Pre Code Movies

Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck...

The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the...

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical...

Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits...

A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a...

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses...

A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

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

This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin. The story of the movie is...

Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds...

Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.

A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.

A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.

Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.

A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

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