come back to him.

Director: Nick Grinde, Malcolm St. Clair, Edward Sedgwick
Stars: William Haines, Charles King, Mary Doran
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

A radio announcer suspects a cohort sends coded messages over the air to his bank-robber friends.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Alice White, Jack Mulhall, Blanche Sweet
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Country: USA

‘Rainbow Girls’ has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural, promises her a movie contract, and so she goes to Hollywood, but there is no contract for her.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Tatsuo Saitô, Kaoru Futaba, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A story of a college student (Tatsuo Saitô) and his schoolmates trying to pass the exams by cheating.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Dita Parlo, Ginette Maddie, Andrée Brabant
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle’s store. But the glamorous department store ‘Aux Bonheur des Dames’ across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Mitsuko Ichimura, Tokihiko Okada, Chishû Ryû
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery in order to help her. He begins to feel remorse though, which makes him question his decision.

Director: Augusto Genina
Stars: Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the ‘Miss Europe’ pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it’s too late; she’s even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she’s being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?

Director: George Abbott
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Emma Dunn
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA

A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before. Upon her release, she realizes that she is in love wiht the District Attorney who reluctantly prosecuted her case, a man who was in love with her but who she had previously scorned.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A brash, pushy young man gets a job in a bank and sets his cap for his boss’s secretary, but the death of his father makes him reassess his priorities.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Jack Buchanan, Claud Allister
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser.

Director: Harry Beaumont
Stars: Marion Davies, Lawrence Gray, Walter Catlett
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

The married friends of a New York chorus girl encourage her to pursue a handsome but poor socialite.

Director: George W. Hill
Stars: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

Director: James Whale
Stars: Colin Clive, Ian Maclaren, David Manners
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK | USA

In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart’s brother, will betray his downfall.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry, Edmond T. Gréville
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: France

Albert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sought after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An upper-crust artist hires a ‘party girl’ as a model; romance follows.

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An upper-crust artist hires a ‘party girl’ as a model; romance follows.

Director: George W. Hill, Ward Wing
Stars: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A convict falls in love with his new cellmate’s sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Möbis
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany

A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Neil Hamilton
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but Courtney is soon promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Marion Davies, Elliott Nugent, Raymond Hackett
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she’s not so dumb after all.

Director: Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale
Stars: Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

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.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Sara Allgood, Edward Chapman, Barry Fitzgerald
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are.

Director: Victor Heerman
Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.

Director: F.W. Murnau
Stars: Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer,  Rochus Gliese, Curt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.

Director: F.W. Murnau
Stars: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Minoru Takada, Kinuyo Tanaka, Utako Suzuki
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

Feeling the position to be beneath him, a college graduate turns down a receptionist job, but soon finds it necessary to fool his mother and fiancé into thinking that he is employed.

Director: Paul Czinner
Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Albert Bassermann, Albert Steinrück
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

Mannequin hands hold a pair of dice. A castle is perched on a hilltop. Below it, a posh, modern A young woman reluctantly decides to compromise her values in order to save her family from bankruptcy and disgrace.

Director: Man Ray
Stars: Georges Auric, Jacques-André Boiffard, Le Comte de Beaumont
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Mannequin hands hold a pair of dice. A castle is perched on a hilltop. Below it, a posh, modern villa. Meanwhile, far from Paris, two men with masked faces play dice in a bar. They decide to drive to Paris. Country roads, hills, fences. The posh “chateau” appears again: meticulous garden, fancy interior, odd sculptures. And at home? “No one, NO ONE.” For the next two days, masked figures play dice, frolic by the pool, perform exercises with a ball. Two new figures arrive. Masked. They search and find the dice. They dance. Mannequin hands hold a pair of dice.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Shizue Natsukawa, Takako Irie, Isamu Kosugi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in feudal Japan, depicted in Kenji Mizoguchi’s typical style. The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience set against the background of the title song, “Tokyo March.”

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Marion Davies, George Baxter, Lawrence Gray
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

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: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Paul Fromet, Geymond Vital, Genica Athanasiou
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Two lighthouse keepers (the father and the son) are to spend one entire month in the middle of the sea near the coasts of Brittany;the young man is ill.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Victor Varconi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.

Director: William Nigh
Stars: John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Mary Nolan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A con man and his beautiful accomplice kidnap a manager and steal $500,000 worth of diamonds, but end up stranded in the desert without water.

