Pre Code Movies

A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office is guarding the assets in her house.

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his...

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.

A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.

A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.

A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.

A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman...

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married...

In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée....

A housewife divorces her self-centered husband. Years later, she attends a party where her ex is pursuing another woman. Unbeknownst to him, she is...

Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her...

Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds herself falling in love with a playboy (Robert Young)....

A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress...

Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the...

A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he...

A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.