Pre Code Movies

This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.

When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working...

Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The...

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...

Explorer Paul Hoefler leads a safari into central Africa and what was then called the Belgian Congo, in the regions inhabited by the Wassara and the...

In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von...

Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.

A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.

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

A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.

A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged...

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.

Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a member of...

The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with...

A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.

Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda...

Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.

Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.