Director: George Schnéevoigt
Stars: Mona Mårtenson, Tryggve Larssen, Harald Schwenzen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway

A spirited Norwegian Lass is torn between two suitors and two cultures.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Rosetta Duncan, Vivian Duncan, Lawrence Gray
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act until Casey comes out to help Babe with her song. They are a hit, but in the final act, Casey again comes out and this time the president sees her act and fires both her and Babe on the spot. Benny is able to book Casey, Babe and Dean into Vaudeville and their act is popular. But before they have their shot at stardom, Dean and Babe leave Casey and the act.

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

When three men rob a bank, a guard is killed and the three bandits escape into the desert where they lose their horses in a storm. Finding a woman who gives birth, they are made godfathers only to learn that the baby’s father was the man they killed in the holdup. When the woman dies they head back, but they have little water and it is 40 miles.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Stars: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr.
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.

Director: Wesley Ruggles
Stars: Betty Compson, John Harron, Jack Oakie
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia’s wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn’t commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn’t know and doesn’t want to.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim’s former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.

Director: Gustav Machatý
Stars: Karel Schleichert, Ita Rina, Olaf Fjord
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia

A young woman is seduced and abandoned by a man who was invited to stay at his home by her father in a stormy night. Noticing that she is pregnant, the girl decides to leave home and start a new life.

Director: Luther Reed
Stars: Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler
Genre: Adventure, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit “The Kinkajou” over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Uno Henning, Norah Baring
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK | Sweden

A former barber escapes from a high security prison. Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison.

Director: John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland
Stars: Hal Skelly, Nancy Carroll, Dorothy Revier
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren’t having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts and in order to save money on the road, they get married.

Director: William A. Seiter
Stars: Colleen Moore, Neil Hamilton, Bodil Rosing
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A flapper with a dubious reputation enjoys a vivacious night of dancing and finds herself romantically linked to her boss.

Director: Sam Taylor
Stars: Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A flirtatious Southern belle is compromised with one of her suitors.

Director: Fridrikh Ermler
Stars: Emil Gal, Sergey Gerasimov, Yakov Gudkin
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.

Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Belle Bennett, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son – an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France.

Director: Arnold Fanck, G.W. Pabst
Stars: Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Ernst Petersen
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany

A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The trial and tribulations of a strong-willed woman who elopes and gives birth out of wedlock without telling her ex-husband.

Director: Joe May
Stars: Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

Joe May’s sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a simple and essentially melodramatic story and turn it into something more complex and inherently cinematic.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Pohl
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.

Director: Jacques Feyder
Stars: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Anders Randolf
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA

An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.

Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Stars: Semyon Svashenko, Georgi Khorkov, Amvrosi Buchma
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union

A soldier returns to Kiev after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

Director: Ewald André Dupont
Stars: Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: UK

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club’s main act which soon leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love and murder.

Director: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley
Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Anny Ondra, Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Isle Of Man

A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Ichirô Yûki, Tatsuo Saitô, Junko Matsui
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

Two friends try and court the same woman.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls’ reform school.

Director: Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
Stars: Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

An unimpressive but well intending man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn’t realize is that he is being used to make the actress’ old flame jealous.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood
Genre: Crime, Film Noir, Thriller
Country: UK

After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.

Director: René Clair
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

The great French filmmaker René Clair crafted this elegant sepia-toned profile of Paris’s iconic landmark almost forty years after the Eiffel Tower took its first bow (at the 1889 Exposition Universelle).

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Gustav Diessl, Brigitte Helm, Hertha von Walther
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin’s nightlife, drugs and flirtations included.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Norma Shearer, Lowell Sherman, Gwen Lee
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Seasoned grifter Dolly Crandall returns to the ‘badger game’ but has a change of heart when she falls in love with a young man she believes is a rich Southerner.

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Viola Dana, Ralph Graves, Burr McIntosh
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Molly Kelly wants to marry a millionaire. When she runs into Andy Charles, heir to a restaurant fortune, she jumps at the chance and marries him. Andy’s father if furious and disinherits them. Andy tries his hand at ditch digging to support his wife, but that doesn’t work out.

Director: Joe May
Stars: Lars Hanson, Dita Parlo, Gustav Fröhlich
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany

Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife of Richard. While Richard is still on his homeward trek, Karl and Anna fall in love. And then Richard comes home.

Director: Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich
Stars: Jules Raucourt, Voya George, Robert Florey
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: USA

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized (he is identified by the number 9314 written on his forehead), after which he dies and goes on to Heaven where the number is removed.

Director: Gregory La Cava
Stars: Bebe Daniels, Richard Arlen, William Powell
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn’t know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.

Director: Frank Capra, Irvin Willat
Stars: Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Ralph Graves
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean and the other, a diver, is sent down on a rescue mission.

