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: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
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.