Tag: Priority 4

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

After two years under German rule, a small Norwegian fishing village rises up and revolts against the occupying Nazis.

Director: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called “pajama suicides”. He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.

Director: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

An American tanker’s sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment; bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.

Director: Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Stars: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Fitch is on the list, and co-opts Claude Babbington to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.

Director: Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family but their plans are complicated by a Romanian count.

Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Stars: Odette Joyeux, Madeleine Robinson, Marguerite Moreno
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference.

Director: Roy Rowland
Stars: Margaret O’Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Alpha’s been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.

Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

A dead World War II bomber pilot named Pete Sandidge, becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge’s memory.

Director: Delmer Daves
Stars: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale
Genre: Adventure, History, War
Country: USA

In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Journalist Steve O’Malley wants to write a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. Steve receives conflicting reports and tales that make him question what the truth about the hero is.

Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison’s band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA

Roxie Hart signs a murder confession in order to attract publicity for her dancing career as dames don’t swing in Cook County. Will everything go as planned?

Director: Busby Berkeley
Stars: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly
Genre: Musical, Romance, War
Country: USA

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

Director: Stuart Heisler
Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Director: Lewis Seiler
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Fearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway.

Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.

Director: William A. Seiter
Stars: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

In Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter.

Director: Noël Coward, David Lean
Stars: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

This “story of a ship”, the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.

Director: Mark Sandrich, Robert Allen
Stars: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

At an inn which is only open on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.

Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Michèle Morgan
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Andre Laurent, the captain of a tugboat, married Yvonne ten years ago. She has a heart disease but does not want to tell him. She dreams he quits the job for they can live quietly.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.

Director: Harry Lachman
Stars: Sidney Toler, Sheila Ryan, Robert Weldon
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

A treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, and a ship full of red herrings complicate Charlie’s search for a murderer on board a docked ship.

Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia precox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate tragic relationship.

Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA

After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After a newlywed’s husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daijirô Natsukawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Okoma, a young lady working as a conductor with a bus company in Kofu Yamanashi, has an idea for her bus that could avert the dwindling number of passengers.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Country: USA

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Director: Abel Gance
Stars: Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France

Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until war breaks out and he becomes a soldier.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

1938: A young man arrives in Hitler’s Germany, frantically seeking information about his German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp.

Director: Irving Pichel
Stars: Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America.

Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Edward Rigby
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Davey Fenwick (Sir Michael Redgrave) leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny (Margaret Lockwood) who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya, Minoru Takase
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse.

Director: Harry Lachman
Stars: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A rural maiden’s two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europe’s most respected news wire service.

Director: Gregory La Cava
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O’Keefe
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.

Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father’s release.

Director: Edward Buzzell
Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Western
Country: USA

The Marx Brothers come to the rescue in the Wild West when a young man, trying to settle an old family feud so he can marry the girl he loves, runs afoul of crooks.

Director: Joe May
Stars: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Fighting over an inheritance, one Pyncheon brother frames the other for murder.

Director: Alexander Hall
Stars: Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A best-selling author of women’s issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: USA

Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills on the sword.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.

Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend’s body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Abel Gance
Stars: Victor Francen, Line Noro, Sylvie Gance
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer assisted by Ms. Tsuruhachi on the shamisen. The pair is popular, but he nitpicks often on her music and so they split. She marries a benefactor, but after a joint show, feels music is above marriage.

Director: Frank Lloyd
Stars: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee
Genre: Adventure, History
Country: USA

Vagabond poet François Villon rises to high office in 1463 Paris.

Director: Busby Berkeley, John Farrow
Stars: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Claude Rains, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, has passed on his love of music to his four early adult daughters – Thea, Emma, Kay and Ann – who live with him and his sister, the girls’ Aunt Etta, in the long time family home.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Stars: Harry Baur, Albert Préjean, Gabrielle Dorziat
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Justin Mollenard is a sailor and arms smuggler who does not support the hypocrisy of society. He has a wife in Dunkirk who reproaches him the fact of having neglected the family for many years.

Director: Norman Taurog
Stars: Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A young woman at a girl’s school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA

This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.

Director: Victor Saville
Stars: Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.

Director: James W. Horne, Ray Taylor
Stars: Warren Hull, Iris Meredith, Richard Fiske
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A crime fighter known as The Spider battles a villain called The Octopus, who is out to sabotage America and install his own government.