Director: Hans Richter
Stars: Werner Graeff, Walter Gronostay, Paul Hindemith
Genre: Short, Art Film, Experimental
Country: Germany

Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos
Genre: Short, Romance, Art Film, Experimental
Country: USA

Two people stand on a road, out of focus. Seen distorted through a glass, they retire upstairs to a bedroom where she undresses. He says, “Adieu.” Images: the beautiful girl, a starfish in a jar, city scenes, newspapers, tugboats. More images: starfish, the girl. “How beautiful she is.” Repeatedly. He advances up the stair, knife in hand, starfish on the step. Three people stand on a road, out of focus. “How beautiful she was.” “How beautiful she is.” “Beautiful.”

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Marion Davies, Jetta Goudal, Nils Asther
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his “cardboard lover”–to pretend to be in love with him so he can teach his two-timing fiancé a lesson and win her back. What he doesn’t realize is that the girl isn’t pretending–she actually is in love with him, and she sets out to win him for herself.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Dolores del Rio, Ralph Forbes, Karl Dane
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

Fortune hunters from all over the country rush to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

Director: George W. Hill, Clarence Brown
Stars: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Ernest Torrence
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A peace-loving Cossack chooses to prove himself in battle when his village and childhood sweetheart label him a coward.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Corinne Griffith, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn’t the type to take rejection lightly.

Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Lowell Sherman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Lucien, a French soldier, deserts his regiment, steals, and serves a term in prison for Marianne, the girl he loves. Marianne becomes a great actress, but after Lucien serves his time, she breaks her contract as an actress and they go away to live on his ranch.

Director: Bryan Foy
Stars: Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA

Two men are conned into bootlegging business.

Director: John Ford
Stars: James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow’s sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany’s eventual opponent.

Director: George Fitzmaurice, Frank Lloyd
Stars: Colleen Moore, Gary Cooper, Eugenie Besserer
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

All of those handsome young men in their flying machines are billeted in a field next to the Widow Berthelot’s farmhouse in France. Her daughter Jeannine is curious about the young men fighting for England in World War I and their airplanes. Then one of the aviators is killed. His replacement is Captain Philip Blythe who can’t help but notice Jeannine. When he lands the first time, she is standing in the middle of his “runway.” She makes a more favorable impression when he sees her later by the lilacs. When all of the young men depart on a mission, Blythe promises to return.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Lina Basquette, Marie Prevost, Tom Keene
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two teenagers, one an atheist and the other a Christian, fall in love at a brutal reform school.

Director: Germaine Dulac
Stars: Alex Allin, Genica Athanasiou, Lucien Bataille
Genre: Short
Country: France

Obsessed with a general’s woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

Director: Marcel L’Herbier
Stars: Brigitte Helm, Marie Glory, Yvette Guilbert
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity stunt involving the aviator Jacques Hamelin flying across the Atlantic to Guyana and drilling for oil there, much to the dismay of Hamelin’s wife Line. While Hamelin is away, Saccard tries to seduce Line. Line finally realizes that she and her husband were pawns in Saccard’s scheme, and she accuses him of stock fraud.

Director: Anthony Asquith, A.V. Bramble
Stars: Annette Benson, Brian Aherne, Donald Calthrop
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks. Mae hatches a plot to kill her husband by putting a real bullet in the prop gun which will be fired at him during the making of their new film, ‘Prairie Love’.

Director: Fred Niblo
Stars: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An attractive Russian spy seduces an Austrian officer in order to get some important plans, but when she actually falls in love with him, both of them are placed in a dangerous situation.

Director: Pál Fejös
Stars: Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?

Director: William Nigh
Stars: Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Ernest Torrence
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Conflict ensues when a young man’s childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.

Director: Paul Leni
Stars: Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D’Arcy
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her elder sister’s boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry, but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty
Stars: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.

Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician’s wife.

Director: Herbert Brenon
Stars: Lon Chaney, Bernard Siegel, Loretta Young
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.

Director: Jean Epstein
Stars: Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy
Genre: Horror
Country: France

Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.

Director: Ted Wilde
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA

Harold “Speedy” Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, saves from extinction the city’s last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend’s grandfather.

Director: Harry Beaumont
Stars: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A flapper who’s secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Friderici, Charles Lane
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist.

Director: Paul Leni
Stars: Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Jean Renoir, Jean Tédesco
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: UK

A recently divorced woman hides her scandalous past from her new husband and his family.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Stars: George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A blue-collar worker on New York’s depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Director: F.W. Murnau
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Mary Duncan, Charles Morton
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.

*Note: this title is currently a “lost film.”

