Pre Code Movies

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...

A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.

A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In...

A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to...

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton....

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm...

A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around...

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

After prizefighter Kid Mason loses his opening fight, his wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around, Mason trains and starts winning....

A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious...

World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.

Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to...

Lord Cyril Wimborne, a barrister, divorces his wife, Myra, and takes custody of their child, Kenyon, when he finds her name linked with the...

A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.