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| 1 |  | Modern Times (1936) |  3.9187 76 reviews | G | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$20.69
| Charlie Chaplin is a production line worker driven insane by the monotony of his job. When he is ...more about Modern Times starring Charles Chaplin and Paulette Goddard |
| 2 |  | Top Hat (1935) |  3.5523 27 reviews | NA | Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$12.71
| Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new ...more about Top Hat starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers |
| 3 |  | Holiday (1938) |  3.1658 16 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$10.23
| Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. When her family, ...more about Holiday starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant |
| 4 |  | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) | 3.1609 38 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$10.23
| Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life - including playing the ...more about Mr. Deeds Goes to Town starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur |
| 5 |  | Bringing Up Baby (1938) | 3.1155 54 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy, Family |
$14.42
| When a stuffy paleontologist and a scatterbrained heiress cross paths chaos ensues. She mistakes ...more about Bringing Up Baby starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant |
| 6 |  | Day at the Races, A (1937) | 3.0993 38 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$11.89
| Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her ...more about Day at the Races starring Allan Jones |
| 7 |  | Duck Soup (1933) | 3.0957 54 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy |
$44.28
| To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs. Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million ...more about Duck Soup starring Raquel Torres |
| 8 |  | Awful Truth, The (1937) | 3.0840 46 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$15.66
| Before their divorce becomes final, Jerry and Lucy Warriner both do their best to ruin each other's ...more about Awful Truth starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant |
| 9 |  | Bachelor Mother (1939) | 3.0697 10 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy | N/A | Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a ...more about Bachelor Mother starring Ginger Rogers and Ernest Truex |
| 10 |  | Twentieth Century (1934) | 3.0592 19 reviews | Not Rated | Comedy, Adaptation |
$3.95
| Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer ...more about Twentieth Century starring Etienne Girardot and John Barrymore |
| 11 |  | Horse Feathers (1932) | 3.0476 32 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$44.28
| Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. His ...more about Horse Feathers |
| 12 |  | Merry Widow, The (1934) | 3.0455 9 reviews | Not Rated | Musical, Romance, Comedy, , Romance, Adaptation | N/A | The small kingdom of Marshovia has a little problem. The main tax-payer, the wealthy widow Sonia ...more about Merry Widow starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald |
| 13 |  | Gunga Din (1939) | 3.0426 26 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, War, Comedy |
$12.20
| Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this takes place in British India during the Thuggee ...more about Gunga Din starring Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. |
| 14 |  | My Man Godfrey (1936) | 3.0087 42 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$9.98
| In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump ...more about My Man Godfrey starring William Powell and Carole Lombard |
| 15 |  | Footlight Parade (1933) | 3.0086 17 reviews | NA | Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$41.37
| Chester Kent produces Musical Comedies on the stage. With the beginning of the talkies aera he ...more about Footlight Parade starring James Cagney and Joan Blondell |
| 16 |  | Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) | 2.9862 8 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$8.25
| Andy's girlfriend Polly is planning to spend Christmas at her grandmother's, which puts a kink in ...more about Love Finds Andy Hardy starring Mickey Rooney and Lewis Stone |
| 17 |  | Pygmalion (1938) | 2.9795 21 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy |
$20.08
| The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that ...more about Pygmalion starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller |
| 18 |  | Klondike Annie (1936) | 2.9709 6 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | ...more about Klondike Annie starring Mae West and Philip Reed |
| 19 |  | Trouble in Paradise (1932) | 2.9679 17 reviews | Not Rated | Romance, Comedy, Adaptation |
$27.95
| High class European thief Gaston Monesque meets his soul mate Lily, a pickpocket masquerading as a ...more about Trouble in Paradise starring Edward Everett Horton and Miriam Hopkins |
| 20 |  | Captain Hates the Sea, The (1934) | 2.9679 2 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | ...more about Captain Hates the Sea starring Wynne Gibson and Alison Skipworth |
| 21 |  | Love Affair (1939) | 2.9668 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$3.24
| French playboy Michel Marnet and American Terry McKay fall in love aboard ship. They arrange to ...more about Love Affair starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer |
| 22 |  | Ninotchka (1939) | 2.9633 29 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$12.71
| Only the royal suite at the grandest hotel in Paris has a safe large enough for the jewels of the ...more about Ninotchka starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas |
| 23 |  | It's a Gift (1934) | 2.9557 8 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$41.99
| The owner of a general store (Harold Bisonette) is hounded by his status-anxious wife ("That's ...more about It's a Gift starring W.C. Fields and Kathleen Howard |
| 24 |  | Libeled Lady (1936) | 2.9288 12 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$12.71
| Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. He keeps on delaying his marriage ...more about Libeled Lady starring Jean Harlow and William Powell |
| 25 |  | Front Page, The (1931) | 2.9098 9 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a ...more about Front Page starring Slim Summerville and Adolphe Menjou |
