Pre Code Movies

Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old...

The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues...

A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...

Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be...

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their...

Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira...

An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.

When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring...

Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.

A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.

A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the...

When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new...

A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.

This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated...

Made during the early days of sound cinema, this tense submarine adventure is an intriguing example of a hybrid silent-talkie. A disgraced English...

After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10...