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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 |  | 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 |
| 3 |  | 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 |
| 4 |  | Klondike Annie (1936) | 2.9709 6 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | ...more about Klondike Annie starring Mae West and Philip Reed |
| 5 |  | 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 |
| 6 |  | 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 |
| 7 |  | 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 |
| 8 |  | 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 |
| 9 |  | 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 |
| 10 |  | Love on the Run (1936) | 2.6871 4 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy | N/A | In the company of reporter Michael Anthony, American heiress Sally Parker flees her planned wedding ...more about Love on the Run starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable |
| 11 |  | Satan Met a Lady (1936) | 2.6793 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Comedy |
$14.92
| Sardonic detective Shane, thrown out of one town for bringing trouble, heads for home and his ...more about Satan Met a Lady starring Bette Davis and Warren William |
| 12 |  | Theodora Goes Wild (1936) | 2.6635 10 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$17.95
| The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They ...more about Theodora Goes Wild starring Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas |
| 13 |  | Bride Walks Out, The (1936) | 2.6209 1 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | Carolyn and Michael fall in love and decide to marry. However, Michael insists that Carolyn quit ...more about Bride Walks Out starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gene Raymond |
| 14 |  | Wife vs. Secretary (1936) | 2.6140 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$11.89
| Linda Stanhope isn't jealous of beautiful Whitey Wilson, secretary to her magazine publisher ...more about Wife vs. Secretary starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow |
| 15 |  | Three Smart Girls (1936) | 2.5592 7 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy |
$16.37
| The three Craig sisters, in Switzerland with their ten-years-divorced mother, run away to New York ...more about Three Smart Girls starring Binnie Barnes and Charles Winninger |
| 16 |  | Born to Dance (1936) | 2.5227 6 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy | N/A | Sailor Ted meets at the Lonely Hearts Club of his friend Gunny's wife, Jenny, a girl, Nora Paige, ...more about Born to Dance starring Eleanor Powell and James Stewart |
| 17 | | Man Who Could Work Miracles, The (1936) | 2.5095 10 reviews | NA | Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Comedy | N/A | ...more about Man Who Could Work Miracles starring Roland Young and Ralph Richardson |
| 18 |  | Devil Is a Sissy, The (1936) | 2.4930 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy | N/A | Claude Pierce is delighted to move in with his father, Jay Pierce, a struggling architect living in ...more about Devil Is a Sissy starring Freddie Bartholomew and Jackie Cooper |
| 19 |  | Three Men on a Horse (1936) | 2.4382 2 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | ...more about Three Men on a Horse starring Joan Blondell and Guy Kibbee |
| 20 | | Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936) | 2.4322 6 reviews | NA | Mystery, Comedy |
$34.97
| While ostensibly on vacation with his wife and twelve children, famed detective Charlie Chan visits ...more about Charlie Chan at the Circus starring Warner Oland and Keye Luke |
| 21 | | One in a Million (1936) | 2.4261 3 reviews | NA | Musical, Romance, Comedy | N/A | ...more about One in a Million starring Sonja Henie and Adolphe Menjou |
| 22 |  | Captain January (1936) | 2.4200 8 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy, Family |
$8.65
| Shirley lives with a lighthouse keeper (Kibbee) who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant ...more about Captain January starring Shirley Temple and Slim Summerville |
| 23 |  | Small Town Girl (1936) | 2.3515 2 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy | N/A | Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One ...more about Small Town Girl starring Janet Gaynor and Robert Taylor |
| 24 | | Our Relations (1936) | 2.3378 4 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | Unbeknownst to Stanley and Oliver, their long-lost twin brothers, sailors Alfie and Bert are in ...more about Our Relations starring Oliver Hardy and Alan Hale |
| 25 |  | Cain and Mabel (1936) | 2.3058 2 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy | N/A | The managers of heavyweight champion Larry Cain and Broadway musical star Mabel O'Dare scheme up a ...more about Cain and Mabel starring Walter Catlett and Marion Davies |
| 26 |  | Stage Struck (1936) |  2.2373 1 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy | N/A | Broadway dance director George Randall (Dick Powell) is stuck with staging a Broadway show starring ...more about Stage Struck starring Dick Powell and Joan Blondell |
| 27 |  | Banjo on My Knee (1936) | 2.2191 1 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy | N/A | Ernie Holley runs away on his wedding night because he thinks he has killed a wedding guest. His ...more about Banjo on My Knee starring Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Brennan |
