The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer 1927

6.10

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

1927

The Public Enemy

The Public Enemy 1931

7.25

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

1931

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Mystery of the Wax Museum 1933

6.50

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

1933

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932

7.80

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

1932

Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933 1933

7.15

During the Great Depression, all Broadway shows are closed down. A group of desperate unemployed showgirls find hope when a wealthy songwriter invests in a musical starring them, against the wishes of his high society brother. Thus start Carol, Trixie and Polly's schemes to bilk his money and keep the show going.

1933

Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark 1928

6.10

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

1928

One Way Passage

One Way Passage 1932

7.31

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.

1932

Night Nurse

Night Nurse 1931

6.70

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.

1931

Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy 1931

7.00

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

1931

The Purchase Price

The Purchase Price 1932

6.60

Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.

1932

Scarlet Dawn

Scarlet Dawn 1932

6.50

During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.

1932

Frisco Kid

Frisco Kid 1935

6.80

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.

1935

Brother Orchid

Brother Orchid 1940

6.40

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

1940

Svengali

Svengali 1931

6.10

A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.

1931

Star in the Night

Star in the Night 1945

7.20

Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve. The motel's guests are only concerned for themselves until a poor man and his wife drive up to the motel, unable to go any further. Out of rooms, Nick's wife prepares a place for them in a shed under a neon star Nick had just finished hanging. Their plight brings out the generosity in everyone, including Nick, who remembers another family almost two thousand years earlier that also found a makeshift room at an inn under another kind of star.

1945

Smart Money

Smart Money 1931

6.90

Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.

1931

Five Star Final

Five Star Final 1931

6.59

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 involved.

1931

Alice in Movieland

Alice in Movieland 1940

6.30

In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.

1940

The Rich Are Always with Us

The Rich Are Always with Us 1932

5.20

A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.

1932

The Working Man

The Working Man 1933

6.60

A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.

1933