Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-code Hollywood

A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.

An attractive Russian spy seduces an Austrian officer in order to get some important plans, but when she actually falls in love with him, both of them are placed in a dangerous situation.

A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.

Leslie Crosbie's extramarital affair with Geoffrey Hammond spirals after Robert heads out, as Hammond abandons Leslie for the alluring native woman Li Ti.

When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.

Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper-class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband, but Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections.

Turner, unjustly imprisoned, rejoins former inmates to con elderly men into marriage proposals. Initially seeking vengeance, she ultimately finds redemption and a new path.

After the death of her father and loss of the family fortune, Bonnie (Joan Crawford) gets a job as a cub reporter while her brother (William Bakewell) becomes involved in bootlegging.

A young couple lives together out of wedlock, but they find that they're ahead of their time.

Against her friends wishes, Lisbeth moves to Mexico to live with her lover.

An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.

A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children.

Young Valerie models for an American painter who tries to make a future in Paris and they fall in love.

An ambitious factory girl meets a handsome, wealthy lawyer, but he's interested in her as a mistress, not a wife.

After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.

The fortunes of a Broadway costume company rise and fall depending on who is running it, and whether its clients' shows succeed or not.

A poor seamstress girl sours on her engagement to a grocery deliveryman after seeing her sister's abusive marriage. Trying to help her sister pay for a divorce lawyer, she turns to a rich playboy she met at work.

Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.

Molly Louvain's plans for a respectable marriage with her sweetheart Ralph fall through so she takes to the road with a two-bit crook and becomes wanted by the police in connection with a high-profile crime.

A gold-digging secretary will do whatever it takes to get ahead in society-including luring her morally minded boss away from his happy marriage.

An entrepreneur will let nothing stand in his way of acquiring a 100-story office building.

Chain gang prisoners forced to construct a "liberty highway" for their overseer chasten under his brutal stewardship, causing Duke Ellis to mastermind a mass riot.

The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.