Timec's Favorite Films of the 1930s

A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.

During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.

A World War I veteran and aspiring engineer tries to re-enter civilian life. After being unwillingly caught up in a robbery, he suffers the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, struggling to clear his name and prove his worth.

A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.

Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.

The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.

Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.

Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.

Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.

A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.

A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.

An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.

A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.

A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.

An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.

This documentary short film looks at the devastating and costly problems, including seasonal flooding and erosion of precious topsoil, associated with the Mississippi River system and promotes more Federal projects to remedy the situation.

Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

When a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.