Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Jacques Baumer
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Shavian social satire. Odette is an actress who’s now the mistress of a government minister. Her household of cook, maid, and chauffeur needs a valet. On the eve of going with the minister to Deauville, she engages Désiré, a robust and talkative man, even through his most recent employer, a countess, intimates improprieties.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Taizô Fukami, Akira Harue, Kiyoshi Katô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A young couple of lovers want to travel to Tokio to work and form a family there, but the parents of him want his son to regent their hotel. Finally, he does what his parents want him to, and her finds herself abandoned in the big city.
Director: Joe May
Stars: Kay Francis, Basil Rathbone, Ian Hunter
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Aging down on her luck cabaret singer murders a respectable composer. On trial she slowly gives in and explains her crime. They had a complicated history.
Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.
Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
In Victorian London, a Crime Novelist and his Wife fake their disappearance in order to hide from an uptight Anglican Bishop who is leading a campaign against the “evils” of crime fiction.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the ‘kid’ falls for his sister.
Director: Marcel Varnel
Stars: Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
A schoolteacher and his pupils visit Paris where they outwit a gang of crooks.
Director: Edward Ludwig
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
A gangster is jailed for ten years after his wife becomes pregnant. He becomes bitter when she divorces him and remarries.
Director: John Ford
Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A Polynesian sailor — unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully — is relentlessly persecuted by his island’s martinet French governor.
Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Pierre Etchepare
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Germany
Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is beautiful and lives in luxury. He lends her a large amount of money, which she loses gambling. Then she drops him. But Lucien is now in love, and once demobilized, he goes to Paris to find her again
Director: Alfred Santell
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
In his first film, young Dr. Kildare helps a female ex-con find her child.
Director: Marcel Varnel
Stars: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
With the help of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.
Director: Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood
Stars: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Jacqueline Delubac, Sacha Guitry, Lyn Harding
Genre: Comedy, History
Country: France
Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown.
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Lecherous bosses make it difficult for an attractive secretary to keep jobs, so she decides to appear considerably more homely in hopes of holding onto work.
Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Stars: Reikichi Kawamura, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Masao Hayama
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Two young boys are usurped from being the head of their gang of children. Their father is fired and arrested for this, and they are sent to live with their uncle, only to spend their time thinking of ways to escape back home.
Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Sybil Jason
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A by-the-book patrolman who cares more about the letter of the law than justice feels guilty when his inflexibility sends a family man to prison.
Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Ousted from their homeland by the Bolshevik revolution, a royal Russian couple find themselves impoverished and living in Paris. They take positions as butler and housemaid in a wealthy household and, owing to their impeccable breeding and manners, excel in their new jobs. But once they are recognized for the royal couple they are, they must face new — and formidable — responsibilities.
Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Gabriel Gabrio, Orane Demazis, Fernandel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
He rebirth of a dead village and the love of the last inhabitant for a wandering girl.
Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
An actor of the stage finds himself pursued by a lovestruck fan while trying to patch up a tempestuous relationship with his actress lover.
Director: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Dick Foran
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Director: Nate Watt
Stars: William Boyd, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Russell Hayden
Genre: Action, Adventure, Music
Country: USA
Hoppy’s brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man.
Director: Tay Garnett
Stars: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A financier’s daughter spars with a newspaper reporter: he by writing about her, she by announcing their engagement.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A wealthy banker throws his wife’s expensive fur coat off the roof of a building; it lands on the head of a stenographer, leading to everyone assuming she is his mistress and has access to his millions.
Director: William Keighley, William Dieterle
Stars: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry Stephenson
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
A poor boy named Tom Canty and the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other’s lives as well.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Country: USA
A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.
Director: Mario Camerini
Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Assia Noris, Rubi D’Alma
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William
Genre: History, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French Officers, in order for them to reveal Napolean’s intentions toward Spain.
Director: Sam Wood, Gustav Machatý
Stars: Gladys George, Warren William, John Beal
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Thrown out of her home after her husband discovers her infidelity, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on revealing her degraded status to her husband and the son she left behind. The son, unaware of her identity, becomes her defense attorney.
Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Christine, newly widowed and consumed by the memory of a ball she attended age 16, decides to track down the men she danced with that night and discover their fates.
Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Mary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client’s son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she’s pregnant.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Two sisters of differing temperaments, the younger’s milquetoast fiancé, and a free-spirited artist in an auto trailer are all experiencing romantic complications.
Director: Tay Garnett
Stars: Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Blondell
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Stars: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, May Whitty
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
When a rich but cantankerous dowager on an isolated estates hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives.
Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Sport
Country: USA
A veterinarian posing as a doctor and a race-horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit race-horse.
Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship gets picked up by a fishing boat, where he’s made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
A lawyer defends his wife, a pathological liar, in a murder trial.
Director: Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz
Stars: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA
A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.
Director: John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, C. Aubrey Smith
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saitô, Michiko Kuwano
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house.
Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
A man on the run from a murder charge enlists a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause.
Director: Mark Sandrich
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
A budding romance between a ballet master and a tap dancer becomes complicated when rumors surface that they’re already married.
Director: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city. She is in love with a career criminal named Eddie, and she believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. She uses her influence to get him released early, and he tries to go straight after marrying her, but things don’t work out, and they both go on the lam.