Pre Code Movies

The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the...

The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on...

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

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a...

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her...

A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.

Steve Drexel voluntarily strands himself on a deserted island on a bet. He intends to re-create civilization and carves a miniature city of 52nd...

Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.

Four survivors of a ship wreck are stranded on a deserted island, including a woman and the man she believes is responsible for the murder which her...

One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.

A young, innocent small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a...

Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their...

A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home...

Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have...

A young woman goes to the police looking for her missing husband. When it turns out her husband is both a murder victim and a bachelor - and that she...

A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the...

After prizefighter Kid Mason loses his opening fight, his wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around, Mason trains and starts winning....

A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.

A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and...

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...