Pre Code Movies

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

In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée....

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

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married...

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend...

A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.

After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.

A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.

After her brother's death, Roma Courtney becomes the heiress to his fortune. When a fake psychic claims to have a message from her dead brother, he...

A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of their destination. As they attempt to make sense of...

Three smart film-flammers help a homeless little girl to love and happiness by making monkeys out of Hollywood's big movie moguls. A love story to...

A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact...

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...

The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where...

A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.

A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

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...

A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the...

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress...