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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 |  | Gone with the Wind (1939) | 3.8877 116 reviews | G | Drama, War, Romance |
$12.71
| On the eve of the American Civil War, Scarlett O'Hara meets Rhett Butler. Amongst a war torn ...more about Gone with the Wind starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh |
| 3 |  | Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) |  3.6852 24 reviews | Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Adaptation |
$6.55
| Aboard the HMS Bounty a crew and its captain set sail for Tahiti, but when the crew gets fed up ...more about Mutiny on the Bounty starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton |
| 4 |  | Scarface (1932) | 3.5928 16 reviews | PG | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir, Crime, | N/A | Based loosely on the life of infamous gangster, Al Capone is the story of Tony “Scarface” ...more about Scarface starring Paul Muni and Ann Dvorak |
| 5 |  | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | 3.4155 44 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy |
$13.84
| Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the ...more about Mr. Smith Goes to Washington starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur |
| 6 |  | All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) | 3.2686 40 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War |
$4.02
| This is an English language film (made in America) adapted from a novel by German author Erich ...more about All Quiet on the Western Front starring Zasu Pitts and Arnold Lucy |
| 7 |  | Blue Angel, The (1930) |  3.2353 8 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical |
$28.73
| The Blue Angel deals with the humiliation and breakdown an inhibited, overbearing, ...more about Blue Angel starring Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich |
| 8 |  | City Lights (1931) | 3.2290 45 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$20.69
| A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble. The tramp's ...more about City Lights starring Virginia Cherrill and Florence Lee |
| 9 |  | Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937) | 3.2236 13 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$12.71
| This is a classic swashbuckler. Rudolph Rassendyll, Rudolf V's identical distant cousin, is asked ...more about Prisoner of Zenda starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Madeleine Carroll |
| 10 |  | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) | 3.2001 28 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir |
$7.72
| Returning veteran James Allen, rejecting a return to the old factory grind, degenerates into a hobo. ...more about I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang starring Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell |
| 11 |  | David Copperfield (1935) | 3.1998 9 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama |
$12.71
| When David's father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel ...more about David Copperfield starring Edna May Oliver and Elizabeth Allan |
| 12 |  | 42nd Street (1933) | 3.1822 38 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical, Romance |
$12.71
| Broadway director Julian Marsh insists on one last huge production before his death. We follow the ...more about 42nd Street starring Warner Baxter and Bebe Daniels |
| 13 |  | Baby Face (1933) | 3.1759 9 reviews | NA | Drama |
$28.89
| Lilly (Baby Face) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to ...more about Baby Face starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent |
| 14 |  | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | 3.1701 73 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$12.95
| As Dr. Frankenstein is on his deathbed a colleague forces him to help create another monster, this ...more about Bride of Frankenstein starring Colin Clive and Valerie Hobson |
| 15 |  | 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 |
| 16 |  | Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) | 3.1551 35 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime |
$6.25
| Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New ...more about Angels with Dirty Faces starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien |
| 17 |  | Frankenstein (1931) | 3.1514 82 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$12.95
| Scientist Dr. Frankenstein creates and reanimates a creature compiled from various parts of the ...more about Frankenstein starring Colin Clive and Mae Clarke |
| 18 |  | Show Boat (1936) | 3.1479 13 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical | N/A | Adaptation of the Broadway musical. Magnolia Hawks is the lovely but protected, and thus very ...more about Show Boat starring Irene Dunne and Allan Jones |
| 19 |  | Fury (1936) | 3.1428 28 reviews | NA | Drama, Film-Noir |
$12.71
| Based on the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna. Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant are in love, but he ...more about Fury starring Sylvia Sidney and Arthur Stone |
| 20 |  | Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935) | 3.1316 7 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama |
$16.37
| The 41st Bengal Lancers are stationed on the Northwest Frontier of British India, guarding against ...more about Lives of a Bengal Lancer starring Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone |
| 21 |  | Tale of Two Cities, A (1935) | 3.1277 12 reviews | NA | Drama |
$8.34
| An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney ...more about Tale of Two Cities starring Henry B. Walthall and Ronald Colman |
| 22 |  | Life of Emile Zola, The (1937) | 3.1277 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography |
$7.81
| A serious biopic of the life of Emile Zola. Starting in Paris in 1862 it deals, among other events, ...more about Life of Emile Zola starring Gale Sondergaard and Gloria Holden |
| 23 |  | Grand Hotel (1932) | 3.1183 39 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$4.99
| Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag ...more about Grand Hotel starring Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo |
| 24 |  | Manhattan Melodrama (1934) | 3.1106 8 reviews | PG-13 | Drama, Crime, Romance | N/A | Orphans Edward "Blackie" Gallagher and Jim Wade are lifelong friends who take different paths in ...more about Manhattan Melodrama starring Clark Gable and William Powell |