Director: Gustaf Molander
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Tore Svennberg, Anders Henrikson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

An embittered woman, leader of a criminal gang, has a change of heart.

Director: Marc Allégret
Stars: Louis Jouvet, Claude Dauphin, Odette Joyeux
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Isabelle, Cécilia and François are drama students at the “Conservatoire d’art dramatique”. Cécilia is in love with François, but the young man is in love with Isabelle instead. Cécilia elaborates a desperate plan to get back at François.

Director: Garson Kanin
Stars: Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Doctor John Abbott is a single parent who settles in the town of Westport, with his son Dick, trying to eke out a living for them. He also inherits, by way of his doorstep, an unwanted baby girl, Jean Johnson, whom he adopts into his family, rears and loves as his own.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards… but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Romance
Country: USA

An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.

Director: Mark Sandrich
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A psychiatrist agrees to hypnotize his friend’s girlfriend in order to convince her to accept his proposals of marriage, but she ends up falling for the psychiatrist instead.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Stars: Shotaro Akagi, Shin’ichi Himori, Ayuko Hirano
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Two blind masseurs travel to a mountain retreat. One of them falls for a visiting lady from Tokyo and investigates a series of thefts.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: Kay Francis, George Brent, Ian Hunter
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.

Director: Elliott Nugent
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Phyllis Welch, William Frawley
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert (Lloyd), accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.

Director: Richard Wallace, Lewis Milestone, Gilbert Pratt, Richard Thorpe
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Roland Young
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.

Director: Tim Whelan
Stars: Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles (Charles Laughton), who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby (Vivien Leigh), also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley (Sir Rex Harrison), the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby’s dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Andrew Manson (Robert Donat), a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.

Director: Mark Donskoy
Stars: Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovskiy
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

A drama reveals the great writer’s inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mischa Auer
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problem is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre’d at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a handsome millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole’s plan may be thwarted by Bill’s friend, Jim Trevor, who’s met Nicole before and sees through her plot.

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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Sadao Yamanaka
Stars: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan’emon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

This movie is about a young stall owner called Onami and her troublesome brother. It all starts when her brother takes a small knife from a samurai who carelessly left it at their stall; the simple action begins a chain of troubling circumstances for the pair.

Director: Wesley Ruggles
Stars: Gladys George, Arline Judge, John Howard
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Gladys George, a superlative actress often wasted in secondary roles, carries her starring assignment in Valiant is the Word for Carrie with singular brilliance. George plays the town trollop, who for the love of two orphaned children sets up a successful dry-cleaning business. Her past comes back to haunt her, but she perseveres, giving up all thoughts of personal happiness to provide a decent upbringing for her adopted family.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Robert Taylor, Loretta Young, Basil Rathbone
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A maid secretly marries the son of her wealthy boss.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Christian Gérard
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Based on Guitry’s own stage play about a sanctimonious fellow who eventually’s victimized by his own hypocrisy. Little effort’s made to “cinematize” the property, which’s filmed just as it was staged.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Marthe Régnier
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He’s bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father’s, but he knows his views carry no weight. He agrees to marry a princess to sire an heir, then spends his nights as a playboy. In 1888, he meets Marie Vetsera, 17, a baroness’s daughter. She is resolute, smitten, and wants nothing in return for her love. The Prime Minister is alarmed; he contrives to have her sent away. Rudolf sinks into dissipation. When she returns, how will the lovers handle the opposition of society and their families? Can Rudolf find a way for them to be together?

Director: Stephen Roberts
Stars: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA

A wealthy mystery writer uses her doctor ex-husband’s non-payment of alimony to coerce him into a reconciliation.

Director: Gustaf Molander
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gösta Ekman, Inga Tidblad
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

The world famous violinist Holger Brandt comes back to his family after a tour. He and his wife have been married for many years, but their love has gone. Their young daughter gets a new piano teacher, Anita Hoffman. Mr. Brandt fall in love with her and together they go on a world tour. But he soon discovers that the feelings for his wife that he thought were dead return.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Stars: W.C. Fields, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Cromwell
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, Freddie Bartholomew
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

Blake is in love with an aristocratic woman whose husband seriously injures him. Blake’s friendship with Lord Nelson provides the basis for Blake’s part in the growth of Lloyd’s insurance business following the Battle of Trafalgar. Only very slightly based on history.

