Pre Code Movies

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

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster...

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 as...

When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisio...

This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated d...

Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt governmen...

Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves...

A West Point graduate jilts his girlfriend but runs into her later at an Army outpost.

Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.

Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. As Gle...

A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.

Jerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affecti...

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric...

A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the late...

Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff...

A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.

The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.

Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces...