Pre Code Movies

Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled...

An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.

Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her...

In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly...

A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot....

The film tells the story of Yang Naifan (Ruan Lingyu) who runs from her arranged marriage to be with her true love, Li Zuyi (Jin Yan). The film...

When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.

The astonishing story of the genesis, production, worldwide success, and legacy of King Kong (1933), directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B....

An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's...

A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.

Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he...

A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.

When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.

The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but...

A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well...

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets...

An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that...