My favorite movies of the 1930s

On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.

At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is compelled to risk the lives of his pilots in order to win an important contract as a traveling American showgirl/harlot stops in town.

A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.

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.

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 woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.

Two best friends shipwreck on an island in the Caspian Sea and fall in love with the same woman while helping the villagers of their new home.

A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.

The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.

A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship.

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but Courtney is soon promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.

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

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.

A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.

The adopted son of a legendary actor, and an aspiring star himself, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection - only for her to give up everything for her beloved's glory.

How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.

A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.

An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.

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