Classic B&W in order of viewing (ongoing)
by I_Won-t_Dance | created - 15 Jun 2012 | updated - 03 Jun 2021 | PublicMy fascination with Classic Cinema, from the start.. Films from Hollywood's Golden Age in approx. order of viewing, NOT in order of preference.. Black & White films from the Silent era 'til the early Fifties, mainly Romance or Drama, with a sprinkling of Musicals, Screwball and Crime also..
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101. If You Could Only Cook (1935)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Lionel Stander
Votes: 1,425
102. Weddings Are Wonderful (1938)
79 min | Comedy
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: June Clyde, Esmond Knight, Rene Ray, Frederick Lloyd
Votes: 20
103. Good Dame (1934)
Passed | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can help her get out of town.
Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Jack La Rue, Noel Francis
Votes: 134
104. Strangers in Love (1932)
76 min | Comedy, Drama
A 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lothar Mendes and written by Grover Jones, William J. Locke, and William Slavens McNutt; it stars Fredric March, Kay Francis, Stuart Erwin, ... See full summary »
Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: Fredric March, Kay Francis, Stuart Erwin, Juliette Compton
Votes: 188
105. The Magnificent Lie (1931)
81 min | Drama
A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.
Director: Berthold Viertel | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Ralph Bellamy, Stuart Erwin, Françoise Rosay
Votes: 77
106. Sarah and Son (1930)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance
After years of abusing his wife, a ne'er-do-well husband disappears with their son--and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, ... See full summary »
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, Fuller Mellish Jr., Gilbert Emery
Votes: 337
107. Anybody's Woman (1930)
80 min | Drama, Romance
A man left by his wife gets drunk and marries a chorus girl.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Paul Lukas, Huntley Gordon
Votes: 163
108. Hands Across the Table (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Astrid Allwyn
Votes: 2,152
109. His Private Secretary (1933)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
Dick Wallace secretly marries a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who thinks she is a gold digger, is opposed. She takes a job with the company under her maiden name to prove she's okay.
Director: Phil Whitman | Stars: Evalyn Knapp, John Wayne, Reginald Barlow, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 765
110. A Bride for Henry (1937)
Passed | 58 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A stood-up bride uses her lawyer as a stand-in for her absent, unreliable fiancé, hoping to get a quick divorce after the media interest dies down. In time, she realizes that she might have wed the right man--but it might be too late.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Anne Nagel, Warren Hull, Henry Mollison, Claudia Dell
Votes: 311
111. Tell It to the Judge (1949)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a Federal judgeship but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group who think her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Robert Cummings, Gig Young, Marie McDonald
Votes: 450
112. Together Again (1944)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
A prim and proper widow who has succeeded him as mayor of a provincial Vermont town hires a worldly New York sculptor for her husband's statue.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Charles Coburn, Mona Freeman
Votes: 868
113. Appointment for Love (1941)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly after Jane voices her progressive views on marriage, which include ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Rita Johnson, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 174
114. Dear Ruth (1947)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
A family is befuddled when a World War II serviceman shows up to meet and marry his pen pal sweetheart. Everyone's in the dark about the romance by mail. Then they discover Ruth's younger sister was the culprit.
Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman, Edward Arnold
Votes: 715
115. Random Harvest (1942)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Votes: 8,406 | Gross: $10.14M
116. Cluny Brown (1946)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Romance, War
A free-spirited parlor maid and a Czech refugee surprise an English village with their unconventional ways.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker
Votes: 4,112
117. Too Many Husbands (1940)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport
Votes: 1,697
118. Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew.
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall
Votes: 2,953
119. Arise, My Love (1940)
Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel
Votes: 1,037
120. Bachelor Mother (1939)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.
Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson
Votes: 4,610
121. Vivacious Lady (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A professor marries a nightclub singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 4,186
122. The Sheik (1921)
Passed | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Ruth Miller, George Waggner
Votes: 3,663
123. All Night (1918)
58 min | Comedy, Drama
A married society couple (Dorian and Warren) persuade an unmarried pair (Valentino and Myers) to take their places at a party while they pretend to be the servants.
