An Angel from Texas

An Angel from Texas 1940

4.80

A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

1940

Safe in Hell

Safe in Hell 1931

6.80

To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.

1931

Captain Blood

Captain Blood 1935

7.21

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

1935

Little Caesar

Little Caesar 1931

6.87

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

1931

The Lost World

The Lost World 1925

6.70

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

1925

Three on a Match

Three on a Match 1932

6.25

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

1932

Dark Victory

Dark Victory 1939

7.00

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.

1939

The Inspector General

The Inspector General 1949

6.47

An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.

1949

The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper 1937

6.80

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.

1937

Doctor X

Doctor X 1932

6.00

A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

1932

Heroes for Sale

Heroes for Sale 1933

7.00

Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.

1933

Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die 1939

6.80

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

1939

Gold Diggers of 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935 1935

6.41

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

1935

Marked Woman

Marked Woman 1937

6.52

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

1937

Day Dreams

Day Dreams 1922

6.47

In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various jobs which her imagination expands into much nobler ones than those that he is actually attempting.

1922

Invisible Stripes

Invisible Stripes 1939

6.30

A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

1939

So Big

So Big 1924

1

After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."

1924

You Can't Get Away with Murder

You Can't Get Away with Murder 1939

5.60

Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.

1939

A Dog's Life

A Dog's Life 1918

7.33

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

1918

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse 1938

7.20

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from its extremely resentful leader.

1938