Director: Howard Hawks, William Wyler, Richard Rosson
Stars: Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman’s daughter.

Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Raimu, Jacqueline Delubac
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France

A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to whom he confesses his infidelity.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.

Director: Lothar Mendes, Alexander Korda
Stars: Roland Young, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK

An ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything.

Director: Alexander Korda
Stars: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK

The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.

Director: Paul Martin
Stars: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Paul Kemp
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany

Journalist Gil Taylor has to write a report about the night court, when Ann Gardens case is heard. The young lady seems to be homeless. Gil tries to help her. That’s when trouble starts.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Cesariot that his real father is Marius, the absent son of César, Cesariot’s godfather. Panisse leaves that to Fanny, the lad’s mother. Dissembling that he’s off to see a friend, Cesariot then seeks Marius, now a mechanic in Toulon. Posing as a journalist, Cesariot spends time with Marius and leaves believing tales he is a petty thief. Only after the truth comes out can Marius, Fanny, César, and Cesariot step beyond the falsehoods, benign though they may be.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.

Director: Richard Boleslawski
Stars: Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA

Four outlaws come to New Jerusalem, a town full of courteous and religious people, to rob the bank. After shooting the president of the bank, only three make it out of town followed by the posse. By the time they get to the second desert water hole, they find it dry and also find a wagon with a dying mother and baby. When the horses are dead the next morning, the three outlaws have no choice but to try to walk back to New Jerusalem and only two want to take the baby.

Director: Richard Boleslawski
Stars: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who’d be scandalized if they knew.

Director: James Whale
Stars: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

Despite her mother’s objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company’s new leading lady.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Kikugoro Onoe, Kinjirou Onoe, Shigeru Onoe
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Japan

A short documentary about a great Kabuki dancer.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles
Genre: Drama, History, Musical
Country: USA

Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his brother, Jerome, to the U.S. on a goodwill tour.

Director: Alfred Zeisler
Stars: Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: UK

A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

After hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution..

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA

A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.

Director: Mark Sandrich
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on liberty in San Francisco.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

After police captain, McLaren becomes commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake knocks him down convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake’s sincere in his effort to join the mob. “Buggs” Fenner thinks Blake is a police agent.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally in 1906 San Francisco.

Director: Dorothy Arzner
Stars: Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Burke
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.

Director: Howard Bretherton
Stars: William Boyd, James Ellison, William Farnum
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA

When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy’s life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Bette Davis, Ian Hunter, Colin Clive
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A lawyer impulsively marries a stranger after his fiancée dumps him.

Director: Busby Berkeley
Stars: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Japan

Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.

Director: Erle C. Kenton
Stars: Jean Arthur, Victor Jory, Helen Lowell
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Story of a small-town girl victimized by her gossiping neighbors.

Director: James Whale
Stars: Edward Arnold, Robert Young, Constance Cummings
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA

After a night of wild partying at a friend’s house, a couple wake up to discover the party’s host has been murdered in his bed. A detective is called in to investigate, but his investigation is hampered by the fact that the partiers drank so much the previous night, nobody remembers anything that happened.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Paul Lukas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Gertrude Michael
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A detective who has “four hours to kill” before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Henri Poupon, André Pollack, Annie Toinon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Merlusse is a teacher in an all-boys boarding school – pupils hate him since he smells, has a glass eye and is very strict. When Christmas Eve arrives most boys leave school to spend the holidays with their families but a small group of lonely boys is left behind with Merlusse as their overseer. Merlusse doesn’t get along with the boys very well and they pull various tricks on him but on Christmas Morning boys wake to find a huge surprise waiting for them…

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Kay Francis, George Brent, Patricia Ellis
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A construction engineer with a heart of steel courts a social worker with a heart of gold, while fighting a protection racketeer that tries to derail the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Director: William Keighley
Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Ricardo Cortez
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Alexander Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston’s bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston’s organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston’s henchmen as she is about to testify.

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.

Director: Victor Saville
Stars: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

Elizabeth dreams of being a music-hall singer. She gets to know Victor, that quite unexpectedly gets a female part in a music-hall number. He unfortunately finds himself voiceless, so, why wouldn’t Elizabeth replace him in it?