Director: Paul Powell | Stars: Carmel Myers, Rudolph Valentino, Charles Dorian, Mary Warren
Votes: 107
124. The Navigator (1924)
Unrated | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.
Directors: Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom, Clarence Burton
Votes: 11,069 | Gross: $1.48M
125. Twist of Fate (1954)
Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Johnny Victor, an actress living with Louis Galt on the Riviera, becomes involved with Pierre Clemont and learns he is a dangerous criminal.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Lily Kann, Stanley Baker, Olive Lucius
Votes: 545
126. You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold
Votes: 27,915 | Gross: $4.66M
127. From This Day Forward (1946)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Incidents of a marriage are recalled in flashback.
Director: John Berry | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Mark Stevens, Rosemary DeCamp, Harry Morgan
Votes: 474
128. Tight Spot (1955)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A female inmate is whisked out of prison and into a police-guarded hotel until the district attorney can convince her to testify against the mob.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith, Lucy Marlow
Votes: 2,542
129. My Man Godfrey (1936)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick
Votes: 26,462
130. My Cousin Rachel (1952)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Ronald Squire
Votes: 3,398
131. Princess O'Rourke (1943)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
A pilot falls in love with a woman he believes is heading cross country to become a maid, little suspecting that she's actually a princess.
Director: Norman Krasna | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Jack Carson
Votes: 1,546
132. Romance in Manhattan (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Rejected as an immigrant because he doesn't have the required $200, a Czech immigrant jumps ship and is befriended by a chorus girl and becomes a taxi driver.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Arthur Hohl, Jimmy Butler
Votes: 827
133. The Talk of the Town (1942)
Approved | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An escaped prisoner has to prove his innocence to a stuffy law professor with the help of a spirited school teacher.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 9,130
134. The Shopworn Angel (1938)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance
Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon, Hattie McDaniel
Votes: 1,662
135. Magnificent Doll (1946)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, History
Dolly Payne Madison is the daughter of boardinghouse owners in Washington, DC who falls in love with Aaron Burr and James Madison.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Burgess Meredith, Peggy Wood
Votes: 446
136. We're Not Married! (1952)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
In separate stories, five couples learn that they are not legally married.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Victor Moore, Fred Allen
Votes: 2,290
137. Piccadilly Jim (1936)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
In London, an American street caricaturist falls in love with a young woman who suddenly disappears, prompting him to develop a comic strip based on a "From Rags to Riches" family, that he does not know is hers, causing her embarrassment.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Eric Blore
Votes: 448
138. Quality Street (1937)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Eric Blore, Fay Bainter
Votes: 1,315
139. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Mystery
A wealthy mystery writer uses her doctor ex-husband's non-payment of alimony to coerce him into a reconciliation.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason, Eric Blore
Votes: 2,194
140. A Shriek in the Night (1933)
Unrated | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Pat Morgan and Ted Kord are rival newspaper reporters always trying to outscoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building.
Director: Albert Ray | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark, Purnell Pratt
Votes: 1,091
141. Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
80 min | Drama
A wealthy resident attempts to dispossess squatters who live near his home, which leads to a false accusation of murder.
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Mary Pickford, Harold Lockwood, Olive Carey, David Hartford
Votes: 270
142. The Dark Angel (1935)
Passed | 106 min | Drama, Romance
The close relationship between a woman and her two male childhood friends is tested when she accepts a marriage proposal from one of them, while the burgeoning First World War threatens to change their lives forever.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Fredric March, Merle Oberon, Herbert Marshall, Janet Beecher
Votes: 963
143. I Like Your Nerve (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
Young man (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) attempts to break up an engagement between a woman (Loretta Young) and an older man (Edmund Breon).
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Henry Kolker, Claud Allister
Votes: 322
144. The Devil to Pay! (1930)
TV-G | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
Spendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time, he turns... See full summary »
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Frederick Kerr, David Torrence
Votes: 814
145. Ladies' Man (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Drama
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."
Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Carole Lombard, Gilbert Emery
Votes: 418
146. Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
Approved | 120 min | Comedy
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Ronald Colman
Votes: 1,362
147. Sitting Pretty (1933)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Chick Parker and Pete Pendleton are songwriters en route from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune, joined by lunch-wagon proprietor Dorothy.