| 26 |  | Nothing Sacred (1937) | 2.8735 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$5.14
| To redeem himself after a hoax, reporter Wallace Cook proposes a series of stories on doomed Hazel ...more about Nothing Sacred starring Carole Lombard and Charles Winninger |
| 27 |  | Carefree (1938) | 2.8606 9 reviews | NA | Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$11.99
| Dr. Tony Flagg's friend, Steven, has problems in the relationship with his fiancee, Amanda, so he ...more about Carefree starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers |
| 28 | | Bombshell (1933) | 2.8492 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy | N/A | Lola Burns is at the top of the pile in Hollywood. But life ain't easy, what with her father and ...more about Bombshell starring Jean Harlow and Lee Tracy |
| 29 |  | Love Me Tonight (1932) | 2.8446 13 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy |
$20.95
| Maurice Courtelin, a Parisian tailor (Maurice Chevalier), is owed a great sum of money by a ...more about Love Me Tonight starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald |
| 30 |  | Monkey Business (1931) | 2.8443 15 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$44.28
| While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs ...more about Monkey Business |
| 31 |  | After the Thin Man (1936) | 2.8436 25 reviews | NA | Crime, Mystery, Romance, Comedy |
$41.37
| Elissa asks Nick to find her missing husband. He had been seeing a bit on the side, and ...more about After the Thin Man starring William Powell and Myrna Loy |
| 32 |  | Follow the Fleet (1936) | 2.8405 17 reviews | NA | Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$12.71
| When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old ...more about Follow the Fleet starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers |
| 33 |  | Belle of the Nineties (1934) | 2.8309 6 reviews | NA | Western, Comedy | N/A | Ruby Carter (Mae West), the American Beauty queen of the night club-sporting world, shifts her ...more about Belle of the Nineties starring Mae West and Augusta Anderson |
| 34 |  | Animal Crackers (1930) | 2.8230 34 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$44.28
| Captain Spaulding, the noted explorer, returns from Africa and attends a gala party held by Mrs. ...more about Animal Crackers |
| 35 |  | Ex-Mrs. Bradford, The (1936) | 2.8108 7 reviews | NA | Mystery, Comedy | N/A | Relations between Dr. 'Brad' Bradford and ex-wife Paula are surprisingly romantic. They divorced ...more about Ex-Mrs. Bradford starring William Powell and Jean Arthur |
| 36 | | One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) | 2.7929 8 reviews | NA | Comedy, Music | N/A | The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends ...more about One Hundred Men and a Girl starring Deanna Durbin and Eugene Pallette |
| 37 | | Professional Sweetheart (1933) | 2.7853 1 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy | N/A | Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood, in order to sell the ...more about Professional Sweetheart starring Ginger Rogers and Norman Foster |
| 38 |  | Big Broadcast of 1938, The (1938) | 2.7807 8 reviews | NA | Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$9.18
| New ocean liner S.S. Gigantic is about to race its rival, the Colossal. Gigantic owner T.F. Bellows ...more about Big Broadcast of 1938 starring W.C. Fields and Martha Raye |
| 39 |  | Another Thin Man (1939) | 2.7695 16 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Comedy |
$41.37
| In this adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's "The Farewell Murder", Nick and Nora (and their dog Asta) ...more about Another Thin Man starring William Powell and Myrna Loy |
| 40 |  | Blonde Crazy (1931) | 2.7688 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Romance, Comedy | N/A | At a midwestern hotel, conniving bellhop Bert Harris has a finger in every pie. He promotes a job ...more about Blonde Crazy starring James Cagney and Joan Blondell |
| 41 |  | Everybody Sing (1938) | 2.7624 2 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy | N/A | A quirky theatrical family and their equally eccentric hired help are the subject of this MGM ...more about Everybody Sing starring Allan Jones and Judy Garland |
| 42 |  | Platinum Blonde (1931) | 2.7560 9 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$3.95
| Reporter Gallagher loves reporter Smith who marries Anne. He's soon born being married to a ...more about Platinum Blonde starring Loretta Young and Robert Williams |
| 43 |  | Swing Your Lady (1938) |  2.7487 1 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits ...more about Swing Your Lady starring Humphrey Bogart and Louise Fazenda |
| 44 |  | Boy Meets Girl (1938) | 2.7411 8 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be ...more about Boy Meets Girl starring James Cagney and Marie Wilson |
| 45 | | Midnight (1939) | 2.7378 12 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy | N/A | Showgirl Eve, stranded in Paris without a sou, befriends taxi driver Tibor Czerny, then gives him ...more about Midnight starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche |
| 46 |  | Listen, Darling (1938) | 2.7259 2 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical, Romance, Comedy | N/A | To stop Pinkie's mother Dottie from marrying a man they know she does not love, Pinkie and her ...more about Listen starring Judy Garland and Freddie Bartholomew |
| 47 |  | Great Ziegfeld, The (1936) | 2.7041 22 reviews | NA | Biography, Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$7.99
| At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more ...more about Great Ziegfeld starring William Powell and Myrna Loy |
| 48 |  | Prizefighter and the Lady, The (1933) | 2.7031 1 reviews | NA | Crime, Romance, Comedy | N/A | Steve is just a heavy duty bartender when Edwin J. Bennett, known as the Professor, starts training ...more about Prizefighter and the Lady starring Myrna Loy and Max Baer |
| 49 |  | Dangerous Number (1937) | 2.7031 1 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his ...more about Dangerous Number starring Robert Young and Ann Sothern |
| 50 |  | Little Big Shot (1935) | 2.7031 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Comedy | N/A | ...more about Little Big Shot starring Sybil Jason and Glenda Farrell |
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