Movies: Pre code

A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him....

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 Street and Park Avenue out of the jungle. Drexel is befriended by his dog, a native monkey, and a wild go...

A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue....

An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter....

A woman struggles to rekindle the affection of her husband....

A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen)....

An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years befo...

A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love....

A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders....

A night club singer falls for a gangster....

A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student....

Lighthearted comedy film following the (mis)adventures of four gold diggers....

An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him....

When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the ...

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 brutal and cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood....

A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others....

Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan does...

After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are...

One of the last of the silent Sherlock films....

A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar,...