Pre Code Movies

A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the...

A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines...

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

A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.

Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate...

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...

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

A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in...

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.

A kept secretary in the big city must rethink her choices when her hometown flame comes back into her life.

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force...

In the superstitious European village of Kleinschloss, a wave of mysterious deaths take place where victims are found with neck wounds that elders...

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

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

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

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Wall Street wizard Larry Day, new to the ways of love and coached by his valet, follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with...