| 28 | | Man in the Mirror (1936) | 2.2008 1 reviews | NA | Fantasy, Comedy | N/A | ...more about Man in the Mirror starring Edward Everett Horton |
| 29 |  | Disorder in the Court (1936) | 2.2008 2 reviews | NA | Comedy, Short |
$3.99
| The stooges are witnesses at a trial where their friend, a dancer at a nightclub where they are ...more about Disorder in the Court starring Curly Howard and Larry Fine |
| 30 | | Bunker Bean (1936) | 2.1917 2 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | Bunker Bean (Owen Davis Jr.), a meek office clerk, has grandiose dreams but seems destined to ...more about Bunker Bean starring Owen Davis Jr. and Louise Latimer |
| 31 | | Bohemian Girl, The (1936) | 2.1689 2 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | A band of Gypsies are camped outside the walls of Count Arnheim's palace. Oliver's wife kidnaps the ...more about Bohemian Girl starring Oliver Hardy and Thelma Todd |
| 32 |  | Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, The (1936) | 2.1552 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$4.99
| Ernest Bliss is a rich young man with too little to do. Not realizing the depression he's in is due ...more about Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss starring Cary Grant and Mary Brian |
| 33 |  | As You Like It (1936) | 2.1460 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$19.99
| A duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his retinue into the forest of Arden. ...more about As You Like It starring Henry Ainley and Felix Aylmer |
| 34 |  | Milky Way, The (1936) | 2.1300 6 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$4.99
| Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The ...more about Milky Way starring Harold Lloyd and Adolphe Menjou |
| 35 | | When Knights Were Bold (1936) | 2.0730 1 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little ...more about When Knights Were Bold starring Jack Buchanan and Fay Wray |
| 36 |  | Big Broadcast of 1937, The (1936) | 2.0730 1 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930's radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a ...more about Big Broadcast of 1937 starring Jack Benny and George Burns |
| 37 | | Piccadilly Jim (1936) | 1.9999 4 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at ...more about Piccadilly Jim starring Madge Evans and Eric Blore |
| 38 |  | Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936) | 1.9816 2 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy | N/A | Stage-producer J.J. Horbart, is going to put on a new show, but he doesn't know that his two ...more about Gold Diggers of 1937 starring Victor Moore and Dick Powell |
| 39 |  | Desire (1936) | 1.8721 5 reviews | NA | Crime, Romance, Comedy | N/A | Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his ...more about Desire starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper |
| 40 |  | Pennies from Heaven (1936) | 1.8538 2 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy |
$13.99
| While imprisoned on a false charge, a singer meets an inmate on death row. The inmate tells the ...more about Pennies from Heaven starring Bing Crosby and Madge Evans |
| 41 | | Brides Are Like That (1936) | 1.8264 3 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his ...more about Brides Are Like That starring Ross Alexander and Anita Louise |
| 42 | | Gay Desperado, The (1936) | 1.8127 3 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy |
$24.24
| Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him ...more about Gay Desperado starring Ida Lupino and Leo Carrillo |
| 43 | | Windbag the Sailor (1936) | 1.7807 1 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a ...more about Windbag the Sailor starring Will Hay |
| 44 | | No Limit (1936) |  1.6894 1 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite ...more about No Limit starring George Formby and Florence Desmond |
| 45 | | Laburnum Grove (1936) | 1.6894 1 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | ...more about Laburnum Grove starring Edmund Gwenn and Cedric Hardwicke |
| 46 |  | Big Brown Eyes (1936) | 1.5981 2 reviews | NA | Mystery, Comedy |
$12.34
| Dan Barr is a flatfoot on the trail of jewel robbers. Eve Fallon is his girl of 5 years. We meet ...more about Big Brown Eyes starring Cary Grant and Joan Bennett |
| 47 | | Porky the Rain-Maker (1936) |  No Score 0 reviews | NA | Comedy, Family, Animation, Short | N/A | The farm is suffering through a terrible drought. Porky's father sends him to the store to buy some ...more about Porky the Rain-Maker |
| 48 | | Just Speeding (1936) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Comedy, Short | N/A | ...more about Just Speeding |
| 49 | | Betty Boop and the Little King (1936) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Comedy, Family, Animation, Short | N/A | Comic strip character The Little King, bored at the opera, sneaks over to the vaudeville house to ...more about Betty Boop and the Little King |
| 50 | | Ants in the Pantry (1936) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Comedy, Short | N/A | The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where ...more about Ants in the Pantry starring Moe Howard and Larry Fine |
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