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Ginger Rogers, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 194
148. Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
Unscrupulous agent Rush makes singing waiter Clayton a big radio star while Peggy, who has lost her own radio show, helps Clayton.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, Ginger Rogers, The Mills Brothers
Votes: 452
149. The Stork Club (1945)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment ... See full summary »
Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore, Robert Benchley
Votes: 744
150. Raffles (1930)
72 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "... See full summary »
Directors: George Fitzmaurice, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, David Torrence, Frederick Kerr
Votes: 1,124 | Gross: $1.00M
151. Adam and Evalyn (1949)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
When a friend dies, a gambler adopts his daughter. Complications ensue.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Helen Cherry, Joan Swinstead
Votes: 612
152. Kitty (1945)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, History, Romance
An 18th-century London wench gets involved with the nobility.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles, Reginald Owen
Votes: 791
153. Fast and Loose (1939)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Mystery, Crime
Rare booksellers Joel and Garda Sloane are engaged to find who is stealing rare books from a private library.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Reginald Owen, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 700
154. Call of the Wild (1935)
Passed | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a traveler purchases a dog to lead the way toward the treasure, but reconsiders his journey when he finds a jilted married woman.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen
Votes: 2,528
155. The Good Fairy (1935)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
A naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a 'good fairy' to strangers makes life awfully complicated.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen
Votes: 1,618
156. Along Came Jones (1945)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea
Votes: 2,408
157. You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom
Votes: 4,087 | Gross: $0.67M
158. Lady on a Train (1945)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
In New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.
Director: Charles David | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, George Coulouris
Votes: 2,566
159. His Girl Friday (1940)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 63,193 | Gross: $0.30M
160. The Remarkable Mr. Kipps (1941)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
Kipps, the draper's apprentice, falls in love with a girl above his station. After he unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he thinks his dream has come true. But money can't make him a gentleman, or bring him the girl he really wants.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert, Philip Frost, Diana Wynyard
Votes: 519
161. Stage Door (1937)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick
Votes: 9,023
162. Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Two con artists take a shopgirl under their wing, but she disrupts their marrying-for-money scheme by falling for a mathematician.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, Shepperd Strudwick
Votes: 1,081
163. The Pursuit of Happiness (1934)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Francis Lederer, Joan Bennett, Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland
Votes: 74
164. That Wonderful Urge (1948)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they're married.
Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Reginald Gardiner, Arleen Whelan
Votes: 1,037
165. These Three (1936)
Passed | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Two schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet
Votes: 3,034
166. Design for Living (1933)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 7,763
167. City Streets (1931)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William 'Stage' Boyd
Votes: 1,872
168. Merrily We Live (1938)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray, Billie Burke
Votes: 2,268
169. The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Approved | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Votes: 1,194
170. Invitation (1952)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Romance
A millionaire tries to buy his dying daughter a husband.
Director: Gottfried Reinhardt | Stars: Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman, Louis Calhern
Votes: 659
171. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Passed | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is forced to risk his pilots' lives in order to win an important contract as a traveling American showgirl stops in town.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess
Votes: 15,666
172. An Inspector Calls (1954)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wealthy family is visited by a police inspector, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Olga Lindo, Brian Worth
Votes: 5,242
173. Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)
Unrated | 67 min | Comedy, Romance
Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who... See full summary »
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Mary Pickford, William Scott, Kate Price, Ida Waterman
Votes: 822
174. Way Down East (1920)
Passed | 145 min | Drama, Romance
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau, Lowell Sherman
Votes: 5,901 | Gross: $4.50M
175. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest
Votes: 28,531
176. Lady of the Tropics (1939)
Passed | 92 min | Drama
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
Directors: Jack Conway, Leslie Fenton | Stars: Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Franklin
Votes: 658
177. The Healer (1935)
76 min | Drama
A young doctor running a health farm for polio victims is dazzled by a pretty and wealthy society girl, to the detriment of his patients and the woman who really loves him.