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Marion Davies, Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

The story of legendary gambler Diamond Jim Brady and his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Stars: Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Binnie Barnes
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The story of legendary gambler Diamond Jim Brady and his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell.

Director: William A. Seiter
Stars: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband’s refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.

Director: Mario Camerini
Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Assia Noris, Luigi Almirante
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

A cynical millionaire announces that he intends to disguise himself as a hobo and give a million lire to anyone who treats him nicely. As a result, every bum in Rome is given the royal treatment on the off-chance that they’re the millionaire.

Director: Clyde Bruckman, W.C. Fields
Stars: W.C. Fields, Mary Brian, Kathleen Howard
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Director: James Flood
Stars: Myrna Loy, Cary Grant, Roscoe Karns
Genre: Adventure, Romance
Country: USA

In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely “fly blind” during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback doesn’t deter him from his goal.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An alcoholic actress who is considered a dangerous jinx is rehabilitated, but she then shows that she’s as dangerous as ever.

Director: Jacques Feyder
Stars: Françoise Rosay, Paul Bernard, Jean-Max
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstances to welcome a little boy Pierre, whose father is in jail, into their home. Which makes Louise Noblet all the happier as she can’t have children herself. But, after a while, Pierre’s father is released from prison and reclaims his son… Time passes and Pierre, now a young adult, lives in Paris more or less on the wrong side of the law. He has a mistress, Nelly, who does not say no to other men’s money… Louise, who still loves Pierre as her own son, wants only one thing – to help him get by.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Komako Hara, Daijirô Natsukawa
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan

During a war in the 19th century, a village linked to rebellious forces is attacked by the government army, so a rich family decides to run away; two courtesans travel along them.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.

Director: Tim Whelan
Stars: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man’s associate.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Roscoe Karns
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A woman reporter tries to prove she’s just as good as any man, but runs into trouble along the way.

Director: John Ford
Stars: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.

Director: Wesley Ruggles
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A stenographer becomes a famed entertainer, courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Chikako Hosokawa, Masako Tsutsumi, Ryuko Umezono
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars. A number of loosely linked episodes ensue as the sisters who have different characters, variously become involved in the world of criminals, sacrifice themselves and find love.

Director: Willi Forst
Stars: Pola Negri, Albrecht Schoenhals, Ingeborg Theek
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

A female cabaret singer is put on trial for murdering a predatory musician.

Director: Elliott Nugent
Stars: Elissa Landi, Cary Grant, Lynne Overman
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Annabella, Jean Gabin, Robert Le Vigan
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France

Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault… but Lucas’s friendship soon appears to be less unselfish…

Director: George Marshall
Stars: Will Rogers, Richard Cromwell, George Barbier
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

In small-town America the easy-going publisher of the local paper finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.

Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Margaret Lindsay
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

In Mexico, a former lawyer becomes the invaluable second-in-command to a casino owner, whose wife begins to fall for him.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

A Victorian-era architect, commissioned by the Duke of Towers to design his stables, falls in love with the Duchess.

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA

Three British soldiers on the Northwest Frontier of India struggle against the enemy – and themselves.

Director: William A. Seiter
Stars: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

In Paris, a man clueless about fashion suddenly inherits his aunt’s dress shop, while his bandleader friend reunites with his old flame.

Director: William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
Stars: James Cagney, Dick Powell, Ian Hunter
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA

Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania’s band or Oberon’s, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they’re not alone in that forest.Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused…

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main “hostess” in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

The lifestyles of Arlene and Valkyr Bradford, half-sisters from a respected San Francisco family, diverge markedly as Arlene takes up with criminals.

Director: Alan Crosland
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Dudley Digges
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Joe Thunderhorse, a Sioux Indian who has become the wealthy star of a Wild West show, returns home to his reservation after years away and finds that his father is dying and his people are being abused by corrupt white officials.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Max Dearly, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault, who is well-endowed in every sense. In her new home, Emma finds conflict with her mother-in-law, a husband uninterested in the social whirl, and general discontentment; thereby proving an easy conquest for philanderer Rodolphe. Other lovers follow. Does tragedy await?

