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: 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.