Director: Hobart Henley
Stars: Marion Davies, Matt Moore, Harry Crocker
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Tillie the Toiler is a 1927 silent film comedy produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and released through Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios. It is based on Russ Westover’s popular comic strip Tillie the Toiler. The film was directed by Hobart Henley and stars Marion Davies.

Director: Boris Barnet
Stars: Anna Sten, Vladimir Mikhaylov, Vladimir Fogel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

Natasha and her grandfather live in a cottage near Moscow, making hats for Madame Irène. Madame and her husband have told the housing committee that Natasha rents a room from them; this fiddle gives Madame’s lazy husband a room for lounging. The local railroad clerk, Fogelev, loves Natasha but she takes a shine to Ilya, a clumsy student who sleeps in the train station. To help Ilya, Natasha marries him and takes him to Madame’s to live in the room the house committee thinks is hers. Meanwhile, Madame’s husband pays Natasha with a lottery ticket he thinks is a loser, and when it comes up big, just as Ilya and Natasha are falling in love, everything gets complicated.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Catherine Hessling, Johnny Hudgins, Pierre Braunberger
Genre: Short, Sci-Fi
Country: France

Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.

Director: Edward Sedgwick
Stars: William Haines, Joan Crawford, George K. Arthur
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

To impress a wealthy young woman, a clerk pretends he is a pro-golfer.

Director: Maurice Elvey
Stars: Estelle Brody, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A celebration of working class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire, during “Wakes Week”, an annual week still observed in parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire when all factories and schools take a holiday.

Director: Monta Bell
Stars: John Gilbert, Jeanne Eagels, Gladys Brockwell
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy he and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper office and falls in love with the beautiful society editor, who is secretly having an affair with the married managing editor. She returns the young man’s affections in order to make her lover jealous, but finds herself falling for him.

Director: Rowland V. Lee, Mauritz Stiller
Stars: Pola Negri, Clive Brook, Claude Gillingwater
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.

Director: Man Ray
Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, Jacques Rigaut
Genre: Short, Art Film, Experimental
Country: France

A long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car drives along country roads. Farm animals. She descends from the car, again and again. Images: dancing legs, seashore, swimming fish, geometric shapes, cut glass. A man removes his starched collar. It rotates. A girl has garishly painted eyes. No, she’s only fooling. Those were her eyelids.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Marion Davies, Johnny Mack Brown, Jane Winton
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Marion goes to college to pursue a handsome young man and discovers that he is coach of a women’s basketball team.

Director: Sidney Franklin
Stars: Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Helen Jerome Eddy
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.

Director: Jack Conway
Stars: John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Joan Crawford
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While running booze into the U.S. during Prohibition, Jerry seizes Jane’s seaside home. When she tries to turn him in, he kidnaps her and her fiance John. Jane, now in love with Jerry, must watch as Jerry and Red shoot it out on board Jerry’s boat.

Director: Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle
Stars: Marion Davies, Owen Moore, Louise Fazenda
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A tavern worker and the daughter of a burgomaster enter into elaborate masquerades in order to win the hearts of the men they love.

Director: Jean Epstein
Stars: Jeanne Helbling, Suzy Pierson, Olga Day
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Psychological narrative avantgarde film about a wealthy young businessman who consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress (Athalia), and a naive working-class girl (Lucie). The intertwinement of several layers of time experience, recollection, telling and showing have been regarded as a source of inspiration of Alain Resnais and this film prefigures his “L’Année dernière à Mariënbad” to a certain extent.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas’s naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.

Director: John S. Robertson
Stars: Lillian Gish, Norman Kerry, Creighton Hale
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.

Director: Sam Taylor
Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Sunshine Hart
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A department store’s stock girl falls in love with a co-worker, the son of the store’s manager; the feeling is mutual though he is engaged to a debutante and focusing on becoming successful without the influence of his father.

Director: Alan Crosland
Stars: John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.

Director: Albert Parker
Stars: Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Pauline Garon
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young woman at life’s crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.

Director: Paul Leni
Stars: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.

Director: Edmund Goulding, John Gilbert
Stars: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, George Fawcett
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A married woman compromises her social standing and family life when she falls for a young officer.

Director: Abram Room
Stars: Vladimir Fogel, Nikolay Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband’s arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.

Director: Frank Urson
Stars: Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Virginia Bradford
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart, kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl
Stars: Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A cloistered, overprotected Austrian prince falls in love with a down-to-earth barmaid in this “Viennese fairy tale.”

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the blame for a friend’s charge and his life falls apart in a series of misadventures.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK

Two boxers compete for the love of a woman.

