Pre Code Movies

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

World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.

An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides...

The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.

A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.

A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.

Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get...

Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.

While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured...

In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's...

Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her...

An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to...

Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too...

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."

A housewife divorces her self-centered husband. Years later, she attends a party where her ex is pursuing another woman. Unbeknownst to him, she is...

The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.

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...

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

Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks...