Pre Code Movies

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her...

When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates,...

Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on...

A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around...

Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist...

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a...

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as...

A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues...

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

Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be...

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

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton...

In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for...

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

A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the...

A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.