Director: Ted Wilde, Harold Lloyd
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA

A sheriff’s milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.

Director: Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
Stars: George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film Noir
Country: USA

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed’s girlfriend.

Director: William A. Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast
Stars: Clara Bow, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Richard Arlen
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.

Director: Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg
Stars: Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A salesgirl with plenty of “it” (sex appeal) pursues a handsome playboy.

Director: Alan Crosland
Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA

A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.

Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall
Genre: Horror
Country: USA

he abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures – could they be vampires?

*Note: This is currently a “lost film.”

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.

Director: Herbert Wilcox
Stars: Dorothy Gish, Randle Ayrton, Juliette Compton
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

An actress becomes the king’s mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman’s home.

Director: Sam Taylor
Stars: Beatrice Lillie, Jack Pickford, Doris Lloyd
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A maid who works for a traveling theatrical troupe wants desperately to be an actress, and manages to get some small roles in the company’s productions, but is determined to do anything she can to show that she deserves a shot at the big time.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Norma Talmadge, Ronald Colman, Gertrude Astor
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue’s manager, with whom she has fallen in love.

Director: Frank Tuttle
Stars: Evelyn Brent, Lawrence Gray, Louise Brooks
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The tale of two sisters with the older one pledged to look after the younger one that transpires between a department store, NYC’s Central Park and a boarding house. THe older one is the sweet, old-fashioned type and the younger is a jazz-age flapper who takes whatever falls her way. Mame, the older, goes on vacation and returns home to find that her kid sister, Janie, has vamped her way into the arms of Mame’s intended.

Director: Sidney Franklin
Stars: Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno, Creighton Hale
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Beverly of Graustark (1926) is a silent film directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno and Creighton Hale. The film’s screenplay was written by Agnes Christine Johnston based on the novel by George Barr McCutcheon, and set on the fictional land of Graustark. The movie features a final sequence in Technicolor. This was the first film by Sidney Franklin for MGM.

Director: Frank Tuttle
Stars: Eddie Cantor, Clara Bow, Billie Dove
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

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 girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher, Ilka Grüning
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

A scientist is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife.

Director: Richard Rosson, Lewis Milestone
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Eugene O’Brien, Helen Dunbar
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

In a run down New York Tenament, a chorine named Orchid lives with her overprotective brother Buddy, who sees to it that no uptown Casanovas get a chance at seducing his sister. At a New Year’s Eve party the two are separated in the festivities, and millionaire playboy Brian Alden meets her, and they start seeing each other. Against her brother’s wishes, Orchid, at Alden’s behest, takes charm school-type instructions on how to be a society lady, and she seems to be turning into a snob. Alden regrets it, and after promising to allow her to be herself, gets Buddy’s okay to marry her.

Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff
Stars: Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France

A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.

Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Ernest Torrence, Clara Bow, Percy Marmont
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Gary Cooper
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher’s daughter.

Director: Sam Taylor
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Noah Young
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, Vera Lewis
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discoves that the contest was a scam and the job non-existant. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

Director: William Beaudine, Tom McNamara
Stars: Mary Pickford, Roy Stewart, Mary Louise Miller
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Molly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.

Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Ricardo Cortez, Carol Dempster
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Geoffrey, a young and impoverished writer, is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince’s hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn’t know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan, who is using Geoffrey as an experiment to show God that he can corrupt anybody.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D’Arcy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Rafael Sabatini’s story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardelys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to…and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Catherine Hessling, Pierre Lestringuez, Jacqueline Forzane
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

When the vivacious and beautiful Nana bombs at the Théâtre des Variétés, she embarks on the life of a courtesan, using her allure and charisma to entice and pleasure men.

Director: George W. Hill
Stars: Lon Chaney, William Haines, Eleanor Boardman
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A gruff Marine sergeant and a handsome new recruit compete for the affection of a nurse.

Director: Fred Niblo, Mauritz Stiller
Stars: Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Marc McDermott
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An architect tries suppressing his passion for a seductive woman.

Director: George Fitzmaurice
Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

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: John Ford
Stars: George O’Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Stars: Masuo Inoue, Ayako Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other once fiercely loved.

Director: Hans Richter
Stars: Stella F. Simon
Genre: Short, Art Film, Experimental
Country: Germany

Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray’s work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads.

Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After having a child out of wedlock, a young Puritan woman is pressured to reveal the name of her lover.

Director: Marcel Duchamp
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Art Film, Experimental
Country: France

A spiral design spins dizzily. It’s replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.

Director: Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Germany

A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Norma Talmadge, Wallace MacDonald, Brandon Hurst
Genre: Drama
Country: USA