Pre Code Movies

A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.

A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel,...

A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.

Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a...

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

Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into...

An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.

A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the...

New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides...

A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.

The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.

International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a...

The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.

An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.

An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.