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Karen Morley, Mickey Rooney, Judith Allen
Votes: 86
178. For Love or Money (1933)
73 min | Comedy
A schemer and his daughter have lived the high life, but they are out of cash. A last-ditch plan to lure investors goes awry when the electric company shows up to turn off the lights. But the new employee brings hope and something more.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Wendy Barrie, Robert Donat, Morris Harvey
Votes: 100
179. Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Norman Foster, Evalyn Knapp, Eric Linden, Esther Ralston
Votes: 135
180. Navy Blues (1937)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When Navy shipmates Russell J. "Rusty" Gibbs, Gerald "Biff" Jones, Chips and Gateleg go on shore leave, lady-killer Rusty is challenged by his friends to take dowdy librarian Doris Kimbell ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Dick Purcell, Mary Brian, Warren Hymer, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 73
181. Molly and Me (1945)
Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy, Musical
A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Gracie Fields, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 585
182. The Wild Party (1929)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and lands in trouble, her professor must rescue ... See full summary »
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Marceline Day, Shirley O'Hara
Votes: 555
183. The President's Lady (1953)
Approved | 96 min | Biography, Drama
The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, the film begins when he meets Rachel Donaldson Robards. The plot concentrates on the scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Susan Hayward, Charlton Heston, John McIntire, Fay Bainter
Votes: 982
184. My Sin (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
Acquitted of murder charges, Carlotta moves to New York to start a new life.
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, Harry Davenport, Scott Kolk
Votes: 208
185. A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy
An exhausted concert pianist learns he is the owner of an apartment building; after being advised to move there to rest, he becomes involved in the lives of his eccentric tenants.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: David Niven, Jane Wyman, Victor Moore, Wayne Morris
Votes: 617
186. By Appointment Only (1933)
Passed | 67 min | Drama
When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Sally O'Neil, Edward Morgan
Votes: 128
187. The Marriage Playground (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A husband and wife have several children from their previous marriages and now they want to get divorced. The kids don't want to be separated and the oldest daughter and her boyfriend try to keep them together.
Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: Mary Brian, Fredric March, Lilyan Tashman, Huntley Gordon
Votes: 119
188. The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A plain maid and a wounded war veteran are transformed by their love for each other while residing in an enchanted honeymoon cottage.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick
Votes: 3,530
189. Manslaughter (1930)
Passed | 85 min | Romance, Drama
A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before. Upon her release... See full summary »
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Emma Dunn, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 264
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190. Meet the Boy Friend (1937)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress.
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Robert Paige, Carol Hughes, Warren Hymer, Pert Kelton
Votes: 129
191. Trade Winds (1938)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing detective. The two soon develop a shipboard romance.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern
Votes: 704
192. Rawhide (1951)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveller find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger
Votes: 3,139
193. The Gilded Lily (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
A stenographer becomes a famed entertainer and is courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 793
194. Wise Girl (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Drama
High-society heiress Susan goes undercover to find her young nieces, who are enjoying a Bohemian lifestyle with their artist uncle
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Ray Milland, Walter Abel, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 852
195. True to the Navy (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
A countergirl at a San Diego soda shop has a lot of sailor "boyfriends", but her heart really belongs to a free-spirited gunner, who doesn't want to be tied down to any one woman.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Harry Green, Rex Bell
Votes: 165
196. August Weekend (1936)
Not Rated | 62 min | Drama, Romance
At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who's loved by a younger and not-so-wealthy man.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Valerie Hobson, Paul Harvey, G.P. Huntley, Betty Compson
Votes: 104
197. Lost Honeymoon (1947)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy
After an Englishwoman dies, leaving behind two children, her devoted friend decides to take the children to find the woman's husband, an American serviceman who had returned to the USA. But... See full summary »
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Franchot Tone, Ann Richards, Tom Conway, Frances Rafferty
Votes: 208
198. A Stolen Life (1946)
Passed | 109 min | Drama
When a woman's twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Walter Brennan
Votes: 4,090
199. Sweepstake Annie (1935)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Tom Brown, Marian Nixon, Wera Engels, Inez Courtney
Votes: 41
200. Exiled to Shanghai (1937)
Not Rated | 65 min | Comedy
Two rival newspaper men battle over a beautiful woman while covering an overseas civil war.
Directors: Nick Grinde, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Wallace Ford, June Travis, Dean Jagger, William Bakewell
Votes: 76
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