| 25 |  | Big House, The (1930) | 3.1094 10 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller | N/A | After a manslaughter conviction from drunk driving, nice but foolish Kent is sent to a prison ...more about Big House starring Wallace Beery and Lewis Stone |
| 26 |  | Wuthering Heights (1939) | 3.1003 8 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance | N/A | The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns ...more about Wuthering Heights starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier |
| 27 |  | China Seas (1935) | 3.0980 11 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$4.81
| Dynamic Alan Gaskell captains a ship bound from Hong Kong to Singapore. Gaskell tries to turn over ...more about China Seas starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow |
| 28 |  | 39 Steps, The (1935) | 3.0973 59 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery |
$2.42
| Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, ...more about 39 Steps starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll |
| 29 |  | Invisible Man, The (1933) | 3.0934 41 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$15.69
| A scientist turns himself invisible. However, the formula slowly drives him insane, causing him to ...more about Invisible Man starring Claude Rains and Gloria Stuart |
| 30 |  | Petrified Forest, The (1936) | 3.0903 24 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Romance |
$8.95
| Alan Squier, a failed, world-weary British writer, hikes into an isolated, weather-beaten desert ...more about Petrified Forest starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis |
| 31 |  | Public Enemy, The (1931) | 3.0706 31 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Crime |
$6.16
| Tom's bad way of life is constantly set up against his brother Mike's, who has a job during the day ...more about Public Enemy starring James Cagney and Jean Harlow |
| 32 |  | Freaks (1932) | 3.0651 108 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror |
$12.71
| A carnival barker displays a sideshow freak called the Feathered Hen and tells her story. ...more about Freaks starring Wallace Ford and Leila Hyams |
| 33 |  | Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) | 3.0441 19 reviews | NA | Drama |
$9.76
| An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and ...more about Goodbye starring Robert Donat and Milton Rosmer |
| 34 |  | Dracula (1931) | 3.0347 90 reviews | NA | Drama, Fantasy, Horror |
$12.95
| After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle ...more about Dracula starring Bela Lugosi and Helen Chandler |
| 35 |  | In Old Chicago (1937) | 3.0291 21 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Western, Musical |
$4.86
| The O'Leary brothers live very different lifestyles. When their mother's cow tips over a lantern ...more about In Old Chicago starring Francis Ford and Tyrone Power |
| 36 |  | Morning Glory (1933) | 3.0253 8 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Eva Lovelace, would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage, is a wildly optimistic ...more about Morning Glory starring Katharine Hepburn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. |
| 37 |  | Camille (1936) | 3.0077 20 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$12.71
| Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand ...more about Camille starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor |
| 38 |  | Only Angels Have Wings (1939) | 2.9992 15 reviews | Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$10.23
| While waiting for her boat, Bonnie Lee stops at a small airport in South America. The pilots there ...more about Only Angels Have Wings starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur |
| 39 | | Shanghai Express (1932) | 2.9907 12 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Romance | N/A | Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lil is on ...more about Shanghai Express starring Marlene Dietrich and Clive Brook |
| 40 |  | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) | 2.9844 32 reviews | G | Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Family, Animation, Disney | N/A | The first, and by far most memorable full-length animated feature from the Disney Studios, "Snow ...more about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| 41 |  | Christmas Carol, A (1938) | 2.9841 14 reviews | NA | Drama, Fantasy, Christmas |
$6.99
| The timeworn Dickens' story about the old merchant Scrooge and how his own disappointments in life ...more about Christmas Carol starring Reginald Owen and Gene Lockhart |
| 42 |  | Captains Courageous (1937) | 2.9816 18 reviews | G | Adventure, Drama |
$10.99
| Harvey Cheyne is a spoiled brat used to having his own way. When a prank goes wrong onboard an ...more about Captains Courageous starring Spencer Tracy and Freddie Bartholomew |
| 43 |  | 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 |
| 44 |  | Queen Christina (1933) | 2.9755 12 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography, Romance |
$8.68
| Young Christina ascends to the Swedish throne at age 5. While she is queen, Sweden becomes a ...more about Queen Christina starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert |
| 45 |  | Jezebel (1938) | 2.9742 26 reviews | NA | Drama |
$12.71
| Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her ...more about Jezebel starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda |
| 46 |  | In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) | 2.9679 1 reviews | NA | Action, Drama | N/A | "In The Wake of The Bounty" is Errol Flynn's film debut as Fletcher Christian. This Austrailian ...more about In the Wake of the Bounty starring Mayne Lynton and Errol Flynn |
| 47 |  | Honor Among Lovers (1931) | 2.9679 1 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Fredric March, a businessman, is in love with his secretary (Claudette Colbert) but she deserts him ...more about Honor Among Lovers starring Claudette Colbert and Monroe Owsley |
| 48 | | Yogoto no yume (1933) | 2.9679 1 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | ...more about Yogoto no yume |
| 49 |  | Today We Live (1933) | 2.9679 1 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Romance | N/A | The two lovers are living together and are not married as they hesitantly explain to her brother. ...more about Today We Live starring Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper |
| 50 |  | Old Dark House, The (1932) | 2.9671 25 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Comedy |
$14.61
| Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are ...more about Old Dark House starring Boris Karloff and Melvyn Douglas |
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