Pre Code Movies

Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.

A sideshow bally girl sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager to get even with him for a friend that he jilted.

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

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

Policeman Edgar Kennedy is told by his chief he better stop a string of burglaries that have been happening on his watch or else he will get the...

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.

A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks...

A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.

A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.

A documentary of explorer Richard Halliburton's travels on the Indian sub-continent, featuring a mix of real and staged footage.

Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend. As...

Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them...

Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia, one of their marks, but their relationship is...

Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. Charged with malpractice and manslaughter,...

In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and...

A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up...

After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The...