Pre Code Movies

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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;...

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...

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...