Pre Code Movies

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

Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.

Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded...

A young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse.

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...

After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe...

A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.

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...

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....

A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.

Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.

A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.

A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.

An expedition enters an area of the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe.

The film tells the story of Yang Naifan (Ruan Lingyu) who runs from her arranged marriage to be with her true love, Li Zuyi (Jin Yan). The film...

Wealthy young socialite Diane Wyman squanders her fortune and becomes involved in a scandalous raid at a wild party. Her legal guardian, a lecherous...

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.

Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.

A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.