Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Max Dearly, Elvire Popesco
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Fast-thinking Guitry contrives a scheme to earn easy money from rich women with expiring visas by marrying them with clochards and at the same time to win the charms of beautiful Polish countess. Everything seems to go wrong when the clochards, once married with the foreigners, want to comply with their marital duties…
Director: Paul L. Stein
Stars: Flora Robson, Robert Newton, Ann Todd
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as “poison pen letters.”
Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Marie Bell, Micheline Francey
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
A nun suffering from TB is desperately trying to save an alcoholic tramp and to bring him back to his wife and kids.He has a friend who died last year and became the coachman of the “Ghost Wagon.”
Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Paul Muni, Una O’Connor, Jane Bryan
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
A husband hires a lonely pretty young woman to work as a nanny for his son. His wife becomes instantly jealous and things take turn for the worst. In the background, World War II is in the air, and anti-German sentiment is on the rise.
Director: John Brahm
Stars: Maureen O’Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men’s execution date.
Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Victor Francen, Michel Simon, Louis Jouvet
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people’s home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies… A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
Director: Marcel Varnel
Stars: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
A hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London.
Director: Lewis Seiler
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis, James Stephenson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
After the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board.
Director: Lewis Seiler
Stars: John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman’s daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man’s death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Director: Marcel Varnel
Stars: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs—and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
Director: John M. Stahl
Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O’Neil
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Stars: Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard, Romney Brent
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder.
Director: Irving Cummings
Stars: Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
The story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Director: Herbert I. Leeds
Stars: Sidney Toler, Lynn Bari, Richard Clarke
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
While in Paris for a reunion on the eve of World War II, Charlie finds that the murder of an hated businessman leads him to a conspiracy to smuggle arms to Germany.
Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
An orphaned boarding school graduate secretly attends a prestigious ball, where she falls for the boyfriend of her snobbish cousin.
Director: H.C. Potter
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
The story of married couple Irene Castle and Vernon Castle, sensational ballroom dancers prior to World War I.
Director: William Keighley
Stars: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
A corrupt D.A. with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter who wrote them for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Louis Napoleon III takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximillian Hapsburg to add Mexico to his empire. of Mexico.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs, including from an agent of Death with the help of a magical apple tree.
Director: Henry King, Otto Brower
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Tasked by his editor, American reporter Henry M. Stanley travels to a dangerous and uncharted region of East Africa to find the missing Scottish pioneer missionary Dr. David Livingstone.
Director: John Farrow
Stars: Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.
Director: Edward Buzzell
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
Director: James Whale
Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William
Genre: Adventure, History, Romance
Country: USA
Despotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer D’Artagnan.
Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: UK
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.
Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
In India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.
Director: Henry King, Irving Cummings
Stars: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Director: Zoltan Korda
Stars: John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
A timid British Army officer has quit and burns his last day summons to a war in Egypt. Calling him a coward, his girl friend and 3 officer friends give him a white feather. In redemption, he shadows his friends in war to save their lives.
Director: Leo McCarey
Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, after he has had a chance to earn a decent living.
Director: Busby Berkeley
Stars: John Garfield, Claude Rains, The Dead End Kids
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
A boxer flees believing he has comitted a murder while he was drunk.
Director: John Ford
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.
Director: Max Ophüls
Stars: Edwige Feuillère, George Rigaud, Daniel Lecourtois
Genre: Drama
Country: France
After an unhappy marriage, a woman of the world is forced to become a dancer in a cabaret in order to raise her young son.
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard, Edna Best
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter’s talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife’s affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver.
Director: Garson Kanin
Stars: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
When a tycoon is accused of murder, the private eye tracking him finds himself roped in as an accessory and attempts to evade police, kidnapping a poetess along the way.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
An explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out.
Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, after one of them steals their adoptive family’s famous heirloom sapphire.
Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she’ll meet her final days with dignity.
Director: Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin
Stars: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Two itinerant migrant workers, one mentally disabled and the other his carer, take jobs as ranch hands during the Great Depression to fulfill their shared dream of owning their own ranch.
Director: George Marshall
Stars: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Maureen O’Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton
Genre: Adventure, Crime
Country: UK
In early 19th century Cornwall, a young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are landlords of the Jamaica Inn. Mary soon realises her uncle’s inn serves as the base for a gang of ship wreckers – who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast, and Mary begins to fear for her life.
Director: William Wyler
Stars: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
Director: George Cukor
Stars: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.
Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Cedric Hardwicke
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Director: George Stevens
Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: USA
In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.