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Setsuko Shinobu, Akio Isono, Hikaru Yamanouchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Story of a waitress whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a stiflingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: Robert Montgomery, Maureen O’Sullivan, Edward Arnold
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Farmers take in an injured racketeer and try to reform him.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Victor McLaglen, Wynne Gibson, Alison Skipworth
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capeador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve’s friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Dolores del Rio
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out, that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane she kills him.

Director: Edgar Selwyn, Richard Boleslawski
Stars: Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Allan, Lewis Stone
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA

A jewel thief suspected of being a local serial killer targeting police officers decides to solve the mystery himself to clear his name.

Director: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Lee Garmes
Stars: Claude Rains, Margo, Whitney Bourne
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Prominent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi.

Director: Harlan Thompson
Stars: Cary Grant, Helen Mack, Genevieve Tobin
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A handsome plastic surgeon has a beauty clinic, where many a beautiful client falls in love with him. His unnoticed secretary is in love with him, too.

Director: Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley
Stars: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA

A multimillionaire decides to boycott “filthy” forms of entertainment such as Broadway shows.

Director: John Cromwell
Stars: Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

Director: Yasujirô Shimazu
Stars: Yumeko Aizome, Ryôtarô Mizushima, Den Ohinata
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

Keitaro (Obinata Den) is a law student and Yaeko (Aizome Yumeko) is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko’s sister Kyouko (Okada Yoshiko) has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly interested in Keitaro and Yae becomes anxious.

Director: Edward Ludwig
Stars: Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials. When he discovers that the publisher has betrayed him and is in league with munitions manufacturers to make money off of war, he goes insane.

Director: Erle C. Kenton
Stars: W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A hard-drinking, socially-awkward inventor wrecks his daughter’s chances of marriage into a rich family and bungles his own chances of success by selling one of his more practical inventions.

Director: Richard Boleslawski
Stars: Marion Davies, Gary Cooper, Jean Parker
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

Union spy Gail Loveless impersonates a black maid in the early days of the Civil War, but complications arise when she falls in love with a Confederate officer.

Director: William Dieterle
Stars: William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke, George Cukor
Stars: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Karen Morley, Tom Keene, John Qualen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune… and bread!

Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Director: Rowland V. Lee
Stars: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Henri Poupon
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A young and naive peasant girl in Provence, who has been seduced and abandoned, moves to Marseilles and becomes a street-walker after having her baby.

Director: Arcady Boytler, Raphael J. Sevilla
Stars: Andrea Palma, Domingo Soler, Francisco Zárraga
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

Rosario (Palma) becomes a prostitute after losing her father and discovering her boyfriend had a liaison with another woman. In Veracruz, Rosario lives above a sordid cabaret “selling her love to the men coming from the sea.” One night, sailor Alberto (Soler) rescues Rosario from the dirty hands of a drunk man. They get along and go to Rosario’s room. After making love, they begin to talk and Rosario discovers they’re siblings…

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Frankie Darro, George P. Breakston, Jimmy Butler
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Adapted from The Paul Street Boys, an autobiographical novel by Ferenc Molnar, GLORY is an unusually sensitive evocation of the pain of youth and the senselessness of war. Frail Nemecsek, a lonely boy who yearns to belong, worships Boka, the self-sufficent, charismatic leader of a well-organized gang, decked out in uniforms and sporting their own flag. The perennial outsider sees his chance to win a respected place in Butler’s army when their flag is stolen and war breaks out with another gang.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Charles Boyer, Madeleine Ozeray, Robert Arnoux
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in purgatory, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends. If he fails, he will be eternally damned.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

When a small kingdom’s main tax payer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.

Director: Sidney Franklin
Stars: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

Director: Joe May
Stars: Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Douglass Montgomery
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

Constantly quarreling couple decide to try the jealousy angle when a naive young couple comes along.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Harry Baur, Valéry Inkijinoff, Alexandre Rignault
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France

Willy Ferriere is dead broke and his mistress costs a lot. One day, he says in a pub that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt. Someone lets him know it’s a deal. The aunt is murdered, and a poor chap is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Miriam Hopkins, Franchot Tone
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather’s farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married farmer.

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Helen Vinson
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA

When Prohibition ends, a beer baron sees the writing on the wall, quits the rackets, and tries to break into California society.

Director: William A. Wellman
Stars: Loretta Young, Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A New York tramp (Jolson) falls in love with the mayor’s amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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